Overtime stories of the week:

  • Damien Hirst’s new controversial dissected & pregnant Verity sculpture has been installed in the UK.
  • Lawsuit claims Knoedler Gallery “substantially dependent” on profits from fakes in sustaining business.
  • Gao Ping, Chinese gallery owner, arrested in Madrid on suspicion of money laundering.
  • Rotterdam’s Kunsthal says security system in order during art heist.  The works taken last week have been valued at over $100 million, but Colin Gleadell believes this is a large overestimate.
  • Pompidou president Alain Seban thinks call for removal of Adel Abdessemed statue amounts to censorship.
  • Aphrodite advertisement for exhibition at San Antonio Museum of Art censored by some.
  • Gender inequality at Frieze Art Fair this year.
  • US ICE returns 4,000 pieces of stolen and looted cultural artifacts to the government of Mexico.
  • Nazi buddha from space looted by Nazis might be 20th century fake.
  • Court in New York rules that lap dances are not art.
  • Merz barn – last great work by Kurt Schwitters – faces closure after losing grant.
  • Picasso vandal Uriel Landeros to have a controversial solo exhibition by a Texas gallery.
  • Infrared cameras used to find a Picasso painting found under another Picasso painting.
  • 10-day Asian art festival opens in London.
  • Aspen Art Museum will stand by Lance Armstrong and keep the part-time resident on its board of directors.
  • Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art opens its doors after less than one year of planning and building.
  • United Kingdom’s Contemporary Art Society receives 300 works of art from the Eric and Jean Cass collection.
  • John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will make ~$20 mil. in new investments in arts and culture in Detroit.
  • Eli Broad is donating 19 works of art from his collection to the new museum at Michigan State University.
  • Matthew Marks opens second, larger space in LA.  Jasper Johns to finally get LA show of new work.
  • Larry Gagosian is about to open his third space in London.
  • The market for fine art prints is on the rise.
  • The National Basketball Association embraces street art.
  • Sarah Thornton gives her top ten reasons not to write about the art market.
  • Extensive interview with Dave Hickey, who is kinda retiring from the art world.
  • National Geographic to auction 240 pieces from its collection of famous photographs and art.
  • Jerry Saltz reviews Wade Guyton’s Whitney retrospective.
  • Adam Lindemann perplexes neighbors with his phallic looking Franz West sculpture on the bluffs of Montauk.
  • Ai Weiwei interviews a member of the 50-Cent Party.
  • Annie Leibovitz photographs Stephen Colbert reenacting a famous pose.
  • Interview with Antony Gormley about engineering experiences.
  • Dan Colen releases new book A Real Bronx Cheer.
  • Adam Pendleton answers 17 questions.