Overtime: Dec 22 – Dec 28

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

• Mark Bradford talks about his work.
• RIP: Rafael Ramos, aka POTE BBK, who died at the age of 40 after being shot.
• RIP: Jane Bown, who died in her home at the age of 89 after a recent fall.
• Sheik Saud bin Mohammed Al-Thani's family being sued for his debt accrued while buying stamps.
• Safety of Michelangelo's David statue a concern as over 250 small tremors rattle Florence.
• A list of the most controversial depictions of Jesus in art.
• A look back at the angriest debates in the world of architecture for 2014.
• Tate ordered to reveal BP sponsorship details in court case brought by environment activists.
• Laws regulating import and export of important cultural objects to be revamped following a series of acquisition scandals.
• Hyperallergic's list of the 20 most powerless people in the art world in 2014.
• Those who were naughty in 2014.
• Artnet's list of The 10 Biggest International Art Scandals of 2014.
• Philip Glass and other artists donate works to be sold to raise money in fight against NYU expansion.
• A guide to what you must see in Amsterdam.
• The Art Newspaper's seven new art words.
• Artinfo's list of the top Instagram posts of 2014.
• LA Weekly's choices for the 10 Best L.A. Art Experiences of 2014. And its choices for the 10 Best L.A. Street Art Murals of 2014.
• Hyperallergic's picks for the ten best exhibitions across the United States in 2014.
• The Edsel & Eleanor Ford House sold a Paul Cézanne painting in 2013 to a private buyer for $100mil.
• The Smithsonian’s federal appropriation is increased by $14.5mil. for fiscal year.
• Christopher Knight on why museum admissions should be free.
• International museum franchises - yay or nay?
• Eileen Kinsella writes about the biggest year ever for auctions.
• How the booming art market is affecting how art is made and sold.
• Artnet has a list of the top 50 female artists at auction. It also has a list of the top 20 art world women of 2014.
• Artnet's list of the most expensive European artists at auction in 2014.
• Five major collectors reveal their artwork wishlists.
• Artnet's list of the most admired art dealers of 2014.
• Observers list of five young galleries to watch in 2015.
• How to spot artwork that could have value.
• John Waters to exhibit Kiddie Flamingos, a kids, rated-G version of Pink Flamingoes, at his Marianne Boesky show.
• Harmony Korine has two exhibitions coming up.
• Profile of Ben Noam and his move to LA.
• Holiday greeting cards made by well-known artists.
• Derek Blasberg talks with Agnes Gund.
• Tully Arnot's Lonely Sculpture is an artwork that surfs Tinder mechanically on its own.
• Artnet's list of the top 10 digital artworks of 2014.
• A look at the ten greatest feasts in art history.
• Artnet's list of its favorite art books of 2014.
• Tauba Auerbach's Diagonal Press webstore opens.
• The Posters store has timed-edition prints by Nate Lowman, Wyatt Kahn, Paul Wackers, and others.
• Cristiano Ronaldo statue includes camel toe.
• Known Gallery's show featuring Chief Keef.
• The celebrity art projects, performances, and ventures of 2014.

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Overtime: Dec 29 – Jan 4

January 4, 2015, 4:00 am

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More stories from the week that ended Jan 4 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Mitchell-Innes & Nash's three-person show with Jo Baer, Anne Neukamp, and Diane Simpson.
• Family sues Majestic Collection Fine Art Gallerie after sculpture kills their toddler.
• Elana Pritchard illustrates her experience in jail and with the legal system.
• 14-year-old girl in Hong Kong arrested for drawing chalk flowers on a wall at protest site.
• Tania Bruguera arrested three times in two days in Cuba.
• Authenticity in use of Tracey Emin's bed in My Bed piece questioned. Others think it doesn't matter.
• Wife of Jean-François Bauret accuses Jeff Koons of plagiarizing her husband's work.
• Gallery 63 Antiques accused of selling a Rockwell forgery.
• Wales had plans to hide art treasures in underground tunnels if a civil or nuclear emergency arose during the 1980s.
• The unveiling of The Broad's facade reveals that actual construction not as good as rendering.
• Jonathan Jones asks why the poor are not depicted in art today.
• Play-Doh makes a toy that looks like a penis.
• The rise of narcissism in art in 2014.
• The mutual admiration and rivalry between Picasso and Dali.
• The 15 most bizarre, wild, and weird art stories of 2014.
• Scott Indrisek's top ten worst art world moments of 2014.
• Harvey Weinstein issues a challenge to Banksy.
• Andrew Goldstein talks about the art bubble.
• Christian Viveros-Fauné's list of the 50 most exciting artists of 2014.
• WOAH's top 12 Los Angeles art picks for 2014. Connie Butler also has her LA top choices. Paris, LA's LA culture's top 10.
• Ben Davis' list of The Most Important Art Essays of the Year.
• 8 under-the-radar shows that Artinfo is looking forward to in 2015.
• Artists talk about their favorite films of 2014. And choose their favorite art exhibitions of 2014.
• Roberta Smith's views on some of the art-related films that came out in 2014.
• New York City art life still lively and vibrant.
• Damien Hirst's art complex in south London will open in 2015 and have free admission.
• Artwork from Myron Kunin's collection goes on loan at Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
• A look at the institutions in New York undergoing expansion in 2015.
• Bloomberg looks at the blue chip sales numbers of 2014.
• A look at the record purchases at auction in 2014.
• Georgina Adam's art market predictions for 2015.
• Cuba prepares for a boom in demand for its art and artists.
• A look at the upcoming Los Angeles art fairs.
• The Indian art market still struggling to recover.
• List of the 10 best European art fairs of 2014.
• Adeline Ooi hired by Art Basel for Asia Director Post.
• Profile of Anne Anka and a look at how she built her art collection.
• Anselm Kiefer visits Cern, Europe's particle physics center.
• Anish Kapoor to have 2015 solo show at Versailles.
• Obey Clothing interviews James Jean.
• The Standard interviews Liu Bolin.
• A Q&A with Jordan Wolfson.
• Financial Times interviews Luc Tuymans.
• Interview with David Ostrowski.
• Martin Bruckner turns his 3 year-old daughter's sayings into art.
• Rob Pruitt's Instagram series of artist and celebrity look-a-likes.
• New York Times profiles Stefan Simchowitz and takes a look at a day in his life.
• Andrew Goldstein interviews Mark Landis.
• 50 artists from Singapore that you may want to know about.
• Lina Selander to represent Sweden at the Venice Biennale in 2015.
• Timothy Spall learned to paint so he could play the part of J.M.W. Turner in film.

Overtime: Jan 5 – Jan 11

January 11, 2015, 4:00 am

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More stories from the week that ended Jan 11 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Profile of Helmut Lang, who is now strictly a artist and sculptor.
• RIP: June Harwood, who died at the age of 81.
• 12 killed in terrorist attack at Charlie Hebdo due to satirical cartoons. Artists respond to the tragedy. Why the massacre will make art stronger.
• Violence against cartoonists sadly a common thing throughout history.
• Bennett von Vertes confesses to killing another man.
• What happens to private museums if the founder dies?
• George Rodrigue painting stolen from wall of Rodrigue Gallery, but it is later found.
• Russian government's clampdown on free speech, other events prompt members of Russia’s art world to leave country.
• France may plan to sell some of its state-owned artwork.
• Chinese demand for late-period Picasso paintings may be skewing its market.
• DIA director Graham Beal to retire from the museum in June.
• Tania Bruguera resigns from Union of Cuban Writers and Artists and returns award given to her by the communist government. She is told by official from Cuba's Ministry of Interior not to return for the Havana Biennial.
• Report finds that labor issues persist in Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island cultural mega-development.
• Why artists may not like the current art market.
• How artists might be displaced by gentrification of the Tenderloin.
• David Cameron has yet to sit for an official portrait for the Parliamentary Art Collection.
• NY's Department of Cultural Affairs to measure diversity at city’s museums and performing arts groups.
• Ben Davis lists 30 Art-Writing Clichés to Ditch in the New Year.
• Christopher Glazek annotates his New York Times article on Stefan Simchowitz.
• A list of 10 places in Los Angeles to draw nude models.
• Streetcraft L.A. helping turn graffiti artists and taggers into commercial artists.
• Patreon crowdfunded $10mil for artists in 2014.
• Gates Foundation utilizing artwork in an effort to encourage vaccination.
• The most-searched artists on eBay in the United States by state.
• Preparations now under way for first Antarctic Biennale.
• Paddy Johnson's predictions for the digital art world in 2015.
• Bob Colacello examines the competition between the Met and MoMA.
• Fred Tomaselli: The Times at OCMA will be the artist’s first West Coast museum exhibition.
• About 40 exhibitions of Andy Warhol's work will be shown in university art museums and institutions in 2015.
• Museum of Fine Arts opens time capsule from 1795.
• Profile of the El Segundo Museum of Art.
• LACMA to lend more than 130 pieces of Islamic art to The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture.
• Berkeley Art Museum acquires artwork by Andrew Schoultz and Penelope Umbrico.
• Detroit Institute of Arts reaches its pledge to raise $100mil. over 20 years for city.
• British Museum's request to borrow work from Museum of Cycladic Art may be affected by Parthenon Marbles tension.
• Reviews of the Jeff Koons retrospective at Centre Pompidou.
• Quiiky, a gay travel company, starting sexuality-themed tours of the Vatican.
• Marina Picasso selling an estimated $290mil. worth of her grandfather's artwork.
• Sotheby's and Christie's increase guarantees on auction prices, despite risks.
• Sotheby's to auction Claude Monet's Le Grand Canal, which is estimated to sell for £20–30mil.
• How the sale of a Paul Cézanne reflects the current realities of the overall art market.
• Steve Lazarides consigns some of his Banksy works to Bonhams.
• Paddle8 to sell the only copy of the new Wu-Tang Clan album.
• Issues of Charlie Hebdo receiving enormous interest on eBay.
• Vito Schnabel taking over Bruno Bischofberger's gallery space in St. Moritz.
• Glenn Horowitz Bookseller to open new gallery called Rare, across from MoMA.
• Liz Craft and Alex Freedman answer some questions about Paramount Ranch.
• 1:54, fair that focuses on contemporary art from Africa, will make its New York debut during Frieze NY.
• Jerry Saltz and Marion Maneker writes about Stefan Simchowitz.
• Simon de Pury talks about his experience and imparts some advice.
• Q&A with Steve Turner.
• Interview with Mark Flood about his gallery and collecting.
• Collector's interview with Ryan Kortman.
• Jamian Juliano-Villani, Jacolby Satterwhite, Catharine Ahearn, and Gaia are among those in Forbes' 30 Under 30 list.
• Modern Painters' list of 24 artists to watch.
• May Hands is Desktop Residency artist #35.
• Bill Powers interviews Jonas Wood.
• Jayson Musson has new web series called Adventures of Jamel.
• Aram Moshayedi interviews Alex Israel.
• Profile and interview with Sean Scully.
• Scott Indrisek looks at Rascal House at Half Gallery.
• Interview with Doug Rickard, who is now working with YouTube videos.
• Sean Kelly Gallery now represents Hugo McCloud.
• Takashi Murakami reveals his favorite Art Forum cover. He also invites his Instagram users to his Gagosian show for a #InstaMeet.
• Andy Warhol's Batman film Batman Dracula.
• NY Times writes about Rene Ricard.
• Interview with William Wegman.
• Erwin Recinos' photographs of Los Angeles from the past 5 years of his work.
• Shy guy Chris Shaw "discovered" after being posted on Humans of New York.
• Creative Capital announces over $4,370,000 in grants to 2015 Creative Capital awardees in art categories.
• Ivan Grubanov to represent Serbia at 2015 Venice Biennale.
• Larry Sultan's work now on exhibition at LACMA.
• Kara Walker limited edition pitcher available from Artware Editions.
• Cindy Sherman limited edition tray available from Sundance Institute.
• Cali Thornhill Dewitt prints available in white and black.
• Madonna uses images of historical icons with their faces wrapped in bondage to promote her album.
• Brad Pitt sports nail art in public appearance.
• PJ Harvey turns recording performance of her next album into art piece.
• City Lit offers new class on selfie photography.
• Restaurant review of Larry Gagosian-owned Kappo Masa.

