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Monster Mash: Breaking arts news and headlines

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• Katie Holmes is set to make her Broadway debut tonight when the revival of Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons’ officially opens at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. The production also features John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest and Patrick Wilson. (Pictured: Holmes and Wilson in a scene from ‘All My Sons.’)

• Britain’s The Guardian has published a ranking of the most expensive living artists for last year and Gerhard Richter has topped the list. Rounding out the top five are Damien Hirst, Zhang Xiaogang, Jeff Koons and Yue Minjun.

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• Art fans willing to spend as much as $800 can spend the night at New York’s Guggenheim Museum in a specially constructed exhibition by Belgian artist Carsten Höller.

• Swiss customs officials have seized a book of Pablo Picasso sketches worth as much as $1.5 million from a passenger’s luggage. Swiss authorities will also investigate if the incident is part of a wider plot to smuggle cultural goods.

• The Shreveport Symphony Orchestra is embroiled in a musicians’ strike after management decided to change 24 full-time musician positions to freelance status. Musicians have been on strike since Oct. 2, and the symphony has canceled its season opener.

• L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art has added two new members to its board of trustees. Maria Arena Bell is a television writer and arts advocate, and Pierre Norman Rolin is a philanthropist and global real estate mogul.

• Korean artists are starting to emerge from the shadow of the Chinese art market. Collectors are finding that prices for Chinese contemporary art are high and still rising.

— David Ng

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