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Preview: Maya Lujan @ Carmichael Gallery
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Showing: Danh Vō –“Go Mo Ni Ma Da” @ The Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
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Overtime: June 24 – June 30
- National Gallery of Art plans first-ever show with a living African-American artist - Kerry James Marshall.
- RIP: Monica Ross, who died on the last day of her five-year project, Anniversary—an act of memory.
- RIP: Bert Stern, who died at the age of 83.
- Ruth Carter Stevenson House, design: Harwell Hamilton Harris, landscape: Thomas Church - demolished.
- Oakland housing project reborn as a three-story art installation on the eve of its demolition.
- Syrian art smuggled from the midst of civil war to show in a London exhibition.
- The US blocked sale of a Picasso painting at request of Italian Government, due to embezzlement charges.
- Angela Merkel urges Russia to return art and antiquities looted from eastern Germany during WWII.
- Sicily requests return of two items in Sicily: Art and Invention Between Greece and Rome imperils exhibition.
- Patrick Cariou to appeal to Supreme Court in Richard Prince copyright case.
- Sotheby's wins in lawsuit dispute with Jancou Gallery over Cady Noland artwork removed from auction.
- Andy Warhol Foundation reached settlement with Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company over legal costs.
- Citing rising costs & flexibility of new paper system using stickers, the Met will stop handing out buttons.
- Ryan O'Neal may have lied to delay trial involving disputed Fawcett Warhol.
- Harris Lieberman Gallery closed shop on June 15.
- War artist Graeme Lothian may never paint again after being shot through the hand by a Taliban sniper.
- Anthony Caro scraps Park Avenue three-block-long sculpture and turns it into 12 sculptures instead.
- Whitney weatherproofs new museum due to Hurricane Sandy.
- NYC West Village artists' residence accused of sitting on about 20 empty apartments, some vacant for years.
- Proposed ordinance could lift Los Angeles' decade-old ban on murals on private property.
- Curators find undiscovered LS Lowry work found on the back of another painting ahead of Tate show.
- SF Mayor Ed Lee supports George Lucas’ proposal of housing art collection in a new museum at the Presidio.
- Vatican Museums virtual-reality project allows visitors to wander thru a 2,600-year-old Etruscan burial vault.
- Getty Center acquires Werner Herzog's Hearsay of the Soul, a video installation for the 2012 Whitney Biennial.
- Dia Foundation to sell works from its collection to start acquisition fund.
- Fake diploma, which David Hockney made in protest against art school, could sell for £20,000 at auction.
- Record set for art only offered online by Egon Schiele watercolor - sells for almost $2 million at Auctionata.
- Oscar Murillo breaks his auction record by 10x as work in all 3 London auctions sell higher than estimates.
- Amazon.com expected to launch online art gallery to offer over 1,000 art objects from at least 125 galleries.
- Warhol in the words of ten artists, including Murakami, McGinness, Katz, and Mike Kelley.
- Christopher Hawthorne reviews MOCA's A New Sculpturalism show.
- Artsy interviews Francesco Bonami about working with Maurizio Cattelan and about other art world topics.
- Interview with David Zwirner, on the importance of small and mid-sized galleries and his own plans.
- David LaChapelle talks about the last-ever portrait taken of Andy Warhol.
- Ai Weiwei has released new protest album called Divine Comedy.
- Christina Aguilera and the Hammer Museum among the buyers at D*Face's Stolen Space show.
- Shepard Fairey DJs at musician Josh Mintz's art-music show.
- Kanye West in his own words - an essay assembled by Rich Juzwiak.
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Openings: A New Sculpturalism @ MOCA Geffen
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Overtime: July 1 – July 7
- First fully comprehensive Roy Lichtenstein show opens in Paris.
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Paris-based Galerie Daniel Templon to open a new space in Brussels in the fall of 2013.
- Cirque du Soleil performer Sarah Guillot-Guyard falls to death during performance at Las Vegas Ka show.
- Marc and Andrea Glimcher are divorcing after 10 years of marriage, but will still work together at Pace Gallery.
- Was Caravaggio a pedophile who made pedophile art and is it OK to show and view these works?
- John Constable's painting The Hay Wain attacked by protestor at the National Gallery.
- Activist arrested for allegedly defacing Westminster Abbey statue.
- Tate show charts history of violence against art and covers 500 years, up until present-day.
- Disagreement over whether San Giovannino is a true lost work by Michelangelo.
- California judge rules that Nazi-owned art lawsuit against Sotheby's should be heard in England.
- Worry in NYC as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has a excellent record for arts spending, is leaving.
- Two statues that symbolized the hope of growing children in Baltimore returns after being recreated.
- Baltimore's Contemporary Museum will reopen after the institution abruptly shut its doors and laid off its staff.
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The Statue of Liberty reopened to visitors on July 4 after being repaired due to extensive damage from Sandy.
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Playboy roadside art by Richard Phillips near Marfa ruled illegal.
- Roger Dean suing James Cameron over claims that he copied images from his artwork for Avatar.
- Alleged rigged bidding ($50,000) for artwork during kindergarten benefit auction.
- Russia’s Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts director Irina Antonova, 91-years old, leaves her job after 52 years.
- Duke University discovers that laser can be used to examine underneath artwork without causing damage.
- Prison guard tower of Louisiana State Penitentiary in National Museum of African American History collection.
- Imran Qureshi splashed red paint & drew on the almost 8,000-square-foot display-area at Met Museum.
- BMW ends support (but will continue to work with Guggenheim) for Guggenheim Lab Project.
