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Videos / Recap: David Choe // Igloo Hong (Cambodia)
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Streets: El Mac (San Diego)
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Overtime: Jan 4 – Jan 10
- Van Hanos' exhibition Intercalaris opens at Rowhouse Project.
- Wildenstein family tax evasion and money laundering trial begins. The trial is now suspended to probe its constitutionality.
- Sam Salz heirs accuse their stepmom of stealing and selling paintings belonging to his estate.
- Hollis Taggart Galleries appears to offer Calder work at art fair it had been loaned on approval from Paddle8.
- Judge rules that monkey can not own copyright to photos because it's an animal, not a human.
- Donald Graham sues Gagosian Gallery, Larry Gagosian, and Richard Prince over photograph used in IG work. Legal experts provide their perspective on the case.
- Katherine Craig suing in order to save her mural on a Detroit building that may be destroyed.
- Eight Miami artists sue Rich Wilkerson of Wynwood's Vous Church for using their artwork in ad campaign.
- Orlan's $31.7mil. lawsuit against Lady Gaga comes to New York.
- Giant Mao Zedong statue erected in China's Henan province by a group of anonymous local entrepreneurs. It then appears to have been destroyed.
- Babacar M’Bow fired as MOCA North Miami director. Six quotes supposedly made by Babacar M'Bow that contributed to his firing at MOCA North Miami.
- Elmgreen & Dragset among artists that are boycotting Gemeentemuseum over its role in Kreuk-Vō court case.
- David Joel loses court case appeal to prove that the supposed Monet painting he owns is authentic.
- Plaster sculpture of Abraham Lincoln's hand stolen from Kankakee County Museum.
- Shaun Greenhalgh discusses his secrets to forging artwork.
- Authenticity of Caravaggio’s The Lute Player called into doubt by lute historian.
- Anti-China activists vandalize pair of outdoor sculptures at Taiwan's National Palace Museum.
- Jonathan Jones looks at the all-female exhibition Champagne Life at Saatchi Gallery. Cait Munro discusses the problem with the concept of the show.
- The story of the FBI's investigation into Robert Gentile's association with Gardner Museum heist artwork.
- Ellie Harrison's $22k grant from Creative Scotland creates uproar due to the nature of her project.
- Jonathan Jones upset that people compared Manchester street scene photograph to Renaissance painting.
- Milo Moire performs naked in Cologne to protest sexual assaults.
- Christie's closes its Mayfair space.
- Ai Weiwei sets up a studio on the Greek island of Lesbos to highlight the plight of refugees.
- Fundraising efforts being held to raise money to save and renovate J.M.W. Turner country house.
- Desert X biennial coming to CA to coincide with Modernism Week & Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
- KCRW's Art Talk looks at the coming attractions in Los Angeles for 2016.
- China’s Inner Mongolia announces plan for protection and preservation Great Wall of China within its borders.
- Italian government will invest €300mil. in cultural projects, including restorations, over the next three years.
- Scientists uncover Pablo Picasso's chemical fingerprint using noninvasive procedure in breakthrough study.
- Discovery of Eric Allden diary (a companion of the artist) sheds new light on Francis Bacon's early years.
- Petworth House to show for the the firs ttime Egremont family masterpieces accepted in lieu of inheritance tax.
- Helen Molesworth discusses some of the rooms and works in MOCA's The Art of Our Time show.
- Joel Wachs, president of the Andy Warhol Foundation, discusses the role of foundations in funding artists.
- International Center of Photography collaborating with JR on an installation at building near 250 Bowery.
- The Washington Post looks at the Wonder exhibition at Renwick Gallery.
- Dallas Museum of Art to show works it acquired from Dorace Fichtenbaum after she passed.
- First museum (designed by Libeskind) dedicated to Lithuanian Modern and contemporary art due to open.
- Mumbai to get world's first slum museum.
- Tina Kukielski named as the new executive director of ART21.
- Artinfo's list of 58 Museum Shows to See in 2016.
- The Art Newspaper looks at the art market outlook in Hong Kong.
- House featuring Banksy's Spy Booth street mural goes on the market for £210k.
- WSJ writes about the market for Picasso ceramics and the upcoming Sotheby's sale of his works.
- Maria Claudia Jimenez has predictions for 2016 as it relates to taxes and regulation in the art market.
- Igot Markin's Art4.ru, originally a private museum, has been repurposed into a selling museum.
