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- Cai Guo-Qiang recreated Hangzhou’s West Lake scenery using his gunpowder technique.
- Tel Aviv battling to save deteriorating Bauhaus buildings from decay.
- Seven works of ancient art and other works looted and smuggled out of Italy were returned.
- Italy’s Christ Carrying the Cross by Girolamo Romanino seized by US authorities.
- Man steals art from hospital for sick kids.
- Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge suffers major theft of ancient Chinese artifact.
- Mykola Hlushchenko paintings belonging to Ukrainian government replaced by forgeries.
- Degas stolen at gunpoint from Swiss museum four years ago has been returned to Zurich.
- Claes Oldenburg’s “Spoonbridge and Cherry” sculpture target of Kony graffiti.
- Coca-Cola teaming up with TV show search for three iconic paintings by Norman Rockwell.
- Thomas Demand recreates Whitney Houston’s last meal.
- Ai Weiwei shows new work in tiny London space.
- LACMA on a artwork acquisition spree.
- Frida Kahlo may have suffered from rare condition called Asherman’s syndrome.
- Roberta Smith reviews Frank Stella’s early paintings show at L&M Arts.
- Good news for NY: Blum & Poe’s historic Mono-Ha show coming to Gladstone Gallery.
- Huge banana cushion from Bape & Medicom based on Andy Warhol artwork.
- Vadim Zakharov to represent Russia at the 55th Venice Biennale.
- Detroit getting a contemporary art festival.
- Mark Bradford has an upcoming retrospective at SFMOMA.
- Photos from the 2012 Mexico Contemporary Art Fair (MACO).
- Bobby Hundreds has photos of Transmission LA: The Audio-Visual Club at the MOCA.
- William Powhida and W.A.G.E.’s Why Are (Most) Artists (So Fucking) Poor?
- Adam Lindemann introduces you to Alex Israel. MOCA to host his art talk show “As It Lays”.
- Banksy art salvaged from Detroit streets turns up in a jail-turned-art gallery
- Solo One, Remi Rough & Risk get together to paint a wall in London.
- Phlegm worked on more drawings for his upcoming book since it was raining.
- Lush has some irreverent new comic strip-like drawings.
- Stik has a new show at Imitate Modern in London.
- Stinkfish paints over an old cover of Playboy.
- An interview with Sickboy on Vandalog.
- A look at the photoshoot used as reference for Conor Harrington’s Dead Meat show.
- Jeff Soto summarizes his trip to Richmond, Virginia.
- Ron English & Chris Brown will be signing at their toy release at Toy Art Gallery.
- A new print release, Gather Around, from Greg “Craola” Simkins.
- Adam Wallacavage featured on the Instagram blog and on New York Times.
- New moleskin sketches from Andrew Hem.
- Nate Frizzell has designed some new shirts.
- Christopher Umana among artists with work in Oceanic Awareness Collaboration fund auction.
- Interview with Eugene Kahn on occasion of Carbon 2012.