- Chinese art collectors buying relatively undervalued (compared to canvas) paper works by blue chip artists.
- Christie's to have a sale devoted to work featuring Kate Moss.
- Russians fight Indian billionaires in auction as records are set for Old Master works.
- California remains artists' preferred state in US, but female architects relatively underrepresented.
- UCLA partnering up with LACMA to train art history doctoral students.
- Obama to award 2012 National Medal of Arts & National Humanities Medal (winners inc. Ellsworth Kelly).
- Larry Ellison unveils his Japanese art collection in San Francisco at the Asian Art Museum.
- Daniel Rolnik visits Jen Stark in studio as she discusses the perils of making her work on her hands and eyes.
- 20th mural by Sol LeWitt on NY wall to occupy the lobby of the Jewish Community Center (Upper West Side).
- Amy Winehouse exhibition opens at London’s Jewish Museum.
- Wayne Thiebaud discusses a Richard Diebenkorn work from his personal collection.
- Gillian Wearing crowd sourcing film submissions for a art project.
- Jonathan Jones thinks Sarah Lucas is a far better sculptor than Moore or Hepworth ever were.
- Os Gemeos interviewed by Paper Magazine.
- Alec Baldwin may open a art gallery that will show photography.
- Jay-Z buys painting of Basquiat by Swizz Beatz.
- Paintballing now part of 2013's Frieze Projects in London.
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Lucien Smith –“Scrap Metal” @ Bill Brady KC
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Overtime: July 8 – July 14
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Phil Akashi creates Nelson Mandela portrait from 27,000 punches with the Chinese characters 自由 (freedom).
- RIP: Norman Parish, pioneering dealer of African American art, who died of a brain tumor at age 75.
- Takashi Murakami has scrapped plans to open a Kaikai Kiki Gallery in Singapore.
- Fathers4Justice vows to step up attacks on artworks in the UK.
- Same-sex marriage ruling brings tax benefits for art world professionals.
- Charles Saatchi getting a divorce from Nigella Lawson after apparent public choking incident.
- Manager says that Met Museum cashiers trained to mislead visitors in regards to admission cost.
- Petition calls for Sept. 11 museum not to charge entry fee (currently up to $25).
- Low-wage workers strike at Smithsonian museums, demanding better pay.
- Sicily cancels a major exhibition of ancient treasures at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
- Opposition to Dia deaccessioning some works from their collection goes public.
- Centre Pompidou abandoning mobile museum project and plans to launch instead a temporary exhibition in Saudi Arabia.
- The NSA actually cracked Jim Sanborn's Kryptos Sculpture years before the CIA did.
- Online petition started after LA Times fires its art reporter, Jori Finkel and museum directors send letter in protest.
- Constance Caplan, chair of Hirshhorn Museum board, announces resignation, citing turmoil and mistrust within.
- Bernard Madoff's lackluster art collection to go to auction.
- Hyperallergic asks if you can ripoff artwork that itself is a ripoff.
- The rising trend of “artist-in-restaurant”.
- Christopher Knight thinks LACMA & MOCA have been giving short shrift to solo exhibitions of art made by women.
- Emerging elites and foreign investors are driving a booming collectors' scene in Africa.
- Andrew Vickers uses £50,000 worth of comics (including a Avengers #1) to create sculpture worth around £500.
- Chest bought for $150 and used as TV stand sold for $9.5 million after dealer identifies it as long-lost Japanese antique.
- Total sales volume of fine art in the US is up 7% in the first half of 2013. Global sales, however, are down.
- Despite NC-17 rating, Paul McCarthy's Park Avenue Armory show has become its second-most-attended exhibition.
- MoMA PS1 to acquire new building and expand, after being allocated $3 million.
- Anthony Weiner featured prominently in NY's Museum of Sex exhibition.
- Breaking Bad exhibit coming to Museum of the Moving Image.
- Can two artists, husband and wife, make a career and a life together in Tulare County?
- The salaries of director, executive, and other high-level arts and culture employees.
- The top ten collectors on the 2013 ARTnews 200. And the complete list.
- Adam Lindemann urges artists to consider making smaller pieces instead of going bigger and bigger all the time.
- Ryan McGinley's Varúð video now playing in NYC's Times Square.
- Julian Opie has painted installations in the Lindo Wing at St Mary's Hospital where Kate Middleton is due to give birth.
- Jay-Z performs at Pace Gallery for six hours with sustained video shoot inspired by Marina Abramović.
- Lady Gaga collaborates with some artists, including Jeff Koons, and plans a artRave event.
- Johnny Depp in talks to star as Charles Mortdecai, a debonair art dealer in feature film.
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Overtime: July 15 – July 21
- Christian Marclay puts images from Maurizio Cattelan's Toiletpaper mag on windows of Palais de Tokyo.
- Henri Matisse's (previously banned) candid views from 1941 on his work & depression set to be published.
- Finnish museum refuses request from Iraq to return artifacts donated to president by delegation from Iraq.
- Looted art from Cypriot churches is returned by Germany after they were seized sixteen years ago.
- China shuts down $88million museum after discovering that it has had scores of fake exhibits.
- Founders of Dia Art Foundation send letter to board voicing opposition to deaccessioning work.
- Cooper Union students that occupied the president's office ends occupation after reaching an agreement.
- Old Damien Hirst photo with him posing with a severed head provokes outrage from Richard III archaeologists.
- Art thief Matthew Taylor sentenced to 7.5 years in federal prison for art theft and tax evasion.
- Glafira Rosales indicted for selling $30 million in fake paintings by Rothko, Polluck, de Kooning, etc.
