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More stories from the week that ended Aug 10 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Ryoji Ikeda’s spectra shoots up into the London sky to commemorate first world war.
• RIP: Herbert Volkmann, who died at the age of 60.
• Oleg Vorotnikov, founder of Voina, arrested in Venice in July and faces extradition to Russia.
• Could there be more important cultural and archaeological sites at risk for destruction by ISIS?
• MOCANoMi board to form new entity, move out of North Miami and into Design District.
• Banksy's Grim Reaper removed from Bristol ship Thekla using blowtorches and will be loaned.
• Horst Spankus requests that Lehmbruck Museum return artworks he loaned them due to censorship concerns.
• Conrad Atkinson claims Gilbert and George stole ideas from a series of works of his from 1980s and early 90s.
• Rudy Kurniawan sentenced to 10 years in prison for selling millions of dollars of fake wine.
• Moscow Student Initiative projects racist image of Obama on US embassy in Moscow.
• Chris Eliopoulos upset that his work was appropriated by Jerry Kearns.
• Marina Abramovic Institute responds to critics of unpaid positions that require specialized skills.
• Protesters demonstrate against Cai Guo-Qiang's tortoise-based exhibition in Aspen.
• Florida judge awards $16mil. to 3 trustees of Rauschenberg's trust following litigation over value of services.
• The undiscovered da Vinci works that always seem to pop up and the difficulty in authenticating Old Masters.
• Banksy Cheltenham Spies street piece boarded up to protect it from further vandalism.
• Mural in Chicago commissioned by Theaster Gates whitewashed due to locals' complaints.
• Picasso’s ceramic studio in southern France falls into disrepair and requires urgent renovations.
• Missing Élysée Palace furniture and crockery turns up on eBay.
• Foster the People mural on side of building in downtown L.A. is painted over.
• North Korea's Mansudae Art Studio has made work for 18 African and Asian nations thus far.
• More than 53,000 artists apply to rent affordable Harlem apartments in New York with just 89 available.
• List of 58 most beloved American artworks, as voted by the public. More info on Art Everywhere.
• Hans Ulrich Obrist and Simon Castets looking at work by artists born after 1989.
• Berghain night club celebrates 10 years with art exhibition.
• Residential towers replacing 5Pointz site will have mandated graffiti walls.
• Did Kazimir Malevich pioneer street art?
• Toyota pledges $1mil. to Detroit Institute of Arts.
• Robert Gober retrospective opening at MoMA in the fall.
• The Hayward Gallery will host first ever UK retrospective of Carsten Höller next summer.
• Édouard Manet’s Le Printemps painting heads to auction at Christie's with an estimate of $25-35mil.
• Artwork by Anonymous printed from 4chan post receives a high bid of $90,900 on eBay.
• The 10 highest prices for art sales at auction in July.
• Sotheby’s announces 24% increase in net auction sales to $2.7 billion for first half of 2014.
• The issue of online-only auctions not publishing results or performance of auction lots.
• A detailed profile of Marian Goodman and why she opened a London branch of her gallery.
• The role of branding and marketing for artists.
• A look at the value of Andy Warhol's estate at the time of his death.
• Hyperallergic sells ownership of blog post on eBay.
• A look at an Atlanta living room designed by William Peace around a Francis Bacon triptych.
• Bettina Hubby's Thanks for the Mammaries: Artists Uniting With Breast Intentions exhibition at ForYourArt.
• Jana Winderen transforms Park Ave. Tunnel into installation recreating experience of diving into ocean depths.
• Korakrit Arunanondchai is interviewed and the cover artist of SFAQ issue 17.
• Danh Vō's We the People.
• Structural work has completed on Grayson Perry-designed holiday home A House for Essex.
• Petra Cortright collaborates with Stella McCartney.
• Brand New Gallery adds Keith J Varadi to its artist roster.
• Ben Davis reviews the Christopher Williams retrospective at MoMA.
• Ralph Gibson answers some questions.
• Betye Saar presented with The Edward MacDowell Medal.
• Peter Schjeldahl talks about Jeff Koons and his retrospective.
• Papermag shares its list of top five Andy Warhol interview moments.
• Installation images for Picture Menu's (Michael Kennedy Costa, Rachel LaBine, Keith J Varadi) current show.
• Studio360 looks at Jen Stark's artwork.
• Paul Campbell creates 66-ft mural using GPS-tracked movements of Brooklyn Navy Yard workers.
• A look at 105-year old artist Hans Erni, who also answers a few questions.
• Papermag previews Ryan McGinley's upcoming Yearbook exhibition.
• Sandy Candy Kim shoots a yearbook featuring artists, musicians, and models.
• Wu Tsang and boychild in conversation with Michelle Puetz about performance.
• Profile of Hong Kong collector William Lim.
• Simon de Pury shares highlights of his Los Angeles trip on Instagram.
• Katy Perry climbs Rocky steps at Philadelphia Museum of Art in front of her fans.
• Artnet profiles Pari Ehsan, aka Paridust.

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Overtime: Aug 11 – Aug 17

August 17, 2014, 4:06 am

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More stories from the week that ended Aug 17 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Parker Ito's images from his White Cube show.
• RIP: Richard D. Marshall, who died unexpectedly at the age of 67.
• RIP: Edward Leffingwell, who died at the age of 72 due to cardiac arrest.
• Molly Crabapple sneaks into Guggenheim Abu Dhabi site to interview workers and expose poor conditions.
• Chapman Brothers Piggyback piece at Rome's MAXXI censored and removed for being paedopornographic.
• Jayme McLellan fired as instructor at the Corcoran due to her opposition to proposed breakup of the institution. Profile of the Save the Corcoran group.
• Henry Moore sculpture at King's Cross station chosen for context w/ architecture & because it's hard to sit on.
• Unesco chooses not to put London's Westminster on list of world's endangered heritage sites.
• £5mil. Guercino oil painting stolen from a church in Italy.
• David LaChapelle sues Fred Torres for $2.8mil.
• Jaz and Ever and Other sue Terry Gilliam over use of their Buenos Aires street mural in The Zero Theorem.
• Rauschenberg Foundation appeals court ruling awarding $24.6mil. to three trustees.
• Dealer Gary Tatintsian says Lev Nussberg sold him about 165 fake works of art.
• Does 50th anniversary publication of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory have the worst book cover of all time?
• The problems that occur when art museums deaccession works from their collections.
• Are there too many historic house museums in the United States?
• Sotheby's private sales fall 48% for the first half of the year.
• Eight ways that artists have approached or attacked the canvas other than with paint.
• World Trade Center logo unveiled.
• German task force finds that Max Liebermann painting from Gurlitt trove should be returned to David Toren.
• Peter Brant confirmed as buyer of Walter De Maria’s East Village home-studio. He paid $27mil. for it.
• Drone photography may be the next big art trend.
• Ancient money box containing large rare hoard of coins found in Israel.
• The story of how Robin Williams was given a Picasso painting by Disney.
• A list of the best art books to read this summer.
• Chris Burden's Light of Reason installation goes up at the Rose Art Museum.
• Picasso Museum set to open on Oct 25 after five years of delays.
• Smithsonian Summer Showdown competition to find most iconic item in all of the Smithsonians' collections.
• Smithsonian American Art Museum announces the nominees for its James Dicke Contemporary Artist Prize.
• Quentin Tarantino and Barbara Kruger will be the honorees at LACMA's Art + Film gala.
• Tate Britain provides an after-hours tour courtesy of four robots.
• The National Gallery in London now allowing visitors to take their own photographs of its collection.
• National Portrait Gallery installs Robin Williams portrait taken by Michael Dressler.
• Andy Warhol Museum and the MoMA begin project to digitize Andy Warhol's 16mm films.
• The site George Lucas chose in Chicago for his Lucas Museum of Narrative Art used to be a garbage dump.
• Poly Culture could be buying Bonhams.
• Leon Black/Phaidon acquires Artspace.com.
• Will there be a shakeout in the online art sales sites?
• How Christie's is positioning itself in the Chinese market.
• The three different types of art collectors in China.
• Paddle8 and Dreweatts & Bloomsbury’s team up on auction sales that have lots with no buyer's premium.
• What dealers consider and do when work by their artists go to auction.
• People are buying bad art.
• Demand Media acquires Saatchi Online for $17 million and makes Sean Moriarty its chief exec.
• 962 Ferrari 250 GTO sells at Bonhams auction for record $34.65mil.
• Team Gallery opening a Los Angeles location in Venice.
• Other Criteria shop opens in New York.
• Gagosian Gallery organizes its first show with the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.
• Galleries in Washington DC are choosing Georgetown again as the area to be in.
• A review of James Hamilton's book, which tells of the business of art in nineteenth-century Britain.
• ArtRio co-founder Brenda Valansi talks about the fair's impact on the Brazil art market.
• Financial Times has a list of five homes for sale near the world’s leading art fairs.
• An interview with Christopher Williams.
• The story behind Keith Haring's Crack is Wack mural.
• A look at Gary Hume's next show and the history of White Cube and the YBAs.
• Mischa Leinkauf and Matthias Wermk say they put the white flags on top the Brooklyn Bridge.
• Profile of Bettina Korek and ForYourArt.
• Lucy Hilmer takes yearly nude self-portrait to chronicle the affects of aging.
• Richard Avedon’s grandson photographs Audrey Hepburn’s granddaughter for Harper's Bazaar.
• Andrew Goldstein interviews Kasper König.
• Jens Faurschou talks about owning a gallery and moving on and other things.
• Profile of twelve-year old painter Kieron Williamson.
• KATSU’s drone paintings featured on CNN in a segment on the intersection of art and science.
• Above paints 46 shop shutters over 48 hours in London.
• Reviews for Korakrit Arunanondchai’s Bangkokboys sweatsuit by DIS.
• Antiques Roadshow proves to be very popular in its New York stop.
• Lauren Bacall's connection to Henry Moore.
• The statue selfies trend gaining steam on the internet.