Overtime: Jan 12 – Jan 18

January 18, 2015, 4:00 am

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More stories from the week that ended Jan 18 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Images from Michael Rey's solo exhibition at Cherry and Martin up.
• RIP: Milton Hebald, who died at the age of 97 in West Hollywood, CA.
• Charlie Hebdo’s new issue after terrorist attack features prophet Muhammad on cover. JR's images of Charlie Hebdo contributors appear on the streets of Paris.
• Jean de Boulogne bronze sculpture stolen at Musée des Arts Décoratifs later found in restroom trash can.
• Joseph Gibbons robs bank as art.
• Nestlé has trademark infringement claim against Anthony Antonellis.
• Helge Achenbach confesses to more fraud of his clients.
• Is the Brant Foundation a elaborate scam to reduce taxes?
• American Royalties Too Act (ART) dead for now.
• George Zimmerman arrested after dispute over a painting.
• Andres Serrano may sue AP for their prior licensing of his Piss Christ image.
• Two academics claim that arts coverage in all British newspapers breaches suicide reporting guidelines.
• Art gallery assistant chases down booze thief, who gets arrested by police.
• Governor Brown's budget plan would slash California's arts grant spending.
• New FAA regulations may restrict the use of drones in works of art.
• Lombard Freid Gallery to close due to differences between the partners.
• Area surrounding Louvre-Lens in France facing eviction conflict.
• Grace Kook-Anderson leaves her position as curator of contemporary art at Laguna Art Museum.
• Doug Fishbone puts forged painting in Dulwich Picture Gallery as his conceptual art project.
• The mystery of who Banksy is.
• Ben Davis thinks NY's art scene is doomed.
• George Washington University to sell Corcoran College’s historic Fillmore building.
• Street that Marcel Duchamp and Norman Rockwell once lived on target of naming controversy.
• 20 major museum directorships open in Italy as the country looks for candidates who can fundraise.
• Advocate groups want the US to adopt new art standards to get schools to focus on art again.
• The findings from three new NEA reports on the arts in the US.
• Kenny Schachter writes about art debate and Jerry Saltz on Facebook.
• What Aby Rosen has been doing as New York's arts council chairman.
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston unveils $450mil. expansion plans.
• Ten J.E.H. MacDonald artworks found and donated to the Vancouver Art Gallery.
• Pierre Huyghe to create an installation on the Met's rooftop.
• Seattle Museum Month offers visitors staying in city's hotels 50% off admission at more than 40 museums.
• Study finds average art museum relies overwhelmingly on donors, the government, and return on endowment for its income.
• Museums using creative ways to raise big cash.
• Future of Corcoran Gallery of Art's art collection up in the air.
• The release of Björk's next album will coincide with her MoMA show.
• Dasha Zhukova hires Rem Koolhaas to be the architect of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.
• Mark Di Suvero's Dreamcatcher sculpture coming to UCSF Mission Bay.
• Possible second version of Mona Lisa by da Vinci goes on tour in Asia.
• Sotheby's to auction Monet's Les Peupliers à Giverny, which is being sold by MoMA. The auction house also wins in court over Caravaggio painting lawsuit.
• Francesco Bonami organizing auction of Italian art at Phillips in New York.
• Works from the 1960s dominate contemporary art auctions.
• A list of The 10 Most Expensive Auction Trophies of 2014.
• Will the art market bubble burst in 2015?
• Survey shows that art dealers think the art market will continue to boom.
• Will Chinese collectors ever catch on to photography?
• Interest in Jesús Rafael Soto's market gaining steam.
• Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami, and other artists donate Lionel Messi work to benefit charity.
• Artnet writes about the LA Art Show.
• Gagosian Gallery to recreate Henry Moore's studio in London.
• Exhibition A interviews Paul Bright.
• Interview with Jacob Lewis, who is probably in his silk pajamas right this moment.
• Chris Stein exhibits photographs of Debbie Harry at Somerset House.
• Vito Acconci hired to create new piece of public architecture in Hobart.
• Studio visit with Eva and Adele.
• Nicholas Pilato's exhibition at Anat Ebgi featured on 2-Times.
• Kehinde Wiley to receive U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts.
• John Waters has a show up at Marianne Boesky Gallery.
• Zhang Huan's Buddha sculptures arrive in Sydney.
• Andrew M. Goldstein interviews Tomi Ungerer.
• Interview with Tania Bruguera on her detention and work.
• Gordon Shrigley runs for political office in the UK.
• One Fine Bid has their artists to watch list for 2015.
• Hugo Guinness gets an Oscar nomination.
• Yung Jake making portraits of celebrities using emojis.
• Adam Pendleton limited edition available from Whitechapel Gallery.
• Signed and numbered David Shrigley print available.
• Callum Innes prints available from Ingleby Gallery.
• New limited edition items by Julia Chiang.
• Lazarides releases new Antony Micallef print.
• Kate Middleton's art history degree and how it is helping her with her royal duties.
• Amber Heard honored at Art of Elysium Heaven Gala, which featured Marina Abramovich performances.
• McDonald's redesigns takeout bags, giving it a more minimalist design.

Overtime: Jan 19 – Jan 25

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More stories from the week that ended Jan 25 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Calvin Marcus at C L E A R I N G is an ArtForum critic's pick.
• Death of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia disrupts 21, 39 Jeddah Arts opening events and programming.
• Ryder Ripps receives an anonymous threat.
• Blue and gold braided beard on the burial mask of Tutankhamun glued back on with epoxy, causing damage.
• Emma Sulkowicz attends State of the Union in push for stronger policies against sexual assault.
• Irreverent: A Celebration of Censorship show to feature LGBTQ art previously censored from major museums.
• Three arrested in Spain for Picasso, Miro, and Matisse forged drawings.
• Five artists arrested for performance in which one nearly dies from being cast in plaster.
• Blue Rider performance group arrested for dousing Lenin’s Mausoleum with blessed holy water.
• Luc Tuymans found guilty of plagiarism for painting Katrijn Van Giel's photo of Jean-Marie Dedecker.
• Jeff Koons plagiarism lawsuit case over Fait d'Hiver could be in the millions.
• Jacobus Rentmeester suing Nike in US federal court for copyright infringement related to Jumpman logo.
• Wildenstein files a lawsuit against Qatar for reneging on its purchase of townhouse.
• Four in Denver arrested for stealing and subsequently destroying three of four Dale Chihuly sculptures.
• Gianfranco Becchina and Ursula Juraschek's warehouses raided and €50mil antiquities recovered.
• Herge museum cancels Charlie Hebdo magazine tribute exhibition due to security concerns.
• Manhattan DA investigating galleries and art dealers with possible violation of sales tax regulations.
• Spanish government did not accept any art in lieu of tax in 2014 due to low quality of works.
• Court in Berlin rules that drawing by George Grosz may not leave Germany.
• Thaier Helal denied visa to travel to Britain for exhibition of his works in London.
• Professor Nouriel Roubini looks at the troubles in the art market.
• Skate’s 2014 Art Fairs Report found that general attendance at art fairs has dropped significantly.
• US Supreme Court declines to hear Norton Simon's Nazi-loot appeal for its Lucas Cranach the Elder's paintings.
• French Facebook user suing the social media site for closing his account due to sharing Courbet image.
• Berthold Albrecht heirs win €19.4mil judgement against Helge Achenbach, who was accused of overcharging.
• Architecture for Humanity closing and filing or Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection.
• Banksy street piece returning to San Francisco after being removed from side of building years ago.
• A look at Kala Ghoda, Mumbai, India’s emerging art district.
• Creative Time may be participating in Venice Biennale.
• A list of the 10 most popular lists of 2014.
• Creative Interventions uses art to bring people in cities together.
• Colonial Williamsburg accepts donation of iconic Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington.
• Visitors to MoMA physically interact with and Instagram Oscar Murillo's participatory works.
• Budi Tek planning "art park" in Bali that could cost $100 for admission.
• Bronx Museum of the Arts and the National Museum of Fine Arts in Cuba announce exchange of works.
• LACMA announces major gifts from two of its big donors.
• Met plans $250mil bond offering to finance capital infrastructure improvements over next decade.
• Why museums do not display large parts of their collections and what is being done about it.
• Live performances and dance gaining popularity with museums.
• V&A decides to print 50,000 more tickets for its Alexander McQueen show.
• George Lucas could turn to Los Angeles if plans fall through for his museum in Chicago.
• Dahesh Museum of Art has new home in New York.
• Los Angeles Nomadic Division looking for backers for its The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project.
• Gormley, Hirst, Lucas, Opie, McQueen, and more donate works to raise money for Gallery at Goldsmiths.
• Record sales in 2014 for both Christie's and Sotheby's, but Christie's still maintains the lead. Christie's post $8.4bil. in results for 2014.
• Christie's selling Tracey Emin's Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made.
• Sotheby’s to sell rare double self-portrait by Francis Bacon.
• Darren Bader crowdfunding for art project to be sold at Christie's.
• Artsy is growing.
• Carol Vogel's parting article for the NY Times takes a look at today's art market and world.
• Matt Moravec opening Off Vendome in New York.
• Adam Lindemann provides his thoughts on today's art market.
• James Fuentes opens a new project space.
• Garage Magazine organizes garage sale to benefit CalArts and Garage Museum of Contemporary Art's education center.
• Happy birthday, Cindy Sherman - she turns 61.
• Interview with Wilhelm Sasnal.
• Christian Marclay showing at White Cube.
• Mark Bradford, Julie Mehretu, and Kehinde Wiley among winners of U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts.
• David Altmejd answers some questions.
• Elizabeth Jaeger talks about her show at And Now.
• Roman Abramovich buys a large part of a city block in NYC.
• Artnet covers Takashi Murakami's Instagram meet.
• Bomb Magazine interviews Valentin Carron.
• W Magazine does a studio visit with Kon Trubkovich.
• Profile of Daniel Arsham and why celebrities are so into his work.
• Meredith James, Kameelah Rasheed, and Casey Tang wins Queens Museum/Jerome Foundation fellowships.
• Theaster Gates wins the 6th Artes Mundi Prize and shares £40,000 winnings with the other shortlisted artists.
• Jeff Koons presented with Arison Award.
• Q&A with Andrew Black.
• Damien Hirst collaborates with Lalique on limited edition crystal panels.
• Converse x Andy Warhol shoes coming.
• Kenny Schachter talks luxury destinations in London.
• Jonathan Jones reviews Paul Simonon's ICA, London show.
• Artnet writes about Street Art Throwdown reality show coming to Oxygen Feb 3.
• Charles Saatchi gets a haircut, goes on a date.

Overtime: Jan 26 – Feb 2

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More stories from the last week (click on bolded words for more information):

• Parker Ito - A Lil Taste of Cheeto in the Night opens at Chateau Shatto's off-site exhibition space.
• RIP: Phyllis Diebenkorn, who died at the age of 93 in San Francisco.
• Man with large knives shot dead by police outside of Groninger Museum
• Victoria & Albert museum removes a depiction of Prophet Mohamed from its website due to security concerns.
• Why censorship of art is wrong.
• Artists share how "Shoah" has inspired them to create new narratives about the Holocaust.
• Loris Gréaud accuses critic Lauren Smart of being undersexed and ignorant.
• Frank Lloyd Gallery closes and Frank Lloyd discusses why.
• BP revealed to have donated £3.8mil to Tate over 17-year period.
• Police in Spain uncover ring of art forgers specialized in the creation of counterfeit Old Masters.
• US and UK collaborate to halt illicit trafficking of antiquities from Syria and Iraq.
• Sotheby's raises its rates on buyer's premiums.
• Art market affected by the decline in the Euro.
• Zaha Hadid withdraws lawsuit New York Review of Books and Martin Filler after settlement reached.
• Luc Tuymans talks about his plagiarism court case and subsequent fine.
• How artists are reacting and resisting the art market and flipping.
• Neil Simmons's once-decapitated marble statue of Lady Thatcher now viewable only by appointment.
• What you need to know about sales and use tax for artwork purchases and sales.
• San Francisco street artists replace anti-Islamic ads with adjustments and Kamala Khan images.
• Tom Lentz to step down as director of Harvard Art Museums.
• Philippines returns to Venice Biennale after a 51 year hiatus.
• Street art appears in the ruble of demolished buildings in Shanghai.
• US Army seeks experienced curators, art historians and museum directors to provide expert advice in combat zones.
• Interview with David Kordansky about the art scene in Los Angeles.
• King Salman bin Abdulaziz pledges $267,000 for each art club in Saudi Arabia.
• Smithsonian to open its first international space in a London cultural complex.
• Keanu Reeves to give a talk at the Foundation Beyeler about Gauguin.
• Craft & Folk Art Museum's "Man-Made: Contemporary Male Quilters" features quilts by male artists.
• Skirball Cultural Center to host Rock & Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip exhibition.
• Christopher Knight reviews Dan McCleary retrospective at the USC Fisher Museum of Art.
• National Museum of Animals and Society (NMAS) opens Fall 2015 and is crowdfunding.
• Seattle Art Museum and the Clark Art Institute of Williamstown, Mass. make Super Bowl bet.
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden asking docents it previously let go to return, reducing minimum hours.
• Williamsburg cultural center looking for arts ideas for its firehouse space that it will renovate.
• Renovation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House complete.
• Artnet's 2014 Annual Auction Results findings show global fine art auction market reaches $16.1bil.
• Damien Hirst butterfly work sells for $1.6mil at Art Stage Singapore.
• Steve Lazarides' Banksy works at Bonhams sells (30 of 33 lots) for $691,113 total.
• Background on Peter Doig's piece coming up for sale at Sotheby's.
• Christie's Old Master paintings and Renaissance sales could break records. It wound up being a disaster.
• Constable painting purchased in 2013 for $5,300 sells for $5mil. at Sotheby's.
• Art Cologne and NADA joining forces again this year to present second edition of COLLABORATIONS fair.
• Interview with Liz Craft about the Paramount Ranch art fair.
• Artspace has a list of artists to watch at Paramount Ranch and ALAC art fairs.
• Pierre Bismuth making film about search for Ed Ruscha's Rocky II fake rock and is crowdfunding for it.
• Pamela Rosenkranz to exhibit at the Pavilion of Switzerland at the 2015 Venice Biennial.
• Trisha Donnelly, Camille Henrot, Ragnar Kjartansson, and Frances Stark among those shortlisted for Absolut Art Award.
• Shepard Fairey makes an appearance on Portlandia.
• Profile of Kehinde Wiley.
• Artinfo reviews Harmony Korine's show at Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.
• Jeremy Millar creates and exhibits a sculpture of himself dead.
• James Bridle recreates images of British detention centers, closed courts, and other areas used to deport people.
• Laurie Simmons now photographing people for the first time.
• Paddy Johnson reviews Ryder Ripps' show at Postmasters.
• El Anatsui limited edition available on Artspace.
• Puma collaborates with Ethan Cook on shoes.
• Larry Gagosian-owned Kappo Masa has one of the most overpriced dishes in NY, according to NY Post.