- Jerome Bengis sentenced to a year in prison for selling fake Picasso prints and originals.
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Six Romanians will stand trial over theft of seven masterpieces from Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam.
- Thieves stole ten paintings from the Van Buuren Museum on the outskirts of Brussels.
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The FBI and Scotland Yard Veterans to present The World of Art and the Fine Art of Crime seminar at SMU.
- Alexander Historical Auctions sued after allegedly not paying owner for sold Hitler items he consigned.
- Jonathan Meese heading to court after he saluted Hitler during a public appearance.
- Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi to make no financial claims in divorce.
- Temporary export bar placed on £16.5 million Rembrandt painting in hopes that it could stay in UK.
- Dave Gibbons has some controversial thoughts on the artwork of Roy Lichtenstein.
- 10-year old painter Kieron Williamson has sold his latest collection of paintings for more than £340,000.
- Oliver Bienkowski investigated for projecting United Stasi of America onto the the US Embassy in Berlin.
- Woman in Malibu, CA discovers that a unknown item in her house is actually a James Turrell piece.
- Gus Foster has pledged to give the University of New Mexico’s Harwood Museum of Art his collection.
- Team at University of Konstanz in Germany has developed painting robot called e-David.
- Curators of Degas show decides to put his model sculptures on IKEA-like shelving units.
- Pablo Picasso's granddaughter, Diana Widmaier-Picasso writing a new inventory of his sculptures.
- Sotheby's to start selling African art from Allan Stone's legendary collection this November.
- A look at the thriving gallery scene in Mayfair as Marion Goodman looks to be adding a space there.
- Christie's to hold its first art auction in India in December.
- Christie's to auction off works from the collection of Jan Krugier and the sale is expected to bring in $160mil.
- Christopher Knight reviews Richard Artschwager's show at the Hammer Museum.
- MoMA to recreate the American Photographs exhibition (its first solo show of photographs) by Walker Evans.
- Art museums are promoting bicycle culture and exhibiting bikes.
- Hong Kong’s M+ museum hires MoMA curator Doryun Chong to be its chief curator.
- Art+Auction profiles Pae White.
- Interview with Rodney Parrott, the head of Rescued Art, and known as the king of thrift store art finds.
- The High Line in NYC to get a apartment building designed by Zaha Hadid next to it.
- Jill Magid and Alexander Provan have been named 2013–15 Vera List fellows.
- Interview with David Lynch, where he talks about his moving paintings and other things he's involved with.
- W Magazine visits Gavin Brown at home and gives us the latest on what he's been up to.
- Marina Abramovic talks about her naked five-day performance art bootcamp and peeing in slow motion.
- Artillery Magazine covers Martin Schoeller's show at Ace Gallery.
- Damien Hirst designs album cover for Babyshambles' album Sequel To The Prequel.
- Forbes takes a look at the art references in Jay Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail.
- Ruby Rose gets a Basquiat crown tattoo.
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Openings: Amanda Charchian –“The Collective Yes” @ Stephen Webster











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Overtime: July 22 – July 28
- Shepard Fairey full-wrapped buses courtesy of L.A. Fund unveiled in Los Angeles.
- RIP: Walter De Maria, who died of a stroke at age 77.
- RIP: Ronnie Cutrone, who died at the age of 65.
- What happened during MOCA's board meeting in which Jeffrey Deitch resigned.
- Christopher Knight guests on Air Talk, discussing the Deitch resignation.
- William Poundstone provides the local perspective on why Deitch did not work out in LA.
- A look at what Deitch may be up to when he moves back to NY.
- Nazi paraphernalia recently stolen from off-site storage unit belonging to Wyoming Veterans' Memorial Museum.
- Men indicted for growing marijuana on Frontier Culture Museum property.
- The head of security at the Victoria and Albert Museum fears for the institutions collection of Chinese art.
- Investigators from Spain discover 4,000 looted antiquities and more after searching man's homes.
- Banksy's No Ball Games mural removed from Tottenham wall to be sold.
- Steven Cohen, one of the art world's biggest spenders, gets officially charged by the SEC.
- House committee proposes funding cuts for NEA (about 50%) and other arts groups.
- Art teacher Serena O'Connor paints portrait of man suspected of robbing her.
- Michael Smith to convert eatery in White House into art gallery for the Obamas.
- Maurice and Paul Marciano buys Scottish Rite Masonic Temple building and will turn it into private museum.
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Tobias Architecture's design for the new Michael Kohn Gallery on Highland Avenue in Hollywood.
- François Pinault to have first exhibition in Paris of a major ensemble of works from his collection.
- Arts and culture scene in Cleveland thriving at the moment.
- Aslan Foundation gives the Knoxville Museum of Art $2.5 million gift.
- The National Gallery of Art has acquired some new artwork, including by Smithson and Mann.
- Reina Sofia museum uses robot to inspect artwork using infrared and ultraviolet photography.
- D. James Dee gifting his analog archive of film images to ARTStor, which will digitize and catalog his images.
- Qataris believed to have a budget of $1 billion a year to spend on art.
- $75,000 NEA grant will help artists remain in gentrifying downtown arts district of L.A.
- Christie's contacts DIA to ask for an inventory of works and see if appraisers could visit to assess the collection.
- Peter Schjeldahl makes the case in support of Detroit selling pieces from DIA collection.
- Hrag Vartanian thinks that Peter Schjeldahl should be fired from his job.
- Peter Schjeldahl reconsiders his opinion on DIA selling its artwork.
- Disney animator vets turn to Kickstarter to fund Art Story, about a boy and his dad getting stuck in famous paintings.
