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Jan 15 2008 12:00am EDT

Today in the Art World...

Embattled art dealer Larry Salander is trying to sell his Upper East Side townhouse for $25 million.

Citigroup's Sandy Weill and billionaire collector Eli Broad were the top patrons of the arts in 2007, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy.

Merchandise Mart Properties Inc. has bought the Toronto International Art Fair on the heels of its purchase of The Armory Show last year.

From Artforum.com's "International News Digest": Abu Dhabi may have the Louvre, but Dubai is planning to build a replica of the French city of Lyon. Ai Weiei, who helped design the stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, is denouncing the games for the Chinese government's "old lies."

"Experts" at Heidelberg University claim that they have definitively proved the identity (via) of the model for Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.

Bidding on a wall tagged by graffiti artist Banksy has closed at £208,1000 on eBay.

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