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More stories from the week that ended on Sept. 1 (click on bolded words for more information):
- 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.
