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"&amp;#8211; This Should Be Interesting: Kathy Folden, 56-year-old grandmother and long-haul trucker who useda crowbar to destroy Enrique Chagoya's provocative depiction of a female Jesus receiving oral sex, will plead not guilty to a felony charge of criminal mischief for her well-witnessed actions at the Colorado museum. &amp;quot;Kathy is an ordinary American with some sincerely held religious beliefs, and like a lot of Americans and a lot of people in Colorado shewas pretty upset by some of the displays at a city-owned museum,&amp;quot; according to her attorney. [CNN] &amp;#8211;Catch as Koons Can: In what promises to be a notable canary in the art-market mineshaft, Daimler AG hopes to sell &amp;quot;Balloon Flower (Blue),&amp;quot; one of the transcendent baubles from Jeff Koons' &amp;quot;Celebration Series,&amp;quot; for $12-16 million at Christie&amp;#39;s New York next month. Last time one of these chromium faux-inflatables came to auction, at the market peak of June 2008, it set a $25.8 million artist record at Christie&amp;#39;s London. [Bloomberg] &amp;#8211; Not Enough Art for the Chinese to Buy?: &amp;quot;This Chinese appetite for Chinese art is totally unprecedented,&amp;quot; gallerist Michael Goedhuis told the Journal. &amp;quot;It&amp;#8217;s remorseless, relentless &amp;#8212; nothing is stopping them from buying. Nothing.&amp;quot; [WSJ]&amp;#8211; 10/10/10 Wins!: In celebration of October 10, 2010, the Los Angeles Times compiled a top 10 list of artworks that incorporate the number.[LAT]&amp;#8211; A Deadly Sin: Critic Christopher Knight inveighs against private collection &amp;quot;vanity&amp;quot; exhibitions at museums: &amp;quot;Museums have enoughproblems without appearing to be exclusive clubs fueled by noblesse oblige and dependent on indulging voyeuristic shopping fantasies.&amp;quot;[LAT]&amp;#8211; Philly&amp;#39;s Pride: Among the 12 Philadelphians to receive this year&amp;#39;s $60,000 Pew Fellowships are video artists Kara Crombie, &amp;quot;clay artist&amp;quot; William Daley (a former prisoner of war), and architect Jenny Sabin. [Philadelphia Inquirer]&amp;#8211; Give the People What They Want: More than 165,000 people swarmed the carnivalesque scene that popped up around this year&amp;#39;s Grand Rapids ArtPrize, which gave out its $250,000 award &amp;#8212; based on a popular vote &amp;#8212; to a photorealist drawing nostalgically idealizing a past version of the United States military. [M Live] &amp;#8211;How Tino Turns a Profit: Performance art collectors Aaron and Barbara Levine &amp;quot;concur that performance art amounts to a &amp;#39;different kind of viewing experience for the collector; it&amp;#8217;s not something that you hang over the couch,&amp;#39; but are swayed by the notion of acquiring a &amp;#39;concept&amp;#39; behind a work which, in theory, could be acted out in their living room,&amp;quot; Gareth Harris writes in an essay about the slippery corner of theart market, in which dealer Nicholas Logsdail says the works &amp;#8212; selling in the five-to-six-figure range &amp;#8212; &amp;quot;should be treated like musical scores, with indefinite interpretations.&amp;quot; [Financial Times] &amp;#8211;Full Steam Ahead: A year after succeeding the late Anne d&amp;#39;Harnoncourt, Philadelphia Museum of Art director Timothy Rub says that plans to complete a $500 million Frank Gehry-designed expansion will continue, that the museum needs more junior curators (&amp;quot;there&amp;#39;s enormous room for growth here&amp;quot;), that the museum hopes to cross-promote with the relocated Barnes Foundation when it opens, and that, after settling in at the institution, &amp;quot;I have my bearings now.&amp;quot; [Philadelphia Inquirer] &amp;#8211; VIDEO OF THE DAY: For its latest &amp;quot;couch gag,&amp;quot; the Simpsons tapped notorious street artist and mystery man Banksy.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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