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• Construction company destroys one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids to extract crushed rock for project.
• RIP: Thomas M. Messer, longtime director of the Guggenheim Museum, who died at the age of 93.
• British police interrupt stunt by Voina on London Tower Bridge.
• Activists occupy Budapest’s Ludwig Museum protesting the removal of museum director Barnabas Bencsik.
• Real punks gather to protest The Met's "inauthentic" punk exhibit.
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• Criminals are increasingly using artwork to launder money.
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• A profile of art crime in the US and those that track and solve them.
• Six lots of Egyptian material had to be withdrawn before Christie’s sale because they were suspected looted.
• Poland's culture minister Bogdan Zdrojewski seeks return of art seized by Soviet Russia in 1945.
• Cambodia asking museums to examine Khmer antiquities acquired after 1970 and requesting possible return.
• Ai Weiwei's hair cutting skills criticized.
• Ai Weiwei unveils map of China made from baby formula tins, in response to fears surrounding milk safety.
• Anish Kapoor feels that Britain is fucked in terms of its respect towards art and artists.
• Cooper Union occupation enters its second week.
• Arizona man find himself jailed, unemployed, and homeless after photographing courthouse.
• France considering smartphone, tablet, and other net-connecting devices tax to fund cultural content.
• Germany's dealers and country’s culture minister oppose 12% tax hike on purchase of original works of art.
• Interpol targets Qaddafi family treasures and artwork is high on the list.
• MOCA architecture show opening pushed back two weeks, to June 16.
• Hirshhorn Museum’s proposed “Bubble” project would operate at loss in every scenario examined in report.
• Controversy erupts again as Banksy's Slave Labour removed street mural reappears for sale.
• Georg Baselitz in trouble with German tax authorities due to being in list of clients of Swiss bank UBS.
• Fascinating article about the Warhol Foundation and the Warhol Art Authentication Board and its dealings.
• Damien Hirst spent his Turner Prize winnings of £20,000 on drinks at the bar that night.
• Leonardo DiCaprio raises about $39 million for wildlife conservation at his Christie's benefit art auction.
• Peter Doig denies painting a work that is attributed to him, but admits to taking LSD as a youth.
• Mao photo taken by his wife sells for $55,300 at auction.
• Dasha Zhukova, Mike Bloomberg introduce Circle, an art-tech symposium to be held in St. Petersburg.
• The Vatican's plans for its Venice Biennale pavilion.
• Countries that are struggling financially still spending heavily on their Venice Biennale pavilions.
• Lost paintings by Mary Beale, Britain's first professional female artist, goes on view at Tate.
• Artwork now exhibited at London Tower.
• Museums today are increasingly loosening their camera policy due to ubiquity of camera phones.
• The multiple locations of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, revealed.
• Art Ltd. Magazine puts its spotlight on the Laguna Beach art scene.
• Profile of Jersey City's Mana Contemporary.
• The 2013 Calder Prize will be awarded to Darren Bader.
• Stan Douglas wins annual Scotiabank Photography Award that includes a $50,000 cash prize.
• Damon Dash exhibits artwork by kids at his gallery.
• Andrew Lamberty buys Stik garage door, thinking he is the next Banksy.
• Kenny Schachter's Frieze Week NYC diary.
• Ben Davis on Jeff Koons's exhibition at David Zwirner.
• Roberta Smith reviews recent showings by Paul McCarthy and Jeff Koons.
• Vanity Fair interviews Tracey Emin.
• Tiny Showcase released a papercut with print backing by Saelee Oh.
• Chris Brown's neighbor defends the graffiti mural on his house.
• An interview with ESPO.
• LA Taco talks to Hanksy.
• A visit to Travis Millard's cabin by The Hundreds.
• A look at the Easter Island exhibition from Daniel Arsham at Galerie Perrotin.
• An interview with Souther Salazar about his current show in New York.
• Brad Downey was in Moscow.

• Voina Wanted banner hung off London Tower Bridge.
• Leo Villareal releasing an edition of his The Bay Lights piece.
• Ai Weiwei cuts hair during dinner.
• Taylor Mead's final fifteen minutes.
• Reactions from actual neighbors from Arne Svenson's photographs.
• Benedikt Taschen talks with Sebastião Salgado about GENESIS.
• The London Police prepared for their current show using some child labor.
• Jo Peel - "Pipe Dreams" - a street mural animation.
• Travis Millard x The Hundreds collaboration.
• Cheeming Boey's styrofoam cup art (My Modern Met).
• Hanksy featured on I Am Other.