- The Telegraph takes a look at the world's most beautiful miniature books.
- Florentijn Hofman gives people of Beijing duck fever.
- Katharina Fritsch tries to give people of London cock fever.
- Matthew Barney’s River of Fundament, in the works since 2007, to have its debut in 2014 at Park Ave Armory.
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Amanda Ross-Ho transforms MCA Chicago's plaza into an open air photo studio and invites viewers to share their pics.
- The Kansas City Star reviews Lucien Smith's Scrap Metal show at Bill Brady/KC
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to exhibit work by Sophie Calle inspired by the infamous theft there.
- A look at Amy Arbus and her Greenwich Village apartment.
- Images from Chloë Bass’s 2011 series Practice of the Daily, shown for the first time as a complete set.
- Martin Wong interviews Robert Williams.
- Of Us interviews Calvin Lee about his artwork and being in LA.
- The LA Times talks to Eric Fischl.
- Elizabeth Sobieski interviews Paul McCarthy's muse Elyse Poppers.
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Showing: Michael Shields –“The Anatomy of LA” @ Martha Otero Gallery
The Anatomy of LA, 2013
Hardcover, 84 pages, Edition of 50.
Book 16.5 x 12.5 inches (41.91 x 31.75 cm)
1st Edition, $225
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110/105 Facing West, 2013 [image below poster image]
Archival pigment prints, Edition of 50.
Print 21 x 14 inches (53.34 x 35.56 cm)
Complimentary with 1st edition book purchase
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Overtime: July 29 – Aug 4
- Jerry Vile makes statement in Detroit using giant Crisco can next to Joe Louis fist sculpture. The city removes the street piece quickly, unfortunately.
- Ashes found in stove in owned by mother of suspected Rotterdam art thief contained fragments of paintings.
- NYPD attempts to censor anticipated Park Avenue art project about free speech.
- James Franco criticizes LA for losing Jeffrey Deitch, who resigned himself from his position at MOCA.
- Los Angeles Downtown News wants Jeffrey Deitch out of LA immediately and outlines what to do next.
- MOCA loses Jeff Koons retrospective for unknown reasons.
- More DIA drama as NYTimes compares it to situation of Fresno Metropolitan & South St. Seaport Museum.
- Bravo cancels Gallery Girls after just one season.
- Cindy Sherling claims that Jan Van Alphen, director of the Rubin Museum of Art, sexually harassed her.
- Abandoned newsstand kiosks in San Francisco turned into art installations and exhibits.
- Dallas pension fund’s public relations fight with Nasher Sculpture Center involves fake social media profiles.
- Italian police seize huge haul of illicit antiquities consisting of over 500 pieces and worth over €2mil.
- The wife of leading Syrian artist Youssef Abdelke would like him to be released from detention.
- Arts critics at the Independent on Sunday to be fired this Sept. as part of cuts to the newspaper’s workforce.
- Banksy helps man evicted from LA water tank after he painted on it & prompted owners to sell the piece.
- Crop circle art is dying as artists are retiring or moving on to other things.
- Vittorio Sgarbi makes his case for blocking approval for a project by Daniel Buren in Italy.
- US returns ceremonial sword taken as war trophy from Saddam Hussein’s office to Iraq.
- Copy of Schindler's list (1 of 4 in existence), bearing the names of 801 men, fails to find eBay buyer at $3mil.
- Montana dueling dinosaurs - two nearly complete skeletons - to be sold at Bonham's at $7-9mi. estimate.
- Factum Arte using non-contact 3D laser scanning and digital photography to recreate 2D and 3D works.
- Worker deployed to remove Bad Kitty street piece by DS becomes stenciled himself hours later.
- Yves Klein’s Monotone Silence Symphony, his first sound composition, is headed to New York.
- Check out the The Andy Warhol Temporary Museum in Lisbon by LIKEarchitects.
- Michael Bloomberg sets aside $50 million appropriation for a nascent arts organization, the Culture Shed.
- An app to view all the public art in New York City.
- Art Rules, ICA's new venture, aims to supplant Twitter as platform for online art debate.
- Knight Foundation gives $750,000 to Akron Art Museum to help pay for six exhibitions over three years.
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Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art to have exhibition that explores 500 years of witches.
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Jonathan Jones takes a look at gay art in the Catholic Church.
- Al Sharpton wants Trayvon Martin's hoodie in National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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The Art Production Fund doing a pop-up exhibition of installations in Montauk.
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Curious about investing your money with a art fund?
- Charles Saatchi to auction off 50 of his largest sculptures and installations at Christie's.
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Unauthenticated Warhol sketch bought for £3 on sale for £1.25m on eBay - could be worth a lot more.
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Jim Lee is selling his Jack Kirby originals from artwork that was used in real-life concept from Argo.
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Heather Russell interviews Li Shan.
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Excerpts from Marina Abramović’s Reddit question and answer on occasion of her Kickstarter campaign.
- The Economist takes a look at Peter Doig and his upcoming retrospective.
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Los Angeles Magazine interviews Frank Gehry about architecture in LA.
- Cosmo Sarson's Breakdancing Jesus – The Salute, now available as a limited edition hand-finished print.
- Scottish National Gallery has Imaginary Boys, a signed and numbered print by Peter Doig available. Ingleby Gallery has also released a screen print by the artist.
- One Direction singer Harry Styles is a burgeoning art collector.
- Simon de Pury writes about the art world's love for Kanye West, Jay Z, and Lady Gaga.
