Deleting album art in iTunes

Hi,
I was wondering how you would delete album art from your iTunes Library. i dragged the wrong thing into the album art spot, and now I can't get rid of it! All I can do now is copy it. When I try to drag it out, I just get a copy of it on my desktop. help...

Select the track and select command-i
Select the "Artwork" tab, select the artwork and press delete.
Regards,

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on it on drag it to the desktop, then into the album
art box of iTunes.
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will use more space on your HD than going via the
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