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People: Leo Steinberg, Giant of Renaissance and Postwar American Art History, Has Died

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 The author of "Other Criteria" and other seminal books passed away at the age of 90.

Art Market: China Overtakes Britain to Become the World's Second Biggest Art Market

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 With $8.3 billion in art sales from galleries and auctions, the country now has the most lucrative art market outside the United States.

Impressionist & Modern Art: Retracing the Arc of Turkish Modernism, By Way of Montparnasse

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 Turkish collector Öner Koçabeyoglu has amassed a wealth of art that tells the story of his country's twisty path to non-figurative painting and abstraction in the 20th century.

The Daily Checklist: Julian Schnabel's New Film Sparks Spat at U.N., Censored "Hide/Seek" Show Heads to Brooklyn Museum, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, former Iraq National Museum director Donny George has died.

Museums: Sarkozy's Proposed French History Museum: National Institution or Political Instrument?

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 The French president's pet project is under attack as "bling-bling history" and "intellectual heresy," while union workers are laying siege in protest.

People: National Arts Club Board Sends Its President on "Vacation" Amid Swirl of Bizarre Occurrences

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 This leave of absence will allow the tony club's administration to "get to the bottom" of recent complaints surrounding odd behavior from Aldon James.

Arts Policy: Smoked Out of Art History?: Bulgaria's Culture Minister Defends Depictions of Smoking in Art, Prompting a Slide Show

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 Vezhdi Rashidov has framed his battle against an attempt to ban smoking in the movies and on TV as a defense of the purity of art.

Design & Architecture: Was Frank Lloyd Wright's Visionary Architecture Sustainable?

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 A show at the Milwaukee Art Museum highlights the architect's sensitivity to nature, but it's hard to square his designs with eco-friendly modern practices.

The Daily Checklist: Amazing Light Bulb Wins Top Brit Design Prize, Ansel Adams Legal Battle Ends in Favor of Photog's Heirs, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, trouble deepens for the National Arts Club, which has a serious hoarding problem after all.

Museums: Tate Modern Taps Interactive Artist Tino Sehgal for Olympics-Year Turbine Hall Project

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 The prestigious commission was announced at a time when participatory art seems poised to take London by storm.

Art & Crime: Dallas Museum Lawsuit Presents a Soap Opera-Worthy Tale of Smuggled Art, a Drunken Dowager, and a Family Feud

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 In his potboiler of a legal filing, Arnold Leon Schroeder Jr. is suing to reclaim some 1,400 pieces donated by his late mother more than 25 years ago.

Arts Policy: Artists and Galleries Around the World Band Together to Send Japan Earthquake Relief

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 From Tokyo to New York to L.A., art is providing solace and raising funds for the victims and their families.

The Daily Checklist: Sarah Palin Launches Attack on Arts Funding, Networking Artists Like Facebook A LOT, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, an artist's homage to the Chilean miner rescue.

Old Masters & Antiquities: Surprised Madrid Museum Finds Lost Anthony Van Dyck Madonna and Child in Its Basement

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 The San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts must have stumbled upon a four-leaf clover before discovering the 17th-century artist's 1625 "The Virgin and Child."

Museums: Army of International Artists Threatens to Boycott Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Over Labor Abuses

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 The "Island of Happiness" is still not a happy place for migrant workers who are forced to pay crippling recruitment fees and sign exploitative contracts.

Museums: Force Quit: French Eco-Bureaucrats Unplug Paris's Computer Museum

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 But its former director, who suspects government officials want his Grande Arche space for cocktail parties, plans to open satellite branches.

The Daily Checklist: Kate Middleton's Sexy, Prince-Snagging Dress Sells at Auction, Walker Acquires Merce Cunningham Art Trove, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, the Smithsonian comes under criticism after a hardball play for delicate murals.

Art Market: Runaway Chinese Art Stock Exchange Halts Trading on Top Paintings After Surge of Investment

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 The Tianjin Cultural Artwork Exchange closed down after it saw the value of a work soar to 52 times higher than the artist's record at auction.

Art and Politics: Russia Invokes "Force Majeure" to Wrest Icons From a U.S. Museum Show, Effecting Art Loan Ban

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 Fuming over a legal ruling regarding a Hasidic archive, the Russian government is following through with its cessation of all art loans to the U.S.

Photography: See Pictet Prize-Winner Mitch Epstein's Photographic Critique of "American Power"

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 The artist has been awarded $111,000 for work he made traveling around the country photographing energy sources, from nuclear plants to wind turbines.
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