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This week in art news: Ukrainian border guards recovered 17 paintings stolen from the Castelvecchio Museum, Greece renewed its bid to have the Parthenon Marbles repatriated, and a neurologist claimed to have diagnosed the condition of the woman in Andrew Wyeth's iconic work "Christina's World."
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This week in art news: MoMA offered buyouts to members of staff, Rosemarie Trockel's $34 million art collection was destroyed by a fire at her home, and the Bodleian Libraries acquired a map of Middle Earth annotated by JRR Tolkien.
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This week in art news: a fire gravely damaged New Delhi's National Museum of Natural History, artist Pyotr Pavlensky invited sex workers to testify at his trial, and Anish Kapoor complained that the addition of Carsten Höller's slide to his London tower was "foisted" upon him by London Mayor Boris J
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This week in art news: the Metropolitan Museum intends to offer buyouts and cease new hires to curtail its multimillion-dollar deficit, a rug designer found one of the UK's largest Roman villas buried in his backyard, and Maurizio Cattelan prepared to install a solid gold toilet at the Guggenheim.
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This week in art news: Long Island City's iconic Pepsi-Cola sign was designated a landmark, the US Senate passed a bill to ban imports of Syrian antiquities, and an underwater robot discovered the sunken Loch Ness Monster model built for Billy Wilder's 1970 film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.
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This week in art news: the Panama Papers revealed the owner of a disputed Modigliani painting, German and Swiss museums planned a joint show of art from the Cornelius Gurlitt trove, and 2,000 fans of a Scottish soccer club received giant foam thumbs designed by David Shrigley.
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This week in art news: Florentijn Hofman accused Brazilian protesters of plagiarizing his giant duck sculpture, the National Museum of African American History and Culture was criticized for a planned display devoted to Bill Cosby, and the Denver Art Museum returned a stolen sandstone sculpture to C
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This week in art news: the Syrian army moved closer to retaking the ancient city of Palmyra, Cuban artists and dissidents were detained in anticipation of President Obama's visit, and Moscow's Shukhov Tower was added to a watch list of at-risk cultural heritage sites.
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This week in art news: an anonymous artist blindfolded 100 public statues in Rio de Janeiro, Venice was declared Europe's most endangered heritage site, and the National Academy revealed plans to sell its buildings on Fifth Avenue.
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This week in art news: Elton John loaned works from his photography collection to Tate Modern, a museum of LGBTQ history and culture sustained gunfire damage, and French police seized a painting attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder.
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This week in art news: the international criminal court began its first war crimes trial for the destruction of cultural monuments, scientists claimed to have identified Banksy using geographic profiling, and Iggy Pop posed as a nude life model for New York Academy of Art students.
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This week in art news: courtroom sketches from the Knoedler forgery trial went on public display, artists came out in support of Apple's decision not to give the FBI access to users' encrypted data, and a painter in France found a drawing in a bottle that was thrown into New York Harbor two and a ha