Stories of the week:

  • TrustoCorp working on their window installation for our City of Fire show we are curating opening on Tuesday at Stephen Webster in Beverly Hills.  More details here and hope to see some of you there.
  • Jack Kavanaugh ordered to pay $250,000 in damages for role in sale of fraudulent Picasso.
  • Collector sues Rhona Hoffman Gallery for $1.4 mil after it loses Sol LeWitt certificate.
  • Javier Krahe prosecuted for offending religious feelings and could face year in jail for art film.
  • Las Vegas gallery raises prices of Donna Summer artwork immediately following her death.
  • Mercedes and Ian Stoutzker donate nine works, including Hockney and Freud pieces, to Tate.
  • MOCA creates an online Land Art atlas on occasion of its retrospective.
  • Cy Twombly Foundation buys mansion in NYC, plans to build education center and small museum.
  • Francois Pinault plans exhibition of only film and video art at Palazzo Grassi during Venice Biennale.
  • Christie’s experts believe body in Bacon’s Study for Self-Portrait belongs to Lucian Freud.
  • Ai Weiwei’s underground pavilion opens in London – piece purchased by purchased Lakshmi Mittal.
  • Ivor Braka’s neighbors upset after he installs Emin and Gormley sculptures in communal garden.
  • Interview with Nick Koenigsknecht, gallery director at Peres Projects.
  • AM alum, gallery owner, art writer, print shop owner Ken Harman gets interviewed by Hypebeast.
  • Christopher Knight reviews James Franco’s Rebel MOCA show.
  • Some photos from the Allison Schulnik show at Mark Moore.
  • Tilt’s Agnostic Fonts at the Montana Gallery in Barcelona.
  • A look inside Femke Hiemstra’s sketchbook.
  • Some Luke Chueh bullfighting-themed works for a group showing in Barcelona.
  • Charlie Immer is in a new solo exhibition.