Overtime stories of the week:

  • Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’s exhibition features Vote Mitt Romney painting by Richard Phillips.
  • Mitt Romney’s arts voting record not good.
  • China to shut down Ai Weiwei’s art firm for not following annual registration requirements.
  • MOCA launches its MOCAtv channel on YouTube.  Offers free museum membership to subscribers.
  • Four of Picasso’s heirs have formed Picasso Administration – dedicated to authenticating the artist’s work.
  • According to study, Qatar will soon be global leader in museum industry.
  • New art fair – ArtInternational Istanbul – due to coincide with the city’s international biennial next year.
  • The National Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina will close after 124 years due to funding crisis.
  • Wall Street Journal examines the strength of the art market in light of key global indicators.
  • Cruise ship passenger attempts to steal fake Rembrandt painting that is the size of a door.
  • Jenny Saville, Yan Pei-Ming and Luca del Baldo have created paintings of the corpse of Muammar Gaddafi.
  • Turkey halts all loans to the Met in its efforts to repatriate art.
  • Gustav Klimt’s renovated (using original photos) studio opens its doors.
  • Project to photograph and catalogue all publicly-owned oil paintings in the UK is nearing completion.Typical booth prices and costs for doing business at a art fair.  What participation in a art fair is worth.
  • Could the Euro crisis lead to the next art movement?
  • Asia developing a taste for European decorative arts market.
  • Bidzina Ivanishvili, billionaire art collector, set to be next Georgian prime minister.
  • Maurice Marciano, co-founder of Guess Jeans, planning to open contemporary art foundation in Los Angeles.
  • Blum & Poe expanding its physical presence to Japan and opening a office in Tokyo.
  • David Zwirner, on opening a gallery in London and on art collecting.
  • Andrea Rosen and Hauser & Wirth opening second locations in NYC.
  • List of ArtInfo’s Top 10 contemporary art collectors in the UK.
  • Pablo Picasso’s play Desire Caught by the Tail to get a reading at the Guggenheim.
  • Frida Kahlo’s inspirational fashion goes on display in Mexico.
  • An interview with Luc Tuymans.
  • Residents upset after Grayson Perry given the go-ahead to build a “Disneyland” gingerbread house.
  • James Franco (collaborating with Travis Mathews) making gay art film, revisiting Cruising.
  • Uta Barth and An-My Lê are among those in the class of 2013 MacArthur Fellows
  • Peter Blake’s original collage for insert in Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s album included in Sotheby’s auction.