Streets: Shepard Fairey (New Mexico)
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Streets: JR (New York)
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Art Focus: Patricia Piccinini
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Overtime: Feb 25 – March 3
- Morgan Library & Museum to host “Subliming Vessel: The Drawings of Matthew Barney” show opening in May.
- Four hundred fragments of bricks from Babylon’s Ishtar Gate and Processional Way have been stolen in Iraq.
- Fired Margarita Aguilar suing El Museo del Barrio claiming gender discrimination and a hostile workplace.
- Prime minister Cameron criticized after he opposed calls to return Parthenon Marbles & Koh-i-Noor diamond.
- San Francisco's Fine Arts Museums fires another staff member as exhibition designer Bill White is let go.
- Phivos Istavrioglou avoids jail time by pleading guilty to stealing Dali drawing.
- Russell Allen Erxleben has been arrested on charges of carrying out Ponzi scheme using Gauguin painting.
- Banksy's Slave Labour extracted street piece withdrawn from auction after controversy.
- Kansas arts advocates plan to converge at the Statehouse to protest a proposal to cut state arts funding.
- Smithsonian facing $40 million cut in funding, but vows to still keep regular hours.
- Sotheby’s profit falls 8% as auction revenue declines from prior year.
- Peru’s government believes some pieces to be auctioned by Sotheby’s were taken out of Peru w/o permission.
- DKNY to pay $25,000 after using Brandon Stanton's photographs without his permission.
- Recently closed SantralIstanbul Museum of Contemporary Art sells its whole collection of Turkish art at auction.
- Richard Art Hambleton evicted from studio on Orchard Street.
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School of Visual Arts seizes 68 viles of semen from MFA student Marc Bradley Johnson.
- Berlin Wall's most iconic paintings under threat from property developers that want to build luxury housing.
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Lucy Day and Eliza Gluckman looking for those that may have pocketed Ai Weiwei's seeds from Tate exhibition.
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Town of Bridlington in East Yorkshire unsuccessful in its efforts to contact David Hockney to honor him.
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Restorers discover Picasso piece hidden on cardboard. It may have been created when the artist was only 15.
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World’s most popular exhibitions to be broadcast in cinemas across Britain, in effort to make art accessible.
- MOCA announces election of Sutton Stracke to its Board of Trustees.
- For first time, National Academy includes photographers, video, performance artists among annual nominees.
- Inocente - film about homeless teenage artist - is first Kickstarter-backed film to win an Oscar.
- Rosa Parks becomes first black woman to be honored with a life-size statue in the Capitol.
- Silicon Valley power players are beginning to buy art.
- Jack Geary opens his own gallery in the Lower East Side.
- Artsy raises $5.6 million in new investment, adds Internet entrepreneur Sky Dayton to its board of directors.
- V&A David Bowie exhibition to be most successful in museum's history, with unprecedented ticket presales.
- French president has given special dispensation for Manet’s Olympia painting to travel abroad.
- Paintings by Lewis Todd put up at auction after it was discovered they have works by Francis Bacon on back.
- Richard Serra’s installation Shift set to become a site of "cultural heritage value".
- Royal College of Art secret postcard sale happening 23 March and include works by Baldesarri, Christo, Opie.
- Spanish art fair ARCO fares surprisingly better than originally expected, due to poor Spanish economy.
- Wall Street Journal details three common mistakes art collector novices fall prey to and how to avoid them.
- Ruscha, Koh, Abramovic, McCarthy, XVALA featured in ARTINFO's list of chocolate artworks.
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James Franco’s life to be the subject of a Marina Abramovic film.
- Mounir Fatmi's Sleep Al-Naim, showing sleeping Salmon Rushdie, to be shown in London after Paris no-show.
- A show featuring the work of Maurice Sendak at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana coming up.
- Brandi Milne completed a drawing for a little girl's bedroom.
- An interview with Kid Acne.
- An interview with La Pandilla.
- New airship drawing from Phlegm.
- Bobby Hundreds spends some time with Hot+Tea.
- Eric Fortune answering some questions about his technique.
- 3Doodler: The World’s First 3D Printing Pen.
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Streets: Liqen (Ecuador)
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POW WOW ’13: Streets Summary
Meggs x Phibs[/caption]
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Hannah Stouffer x Kamea Hadar[/caption]
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Prime x Estria x Trek6 x Mark Bode[/caption]
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Nychos[/caption]
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Katch[/caption]
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Meggs[/caption]
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Askew[/caption]
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Rone x Wonderlust[/caption]
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Poesia x APEX[/caption]
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Ekundayo[/caption]
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Takashi Murakami Studio Look (Part II)
After sharing some photos with you from Takashi Murakami's studio at the beginning of the year, we now take a second look as he recently posted new images up on his Instagram (@takashipom). Along with some familiar imagery, you may also spot some new things from the Japanese artist perhaps headed for his show opening at Galerie Perrotin in May although only time will tell...