Overtime: Feb 2 – Feb 8

February 8, 2015, 4:00 am

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More stories from the week that ended Feb 8 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Images and information up for Israel Lund's exhibition at The Power Station.
• RIP: Walter Liedtke, who died at the age of 69 after he was killed in the Metro-North train crash.
• RIP: Carl Djerassi, who died at 91. He was the inventor of the birth control pill and a avid art collector.
• Islamic State burns and destroys historic collections on science, culture, poetry and children’s books in Mosul.
• Several galleries and dealers receive subpoenas from Manhattan DA’s office requesting sales and shipping records.
• Michael Torres destroys $100k worth of statues and artifacts at East Village church.
• Frank Gehry to no longer build crumpled paper bag buildings ever again.
• UK government export bar placed on recently rediscovered Claude Lorrain painting.
• How can the art market be regulated and is this really needed?
• Tania Bruguera detained in Cuba for at least 60 more days.
• Pratt student's sketch of masturbating man helps police catch a sex offender.
• Georgia State University art project shuts down major highway in Atlanta.
• Free admission offered at Louvre as French archaeologists protest and 100 protesters block the ticketing area.
• Barbara B. Allbritton sues the US for wrongly taxing her family $40mil over artwork that never changed ownership.
• Brian Boucher writes a weird article about Jamian Juliano-Villani and appropriation.
• Photographer accused of plagiarism actually took the same picture just moments apart.
• National Gallery director Nicholas Penny booed by staff over privation plans.
• More about the events surrounding mattress performance artist Emma Sulkowicz's rape accusation.
• NY mayor Bill de Blasio plans to build 1,500 affordable artist work/live spaces by 2024.
• Hrag Vartanian discusses his trip to Los Angeles.
• The Broad Museum to open on Sept 20 and have a sneak peak on Feb 15.
• University of Texas, Austin to build Ellsworth Kelly-designed Austin building.
• Indian wall hanging rescued by art appraiser from the scrap heap goes on show at the V&A.
• Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge to unveil what it believes to be Michelangelo's only surviving bronze sculptures.
• Selection of ~150 paintings from North Korean artists from Frans Broersen's collection shown in South Korea museum.
• National Gallery aims to integrate Corcoran works to its collection while keeping its legacy alive. What happens to the works they do not acquire?
• Cold war missile launcher installed on the terraces of the Hayward Gallery in London.
• Smithsonian American Art Museum leading a group of 14 US institutions in an effort to build online American art database.
• Colgate University receives go-ahead to construct a Center for Art and Culture, designed by David Adjaye.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art receive five important French paintings from museum patron Helen Tyson Madeira.
• Honolulu Museum of Art welcomes Healoha Johnston, its first dedicated curator for Hawai‘i-based art.
• Yvon Lambert in talks with Vence mayor about housing some of his holdings at the Château de Villeneuve.
• ArtNews writes about the New Museum’s 2015 Triennial.
• A look at the Institute for Totaled Art.
• Rudolf Staechelin sells Paul Gauguin's Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?) reportedly for $300mil.
• NY Times writes about Phillips' Editions sale.
• Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern art sale posts highest total yet for that department. Christie's sale totals $222.8mil.
• Christie’s upcoming Post-War and Contemporary day sale has lots by three artists fresh to auction market.
• Noël Coward collection of paintings and objects to be sold by Christie's.
• Eric Clapton consigns his Cy Twombly painting to auction in London.
• A look at the market for Monet paintings.
• Bruno Bischofberger to unveil 250k square foot art complex in southeast Zurich.
• Artsy writes about the Art Los Angeles Contemporary art fair.
• ArtForum visits Paramount Ranch art fair. Paris,LA also takes a look.
• T Magazine writes about the Mexico City art fairs.
• A look at Hooper Projects and what its artists think of Los Angeles.
• Profile of Danny First and his space, called the Cabin.
• Gunnar Hoglund talks about collecting.
• Is the art market in a bubble because of the high level of concentration in value in its top artists?
• Eleven Rivington now represents Marsha Cottrell.
• New art storage facility, Uovo, opens in Long Island City, Queens.
• Adrian Ghenie selected by Romania to represent it at the Venice Biennale.
• Dan Colen solo will be inaugural show at Venus over Los Angeles.
• Ross Simonini interviews Richard Aldrich.
• Frank Magnotta show at Junior Projects is a ArtForum critic's pick.
• Interview with Scott McCloud about The Sculptor.
• Christopher Bollen writes a novel set in Long Island art world.
• A look at Luc Tuyman's show at David Zwirner.
• Five artists and architects shortlisted to design monument to commemorate Polish people who saved Jews.
• Artspace interviews Jose Dávila.
• Ben Davis looks at the On Kawara retrospective at the Guggenheim.
• Interview with Urs Fischer.
• A look at Parker Ito's show at Chateau Shatto's temporary warehouse space.
• Profile of Rick Rocamora.
• Olafur Eliasson confirmed as the final judge of The Space/WIRED Creative Fellows Programme.
• Jerry Saltz wins Columns & Commentary award at National Magazine Award dinner. He is interviewed about Street Art Throwdown and his time on TV.
• Roberta Smith visits group shows around New York. She also reviews Devin Troy Strother's show at Marlborough Chelsea.
• SFAQ[Projects] releases Barry McGee poster.
• Lazarides releases new editions by Lucy McLauchlan.
• You can buy your very own Gnome Chomsky the Garden Noam.
• Big names from the entertainment industry attended the Los Angeles art fairs.
• Kim Kardashian commercial appears to appropriate Richard Prince's Instagram prints.
• Nobilified takes Super Bowl players and depicts them in classical paintings.
• Paul Robertson and Ivan Dixon, of Rubber House Studios, creates pixelated Simpsons animation.

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More stories from the week that ended Feb 15 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Jamian Juliano-Villani's solo exhibition at Museum Of Contemporary Art Detroit now on view.
• RIP: Rex Ray, who died at the age of 59 after a long illness.
• RIP: Tomie Ohtake who died at the age of 101 due to cardiac arrest brought on by pneumonia.
• Alfred Momaday prints, thought to be stolen, found in New Mexico meth lab.
• Rudolf Staechelin Family Trust remove 18 loaned masterpieces from Kunstmuseum Basel.
• Molly Crabapple is being monitored by the FBI and they have a huge file on her.
• Investigation still underway for student who shut down Atlanta streets with public art project.
• Long-lost painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci confiscated from a bank vault in Switzerland. Carlo Pedretti denies attributing the work to da Vinci.
• Trial of Picasso's handyman Pierre Le Guennec and his wife, Danielle, begins in France. Witness doubts that Picasso gave him the works as gifts.
• Damien Hirst just cashing in on his name nowadays?
• Black history museums in the US encountering difficulty.
• J. Paul Getty Trust having trouble bidding against ultra-wealthy for artwork.
• D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser shelves plan to turn former Franklin School downtown into a contemporary art museum.
• Jeff Koons show at Musée du Louvre was cancelled due to "lack of funding".
• Sam Taylor-Johnson directed Fifty Shades of Grey film met with protests from various groups and organizations.
• Luke Brugnara, charged with stealing $11mil. in stolen art, escapes federal custody. His lawyer may leave him. He's now recaptured and back in custody.
• WallStreetDaily suggests investing in stocks and bonds instead of art.
• The rise and fall of Anselm Reyle is a study in the dangers of investing in art.
• Gifts by philanthropists to museums/libraries and performing arts in the US dropped slightly in 2014 for top 50.
• Lawsuit challenging the admissions policy of the Metropolitan Museum in New York dismissed in court.
• ICA Miami loses interim director Suzanne Weaver after five months.
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum director Anne Hawley plans to step down at the end of the year.
• West Kowloon Cultural District Authority chief executive Michael Lynch to leave his position in August.
• Shauta Marsh to vacate her position as executive director of the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art.
• Whitney Kimball moving on from Art F City and probably the art world at large.
• Art world connections from HSBC’s secretive Swiss banking arm accounts leaked.
• Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and National Gallery of Art ban selfie sticks.
• Artnews shares How 8 Art World Power Couples Met and Fell In Love For Valentine's Day.
• The New School for Drama establishes the Arts Integrity Initiative to study censorship.
• Thomas C. Danziger and Georges G. Lederman provide advice for those under investigation for sales tax evasion.
• A look at Marlene Dumas' show at Tate Modern.
• Crystal Bridges Museum yet to announce purchases of Georgia O’Keeffe and Jasper Johns works at auction.
• The Fondation Beyeler may construct a new building to expand its museum in Riehen. Paul Gauguin retrospective there includes long-lost sculpture.
• The Met hosting a meeting of museum leaders from 15 countries in April to discuss various worldwide museum issues.
• The Chinati Foundation receives $750k from the Lannan Foundation to support the Robert Irwin Project.
• Centre Pompidou to host pop-up locations all over France.
• MOCA adds four new trustees to its board.
• Björk releases the trailer for Black Lake in anticipation of her MoMA show.
• V&A museum raises £5mil to buy four bronze angels originally made for the tomb of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey.
• How should museums develop, acquire, and exhibit video games?
• What does Qatar's $300mil. Paul Gauguin acquisition say about the country's financial resources?
• United Talent Agency to start a division, headed by Joshua Roth, that will represent artists for projects.
• Christie's acquires Collectrium for $16mil.
• Adam Lindemann discusses art as an investment.
• Kenny Schachter talks to ArtTactic about the London auctions.
• Colin Gleadell reports on the Sotheby's London evening sale. Judd Tully also has a report.
• Colin Gleadell reports on the Christie's London evening sale. Judd Tully also has a report.
• Judd Tully reports on the Phillips London evening sale.
• Work by artists born after 1980 did well at auction this week.
• Artspace lists the 10 of the Best Artworks at Zona Maco 2015. It also has the artists to watch at Material.
• Jho Low revealed to be buyer of $49mil. Basquiat Dustheads painting.
• Did Steve Wynn turn down a $60mil. offer for his Jeff Koons Popeye sculpture that he purchased for $28mil.?
• Matthew Day Jackson selling a condo he renovated in Brooklyn for $11mil.
• Aby Rosen pays $55mil. for 190 Bowery building Jay Maisel bought for $102,000 around 1966.
• Interview and home visit with Henry Relph.
• Emerging artist's PR firm publicizes auction result.
• Ai Weiwei to film (via Skype) vignette set in Berlin about estranged son.
• Dwyer Kilcollin M+B and LA><ART shows at park and in the gallery reviewed by ArtForum (PDF).
• Interview with Alex Ito.
• Darja Bajagić's works on the cover of Mousse Magazine.
• ArtInfo looks at Petra Cortright's show at Foxy Production.
• NY mayor Bill de Blasio nominates Hank Willis Thomas for the Painter seat of the Public Design Commission.
• Cayetano Ferrer is the winner of the 2015 Faena Prize for the Arts.
• Artspace interviews Alec Soth.
• Andrew Russeth checks out some art shows and events in New York.
• What's in Christian Grey's art collection in the 50 Shades of Grey film?
• Former NBA player Desmond Mason has a successful second career as an artist.
• Artnews places Brian Williams in scenes from art history.

