Streets: Nychos & DXTR (Copenhagen)
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Streets: Interesni Kazki (Moscow)
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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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Rewind: Aug 12 – Aug 18
- Jim Houser creating an installation for the Black Book Gallery.
- A video of Shepard Fairey when he was in Denver for a group show and talk at the CVA.
- MOCAtv profiles Chris Johanson.
- Jorge Pardo & Oscar Tuazon have a conversation over espresso and cigarettes
- EYE ON ART takes a look at Richard Pettibone's paintings and sculpture from 1964-2003.
- Banksy's "Flower Girl" wall headed for auction.
- This Must Be For You: Gift Giving Art Packs In London.
- Faith47 in Gaeta, Italy for the Memorie Urbane Festival.
- Our friends at POW WOW now have a School of Music program.
- Morphogenetic Freehand Drawings By Artist John Franzen (via Booooooom).
- How to Turn a Billboard Into a Giant Doodle Pad for the Public by Mobstr (via Public Art Campaign).
- Vertwalker Painting Robot By Sonice Development (via Designboom).
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Streets: Kenny Scharf (Los Angeles)
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Streets: The London Police (Kentucky)
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Streets: INSA for The Vaford Gates (Hong Kong)
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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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Preview / Studio Visit: Matt Doust –“New Works” @ Thinkspace
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Streets: Nunca (Los Angeles)
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Rewind: Aug 19 – Aug 25
- In the studio with Robert Indiana.
- Jorge Pardo & Oscar Tuazon have a conversation over espresso and cigarettes.
- EYE ON ART takes a look at Richard Pettibone's paintings and sculpture from 1964-2003.
- Nick Criscuolo "melts" injet prints to create haunting portraits (via Animal).
- Darius Twin's light paintings (via 12ozProphet).
- Spraying Bricks with Conor Harrington (via Stolenspace).
- MOCAtv looks at André Saraiva's Dream Concerts.
- Widewalls is proud to present the Mallorcan Easter Beach Paint Jam.
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Studio Visit: Finok
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Streets: Cleon Peterson (Los Angeles)
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Streets: Wooster Collective 10 year Anniversary (DUMBO)
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Streets: KAWS @ BAM (Brooklyn)
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Studio Visits: Chris Valkov
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Preview: Nuart Festival 2013 (David Choe)
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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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Streets: Case for Walltherapy (Rochester)
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Studio Visit / Preview: Nicola Verlato –“Pagan Pop” @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
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