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Dec 06 2007 12:00am EDT

Today in the Art World...

Fordham University opens a museum of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan art today after William D. Walsh, an alum, donated most of his more than 200-piece collection. Many of the antiquities, though, are without a provenance, according to the director of the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Will Francesco Rutelli come knocking?

Sotheby's sale of Old Master works in London last night was strong, if not on par with the prices contemporary art fetches at auction.

Pope Benedict XVI has chosen a new director for the Vatican museums: Antonio Paolucci, the one-time Italian culture minister.

What do the appropriated think of Richard Prince's appropriation art?

The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston will pay the now-defunct George B.H. Macomber construction company $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit brought against the museum by the company claiming that the former had not been paid all it was due by the latter.

A peek into the Indian art market.


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