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Preview: Alvaro Ilizarbe –“Surveying” @ Martha Otero Gallery









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Overtime: Aug 5 – Aug 11
- Andy Warhol Bridge yarn bombed. (above photo by CBS Pittsburgh)
- RIP: Ruth Asawa, first Asian American woman to receive recognition as a sculptor, dies at age 87 in SF.
- RIP: Israel Hernandez, killed by Miami Beach police for putting up graffiti on abandoned building.
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Experts investigating Rotterdam heist find burnt remains of at least three different oil paintings.
- Two men rush stage, kiss, gropes Yan Yinhong during her performance about sexual violence against women.
- Van Gogh specialists reaffirm opinion that his death was a suicide and not a murder.
- Matthew James Schultz walks into gallery in Napa Valley and allegedly exposes himself and masturbates.
- MOCA says that Jeff Koons exhibition is not canceled and could open in Los Angeles in 2015.
- Four brothers from Ontario that purchased a painting from eBay believe that it is a authentic Edward Hopper.
- Itzhak Zarug arrested in connection with international art forgery ring.
- Tokyo man discovers Sotheby’s auctioned his Renoir that he claims was stolen in 2000.
- Burglars steal jewelry and artwork worth more than $5mil, including prints by Monet and Pissarro from SD home.
- Spain's austerity drive halts work on new Goya museum.
- The Cleveland Museum of Art's new atrium skylight springs two small leaks.
- Judge upholds Green Day’s right to use Dereck Seltzer’s image for concert, citing fair use.
- Voyeuristic photos of New York family taken by Arne Svenson through their window is protected art, judge rules.
- More than 350 Frida Kahlo photographs to be restored.
- The Womb, Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne's gallery, reopens with party and new exhibit after being closed since 2011.
- Christie's to appraise portion of Detroit Institute of Art museum collection amid city's bankruptcy.
- DIA artwork could potentially be leased as collateral to raise money for a loan.
- Olympic legacy murals painted by outside artists met with outrage by local London street artists.
- Monroe Warshaw returns two Hopi sacred items to tribe after he purchased them at auction in Paris.
- American tourist breaks finger off 600-year-old statue at Museo dell'Opera del Duomo by accident.
- How Superstorm Sandy has affected art insurance.
- Two Banksy street pieces have survived in Toronto since the artist visited and created seven.
- The Telegraph reviews play Banksy: The Room in the Elephant at Pleasance Courtyard.
- Richard Prince curates a show of Stuart Sutcliffe's paintings and drawings at Harper Books.
- Amazon has launched a new online fine art store.
- Theaster Gates gets $1.3 million contract to create two art pieces for the 95th Street Red Line station.
- Marina Abramovic gets Lady Gaga to appear in her video. You can buy a hug from Abramovic for $1.
- A look at how female artists have sold. Joan Mitchell is the best-selling of all time by auction revenue.
- Mary Coble's Deferral performance piece at Corcoran takes on blood donation, gay rights.
- A look at the artist studios of the past.
- MoMA gets its very first Tumblr account
- MoMA to have show of works from Ileana Sonnabend's collection.
- All about CSA - Community Supported Art programs.
- Hans Ulrich Obrist spends a productive full day in Los Angeles.
- Business Week interviews David Zwirner.
- Opening Ceremony visits Nate Lowman at his studio and interviews him.
- Financial Times talks with Jeremy Deller over lunch.
- Eko Nugroho creates some products for Louis Vuitton.
- Tony Shafrazi causes a scene at restaurant by chewing out Owen Wilson in front of Peter Brant.
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Overtime: Aug 12 – Aug 18
- The Whitney recreates Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks on Fifth Avenue in NYC as part of exhibition.
- RIP Allan Sekula, who died at the age of 62.
- Jasper Johns’s former assistant assistant charged with stealing 22 Johns works and selling for $3.4mil.
- Trial to start for six Romanians accused of stealing seven masterpieces from Rotterdam's Kunsthal museum. The suspects have offered to return five paintings in exchange for moving their trial from Romania to the Netherlands.
- Jonathan Meese acquitted in court after being charged for performing nazi salute.
- Banksy’s Flower Girl mural, painted on LA gas station wall, removed and is to be auctioned in December.
- Mark Jenkins has Banksy's robot piece on The Grovesnor hotel walls boarded over to protect it from vandals.
- Private museums in China vulnerable to art thieves.
- Rags Over the Arkansas River filing lawsuit against Christo to stop his Over the River project.
- Glafira Rosales, accused of dealing forged artwork, released on $2.5mil. bail. Artist who forged Knoedler paintings discovered in Queens while selling work off the streets.
- James Kennedy to pay more than $316,000 in restitution to 21 victims that he sold fake prints to on eBay.
- Plunging sales crisis for indigenous Aboriginal art due to high supply, low demand, and government policies.
- ArtChronika Magazine, Russia's leading arts magazine, shuts down its print publication.
- Christie's CEO Steven Murphy discusses the competitive threat posed by Amazon to Christie's.
- There are ways to tell if you are a Miami art snob.
- NY Times discusses the trend of participatory art in museums.
- Jeff Bridges & Yoko Ono among artists who donate work to Art From Scrap fundraiser in Santa Barbara.
- Kohl’s will donate $2 million over next three years to the Milwaukee Art Museum to fund exhibits.
- Hester Diamond gifts Paolo Veronese painting to Worcester Art Museum.
- Beast Jesus fresco raises money, boosts visitors to Spanish town of Borja & gets Cecilia Gimenez solo show.
- The National Gallery of Australia insists George Stubbs paintings on export bar in UK belongs in Australia.
