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The Daily Checklist: Frank Gehry's New York Tower Gets Sky-High Praise,...
Plus, Jacobean spy intrigue at Sotheby's.
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People: Third Eye Blind: NYU Professor Wafaa Bilal's Body Rejects Camera...
The Iraqi-born artist was forced to remove the device, part of his "3rdI" body-modification project, following a nasty infection.
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Museums: Here Comes Everybody: America's Most Inclusive and Confusing Museum...
A former federal employee has created a coalition to champion an institution that would tell the story of 20,000 years of American immigration.
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Arts Policy: Political Firestorm Engulfs Pompeii as 9 Are Questioned for Neglect
The flooding that destroyed the ancient city's House of the Moralist and House of the Gladiators becomes a political issue.
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Performance Art: A Feast for the Eyes: A Menu of Five Mouthwatering Edible...
From a performance by Allison Knowles to Song Dong's sculptures, a nourishing guide to recent and historical works of food art.
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Arts Policy: Republican Congressman Pressures University of Iowa to Sell...
The 1943 painting, valued recently at $140 million, is the cornerstone of the school's collection and now a political football. The AAMD weighs in.
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Arts Policy: Paris's Picasso Museum Stirs Controversy With Selective Loans of...
Closed for renovations since 2009, the institution has snubbed a Swiss museum while sending Picassos to wealthier borrowers who pay for play.
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The Daily Checklist: Lady Gaga Declares Herself a Fame Artist, Met Museum...
Plus, LACMA gets half a mil for Watts Towers.
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Art & Crime: Status Update: Angry Victims and Eager Business Partners React...
Italian artists Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico have gotten plenty of feedback since announcing they'd stolen a million Facebook profiles for a fake dating site.
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Museums: Taking the Google Art Project's Little-Known Competitor for a Test...
Meet Synthscape, the small tech company that has offered virtual tours of museums that are in some ways superior to Google's for years.
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Museums: Crusading "Lactivists" to Protest the Hirshhorn Museum With a Nurse-In
After one breast-feeding mother was hassled by security, a gaggle of moms will congregate to call attention to their legal right to breast-feed on federal property.
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People: They Died to See Egypt Soar: A Cairo Artist's Portraits of the...
As Hosni Mubarak's rule disintegrates, see Egyptian artist Ganzeer's political posters in tribute to the popular uprising's fallen.
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Art Market: Behind the Ullens Collection's Planned $16.7 Sale at Sotheby's...
In April, 106 Chinese contemporary artworks belonging to Guy and Myriam Ullens will hit the block, with highlights by Zhang Xiaogang, Mao Xuhui, and Zhang Peili.
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People: Once More, With Funny: Steve Martin Steps Back Into the Art Ring at...
After bombing at New York's 92nd Street Y, the actor and novelist again dared speak of his love for art. How did it go?
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People: The Love List: Power Couples of the Art World
ARTINFO's Valentine to the lovestruck pairs of artists, gallerists, writers, and mixed doubles who make the world go round.
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Museums: The Prado and the Hermitage Swap Masterpieces to Mark "Spain-Russia...
St. Petersburg gets works including paintings by El Greco and Murillo, while Madrid will see Caravaggio, Velázquez, and others.
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The Daily Checklist: Al Pacino to Play a Lovestruck Henri Matisse, Peru and...
Plus, Lady Gaga was born this way but borne like Mariko Mori at the Grammys.
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People: Ai Weiwei's First Retrospective in China Is Canceled Due to...
Egypt's revolution may have played a role in ending the outspoken Chinese artist's survey at the now-dissolving Ullens Contemporary Art Center.
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Art & Crime: Seattle Art Dealer Imprisoned for Plotting to Burglarize His...
Kurt Lidtke has been sentenced to four years in federal prison and a $70,000 fine for conspiring with a veteran art thief to steal his clients' paintings.
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Old Masters & Antiquities: Protesters Call for Mubarak's Antiquities Chief to...
With his office now guarded by a tank, Zahi Hawass reports two-week old thefts.
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