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

• Landon Metz show opens at James Fuentes. Metz discusses the show with Interview Magazine.
• RIP: Sheila Caro, artist and wife of Anthony Caro.
• Michael Asher's only permanent outdoor work destroyed by man welding a sledgehammer.
• UN Security Council bans all trade in artifacts from Syria, accusing IS militants of looting to raise funds.
• Dispute over Cornelius Gurlitt's will delaying efforts to research works and process restitution cases.
• Prosecutor in the case against Picasso's electrician, Pierre le Guennec, requests five-year suspended prison sentence.
• José Manuel Fernández Castiñeiras, former electrician, given 10-year prison sentence for stealing the Codex Calixtinus.
• Artists, including Deller, Barlow, and Atkins, sign open letter in support of the cultural boycott of Israel.
• Musée Maillol closes as management company files for bankruptcy after falling attendance and rising debt.
• 19 artworks removed from the sculpture park at Kalagram, Chandigarh due to objectionable content.
• Noah Charney explains how anyone can fake a Banksy work for under $10.
• Stolen painting actually not a real Francesco Guardi piece.
• Omega appropriates Ahmed Mater's Magnetism piece and is being sued by the artist.
• What should be the ethical requirements for licensed architects?
• Santiago Calatrava-designed Oculus World Trade Center transportation hub $2bil. over budget and seven years late.
• Sergio Fusetti, lead restorer at Basilica of Saint Francis, denies that his team permanently damaged series of frescoes.
• Restoration Service of the Museums of France (RSMF) authenticates rare self-portrait by Francisco de Goya.
• Gin Wong-designed 76 Station in Beverly Hills awarded landmark status.
• The gallery scene in Los Angeles during Oscars week.
• Was Cézanne really the father of modern art?
• Speculation on who might be behind the Instagram account @freeze_de.
• Alanna Martinez pines for art's golden age.
• In-progress images of the Broad Museum building.
• Santa Monica Museum of Art searching for new location, possibly outside of city limits.
• 35 artists, including Mark Grotjahn, Barbara Kruger and Shepard Fairey, donating works to benefit MOCA.
• Robert and Renee Belfer donating over 300 ancient Greco-Roman and Near-Eastern glass vessels to The Israel Museum.
• The Strong National Museum of Play in NY is building a hall of fame for video games.
• The Tate posts images of landscapes by convicted child abuser Graham Ovenden back on its website.
• Artnet takes a look at the 10 best works of art in New York museums.
• Frank Stella's Inflated Star and Wooden Star installed at The Royal Academy of Arts.
• Three major Alexander McQueen exhibitions will open its doors in London next month.
• Andrea Zittel exhibition coming to Palm Springs Art Museum in March.
• George R.R. Martin pledges $2.7mil. to renovate disused Santa Fe bowling alley so that it can host a new art center.
• Ken Griffin gives $10mil. to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago through his charity.
• Officials in German state of North Rhine-Westphalia preparing plan to save Portigon AG's 400-piece art collection.
• Gérard Faggionato closes his gallery joining the sales team at David Zwirner Gallery.
• Amy Capellazzo discusses her advisory firm and the art market.
• Kenny Schachter talks about the art market, his visit to LA, and the London auctions.
• Edward Dolman discusses business at Phillips and also his competitors Sotheby's and Christie's.
• Bob Bonis Archive with unseen photographs of The Beatles and Rolling Stones end up on eBay.
• Darren Bader's conceptual work consisting of £10,211 sells at auction for a £10,000 hammer bid.
• Ken Griffin revealed to be the buyer of $46.4mil. Richter at Sotheby's auction.
• Is the market driving the resurgence of the painting medium?
• Paddy Johnson's take on what United Talent Agency's representation of artists do to their work.
•  stARTup Art Fair in San Francisco to have artist-manned booths where artists keep 100% of sales.
• More galleries in New York moving from Chelsea to the Flower District.
• Interview with the gallerist at Freddy.
• Damien Hirst talks about collecting.
• Profile of Robert Fraser.
• Some of Jackson Pollock's secrets revealed after restoration of his Alchemy painting.
• Peddy Mergui uses familiar brands and logos to reimagines everyday foods as designer groceries.
• Pierre Huyghe wins 2015 Kurt Schwitters Award and $28,000 prize.
• Interview with Brad Troemel on Artspace.
• WWD writes about the John Currin opening at Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.
• A look back at Richard Ankrom's guerilla public service on LA's 110 freeway.
• Q&A with M Lamar about Negrogothic.
• Modern Painters has a feature on Kasper Sonne.
• Playboy profiles and interviews Kehinde Wiley.
• Dread Scott talks about Malcom X.
• Widewalls looks at the work of Cali Thornhill Dewitt.
• New Dr. Seuss book, What Pet Should I Get?, recently found and will be published.
• Profile of Mariam Ghani, whose father is the president of Afghanistan.
• Stefanos draws on and modifies Euro currency to depict economic and social instability.
• María María Acha-Kutscher has been paying tribute to female activists in her series of illustrations.
• Joy Pitts makes artwork using clothing labels.
• Issue 50 of Visionaire includes artist toys by Kehinde Wiley, R Crumb, Noble & Webster, and more.
• Guggenheim's Cookie Monster Instagrams inspire meme.
• Artists that got their start in the fashion industry.
• Chris Brown now an aspiring street artist. He sells two canvases for $25k each and another for $12k.
• Pussy Riot's first song in English, Can’t Breathe, is about Eric Gardner.
• Artnet has list of 12 Artists Who Do BDSM Better Than 50 Shades of Grey.
• New trend of tourists taking nude pics at historic sites.

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More stories from the week that ended March 1 (click on bolded words for more information):

• First Jeff Koons public art sculpture acquired by a city to go up in front of new arena in downtown Sacramento.
• RIP: Leonard Nimoy, who died at the age of 83. The famous actor was also a photographer, collector, and arts supporter.
• RIP: Edward Albers, who died at the age of 59 after a fire in his apartment building.
• Previously missing Picasso painting resurfaces after it is shipped to US under false pretenses and seized.
• Spanish police arrest brothers that sold a fake Goya painting and were paid with photocopied cash.
• Yves Bouvier arrested in Monaco over alleged price-fixing scam. Victims include Dmitry Rybolovlev.
• Restitution of art seized by Cuban authorities in the 1960s no closer to return to respective artists.
• NY Times takes a look at theories surrounding the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist.
• ISIS burns thousands of books in Iraq in act of libricide. They also destroy priceless works at Mosul museum.
• Dean Levin sues Robert Blumenthal for $200,000 due to unpaid show. Robert Blumenthal countersues the artist for $300k, saying he is owed unfulfilled artwork.
• Germany is sued in U.S. court by Jewish claimants over medieval treasure acquired by Nazis.
• Christie's sued by Elizabeth Taylor Trust over $8mil lot sale that was rescinded.
• Larry Gagosian will not allow anyone to photograph his new mansion.
• Henry Moore's daughter Mary Moore says that Damien Hirst set back art by 100 years.
• Numbers still show that NYC galleries still low on female artists in their rosters.
• Marcato Capital Management accuses Sotheby's board and management of "willful neglect".
• Bjarne Melgaard’s current show at the Munch Museum drawing heavy criticism from the media.
• Jeremy Deller withdraws his name from cultural boycott campaign of Israel.
• Is Xu Yong's book featuring 35mm negatives of the Tiananmen Square protest political or just an art book?
• Museo Jumex cancels Hermann Nitsch show and museum director Patrick Charpenel resigns.
• Barberini Museum founding director Peter Joch resigns.
• Elda Oreto's characters The Secret Lodge book may resemble real life artists (Petra Cortright, Artie Vierkant) too closely.
• US returns to Italy a Giambattista Tiepolo painting and an ancient Etruscan bronze statuette of Herakles.
• Getty Conservation Institute and LA city launch historicplacesla.org, an online inventory of sites with cultural significance.
• Toledo Museum of Art to return stolen artifact to Gotha Museum.
• Stedelijk Museum opens exhibition that publicizes its doubts about rights to works in its collection.
• Barnes Foundation has discovered it owns two previously unknown Cézanne sketches on the backs of two watercolors.
• The Whitney Plantation is the first slavery museum in America.
• Museum of the Bible, $400mil. enterprise funded by Hobby Lobby President Steve Green, undergoes construction.
• Rothschild family donating items to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
• Wellcome Collection's exhibition Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime explores history, science and art of forensic medicine.
• Artis receives a $1mil gift from an anonymous donor.
• Rouen to open Historial Jeanne d’Arc, a museum dedicated to tracing the history of Joan of Arc.
• Roberta Smith reviews Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic show at the Brooklyn Museum.
• David Salle writes about MoMA's The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World.
• WSJ reviews the New Museum Triennial. Scott Indrisek also takes a look. Paddy Johnson also visits and writes about the show. Blake Gopnik and Christian Viveros-Fauné give their thoughts on the show.
• The Havana Biennial will include work by 120 artists from about 40 countries.
• WSJ profiles the late Robert Fraser.
• More lawyers involved nowadays in art collecting transactions.
• ArtNews details how Peter Lik came to the $6.5mil. sale number for his supposed record-setting photograph. What people are saying about Peter Lik.
• Profile of Marina Abramovic and the economics of the performance art market.
• Ben Brown talks about art fairs and how they benefit his art dealing business.
• Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Storer home sale sets record price for a Wright house at $6.8mil.
• Cait Munro lists 14 Young New York Art Dealers To Watch.
• Los Angeles Magazine profiles Stefan Simchowitz. How Stefan Simchowitz has helped Zachary Armstrong's career.
• The Daniel Rolnik Gallery mentioned in LA Canvas.
• Art in America interviews Pierre Huyghe.
• Sarah Meyohas selling BitchCoins, which can be collected and exchanged for her work.
• Kazuo Shiraga undergoes period of rediscovery.
• Milo Moiré walks around LWL Museum for Art and Culture nude as part of performance.
• Phaidon profiles JR.
• Abby Warhola producing a Andy Warhol documentary film featuring interviews with family members.
• Ai Weiwei interviews Zhao Zhao for Flaunt Magazine.
• Art Spiegelman, Dave Eggers, and more named members of American Academy of Arts and Letters.
• NY Times profile of Peter Lik. The photographer lists a house of his for sale in Maui.
• Phaidon discusses the Minimalism movement.
• New Hot Chip CD cover features bespoke printed artwork by Nick Relph.
• Niagara Falls freezes over and creates massive natural ice sculptures.
• One-eared cat named Van Gogh makes artwork.

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More stories from the week that ended March 8 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Four terminally ill patients see Rembrandt exhibition courtesy of Ambulance Wish Foundation charity.
• Bail for Yves Bouvier set at €10mil.
• 15 historic artifacts stolen from Château de Fontainebleau in smash and grab burglary.
• An Oscar Murillo canvas may have been stolen from MoMA show.
• World's priciest cheese slicer designed by Rodrigo Otazu and Boska Holland stolen from Amsterdam Cheese Museum.
• Islamic State extremists attack 3,000-year-old ancient city of Nimrud with bulldozers.
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan to pay Mehmet Aksoy 10,000 Turkish Lira in compensation after calling his sculpture a “monstrosity”.
• Bjarne Melgaard show at Munch Museum receives police complaints.
• Austrian panel rules against returning Klimt frieze to heirs of the original Jewish owner.
• Yves Bouvier out on €10mil. bail.
• Jerry Saltz gets banned from Facebook. He discusses his banishment and his time on Facebook.
• The World Press Photo competition disqualifies winner Giovanni Troilo because he staged shots.
• Sotheby's profits fell 9% in 2014.
• Almost half of Miami's art institutions are without directors.
• Anne Sinclair talks about turning down a chance to pose for Picasso.
• Artnet's list of ten women artists that are breaking social taboos.
• Some online protesting Sacramento's decision to purchase Jeff Koons sculpture for public art display.
• André Saraiva criticized for defacing rocks in Joshua Tree National Park.
• Germany's last Banksy street piece is vandalized.
• Monica Lewinsky scandal hinted at in painted portrait of Bill Clinton by Nelson Shanks.
• Forbes's 2015 ranking of billionaires includes many art world players.
• William Louis-Dreyfus to gift the proceeds from sales of his art collection to the Harlem Children's Zone.
• More of the world's hotels are considering the quality of their art collection.
• Arts Council of Wales plans five-year, £20mil fund for artists to work with disadvantaged pupils.
• Peter Norton donates forty-one works (including Gober, Wool, Kelley, Aitken, Eisenman) to Rose Art Museum.
• Lucian Freud collection of Frank Auerbach works to be distributed to institutions across UK in lieu of inheritance tax.
• Museo Reina Sofía acquired 26 artworks reaching a combined price of €348,884 at ARCO art fair.
• Bauhaus Museum to be constructed in Dessau.
• Ben Davis reviews the Björk show at MoMA. Artnews also has a review. Ryu Spaeth gives his thoughts on The Week. Hyperallergic crew has a conversation about it. Jerry Saltz gives his opinion. Roberta Smith weighs in. Jason Farago at The Guardian has his say. Jillian Mapes at Flavorwire went to the show as well.
• Oakland pushing for George Lucas museum.
• Visitors can touch copies of masterpieces at Museo del Prado.
• Iraq's national museum officially reopens in Baghdad, 12 years after it was closed in aftermath of war.
• High Line to host year-long art+nature exhibition titled Panorama.
• Cindy Sherman and Jeff Koons each donate 50 works to US embassies and consulates.
• Josef and Anni Albers Foundation supports Toshiko Mori-designed artist residency in Senegal.
• Timeout chooses the 100 best paintings in New York. Paper Magazine's list of 20 art shows to see in NYC this spring.
• List of artists announced for the 2015 Venice Biennale.
• Gerhard Richter aghast at his auction prices and think prices will correct one day.
• Kenny Schachter writes about the state of the art market.
• A look at who benefits the most from the art market boom at auction.
• Major 1958 Mark Rothko piece from Baden-Baden coming up for Christie's.
• Marilyn Monroe’s final photo-shoot images by Bert Stern to be auctioned by Heritage Auctions Texas.
• Artnet's guide to what is being shown in New York during Armory Arts Week. Brian Boucher has his choices for the 10 best artworks at Armory.
• A look at which art fairs around the world are the most well attended.
• Cool Hunting provides their highlights from the SPRING/BREAK Art Show. Artinfo also provides its picks.
• Judd Tully's sales report from the Armory Show art fair. He also has a report from Armory Show Modern.
• Katya Kazakina's sales report for Bloomberg at the New York art fairs.
• T Magazine writes about the Independent Fair. ARTnews visits the fair as well.
• List of galleries showing at Art Basel 2015 is released.
• The expansion of the art market into artists in their second childhood.
• The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the younger generation of Chinese art collectors.
• Larry Gagosian puts on two museum-quality shows with former MoMA curators at his galleries.
• Harper's Books doing a three-day popup in Manhattan.
• Artnet's list of the top 100 most collectible living artists for March 2015.
• Phaidon takes a brief look at the Dada movement.
• Ai Weiwei talks about working with Hollywood remotely from China.
• The mutually influential relationship between John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg.
• Jeff Koons triples the production capacity of his advanced technology stone workshop in Pennsylvania.
• Jenny Holzer will design part of NY's first significant AIDS memorial in the West Village.
• Scott Indrisek interviews Athena Papadopoulos.
• Wade Guyton interviews Judith Eisler at Gavlak, LA, in Interview Magazine.
• Dazed takes a look at Amalia Ulman.
• Tatiana Trouvé's public art sculpture in Central Park, NY.
• Hunter Drohojowska-Philp looks at the John Currin show at Gagosian Gallery.
• Dustin Yellin shreds $10k cash to be used in eight artworks.
• Isa Genzken makes paintings using currency.
• Profile of Mel Ramos.
• Wolfgang Tillmans wins 2015 Hasselblad Award.
• Shapero Modern to exhibit controversial Chapman Brothers explicit film.
• Review of Leo Gabin's show at Elizabeth Dee.
• John Baldessari and Ed Ruscha list their choices for LA's brightest creative talent.
• Artspace interviews Shamim Momin about LAND and LA.
• About Leonard Nimoy's one-man play about Vincent van Gogh and his brother.
• Noah Hamilton raises money to pay his tuition by starting a fundraiser and selling his artwork online.
• Roger White's new art travel book The Contemporaries: Travels in the 21st-Century Art World.
• Petra Collins shoots some photographs at The Standard.
• New Angel Otero print available from Artspace.
• Sir Mitchell has some timed-edition prints available on his site.

