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Crimes of the Art

On this weekโ€™s art crime blotter: thieves boost a bronze Rodin in Copenhagen, man is busted for trying to sell a fake van Gogh, and two works go missing from Slovakiaโ€™s Andy Warhol museum.

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Anointing Artโ€™s Female Popes

AVIGNON, France โ€” The exhibition Les Papesses, curated by Collection Lambert Director ร‰ric Mรฉzil, anoints five female popes โ€” popesses, if you will โ€” of modern and contemporary art: Camille Claudel, Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Jana Sterbak, and Berlinde de Bruyckere. And it does a fantastic job of turning visitors into believers.