All artwork by (C) Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd
Discuss Takashi Murakami here.
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Rewind: March 4 – March 10
- Miss Van's video for the latest issue of VNA (buy it here).
- The creation of Cyrcle.'s Magic is Real.
- Vernissage TV takes us on a trip to James Franco's Gay Town.
- Commercial made by Ai Weiwei Studio for the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
- Google honors Edward Gorey on its homepage.
- David Hockney discusses his Pearblossom Hwy piece.
- President Obama unveils the new Rosa Parks statue in Washington, DC.
- Charles Lutz's Brillo Boxes at The Armory Show.
- colourSPACE - a wall of 12,000 pencil crayons.
- Grönlund-Nisunen – Unstable Matter video.
- Sexcam performers replicate iconic works of art.
- Rone x Wonderlust mural in Hawaii for POW WOW.
- Madsteez x ROID mural in Hawaii for POW WOW.
- Vizie for NEKST.
- SatOne unleashes a fresh mural in Germany.
- Dscreet films Miss Van in Sao Paulo.
- El Mac x Rapt Studio at the Adobe campus.
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Overtime: March 4 – March 10
- Art13 organizes successful fair during Frieze offering more affordable art. Banksy pictured among works sold.
- RIP: Thomas McEvilley, who died of cancer at age 73.
- LACMA makes a preliminary offer for taking over MOCA, but Eli Broad may block it. Christopher Knight writes about the possible merger.
- $30 million worth of artwork by Arthur Pinajian discovered in a garage in New York.
- The Tacoma Art Museum’s sale of a collection of Chinese robes and jades have upset the family that donated it. The parties later reach a settlement in their dispute.
- Feds allege that Philip Rivkin used money fraudulently funneled through his company Green Diesel to buy art.
- University of Colorado censors student Clarissa Peppers's piece, removing then reinstating it from a show.
- Dutch police arrest 19-year old Romanian woman in connection with Rotterdam art heist.
- David LaChapelle sued for $1 mil by gallery director who says he beat & choked him to near unconsciousness.
- Indianapolis Museum of Art cuts 29 jobs (or 11% of its work force) in order to save money.
- Staatsgalerie Stuttgart returns looted Virgin and Child to the estate of Max Stern as part of WWII restitution.
- On the heels of the Banksy mural (non)sale, other dubious, illegal ,and unethical art market stories.
- Charles Lutz creates Brillo Box installation at Armory that VIP goers were able to take away.
- Google lauches Art Talk on Google+.
- Robert Indiana to have first retrospective in NY museum (Whitney), 35 years after he left for Vinalhaven.
- The Philadelphia Museum of Art expands underground.
- 980 Madison building, home to Gagosian Gallery, among other tenants, goes on the market.
- Kavi Gupta becomes largest commerical gallery in Chicago after purchasing a second space for all cash.
- The Met buys what may be a authentic Jacques-Louis David drawing for only $840 at auction.
- Portrait of a Lady, by Picasso, acquired by Louvre Abu Dhabi. Will go on show at Birth of a Museum exhibition.
- George Lucas proposes Presidio museum devoted to the art of storytelling.
- Jonathan Jones likes the use of ready-mades in artwork.
- Mark Wallinger unveils statue of racehorse in The Mall, hoping it could help secure funding for bigger version.
- Christie's asks Lena Dunham questions about Andy Warhol.
- Leo Villareal's LED lights go on on the Bay Bridge.
- Gavin Turk to bring hovering magic carpet to Bristol for Museums At Night.
- Ross Bleckner film raising money on Kickstarter.
- Dave Matthews makes silkscreen works that sells for between $9,000 - $42,000 at Robert Miller Gallery.
- William Wegman's first animated gif.
- Wil Aballe Projects releases a Aurel Schmidt limited edition print.
- Limited edition Jayson Musson, aka Hennessy Youngman, book released.
- New Norman Rockwell exhibition at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas.
- Momo doing some work in Jamaica.
- Sobekcis has a show currently showing in Austria.
- New mural and interview with La Pandilla.
- Ben Eine putting in work in East London.
- An interview with Logan Hicks.
- Hottea getting busy in Los Angeles.
- Joe Fig's sculptural renditions of famous artists' studios.
- An interview with Daniel Arsham.
- Ryan Heshka has a new show brewing in Milan.
- Steven Harrington has designed a limited edition lamp with Case Studyo.