Overtime: Aug 18 – Aug 24

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More stories form the week that ended Aug 24 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Olafur Eliasson puts riverbed installation in his Louisiana Museum of Modern Art show in Denmark.
• RIP: Ger van Elk, who died at the age of 73.
• Paul Yore pleads not guilty to creating & possessing child exploitation material in creation of an art installation.
• Judge hears court challenge to Cooper Union's tuition plan.
• Ron Perelman subpoena demands Gagosian and the Mugrabis provide info about all transactions since 2010.
• Louise McBride sues Christie's after she learned a painting she bought from auction house was fake.
• Second plaintiff, said to be Bernd Viehof, comes forward with fraud claim against Helge Achenbach.
• Lee Yong-woo, president of Gwangju Biennial Foundation, resigns due to censorship controversy.
• Andy Sabin calls for a boycott of Aspen Art Museum due to Cai Guo-Qiang's tortoise exhibition.
• Police Commissioner William Bratton speaks out against Museum of the City of NY's City as Canvas exhibition.
• Palestinian artist Khaled Jarrar has his travel ban lifted by Israeli Security Agency and is able to go to Helsinki.
• Man vandalizes a wall at the Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney.
• Annette Schönholzer leaves her Art Basel senior management position.
• Italian culture minister Dario Franceschini weighing whether to ship fragile Riace Bronzes for exhibition loan.
• Art Basel may lose Davidoff as a sponsor of the fair due to pending Swiss tobacco sponsorship laws.
• Artists in St. Louis respond to Michael Brown shooting and subsequent protests in Ferguson. Keith Wallace performs protest piece in front of Robert Indiana's LOVE sculpture in Philadelphia.
• Son discovers that his father was one of those in Andy Warhol's 13 Most Wanted Men paintings.
• USPS to release stamps commemorating four landscape paintings from Hudson River School artists.
• Judge approves Corcoran Gallery of Art’s merge into National Gallery of Art & George Washington University.
• Jacob Kassay & Kyle Thurman exhibition coming to MOCA Tucson.
• Whitney Museum to be open on Mondays too for Jeff Koons retrospective.
• LACMA becomes the first major art museum to join Snapchat.
• Hammer Museum - winners (Alice Könitz, the Frimkesses, Jennifer Moon) of 2014 Made in L.A. Mohn Awards
• Smithsonian adds hundreds of LGBT history items to the museum's collection. Bao Bao the panda is voted as the Smithsonian’s most iconic item.
• The Los Angeles/Islam Arts Initiative to bring together institutions in L.A. area to stage Islamic art exhibitions.
• Morocco’s national museum of Modern and contemporary art to open next month.
• Chiharu Shiota's shoe installation at Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.
• Arby's donates Pharrell's hate to Newseum in Washington D.C.
• Eight public works going up in Chicago, including sculptures by Christopher Wool and Alice Aycock.
• Leon Black buying former Knoedler & Company art gallery space for $50mil.
  buying the former Knoedler & Company art gallery,An article about the velocity of flipping artwork at auction today and how it compares to previous cycles.
• Phillips to sell works from the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago in auction.
• Tracey Emin, Gavin Turk, Mat Collishaw, Sir Peter Blake to participate in Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair.
• Looking for a hotel to stay in during Art Basel Miami Beach?
• Randall Scott moves his gallery from DC to Baltimore.
• Former Saatchi and Lawson assistants Francesca Grillo and Sharrine Scholtz go into art business themselves.
• The market for classic cars heating up as CA sales total $400mil this year.
• Forbes' India takes a look at Dakis Joannou's yacht.
• Jonathan Griffin interviews Jamian Juliano-Villani.
• Story of Justin Lieberman's career and his relationship and tumult with his dealers.
• Astronaut Reid Wiseman tweets photographs from space.
• Profile of Joe Reihsen.
• Christo takes a rafting trip down the Arkansas River.
• 62 days of Marina Abramović's video diaries at The Space.
• Kim Gordon exhibiting solo at 303 Gallery next summer.
• An interview with Keith J Varadi about Greene Exhibitions' participation in abc art fair.
• A look at Joshua and Sonya Roth and their collection.
• Blake Gopnik and Christian Viveros-Fauné review Jackson Pollock painting for one hour.
• Louise Lawler to be next artist to have work displayed on High Line billboard.
• Stop-motion video of 156 wigs that Cindy Sherman has used.
• Damien Hirst buys London home that was listed for £34mil. A look at his other real estate holdings. Is the artist out of ideas?
• A look at some artists that have moved to or moved back to Los Angeles.
• Trevor Paglen honored with one of EFF's 2014 Pioneer Awards.
• Keith Plocek reviews Korakrit Arunanondchai's show at The Mistake Room. Art Observed takes a look at the show as well.
• Derek Blasberg talks to Doug Pray about his Levitated Mass documentary film.
• Interview with SlutLust.
• Artspace's list of 10 artists that are reshaping art in this century.
• A list of ten street artists you can follow on Instagram.
• A Q&A with the founders of the Honolulu Biennial.
• Interview with Zachary Armstrong.
• A look at Shinique Smith.
• All about Bambi - the female Banksy.
• Why the art world suppots Bobby Shriver for the L.A. County supervisor seat.
• Phil Jones spends month dressing up and posing like local realtors and pasting himself over bench ads.
• New limited edition Rosemarie Trockel print released.
• The Julian Assange Coloring Book.
• Amy Poehler parodies the art world in her Old Navy commercial.
• A sculpture to commemorate Amy Winehouse is to be unveiled at Camden market.
• Lady Gaga ice bucket challenge video a piece of performance art? Jeff Koons dumps a bucket of cold water over himself.

Overtime: Aug 25 – Aug 31

August 31, 2014, 4:30 am

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More stories from the week that ended Aug 31 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Images up for New Image Painting exhibition at Shane Campbell Gallery.
• RIP: Marilena Bonomo, who passed away at the age of 86.
• RIP: 23-year old MoMA intern Cindy Yeh dies after falling off roof during rooftop party.
• RIP: 29-year old artist and gallery manager Alicia Louise Cipicchio is killed by a bus at Burning Man.
• James Meyer admits to illegally selling stolen Jasper Johns works.
• REVOK, REYES and STEEL suing Roberto Cavalli for stealing their artwork for its clothing and accessories.
• Dan Park sentenced 6 months in prison for works court says depicted Roma and black people in a racist way.
• Danish art project meant to combat discrimination has been deemed racist in Sweden, removed from festival.
• Mary Engelbreit receives criticism for her illustration in response to Ferguson shooting.
• 4 activists accused of repainting Soviet star on Stalinist skyscraper in Ukrainian colors face prison (7 years).
• Simon Sunderland, aka Fista or Bloodaxe, sentenced to 18 months for graffiti and vandalism.
• Demolition commences at 5Pointz.
• Shepard Fairey thinks that it has gotten too expensive for artists to live and work in New York.
• Zaha Hadid sues The New York Review of Books and critic Martin Filler over statements in book review. He acknowledges mistake. New York Review of Books issues retraction over the article.
• U.S. Copyright Office declares in updated rules that rights to a photo taken by a primate can not be claimed.
• Protesters rally at Fesch Museum demanding removal of Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ work.
• Aspen Art Museum remove tortoises from exhibition in Cai Guo-Qiang piece due to temperatures.
• Three paintings by unnamed 15th century artist stolen from Milan’s Sforza Castle.
• Stolen Picasso reportedly worth $1mil. actually a fake.
• Why eBay Is an Art Forger’s Paradise.
• Petition to save a Mark Dion installation in Lancaster on the grounds of The Storey Creative Industries Centre.
• The Before I Die art project an outlet for Ferguson residents seeking positive change after Brown tragedy.
• Mischa Leinkauf and Matthias Wermke return flags taken from Brooklyn Bridge to American embassy in Berlin.
• The Olympic Freeway Murals: Celebrating 30 Years coincides with restoration of LA murals from 1984.
• Fernard Léger murals at UN General Assembly Hall get a restoration.
• The world's first Arctic arts festival to open for one year in northern Norway.
• Admission to Corcoran Gallery of Art now free.
• Abu Dhabi high security tunnel linking Guggenheim, Louvre and National Zayed Museum on Saadiyat Island.
• Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art prepares to expand.
• The Iraqi National Museum inaugurates 2 renovated halls with life-size stone statues following war & looting.
• MOCAD's People's Biennial pairs recognized artists with overlooked ones.
• David Lynch's “David Lynch: The Unified Field” opens at the Pennsylvania Academy on Sept. 13.
• The New York Times looks at the state of the current art market.
• Classic cars being preferred over art by investors?
• Sotheby's boosting their auction guarantees.
• €160 million Essl Collection will be liquidated.
• Action Comics #1 comic book graded a CGC 9.0 sells for $3.2mil. on eBay.
• Banksy street piece Mobile Lovers sold to benefit Broad Plain youth club. It sold for £400,000.
• Collection of Edward Weston photographs printed posthumously by his son will be auctioned by Sotheby’s.
• A Q&A with Jack Shainman.
• Claire Messud profiles Marlene Dumas.
• Trevor Christensen photographs his subject while he is nude.
• HBO to air Banksy documentary.
• PBS documentary looks at the life of Dorothea Lange.
• 10 Things to Learn About Photography and Life from Dorothea Lange - quotes artist and photographer.
• A look at the Body by Body show at Chateau Shatto.
• Ryan McGinley shoots a short film for Monique Péan.
• Financial Times catches up with Jean Pigozzi.
• G. James Daichendt-curated SKATE & CREATE exhibition opens at Flower Pepper Gallery.
• Michael Sailstorfer buries gold at Outer Harbour Beach in Folkestone as part of participatory public art project.
• Shinique Smith answers some questions.
• Profile of collectors Harry "Hunk" and Mary Margaret Anderson.
• Miranda July's Somebody in-person messaging app.
• Kathy Grayson's list of five punk girl power painters.
• Dustin Yellin reimagines the Vogue logo.
• Jonathan Jones chooses the top 10 codpieces in art.
• LA Times reviews M+B's Soft Target group show.
• Word Above the Street uses water tanks to showcase art in NY.
• A Q&A with Lucy Mitchell-Innes.
• Asger Carlsen releases limited edition prints.
• Jeff Koons art bangle available from Whitney store.
• Tech start-up guys appearing to ruin Burning Man for everyone.
• All about Hello Kitty. The character's place in the art world.
• Painting elephant gets a gallery show.

Overtime: Sept 1 – Sept 7

September 7, 2014, 4:00 am

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More stories from the week that ended Sept 7 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Totally Thames launches Florentijn Hofman’s first-ever UK commission, HippopoThames.
• RIP: Thawan Duchanee, who died at the age of 74 due to hepatitis.
• RIP: Lida Moser, who died at the age of 93.
• Three charged in the murder of Bilal Berreni, aka Zoo Project, in Detroit.
• Robert Rauschenberg’s Collection assists in solving decades-old murder case.
• Thoma Vuille, aka M. Chat, on trial for graffiti, but has much support.
• Public art has been losing battles in the courtrooms.
• Frank Gehry's design for Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center rejected.
• Opening arguments for Detroit's bankruptcy trial underway as the issue of selling artwork is discussed.
• The price of rent for studio space in Berlin is rising.
• Police raid the home of Aaron and Sam Taylor-Johnson due to someone spotting a disarmed machine gun.
• Bert Kreuk sues Danh Vo for $1.2mil. after not receiving a work.
• Vernon Steward sues the American Museum of the Moving Image because he tripped over a baby and fell.
• Scrovegni Chapel's frescoe's by Giotto damaged by lightning.
• São Paulo Biennial curators and artists join in demanding return of Israeli sponsorship money.
• Two problems in the art world that stick out to Jerry Saltz from perusing Art Forum magazine.
• Students still choosing Cooper Union despite of (or because of) new tuition cost.
• Engraving discovered at cave in Gibraltar could be most compelling evidence yet for Neanderthal art.
• Archaeologists say for certain that Stonehenge was once a complete circle after dry weather shows revelation.
• Jen and Paul's One Stop Shopping Souvenir City offers tours and art souvenirs in NY.
• Some familiar work by artists you'll notice on the clothes during New York Fashion Week.
• 150 street artists made work on the walls, rooftops, and water tanks in Djerba.
• Ben Davis writes about Emma Sulkowicz's performance art piece Mattress Performance.
• Officials have found a Monet landscape painting in a suitcase Cornelius Gurlitt took to a hospital.
• Hitler's childhood home in Branau, Austria to become Holocaust museum.
• Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow has Russia’s first uncensored library of contemporary art.
• MoMA PS1 to restore and renovate James Turrell's Meeting.
• First Pop-Up Pompidou to open in Malaga next spring.
• Louvre museum to undergo decades-long refurbishing initiative.
• Kunsthalle Zurich names Daniel Baumann as director to replace the departing Beatrix Ruf.
• Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center to double its physical size after award of $646k in funding.
• Tech industry money still not after buying artwork in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
• Art+Auction's list of 50 Women Artists Worth Watching.
• Hans Peter Haselsteiner majority owner of new company that will purchase Essl collection for €115 mil.
• Andy Warhol's Triple Elvis and Four Marlons paintings to go on sale at Christie's in Nov.
• Sotheby's to have a pop-up show of William Eggleston's work in Palo Alto.
• Christie's launches the Watch Shop.
• Portuguese judge rules that Portuguese government may sell cache of 85 works by Joan Miró.
• Art Moscow may or may not happen.
• Artnet finds the most extravagant places to stay on Airbnb for Art Basel in Miami Beach.
• Sam McKinniss writes about Jamian Juliano-Villani.
• Profile of Darja Bajagic.
• Garage Magazine issue to come with virtual Jeff Koons piece accessible by app.
• Q&A with Joel Mesler.
• Pari Eshan interviews Jackie Saccoccio.
• Justine Kurland answers 20 questions.
• Brandon Stanton of Humans of New York goes one a eleven country tour.
• Kadar Brock answers some questions and announces future shows.
• The Hundreds interviews Scott Caan.
• Culture Type's list of The Season’s 16 Most-Anticipated Art Exhibitions.
• Rosalyn Deutsche takes a look at the September 11 Memorial Museum.
• Seth Carmichael talks about IDEA and the artists they are working with.
• Nicholas Bowers in Artillery Magazine.
• Jeff Koons and Paloma Picasso talk about habits.
• Profile of Michelle Joan Papillion.
• Artspace takes a look at Ólafur Elíasson's career.
• List of nominated artists announced for the 2014 Vincent Award.
• Marc Newson joining Apple as part of Jonathan Ive’s team
• Warp releases Aphex Twin's Syro design artwork by The Designers Republic.
• New Parker Ito screen print released.
• Sculptured vase now available from Case Studyo designed by Steve Harrington.
• Angelina Jolie’s wedding dress was covered in her children’s artwork and illustrations.

