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More stories from the week that ended June 22 (click on bolded words for more information):
- A review of Franz West's show at the Hepworth.
- RIP: Ultra Violet, who died at the age of 78 due to cancer.
- Heritage sues Christie’s for $60mil. over handbag personnel and trade secrets.
- Brad Pitt and Peter Capaldi leading efforts to raise £20mil. to restore fire-damaged Glasgow School of Art building.
- Finnish people unhappy with the possibility and feasibility study of Helsinki Guggenheim.
- More MOCANoMi drama between the board and city. It further escalates.
- France’s culture budget loses €55mil. due to efforts to reduce national deficit.
- Keith Haring and Andy Warhol fakes making their way around the market.
- Delaware Art Museum's William Holman Hunt painting sells for $4.25mil. - well under estimates.
- Thirteen works on paper (part of larger installation) by Bernhard Gwiggner stolen from an exhibition at ICON-Galerie.
- Ai Weiwei's lawyer, Pu Zhiqiang, detained by Chinese and may be going to prison.
- Jerry Saltz wonders why so many "New Abstraction" works look the same.
- Kanye West claims that Annie Leibovitz backed out of shooting his wedding. He mad.
- New 49er's stadium in Santa Clara commissions 200 works of art.
- How Phil Whitfield became the Dallas Cowboys' ambassador for art.
- Works made in ceramic becoming fashionable.
- An introduction to The Jogging, featuring Keith Varadi, Jesse Stecklow, and Spencer Longo.
- When art galleries become international destinations.
- What will be the future of Bergamont Station in Santa Monica?
- LA Mayor Garcetti nominates arts education advocate Danielle Brazell to head cultural affairs department
- Artspace's first part in its series of guides to art language and word usage.
- Infrared technology used to uncover hidden painting found under Picasso's The Blue Room.
- Ryan Seacreast the most high profile name of the new board of trustees members at LACMA.
- MoMA to stage exhibition of Björk's costumes, instruments and video collaborations.
- Whitney Museum and The High Line announce collaboration, with Alex Katz as inaugural artist.
- Smithsonian Institution scans Barack Obama’s head to create the first 3D portrait of sitting president.
- Titian’s Danae painting will be on display at the National Gallery of Art beginning July 1.
- Adam Lindemann provides some great insights about the art world on Instagram.
- Bonhams is for sale.
- A brief history of Art Basel. Early market sales report out of the fair. A fair report, from Judd Tully. And another one by him. Artnet's Basel sales report. Gallerist has some sales info.
- Interview with Peter Bläuer about the Liste art fair.
- Designboom interviews Will Cotton.
- Artnet writes about ten smart buys at Art Basel's satellite fairs.
- A look at the market for Jeff Koons' work.
- Sotheby's sells British Guiana One-Cent Magenta stamp for record $9.5mil. Why stamps are increasing in price.
- Robert De Niro Sr. has a new auction record for a painting.
- Francis Bacon's 1967 study of Lucian Freud painting, owned by Roald Dahl, to be auctioned at Christie's.
- Marisa Sage talks about going from operating a gallery to becoming a art consultant.
- A guide to the different types of collectors out there.
- Casey Kaplan leaving Chelsea after ten years and moving to the Flower District in 2015.
- Pace Gallery opens a temporary space in Switzerland.
- Josh Baer talks to David Mugrabi in Basel.
- CIA facial software uncovers a photograph of Francis Bacon in drag.
- A look inside Louise Bourgeois' New York home.
- A history of Bernadette Corporation.
- Lucien Smith to have solo show in Oct with Depart Foundation in collaboration with American Academy in Rome.
- Jeff Koons, in his own words, talking about feelings.
- Carsten Höller builds a big slide sculpture on the Vitra campus.
- Ben Davis writes about Pierre Soulages.
- Kerry James Marshall joins David Zwirner Gallery in London.
- Secundino Hernández, Celia Paul, Eric Fisch, and Kara Walker join Victoria Miro's artist roster.
- Jake and Dinos Chapman look to crowd funding to raise money for an exhibition.
- LA Times reviews Aurel Schmidt and Pierre Molinier's show at M+B.
- Profile of and interview with Terry Richardson.
- Shepard Fairey's wheat paste a indicative sign of revitalization in Downtown Los Angeles.
- Wolfgang Tillmans looks back and ahead on his career.
- Tyler Green talks to Jo Ann Callis.
- Jonas Lund's Flip City project.
- Shelley Holcomb featured in Forth Magazine.
- Flaunt interviews the Date Farmers.
- Brandi Milne profiled on The Hundreds.
- Hypebeast sits down with James Jarvis.
- P. Diddy helps promote Jennifer Hayes' work while he was in St Louis.
- Visionaire releases a Hermes edition.
- Cristina Bergoglio, the Pope's niece, has a art exhibition in Miami.
- William Koch's passion for art and craftsmanship and his crusade against fake wine.
