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Microbes—and the way they colonize us—are the subject of an exhibition at the Eden Project in Cornwall. [The Guardian]
Sellers of art estimated to bring in $2.3 billion at the May auctions include billionaire money manager Steven A. Cohen and New York real estate mogul Sheldon Solow. [Bloomberg]
The San Jose Museum of Art has received a gift of 44 artworks, including pieces by Willem de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, Philip Guston, and Jay DeFeo, from the collection of Barbara and Dixon Farley. [Artforum]
Anne-Lise Coste’s “Blue Water” at Noguerasblanchard Gallery in Madrid. [Contemporary Art Daily]
“If he is waiting to have the paintings in his place, he has to wait until hell freezes over”: two Spanish museums, the Prado and newcomer Museum of Royal Collections, are battling over four paintings, including Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights and a Rogier van der Weyden. [The New York Times]
The Rubin Museum of Art in New York, which is dedicated to Himalayan art, is planning a series of programs to honor Nepalese culture in light of the recent earthquake. [The Art Newspaper]
Venus Over Los Angeles opened with a sparse Dan Colen show. [Blouin Artinfo]
The Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired a dozen rare gold pre-Columbian artifacts from Sotheby’s, which will be displayed in a special exhibition starting May 16. [Cleveland.com]