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Feb 12 2008 8:50AM EST

Crimes of the Art World, An Interview & a Guest Blogger

Today in the art world...

Why would thieves steal four paintings so well-known they're "unsalable"? Is there a Thomas Crown involved? Maybe it's the work of an organized crime ring from the Balkans? Or collateral for a drug deal? The Wall Street Journal has a photo slideshow of the stolen artworks.

Stefan Sagmeister, a designer who currently has a show up at Deitch projects, is a guest blogger for "The Moment" this week.

Three people were arrested yesterday in connection with an alleged plot to kill one of the cartoonists who drew a controversial caricature of the Prophet Muhammad for a Danish newspaper in 2005.

A genetecist who supplied an artist with bacteria for an art project has been sentenced to one year of "unsupervised release" and fined $500. There's been a film made about this strange case.

The new director of the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. talks about her plans.


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