Today in the Art World...

Federal agents raided the Los Angeles County Museum of Art — along with three other Southern California museums and a gallery in Los Angeles — on Thursday as they investigate antiquities that may have been looted from China, Southeast Asia, and Native American sites. (Michael Govan, the director of LACMA, is certainly having a hard time of it lately.)

An obituary for Philip Conisbee, a curator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

From Carol Vogel's "Inside Art": Artist Bruce Nauman will represent the U.S. at the next Venice Biennale. A fountain designed by British duo Tim Noble and Sue Webster will be temporarily installed at Rockefeller Center next month. Water-themed public art projects seem to be au courant in New York.

Guess how much confidence in the contemporary art market has fallen in the past six months?

Another exhibition space on the Lower East Side.

There's been a shakeup at Interview, the magazine founded by Andy Warhol.