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More stories from the week that ended April 13 (click on bolded words for more information):
- Truong Tran uses old pornography and nature magazines to protest Hirst's use of butterflies.
- RIP: Alan Davie, who died at 93, a day before his retrospective was due to open at Tate Britain.
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Hong Kong police search landfill for $3.7mil. painting
dumped by cleaners at Grand Hyatt hotel after auction.
- Matisse's painting Sitting Woman, part of Gurlitt trove, now subject to two competing claims. Authorities returning the artwork trove to Gurlitt.
- Experts refute the bold claim that Spain's Holy Grail is the real deal.
- Damian Hirst autobiography to reveal his criminal past.
- Kevin Sutherland convicted of selling fake Damien Hirst paintings.
- Fugitive becomes finance chief of Czech Republic’s National Museum of Agriculture and steals $500,000.
- MOCA NoMi suing city of Miami for breach of contract.
- Pérez Art Museum Miami being sued by engineering firm that accused it of failing to secure support beams.
- Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to decide on Cape Cod consignment/bankruptcy case.
- Pakistan artists' collective challenging impersonal & indiscriminate drone deaths with giant images of victims.
- Jonathan Jones calls for all artists to boycott Russia.
- Report shows lack of arts education within NYC's public schools.
- The Getty Museum voluntarily returning illuminated New Testament after learning that it was stolen.
- George Bush used Wikipedia to get the images for his paintings.
- Joslyn Art Museum discovers Rembrandt painting in storage and has it authenticated.
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- University of Granada says it has found an authentic copy of Raphael’s Madonna of Foligno.
- Sergey Skaterschikov buys ARTnews Magazine.
- Philippe Vergne placing increased emphasis on performance-based art at MOCA.
- Broad Art Museum acquires Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room.
- Beatrix Ruf announced as new director of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
- Billboards across America this summer will showcase art thanks to Art Everywhere.
- Four investors have made tentative billion-dollar bids for the DIA, or key portions of its collection.
- Zhang Xiaogang’s painting Bloodline: Big Family No.3 sells for $12.1mil, a record for the artist.
- Edward Dolman to become chairman and chief executive of Phillips.
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Rui Costa Reis
bids for 85 works by Joan Miro from Portuguese government.
- Artwork from The Reiner Family Collection to be sold at Christie's.
- Carter Cleveland speaks about Artsy on After The Bell.
- 15th century porcelain cup from China sells at Sotheby's HK for $36mil.
- Pieter Brueghel currently one of the hottest artists on the Old Master market.
- The market for some young artists, like Dan Rees and Lucien Smith, is getting hotter.
- According to Artnet, it is a good time to sell your Paul Gauguin prints.
- What the art world tells us about the value of wealth.
- Dealers looking at artists that may have been initially overlooked by the market and history.
- Anthony Haden-Guest writes about artist poaching and the troubles mid-sized galleries face.
- Pierre Huyghe is the latest artist to join the Hauser and Wirth stable.
- Sket One and Mear One grow up from their illegal tagging and graffiti roots.
- Extensive profile of Ryan McGinley in GQ.
- A look at Aaron Curry.
- An interview with Cory Arcangel on his Surfware brand.
- Richard Serra's latests project.
- Laura Owens in conversation with Alex Katz.
- Ryan Schneider interviewed in Whitewall about his show at Two Rams.
- Keanu Reeves interviews Robert Longo.
- An interview with Jordan Wolfson.
- Mona Kuhn talks to Elizabeth Avedon about her new work.
- Nan Goldin now photographing children.
- Daniel Joseph Martinez wins Herb Alpert arts award.
- Betye Saar will receive 55th annual Edward MacDowell Medal for lifetime achievement in the arts.
- Mousse Magazine reviews Raster Raster exhibition at Aran Cravey.
- Roberta Smith reviews George Bush's show of paintings.
- Matthew Brandt gets featured in The Week.
- Ten interesting facts about Andreas Gursky.
- CNN writes about Jack Kevorkian's art exhibition in West Hollywood.
- Parker Ito screen print available for pre-order.
- New print available by Bjarne Melgaard.
