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Dec 09 2007 12:00am EDT

Today in the Art World...

On Friday, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Guggenheim Foundation asked a court to declare them the rightful owners of two Picassos that a German man says belong to him. Sound familiar? That's because it's the same relative of Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy who tried (unsuccessfully) to claim Andrew Lloyd Webber's Picasso.

Art Basel may expand to Beijing with Design Miami. (It was only a matter of time, right?)

And Gagosian may be journeying to the east, too.

As the euro continues to trounce the dollar, galleries at Art Basel Miami Beach were quoting prices in euros.

(More on the last days of ABMB later today.)

A woman is running a sort of therapeutic art school — for chimpanzees — in the Hamptons.

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