- Bloomberg writes about the market for Outsider Art.
- Observer's list of 6 Art Galleries to Keep Your Eye on in 2016.
- The market for Legos in recent years.
- Bruce High Quality Foundation moves from Manhattan to Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
- NY Times profiles Robert Irwin and discusses his current projects.
- Mirabelle Jones' performance-based work about catcalling.
- Phaidon writes about how Paris changed Ellsworth Kelly.
- Modern Painters interviews Andrea Zittel.
- Scott Indrisek reviews Mark Flood-curated exhibition The Future Is Ow. NY Times also reviews the show. Ryan Steadman interviews Mark Flood. The Creators Project writes about Mark Flood.
- Sarah Waldron looks back at Artemisia Gentileschi.
- Nowness visits with Gordon Smith.
- Laurie Anderson performs a concert for dogs (and their human chaperones) in Times Square.
- JR discusses his work in ballet.
- Studio visit and interview with Lauren Elder.
- Tony Matelli's Sleepwalker sculpture will be installed on the Highline in April as part of Wanderlust group show.
- Susie J. Lee creates a dating app aimed at preventing harrassmet by men.
- ArtForum feature on Max Hooper Schneider.
- Sarah Meyohas using fluctuating value of artist-bought stocks to create corresponding oilstick paintings.
- 2016 College Art Association award winners include Rosalind E. Krauss, Carrie Mae Weems, & Sabina Ott.
- Artspace's list of 10 Artists to Watch This January.
- Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in Art & Style include Amalia Ulman, Petra Cortright, Ryder Ripps, and Eric Mack.
- Artnet previews 20 European exhibitions coming in 2016.
- Artinfo's list of the top art events happening in Asia in early 2016.
- Shepard Fairey endorses Bernie Sanders for the United States presidency.
- Interview with Oberto Gili about photographing artist's homes and their art collections.
- Craig Hubert reviews the Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art film.
- James Welling edition (each unique) available from Camden Arts Centre.
- Good Smile Company x James Jean's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Figures set of 4 figures and special print.
- POSE limited edition book with signed screen print now available.
- Smithsonian visits some of the oldest cave paintings known.
- RZA comments on Martin Shkreli's ownership of 1/1 Wu Tang album.
- The rise of clowncore.
- Researchers to build smaller version of Da Vinci’s 1502 Bosphorus bridge design using ice.
- Artnet explores solutions or alternatives to New Year's resolutions via artwork.
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Art Focus: Nunzio Paci
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Streets: El Mac x David Choe (Phoenix)
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Overtime: Jan 11 – Jan 17
- Vice writes about Awol Erizku's show at Duchamp Detox Clinic. W Magazine also looks at the exhibition.
- RIP: David Bowie, who passed away at the age of 69 due to cancer. Bowie's influence on contemporary art. A look at his art collection. Artnet throws it back to when Bowie chatted with Tracey Emin in 2001. The art world pays tribute to Bowie via Instagram. The time he was involved in a Nam June Paik project. Tony Visconti thinks his death was a work of art.
- RIP: Ashley Olsen, who passed away at the age of 35 after being found strangled in her bed. Suspect in the case has been arrested.
- Ashraf Fayadh sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia after he is found to have denounced Islam.
- Ten people killed as result of fatal bomb blast in Istanbul near Blue Mosque in historic Sultanahmet.
- Kalakakshi art collective claim Indian police attacked them unprovoked while they were working on a piece.
- Fire at the Church of Saint-Louis in Fontainebleau, France during theft suspected to be arson.
- Muhammad cartoons censored (one removed and one partially covered) at Charlie Hebdo exhibit in Tel Aviv.
- Two people arrested after being caught smuggling a painting which experts suspect is by Anthony van Dyck.
- Indictment imminent for Natali Cohen Vaxberg after she defecated on the Israeli flag.
- Some UK museums to charge admission fees or deaccession works from their collection amid funding cuts.
- RIME's lawsuit against Jeremy Scott to head to trial.
- Larry Gagosian going to court against royal family of Qatar over ownership of Picasso's Bust of a Woman. Eileen Kinsella wonders if litigation will result in knowledge of Gagosian's buyer.
- The Supreme Court declines to hear an appeal over California Resale Royalties Act.
- Tony Shafrazi sued for $1mil. in unpaid rent accrued during time which he refused to vacate house.