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More stories from the week that ended March 15 (click on bolded words for more information):

• See images from Gagosian Gallery's John Chamberlain and Jean Prouvé show in Chelsea.
• RIP: Frei Otto, who died at the age of 89, one day before being named winner of Pritzker prize.
• RIP: Michael Graves, who died at the age of 80 of natural causes.
• Islamic State destroys the remains of the ancient site of Hatra, Iraq, a World Heritage Site since 1987. It is also reported that the ancient archaeological site of Khorsabad was also attacked.
• Two American women from California caught carving their initials into Rome’s Colosseum.
• David Lynch says that graffiti has "pretty much ruined the world".
• Erika Rosenberg sues Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum for Oskar Schindler’s lists.
• Berlin artists protesting eviction after plans call for their studios to be turned into luxury condominiums.
• Daniel Buren files court complaint for intellectual property infringement against Iheap Art School in Paris.
• Discovery of Steve Cohen's Modigliani sale price caused Dmitry Rybolovlev to file Yves Bouvier criminal complaint.
• Kubra Khademi dons suit of armor on the streets of Kabul to protest Afghanistan's persistent sexual harassment.
• Tania Bruguera believes that Cuba is building a criminal case against her.
• National Gallery in London staff to launch fresh strikes over privatization of services.
• Artists for Justice NYC stages a die-in performance at the Armory Show, demonstrating against the death of Eric Garner.
• French court to hear case on censorship of Courbet painting on Facebook.
• Yvon Lambert closes gallery and will now focus on limited edition artist books.
• Judge rules that Keith Haring Foundation can not be sued for its refusal to authenticate ~80 works.
• Tony Shafrazi sues the landlord of his former gallery space over failure to inform him of train extension construction.
• Banksy's Spies street piece has made the life of the owner of the Gloucester house very difficult.
• Art Basel denies that it has any partnership with Artsy.
• John Ruskin wrote about a concept very similar to fairtigue in 1857.
• Asian women that are wielding more power and influence in the art world.
• Jared Baxter claims that Van Gogh may have hidden messages to da Vinci in his painting.
• 40 paintings by Sir Winston Churchill, worth £9.4mil given to UK by his family in lieu of inheritance tax.
• Sacramento city council unanimously approves contract with Jeff Koons for $8 million public sculpture near arena.
• The artists that are still working in war-ravaged Syria.
• Betsey Franco, James Franco's mom, helping raise money for WomenArts, a nonprofit that supports female artists.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art names Daniel Weiss its president as Emily Rafferty departs.  The museum has also selected David Chipperfield to design its new wing for modern and contemporary art.
• St Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum plans to open satellite in Moscow with focus on contemporary art.
• Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture acquires Parliament-Funkadelic Mothership.
• Ford Family Foundation gives $95,690 to eight Oregon art institutions to fund acquisitions.
• Scott Mueller gifts and matching donations complete $20mil fundraising for Cleveland Museum of Art.
• ICA Miami receives $5mil gift From Knight Foundation to support development and presentation of exhibitions.
• RISD receives $2.5mil from David Rockefeller to endow curatorial position at museum and to support new gallery.
• The Clark Art Institute receives $15mil. gift from Felda and Dena Hardymon.
• Judge rules that change in state law would be needed if Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is to be built on proposed site.
• Zócalo/Getty "Open Art" event discussion explores the difference age makes in artistic greatness.
• A look at Paul Chan's "Nonprojections for New Lovers" exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
• NY Times writes about Matthew Barney's upcoming show at MOCA.
• Upcoming Zócalo/James Irvine Foundation Event on how Riverside, CA can improve its art scene.
• A look at the involvement of corporate brands at art fairs.
• Artnet provides a summary of the 2015 TEFAF Art Market Report.
• Leonardo DiCaprio buys Jean-Pierre Roy painting from Gallery Poulsen at Pulse that he found on Instagram.
• Interview with Clare McAndrew on how she prepares the TEFAF Art Market Report.
• Judd Tully looks at the prices and sales of works at the TEFAF art fair.
• NY Times writes about Art Basel Hong Kong.
• The latest by Kenny Schachter about the art market and the New York fairs. Here is part II.
• Judd Tully discusses the art fairs from Armory week in Artelligence podcast.
• Observer writers vote Spring/Break as the best fair during Armory week in NY.
• Independent Art Fair to expand to Brussels in 2016.
• The exhibitor list for Paris Photo Los Angeles 2015.
• The exhibitor list for NADA New York 2015.
• A preview of the TEFAF Maastricht art fair.
• Work by three artists at the Armory fairs that were impossible for collectors to buy.
• Wall Street Journal writes about art funds.
• Artnet's choices for the best works from William Louis-Dreyfus' collection, which is being sold to benefit charity.
• A look at what may be in Leonardo DiCaprio's art collection.
• A profile of the collector Alan Lo.
• The wacky adventures of Tony Shafrazi.
• Zach Feuer and Joel Mesler merging their galleries via two spaces called Feuer/Mesler and Mesler/Feuer.
• Pablo Picasso had possible involvement in Scientology.
• Jamian Juliano-Villani and Van Hanos talk to Marta Gnyp.
• Texte Zur Kunst reviews Amalia Ulman's show at James Fuentes.
• Artinfo reviews the Kehinde Wiley show at Brooklyn Museum.
• Paddle8 lists eight things you should know about Christian Rosa.
• Phaidon interviews Yin Xiuzhen.
• Scott Indrisek looks at Kelley Walker's show at Paula Cooper.
• Richard Prince's appropriated fashion photography work.
• Damien Hirst looking to hire photorealist painters.
• M.H. Miller spends some time with Julian Schnabel.
• Cindy Sherman emoticons available for download.
• Kanye West as art curator.
• Notorious B.I.G. to get a mural on a Key Food Market (where he worked) wall in Clinton Hill by Danielle Mastrion.
• Kickstarter page for Manfredi Gioacchini's book of portraits of Los Angeles artists.
• Paul McCarthy limited edition skate deck set in a custom flight case.
• Limited edition Alexander Calder plates available from Whitney Museum shop.
• Jenny Sharaf x Richard Prince collaboration products available.

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More stories from the week that ended March 22 (click on bolded words for more information):

• NY home formerly owned by Halston and designed by Paul Rudolph goes on the market for $40mil.
• Nineteen people killed by terrorists during attack at National Bardo Museum in Tunisia. Extra police assigned to NY's most popular museums in a direct response to the attack.
• Helge Achenbach sentenced to six years in prison after being found guilty of fraud.
• Robert Durst's family's connection to the art world.
• American officials expected to repatriate about 65 looted objects to the Iraqi government.
• Family of the late Renato Angiolillo said Christie's sold pink diamond stolen from them for $40mil.
• Taco Bell in Ohio victim of art heist after painting is stolen.
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum still hopeful that stolen works will be returned 25 years after infamous heist.
• Tony Matelli’s Stray Dog public art sculpture stolen and subsequently recovered nearby where it was originally placed.
• Rob van Koningsbruggen banned from visiting Stedelijk Museum due to his repeated threats of urinating on artwork.
• Pilar Abel files paternity suit in Madrid, claiming to be Salvador Dalí's daughter.
• Pierre Le Guennec and his wife, Danielle convicted of concealing 271 stolen artworks by Picasso.
• Masahiro Hashiguchi sues George L. Bischof, complaining of negligence resulting in $25mil. tax owed by Ellsworth estate.
• Michel Leah Keck sues FX Networks and Twentieth Century Fox for copyright infringement associated with Archer.
• More women head art institutions and galleries in non-Western world than in the Western world. A look at some women that help run some non-profit gallery spaces.
• MOCA senior curator Alma Ruiz announces that she will retire after 31 years at the museum.
• Michael Conforti, director of the Clark Art Institute, to retire after two decades.
• Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art cancels exhibition due to work by Ines Doujak it considers offensive.
• Children that appear to be tied together at Art Basel Hong Kong causes outrage.
• Jonathan Jones discusses artworks that are fading or decaying over time.
• Opposition over Ohad Meromi's public art raises broader questions about Long Island City's public art program.
• Eric de Rothschild obtains French export permit for potential Rembrandt portraits sale and controversy ensues.
• An empirical look at whether money problems help spur creativity or stifle it.
• An exploration of whether the smart phone is a good or bad thing for art.
• The ethics of using dating and hook-up apps to find models for art.
• French president Francois Hollande issues call to preserve cultural heritage threatened by the Islamic State group.
• American museums campaigning for conservation of stretch of land surrounding Michael Heizer’s City.
• Google Art Project’s Street Art collection growing and thriving.
• Smithsonian Magazine on the influence of Rome's Via Margutta.
• Restoration of Jackson Pollock's Alchemy reveals that the painter had a method to his seemingly random work.
• MoMA to add Jasper Johns's Painted Bronze sculpture via gift of the Kravises. It also finally acquires a Julian Schnabel painting.
• Long Beach Museum of Art gets $2mil. gift from Ronald and Sylvia Hartman.
• The Met to receive more than 300 Asian works from the Mary Griggs Burke Collection, along with $12.5mil. donation. Minneapolis Institute of Arts also receives about 700 pieces of Asian artwork and a $12.5mil. endowment.
• The first Dr. Seuss Museum is coming to his hometown of Springfield, Massachusetts.
• Record number of visitors saw new works by Grayson Perry at the National Portrait Gallery.
• Math Bass solo exhibition coming to MoMA PS1.
• Tate Sensorium exhibition at Tate Britain to explore how senses change the way people interpret visual art.
• Ben Davis writes about Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo show at Detroit Institute of Arts.
• Jori Finkel visits the William Pope.L exhibition at MOCA Geffen.
• University of Oklahoma continuing to fight in court with hopes of retaining allegedly looted Camille Pissarro painting.
• Gabriele Finaldi to be the new director of National Gallery in London.
• Artnet has a list of upcoming women curators to watch.
• Profile of Paul Ha and how he got Joan Jonas into the Venice Biennale.
• Sotheby's names former president and CEO of Madison Square Garden Tad Smith as its new CEO. His mission is to boost the company's brand. He is set to receive a $7.2mil. annual pay package
• Sotheby's to auction two $10mil. coins in New York. They are also selling a flawless diamond, which is estimated at $25mil., in Dubai.
• Phillips scores a single-owner sale of blue chip works consisting of about 100 pieces.
• eBay and Sotheby's new joint venture launches on eBay.
• Robilant + Voena sells Andy Warhol's “Knives”, 1981-82 for $3.2mil at TEFAF.
• John Whitehead's collection, estimated to be worth over $40mil. total, to be sold by Christie's.
• Samuel Goldwyn's heirs to sell the family's collection, worth about $25mil., at auction with Sotheby's.
• Liu Yiqian buys about $19mil. worth of art during NY auction week.
• Leslie Hindman Auctioneers to conduct single-owner auction of over 500 lots belonging to Oprah Winfrey.
• Artnet reports on some sales from Art Basel Hong Kong 2015. They also have a sales report from TEFAF 2015.
• Artnet has a sales report from Art Dubai.
• Wealth-X has a list of The Top 10 Chinese Art Collectors.
• Fridge Art Fair to offer commissioned pet portraits, raising money for Brooklyn Animal Rescue Coalition.
• A look at Madonna's art collection, which steers towards blue chip and could be worth about $100mil.
• House that Andy Warhol once lived in is for sale.
• SFAQ [Project] Space, a pop-up perforamance art space opens in San Francisco.
• Gavin Brown to open a gallery location in Rome.
• Exhibition A has a Q&A with Nicelle Beauchene.
• 303 Gallery enters publishing with new imprint headed by Fabiola Alondra.
• Madonna speaks about Basquiat in Interview Magazine interview and talks about her love of street art. She also discusses her relationship with him in Howard Stern interview, which includes the artist taking back paintings he gave her.
• Bill Powers interviews Math Bass.
• Profile of Joyce Pensato.
• Leslie Hewitt interviews Barbara Kasten.
• Ace Norton films Christian Rosa for Nowness.
• Bruce LaBruce's choices for the best gay horror films he’s ever seen.
• Richard Serra's sculpture installation in Doha are a must-see.
• Scott Indrisek takes a look at Sascha Braunig.
• Danh Vō wins the 2015 ARKEN Art Prize.
• JR has a short in the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival.
• Phaidon takes a look at Alex Prager's Hong Kong show.
• Limited edition Michael Dotson print released by Exhibition A.
• Kanye West to be awarded honorary doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Petition started for him to curate the Venice Biennale.
• Sotheby's teams up with Drake as he picks music to accompany auction works.
• A battle of 16 celebrities that are trying to make it in the art world.
• Shia LaBeouf live-streaming his heartbeat online at Follow-My-Heart.net.

