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Jan 07 2008 12:00am EDT

Today in the Art World...

France is offering free admission to 18 of its museums until June 30th in an attempt to draw more native visitors.

Bacon is again a star in the February contemporary auctions in London.

Two watercolors of Mickey Mouse resurface after nearly two decades. Don't laugh — they were worth $60,000 - $80,000 when they disappeared from the now defunct International Museum of Cartoon Art in Rye, New York.

Artist duo Jake and Dinos Chapman are two of the high-profile figures who will come up with tasks for participants on the reality television show Big Brother Celebrity Hijack.

Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell an the Butterfly has made the short list for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' 2008 foreign film award.

An update on the Salander-O'Reilly saga.

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