- Vice calls out Tyler Shields for copying other artists' work.
- Vaj Graff vandalizes 19th-century statue of Queen Victoria in Bristol by painting naked legs and pubic hair.
- J.K. Rowling vandalizes marble bust in her hotel room and it becomes memorialized.
- Colin Gleadell thinks that the art market bubble is deflating.
- Lego reversing its policy on bulk purchases following Ai Weiwei's reaction and the support he received.
- Ben Davis explores the role of growing up with the benefit of wealth as an artist.
- Possible Warhol painting discovered in a Yucca Valley thrift store.
- Frances Morris appointed as the new director of the Tate Modern.
- Louise Bourgeois to be one of the first artists exhibited at Tate Modern’s new museum when it opens June 17.
- Abstract details in Chauvet Caves paintings, created 36,000 years ago, could depict volcanic eruption.
- Marwan Zakhem to open Gallery 1957, a contemporary private art museum in Ghana.
- Elizabeth Verdow, teacher and former Detroit Institute of Arts volunteer leaves museum $1.71mil. gift.
- Becky Benaroya gifts Tacoma Art Museum 225 artworks from her family’s collection and $14mil.
- Artis—Naples receives $15mil. gift from Kimberly K. Querrey and Louis A. Simpson.
- JMW Turner painting Dutch Boats in a Gale will remain at National Gallery following death of Harry Hyams.
- Whitney museum acquires painting by Archibald Motley for its collection.
- Lloyd DeWitt named chief curator and Irene Leache curator of European art at Chrysler Museum of Art.
- New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science now affiliated with the Smithsonian.
- How Sothbey's acquisition of Art Agency, Partners may impact Dallas Museum of Art.
- Sotheby’s acquires Art Agency Partners for as much as $85mil. Judd Tully analyzes the effect of the acquisition on the company. Artinfo looks at the effect of the uneasy situation the acquisition foregrounds.
- Marina Picasso selling some of her collection of her grandfather's works at Sotheby's.
- Two Lucian Freud paintings of two daughters to be sold at Christie's.
- Eskandar and Fatima Maleki's Gerhard Richter painting could break the artist's record for a work.
- Andy Warhol’s Fourteen Small Electric Chairs is the highlight of Bonham's upcoming London sale.
- The Art Newspaper profiles Paula Cooper.
- Massimo De Carlo gallery to open a location in Hong Kong.
- i-D writes about the burgeoning gallery scene in NY's Chinatown.
- Paddle8 looks at Andrea Franchini and his art collection, mainly consisting of photographic works.
- Larry's List interviews Jane Wesman.
- Christie's talks to Kathy Grayson about her art collection.
- Irma Zandl talks about her street art collection.
- Paddle8 looks at Jamie Tisch's collection.
- W Magazine profiles Joshua Roth.
- ARTnews Ltd. names Vincent Fremont as chief executive officer.
- Kenny Schachter profiles Joe Bradley.
- Modern Painters interviews Catherine Opie.
- W Magazine profiles and interviews Alex Israel.
- The Guerrilla Girls appear on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
- Ai Weiwei discusses his installation at Le Bon Marché.
- Scott Indrisek profiles Brian Belott.
- An interview with Chantal Joffe.
- Artinfo looks at the Larry Poons show at Loretta Howard Gallery.
- Jimmie Durham awarded the 2016 Goslar Kaiserring.
- Creative Capital announces winners of its 2016 awards, including Liz Glynn, Ahamefule J. Oluo, and more.
- Phaidon looks at Saul Leiter.
- Erica Simone's nude photography project in New York.
- MBW creates a family portrait of the Kardashian's in Renoir's style.
- Alejandro Aravena receives the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize.
- Duane Hanson's former downtown NY loft, in building with preserved SAMO tag, now available for rent.
- Andrew Kuo reminisces about LCD Soundsystem.
- Yves Béhar provides a design and technological update of the Super 8 camera for Kodak.
- Upper Playground offers Jeremy Fish's Bison Van OG edition.
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Streets: World Roundup (Nov 23 – Jan 18)
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Streets: Eine (Santa Ana)
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Art Focus: DU Kun
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Basel Week Miami ’15 / Streets: Nychos
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Streets: Jasper Wong // Designed on Surface
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Overtime: Jan 18 – Jan 24
- Barbara Kruger’s site-specific work is included in Vancouver Art Gallery's “MashUp” exhibition.