Overtime: Sept 8 – Sept 14

September 14, 2014, 5:00 am

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More stories from the week that ended Sept 14 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Images from Alex Becerra exhibition at LTD Projects.
• RIP: Emilio Botín, who died of a heart attack at the age of 79.
• Man sues after fiancée dies when portion of a stone gargoyle falls from church’s façade, hitting and killing her.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger has image of Maria Shriver painted over in his portrait by Gottfried Helnwein.
• Arnold L. Lehman plans to retire next year from his position as director of Brooklyn Museum.
• The removal and transport of Picasso's Le Tricorne from The Four Seasons in NYC.
• NYPD detains three activists for projecting anti-Koch light graffiti on facade of the Met.
• Zilla van den Born fakes an entire five-week trip through Southeast Asia via social media.
• When does surveillance art start to cross the line?
• How the Detroit Institute of Art's collection is being valued by appraisers.
• Next Helsinki launches as counter-competition in backlash of Guggenheim brand.
• LAXArt moving from Culver City to Hollywood.
• Hammer Museum gala in October is going to honor Mark Bradford and Joni Mitchell.
• The final section of the High Line in NYC to open.
• Broadway Morey Boogie public art project in NYC, organized by Marlborough Chelsea and others.
• Richard Antony “Cheech” Marin brings his art collection to Bordeaux, France for exhibition.
• Vancouver briefly had a large public art sculpture of the devil with an erection before it was removed.
• The Goldfinch painting by Carel Fabritius becomes the star attraction at Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery.
• High-tech underground scanning reveals more about Stonehedge site.
• Rauschenberg Foundation launches artist-activist grants to help tackle pressing international & social issues.
• Art Basel Crowdfunding Initiative & Kickstarter to garner support for projects by nonprofit art groups.
• Exhibitor list (as well as names of some artists) for Art Basel Miami Beach 2014 released.
• Phillips' new Mayfair district location in London and what it means for their business.
• Christie's has a pop-up location in Silicon Valley, CA.
• Turner's Rome, from Mount Aventine, to go on auction at Sotheby's for estimated price of £20mil.
• Sotheby's to auction three paintings from Georgia O'Keefe Museum's collection.
• Three masterpiece works from Bunny Mellon's collection, including Rothkos and a Diebenkorn, sold privately. Carol Vogel writes about the Mellon collection.
• A list of the top 30 Chinese artists at auction.
• The last stack Donald Judd ever made is going to be auctioned by Christie's.
• The Twitter Generation’s Top 36 Artists at Auction.
• An analysis of the holding period of work by young artists throughout the years.
• Keith Rivers chooses some of his picks from Sotheby's Contemporary Curated auction.
• The collection of Ron Dominguez, who is a doorman in New York City.
• Three new art fairs open in Shanghai this month.
• Artspace provides a short bio on Leo Steinberg.
• Rob Pruitt's work goes up on the walls for pediatric patients at St. Mary’s Hospital for Children in New York.
• Conversation between John Elderfield and Elizabeth Smith for Gagosian Now.
• Plans for Vincent Van Gogh biopic film progressing after Daniel Fridell named director.
• Barry McGee interviews Eddie Martinez.
• LA Times writes about Doug Aitken's show at Regen Projects, including the opening reception and dinner.
• Oscar Tuazon commissioned to make a bar for the Wattis Institute’s event space.
• Carolina A Miranda chooses some fall shows opening in Los Angeles.
• Linda Yablonsky writes about the New York art scene from last week.
• A profile of David Kordansky. 10 of Kordansky’s top cultural influences.
• Profile of Dean Levin.
• Patrick Van Caeckenbergh joins the Lehmann Maupin artist stable.
• Interview with Tara Downs about Tomorrow Gallery.
• John Baldessari, Klaus Biesenbach, Jeffrey Deitch, and more talk to Paper Mag.
• Dan Colen talks to Louisiana Channel on video. He also discusses his current Gagosian Gallery show.
• Images from Art Production Fund's opening reception for Light Cave by FriendsWithYou at The Standard (NY).
• Artelligence Podcast with Peter Loughrey of Los Angeles Modern Auctions.
• Some music that Sterling Ruby has been listening to.
• Hueman limited edition print available at 1xRun.
• The Outsiders releases Chloe Early print.
• Miley Cyrus to exhibit her sculptures in a show in New York.

Overtime: Sept 15 – Sept 21

September 21, 2014, 4:00 am

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More stories from the week that ended Sept 21 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Raymond Pettibon collaborated with Supreme for their 2014 Fall/Winter Collection.
• Images up for Torey Thornton's Some Narrow Sleeping exhibition at OHWOW.
• Iraqi city of Mosul has art, music, history, literature and Christianity classes "permanently annulled" by ISIS.
• Abigail DeVille's installation removed in Washington DC because residents complained that it was junk.
• 20 prominent women from the art world answer the question: “Is the art world biased?”
• Ben Davis writes about Emma Sulkowicz’s art performance Mattress Performance: Carry That Weight.
• Florentijn Hofman's giant white rabbit partially damaged by a fire when workers were trying to dismantle it
• Danh Vō responds via a letter from Marian Goodman Gallery to Bert Kreuk regarding his lawsuit.
• Amy Koler and Stephen Meyer sues American Fine Art Editions for selling their Warhol without consent.
• Matthew Satz sues Aviva Drescher for $620,500 over unreturned paintings he loaned her.
• Art Basel exhibitors being targeted for financial scam.
• Two men charged with running an international art forgery ring.
• Toyo Ito-designed Baroque Museum building is denied environmental permit and construction is stalled.
• Serbian art fraud gang sells fake Picassos out of Viennese cafe.
• 2014 BolognaFiere SH Contemporary art fair has numerous issues, including work being stuck in customs.
• Future of FIAC’s satellite fairs in doubt as Cutlog has to bow out.
• The legal disagreement over the rights to Vivan Maiers' work.
• International arrest warrant issued in Russia for Mustang Wanted.
• Elmgreen & Dragset's Prada Marfa installation saved after one year of negotiations.
• Americans for the Arts joins other US cultural organizations in urging FCC to preserve net neutrality.
• Bill Cosby will lend his entire art collection to the Smithsonian for them to exhibit.
• Jean Nouvel releases his official design for National Art Museum of China.
• Soledad Lorenzo gifts her art collection of about 400 works of art to the Reina Sofia Museum.
• Henri Matisse's cut-out art exhibition at the Tate is their most successful ever by number of visitors.
• Shaquille O’Neal curating a group show presented by the Flag Art Foundation.
• The Barbican to exhibit the personal collections of post-war and contemporary artist, like Warhol and Hirst.
• TripAdvisor reviewers rank the top museums in the US and the world.
• Aimee Ng appointed associate curator at the Frick Collection.
• Previously unknown Constable painting discovered by Victoria and Albert Museum staff.
• Getty Foundation launches conservation effort to save modern architectural gems.
• Artpsace's guide to the Chicago art scene. A look at the Expo Chicago art fair.
• NYC’s Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) launches CultureAID
• Christopher Knight writes about the reach and expansion of galleries in Los Angeles.
• A list of artists that are also into the performance of music.
• A look at how art and the fashion industry tie together.
• An email exchange shared with Kenny Schachter between a collector and dealer.
• David Hockney original fax art sent from his Malibu beach home to be auctioned.
• Christie’s to sell works from Cy Twombly’s personal collection.
• A look at the Chinese art market.
• 10 things to know about investing in art.
• Larry Gagosian partnering with sushi chef Masa Takayama with restaurant at his gallery.
• Profile of John Currin.
• Mary Weatherford receives Artists' Legacy Foundation Artist Award, winning $25k prize.
• Jorge Rodriguez Gerada transforms landscape of the National Mall in DC into the image of a face.
• Artsy takes a look at Chris Succo.
• A look inside Anselm Kiefer's 200-acre art studio.
• Ai Weiwei talks about showing at Alcatraz.
• Robert Irwin to create a major piece for the Chinati Foundation in Marfa.
• Jayson Musson and Alex da Corte interviewed about their Easternsports show.
• Gabriele De Santis talks about his Depart Foundation show.
• The installation of Tony Cragg's sculptures in Central Park.
• Jeff Koons & Tommy Hilfiger discuss what they want to see at the High Line. Jed Perl writes about Koons.
• Heimo Zobernig will represent Austria at the 2015 Venice Biennale.
• Erin D Garcia limited edition print set available at Poster Child Prints.
• Connor Harrington limited edition print released by The Outsiders.
• Takashi Murakami prints available at Yoox.com.
• Life-sized statue of Amy Winehouse unveiled in London on the day of her birthday.

Overtime: Sept 22 – Sept 28

September 28, 2014, 4:00 am

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More stories from the week that ended Sept 28 (click on bolded words for more information):

• JR's exhibition Unframed — Ellis Island in NY Times. Image: Joshua Bright for The New York Times.
• Two American tourists allegedly steal 30kg artifact from the ruins of Pompeii.
• Uffizi Gallery in Italy damaged by flooding after massive hail storms.
• Ownership of set of 396 prints by Jörg Immendorff in dispute in court.
• WSJ provides information and tips for dividing art work in case of a divorce or death.
• Stifel Nicolaus cuts Sotheby's earnings projection due to slowing in China.
• Human zoo exhibition at Barbican Theater in London featuring black actors cancelled after protests.
• Artists and others band together to fight Arizona revenge porn law.
• John Kerry cites the interest of protecting cultural heritage sites in Iraq and Syria as a reason for intervention.
• UNESCO thinks that Djoser pyramid in Egypt may have been damaged during restoration.
• How museums are hurting themselves by not allowing picture-taking.
• Eisenhower Memorial panel moves forward with controversial design by Frank Gehry.
• Some in Houston consider Jorge Marin's nude statues displayed publicly as too pornographic.
• United Brothers offers soup with radioactive daikon radish grown in Fukushima at Frieze Art Fair.
• Artspace shows us How to Think About Conceptual Art.
• Unfinished Adoration of the Magi work by Leonardo Da Vinci nearly restored.
• DIS announced as the curatorial team for Berlin Biennale.
• Sondra Gilman Gonzalez-Falla and Celso Gonzalez-Falla promise a gift of 75 photographs to Whitney Museum.
• A look at State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now survey show at Crystal Bridges.
• The Aga Khan, North America's first Islamic Art Museum, opens in Toronto.
• Visitors will continue to be able to visit Paleolithic art at Altamira Caves in Northern Spain until Feb '15.
• International Center of Photography moving from Midtown to the Bowery in NY.
• SculptureCenter's Pothole, Puddle, Portal show includes Jamian Juliano-Villani, Chadwick Rantanen, and more.
• LA Times looks at The Los Angeles Project show at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art.
• Sotheby’s will be auctioning small Jasper Johns Flag (1983) painting during Nov auction.
• A look at the current art investment boom.
• A sales report from Art Berlin Contemporary.
• Shane Campbell Gallery moving to new 8,500 sq. ft. space in Chicago.
• LA Canvas takes a look at Roberts & Tilton Gallery.
• Kammer & Reinhardt doll sells for record £242,500 at Bonhams.
• David Frum talks about his dad, collector Murray Frum.
• ARTNews interviews Jeffrey Deitch.
• Michael Manning's Carl Kostyal show a Artforum Critic's Pick.
• Ai Weiwei's Alcatraz show features Lego portraits.
• ABC7 Eyewitness News takes a look at Andy Warhol: Shadows.
• Artsy writes about Sterling Ruby's shows in Asia.
• Aperture interviews Sara VanDerBeek.
• Eric Gibson writes about Jeff Koons' Whitney retrospective.
• Lana Newstrom makes invisible art.
• A look at Gary Hume.
• Van Hanos show at Tanya Leighton a Artforum Critic's Pick.
• A look at Pierpaolo Ferrari and Maurizio Cattelan's Toiletpaper.
• Profile of Julia Dault.
• Denise De La Rue uses Picasso's Guernica in her film shown at the UN's General Assembly.
• Andrew Russeth reviews some exhibitions in Chicago.
• Images of Marlborough Chelsea's Broadway Morey Boogie public art installation.
• Some art books releasing this fall season.
• Ace Hotel's Atelier Ace Issue releases limited edition, signed and numbered Peter Sutherland print.
• Edition of 500 Jean Baptiste-Bernadet Fugue book available from Triangle Books.
• PCP releases Faith47 limited edition, signed and numbered print.
• Victor Vasarely products released by Artware Editions.
• Vincent van Gogh musical opening next year.
• John Malkovich inserts himself into classic art and photographic masterpieces.
• Mr. Bean inserted into historical portraits.
• Stevie Nicks to show Polaroid self-portraits at Morrison Hotel Gallery.
• Shia LaBeouf will jog around the perimeter of the Stedelijk Museum and invites participants to join him.
• A call for a stop to James Franco's multimedia activities.