- Philadelphia woman to sell flea market Calder she bought for $15 at Christie's at a $200-300,000 estimate.
- Christie’s Education in New York launches six-week course for Warhol enthusiasts, also involving online sales.
- The Science World museum has ads promoting the orgasm's analgesic effect for Science of Sexuality show.
- Ray’s & Stark Bar in LACMA gets a 45-page bottled water menu.
- Richard Koshalek back in Southern California after leaving Hirshhorn and he has some ideas for MOCA.
- Ed Ruscha joining SFMoMA board a year after quitting MOCA's.
- Savernack Street Gallery in San Francisco only viewable through a peephole from the street.
- Getty announces new program lifting restrictions on use of digital images to which it holds rights.
- Russia’s State Hermitage Museum to open branch in Vladivostok and has plans to open six more locations.
- Condé Nast Traveler's guide to subway station art from around the world.
- Diana Widmaier-Picasso talks to WSJ about her research into Pablo's sculptures and her favorite Picassos.
- Gothamist talks to Shepard Fairey while he was putting up work in NY.
- Adam Tetzloff visits Asger Carlsen at his Chinatown, NY studio.
- Artinfo interviews David Choe about his Mexico City exhibition. He also gets interviewed by Vice.
- Vegas Seven reviews Exchange, a group show featuring XVALA, at Amanda Harris Gallery.
- Julie Mehretu talks about her work in video interview with Louisiana Chanel.
- Damien Hirst makes limited edition scarves for Alexander McQueen brand.
- Jack Nicholson smokes a e-cig at Larry Gagosian's party.
- Brad Pitt reportedly was denied a seat on MOCA's board.
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Overtime: Aug 19 – Aug 25
- Egypt’s Malawi National Museum ransacked, looted and smashed up by vandals as result of unrest in country.
- Marx & Zavattero closes their gallery after twelve years in San Francisco.
- John Cleese sells off collection of art and memorabilia to help pay for divorce from third wife.
- Profile of Pei-Shen Qian, who is identified as artist who painted the Knoedler fakes.
- The story of Mark Landis, man who donates forgeries to museums (must be subscriber to NewYorker to read full article).
- Repatriation of Apache items delayed due to classification designation by American Museum of Natural History.
- Ali Ferzat exiled from Syria to Kuwait after being attacked for drawing satirical cartoons of President Bashar al-Assad.
- Police alerted of Marina Abramovic's planned live recreation of The Scream in Oslo.
- Trustees for Robert Rauschenberg seeking over $60 million from foundation in court.
- Axa sues Christie's storage services over Sandy damage alleging negligence in not taking steps to prevent damage.
- Two Damien Hirst prints stolen from Museo de Arte Contemporáneo during concert find their way back to the museum.
- More about Jasper Johns' former assistant, James Meyer, who is accused of stealing and selling his work.
- Despite being warned, Sotheby's sells Jan Schoonhoven piece that was stolen from the Museum van Bommel van Dam.
- Street art in LA by Strömberg mistakenly credited to Banksy.
- The top jobs in UK art institutions are still mainly going to men over women.
- The changing role of and ability to be a curator.
- New York Observer writes about new school art collectors that are acquiring works based on social reasons.
- Sarah Maple gets 500 volunteers to replace pages from The Sun newspaper featuring topless women.
- Kodak receives court approval to emerge from bankruptcy as a much smaller digital imaging company.
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Kröller-Müller Museum receives donation of over two hundred works from the Art & Project / Depot VBVR Collection.
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Hester Diamond (Mike D's mom) gives a Veronese painting to the Worcester Art Museum.
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Städel Museum boosts its photography collection after acquisitions and generous donation by Rudolf and Annette Kicken.
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MoMA to open sculpture garden to general public for free each morning until 10:30am.
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The Louvre's Winged Victory of Samothrace is set for a nine-month restoration next month that will alter its appearance.
- The Museum for African Art now actually the New Africa Center and will be more of a policy center than art museum.
- James Durston gives his thoughts an opinion on today's museums.
- How the constant traveling and art fair participation due to globalization is affecting dealers and the market.
- Auction market for books, letters and manuscripts seems to be taking off after David Foster Wallace sale.
- Gregory Siff creates artwork from Superstorm Sandy debris to benefit storm relief.
- Marina Abramovic Institute becomes fully funded on Kickstarter, as does the Art Story film.
- A look at Damien Hirst's 9,000 square-meter studio - the world's largest art production site.
- Matador Networks has their list of the 30 coolest art installations ever at Burning Man.
- Show Me More: A Collection of DickPix gallery show to feature sexting images collected by women.
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Maine offers Robert Indiana license plates to help support arts in the state.
- Profile of Peter Blake, who opened Laguna Beach's first contemporary art gallery.
- Jeffrey Deitch serves as sounding board for Calligraffiti show at Leila Heller Gallery.
- Larry Gagosian has the most technically superior screening room at his house in the Hamptons.
- Interview with David Choe, where he reveals a upcoming collaboration with Takashi Murakami on a show.
- Roberta Smith reviews Rudolf Stingel's show at Palazzo Grassi.
- Max Snow is the artist-in-residence at The Surf Lodge in Montauk and he also organized a André Saraiva show there.
- Miranda July's email project includes message from Kristen Dunst to Gavin Brown regarding Elizabeth Peyton piece.
- The Avant/Garde Diaries features Agathe Snow and Bill Beckley.
- Jeff Soto interviews Rob Sato.
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Overtime: Aug. 26 – Sept. 1
- Basketball court designed by Robert Indiana and used by Bucks in '70s reemerges as a art piece.