- RIP: Leila Alaoui, who passed away at the age of 33 due to injuries suffered during terrorist attack.
- RIP: Simon Buttimore, who passed away at the age of 56 from motorbike accident.
- RIP: Thomas McAnulty, who passed away at the age of 73 after being hit by motorcycle.
- RIP: Jeram Patel, who passed away at the age of 86 after suffering sever cold and cough congestion.
- RIP: Melvin Day, who passed away at the age of 92 due to stroke.
- RIP: Harrison McIntosh, who passed away at the age of 101 due to natural causes.
- Hema Upadhyay's husband Chintan Upadhyay is the primary suspect for her and her lawyer's murder.
- Deborah de Robertis arrested at Musée d'Orsay after disrobing and recreating Édouard Manet's Olympia.
- Joe Gibbons to show his artwork made while in prison at Southfirst Gallery.
- Sotheby's takes loss in fourth quarter and scraps dividends to buy back shares of its stock.
- The Guardian thinks we are in the mania phase of an art market bubble. Others think the market may have already been in the corrective stage.
- Over a third of surveyed dealers say that rising rents pose the biggest threat to the UK art market.
- Trailer containing $250k worth of work by Miró, Haring, Neiman, Chagall and Matisse stolen off street in LA.
- The Georgia Museum of Art thinks it has received a gift of a Van Dyck painting, but it is actually not by him.
- Art Students League leadership facing lawsuit by faction of voting members.
- How individuals are furthering racial equality within the art world.
- Japan to drop the swastika symbol from its tourist maps and replace it with a pagoda image.
- David H. Koch leaves the board of the American Museum of Natural History.
- Brian Boucher calls out Martha Stewart on her lack of knowledge on artist's names.
- Lisa Levy to sit naked on a toilet for two days at Christopher Stout Gallery to protest bullshit in the art world.
- Investor steps in to keep St. Mark’s Bookshop alive financially.
- Most artwork, including masterpieces, in a museum's collection is kept in storage and not on public view.
- Christian Viveros-Fauné writes about Cuban art entering the art world.
- Dresden’s State Art Collections buys back Kirchner painting seized by Nazis as degenerate art.
- Walker Art Center garden undergoing $10mil. renovation.
- Newark Museum has free admission during Martin Luther King Jr. Day and commemorates with programming.
- Renovations and expansion plans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Amalia Ulman included in Tate Modern's Performing for the Camera exhibition. The Telegraph writes about her Instagram work.
- Todd Oldham exhibition coming to Rhode Island School of Design Museum.
- Elmgreen & Dragset's show at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art spoofs art fairs.
- The Palestinian Museum scheduled to open on May 18.
- Christine Macel appointed director of the Visual Arts Sector of the Venice Biennale.
- Detroit Institute of Arts to receive some proceeds from sale of Alfred Taubman collection.
- Ellsworth Kelly Foundation donates $250,000 to the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies.
- Asia Society Museum receives $2mil. gift from Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation.
- Marina Abramović will lead large-scale performance project at the Benaki Museum in Athens.
- Sotheby's alters its traditional May auction schedule and packs everything up into one week.
- Scott Reyburn looks at Sotheby's' business strategy. Judd Tully looks at what's ahead for Sotheby's, operationally.
- Artnet covers the Outsider Art Fair.
- Cait Munro previews Frieze New York 2016.
- Eileen Kinsella has an early preview of TEFAF 2016.
- Artinfo shows us 60 Works in 60 Seconds at Art Stage Singapore 2016.
- Reattributed Donatello work sold and partly exchanged for a total worth of $8-11mil.
- Fortune looks at the high-end market for artwork.
- Kenny Schachter writes about the market for Zombie Formalism.
- Artsy writes about the market for Dansaekhwa works.
- Sotheby's writes about Adrian Ghenie's painting The Sunflowers in 1937.
- Massimo De Carlo gallery to open a location in Hong Kong, in Pedder Building.
- How The Unit used the power of Instagram and social media to grow its business.
- Arthena introducing equity crowdfunding to the art market.
- Steven Cohen takes out a loan with Morgan Stanley, secured by his art collection.
- Jonathan Horowitz has another dot painting project at Swiss Institute. Portion of proceeds benefit charity.
- NY Times visits Louise Bourgeois’s home, exactly how she left it.
- Ry Rocklen provides an audio tour he recorded himself of his show at Feuer/Mesler.