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More stories from the week that ended March 29 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Christie's gets $140mil. Picasso for its May sale. Could break the record for most expensive artwork at auction.
• RIP: William King, who passed away at the age of 90.
• RIP: Hans Erni, who passed away at the age of 106.
• Ironworker performing construction on Larry Gagosian's mansion dies after fall from ladder.
• Los Angeles Unified School District data shows that LA students getting virtual no arts education.
• Fire destroys building that houses the Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR).
• Should MoMA's Klaus Biesenbach be fired over the Björk show and other questionable curatorial decisions? Jerry Saltz burns his MoMA press pass. Other art world reactions to the call for him to leave. Jeffrey Deitch comes to Biesenbach's defense.
• Artspace has more from the Jeffrey Deitch interview.
• Bartomeu Marí resigns and Valentín Roma and Paul B. Preciado are fired by MACBA board of trustees.
• New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman investigating Cooper Union for shady financial dealings.
• Prime Minister of Tunisia fires six police commanders after lapses in security found following museum attack.
• Ahmed Sharaf, director of Egypt’s museums authority, arrested on bribery charges.
• Italian American Museum seeks to evict 85-year old Italian American tenant from her apartment.
• German court rejects Uta Werner's challenge to her cousin, Cornelius Gurlitt's will.
• Hiring of Tad Smith at Sotheby's comes with many risks and possible problems.
• New British copyright law to make copyright breach in Britain a criminal, rather than a civil, offense.
• Dov Charney sues American Apparel and also wants back his art collection that was in his office.
• Richard Pfeiffer sues NYPD after he is falsely arrested for a street piece he claims was by Banksy.
• Open letter from scientists call for natural history museums to cut ties with David Koch.
• Call for arts institutions to appoint more women to top jobs after National Gallery announces male hire.
• Cy Twombly sculpture accidentally knocked over and damaged at Menil Collection.
• National Museum of Damascus racing to package and transport works to save them from looting and destruction.
• D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board postpones decision to extend historic designation of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
• Italian police seize Picasso painting with estimated value of £11mil from pensioner who claims it was a gift.
• Woman's rights campaign poster designed by the Miami Ad School may plagiarize a work by Pomona Lake.
• Larry Gagosian's friends and other wealthy patrons flock to Kappo Masa despite bad reviews and overpriced food.
• The Art Newspaper thinks Italy should sell antiquities recovered by the police to benefit museums.
• Looted El Greco portrait returned to the heirs of the collection of Julius Priester after settlement is reached.
• Ben van Beneden, the director of Rubenshuis, deems portrait by Rubens, formerly attributed to follower, as authentic.
• Scientific testing reveals that painting in Finland's Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation collection confirmed as a genuine Monet.
• Antoni Gaudi-designed Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona, under construction since 1882 gets assist with 3D printing.
• When films use copies of famous paintings in its scenes.
• National Endowment for the Humanities gives LACMA $40k and Ken Burns $1mil. for Vietnam War documentary project.
• Bennington College recipient of $5mil. gift from Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.
• Richard Estes' show at Museum of Arts and Design raises the question of art being considered craft.
• LACMA and Hyundai form partnership on ten-year sponsorship deal.
• Peter Norton gifts sixty-eight works to The Williams College Museum of Art.
• A look at the soon to open, new Whitney Musuem.
• National Gallery of Australia to have naked art tours where visitors can view Turrell show nude.
• Christopher Knight reviews the William Pope.L show at MOCA Geffen.
• Málaga poised to become Spain's art hub with two major museum additions.
• Emmett Till Interpretive Center museum to open in Mississippi.
• Peter Paul Rubens's portraits of the three Magi have reunited by the National Gallery of Art in DC.
• The Biennial of the Americas coming to Denver in July.
• A look at the fate of the Kiev Biennale.
• Artist list released for first ever Vienna Biennale.
• Residencies announced for The Shandaken Project at Storm King.
• A look at how masterpiece paintings are hung in museums.
• How the bull market for Kazuo Shiraga was built.
• Artnet's list of blue chip artists that have performed the best from a financial standpoint in the past two decades.
• Sotheby's May auction includes Roy Lichtenstein painting estimated to sell for $50mil.
• A look at where Phillips looks to be headed.
• Auction houses seem to be profiting less as art market heats up more.
• Interview with Robert Mnuchin about how he started dealing art and his gallery.
• Sam Wyly talks about having to liquidate his art collection.
• Scott Reyburn takes a look at the current state of the online art market.
• Artsy receives an additional $25mil. of investment, led by Catterton.
• Artnet has a list of 15 galleries in Brooklyn that you should know about.
• A look at some of the items in Oprah Winfrey's collection as an auction featuring her items is about to get underway.
• A look at part of Amy and John Phelan's collection in their Aspen home.
• Artspace interviews Piotr Uklański.
• Schizophrenic Mexican-American outsider artist Martín Ramírez to have work featured on US postage stamps.
• Parker Ito talks about his  Château Shatto Gallery exhibition A Lil Taste of Cheeto in the Night.
• Jacolby Satterwhite discusses the influence of Björk on younger artists.
• Artspace's list of 7 Masterpieces of '90s Net Art Everyone Should Know About.
• Paddle8 asks José Parlá some questions.
• A brief look at Milton Glaser's legacy.
• Dan Colen curates some songs for the MTV RE:DEFINE auction and gala.
• Vincent Lamouroux to turn Bates Motel on Sunset in Silver Lake into art project, whiting it all out.
• Artnet speaks to 7 Women in Contemporary Chinese Art You Need To Know.
• Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience Award goes to Ai Weiwei and Joan Baez.
• Upper Playground has David Choe greeting card sets available.
• Brent Ray Fraser paints using his dingaling as the brush.
• Soho House opening a second members-only Los Angeles location, this time in Downtown LA.

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

• An interview with Max Frintrop, who discusses his background, work, and future projects.
• RIP: Andrew Getty, grandson of J. Paul Getty, who died at the age of 47. He had a series of health issues leading up to his death.
• RIP: Paule Anglim, who died of old age in her 90s. SF Gate talks about her life.
• RIP: Albert Irvin, who died at the age of 92.
• RIP: Michael Rush, who died at the age of 65 due to pancreatic cancer.
• Identities of suspects in Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist revealed. Unfortunately, they are dead.
• Orange County Museum of Art lays off five staff members, including chief curator Dan Cameron.
• Crane tips over at Dallas Museum of Art, narrowly missing hitting Mark di Suvero sculpture.
• Warhol Museum’s expansion to New York abruptly canceled after two years.
• Matthew Barney suing Björk for equal share custody of their daughter.
• Rabie Dardouna tricked into selling his Banksy Gaza door for only £118.
• RBC Trust Company Ltd. may be charged with participating in tax fraud and money laundering by Guy Wildenstein.
• Nayef Homsi to be arrested for selling about $500k of ancient religious artifacts stolen from temples in Nepal and India.
• Lee Yuet-fung pleads not guilty to common assault after being accused of throwing a cup at a flight attendant.
• Honolulu Museum of Art returns seven rare artifacts that they were not aware had been looted from India.
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir painting discovered in the safe of Darius Valcov, who was being investigated for corruption.
• Thom Mayne's design renderings for new luxury hotel in Vals receiving tons of criticism.
• Klaus Albrecht Schröder calling for a time limit on all Nazi-loot restitution claims on art in public collections.
• Penelope Curtis leaving her position as director of Tate Britain to run the Calouste Gulbenkian museum.
• Whitney Museum increasing admission fee from $20 to $22.
• Revolver gallery withdraws from showing at this year’s Art Lima fair in protest against art policies by the city's mayor.
• Jeffrey Soros takes offense to Mitchell L Moss' New York bias.
• UNESCO vows in Baghdad to step up measures aimed at protecting Iraq's heritage, which has been targeted by militants.
• Dutch royal family will return Joris van der Haagen painting thought to have been looted by Nazis during WWII.
• Pissarro painting from Gurlitt trove determined to be looted and will be returned to owner's heir.
• California’s court rules that Goudstikker heirs’ claim against Norton Simon Museum over Cranach works can proceed.
• Queens councilman wants public hearings on NYC public art plans after outcry over Ohad Meromi sculpture.
• Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeals ruling that he must pay damages to artist after denouncing his work.
• Yves Bouvier's Natural Le Coultre opens a facility in Shanghai.
• Artnet's list of the top ten Los Angeles art power couples.
• College students majoring in art programs more likely to have sex.
• Artnet has tips on how to promote your Instagram account.
• Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer goes on view at Neue Galerie.
• National Videogame Arcade musuem opens in Nottingham. Features ~20,000 items from the Science Museum’s collection.
• Artnews covers Jamian Juliano-Villani’s show at MOCAD.
• WSJ looks at Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks at Brooklyn Museum.
• Getty Museum and LACMA each plan Robert Mapplethorpe retrospectives, opening simultaneously.
• FAILE showing at the Brooklyn Museum starting in July.
• Some images from Australia's national gallery's naked art tours.
• When Harvard Art Museums turn off the lights illuminating its Rothkos.
• Princeton University Library acquires Jacques Derrida's personal library.
• Scott Indrisek reviews the Bjork show at MoMA.
• Turin's Egyptian museum reopens to public after five year renovation.
• Oscar Niemeyer Museum recipient of 139 works seized from individuals involved in corruption scandal involving Petrobras.
• Tom Wiscombe Architecture's challenges in building the Old Bank District LA Museum.
• Pope Francis invites and greets 150 of Rome's homeless to visit Sistine Chapel and Vatican Museums.
• Tracey Emin's installation work, My Bed returns to Tate Britain and is now viewable at the museum.
• Artists representing Kenya at the Venice Biennale are almost all Chinese.
• The National Palace Museum in Taipei had the top three best-attended museum exhibitions in 2014.
• Research shows that nearly one third of solo shows in US museums go to artists represented by just five galleries.
• Immersive and event-driven projects dominated the ten best-attended solo museum shows of the past six years.
• Dave Hickey writes about some recent museum shows and the art world.
• Colin Geadell reports on some recent auctions.
• Sotheby's to offer six Monet paintings in its Spring evening sales.
• Doyle to auction collection of love letters from Frida Kahlo to José Bartoli.
• Artsy revealed to have interest in selling wine.
• Auctionata raises $45mil. in a Series C round of funding.
• FLUX Art Fair will be Harlem's first contemporary art fair.
• Crystal & Co. partners with AIG Private Client Group to create insurance for private clients with conceptual art pieces.
• Stefan Simchowitz in Novembre Magazine.
• Brief article about Gustav Klimt's The Kiss.
• Carol Bove's guide for artists.
• Alice Könitz is Side Street Projects' 2015 Phantom Ball artist with a limited edition print available for $150.
• Geoff Hargadon has a Ca$h For Your Warhol show at LMNL.
• Interview with Thomas Nozkowski.
• The Guardian talks to Glenn Ligon.
• Profile of Zhang Xiaogang, using five of his paintings for perspective.
• Alex Gardega speaks of his experience visiting Jeff Koons' studio.
• Shana Nys Dambrot looks at the work of John Knuth.
• T Magazine writes about Cy Twombly's assistant Nicola del Roscio and his place in Gaeta.
• Artnet's list of New York's 10 Most Beautiful Public Art Shows for Spring.
• Paddle8 lists some of the all-time greatest art jokes.
• DRx Romanelli x Shane Campbell Gallery customized tote bags available at the Shane Campbell web store.
• SelfMadeHero to publish biographical graphic novels about Picasso and van Gogh.

