The author of "Other Criteria" and other seminal books passed away at the age of 90.
People: Leo Steinberg, Giant of Renaissance and Postwar American Art History, Has Died
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Art Market: China Overtakes Britain to Become the World's Second Biggest Art Market
With $8.3 billion in art sales from galleries and auctions, the country now has the most lucrative art market outside the United States.
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Impressionist & Modern Art: Retracing the Arc of Turkish Modernism, By Way of Montparnasse
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.
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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
Plus, former Iraq National Museum director Donny George has died.
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Museums: Sarkozy's Proposed French History Museum: National Institution or Political Instrument?
The French president's pet project is under attack as "bling-bling history" and "intellectual heresy," while union workers are laying siege in protest.
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People: National Arts Club Board Sends Its President on "Vacation" Amid Swirl of Bizarre Occurrences
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.
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Arts Policy: Smoked Out of Art History?: Bulgaria's Culture Minister Defends Depictions of Smoking in Art, Prompting a Slide Show
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.
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Design & Architecture: Was Frank Lloyd Wright's Visionary Architecture Sustainable?
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.
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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
Plus, trouble deepens for the National Arts Club, which has a serious hoarding problem after all.
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Museums: Tate Modern Taps Interactive Artist Tino Sehgal for Olympics-Year Turbine Hall Project
The prestigious commission was announced at a time when participatory art seems poised to take London by storm.
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Art & Crime: Dallas Museum Lawsuit Presents a Soap Opera-Worthy Tale of Smuggled Art, a Drunken Dowager, and a Family Feud
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.
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Arts Policy: Artists and Galleries Around the World Band Together to Send Japan Earthquake Relief
From Tokyo to New York to L.A., art is providing solace and raising funds for the victims and their families.
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The Daily Checklist: Sarah Palin Launches Attack on Arts Funding, Networking Artists Like Facebook A LOT, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, an artist's homage to the Chilean miner rescue.
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Old Masters & Antiquities: Surprised Madrid Museum Finds Lost Anthony Van Dyck Madonna and Child in Its Basement
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."
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Museums: Army of International Artists Threatens to Boycott Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Over Labor Abuses
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.
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Museums: Force Quit: French Eco-Bureaucrats Unplug Paris's Computer Museum
But its former director, who suspects government officials want his Grande Arche space for cocktail parties, plans to open satellite branches.
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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
Plus, the Smithsonian comes under criticism after a hardball play for delicate murals.
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Art Market: Runaway Chinese Art Stock Exchange Halts Trading on Top Paintings After Surge of Investment
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.
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Art and Politics: Russia Invokes "Force Majeure" to Wrest Icons From a U.S. Museum Show, Effecting Art Loan Ban
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.
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Photography: See Pictet Prize-Winner Mitch Epstein's Photographic Critique of "American Power"
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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