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Jan 18 2008 12:00am EDT

Today in the Art World...

Shelby White has agreed to turn over 10 antiquities in her private collection to Italy. The country claims they were illegally excavated from its soil. Italian culture minister Francesco Rutelli cryptically prophecies: " 'The coming year will be full of surprises.'"

Wendy Moonan explains the Aesthetic Movement in furniture and decorative arts.

The Guggenheim gets a gift from Deutsche Bank.

Contemporary art in the Palace of Fontainebleau?

Kansas gets a contemporary art museum.

A new development in the Salander saga.

Florence may move Michelangelo's David in order to decongest the city.

Did this sketchbook confiscated from a Nazi train belong to van Gogh?


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