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  • Cai Guo-Qiang recreated Hangzhou’s West Lake scenery using his gunpowder technique.
  • Tel Aviv battling to save deteriorating Bauhaus buildings from decay.
  • Seven works of ancient art and other works looted and smuggled out of Italy were returned.
  • Italy’s Christ Carrying the Cross by Girolamo Romanino seized by US authorities.
  • Man steals art from hospital for sick kids.
  • Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge suffers major theft of ancient Chinese artifact.
  • Mykola Hlushchenko paintings belonging to Ukrainian government replaced by forgeries.
  • Degas stolen at gunpoint from Swiss museum four years ago has been returned to Zurich.
  • Claes Oldenburg’s “Spoonbridge and Cherry” sculpture target of Kony graffiti.
  • Coca-Cola teaming up with TV show search for three iconic paintings by Norman Rockwell.
  • Thomas Demand recreates Whitney Houston’s last meal.
  • Ai Weiwei shows new work in tiny London space.
  • LACMA on a artwork acquisition spree.
  • Frida Kahlo may have suffered from rare condition called Asherman’s syndrome.
  • Roberta Smith reviews Frank Stella’s early paintings show at L&M Arts.
  • Good news for NY: Blum & Poe’s historic Mono-Ha show coming to Gladstone Gallery.
  • Huge banana cushion from Bape & Medicom based on Andy Warhol artwork.
  • Vadim Zakharov to represent Russia at the 55th Venice Biennale.
  • Detroit getting a contemporary art festival.
  • Mark Bradford has an upcoming retrospective at SFMOMA.
  • Photos from the 2012 Mexico Contemporary Art Fair (MACO).
  • Bobby Hundreds has photos of Transmission LA: The Audio-Visual Club at the MOCA.
  • William Powhida and W.A.G.E.’s Why Are (Most) Artists (So Fucking) Poor?
  • Adam Lindemann introduces you to Alex Israel. MOCA to host his art talk show “As It Lays”.