- Rare opportunity – Calvin and Hobbes original artwork offered in February auction.
- Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, the documentary on Ai Weiwei, wins special jury prize at Sundance.
- In other Ai Weiwei news, he was questioned for “attacking” a security camera.
- Rest in peace: Dorothea Tanning – artist and wife of Max Ernst dead at 101.
- Jerry Saltz on Mike Kelley. William Poundstone recalls seeing Kelley’s art with parents.
- Thieves steal artwork from gallery by entering through skylight and repelling down.
- Netherlands returns paintings looted 70 years ago by Nazi Goering to Jewish heir.
- Stolen Aboriginal art recently listed on eBay.
- Antony Gormley defends rights of squatters to put unused properties to good use.
- Phallological Museum – Iceland’s penis museum finally gets a human specimen.
- Whitney Museum owes nearly $160,000 in unpaid taxes and other fees.
- Asia Society opens two locations this year – in Hong Kong and Houston.
- Museums in UK, France, and Israel jointly acquire an edition of Christian Marclay’s The Clock.
- New Museum lowers entry fee ($14), but price higher than when before ($12) it was raised ($16).
- Campaigners demand removal of female mouth shaped urinals from Rolling Stones museum.
- Museo Nacional del Prado has discovered what it claims to be the earliest copy of the Mona Lisa.
- Hauser & Wirth opening its seventh gallery and second in NYC.
- Interview with James Franco’s grandmother, who is a leading Cleveland dealer of Japanese art.
- Pablo Picasso has the distinction of being the artist with the most stolen works.
- Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring painting traveling to the US in 2013 with three stops.
- Was Vincent van Gogh really crazy?
- Obama family visits Corcoran Gallery’s exhibition 30 Americans.
- Jocelyne Grivaud uses Barbie to chart how the ideal female form has changed over the decades.
- Rihanna commissions Claire Milner to create Marilyn piece using 65,000 Swarovski crystals.
- David Hockney documentary A Biggest Splash released on DVD and Blu-ray.
- Andy Warhol’s Unseen Polaroids in Flavorwire.
- Takashi Murakami working on a new live-action monster movie.
- Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker, & JR pieces among prizes given to Tribeca Film Festival winners.
- Conflict in Egypt being played out on walls by graffiti and street artists.
- Bankski – the Russian Banksy.
- More work seen in-studio from Kelsey Brookes.
- Something new from James Jean.
- A timelapse video of Geoff McFetridge installing his Cal Poly show.
- Melissa Cooke working on some luminescence paintings.
- Support Leon Reid IV’s newest kickstarter project – The Hundred Story House.
- An interview with KRINK on Hypebeast.