- RIP: Matt Doust, who died at age 29 from epileptic seizure. He had just completed work for his first solo show.
- RIP: Stephen Antonakos, who died at age 86.
- It was discovered that David Hockney's assistant Dominic Elliott died after drinking drain cleaner during binge.
- Zwelethu Mthethwa charged with murder of 23-year-old Nokuphila Kumalo, beating and killing her in public.
- Kasimir Malevich's burial site in Russia to be marked finally with a plaque and a school will be named after him.
- War in Syria may be exacting a toll on its heritage sites, fears UNESCO.
- Ann Goldstein resigns from Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Speculation is she will be the next MOCA director.
- 110 archaeological artifacts looted from Mallawi Museum in Egypt have been restored.
- Despite pledge, France still lags in hunt to return looted art from WWII to their rightful owners.
- Five 18th-century oil paintings stolen from Andean churches by tunneling thieves.
- Lisa Jacobs accused of scamming Hannelore Schulhof out of $1mil. in sale of Basquiat painting.
- Scalpers sell fake tickets for Victoria and Albert Museum's David Bowie show.
- Winning photograph for Samsung’s #LiveInTheMoment Instagram photo contest actually was stolen.
- Estevan Oriol files copyright suit against H&M and Brandy Melville for use of his copyrighted L.A. Fingers.
- Pace Gallery sued for $1.3M over damage to De Kooning piece after packing material becomes stuck on work.
- Sotheby's sued over the authenticity of a possible Caravaggio painting it had classified as a copy.
- John McEnroe ruled rightful owner of Arshile Gorky paintings purchased from Lawrence Salander.
- Painting of Putin in a negligee seized by Russian police as the artist, Konstantin Altunin, flees the country.
- Damien Hirst Tate retrospective triggered wave of angry complaints regarding the poor quality of the work.
- Proposed tax hike for artwork imported into France could undermine country's standing in the global market.
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts selling Hopper painting to raise endowment for contemporary art.
- Fujifilm & Van Gogh Museum develop 3D scanning & printing process that accurately reproduces artists' work.
- Magritte piece that was thought long lost actually found in another Magritte painting.
- Gallery spaces and artwork seem to be getting giant-sized nowadays and collectors demand larger pieces.
- Shanghai serves up a roasted version of Florentijn Hofman's rubber duck installation.
- 37-year-old Louisiana primate wins award for the finest artwork by a chimpanzee with his tongue work.
- Nordic Choice hotel chain removes pornography from its establishments and replaces it with contemporary art.
- Sotheby's being targeted by Daniel Loeb’s Third Point LLC activist hedge-fund firm.
- UK artists are leaving London and the cities to live and make work in the countryside.
- Damien Hirst to show Visual Candy series of paintings alongside Felix Gonzales-Torres's candy installations.
- Shan Gray has plans to build a Native American monument in US that will tower in size over Statue of Liberty.
- Modern Painters' different lists of the top 500 galleries in the world.
- Interest in Pakastani artists on the rise.
- More on Maurice and Paul Marciano's planned private museum in Los Angeles.
- Fifty two drawings by Leonardo da Vinci have gone on show in Venice at Galleria dell'Academia.
- Baroque the Streets project invites street artists like ROA and Phlegm to recreate Baroque paintings.
- The Huffington Post interviews Dana Schutz.
- An interview with Matt Bangser, director of Blum & Poe.
- Sasha Grey's Juliette Society novel is the top-selling book in Brazil.
- Kadir Nelson, artist who created the cover art for Drake's new album.
- Collection of Miley Cyrus gifs where she twerks in famous paintings.
- Paul Kasmin Gallery releases signed limited edition lithograph by Walton Ford of Rolling Stones image.
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Overtime: Sept. 2 – Sept. 8
- Gilbert & George presents Waking (1984) on the High Line billboard - up until Oct. 1.
- RIP: Michael McManus, who died at 60. He was the former chief curator at Laguna Art Museum.
- Dennis Szakacs, director and CEO of the Orange County Museum of Art, will resign effective Dec 31.
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New Stalin monument defaced in Georgia after locals say it was erected without their permission.
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Egyptians use Twitter to save their heritage from looting and plundering.
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The Archive for Metaphysical Art issues challenge to De Chirico authentication board with a series of studies.
- Russian police seize painting of Putin & Obama by Vera Donskaya-Khilko featuring many penises & erections.
- The director of the Detroit Institute of Arts addresses the issue of selling art from the museum's collection.
- Jeremy Scott vs. Phillips-NHS copyright dispute resolved as Scott admits his mistake.
- Van Gogh’s own words after cutting off his ear recorded in Paris newspaper a day after incident.
- The mystery of the missing Van Gogh Sunflowers painting.
- A painting purchased for £30 from a cardboard box revealed to be a £250,000 Constable original.
- London’s Mayfair District lures big name New York galleries and rents are rising about 40% on Bond St.
- Christie's raises buyer's premium for auction item sales.
- Sotheby’s extends guarantees to $166mil. before sales in order to win more consignments.
- Artists of heady glass coming out of the shadows as marijuana is legalized in many states in US.
- Serett Metal Works tasked with stabilizing hacked off Banksy wall as it ships from NY to Italy.
- Study finds creative professionals relatively low-paid, more likely unemployed & robustly satisfied with work.
- Thanks to support from Congress, the budget of The National Gallery of Art is increasing while others shrink.
- Peter Brandt consigning Koons Balloon Dog to Christie's to raise money for Brandt Foundation endowment.
