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Overtime stories of the week:
- Steve Wynn revealed to be Koons' Tulips buyer as The Wynn in Las Vegas has put the piece on display.
- Is India facing a "cultural emergency" with writers, painters and filmmakers being targeted by the mob?
- Nearly 400-year-old secret painting in Rembrandt masterpiece revealed using x-ray techniques.
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Guests of anti-poverty group asked to leave Musee d'Orsay because visitors complained that they
smelled.
- Spiegal Online feels German museums and governments have failed to properly address Nazi looted artworks.
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Henry Kravis claims Donald Bryant
reneged on jointly-owned MoMA Jasper Johns painting set donation.
- Somalia undergoes an art renaissance in a time of relative calm from al Qaeda.
- Central Utah Art Center claims Ephraim City cut off its funding and moved to evict due to censorship incident.
- Werner Spies, who falsely authenticated forged Ernst paintings, organizes first major show since 2010.
- Art dealer claims Romero Britto in on scheme to sell fake works of art attributed to him.
- Home of Catalin Botezatu searched in connection of theft of seven masterpieces from Rotterdam museum.
- Gary Nader Fine Art Gallery gets free police protection for exhibition of works from Jose Berardo's collection.
- Metropolitan Museum deaccessioning sixteen Old Master paintings and selling them at Sotheby's.
- Attendance at the Barnes Foundation has exceeded all projections, topping 200,000 in only seven months.
- Leopold Museum is welcoming nudists to experience the galleries au naturel after public hours.
- National Portrait Gallery exhibits unseen TS Eliot sketches for the first time.
- Harvard uses 3-D printing to replicate ancient statue.
- Jerry Saltz proposes a doing away of the outsider art moniker.
- Roberta Smith challenges museums and institutions to integrate folk art with "academic art'.
- Prado museum receives gift of 12 medieval and Renaissance works by Spanish artists from private donor.
- Fendi gives over €2m to fund restoration of Trevi fountain.
- Royal Academy instituting series of Sunday night viewings of Manet exhibition at a premium price of £30.
- SFO Airport now has city’s most valuable art collection outside of museums.
- San Francisco's Union Square art galleries suffer under tech boom due to escalating rent prices.
- Questions regarding art market oversight.
- The Art of Elysium's Pieces of Heaven benefit art auction now live on Paddle8.
- Auction of dog art at Bonhams will offer two dozen statues and paintings of spaniels and etchings of Scotties.
- ARCOMadrid trying to lure 150 VIPs to attend from US, Asia, Russia, etc. by paying for airfare and hotels.
- List of artists chosen to participate in the California-Pacific Triennial released.
- Thee first online biennial is coming.
- 49ers' Vernon Davis opens art gallery in San Jose, CA to show his own work that that of others.
- Frank Cohen turns dairy in Bloomsbury into gallery of his collection (free admission) to rival Charles Saatchi's.
- Roman Abramovich and Dasha Zhukova buys a major group of works by Ilya Kabakov.
- Albrecht Durer pieces breaking auction records at Christie's.
- Large banner featuring a court jester by George Condo currently up on façade of Metropolitan Opera House.
- Tracey Emin's artwork to go up in Times Square.
- Paul Emsley has alternatively version of Kate Middleton portrait.
- David Choe launches DVDASA podcast with Asa Akira.
- Tacita Dean makes a film exploring the mystery of Spiral Jetty.
- Carl Andre talks about his work on occasion of this first show in the UK in over a decade.
- Carl Andre dismisses conceptual art.
- Video of Christian Mendoza creating his Indelible Light Mechanism mural in New York.
- Interview with Georg Baselitz as he has some controversial remarks regarding female artists.
- What Catherine Opie has been up to.
- An interview with Mike Brodie, aka The Polaroid Kid, who has a book coming out.
- Interview with Dean Valentine.
- The Wall Street Journal interviews Marc Quinn.
- Interview with Bryce Wolkowitz.
- Wayne Coyne talks about the Womb, Damien Hirst, acid, and Yoko Ono with Hyperallergic.
- Steven Soderbergh talks about his painting and art career.