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

• Nate Lowman - America Sneezes opens at Dallas Contemporary.
• RIP: Dr. Frederic Brandt, who may have died of a suicide at age 65. A look at his art collection.
• Badria Mohamed al Balloushi and husband Hamad Obaid Rashash found guilty of murdering Ahmed Hussain Salarey.
• The fate of Erich Slomovic's collection, after he tried to flee and escape the Nazis.
• Police in Gaza seize Banksy door that is in dispute.
• Richard Tobin drinks two bottles of vodka, steals £750k in Faberge items from Christie's, then goes to jail.
• Rembrandt paintings may leave France, since the country does not have enough money to buy them.
• Museums fear deaccessioning as the value of art increases and state deficits also increase.
• Hartman Rare Art suing Capo Auction over the authenticity of a Picasso work.
• Dave Poulin's statue of Lucille Ball draws outrage and protest on the internet.
• David Lynch drops out of directing Twin Peaks revival series.
• Indigenous Australians calling for objects on show at British Museum exhibition to be returned.
• MoMA admits that Björk show did not live up to their standards.
• Doreen Bolger stepping down as the director of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
• Neil MacGregor set to retire as director of the British Museum in London.
• Cooper Union Board decides not to renew contract of President Jamshed Bharucha.
• How being a good forger helped Michelangelo in his career.
• Robert Storr criticizes art critics today.
• Euro symbol sculpture in Frankfurt is in need of repair and sponsors are sought.
• Federal judge rules that Igor Olenicoff will not have to pay damages to David Wakefield for counterfeiting his work.
• Three artists collaborate to install Edward Snowden bust in Fort Greene Park. Bust is removed, but The Illuminator Art Collective projects a hologram of Snowden in its place.
• Study shows that since 1800, paintings are getting more blue in color.
• KCET looks at the Southern California art scene today. LA Weekly takes a look at the gallery scene in Los Angeles.
• April becoming Dallas' month for their art scene. Observer reports on activity at the Dallas Art Fair. Artnet also investigates this year's fair.
• Should you get an MFA?
• Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals name for their new building: The Met Breuer.
• Tiffany becomes lead sponsor of Whitney Biennial after $5mil. gift.
• Interview with Arnold Lehman about his time heading the Brooklyn Museum.
• Matthew Teitelbaum to become new director of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.
• OCMA getting itself prepared for a move from Newport Beach to Costa Mesa.
• New-York Historical Society to unveil conserved Picasso curtain in May.
• Dia Art Foundation's first purchase with new acquisition funds is Dream House by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela.
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art receives $11.7mil. gift from the Bloch Family Foundation to fund renovations.
• The Gluten Free Museum imagines what its like when you remove gluten from classic artworks and images.
• A look at Fondazione Prada.
• Vatican to participate in Venice Biennale for the second time ever to resume a historic “dialogue between art and faith.”
• Standard Culture visits the Bert Rodriguez Museum.
• Obama visits the Bob Marley Museum while in Jamaica.
• Report finds that LA museums organized virtually as many shows of contemporary art as NY between 2007-2013.
• Optimism in the air as the new Whitney Museum of American Art is about to open.
• CollegeRanks lists the top museums on America's college campuses.
• Whitney curators choose their favorite pieces in the museum's inaugural exhibition in its new space.
• Anderson Ranch announces its lineup, including Stella and Trecartin, for its Featured Artists & Conversations Series.
• Tad Smith may have been hired by Sotheby's in order to build the brand and help facilitate the sale of the company.
• Steven A. Cohen said to be selling 1961 Jean Dubuffet painting valued at $25mil. at Christie's in May.
• Sotheby's does fantastic with watches and wine in Hong Kong, but art does not perform as well.
• Heirs of the owner of Monet painting sold under duress during WWII to receive portion of sale at Christie's.
• How Gustav Klimt was viewed differently after the $135mil. sale of Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I.
• OODE sells works by Dutch artists that were once in the government’s art collection.
• Pace Gallery expands in Chelsea, NY.
• Artnet lists 50 galleries in Britain that you should know about.
• An interview with Michael Hort about art collecting.
• Artelligence Podcast talks to Joshua Roth.
• Summary about Walter Robinson and Chris Dorland's conversation about the art market.
• Interview with Ed Bartlett.
• Artists provide tips on how to achieve a successful art career.
• Joanna Moorhead tracks down Leonora Carrington and learns of her story.
• Joan Jonas in profiled in T, The New York Times Style Magazine.
• Arne Svenson wins his Supreme Court case over photographs taken with telephoto lens without subjects' permission.
• Maya Lin chosen to lead the redesign of the Smith College library.
• A look at the work of Watanabe Katsumi.
• Ted Gahl chooses some music to drive to.
• LA Taco's coverage of Redact Whatever Is Privilege, a one-night exhibition at The Gibson.
• Paddle8 asks Ryan Estep some questions.
• Observer writes about Jen Stark's work in the Facebook offices.
• Creative Time staging performance of Tania Bruguera's Tatlin's Whisper #6 in Times Square on April 13.
• Christian Jankowski is the winner of the 2015 Finkenwerder Art Prize.
• Plastic Jesus puts up "No Kardashian Parking" signs around Los Angeles.
• Caitlin Cherry among recipients selected for Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund for the Performing and Visual Arts prize.
• Arthur J. Williams Jr. goes from being a convicted currency counterfeiter to an artist with a gallery show.
• Christopher Knight reviews William Hackman's book Out of Sight about the '60s LA art scene.
• Ella Kruglyanskaya limited edition of 80 beach towel available.
• Thom Malone launches Kickstarter campaign to break Guinness record for a mosaic featuring Nicolas Cage's face.

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

• Images and information from Ted Gahl's show up at the Mier Gallery site.
• RIP: Günter Grass, who died at the age of 87.
• RIP: Moira Gemmill, who died at the age of 55, killed while bicycling.
• Russian Federal Security Service orders shutdown of WWII show at Metenkov House-Museum of Photography.
• Rago auction of art and objects made by Japanese-Americans while detained in internment camps sparks protest.
• Le Corbusier may have been a fascist and Nazi sympathizer.
• Occupy protestors project on the side of the Whitney museum about the pipeline near the building.
• Megumi Igarashi criticizes Japan's backwards attitude to sexual expression after her arrest for creating vagina sculptures.
• Two paintings, including one by Roy Lichtenstein, stolen from Sam Simon Foundation in Malibu.
• The Santa Monica Museum of Art is leaving its current location at Bergamot Station. Rosamund Felsen also leaves Bergamot Station for Downtown Los Angeles.
• Artists that put up Edward Snowden bust in NY that was confiscated by police want it back.
• 2,622 artifacts worth over $100mil. seized from Subhash Kapoor, who had them smuggled or looted from India.
• Artists gather in Time Square to demand the release of Tania Bruguera in Cuba.
• Gagosian Gallery no longer represents Robert Rauschenberg estate.
• Wuhan Institute of Bioengineering receiving criticism for building a replica of the Great Wall of China.
• Britto sues Apple over its Start Something New campaign featuring artwork that resembles his.
• Sotheby's sued over proceeds from sale of Van Gogh painting.
• Five galleries, including Tomio Koyama Gallery, to close at Gillman Barracks in Singapore.
• Stephane Charbonnier, aka Charb, to posthumously release book about upholding the right to ridicule religion.
• Anti-Clinton street art pops up in Brooklyn.
• University of the Arts London taking legal action against students that staged occupation against cuts to courses.
• Artnet's 11 Art World Rules Decoded for 20-Something Newbies.
• Wallace Foundation announces six-year $52mil. effort to help art groups.
• How the Fauvism movement caught on because of a scandal.
• Leonardo da Vinci's Head of a Young Woman to be shown at MFA Boston.
• Dallas Museum of Art and Tate Liverpool to have exhibitions of Jackson Pollock's pour paintings.
• Ben David looks at the Martin Wong show at the Wattis Institute.
• Profile of Joanne Heyler, director of the Broad Museum.
• The list of 407 artists that will be in the debut show at Whitney. Artnet's 10 Fun Facts About the Whitney Museum.
• Gender composition at Venice Biennale 54% men to 33% women, with 13% collective collaborations.
• Havana Biennial expected to draw huge crowds of American art collectors to Cuba.
• Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation seeks to preserve Auschwitz concentration camp exactly as it was.
• Adam Szymczyk wants to show the entirety of the Gurlitt trove at Documenta.
• France creates replica of Grotte Chauvet cave with reproductions of cave art.
• The pros and cons of column-free spaces in museums.
• Eight-panel series of paintings by Cui Ruzhuo sells for $30mil. (record for living Asian artist) at Poly Auction Hong Kong.
• Cy Twombly blackboard painting reported to have been sold on the private market for $60mil.
• Christie’s announces a $30mil. Edward Hopper painting to lead its American art sale.
• Christie's will have a $30mil. Peter Doig painting in its May evening sale.
• Six-foot-tall Alberto Giacometti Pointing Man sculpture could become most expensive sculpture sold at auction. Sheldon Solow is revealed to be the seller.
• Speculation concerning the inevitability of the $1 billion work of art.
• Christie's to sell work from Nina Castelli Sundell’s estate, featuring artwork from Ileana Sonnabend collection.
• Design Miami to launch in Hong Kong during Art Basel Hong Kong.
• Katya Kazakina writes about Bob Rennie's collection.
• Part 2 of Artspace's interview with Michael Hort.
• Roberta Smith has a list of ten galleries to visit in Chelsea.
• The risks associated with investing in artwork.
• Adding conditions and restrictions to sales agreements becoming more common for galleries.
• The Scheryn Art Collectors Fund launches to invest money in artists from Africa and its diaspora.
• Etsy to share some of its IPO with vendors that sell on the site.
• Phaidon explains how Leonardo da Vinci used science to elevate art.
• Jamian Juliano-Villani's show opening at JTT is one of this week's NY events Observer is highlighting.
• Alexsandro Palombo responds to recent police violence with Simpsons artwork featuring black Bart Simpson.
• Roger Ballen talks about a particularly dangerous time he went shooting.
• WSJ profiles Adam Pendleton.
• Six young photographers that are trying to take the nude in new directions.
• Phaidon looks at David Shrigley's show at Anton Kern.
• Artnet reports on Ryan Hewett's exhibition, which sold out three weeks in advance of the opening.
• G. James Daichendt  wrties about REVOK's evolution as an artist.
• David Adjaye talks about Chris Ofili. Marina Abramovic talks about Björk. Both on occasion of the two being included in TIME's 100 Most Influntial peoples list.
• Phaidon interviews Aki Sasamoto.
• Seven things you may not have known about Yoko Ono.
• Bomb Magazine posts images of new drawings by Davis Rhoades.
• ArtPrize will now feature new $40k curatorial fellowship and $30k grant program for local exhibition venues.
• 2015 Guggenheim fellows announced.
• Vincent van Goat paintings sell for $40 each at the New Mexico BioPark Society.
• Jay Mercado paints donuts.

