15 minutes of fame? The artist whose radical ideas galvanised the 1960s art world continues to dominate the market and permeate popular culture – 25 years after his death

"So how broke is the state of Washington? It's so broke it could start selling off its art collection - including some masterpieces - and using the money to pay for low-income students to go to college."...

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"Alison Klayman's documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, an award-winning chronicle of that provocative Chinese artist who was detained by his country's government for three months last year, has been acquired for North American distribution by Sundance Selects and will receive a theatrical release this summer."...

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"The idea, recommended by Mayor Stephen Mandel's arts visioning committee, last fall would see three theatres constructed with a total of 2,800 seats - 400 more than the Jubilee [Auditorium] - orchestra pits, rehearsal space and room in the wings."...

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Alain de Botton: "How did religion once enhance the spirit of community? More practically, can secular society ever recover that spirit without returning to the theological principles that were entwined with it? I, for one, believe that it is possible to reclaim our sense of community - and that we can do so, moreover, without having to build upon a religious foundation."...

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Judith Mackrell, commenting on Wayne Eagling's sudden resignation as artistic director: "ENB has always had a tricky position to maintain within the UK's dance culture: funded at a much lower level than the Royal Ballet, for example, and with a remit to tour widely, it has very little leeway for risk-taking."...

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Last year, a legal aid lawyer sent to an incarcerated client a copy of Slavery by Another Name, "Douglas Blackmon's Pulitzer Prize-winning account of how the South instituted a form of de-facto slavery by mass arresting black men on nonsense charges and 'selling' them to plantations, turpentine farms and other places of back-breaking labor." Prison officials thought the book "too dangerous" to have around....

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"Of the 105 members of Seoul Philharmonic, women account for 65 members, or 62 percent. The ratio is even higher for the Bucheon Philharmonic Orchestra, where 63 of its 74 members are women, or 85 percent." One Korean critic attributes the phenomenon to traditional Confucian gender roles....

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CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University presents Ernie Gehr: Picture Taking on view in the Sert Gallery from February 14 through April 1, 2012. This is the second exhibition in a newly created space for viewing moving image works located on the third floor of the Carpenter Center. Programming will run on three monitors mounted on the exterior wall of the Sert Gallery.

NEW YORK (AP).- One of four versions of Edvard Munch's masterpiece "The Scream" will be sold this spring in New York, Sotheby's auction house announced Tuesday. Sotheby's estimates that the work, which has become a modern icon of human anxiety, will sell for $80 million or more. The 1895 drawing of a man holding his head and screaming under a streaked, blood-red sky is being sold by Norwegian businessman Petter Olsen, whose father was a friend and patron of Munch's. It is the only version of "The Scream" still in private hands.