- Mitra Saboury at Chin's Push is an ArtForum Critic's Pick. It is also covered by Purple.
- Scott Indrisek interviews Neville Wakefield.
- Artinfo interviews Tommy Kha.
- New video by Petra Cortright.
- The Hollywood Reporter profiles Alex Israel.
- Carolina A Miranda interviews Kori Newkirk.
- The Telegraph profiles Sophie Taeuber-Arp.
- CARLA writes about the Justin John Greene show at Loudhailer.
- Artists like Derek Paul Boyle and Samara Golden share their reasons for relocating to Los Angeles.
- Jeff Koons to work with area teenagers on a mural that will go on Aby Rosen's new hotel.
- Smithsonian Magazine makes a connection between Ai Weiwei and Andy Warhol.
- Jerry Saltz writes about Mark Grotjahn's sign paintings.
- Scott Indrisek's list of the 5 must-see exhibitions in New York.
- Beatriz Milhazes limited edition ceramic plate released by Plinth.
- Exhibition A releases limited edition print by Hayal Pozanti.
- Ben Davis writes about six trends that define visual culture today.
- Raf Simmons influenced by Cindy Sherman for his latest show.
- James Franco offers portrait painting session in $10 contest to benefit RED charity.
- Julia Friedman puts out two books consisting of Dave Hickey's Facebook posts.
- Village Voice covers the Banksy meet-up event at Waldorf Astoria.
- LA Racked shares Los Angeles' most Instagrammable locations.
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Streets: Banksy (London)
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Streets: Escif (Girona)
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Streets: Lonac (Zagreb)
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Art Focus: Benjamin Garcia
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Streets: ROA (Bangkok)
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Overtime: Jan 25 – Jan 31
- Ken Johnson reviews the Flatlands show at Whitney Museum of American Art. Above: Jamian Juliano-Villani.
- RIP: Thornton Dial, who passed away at the age of 87.
- RIP: Yon Pich, who passed away at the age of 81 from complications of an infection.
- RIP: Howard Koslow, who passed away at the age of 91.
- First trial to arise from Knoedler Gallery's forged artworks features Rothko painting bought by Domenico De Sole and his family. WSJ also writes about the case. Brian Boucher lists eight things to know about the trial. Ann Freedman's lawyers argue that experts were also duped by fake Rothko. Coverage of De Sole's testimony. Artnet summarizes day four of the trial.
- Christie's announces total sales of $7.4bil. for 2015 - down 5% over the previous year.
- Taxi crashes into Fragrant Wood Gallery after it is hit by Land Cruiser.
- Pyotr Pavlensky transferred from prison to a psychiatric hospital to undergo dubious evaluation.
- Ai Weiwei closes his show at the Faurschou Foundation to protest Danish migrant law against asylum seekers.
- 8 employees of Egyptian Museum face disciplinary hearing over botched repair of King Tutankhamun mask.
- SALT Beyoğlu may have closed due to Turkish government pressure.
- Italy covered classical nude sculpture to avoid causing offense to visiting Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani. The Italian press ridicules those responsible for censorship. Rouhani denies requesting the covering.
- MoMA revises expansion plans due to criticism.
- International Center of Photography may be planning another move before occupying its 250 Bowery space.
- Works by Josh Kline, Alex Bag, Harmony Korine, others among works that MoMA has announced acquiring.
- The ethical issues surrounding Smithsonian's show featuring Bill and Camille Cosby's art collection.
- Steve McQueen also provides his opinion on the lack of black nominees considered for Oscar awards.
- Battle brewing between Melva Bucksbaum's husband and her children over her estate.
- Art Loss Register faces competition complaint from Art Recovery Group.
- Evan Hughes explains the closing of Hughes Gallery.
- Marianne Boesky's uptown NY space to close after building it is in is sold.
- Tibbie Dunbar steps down from her position as director of A+D Architecture and Design Museum of LA.
- Preet Bharara's increased efforts to police the art and antiquities market in the US.
- Paul Allen's Tatoosh yacht accidentally destroys coral reef off the coast of Grand Cayman.
- Susanne Vielmetter, Tim Fleming, and Laura Firstenberg look at the current LA art scene.
- Gregor Muir thinks that Britain needs a new avant-garde art movement.
- Material Art Fair’s Isa Natalia Castilla discusses the Mexico City art scene.
