Picasso Masterpieces Beaten by a Toilet -Poll
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They are two of the most recognized  works of art in the world, and they have lost out to an  autographed toilet.
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BEIJING - Beijing hopes the smelly reputation of its public restrooms will be, well, flushed down the toilet soon. City officials will use the 2004 World Toilet Summit, starting Nov. 17, to showcase efforts to transform the capital's lavatories from foul to fragrant, from crude to cultured.
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The famous painting isn&#39;t exactly the type most people want in their home. The image is too grim and full of existential angst.
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Brazil police recovered the paintings by Pablo Picasso and Candido Portinari that were stolen last month from Brazil's premier modern art museum, officials said Tuesday.
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A federal judge ruled that the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art has the right to display an immense unfinished installation by Christoph BÃ¼chel, a Swiss artist whose relationship with the museum fell apart early this year, leading to a bitter public battle over control of the work and over artistsâ rights in general.
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Bloody and brutal, the Aztecs produced powerful art. The Guggenheim offers the biggest survey ever
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Heinz Berggruen, an influential collector of Picasso's artworks and longtime friend of the artist, has died in France, the Picasso Museum in Paris said Sunday. He was 93.
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Da Vinci's masterpiece has been restored so many times over the years some purists argue that it's no longer a Da Vinci.
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A janitor at a London museum threw away a bag full of paper and cardboard, not realizing that it was part of a work of art. Recreation of First Public Demonstration of Auto
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There are those who argue that most modern art is rubbish, but few critics take the view as literally as a cleaner at one of Britain's most prestigious galleries.
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Major heritage projects, from the National Gallery's attempted purchase of a set of Poussin masterpieces to the British Museum's proposed building of a new exhibition space, could be threatened because of lottery money diverted to the Olympics.
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An erotic painting featuring verses from the Koran is removed from a museum after Muslims protest.
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Two Picasso paintings worth 50 million euros are stolen from the home of the artist's granddaughter in Paris.
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By PAULINE JASUDASON  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - One poster reads, "Public Toilets - From Embarrassment to Pleasure." Another implores you to wash your hands, because germs die that way.
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A giant plastic toilet bowl on Berlin's swank Unter den Linden boulevard, the work of a French artist, has been raising more than a few eyebrows in recent days.
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The Netherlands may have to give up paintings once acquired by the Nazis for Adolf Hitler's collection if a state commission determines that a Jewish art dealer was forced to sell the 227 works, Dutch officials said Wednesday.
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A Picasso painting stolen by Nazis during World War II is at the centre of a legal battle over its ownership.