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• Crystal Bridges Museum Tacks on a Big Expansion, Just 15 Years After Opening, and Packs it With American Art

  The seamless addition adds some 114,000 square feet, including a 14,000-square-foot gallery.

• Alma Allen Doubles Down on Accusations Against Publicist David Resnicow of Working Against His Venice Biennale Pavilion

  Resnicow called the claims "baffling."

• Twice a Week, David Haskell Leaves New York Magazine To Throw Clay

  The show includes 68 works made over the last several years, mostly ceramics, along with a handful of bronzes and glass sculptures.

• Russian and Kyrgyz Scientists Explore Medieval City That Drowned in a 15th Century Earthquake

  The medieval trading center of Turu-Aygyr lies between 3 and 13 feet below the surface of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan

• Elfie Semotan, Austrian Fashion Photographer, Dies at 84

  Semotan was briefly married to the German artist Martin Kippenberger.

• Anti-Trump Street Art Collective VJayBombs Goes Viral as LA Becomes a Canvas of Protest

  VJayBombs has built a following of nearly 300,000 followers across Instagram and TikTok with its brand of guerrilla protest art in LA.

• Price for Billionaire Bill Koch’s Aspen Home Cut from $125 M. to $99 M., Put Up For Auction

  Elk Mountain Lodge sprawls across 52 acres and eight structures with 15 bedrooms and 17 bathrooms in total.

• French Supreme Court Tears Up Lawsuit Aiming to Halt Bayeux Tapestry Loan to the British Museum

  The nonprofit Sites & Monuments had filed the petition in December.

• Chairman of US Commission of Fine Arts Attends ‘Russian Davos,’ Joins Roundtable With Russian Envoy Responsible for Venice Biennale Participation

  Late last week, the chairman of the US Commission of Fine Arts became the first US official to participate in “Russian Davos” in nearly a decade.

• Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Talks About Making Music for Art Projects and Robot Life as Performance

  The French artist has a new album of music created for a ballet as well as a sound component to a public art project in Paris.