Art News

Swedish artist target of murder plot

STOCKHOLM (AP).- Swedish prosecutors suspect three men arrested in an anti-terror sting this month of plotting to kill an artist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad as a dog, a newspaper reported Wednesday. Citing classified material from the investigation, newspaper Metro said the target of the plot in the west coast city of Goteborg was Lars Vilks, who lives under police protection due to death threats over his drawing of Muhammad in 2007. Authorities have remained tightlipped about the case and prosecutor Agnetha Hilding Qvarnstrom declined to comment on the report. Vilks told The Associated Press he had not been given any details about the plot and didn’t know whether he was the target. But he said Swedish authorities had advised him to cancel a planned visit Friday to a book fair in Goteborg because of it. An art gallery celebrating the inauguration of an exhibition was evacuated in connection with