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Overtime: Sept 29 – Oct 5

October 5, 2014, 4:00 am

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More stories from the week that ended Oct 5 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada creates giant face on the mall in Washington DC. Image credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post.
• RIP: Walter Josef Fischer, aka Oz, who was killed by a subway train at the age of 64.
• Unrest in Hong Kong could negatively (or positively?) affect Sotheby's and Christie's auctions in the region. Art inspired by the protest movement.
• Former staff members of Corcoran Gallery of Art hold a funeral for the institution.
• Banksy street piece gets buffed after complaints of racism.
• Jerry Holbert criticized for racist Obama newspaper cartoon.
• Art dealer Jason White gets five years in prison for federal stalking.
• Drug lord Beltran Leyva, after living a life posing as a art dealer, is arrested.
• Crowd of Ukrainian nationalists destroy the country's tallest Lenin statue in Kharkiv.
• Gruppo Mondiale accused of exhibiting and selling thousands of copies of Rodin bronzes.
• David Hockney thinks art today is "less" because the art establishment has ignored figurative art for too long.
• Philippine court orders Marcos family to return eight major paintings.
• The Lana Newstrom invisible art stunt.
• Western art in Qatar causes controversy.
• 29 murals from New Deal era in Rincon Center complex in San Francisco are to be restored.
• Early Diego Velázquez masterpiece restored and being shown to the public after 90 years in Yale basement.
• Technology reveals that Leonardo Da Vinci painted three versions of his The Lady with an Ermine.
• Ancient land art discovered by Kazakh research team using Google Earth.
• Federico Castelluccio (Furio in Sopranos) discovers and restores Guercino painting worth millions.
• Guggenheim Museum planning expansion for its collection and staff offices.
• Whitney Museum to stay open for 36 hours on Oct 18-19 to celebrate closing of Jeff Koons show.
• KCET interviews Phillipe Vergne of MOCA. The museum offers free admission to those that bring a review of its Warhol show and tweets about it.
• Derek and Christen Wilson donate $1mil. to Duke Univeristy’s Nasher Museum of Art.http://arrestedmotion.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=261630&action=edit&message=1
• Arnold and Marie Forde's art collection in Laguna Beach, CA.
• Christie's adds new 2% performance fee to consignors.
• Vincent van Gogh's Still Life, Vase with Daisies and Poppies painting could sell for $50mil. at Sotheby's.
• Frank Cohen consigns Jeff Koons Balloon Monkey (Orange) sculpture to Christie's. Damien Hirst also consigns a Koons piece to auction.
• More on the big money November sales.
• How much is the global art market growing?
• Japanese art market gradually growing.
• US Appeals court ruling on art estate taxes has the potential to save you a lot of money.
• HuffPost tells you 10 things a artwork needs to have to sell well.
• Artnet has lists of collectable artists according to auction sales.
• Skate's releases its art market fair report.
• A sales report from Vienna Fair.
• NY Times writes about Post-Internet art as it relates to the current art market.
• Alberto Chehebar Q&A on ExhibitionA.
• Profile of Nigerian collector Theo Danjuma.
• What Jeffrey Deitch is up to.
• CLEARING Gallery moving into new 5,000 sq. ft. space in Bushwick.
• Mathew Gallery opening in NY at 47 Canal.
• A look at the art scene in upstate New York.
• Kohn Gallery adds Lita Alburquerque to its artist roster.
• Artolease leases out artwork to corporate clients.
• An inside look at the Sexy Beast benefit event, organized by Davida Nemeroff and Mieke Marple of Night Gallery.
• A review of the LAXArt gala.
• A look at the artists short-listed for the Turner Prize.
• Scott Indrisek reviews SculptureCenter's exhibition Puddle, Pothole, Portal.
• Jerry Saltz reviews Robert Gober show at MoMA. Roberta Smith also takes a look.
• Peter Schjeldahl reviews Richard Prince's show of Instagram prints at Gagosian Gallery.
• New CNN show Ones to Watch aims to find next art star.
• Damien Hirst's new cabinet piece.
• Constant Dullaart DIS Magazine project adds thousands of Instagram followers to art world accounts.
• Pace Gallery exhibition explores Picasso's relationship with his wife Jacqueline Roque.
• Profile of and interview with Tracey Emin.
• Ai Weiwei takes over Blenheim Palace with a large-scale exhibition.
• Eric Fischl taking photographs of art fair attendees.
• Jeanette Hayes in Interview Magazine.
• Camille Henrot wins 2014 Nam June Paik Award.
• Stephen Shore explains how his La Brea Ave photo was organized using Claude Lorrain's compositional technique.
• Laura Owens signed and numbered limited edition print.
• Bumblebeelovesyou X Together We Rise tote bags and books available to benefit the charity.
• Seth Price signed and numbered limited edition print.
• Andres Serrano signed and numbered limited edition print.
• Damien Hirst pills make their debut in London.
• Oxygen has street art competition show called Street Art Throwdown.

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More stories from the week that ended Oct 12 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Final week to see Van Hanos - Not the Way at Tanya Leighton.
• RIP: Trigz, who was tragically shot and killed in North Hollywood. Go here to contribute and help the family.
• COST arrested in NYC.
• ArtBeam's Material Evidence show's Ukrainian display attacked and vandalized.
• Curator Vasyl Cherepanyn brutally beaten in public in Kiev last week.
• Dries Verhoeven's Grindr art project cancelled prematurely after privacy invasion complaints.
• Broad Museum lawsuit set aside until construction completes on the site.
• Court documents reveal new details in Knoedler forgeries case.
• Susan Crile tax case ruling a victory for professional artists that don't make a lot of money.
• Has Damien Hirst's moment passed?
• Ben Davis writes about Maria Baibakova's recent controversies.
• New films not portraying John Ruskin accurately?
• Eight famous artists that dropped out of college.
• Tracey Emin thinks that female artists should not have children.
• Ernst van de Wetering reattributes 70 paintings (previously attributed to his followers) to Rembrandt.
• Sheila Hicks remakes two monumental works at Ford Foundation.
• Newsha Tavakolian accepts Fondation Carmignac photojournalism award after previously turning it down.
• David Lynch announces the return of television show Twin Peaks in 2016.
• The world's oldest art is found in Indonesian cave.
• Eiffel Tower's two-year, €30mil. renovation of its first floor is complete.
• Jamian Juliano-Villani MOCAD exhibition, her first solo museum show, announced for early 2015.
• Glen Ligon's Call and Response opens at Camden Arts Centre.
• Kunstmuseum Bern to decide next month whether to accept the gift of Cornelius Gurlitt’s collection.
• Victoria and Albert Museum at London’s former Olympic Park will spread over 215,000 sq. ft.
• SculptureCenter's recent expansion.
• Tate may soon have to disclose how much sponsorship money BP gives the institution.
• MOCA chief curator Helen Molesworth is introduced.
• Use curate.la to keep up with what's going on in the Los Angeles scene.
• Bjarne Melgaard adds musical soundtrack to his show with Edvard Munch at Munch Museum.
• The challenges and opportunities faced by and offered to American Kunsthalles.
• Artnet's list of America’s Top 10 Private Contemporary Art Museums.
• Documenta 14 to be held in both Kassel and Athens.
• USC School of Cinematic Arts to display items from Dennis Hopper's personal collection.
• Artprice finds that more new works (<5 years old) flipped today than in '07, but for lower average prices.
• Work from the collection of the Family of Pierre and São Schlumberger at Sotheby's this season.
• Sotheby's thinks a white Robert Ryman painting offered next month at auction will sell for at least $20mil.
• Could a de Kooning sculpture sold by the artist's granddaughters fetch $35mil. at Christie's?
• Sotheby's has at least seven Warhol portraits of iconic women at its Nov. contemporary art sales.
• Winston Churchill's paintings and other personal items to be auctioned at Sotheby's.
• Artwork owned by Adolf Hitler in high demand.
• Christie's to hold its second art auction in India in December.
• eBay's fine art live auction site launches.
• Artwork at the art fair and auctions during Frieze London starting to more closely resemble each other.
• Art Silicon Valley hoping to capture elusive key Silicon Valley/tech/start-up collectors.
• Financial Times looks at art fairs from the perspective of artists, collectors, and dealers.
• The story of the history of ownership of Christopher Wool's Apocalypse Now painting.
• The loyalty of artists to galleries versus the loyalty of galleries to artists.
• Mark Moore Gallery celebrates thirty years in the business.
• Ryan Lee Gallery adds four artists to its roster.
• Kappo Masa sushi restaurant, located below Gagosian Gallery at 980 Madison, opened on Friday.
• An in-depth look at mega-collector Steven A. Cohen.
• Art gallery opening receptions: New York City versus Los Angeles.
• Jackie Wullschlager reviews books by Sarah Thornton, Grayson Perry, Ossian Ward, and others.
• Mikhail Antonov organizes Putin-themed one-night-only exhibit on the eve of the Russian president's birthday.
• Emily Mae Smith featured artist at Dream The End and in SculptureCenter's SculptureNotebook.
• Blake Gopnik and Christian Viveros-Fauné look at Roxy Paine's Marianne Boesky show.
• BBC Radio's Front Row interviews Gerhard Richter.
• Chris Hadfield releases book of photography from outer-space.
• Scott Indrisek interviews Enrico Castellani.
• A look at the Michelle Grabner exhibition at James Cohan Gallery.
• The Guardian looks at Richard Serra's show at Gagosian Gallery in London.
• Profile of Elizabeth Jaeger.
• Christopher Knight looks at the Katherine Bernhardt show at China Art Objects.
• A look at Gerhard Richter's show at Marian Goodman in London.
• Marina Abramovic really wants Lars von Trier to direct a segment in her film.
• Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan's Newspaper Reading Club.
• Richard Serra to receive lifetime achievement award at the Americans for the Arts gala.
• Artspace interviews Marcel Dzama.
• Video interview with Shepard Fairey about design.
• Maya Lin wins $300,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, to be presented at MoMA in Nov.
• Kehinde Wiley interview about why he is now painting black women.
• Two firms: Snohetta and the Metric System will design Norway’s new banknotes.
• Collaborative book by Keith J Varadi and John Roebas released by Bunk Edition.
• Mick Fleetwood exhibiting show of photographs at Liss Gallery.

