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More stories from the week ended March 24:
- ArtInfo profiles Oscar Murillo on occassion of his upcoming exhibitions in London.
- David Hockney's 23-year old assistant and friend dies after being taken to hospital from artist's house.
- Graham Ovenden denies in court regarding the claim that he abused his child models.
- Paris's Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont will close at the end of its current exhibition, citing strong competition.
- FBI knows who was behind Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft in 1990.
- Boris Berezovsky to sell Warhol Lenin portrait as he tries to recoup losses from failed case against Abramovich.
- Thieves steal 30 small artifacts from Jbeil archaeology musuem.
- Art theft is usually the work of the world's grubbiest gangsters and not Rico Suave international playboys.
- Marino Massimo de Caro, former boss of Naples historic library confesses to multiple book thefts.
- The Museum of Wisconsin Art has disinvited artists and artworks that were going to be in the inaugural show.
- Walker Art Center film interns resign in protest of staff cuts.
- Mexico, Peru, Guatemala demand Sotheby's stops Paris auction saying that artifacts belong to their nations.
- France returns six paintings looted by Nazis during WWII to American heir.
- Social Practice - the new trend in art.
- Mystery painting is revealed to be a true Rembrandt worth an estimated £20 million.
- 1,000-year-old Song Dynasty Chinese bowl found at garage sale fetches over $2.2 million at auction.
- Francis Bacon works discovered on the backs of amateur paintings sold for almost $70,000 at auction.
- David Hasselhoff returned to Berlin to lend his support in saving mural-covered stretch of Berlin Wall.
- The Vatican will have its own contemporary-art pavilion at the 2013 Venice Art Biennale.
- Munich is to have its own Fourth Plinth and you can live in it.
- TEFAF and Sotheby's in talks to collaborate on TEFAF Beijing 2014 art fair.
- Jack Black was the celebrity host for REDCAT gala honoring Catherine Opie.
- There is a museum building spree occurring right now in China.
- About Casa Daros, new contemporary art museum to be built in Rio de Janeiro.
- MOCA expresses desire to remain independent and vows to build its endowment.
- Roberta Smith calls for MOCA to distance itself from Eli Broad.
- Met Museum will now be open seven days a week.
- Guggenheim gets $10 million grant to commission Chinese art.
- 12 new paintings by former president George W. Bush.
- Toyo Ito awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
- Second Herb and Dorothy film premieres at Whitney Museum.
- Sous Influences (Under the Influence), - exhibition at the Maison Rouge, examines the role of drugs in the arts.
- Artprice's 2012 chart breakdown of market share by auction house.
- One of the world's most famous paintings, Chinese Girl by Vladimir Tretchikoff, sells for $1.5 mil at auction.
- Tilda Swinton's speech at the launch of David Bowie exhibition at V&A Museum. Bowie was unable to attend.
- John Baldessari on Rene Magritte's The Treachery of Images at LACMA.
- Ai Weiwei, currently banned from leaving China, is creating a major work for Emscherkunst triennial art festival.
- Christo's massive, heavenly air dome unveiled in Germany. First project completed since his wife's death.
- Philip Vaughan very upset after Hayward Gallery removed his Neon Tower light sculpture and neglected it.
- Damien Hirst designs album cover for 30 Seconds to Mars.
- 4chan founder Chris Poole launches iPad drawing app.
