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Dec 11 2007 12:00am EDT

Today in the Art World...

Doris Salcedo's crack in the Tate's Turbine Hall continues to confound visitors.

If you thought it was shocking when Chris Burden had himself nailed to the hood of a Volkswagen and called it performance art, consider this: There's a movement of so-called bioartists who use living tissue to create, for example, living skin sculptures.

A couple has donated their collection of more than 950 quilts to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, which has created the International Quilt Study Center. The center opens on March 30, 2008.

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