Overtime: Oct 13 – Oct 19

October 19, 2014, 4:00 am

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More stories from the week that ended Oct 19 (click on bolded words for more information):

• An interview with Kerry James Marshall on occassion of his show at David Zwirner.
• Inaugural World Wide Art Fair in Los Angeles suffers from lack of attendees.
• Third edition of Mardin Biennial canceled due to ISIS threat.
• Paul McCarthy physically attacked in France over butt plug sculpture. Social media reacts to the sculpture. The piece eventually gets deflated by vandals.
• Davide Perre of How & Nosm arrested and charged with felony assault after bar fight.
• Brian Ramnarine gets 30 months in prison for selling fake bronze sculptures by Jasper Johns and others.
• Chinese President Xi Jinping attempts to influence what type of work artists in China should create.
• Fine Arts Expert Institute (FAEI) estimates that half the artwork currently in circulation are fakes.
• Banksy street mural defaced with a spray-painted aroused penis.
• Museum workers in Britain go on strike for better pay.
• How men and women see art differently.
• The tumultuous Milwaukee art scene.
• Banksy trying to get the Banksy.com domain.
• Michael Bloomberg's Public Art Challenge grants to provide millions to cities for public art projects.
• Amal Alamuddin-Clooney advices Greece on repatriation of Parthenon marbles from Britain.
• Art work made of textile materials gaining international stature in art museums and among collectors.
• British metal-detecting enthusiast finds the most significant Viking treasure hoard ever found in Scotland.
• Artnet's list of the 100 most powerful women in art, part 1 of 3.
• A Tumblr page featuring women looking at art.
• Kunstmuseum Bern to accept artwork from Gurlitt trove that do not have restitution claims.
• Louvre Abu Dhabi to borrow about 300 masterpieces from French museums for its 2015 opening.
• Marisol exhibition of sculpture on works on paper opens at El Museo del Barrio.
• Hello Kitty show at Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles is a hit.
• Gary Nader to build Latin American Art Museum in downtown Miami.
• Commission of Fine Arts approves concept of revised Frank Gehry design for Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial.
• Pope rents out Sistine Chapel to Porsche Travel Club for concert (funds go to charity).
• Why “Jeff, Embrace Your Past” documentary film was not included in Jeff Koons Whitney retrospective.
• Bloomberg looks at what's happening in London during Frieze week. Artnet's choices for the best booths at the Frieze fair. Fair attendees can have their nails did courtesy of Ed Fornieles at the Carlos/Ishikawa booth at Frieze. Some other unusual presentations at Frieze. A sales report from the fair.
• Colin Gleadell reports on the Essl auction sale at Christie's. A look at the results of Christie's evening sale.
• Christie’s selling 21 of Cindy Sherman’s “Untitled Film Stills” in a single lot during its Nov. 12 evening sale.
• A sales report from the Phillips evening sale in London.
• Bonham's to auction off Lauren Bacall's 700-piece art collection.
• Forbes takes a look at some relatively affordable artists that make work that looks like blue chip artists' works.
• Works that are white in color selling very well recently.
• Wall-(m)Art sells ownership of street art in the actual streets.
• A look at the new Various Small Fires gallery space in Hollywood.
• An attempt at defining the Post-Internet art movement.
• WSJ interviews Gerhard Richter.
• Ed Ruscha drives around Los Angeles.
• Holly Myers' thoughts on Mike Kelley.
• The story of how Israel “Lev” Levarek of Toy Tokyo met KAWS.
• Anila Quayyum Agha becomes first artist to sweep ArtPrize, winning both jury and public grand prize awards.
• Artist photographers like Vic Muniz and Alec Soth take pictures of their kids in their rooms.
• Marc Quinn and Ryan Gander among artists that turn decommissioned American assault rifles into artworks.
• Kara Walker's A Subtlety sugar sculpture to make partial return during her Sikkema Jenkins & Co. show.
• What Bert Rodriguez has been up to.
• Mariah Robertson feature on Art21.
• Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo shares her picks for art shows in London during Frieze.
• Jim Dessicino installs nine-foot Edward Snowden sculpture in Union Square, NY.
• Mark Kostabi moves from Chelsea to the Upper East Side in New York.
• Joyce Pensato answers some questions.
• Richard Tuttle sculpture edition available for pre-order at Tate shop.
• Mike Brodie limited edition of 100 signed screen prints released by TBW Books.
• Harley Langberg recreates Banksy's (and other artist's) works using food items.
• Jay Z and Beyonce take a whole bunch of art selfies and photos in Europe.
• Ten Hollywood films that feature art in it.

Overtime: Oct 20 – Oct 26

October 26, 2014, 4:00 am

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More stories from the week that ended Oct 26 (click on bolded words for more information):

• A look at the Prospect 3 biennial in New Orleans. Image: Tavares Strachen neon photographed by Joseph Vincent Grey.
• RIP: Wolfgang Hutter, who died in Sept at the age of 85.
• RIP: René Burri, who died at the age of 81 after a long illness.
• RIP: Susan Sollins, the executive director of Art21 and ArtPrize juror. Cause of death unknown.
• Christopher Johnson arrested for spraying graffiti on the walls of the Whitney during Koons show.
• Paul McCarthy makes decision to withdraw his piece from FIAC's Hors Les Murs program. Are Parisians really that scared of giant butt plugs? Jonathan Jones on McCarthy's more controversial pieces.
• Banksy's Girl with the Pierced Eardrum is vandalized in Bristol.
• Vandalism reported in 10 national parks in the United States. Person responsible said to be Casey Nocket.
• Five stenciled works by Bambi, made to raise money for charity, is stolen.
• Former Andy Warhol body guard Agusto Bugarin accused of attempting to sell a painting he stole from Warhol.
• The Ron Perelman v. Larry Gagosian feud heating up.
• Frank Gehry flips off journalists and criticizes today's architecture.
• Kainer heirs and relatives sue UBS over sale of Nazi-looted art that did not benefit them.
• The possibilities for the Nazi bronze salvaged from the Graf Spee battleship.
• LA Weekly writes about the lack of attendance at the World Wide Art Fair in Los Angeles.
• Will artwork from Hong Kong's protests be saved and preserved? NPR takes a look at the art.
• Hamburg Green Party wants to save some of Oz's street murals.
• How galleries in Chelsea, NY are dealing with post-Sandy issues.
• Artnet's part two of three of its list of the most powerful women in art. And part three.
• ArtReview's 2014 Power 100 list released.
• Four out of every five people who make a living in the arts in the US are white, according to Census data.
• The Washington Post writes about the growth of art and culture in Los Angeles.
• Title of upcoming Venice Biennale revealed: “All The World’s Futures”.
• London Evening Standard has its list of London's most influential artists and curators.
• Study by Strategic National Arts Alumni Project finds college art degrees are now paying off and graduates happy.
• The Health Goth lifestyle trend.
• A list of the top ten gallery space in Berlin.
• Blanton Museum acquires Okay Mountain's Roadside Attractions piece for its collection.
• The Albright-Knox Art Gallery to expand for the first time in 50 years.
• The Museo Reina Sofía to expand to Santander and display José María Lafuente's loan of artworks there.
• Tullio Lombardo’s marble sculpture Adam to return on view at the Met in Nov.
• Mark Bradford, Heather Podesta, Cathy Vedovi, Christopher Walker are named into MOCA's board of trustees.
• A list of 25 museum shows to see around the world right now.
• A look at the Van Gogh auction market.
• Concept Art Fair to debut in Miami during Basel on Seafair mega yacht docked in Bayfront Park.
• Report from FIAC art fair. A summary of the sales at (Off)icielle in Paris.
• Jamie Sterns' observations and her experience during Frieze week in London. Kenny Schachter's as well.
• University of Hong Kong, in collaboration with Art Basel and Central St Martins, launches art collecting class.
• David Byrne talks about art and the market.
• A review of the 2014 Turner Prize show.
• New York Times looks at Genieve Figgis show.
• Paul McCarthy responds to critics of his Christmas tree sculpture.
• NY Times profiles Hans Haacke.
• Ashley Longshore paints commissions for rich, showy patrons.
• ArtInfo looks at what David Altmejd has been up to.
• The Economist interviews Sarah Thornton about her new book.
• WSJ reviews Inka Essenhigh exhibition, Michelle Grabner show, and Russian Avant-Garde Art show.
• Ted Gahl answers 20 questions.
• Grayson Perry's television show in Britain.
• Michael Graves answers some personal and design questions.
• Frank Gehry-designed Louis Vuitton Foundation building opens in Paris. A look at the artwork inside.
• Exhibition A interviews Joshua Abelow.
• Kehine Wiley interviewed in Flaunt Magazine (PDF).
• John Baldessari's artist and celebrity selfies with Visionaire.
• An interview with Chuck Close.
• Paddy Johnson reviews Richard Prince's Gagosian Gallery show.
• Ai Weiwei stainless steel bicycle released.
• Rare releases apparel and accessory line designed by Mark Dean Veca.
• Rob Pruitt collaborates with J Brand on jeans.
• Jeanne Greenberg-Rohatyn takes Jay Z and Beyonce on an art tour of London.
• Queen's Dr Brian May loans rare collection of Victorian stereographic photographs to Tate Britain.
• Joe Forkan's The Lebowski Cycle series that uses frames of The Big Lebowski to reference classic artworks.

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More stories from the week that ended Nov 2 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Images from the Michael Manning show at Bill Brady KC.
• Robert Falcon charged with Trigz' murder.
• CalArts students protest the school's handling of rape cases.
• FOLD Gallery in London burglarized with four sculptures by Tim Ellis stolen.
• Sotheby's sued over alleged misattribution of possible Caravaggio painting.
• The Badische Landesmuseum identifies seven Nazi looted artworks within its collection.
• Christie’s and Sotheby’s differences in of sale of 2 Schieles shows difficulty of hadling Nazi looted restitution cases.
• Philippe Maestracci encounters difficulty in recovering his grandfather's Nazi-looted Modigliani tied to Nahmads.
• Berlin commemorating 25 years since fall of Berlin Wall with 8,000 luminous balloon installation by Whitevoid & Bauderfilm.
• Dorothee Achenbach defends Helge Achenbach and declares his innocence.
• Carolina A. Miranda takes a look at why the World Wide Art Fair failed so badly.
• Brian Droitcour discusses The Perils of Post-Internet Art.
• Mina Gregori says she is confident of having made a “definitive” verification of Caravaggio's Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy.
• A history of male nude modeling.
• Read a pristine $3.2 mil. issue of Action Comics #1 online.
• Sophia George designs game based on William Morris' Strawberry Thief.
• LA Weekly visits Human Resources' event “decolonizing the white box".
• Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation opens in Monte Carlo.
• Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art displays its real Matisse painting next to a forgery of the work.
• Broad Museum in Los Angeles gets a expected opening date of fall 2015. It also revealed that the institution acquired one of Jordan Wolfson's Female Figure works.
• Melissa Chiu talks about her plans for Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
• Tate Britain's Alexander McQueen: Working Process to show Nick Waplington's intimate photographs of the designer.
• Oslo’s city council approves plan for new Munch Museum on the waterfront in a vote.
• Harvard Art Museums' new Renzo Piano building next to Le Corbusier's building.
• Jerry Saltz reviews Chris Ofili: Night and Day at the New Museum.
• Mark Mothersbaugh to have shows at Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver and the Santa Monica Museum of Art.
• How to deal with the end of Jeff Koons' Whitney retrospective.
• Using high-profile names as exhibition curators and how Pharrell did not attend the museum show he curated.
• Francois Pinault reportedly buys 37 works at FIAC. What the Horts bought at the FIAC art fair. Sandy Rower with his top five picks for FIAC. Andrew Goldstein chooses ten pieces from FIAC.
• Artnet's list of twenty of the world's most innovative art collectors.
• Forbes shows you how to borrow money using your artwork as collateral.
• Bridget Donahue, director at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, to open gallery on Lower East Side.
• Responses to David Bryne's feelings about the current contemporary art world.
• Christie's to offer items for immediate purchase at a fixed price.
• Keith J Varadi answers twenty questions.
• Interview with Amalia Ulman. A review of her show at Evelyn Yard.
• Chloe makes Kickstarter for a project to create six-foot vagina.
• Pharrell Williams and Ryan McGinley team up on Adidas campaign.
• T.J. Wilcox, Paul Chan and George Condo commissioned to create two-minute previews for operas at Metropolitan Opera.
• Gagosian Gallery's Picasso show focuses on the photographs he took.
• Elliott Hundley featured in latest episode of Art21.
• Profile of BGL, the artist collective representing Canada at the Venice Biennale.
• Review of Marina Abramovic show at Sean Kelly Gallery.
• Artnet reviews the Banksy Does New York HBO documentary film.
• Ari Marcopoulos and Andrew Kuo talk about art and sports at NeueHouse.
• Brad Jones - the collaboration between Jennifer Rubell and Brandi Twilley.
• How meeting Jean Tinguely changed the way Robert Rauschenberg worked.
• Sarah Thornton answers some questions about art, artists, and the art market. Andrew Russeth reveals some juicy tidbits from her new book.
• Teriha Yaegashi writes about Sohei Nishino's new show opening in London.
• Tobias Zielony, Hito Steyerl, Olaf Nicolai, Jasmina Metwaly, and Philip Rizk chosen for Venice Biennale’s German Pavilion.
• Shark Toof Kickstarter page seeks funds to help preserve his mural in Downtown Los Angeles.
• Julien Prévieux wins Marcel Duchamp Prize, which comes with a €35,000 award.
• Louise Hearman wins 2014 Moran prize, which includes $150,000 award.
• Camille Blatrix wins the 2014 Prix d’Entreprise Ricard.
• Chris Ofili print available at New Museum store.
• Review of Kappo Masa, the sushi restaurant inside of Gagosian Gallery.
• Things Kanye West has said that sounds like Jenny Holzer.
• Lindsay Lohan commissions nude portrait by Pegasus.
• Snoop Dogg paints and talks about painting.

