• The Ace Gallery of Los Angeles, Beverley Hills, and New York, and its' owner, the established art dealer, Doug Chrismas, are in the midst a $1 billion international fraud case. Last week federal agents seized a $1.3 million Roy Lichtenstein painting that Chrismas sold last year to Seth Landsberg, an art investor. It turns out that the painting had been smuggled into the United States by Brazilian, Edemar Cid Ferreira, the former owner of Banco Santos, who is now serving a 21-year prison sentence for fraud. The New York Post has more details.

• Artists, musicians, actors, writers, producers and journalists decry intolerance and repression in Zimbabwe. (allAfrica.com)