- Willem de Kooning Foundation gives 10 late de Kooning paintings for Gagosian Gallery to sell to raise money.
- Ingvild Goetz is donating her Munich museum and 375 contemporary artworks to the state of Bavaria.
- The Center for the Holographic Arts debuts its first exhibit in Long Island City.
- It's not too early to plan for Art Basel Miami Beach - here is the complete exhibitor list for 2013.
- 6 artists, including David Shrigley, Mark Leckey & Marcus Coates compete for next fourth plinth commission.
- Rachel Uffner moves east to a larger gallery space after five years at her former LES location.
- How artists are using technology and how art and technology influence each other.
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Mystery human mummy in sarcophagus found in German attic by a 10-year-old boy in grandparents' attic.
- Jones Soda pays tribute to Michigan with labels featuring state's imagery, including Jerry Vile's fist piece.
- The art of William Faulkner.
- Profile of John Kasmin, the gallerist who discovered David Hockney.
- Ron English writes about street art and how he got started.
- Images from Diplo's Blow Your Head exhibition at Sonos.
- Alison Goldfrapp named the Lowry's first performer as curator.
- Exhibition A does a Collector's Q&A with Will Leung.
- Q&A with Roger Ballen.
- Women's Wear Daily interviews John Baldessari. Frank Gehry is designing his new house.
- Reshma Chhiba has installed a walk-in vagina in a Johannesburg women's prison.
- Gagosian Gallery shop starts carrying Leica products.
- Adam Harvey's anti-surveillance pieces make the jump from art to product.
- Peter Duggan's Artoons in which Gary Hume and Sarah Lucas present their work to Michael Craig Martin.
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Overtime: Sept 9 – Sept 15
- Museum identifies newly discovered Van Gogh painting previously found in attic in Amsterdam.
- RIP: Gerald Buck, who turns out to have a huge collection of art by California artists.
- RIP: Jack Beal, who died at the age of 82 of kidney failure.
- Shanghai authorities demolish Yuan Gong's Art Garage compound.
- Painting thought to be by Peter Doig is actually a genuine Peter Doige work and is worth a little less.
- Journalist may have had too much drink, destroys Luciano Fabro piece, knocking it over at Grace Uno gallery.
- Russian court bans Pussy Riot's Christian orthodox icon parody and orders it removed from Russia's internet.
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Russia carries out raids delving into alleged embezzlement of $1.5mil of state funding for refit of Hermitage.
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Lowe Art Museum returns 3 ancient basalt stone sculptures that were previously stolen back to Mexico.
- Nineteen people arrested in connection with thefts of items from museums and auction houses in England.
- Ringleader in Dutch museum theft of paintings won't surrender artworks unless trial moved to Netherlands.
- Germany refuses to allow works by Grosz in national heritage list to leave the country for London show.
- Story about how Charles Lisanby turned down Andy Warhol's offer of a Marilyn portrait as a gift.
- Ralph E. Lerner accused of fraudulently taking funds from Cy Twombly Foundation.
- Ann Freedman files defamation lawsuit against Marco Grassi over comment published in magazine article.
- Sarah Lucas criticizes the work of Tracey Emin.
- Fake tickets to The Lourve coming out of China.
- Steven Cohen held by French police after performance near Eiffel Tower (penis tied to a rooster by ribbon).
- U.S. scholars seek mention of lost Little Syria community that was displaced by 9/11 museum.
- Artists plaster Berlin Wall murals with paper as protest against threat to historic site caused by gentrification.
- Sting to play at LACMA Art + Film gala honoring Martin Scorsese and David Hockney.
- k.d. lang to play Hammer Museum gala honoring Robert Gober and Tony Kushner.
- Italian Futurism show is coming to the Guggenheim.
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Musee d'Orsay to have Masculin/Masculin show featuring male nudes.
- Roberta Smith writes about the DIA situation and potential sale of artwork from the collection.
- Blum & Poe expanding to Tokyo and New York.
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Laurie Simmons and Lena Dunham to be honored at Brooklyn Museum Women in the Arts fundraiser.
- Anoush Abrar, Dorothee Deiss, Giles Price, & Spencer Murphy on Taylor Wessing Photo. Portrait Prize shortlist.
- Jan Krugier's collection of Picasso works to sell for at least $170mil. at Christie's.
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Charles Saatchi to sell his collection of Middle Eastern contemporary art online at Auction Room.
- Growing number of wealthy Nigerians considering their country's artwork as investments.
- Matthew Day Jackson opens his own gallery, called Bunker259.
- Taymour Grahne is opening his own gallery, which will focus on Middle Eastern and North African works.
- Vern Blosum to get a show at Essex Street Gallery and will reveal true identity when the time is right.
- Francesco Vezzoli uproots an entire church and will move it from Italy to New York this fall.
- Oscar Murillo to be represented now by David Zwirner Gallery.
- NY Times takes a look at Lucien Smith and provides an update on his current and future projects.
- R. H. Quaytman interviews Amy Sillman.
- Carl Gunhouse interviews Calvin Lee.
- What it is like to be an extra in a Matthew Barney film.
- WSJ reports on Raymond Pettibon preparing for his show at David Zwirner Gallery.
- Hiroshi Sugimoto's fossil collection and upcoming show.
- Kid Robot founder Paul Budnitz to host a class on how to create a great designer toy on Skillshare.
- Jackie Chan claims to not know who Ai Weiwei is, causing anger in the artist and activist.
- Poster Child Prints release two new Neckface limited edition prints.
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Tokidoki collaborates with Peggy Guggenheim Collection to produce a limited edition vinyl sculpture.
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