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More stories from the week that ended Nov 9 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Installation image from Dominic Samsworth exhibition at SWG3 Gallery.
• Leonardo di Vinci self-portrait drawing was removed from Turin during WWII so Hitler would not gain magic powers.
• Natali Cohen Vaxberg placed under house arrest for defecating on Israeli flag.
• Diane Ducruet's images from her Mother & Daughter series censored in France.
• Protests continue at Guggenheim in NY over alleged Abu Dhabi Museum labor abuse.
• Tony Shafrazi's landlord trying to evict him from his SoHo loft.
• Ronald Lauder warns Bern Art Museum about accepting Gurlitt trove before provenance has been fully investigated.
• Adolf Hitler watercolor to be auctioned  at the Weidler auction house in Nuremberg, Germany.
• James Cuno of The Getty speaks out against repatriation. Jonathan Jones thinks British museums should return objects and artifacts to their "rightful owners".
• Story of the line drawn across the Berlin Wall.
• Statue erected in memory of Steve Jobs dismantled in St Petersburg after Tim Cook came out as gay.
• North Korean embassy in London opening doors to the public for the first time to showcase art from Pyongyang.
• Valentin Carron going to be sued for plagiarism.
• When forged artworks have their own fakes.
• Case of Picasso electrician in possession of allegedly stolen works to go to trial.
• Dia's use of a Dan Flavin work inside a cave for a Allora and Calzadilla work stirs controversy.
• Scott Indrisek criticizes Venus Over Manhattan's recent exhibition programming decisions.
• Pure Evil has some advice and words of wisdom to aspiring street artists.
• Never before seen notebooks used by Jean-Michel Basquiat to go on view at the Brooklyn Museum in April.
• A look at some of the artwork in Abu Dhabi's Guggenheim Museum collection.
• A summary of the LACMA Art + Film Gala.
• British Museum releases scans of artifacts to let you 3D print your own works at home.
• J. Paul Getty Museum acquires Édouard Manet's Spring for over $65mil. at auction.
• Jerry Perenchio to gift 47 works worth over $500mil. to LACMA.
• Charles Claude Johnson Spink and Edith Spink donate 225 works to St Louis Art Museum.
• Benjamin Genocchio reviews the Fondation Louis Vuitton museum.
• Growing number of food carts a problem in front of the Met.
• Banksy's Art Buff street piece removed from wall to go on sale one month after appearing.
• Exhibitor list for Art Basel Hong Kong 2015 released.
• A look at the Artissima art fair in Italy.
• Photo London coming - seeking to be the best photography fair in the world.
• Scott Indrisek reviews the Independent Projects art fair.
• Profile of collectors Nelson Blitz and Catherine Woodard.
• Kelly Crow's profile of Christie's Xin Li.
• How Jay Gorney is operating without a physical gallery space.
• Judd Tully reports on Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern evening sale. Eileen Kinsella also has a report.
• Judd Tully reports on Christie's Impressionist and Modern evening sale. Eileen Kinsella also has a report.
• Wang Zhongjun revealed as buyer of Van Gogh flowers.
• Lauren Bacall's letter to Henry Moore among the items that will be at auction at Bonham's.
• Christie's expands New York ground floor space with more room for private sales.
• Online sales hoping to achieve higher prices for works.
• Art market in UK hurt by The Artist's Resale Right levy.
• Churner & Churner gallery in Chelsea will close at the end of November.
• New owner of building housing Zach Feuer Gallery and Independent Fair asks them to leave.
• Profile of Frank Stella.
• A look at Michael Heizer's City, a project that is over 40 years in the making.
• How Uber allows Drew Heitzler to get out more and drink more and attend more art-related social events.
• Profile and studio visit with Michael Dotson.
• R.H. Quaytman talks about the work in her latest exhibition.
• i-D interviews Asger Carlsen.
• Russ Heath creates comic about being appropriated by Roy Lichtenstein and praising the Hero Initiative.
• A look at Aelita Andre and other child art prodigies.
• Could Banksy be a woman?
• Billboard featuring Dan Colen and Kalup Linzy nude and kissing unveiled on London Bridge.
• Bjarne Melgaard seeking an unpaid intern to create large hair based sculpture and paintings.
• WSJ visits and talks with Kara Walker.
• Terrance Hayes poem paired with Alex Israel painting.
• Billy Name answers some questions.
• Nick Waplington show at Little Big Man Gallery opens.
• Studio visit and interview with Spencer Tunik.
• Pussy Riot, aka Enraged Vaginas in Russia, talk with Klaus Biesenbach at MoMA PS1.
• Q&A with Rashaad Newsome.
• New items available at Peter Sutherland's webstore.
• Tyler Stout 2015 lunar calendar available for pre-order.
• Beyonce dressed as Frida Kahlo and Jay Z as Basquiat for Halloween.
• Jeff Koons to design album cover for Jimmy Page.
• Ai Weiwei photographs clothing for V magazine.
• Vladimir Putin exhibition in Moscow includes a painting of him spanking Obama.
• SFDevotion sets the Guinness Book of World Records record for his Street Fighter collection.

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• Blair Thurman's first solo exhibition with Gagosian Gallery.
• RIP: Richard Duardo, who died at the age of 62 in his sleep.
• RIP: Sheikh Saud bin Mohammed Al-Thani, who died at the age of 48. More about his collecting habits and the sale of the most expensive watch in the world. Artnet lists the top 10 Al-Thani family acquisitions.
• Ryder Ripps' ART WHORE project at the Ace Hotel in New York. The work is widely criticized.
• Theft of up to 302 works of art from Turkey's State Art and Sculpture Museum revealed to be an inside job.
• Six former Spanish government officials investigated over alleged corruption surrounding purchase of Goya works.
• Sotheby's third quarter 2014 private sales transactions fell 61% to $153.5mil.
• Study shows over 70% of visual artists who took part in publicly funded exhibitions in last three years in UK received no fee.
• FIAC LA 2015 postponed until 2016. May actually be cancelled.
• Friends of the Parks sue Chicago to block the building of the Lucas Museum on lakefront.
• How the fall of the Berlin Wall affected artists.
• Online shop in China shut down probably due to Ai Weiwei t-shirts.
• Profile of Chris Marinello, one of the world’s most experienced art hunters and restitution experts.
• American Association of Museums has a reputation for going easy on Nazi-looted artwork.
• Michael Elion's Cape Town memorial to Nelson Mandela criticized.
• Shepard Fairey speaks out against Time Magazine appropriating his style for their cover.
• A guide to the words and terms used at art auctions.
• A guide on which venue to choose when selling artwork from your collection.
• A guide on how to investigate an art dealer's reputation.
• Artnet's top twenty hottest art world hangouts.
• Report: Brooklyn cultural institutions drew more than 4.5mil. visitors and generated more than $300mil. last year.
• Dyslexie, a typeface designed specifically for people with dyslexia by Christian Boer exhibited at Istanbul Design Biennial.
• The art collection of Detroit Institute of Art officially safe from creditors.
• MOCANoMi and ICA Miami reach a settlement from their dispute.
• Frick Collection's plan for expansion receiving lots of opposition.
• The Smithsonian unveils $2bil. plan for Mall renovation.
• The Chinati Foundation's Sustaining membership includes Matthew Day Jackson print.
• Pierre Cardin opens new Past-Present-Future museum in Paris.
• What the Met has planned for the Whitney's old home.
• Information on the 2015 Triennial at the New Museum released.
• A look at the Mahatma Gandhi statue that will go up in London's Parliament Square.
• A glimpse at the new Harvard Art Museums.
• Diane von Furstenberg and others contribute to $12mil. restoration for Jewish Museum & synagogues in Venice.
• Oprah Winrey helps fund the Dwana Smallwood Performing Arts Center.
• Judd Tully covers Sotheby's contemporary art evening sale. Artnet also has a recap.
• Judd Tully covers Christie's record-breaking contemporary art evening sale. Artnet also has a recap.
• Judd Tully covers Phillips' evening sale. Artnet also has a recap.
• Steven A. Cohen revealed as buyer of $101mil. Giacometti Chariot sculpture.
• Colin Gleadell analyzes some artists and auction lots from the week's sales.
• Kenny Schachter talks about some auction lots in ArtTactic's podcast.
• Jeff Koons turns some Birkin bags into readymades during a benefit for Project Perpetual.
• Jeffrey Deitch strolls the auction previews in New York.
• George W Bush paints a father-son portrait. He discusses it on the Today show.
• Annie Leibovitz’s photograph of 14 of today’s influential women gallerists for Vanity Fair.
• David Titlow wins £12,000 Taylor Wessing photographic portrait prize.
• Nate Lowman, Simon de Pury, and Leo Fitzpatrick are DJing this year's RxArt party.
• What's eating Cady Noland?
• Craig Hubert takes on Banksy.
• The Kansas City Star reviews the Michael Manning show at Bill Brady KC.
• A show of Robert Heinecken's Polaroids.
• Profile of Olafur Eliasson.
• Sven Sachsalber will spend two days trying to find a needle in a haystack at the Palais de Tokyo.
• Ben Davis reviews Takashi Murakami's Gagosian Gallery show.
• Christopher Knight reviews Sayre Gomez's show at Francois Ghebaly Gallery. Artsy looks at his work.
• Alex Israel and Josh Smith produce a one-day show at Reena Spaulings.
• Rachel Rose has won the illy Present Future Prize, which was presented at Artissima.
• A look at Frank Gehry's Dr Chau Chak wing building in Sydney.
• New Dave Kinsey prints available at BLK/MRKT.
• Rosha Yaghmai's panties available at LA><ART shop.
• Why the Kardashians are so into art.
• Kim Kardashian coming out with a art book of selfies called Selfish.
• Met Museum attempts to cash in on the attention paid to Kim Kardashian's buttocks.