• John Constable masterpiece, Salisbury Cathedral from the Water Meadows, bought by Tate for £23.1mil.
• RIP: Cecilia Steinfeldt, known as the First Lady of Texas Art, pass away just a week shy of her 98th birthday.
• Detroit Institute of Art's multibillion-dollar art collection could face sell-off to satisfy Detroit's creditors
• Joseph Beuys biography accuses him of having close ties to the Nazis.
• SplitArt ends in liquidation due to a split between the investors about its direction.
• Nils Jennrich, German shipper jailed by Chinese for under-reporting artwork values in shipment, returns home.
• Uriel Landeros, who defaced Picasso painting at the Menil Collection, sentenced to two years in jail.
• Law enforcement depts participate in seminar that uses readings of artworks to better read crime scenes.
• Pérez Art Museum Miami receives an anonymous $15 million gift.
• 2,000 museums nationwide in the US to offer free admission to active duty military personnel during summer.
• With controversial Hirshhorn Bubble, Smithsonian could break D.C. from cultural stagnation.
• Paul Schimmel joins gallery world, creating Hauser Wirth & Schimmel in Los Angeles.
• Zurich selected as host city for Manifesta 11 in 2016.
• China building museums at a rate of about 100 a year, but getting visitors to attend them is another story.
• UAE becomes first Arabian Gulf nation to secure permanent pavilion at Venice Biennale for art and architecture.
• Large scale Sarah Sze commission and Julie Mehretu work acquired by High Museum of Art.
• Glasgow's Riverside Museum, designed by Zaha Hadid, named European Museum of the Year.
• Documentary on Levitated Mass will screen June 20 at LACMA's Bing Theater as part of the LA Film Festival.
• The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria will soon be home to a permanent exhibit of Jim Henson's work.
• Sharon Hayes, assistant professor at Cooper Union, wins a 2013 Alpert Award in the Arts, with prize of $75k.
• Catching up with François Pinault on occasion of his exhibition featuring Rudolf Stingel.
• Jerry Saltz and Justin Davidson on the restoration of Donald Judd’s loft on 101 Spring St, NYC.
• The first-ever statue of Pope Francis has been unveiled in a potato field near Naples.
• 1st ed. of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, with annotations & drawings by Rowling, sells for £150k.
• Calligraphy by pornstar Sola Aoi sparks culture war in China. Purists dismissing work after it sells for $95k.
• Organizers of sale of Banksy's Slave Labour, a mural removed from a London street, hoping it sells for $1mil.
• Intellectual Property Prints, a screen print company started by Daniel Rolnik and Ryan McIntosh launches.
• Profile of Massimiliano Gioni, 39, the 2013 Venice Biennale curator.
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• Annie Leibovitz wins Prince of Asturias prize, which includes cash prize of €50,000.
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• SAG Art Consulting takes a look at Sara VanDerBeek's show at Metro Pictures.
• Maurizio Cattelan may have come out of retirement with announcement of a new show.
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• Ron Wood's newest exhibition, “Ronnie Wood: Raw Instinct,” opens at London’s Castle Fine Art Gallery.
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• Marc Quinn unveils inflatable sculpture portraying Alison Lapper outside the church of St. Giorgio Maggiore.
• RIP: Otto Muehl, who died at the age of 87 after suffering from Parkinson and heart problems.
• Formal debate at Art Basel HK considers the assertion: The Market Is the Best Judge of Art's Quality.
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• Cleveland Museum of Art settles claim over Johann Liss drawing said to have been taken by Nazis.
• Bienal del Sur, a biennial in Panama, closed May 30 and involved much controversy, boycotts, and disputes.
• British Council censors Jeremy Diller work in British pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
• Filmmakers, writers and artists in Poland divided on opinion of 2010 crash that killed its president and others.
• Workers at number of UK museums, galleries & heritage sites have begun strike as museums forced to close.
• MoMA's restoration of Jackson Pollock’s One: Number 31, 1950 brings out some mysteries.
• Rubens drawing of Marie de' Medici done in around 1622 emerges from Reading University store cupboard.
• Nguyễn Phan Chánh painting achieves record result at Christie's in London for a piece by a Vietnamese artist.
• LS Lowry doodles given to his favourite hotel waiter sell for more than £60,000 at auction.
• Warhol prints and editions market rebounds to 2006–2007 levels.
• Forbes lists the Six Risks To The Global Art Market in 2014.
• Artwork owned by TS Eliot's late wife to go on sale at Christie's.
• The argument against the art market being in a bubble.
• City of Oslo reaches deal on new, futuristic crooked glass building to house Munch Museum, opening 2018.
• Huntington Library receives $32mil gift from Charles Munger that will go toward education and visitors center.
• Iraq to restore ancient arch of Ctesiphon as part of a plan to boost tourism to the once-popular site.
• Professionals discuss how museums could become escape from urban living and the power of technology.
• Ai Weiwei exhibits dioramas that recreate his experiences as a prisoner of the Chinese authorities.
• Francis Naumann teaches chess to Ai Weiwei at his Beijing studio.
• Michael Parkinson, Grayson Perry, Sienna Miller, Spacey, Rupert Murdoch among portraits by Jonathan Yeo.
• Jerry Saltz reviews Jeff Koons's two concurrent shows up in NY right now.
• Jeff Koons is hiring.
• Roberta Smith writes about 101 Spring St and her experience working for Donald Judd.
• Financial Times' Jackie Wullschlager has breakfast in London with Sir John Richardson.
• KCRW interviews James Turrell.
• Profile of Aby Rosen on occasion of his 53rd birthday.
• The Modern Art Notes Podcast with Tyler Green features Julie Mehretu for a full hour.
• Francesco Vezzoli returning to MOCA with new exhibition in 2014.
• James Franco's show at Pace Gallery, London opens this week.
• Marc Quinn unveils naked portrait of pregnant Lara Stone on a mound of red meat.
• Martin Martensen-Larsen plans to cover executed prisoner’s corpse in gold paint, but legal questions remain.
• Jimmy Kimmel denies he bought Bea Arthur painting by John Currin at Christie's auction.
• Milla Jovovich poses among cardboard and in glass boxes as part of performance during Venice Biennale.
• 1xRun releases cradled wood box boombox edition by Skewville.
• Markus Wolff has a new print available via Serigraphic Systems Inc.

