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Dec 03 2007 12:00am EDT

Today in the Art World...

Generally, Napa residents build caves to store their wine. Collectors Norman and Norah Stone have built one to house their art.

Fine art goes digital.

Peace may be settling over the fractious land of Italian antiquities reclamation.

The New York Times Style Magazine does an art issue.

Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia has dropped its request that a court determine whether or not it can sell pieces in its Maier Museum that were bought with funds from the Louise Jordan Smith trust. The school will, instead, concentrate on the four paintings scheduled to be auctioned off at Christie's last month but pulled at the eleventh hour. Today is the deadline for the group that opposed the auction to post the $1 million bond necessary to invoke a 6-month injunction on the sale of the paintings.

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