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More stories from the week that ended Nov 23 (click on bolded words for more information):
- Sacha Goldberger interprets portraits of comic book superheroes as Renaissance figures.
- RIP: Andrew Bucci, who died at the age of 92 after a brief illness.
- Aristophil accused of running a Ponzi scheme via financial instruments in the books and manuscripts market.
- Fallout surrounding Bill Cosby's rape accusations spread to the institutional art world.
- Zahi Hawass accused of assisting German hobbyists steal samples from Great Pyramid at Giza.
- Kurt Perschke accuses Shell oil company of appropriating his red ball art project idea.
- David William Noll pleads guilty to vandalizing Banksy street pieces in Utah and gets five years probation.
- William Ruprecht steps down as head of Sotheby's and the company may go private.
- Jerry Saltz thinks the art world has gotten too conservative.
- Jonathan Jones does not think that photographs should be shown in art galleries.
- Arts scene doing well in Turkey, however, artists still face governmental censorship and other hardships.
- United States considering cultural property protection czar post to prevent looted objects from entering country.
- Kunstmuseum Bern expected to decide soon on whether to accept the estate of the late Cornelius Gurlitt.
- Student accidentally crushes one of Ai Weiwei's porcelain crabs from a installation.
- Previously unseen pictures of Che Guevara taken right after his execution surface.
- Piero della Francesca’s The Resurrection to undergo restoration funded in part by Aldo Osti.
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Archaeologists
discover three unique mosaics at the Ancient Greek city of Zeugma, in south Turkey
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ArtPrize to open second edition in Dallas in April of 2016.
- Mass MoCA will become the largest contemporary art museum in the United States in 2017.
- Faena Forum, art center in Miami designed by Rem Koolhaus, to open in Dec 2015.
- MOCA's future exhibitions include Matthew Barney, Sturtevant, R.H. Quaytman, William Pope.L, and Kerry James Marshall.
- Institute of Contemporary Art Miami upcoming shows include Shannon Ebner, John Miller, and Ryan Sullivan.
- Hammer Museum adds courtyard bridge designed by Michael Maltzan and opening in Feb.
- Tate Gallery to exhibit artworks in 3D form, within virtual world of Minecraft.
- Elizabeth Armstrong named as new director of Palm Springs Art Museum.
- Art museums are becoming another status symbol for international billionaires.
- Savannah College of Art and Design to exhibit Andre 3000's jumpsuits with phrases on them.
- Bomb Magazine has a Kickstarter to raise funds for operations.
- Georgia O’Keeffe painting sells at Sotheby's for $44.4mil., a record for a work by a female artist. Sarah P Hanson analyzes the Sotheby's American Art sale
- Rare Warhol New Coke print once owned by U2 to be auctioned at Bonham's.
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One of Napoleon's two-pointed hats was sold at
Osenat to a South Korean collector for $2.2mil.
- Artnet's list of The Top 10 Uber-Rich Art Collectors.
- How guarantees in art auctions are affecting the market.
- Kenny Schachter dishes gossip and analyzes the fall auctions in New York.
- Bendor Grosvenor thinks that the evaluation of art today is driven too much by it's price.
- Stephen Haller Gallery and Stux Gallery merging to form Stux + Haller.
- How artists like Ryan Gander and Yinka Shonibare spent their art prize winnings.
- William Kurelek painting given as a gift of appreciation for apple strudel and vegetables could sell for $20k at auction.
- Mickalene Thomas creates wine label for Bedell Cellars
- Profile of David Hockney, who also answers a bunch of questions.
- Mark Farid raising money for project where he be in virtual reality for 28 days straight.
- Steven Meisel shoots the 2015 Pirelli calendar.
- Ben Davis reviews Pierre Huyghe's LACMA retrospective.
- Artsy interviews Maurizio Cattelan.
- Paul Kasmin gallery now represents Laylah Ali.
- Adam McEwen now represented in NY by Petzel.
- Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin now represented by Lisson Gallery.
- Paul Chan wins Hugo Boss Prize for 2014.
- Shepard Fairey now represented by Jacob Lewis Gallery in New York. He also talks about his work with Fusion.
- Kelly Allen discusses art and environment at her new Geek Group maker space.
- Carolina A Miranda reviews Sarah Thornton's book 33 Artists in 3 Acts.
- Steve Duneier yarnbombs 17 sandstone boulders in the Santa Ynez Mountains.
- Jaden and Willow Smith discuss what they think art is, among other topics.
- Prince Charles is shy and declines to view portraits of himself drawn by students.
- Body art enthusiast Jenya Bolotov spends seven years transforming himself into a human platypus.
- IKEA recreates classic paintings as photographs with their furniture in them.
