Overtime stories of the week:

  • AriZona partners with Richard Prince (who approached the drink company himself) to create Lemon Fizz.
  • RIP: Michael Asher (1943-2012), who died in his sleep.
  • Major burglary at Rotterdam Kunsthal sees theft of Picasso, Matisse, Monet, Gauguin, and Freud paintings.  Watch video released of the heist.
  • Wlodzimierz Umaniec pleads guilty in court to defacing Rothko painting at Tate.
  • Gagosian Gallery drops its lawsuit against Ron Perelman’s MAFG Art Fund LLC.
  • The rise and fall of art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi.
  • The recently sold The Scream pastel by Munch may have been looted by the Nazis.
  • Roy Lichtenstein painting that disappeared 42 years ago has been returned to its owner in Manhattan.
  • Donald Young Gallery, one of the premier art galleries in Chicago, will close after owner dies.
  • The French government decides it will not include art works in its wealth tax.
  • Leopold Museum in Vienna censors its nude ads due to public outcry.
  • ‎Damien Hirst accused of being a butterfly murderer.
  • Jeffrey Deitch faces critics at MOCA.
  • Huntington Library acquires 13 pieces of Frank Lloyd Wright furniture.
  • Exhibition Of Barack Obama art opens at Charles H Wright Museum of African American History.
  • Rose Museum to show Dor Guez, an artist from Jerusalem whose work is critical of Israel
  • Getty Institute buys Knoedler Gallery archive.
  • Gerhard Richter Abstraktes Bild (809-4) painting sells for record (for a living artist) £21.3 million.
  • Profile of the speculative market for Basquiat’s artwork.
  • Former art supply shop owner claims to have triptych painting given to him by Basquiat in barter.
  • The importance of professional, competent art restoration.
  • NADA asks galleries to withdraw from competing Untitled fair in Miami in Dec.
  • A giant sculpture of Yayoi Kusama has been installed in front of Selfridges in London.
  • Klaus Biesenbach selects 5 artworks that personifies love.
  • Daido Moriyama talks about about his lifelong fascination with Japan’s dark side.
  • Pictures of Ed and Deanna Templeton in their Huntington Beach, CA home.
  • Shepard Fairey discusses some of his work.
  • Fab 5 Freddy working on Bruce Lee art project in Hong Kong.
  • Swizz Beatz talks about his art and his relationship with Jeffrey Deitch.
  • RETNA commissioned by Louis Vuitton to paint mural in Miami.
  • Futura reveals the colette version of his limited edition Hennessy bottle.
  • New work from Melissa Cooke.
  • Audrey Kawasaki graces the cover of Hi-Fructose 25.
  • Alexandre Day has a new solo coming up.
  • Eric Fortune working on a new piece.