- Angkor Panorama Museum in Cambodia receives money, concept, and design from North Korea's Mansudae.
- New York's Spring Street Salt Shed looks like a work of art.
- El Anatsui discusses his work and the “El Anatsui: Five Decades” exhibition at Carriageworks.
- The Guardian writes about Park McArthur's show at Chisenhale gallery.
- Artinfo looks at the Cameron Rowland exhibition at Artists Space.
- Olafur Eliasson to exhibit at Palace at Versailles.
- Phaidon writes about the upcoming Robert Mapplethorpe exhibitions at Getty Center and LACMA.
- Art Gallery of Ontario names Stephan Jost as its new director.
- James Rondeau named the new president of Art Institute of Chicago.
- Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center to offer free admission for at least three years.
- Art Institute of Chicago receives $35mil. donation from Dorothy Braude Edinburg.
- The Mattress Factory receives a $1mil Skyspace donated by James Turrell.
- MFA Boston acquires Frida Kahlo’s Dos Mujeres (Salvadora y Herminia) - the first painting she ever sold.
- Geneva Museum of Art and History to have $129mil. renovation and expansion.
- Studio in a School expanding its mission and scope by creating a Studio Institute.
- Artnet writes about Sotheby's 4th quarter 2015 financial performance. The auction house narrows its loses with performance of Taubman Old Master sale.
- 89% of lots sell for an approximate total of $5mil. at Phillips' Editions sale.
- 99% of Irving Harper works during Wright's single artist sale sells.
- Artinfo looks at the results of the Sotheby’s Boundless: Contemporary Art sale.
- British Antique Dealers Association setting up their own auction site with no buyer's premium sales.
- Artnet writes about the ALAC art fair. Eileen Kinsella visits the fair. Scott Indrisek also comes into town.
- Artinfo previews TEFAF 2016.
- Art Stage Singapore gets off to a good start according to AsiaOne.
- Blake Gopnik analyzes Picasso's Buste de Femme (Marie-Thérèse) sculpture currently in ownership dispute.
- Len Blavatnik may have been buyer of Picasso's Nude, Green Leaves and Bust.
- Carnegie-Stout Public Library not selling one of its Grant Wood paintings despite a $6mil. offer.
- Jerry Saltz discusses the issue of Lower East Side NY galleries opening on Sundays.
- Marc Spiegler looks at issues surrounding art galleries today.
- Michael McGinnis joins Mnuchin Gallery as a partner.
- David Zwirner seeking to expand to Hong Kong with a gallery location.
- Andrew Goldstein interviews Davida Nemeroff about herself and Night Gallery.
- Eli Diner interviews Karolina Dankow about Karma International's new Beverly Hills space.
- Milan Associates purchases Frank Stella's former home and studio in East Village, NY for $22mil.
- A video tour of Sting & Trudie Styler's art collection in their London home.
- Imogen Kerr talks Picasso ceramics.
- Michael Peppiatt discusses Francis Bacon and George Dyer.
- Larry's List talks to Daisuke Miyatsu about his collection.
- NY Times talks to Christo.
- Katya Kazakina writes about Doug Wheeler and the market for his works.
- Acquavella Gallery plans two-story Jean Dubuffet show for April.
- Bill Powers interviews Eddie Martinez.
- Jessica Olah to make 2,340 sandwiches in five days as part of performance at Specials on C.
- Banksy puts up street piece near French embassy in London.
- Jori Finkel writes about Erwin Wurm’s “One Minute Sculptures” at the Schindler House.
- Phaidon looks at Cai Guo-Qiang's studio designed by Rem Koolhaas and OMA.
- Hi-Fructose writes about Jesse Mockrin.
- Artspace interviews Puppies Puppies.
- Glen Fogel's show at JTT reviewed by Flash Art.
- David Ebony's choices for the top 10 NY gallery shows this winter.
- Amalia Ulman edition available from Whitechapel Gallery.
- Tristan Eaton's Kickstarter project turning the Red Sands Sea Forts into works of art.
- Tara McPherson's Dreamwell game goes up on Kickstarter.
- Paper writes about Adam Hillman's Instagram pic artworks.
- A compilation of the best snow sculptures that went up after the blizzard in NY.
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Streets: Javier Calleja (Genalguacil, Spain)
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Streets: Pangeaseed –“Sea Walls: Murals for Oceans” (New Zealand) – Part I
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