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November 23, 2014, 4:00 am

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• Sacha Goldberger interprets portraits of comic book superheroes as Renaissance figures.
• RIP: Andrew Bucci, who died at the age of 92 after a brief illness.
• Aristophil accused of running a Ponzi scheme via financial instruments in the books and manuscripts market.
• Fallout surrounding Bill Cosby's rape accusations spread to the institutional art world.
• Zahi Hawass accused of assisting German hobbyists steal samples from Great Pyramid at Giza.
• Kurt Perschke accuses Shell oil company of appropriating his red ball art project idea.
• David William Noll pleads guilty to vandalizing Banksy street pieces in Utah and gets five years probation.
• William Ruprecht steps down as head of Sotheby's and the company may go private.
• Jerry Saltz thinks the art world has gotten too conservative.
• Jonathan Jones does not think that photographs should be shown in art galleries.
• Arts scene doing well in Turkey, however, artists still face governmental censorship and other hardships.
• United States considering cultural property protection czar post to prevent looted objects from entering country.
• Kunstmuseum Bern expected to decide soon on whether to accept the estate of the late Cornelius Gurlitt.
• Student accidentally crushes one of Ai Weiwei's porcelain crabs from a installation.
• Previously unseen pictures of Che Guevara taken right after his execution surface.
• Piero della Francesca’s The Resurrection  to undergo restoration funded in part by Aldo Osti.
• Archaeologists discover three unique mosaics at the Ancient Greek city of Zeugma, in south Turkey
• ArtPrize to open second edition in Dallas in April of 2016.
• Mass MoCA will become the largest contemporary art museum in the United States in 2017.
• Faena Forum, art center in Miami designed by Rem Koolhaus, to open in Dec 2015.
• MOCA's future exhibitions include Matthew Barney, Sturtevant, R.H. Quaytman, William Pope.L, and Kerry James Marshall.
• Institute of Contemporary Art Miami upcoming shows include Shannon Ebner, John Miller, and Ryan Sullivan.
• Hammer Museum adds courtyard bridge designed by Michael Maltzan and opening in Feb.
• Tate Gallery to exhibit artworks in 3D form, within virtual world of Minecraft.
• Elizabeth Armstrong named as new director of Palm Springs Art Museum.
• Art museums are becoming another status symbol for international billionaires.
• Savannah College of Art and Design to exhibit Andre 3000's jumpsuits with phrases on them.
• Bomb Magazine has a Kickstarter to raise funds for operations.
• Georgia O’Keeffe painting sells at Sotheby's for $44.4mil., a record for a work by a female artist. Sarah P Hanson analyzes the Sotheby's American Art sale
• Rare Warhol New Coke print once owned by U2 to be auctioned at Bonham's.
• One of Napoleon's two-pointed hats was sold at Osenat to a South Korean collector for $2.2mil.
• Artnet's list of The Top 10 Uber-Rich Art Collectors.
• How guarantees in art auctions are affecting the market.
• Kenny Schachter dishes gossip and analyzes the fall auctions in New York.
• Bendor Grosvenor thinks that the evaluation of art today is driven too much by it's price.
• Stephen Haller Gallery and Stux Gallery merging to form Stux + Haller.
• How artists like Ryan Gander and Yinka Shonibare spent their art prize winnings.
• William Kurelek painting given as a gift of appreciation for apple strudel and vegetables could sell for $20k at auction.
• Mickalene Thomas creates wine label for Bedell Cellars
• Profile of David Hockney, who also answers a bunch of questions.
• Mark Farid raising money for project where he be in virtual reality for 28 days straight.
• Steven Meisel shoots the 2015 Pirelli calendar.
• Ben Davis reviews Pierre Huyghe's LACMA retrospective.
• Artsy interviews Maurizio Cattelan.
• Paul Kasmin gallery now represents Laylah Ali.
• Adam McEwen now represented in NY by Petzel.
• Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin now represented by Lisson Gallery.
• Paul Chan wins Hugo Boss Prize for 2014.
• Shepard Fairey now represented by Jacob Lewis Gallery in New York. He also talks about his work with Fusion.
• Kelly Allen discusses art and environment at her new Geek Group maker space.
• Carolina A Miranda reviews Sarah Thornton's book 33 Artists in 3 Acts.
• Steve Duneier yarnbombs 17 sandstone boulders in the Santa Ynez Mountains.
• Jaden and Willow Smith discuss what they think art is, among other topics.
• Prince Charles is shy and declines to view portraits of himself drawn by students.
• Body art enthusiast Jenya Bolotov spends seven years transforming himself into a human platypus.
• IKEA recreates classic paintings as photographs with their furniture in them.

 

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• Images from Liz Deschenes: Gallery 7 at The Walker Art Center.
• RIP: Lewis Baltz, who died at 69 from complications of cancer and emphysema.
• Shia LaBeouf claims he was raped during performance of #IAMSORRY.
• Scientists warn that paintings with cadmium sulfide (yellow) is deteriorating to white.
• St. Louis Museums close following the day after grand jury decision on Michael Brown case.
• Bunny Mellon sale brings rat infestation to Sotheby's New York.
• Recently ousted Sotheby’s CEO William Ruprecht will receive $4mil. in severance.
• Paul Chan thinks winning Hugo Boss prize was a result of a complete misunderstanding of [his] work.
• Marrakech may soon become photography's global HQ, but locals are unhappy about it.
• Helene Hegemann causing a debate about plagiarism vs "mixing" in her appropriation of literary material.
• Oakland City Council requires private developers to set aside 1% of their project costs for public art.
• The street art that sprang up in Ferguson.
• Coloring books for adults becoming very popular in France.
• Julie Baumgardner's list of the sexiest male artists include Ed Ruscha, Nate Lowman, Matthew Barney, and more.
• Artnet provides some useful pick-up lines on occasion of Art Basel Miami Beach.
• Kunstmuseum Bern accepts bequest of artwork from collection of Cornelius Gurlitt.
• Souls Grown Deep Foundation gifts 57 works by African-American artists to the Met.
• New York Botanical Garden announces "Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life" exhibition opening May 2015.
• Stephen Moss reviews Institute of Sexology exhibition at the Wellcome Collection.
• Bert Rodriguez turning his apartment into a museum with work by himself.
• Yves Bouvier to build Jean Nouvel-designed art hub on Île Seguin island in Paris.
• The Economist writes about the art at One World Trade Center, curated by Asher Edelman.
• Lê Phổ oil painting sells for $840k at Christie's in Hong Kong. The price is a record for a Vietnamese artist.
• Liu Yiqian buys 600-year-old imperial embroidered silk artwork at Christie’s for $45mil., a record for a Chinese work.
• Lorenzo Zambrano Sotheby's sale totals $17.6mil., breaking the record for a single owner sale of Latin American art.
• Artnet looks at the top 50 living artists that performed surprisingly well at auction in 2014.
• The exhibitor list for the Armory Show 2015 art fair.
• Saigon's not for profit San Art launches online fundraising effort.
• ArtNews previews works from galleries at Art Basel Miami Beach.
• NY Times writes about the art scene in Miami.
• Brian Boucher describes his experience performing inside Yves Klein’s Tactile Sculpture.
• Lavanya Ramanathan profiles Sarah Thornton.
• Interview with Benedikt Taschen.
• Tilda Swinton collaborates with Olivier Saillard on a performance piece at Palais Galliera.
• What Terence Koh has been up to.
• John Giorno joins the artist roster at Elizabeth Dee Gallery.
• Lawrence Weiner wins Roswitha Haftmann prize, which includes $156,076 in prize money.
• Anri Sala wins Vincent award for contemporary art, which includes €50,000 in prize money.
• Nathaniel Mellors wins Contemporary Art Society Annual Award for 2014, which includes £40,000 in prize money.
• A look at Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian's NY home, which includes work by Robert Davis and more.
• Simon de Pury's latest projects with his wife as de Pury de Pury.
• Jim Sanborn offers another clue to his Kryptos sculpture at CIA headquarters.
• Art in America reviews Korakrit Arunanondchai's show at The Mistake Room.
• A look at Facebook’s artists-in-residence program, headed by Drew Bennett.
• Artnet's 12 turkey-themed artworks on occasion of Thanksgiving.
• Paul McCarthy limited edition available.
• Darren Almond limited edition Art Edition books with prints released by Taschen.
• Ella Kruglyanskaya screen print available from House of Voltaire.
• The Vinyl Factory and Mo' Wax release limited edition Rammellzee record.
• Dan Colen cashmere peanut scarf in yellow available from the Whitney shop.
• David Hammons basketball drawing and Richard Prince hood among the works in Beyonce and Jay Z's collection.
• James Franco selfies calendar included with Paper Magazine.
• Swizz Beatz talks about art and art collecting.
• Dyed armpit hair may be the next beauty trend.

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December 14, 2014, 4:00 am

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More stories from the previous two weeks that ended on Dec 14 (click on bolded words for more information): [News related to Art Basel Miami Beach will be included in a separate special edition Overtime post]

• Time Out reviews Sean Landers (whose painting pictured above) show at Petzel.
• RIP: Wynn Chamberlain, who died at the age of 87 due to heart failure.
• Protesters turn Eric Garner's "I can't breathe" last words into performance art.
• Two drunk students attempt to steal Emil Nolde painting from Germanischen Nationalmuseum.
• Ed Cox accidentally knocks over and destroys antique vase at an event to discuss restoration of art and artifacts.
• Megumi Igarashi arrested after trying to raise funds for construction of a kayak, using a 3D printer, inspired by her genitals.
• John Re pleads guilty to one count of wire fraud after selling forged artwork purportedly by Pollock and de Kooning.
• Andrew Shannon sentenced to five years in prison for punching a hole through a Monet painting.
• Helly Nahmad released from prison to a halfway house after serving five months of one year sentence.
• Leigh Morse may be headed back to prison for paying only a small fraction of her restitution so far.
• Three men steal 70 paintings from Puerta de Alcalá gallery in Madrid.
• James Warhola challenges The Andy Warhol Foundation's lawsuit against Agusto Bugarin over allegedly stolen painting.
• Carol Vogel resigns from New York Times.
• Fulton Ryder to close after Christmas this year.
• Larry Gagosian wins dismissal of lawsuit accusing him of tricking his friend and client Ronald Perelman.
• Helge Achenbach goes on trial for falsifying accounts of artworks and classic cars he purchased on behalf of Albrecht family.
• Mykki Blanco does not think that Klaus Biesenbach likes black people.
• Angela Strassheim's photograph of nude pregnant woman deemed “pornographic”.
• Students from Haute École d'Art de Perpignan sell themselves on eBay as a protest the impending closure of their school.
• Badlands Unlimited produces mock book covers in response to decision not to indict Darren Wilson.
• Parisians reportedly rushing to buy butt plugs in the wake of Paul McCarthy tree controversy.
• Reports state Russia gave UEFA president Michel Platini a Picasso painting in exchange for support of World Cup bid.
• Steven Murphy, the head of Christie’s, announces his resignation from the auction house. He may have been pushed out due to lot guarantees. Christie’s president of the Americas, Doug Woodham is also leaving.
• Mark Hudson and Adrian Searle criticize the Turner Prize and its winner, Duncan Campbell.
• Angelo Paratico thinks that Leonardo di Vinci's mother was a Chinese slave who was the subject in Mona Lisa.
• Doubts cast on the authenticity of the purported Leonardo da Vinci Virgin of the Rocks painting in London.
• High profile Japanese architects call for Zaha Hadid's design for Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic stadium to be scraped.
• Rome authorities declare Italian man can keep £28mil. Gauguin painting previously stolen more than 40 years ago.
• The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the growth of the art scene in Los Angeles.
• Maurizio Cattelan frolicks around LA with Ali Subotnik, visiting artists and galleries and cemeteries.
• Los Angeles Unified School District school board approves $2.5mil. in spending on arts education.
• Los Angeles Philharmonic receiving a $20mil. gift from David Bohnett.
• Canada’s National Arts Centre gets $110mil. in funds for renovation.
• Ancient Rome had graffiti on its walls too.
• Jerry Saltz's choices for the best shows of 2014 include Darja Bajacic, Kara Walker, and Katherine Bernhardt.
• Roberta Smith's top art shows of 2014 include Robert Gobert, Jeff Koons, and Darren Bader.
• Jonathan Jones’s top 10 art shows of 2014.
• Holland Cotter’s list of notable art events of 2014.
• 7-year legal battle sees return of seized Botticelli painting taken during Salander-O'Reilly bankruptcy proceedings.
• Edwin Moses has a portrait of him by Basquiat that no one has ever seen.
• One of the Elgin Marbles leaves London for the first time and are on loan to State Hermitage Museum. Greece is outraged to hear of the loan.
• Yoko Ono to receive major solo exhibition at MoMA in 2015.
• The Missouri History Museum and the Regional Art Commission are working to preserve art from Ferguson protests.
• Saint Louis Art Museum receives $5 million gift from Barbara and Andy Taylor to fund new sculpture garden.
• Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has reopened after a three-year renovation.
• Paul Simonon exhibits new series of paintings in Wot No Bike show at London’s ICA.
• Institute of Contemporary Art names Eva Respini its new chief curator.
• Smithsonian exhibits 3-D portraits of President Obama created by Smithsonian and USC's Institute for Creative Technology.
• Arts Council England details 27 gifts offered by private owners to British public collections.
• New York's richest artists list topped by Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, and Chuck Close.
• Drawing by EH Shepard of Pooh with Piglet and Christopher Robin sells for £314,500 at Sotheby's.
• Sotheby’s sells Turner’s Rome, from Mount Aventine painting for $47.4mil. at auction.
• New investment analysis of collectibles shows that classic cars are vastly outperforming the art market.
• Peter Lik photograph reportedly sells at private for $6.5mil. Jonathan Jones provides commentary on the sale.
• Buyers in China are increasingly looking to buy work by artists from overseas.
• Texte Zur Kunst writes about art flipping, Art Rank, Stefan Simchowitz, and Bert Kreuk.
• Amazon to offer flexible pricing model for its art and collectibles section.
• Brennan & Griffin gallery expands presence to Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn.
• Art Miami announces Art Miami New York art fair, to be held during Frieze week.
• Marion Maneker discusses the growth and shift in the world of art collecting and compares it to the popularity of Chipotle.
• Andrew Goldstein talks to Heather Flow about her advisory and the art market.
• Maria Brito's advice for new collectors looking to acquire art.
• The New Yorker has a extensive profile of Hans Ulrich Obrist.
• GQ profiles and interviews Van Hanos, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Sam Moyer, and more.
• In-depth profile of the Helnwein family (Gottfried, Mercedes, Ali..).
• Drunken Shepard wins Turnip Prize with her work Ewe Kip.
• Mark Flood interview with Leo Fitzpatrick.
• Camille Norment will represent Norway at the 2014 Venice Biennale.
• Jeff Koons designs cover for Brian Grazer’s book, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life.
• Marilyn Minter discusses Plush, her book featuring female pubic hair.
• Nate Freeman visits Dan Colen's show at Walter de Maria's former studio.
• Tracey Emin's design of Brittania statuette unveiled.
• Profile of Ben Eine, who is collaborating with Louis Vuitton and making limited edition sculptures.
• NYTimes writes about Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, a film about J. M. W. Turner.
• Marina Abramovic plans to start filming Seven Deaths project next summer, playing the role of Maria Callas.
• Texte Zur Kunst releases a limited edition print by Alex Israel.
• Release of Visionaire 64 ART John Baldessari, Platinum Edition containing 30 works, a Platinum print, and Galaxy Note 4.
• Grey Area's limited edition pool toys, including ones by Jen Stark, FriendsWithYou, and more.
• Candice Tripp releases Monkey Bone silk scarf on sale at her site.
• Prescription Art releases new Carl Cashman limited edition screen print.
• Swizz Beatz to start a members club, free of fees, for artists in New York.

