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Dec 19 2007 8:29AM EST

Today in the Art World...

Stolen art. A canceled exhibition. Online inspiration. Church windows with an edge.

A German archaeologist stopped the Swiss eBay sale of an antiquity smuggled from Iraq at the 11th hour.

A former employee of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston was set to recount what he remembered about the 1990 theft of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of art from the museum before a federal grand jury yesterday.

The Russian government has nixed an exhibition of work from the country's museums set to go up at the Royal Academy of Arts in London this coming January because the British government wouldn't guarantee that the art wouldn't be seized as part of a lawsuit by some other party.

Forget muses and the light of southern France. Here's a new source of inspiration for artists.

Lee Rosenbaum reviews the Philadelphia Museum of Art's new Perelman Building for the Wall Street Journal.

And on her art blog, Rosenbaum looks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual report.

Church windows designed by contemporary artists — a new trend?


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