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Feb 07 2008 12:00am EDT

Acquisitions, Installations and Extortion

The Getty has acquired Irving Penn's portraits of blue-collar workers.

There will be an urban farm at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center this summer.

The arts get more support in Miami.

A clue as to the identify of the buyer who placed the winning bid on the Francis Bacon triptych.

The former superintendent of the 69th Regiment Armory has been charged with extorting money from the Pulse art fair (as well as Marc Jacobs and the New York International Carpet Show).

Russia has launched a website listing 46,000 artworks that went missing from the country after the Nazis invaded in 1941.

A critic of Olafur Eliasson's Waterfalls.

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