Overtime: April 20 – April 26

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

• Images and press release for Jamian Juliano-Villani's Crypod show a JTT gallery. The exhibition is a critic's pick at Artforum.
• RIP: A. Alfred Taubman, who died at the age of 91 of a heart attack. A look at his art collection and what may become of the works in it.
• Robert V. Gentile questioned again about Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist after he is arrested.
• James Meyer sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing from his boss Jasper Johns. Expresses regret.
• Germany and Iraq asks UN to take action against the destruction by jihadist groups of Iraq's cultural sites.
• Michael Ovitz sues AIG over Richard Prince paintings consigned to Perry Rubenstein and subsequently stolen.
• Paul Nungesser sues Columbia University over Emma Sulkowicz art project mattress performance on campus.
• The Museum of Sex hit with $82,192 lien in February for failing to pay sales tax since 2011.
• Auctionata lays off 30 members (out of 60 total) of its New York staff.
• Cecily Brown leaves Gagosian Gallery for Thomas Dane Gallery.
• Strikes continue at London's National Gallery as union protests against museum’s plans to outsource jobs.
• WSJ questions the sanity of art collectors.
• Egypt reports that it has recovered 123 ancient artifacts that had been smuggled outside the country.
• Stephen Shaheen explores authorship and the use of fabricators by artists.
• Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres painting discovered in attic of the chapel of the former hospital Hôtel-Dieu.
• LA Times writes about LACMA's 50th-anniversary gala, which raised $5mil.
• Jerry Saltz writes about the new Whitney Museum. NY Times has a feature on the architecture of the new Whitney. Reservations for the May 2 block party are already full. Brian Boucher's 10 Reasons To Be Excited About The New Whitney Museum. Adam Weinberg eats cupcakes and talks about the new building.
• A look at OCMA's efforts to rebrand itself.
• MoMA launches walking tour of Jacob Lawrence's Harlem.
• El Anatsui to be honored with Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at Venice Biennale.
• 100-year commemoration of Armenian massacre to be marked at the Venice Biennale.
• Stefan Edlis and wife donate collection of 42 works worth combined $500 million to Art Institute of Chicago.
• Prada Foundation has a new arts complex in Milan.
• Ben Davis lists New York's top ten secret art sites.
• Chinati hosts two-hour sunrise tour of Donald Judd’s untitled installation of 100 aluminum boxes
• Woody Allen Center museum dedicated to the film director to open in Barcelona.
• Archaeologists discover ruins in China which may have been part of the Great Wall.
• Bonham's sale of Iraqi Modernism (the first of its kind) breaks records and totals £1,237,250.
• Artsy writes about how people are using Instagram to buy art.
• Hiscox Online Art Trade Report using ArtTactic data reports that the online art market expanded in 2014.
• A sneak peak at what some dealers are showing at Frieze New York.
• Artsy takes a look at work by some emerging artists at Art Brussels.
• Artnet has ten tips on how to make visiting art fairs more fun.
• How and why some works of art are financed by outside investors.
• Forbes looks at Rise Art, which rents artwork with the option to buy.
• Larry Fink says contemporary art and luxury apartments are now better hedges against inflation than gold.
• What the ultra-rich are buying to compete with their friends.
• W Magazine shoots photographs of those behind online art world sites.
• Tiroche DeLeon fund does well by investing in works by artists in developing countries.
• Rachel Uffner's tips on becoming a boss.
• Exhibition A interviews Artsy's Elena Soboleva.
• A look at Marc and Sara Schiller's art collection.
• Hyperallergic writes about Smart Objects's Armory Captures show.
• Spike Magazine visits Matthew Robert Lutz-Kinoy.
• Eight things you should be aware of regarding Rashid Johnson.
• Caleb Neelon enlists youths from different sides of Bosnia’s ethnic divide to work on mural project.
• The Creators Projects premieres new audiovisual work by Christian Marclay.
• Roberta Smith talks about looking at art.
• Audrey Wollen discusses Richard Prince's "The Figures" show at Luxembourg & Dayan.
• Christo to create 3km of yellow walkways on Lake Iseo that will link islands to the mainland for first time.
• Trudy Benson has a music playlist for when you're doing your hustle in the studio.
• Phaidon looks at Sonia Delaunay.
• Artspace interviews Jonas Mekas.
• Seven fun facts about Willem de Kooning on occasion of his birthday.
• David Ebony's Top 10 New York Gallery Shows for April on Artnet.
• Paddle8 visits Dustin Yellin's studio.
• Catherine Opie joins Lehmann Maupin's artist roster.
• Jeremiah Jenkins art project gives you an MFA after 90 minutes of class and costs $0.
• Mark Boulos, Emily Jacir, David Schutter, and Senam Okudzet among winners of 2015 Rome Prize.
• Jessica Lange exhibition of photography opens in the Arts Santa Mònica center in Barcelona.
• Jean-Michel Basquiat skate decks produced by The Skateroom available at Artspace.
• Carolina Miranda asks - is it Art Basel or Coachella?
• Alexa Chung's photography.

Overtime: April 27 – May 3

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More stories from the week that ended May 3 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Images and information up for Aaron Garber-Maikovska's exhibition at Greene Exhibitions.
• RIP: Sabeen Mahmud after she was murdered by gunmen outside her T2F art space.
• RIP: Jane Farver, who died at 67 while in Venice working with Joan Jonas on her Biennale presentation.
• Nepal's historic cultural landmarks severely damaged or destroyed in devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
• New York's Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA) to close for good this summer, after operating for a decade.
• Costa Rica and Kenya both withdraw from the Venice Biennale.
• Braun Barends hole piece at Mannheim museum ruled by court as not being art and will be covered.
• Art Spiegelman's Maus book censored and removed from bookstores in Russia.
• China government cracks down on art and literary awards.
• Kenyan government has officially denounced its own pavilion at the upcoming 2015 Venice Biennale.
• Uta Werner appealing a Munich court’s rejection of her legal challenge to Gurlitt art trove.
• G&G Productions sues Rita Rusic claiming she stole a Basquiat from her husband that belongs to them.
• Marco Evaristti jailed for pouring fruit dye into the Strokkur Geysir.
• Obama administration proposing to eliminate 1031 tax break for exchanges of art and other collectibles.
• Whitney Museum misrepresents Christopher Knight's opinion from over 20 years ago.
• Ben Davis has worries about the new Whitney Museum.
• Guggenheim NY occupied by protesters over workers rights issues linked to museum’s Abu Dhabi location.
• Is Nicholas Serota to blame for the troubles at The Tate?
• Kiev Biennial to open in Sept at Visual Culture Research Center after postponement.
• Benjamin Genocchio criticizes purpose and findings of Hiscox Online Art Trade Report.
• The debate about graffiti in nature parks and communities.
• Bruce Cook defiant after police order him to take down a hay sculpture they deem offensive.
• Hyundai commercial borrows heavily from the work of well-known street artists.
• Christopher Knight reviews the new Whitney Museum building.
• MoMA board endorse and give their support to Glen Lowry and Klaus Biesenbach.
• Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe announces $1mil. gift to the Smithsonian Asian art museums.
• Daniel W. Dietrich II donates $10mil. to ICA Philadelphia's curatorial program.
• LA Weekly reviews the William Pope L show at MOCA.
• WSJ talks to Okwui Enwezor about curating for the Venice Biennale.
• Abraham Cruzvillegas plans to create large-scale installation with horticultural element for the Turbine Hall.
• 10% of visitors to Dulwich Picture Gallery were able to spot single fake painting out of 270 in show.
• Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art (MAK) purchases Harm van den Dorpel work using bitcoin.
• KÖNIG GALERIE opens in Berlin with shows by Katharina Frosse and Jeppe Hein and has a 120-year lease.
• Larry Gagosian may be planning on opening a gallery location in West Hollywood, CA.
• Judd Tully reports on Phillips Design evening sale in London.
• AFR reports on the Sotheby's Australia auction sale.
• Part 1 of Artnet's Top 200 Art Collectors Worldwide for 2015. And here is Part 2.
• Artnet writes about the Paris Photo LA art fair. Artinfo also has a preview.
• Artinfo has highlights from the Art Brussels art fair.
• Printed Matter moving to a larger, two-story location in Chelsea, NY.
• CRG Gallery moving form Chelsea to the Lower East Side.
• The Creators Project interviews Elmgreen and Dragset.
• 2015 BP portrait award shortlist includes Michael Gaskell, Matan Ben-Cnaan, and Borja Buces Renard.
• Monika Rostvold sits nude outside Texas State University campus library for art project about beauty. She talks about her project on the KTSW radio station.
• Tyler Green talks to Liz Larner and Tamara Schenkenberg in the Modern Art Notes Podcast.
• Eddie Martinez joins the artist stable at Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
• A look at thirty years after The Guerrilla Girls came onto the scene.
• Artnet talks to Thomas Struth.
• Jeffrey Deitch plans street art show in Coney Island. Brian Boucher does not feel that it is a very smart project for him to take.
• 2014 AICA award winners include Kara Walker, Mickalene Thomas, Robert Gober, and Pierre Huyghe.
• Maurizio Cattelan's destroyed and buried sculpture.
• WSJ profiles Alex Katz.
• A day in the life of Sam McKinness.
• NY Times writes about Banksy in Gaza.
• Wanksy paints penises around potholes to bring them to the city's attention.
• Paper Magazine's beautiful people in art list includes Chloe Wise, Sam McKinness, and Petra Cortright.
• The Wall Street Journal reviews the Rina Banerjee show at Jacob Lewis Gallery.
• LA><ART producing a ten-year anniversary publication with funds raised via Kickstarter.
• Raymond Pettibon print featuring Kim Gordon and Dan Graham available to benefit The Kitchen.
• Interview with Lee Skolnick about building a beach house with presentation of an art collection in mind.
• Pierpaolo Barzan and Valeria Sorci of Depart Foundation share their favorite spots in Los Angeles.
• Leonard Ursachi complaining that children are treating his sculpture like a jungle gym.
• Aric Snee and Justin Crowe design the selfie-arm, so selfiers can pretend someone is with them taking their picture.

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More stories from the week that ended May 11 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Anneliese Cooper reviews Rosy Keyser's show at Maccarone.
• Two gunmen killed in Texas at exhibition featuring cartoons of Muhammad.
• Two visitors to Loggie dei Militi damage Statue of the Two Hercules when they attempt to take a selfie with it.
• Guy Wildenstein has been referred to criminal court for tax evasion.
• Sterling Ruby leaves Hauser & Wirth.
• Artnet reports a loss of $3.9mil. for 2014.
• Anne Flanagan will retire as deputy director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
• Valuable Roman mosaics badly damaged during botched restoration work at Hatay Archaeology Museum.
• Tretyakov Gallery investigated for providing false valuations of artworks.
• Federal appeals court strikes down law that required CA residents to pay artists a royalty for sales out of state.
• Are museums seen as intimidating or "off-limits" for minorities?
• 5 paintings missing since WWII being repatriated to Germany.
• The hypocrisy of the Venice Biennale. Benjamin Genocchio thinks the Biennale is morose, joyless, and ugly.
• Overcrowded bridge collapses in Venice sending Prada partygoers into water. Christoph Büchel's contribution to the Venice Biennale is labeled by police as a threat to public safety.
• More creative people are migrating from New York City and Brooklyn to Los Angeles. LA Weekly is suspicious of some of the articles claims.
• Tehran billboards feature works of art.
• English Heritage conservator discovers that the painting she was restoring was a genuine Titian.
• Leah Ollman reviews the Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography" show at The Getty Center.
• The opening of the Prada Foundation in Milan. A look at Rem Koolhaus' design.
• Japanese American National Museum acquire artifacts and artworks created in internment camps.
• Whitney Museum hangs Jackson Pollock painting vertically, even though signature suggests horizontal.
• Images from the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute Gala 2015. Highlights from the Met Costume Institute's China: Through the Looking Glass exhibition.
• A look at Yoko Ono as she prepares for her MoMA show.
• The Guggenheim Museum in New York donates 100 images of artworks from its collection to Wikipedia.
• Grace Farms commissions works by Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, and others for its new building.
• Museum of Royal Collections asking for four paintings currently in the Prado's collection.
• The Independent's guide to the Venice Biennale. Bloomberg also highlights some of the exhibits at the Biennale. Artnet previews it by browsing Instagram and sees some wacky things. Phaidon also has a guide. How to understand the lineup.
• Are indications pointing to Christie's slowly phasing out its Modern and Impressionism sale?
• Steven A. Cohen, Steve Wynn and Sheldon Solow among the sellers with work in May auctions.
• Preview of John Whitehead's collection being sold by Christie's.
• Could Christie's see a billion-dollar auction sale total?
• Le Corbusier sculpture sells at Christie's in Zurich for $3.3mil. - a new record for the artist.
• Sales report from Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern auction.
• Wang Zhongjun reported as buyer of $29.9mil Picasso from Goldwyn collection sold at Sotheby's.
• Harvard Business School studies the ramifications of Marina Picasso's sale of her grandfather's works.
• Exploration of the affect auctions have on an artist's career.
• Paul Kasmin and Pace Gallery join the inaugural Seattle Art Fair as exhibitors.
• Artnet lists reasons why Paris Photo LA is the ultimate California art fair.
• Marion Maneker rounds up the sales report from Art Brussels.
• Interview with Heather Hubbs about NADA.
• A look at today's Chinese art collectors and what they are buying.
• A look at the photography medium within the wider art market.
• Sir Frederic Leighton study for Flaming June discovered behind door and will be sold. It will also be exhibited at The Frick Collection.
• Guerilla Girls doing a two week pop-up exhibition at Abrons Arts Center.
• Interview Magazine interviews Jonathan D'Agostino and Beth Fiore about their new gallery called D&F.
• Leo Fitzpatrick joins Marlborough Chelsea as a director.
• Artspace interviews Alan Servais about collecting.
• Profile of Theaster Gates.
• Ellsworth Kelly could receive a Congressional Gold Medal for his service during WWII.
• Anneliese Cooper reviews Dan Colen's show at Venus Over Los Angeles.
• Artinfo tours the national pavilions at the Venice Biennale. A look at Sarah Lucas' work at the Biennale. Simon Denny's work in the Biennale. Kevin McGarry chooses some winners. Artspace shows you how to pronounce Venice Biennale artists' names.
• JR discusses his cover for the NY Times Magazine cover.
• Time Out reviews Jamian Juliano-Villani's Crypod show at JTT.
• Keith J Varadi discusses Fiona Connor's recent show at 1301PE in ARTFRUM.
• Phaidon provides a primer on Art Brut.
• Frances Stark and Mark Godfrey each win the 2015 Absolut Art Award.
• Scott Indrisek chooses five must-see gallery shows up right now in NY.
• John Newsom creates artwork for Raekwon's new album.
• Interview with Alli Coates and Signe Pierce about their American Reflexxx film.
• A look at the Manifest Justice show in Los Angeles.
• LA Times writes about Thomas Houseago's installation at Rockefeller Center.
• Scott Indrisek looks at Hope Gangloff's work.
• Ishiuchi Miyako photographs Frida Kahlo's personal belongings for exhibition.
• WSJ visits with Jeff Koons and talks family.
• Interview with Cecily Brown.
• An hour with David Salle.
• Liam Gillick designs a tattoo that will be auctioned.
• Travis Diehl looks at Max Maslansky's show at Honor Fraser.
• New work by Isaac Cordal called The School.
• Images of Easter Island heads with their bodies.
• Sam Falls limited edition LP with blue marbled vinyl record available from Ballroom Marfa.
• Vincent van Gogh lookalike rides the train in New York.