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Congrats to Northwest Arkansas on this week's announcement of an $800 million commitment from the Walton Family in support of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.  The museum will open in November with a complete representative collection of America's art history.

A New View of the World's Top Art Museums

Had enough of Lady GaGa's costume from last night's Grammy Awards?  Clense your pallet with a tour of the new Google Art Project.

Essentially an extension of the familiar Google Earth/Google Maps technology, Google Arts brings you inside a number of the world's top art museums and lets you explore, enlarge and search every work of art in each collection.

An amazing time killer that is sure to become much more!

Uncovering Caravaggio

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Word over the weekend from the Vatican that the painting Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence (above) in their collection may be the work of Caravaggio, the bad ass grand master of Chiaroscuro. Experts seem a little dubious, but what's wrong with a shout out to the man who brought us the Baroque on the 400th anniversary of his mysterious death.

While we are at it, respect also to Saint Lawrence for being the coolest of the Martyr Saints. Supposedly as he was being grilled alive he asked to be flipped so that he would cook all over.