It takes a couple of looks to comprehend William Hundley’s photography. He has been shooting his Entoptic Phenomena series of work since 2006 and wowing viewers with the floating fabric objects presented within his urban landscapes. Hundley’s work is composed completely within the camera – he uses zero post production or photoshop trickery within his images. We’ve followed his work for a number of years and always wondered how he captures his unique images, so we asked him a few questions about his process.

He has a two-person exhibition along with photography ‘Hyper-Collagist’ Jim Kazanjian (interviewed), featuring his Entoptic Phenomena series of work entitled Temporary Equilibrium, opening on June 6th at Portland’s Breeze Block Gallery.

 AM: Whenever I’ve shown your work to people they take a little while to figure out what’s going on – with particular reference to the Entopic Phenomena series. Most at first think it’s Photoshop trickery or something going on, and you get the ‘ah that’s pretty cool’ reaction. After I’ve explained that there is a person inside the form outlined by the fabric and that they are looking at an ‘in camera’ photograph the penny drops and they change their reaction to ‘That’s fucking cool!’. Do you find that you have to explain this series a lot, and if so how do you tell the story?

WH: Yes, as we are out shooting I need to quickly explain what I am doing so people don’t freak out and/or call the cops.  I make it sound like no big deal, just a silly art project.  Lots of security guards, lots of concerned citizens, lots to talk my way out of.

As far as explaining the final artwork to somebody.  Yes, I will briefly explain if asked directly, but I do everything I can to allow the viewer to determine their own conclusions about my images.  It’s almost like a visual riddle with a hidden reward.  I like how some people assume it is Photoshopped and never think twice.  That is double points for me.

AM: Do you plan a connection between the fabric you use and the setting? I’m intrigued about the backgrounds you use. Do you purposefully go on location scouting trips or do you find yourself continually making mental notes of where your travels take you?

WH: Selecting the fabric colors to match the backgrounds is like painting for me.  I typically make sloppy and thus cryptic notes of cool locations as I drive around town.  It’s dangerous really.  I then revisit the locations with a bunch of random fabrics and a friend and select something on the spot.  I go with my gut on those decisions and will change the fabrics if needed.

AM: Are the majority of locations shot in Austin?

WH: Yes, most of the locations are in and around Austin.  The idea travels well, so some of the work is shot while on adventures outside of Texas.  I just need a camera and the sheet from whatever bed I’m sleeping in.  Ha!

AM: And who exactly is within the forms? Have you ever taken any selfies in this series?

WH: Oh yeah.  The original photographs of the series were taken of me by my girlfriend at the time.  Now I have a couple of skilled acrobatic friends to assist.  It is not as easy as you think to maneuver the fabric and your body accordingly.  It can also be embarrassing for some people because most the locations I choose are in public places and can be seen from busy roads.  Lots of people honk at us and look really confused about what is going on.

AM: As the shots contain people, would you describe the Entopic Phenomena photographs as portraits or landscapes?

WH: I don’t really describe them in either sense.  I like other people to tell me what they think they are.

AM: Your sense of humor is prevalent in your photography and throughout your entire body of work. Do you think it’s important to inject an element of play into the art world? Who’s the ‘funnest’ artist out there for you?

WH: Yes, I like funny.  Art that is too serious loses the purpose for me.  That doesn’t mean that everything I do is intended to be humorous, or that I don’t like some serious art.  I like to have fun with my work.  I also really appreciate the fact that some of the images are out there right now making people smile and wonder. My opinions change, but I would have to say that Erwin Wurm is quite the prolific comedian.

AM: You’re showing your work as a 2-person exhibition with Jim Kazanjian this June at Breeze Block Gallery in Portland. Jim uses contemporary landscape photography in a unique way, although doesn’t classify himself as a photographer. Can you tell us a little about the exhibition and the synergies you’ve found within your work?

WH: My initial reaction was that it was a great matchup:  the highly Photoshopped surreal photographic work of Jim’s next to my in-camera unaltered photographic works also of surreal appearance.  My next thought was how vibrant the colors of my work will be next to the sharp black and white of Kazanjian’s work.

Discuss this artist here.

Discuss this show here.

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