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>From News: 

World Heritage Organisation calls for Israeli-Palestinian cooperation


- By Gareth Harris 


LONDON. Members of the World Heritage committee meeting in Durban, South
Africa, this July called for the re-formation of the Israeli-Palestinian
technical committee on archaeology which disbanded in 1996 when fierce
Palestinian protests... 
go to article <http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11868> 



>From News: 

"Disrespect the Koran and Allah will turn you into a mutant"


- By Sebastian Smee 


MELBOURNE. Images of life-like sculptures of imaginary genetic mutants by
the Australian artist Patricia Piccinini have been circulated around the
Islamic world as a part of a hoax story about a girl from Oman who was
turned into a beast by Allah after throwing away... 
go to article <http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11867> 



>From Museums: 

Another US museum for Swiss duo Herzog & de Meuron


- By Jason Edward Kaufman 


NEW YORK. The Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, have now been hired by
the Parrish Museum on Long Island. The duo has been much in demand since
converting a disused power station in London into Tate Modern. Most recently
they... 
go to article <http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11866> 



>From Art Market: 

Renoir's great grandson embroiled in "$1 billion art fraud"


A plan to market thousands of reproductions is revealed in an Arizona
courtcase- By Nadim Samman 


SACRAMENTO. According to documents filed in an Arizona court, Jean-Emmanuel
Renoir, great-grandson of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, has lent his name to what
one lawyer claims could be the "biggest art fraud in history", a plan to
market hundreds of thousands of works... 
go to article <http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11864>