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Jan 27 2008 12:00am EDT

Weekend Art News Roundup

A suspect in the theft of two paintings — one of them a Picasso — from the São Paulo Museum of Art claims they were supposed to be delivered to a Saudi collector.

Aby Rosen's RFR Realty LLC is trying to evict embattled art dealer Larry Salander from his gallery space on the Upper East Side.

An Indonesian art collector has plans to establish contemporary art spaces in Jakarta, Bali, and Songzhuang to promote Southeast Asian art.

Is Harlem a burgeoning arts neighborhood? And will it be Dia's new home?

Museums on television.

More damning details in the federal investigation surrounding artifacts in several California museums.

The holy grail of lost modern war photography goes to the International Center of Photography in New York.

Artists are preparing for Site Santa Fe.

A new initiative to drum up support for the organization that helps take care of Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut.

The Whitney Museum of American Art will close its Altria branch on January 29th.

Art at Sundance.

Contemporary Chinese art, fish eyes, and pearls.

The Chicago Sun-Times considers the possibility that the Windy City's James Cuno might be tapped to take over Montebello's job at the Met.


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