Overtime: Miami Beach Art Fair Week Edition

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More stories from Miami Beach during the week of the 2014 fairs (click on bolded words for more information):

• MdM x PK Shop pop-up opens at Soho House Miami Beach during fair week.
• RIP: Delbert "Demz" Rodriguez, who died at the age of 21 after being hit by a police car in Wynwood during a chase. There may have been a cover-up by police.
• Kalan Sherrard arrested after pulling fake penis from his pants at Art Basel Miami Beach protest.
• Silver Pablo Picasso plate stolen from Leslie Smith Gallery's booth at Art Miami.
• About 65 pilots and a handful of flight attendants protest Netjets' "corporate greed" during Art Basel Miami Beach.
• #Ferguson2Miami protests during fair week blocks traffic on Miami freeways.
• Artists and activists organized vigil in Miami during fair week to protest Michael Brown and Israel Hernandez killings.
• Artnet takes a look at the best private art collections in Miami.
• Andrew Goldstein interviews Rosa de la Cruz, of the de la Cruz Contemporary Art Space.
• Christian Viveros-Fauné on how art fairs are affecting the creation of artwork.
• The fairs through the eyes of Franklin Sirmans, Chief Curator of Contemporary Art at LACMA.
• Kenny Schachter writes about his experience in Miami during Art Basel.
• Anthony Haden-Guest and Alexandra Peers's experience in Miami during fair week.
• Felix Salmon's thoughts on Art Basel Miami Beach.
• Sandy Rower's top 5 artwork picks at Art Basel Miami Beach.
• Martha Otero's picks for art at Art Basel Miami Beach.
• Andrew Goldstein's picks for the top ten artworks at Art Basel Miami Beach. Goldstein's choices for emerging artists to watch at NADA and Untitled.
• Judd Tully's sales report from Art Basel Miami Beach.
• Eileen Kinsella's sales report from Art Basel Miami Beach.
• Art in America's sales report from Art Basel Miami Beach.
• Blue chip art reported to sell well at Art Basel Miami Beach.
• Artnet's 10 Ridiculous But True Rules For Navigating Art Basel in Miami Beach.
• Paddle8's 8 memorable moments from Art Basel Miami Beach week.
• Forbes writes about Art Basel Miami Beach.
• NADA imports Surf Club in Montauk’s chef, menu, DJ’s, local-favorite bands, and personal trainer to Miami.
• Dan Duray visits the Instagram panel during Art Basel Miami Beach.
• New York Observer attends the Freeman and Lowe performance during Art Basel Miami Beach.
• Sergei Tcherepnin is the winner of 2014's Artadia/NADA Award prize, which includes a $4,000 unrestricted grant.
• Scott Indrisek writes about the Miley Cyrus performance during Art Basel Miami Beach.
• Jeffrey Deitch compares Miley Cyrus' artwork to Mike Kelley's.
• Billboard reports on the celebrity sightings in Miami.
• Princess Eugenie visits Art Basel Miami Beach.
• Beyonce wanted at Gavin Brown's booth at Art Basel Miami for Instagram pic in front of works featuring her portrait.
• What Leo, Diddy, Usain, Drake, and other celebrities were up in Miami Beach during Art Basel.
• Usher collects art, does stuff in Miami, like charge his phone through a woman's vagina.

 

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December 21, 2014, 4:00 am

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More stories from the week that ended Dec 21 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Michael Rey and Amy Feldman 2-person exhibition opens at Freddy.
• RIP: Jeffrey Vanchiro aka KORN, who died at the age of 38 after falling out of 2nd-story window.
• LAPD arrests Raul Espinoza after he attempts to sell stolen art and recover 9 paintings.
• Three staff members of Uzbek State Arts Museum receive prison terms for selling artwork and replacing with forgeries.
• Experts gather in Berlin to discuss ways to help Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Afghanistan and others protect cultural property.
• Charles Saatchi suing former employee Rebecca Wilson for £300,000.
• Mute calls for a boycott of the Zabludowicz Foundation.
• Peter Lik's reported sale of $6.5mil. photograph viewed with skepticism.
• Franck Davidovici accuses Jeff Koons of stealing the idea of Fait d'Hiver from his advertisement.
• Helge Achenbach admits to some of the allegations he is charged with in court.
• Rosie O'Donnell pulls anti-Israel artwork from her website shop.
• Will the fall in Russian currency affect the art market?
• Navajo and Hopi tribes travel to France to oppose sale of sacred Native American, Eskimo and pre-Colombian artefacts.
• Group of anonymous artists take responsibility for hanging cardboard images of black lynching victims at UC Berkeley.
• Virtually punch a Monet in a gallery setting.
• Julien Frydman to leave his post as head of Paris Photo in late January 2015.
• Richard Dorment's choices for the five worst shows of 2014 include Matthew Barney and Marina Abramovic.
• Christina Rees thinks that right now might be the worst time ever to be an artist.
• Why people like having sex with artists.
• Boat with containers covered in JR wrapped art saves immigrants at sea.
• Artnet has a list of its picks for The Art World Winners and Losers of 2014.
• Aram Moshayedi and Hamza Walker named as curators of Hammer Museum's Made in LA 2016 biennial.
• Museo Tamayo has had to add security staff and guides to keep up with the number of visitors to popular Kusama show.
• Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery share its entire collections online.
• The Guggenheim in search of readers for On Kawara performance in the museum.
• Barbara Lee gifts Institute of Contemporary Art 43 works by 25 international female artists.
• Crocker Art Museum acquires Kris Kuksi's “Churchtank Type 9″ sculpture.
• Virginia Museum of Natural History receives donation of over 230 taxidermy works from Gregory Speck.
• Carolina A Miranda writes about Art + Practice, which will bring art and social services to Leimert Park.
• Artsy showcasing 21 museums and foundations in France in educational feature promoting French cultural heritage.
• Jerry Saltz' list of The 14 Best Museum Shows of 2014.
• Issues you should consider before donating art.
• Sindika Dokolo assembling collection of African art which he hopes to display one day in museum in Luanda.
• Tate Archive puts online 52,000 letters, photographs and sketchbooks belonging to great 20th-century British artists.
• India and Pakistan will be united at the Venice Biennale in 2015 in an official joint presentation at the Palazzo Benzon.
• 8 Museum Directors Reveal Their Favorite Works of Art.
• Vulture provides us with a look at pubic hair in the history of art.
• Beast Jesus a boon for tourism in town of Borja, Spain.
• Did Leonardo da Vinci paint the Mona Lisa twice?
• Ronald Lauder reportedly is the seller of record $4.5mil. Noguchi table sold to Alice Walton.
• Regen Projects celebrates its 25th year anniversary in Los Angeles.
• Exhibition A interviews Jessica Silverman.
• How do you determine which art works have long-term as opposed to short-term-only value?
• Gold rush in Cuban art now that US normalizes relations with Cuba? Kelly Crow also thinks so.
• Frieze New York 2015 exhibitor list released.
• Sotheby’s sale sets record for a photographs auction, totaling $21,325,063.
• Burt Reynolds successfully sells his collection of fine art and other items at Julien's Auctions.
• Scott Indrisek's Semi-Affordable Holiday Gift Guide for Art and Design Lovers.
• Eric Garner and Michael Brown killings prompt resurgence in political art.
• Huffington Post's list of 15 artists to watch in 2015.
• ArtStack wins Sferiq Award for Digital Innovation in Art.
• 10 artists discuss their thoughts on the #artselfie.
• Christopher Knight's list of the best art shows of 2014.
• Paper Magazine's list of 9 New York-Based Street Artists to Watch.
• Alec Soth's favorite photobook of 2014 is DIE MAUER IST WEG! by Mark Power.
• Artsy's picks for The Top 10 Artists Under 35 in 2014 and its choices for 15 Artists to Watch in 2015.
• George W Bush's advice to painters.
• Catherine Opie shoots ads for Portlandia.
• Sean Lynch to represent Ireland at the 2015 Venice Biennale.
• Pavel Pepperstein awarded Kandinsky Prize, which includes €40,000 in cash.
• Video profile of Daku, a street artist in India.
• Interview with Nick Darmstaedter on occasion of his new exhibition.
• Jake and Dinos Chapman show us what Christmas looks like when you're dying.
• NPR profiles Richard Estes.
• How Wassily Kandinsky's synaethesia changed art.
• An interview with Jacques Villeglé.
• Mademoiselle Chocolat sells Paul McCarthy Santa with butt plug and butt plug chocolate sculptures.
• Jamian Juliano-Villani limited edition print available from The Third Rail.
• PUSH 12-color screen print available from Art Heist.
• Gary Taxali limited edition print released by Dynamo Editions.
• Matthew Barney dating Sheryl Crow?
• Stephen Colbert commissions JR piece on rooftop of studio and pretends to be Banksy.
• 24 celebrities reveal artwork that they'd want to own.
• Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick recreate famous artworks at their office during work.
• Jerry Saltz looks at the best art tattoos of all time.