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Streets: March 4 – March 10
Herakut in Kathmandu, Nepal.[/caption]
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Ericailcane in Tuxtla, Mexico. Photo via Savage Habit.[/caption]
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Sam3 in Providencia, Chile.[/caption]
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Askew in New Zealand with a tribute mural to Ralph Hotere. Photo via Graffuturism.[/caption]
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David de la Mano wall titled "Testamento" painted in Montevideo, Uruguay. Photo via Wooster Collective.[/caption]
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Escif - "Free Market" in Valencia, Spain.[/caption]
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Hottea in Los Angeles. Photo by Bobby Hundreds.[/caption]
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John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres in the South Bronx. Photo by Louis Stavsky[/caption]
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Remed in Capetown, South Africa.[/caption]
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Ludo in Amsterdam.[/caption]
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Snyder - "Doodle's Valentine" in Los Angeles.[/caption]
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Bleeps in Athens, Greece.[/caption]
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TrustoCorp in Los Angeles[/caption]
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Jade in Peru.[/caption]
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Gaia[/caption]
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Streets: JR x Daniel Arsham (NYC)
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Armory Week ’13: Armory Show – First Look
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Armory Week ’13: Scope Art Fair – First Look
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Armory Week 13′: Gagosian – Andy Warhol: Self Portrait / Camouflage
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Streets: Interesni Kazki (India)
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Armory Week ’13: Armory Show – First Look (Part II)
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Streets: Crash Mural on Bowery & Houston
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Openings: Parra –“Tracy Had a Hard Sunday” @ Jonathan Levine
The artist took some time to draw on some showcards for the readers of AM. To win, all you got to do is leave a comment below on the next color combinations you would like to see him work on in the future. Enter by 11pm PST on March 30th for your chance to win.
Discuss Parra here.
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Overtime: March 11 – March 17
- David Choe painted in the streets of Mexico City last week with Dhear.
- The Met is being sued for allegedly tricking people into paying for admission.
- Keith Haring Foundation claims that 165 pieces of Haring art in Miami exhibit are fakes.
- Cooper Union says tuition will stay free for now.
- Picasso's Child with a Dove heads overseas to its new private owner as export bar is lifted.
- Serbian police have recovered Rembrandt’s Portrait of the Father. Four arrested in connection with theft.
- New York City suspends pension payments for arts institutions.
- Turmoil, drama, and lawsuits currently embroiling the Cy Twombly Foundation.
- Gagosian Gallery settles suit filed over Lichtenstein painting once owned by Jan Cowles.
- Canadian artists hoping the country institutes royalty system for secondary market sales of their work.
- Watts Towers will be subject of new study conducted by UCLA to determine stability of the sculptures
- Guidelines for North American museums regarding provenance has changed.
- MOCA close to agreement with National Gallery of Art to collaborate on programming, research and exhibitions.
- Where Eli Broad's interests may lie with MOCA.
- National Gallery of Art announces $30 million renovation to East Building.
- MoMA buys Mike Kelley's Deodorized Central Mass With Satellites.
- Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings to go on display alongside modern scans in Edinburgh.
- Prince William and Kate Middleton are being encouraged to buy contemporary art.
- Art Gallery of Ontario may be a fan of The Da Vinci Code.
- For the sixth year in a row, the British Museum was the UK's most popular visitor attraction in 2012.
- Roberta Smith reviews “The Hugo Boss Prize 2012: Danh Vo I M U U R 2” at the Guggenheim Museum.
- Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens has a show devoted to music videos.
- Joan Fontcuberta named winner of $156,000 2013 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography.
- Kitchen, Printed Matter, White Columns, & Glasgow International Festival of VA share inaugural Privatus Prize.
- Armory shows and parties attract celebrities and other big names, like Beyonce, Solange, Jay-Z.
- Moving Image art fair sells first ever artwork (by Angela Washko) created on Vine.
- A pear-shaped colorless diamond is estimated to sell for $20 million at an auction in Switzerland.
- Matthew Brandt to have his first solo museum exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art.
- Profile of an art conservator who recently used fresh elephant dung to restore a Chris Ofili painting.
- Ai Weiwei to release heavy metal music album.
- The new pope not known to be a big art fan.
- Bob Matheny passes on this torch from Art Disposal Service to the next generation.
- NPR talks to John Baldessari.
- Jack Pierson discusses his newest exhibition and work.
- Catherine Opie gives her thoughts about the LACMA/MOCA merger proposal.
- Interview with Javier Peres as he discusses his new gallery venue and the Berlin art scene.
- An interview with Bonnie Flood, the instructor who taught George W Bush how to paint.
- The Madness of Art web series debuts.
- View Leo Villareal's The Bay Lights live at your computer.
- Britney Spears buys art right off the streets of LA.
- The SK8room releases signed limited edition skate decks by ROA.
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Art Focus: Yao Lu
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