• Christie’s will offer Monet’s Nymphéas water lillies painting.   It is estimated to sell between $30-50 mil.
  • Mark Rothko’s Black on Maroon – part of Seagram mural, defaced by man at Tate Modern museum.
  • Jonathan Jones on why the greatest works of art get attacked.
  • Buddhist nun stops sale of £1million Zhang Daqian painting after ownership is called into question.
  • Diaries could provide a vital clue to origin of controversial early original Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa.
  • Restorers tackle obscene (including genitalia) 17th-century graffiti on rediscovered frescoes
  • Art restorer  says saving Ecce Homo fresco “destroyed” by Cecilia Giménez could be done in minutes.
  • Egypt cracking down hard on street art and graffiti in the country.
  • French government might start taxing art.
  • Newly discovered Magritte works to be unveiled.
  • It’s been discovered that Pablo Picasso was first artist to use common house paint in his work.
  • Ai Weiwei angered by Mo Yan Nobel Prize for Literature.
  • Christo launches Christo and Jeanne-Claude Award in Abu Dhabi.
  • Adonna Khare wins ArtPrize 2012 and $200,000 with her Elephants piece.
  • The Tate establishing South Asian acquisitions committee to collect art from India, Russia, Eastern Europe.
  • The Met digitizes their art catalogs.
  • Fundraiser at Hammer Museum honoring Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman raises record $2 million.
  • An interview with Larry Gagosian about his current plans and state of the international art market.
  • Gagosian Gallery and China are the two engines driving contemporary auction market, according to Artprice.
  • Galerie Perrotin to open Manhattan branch in 2013, sharing the building with Dominique Levy.
  • Lehmann Maupin opening space in Hong Kong in 2013.
  • Thaddaeus Ropac opening space in Paris that features a performance center.
  • Financial Times writes about Steve Lazarides’s Bedlam.
  • Costco once again selling fine art, including Warhol, Braque, and Matisse lithographs.
  • Unseen sketches by Andy Warhol exhibited at Frieze Art Fair.
  • More artists, like Kenny Scharf and Curtis Kulig, are working with cosmetics brands.
  • Art discovery site Art.sy launches to the public.
  • Leon Black acquires publishing house Phaidon Press Ltd.
  • A look at Paul Allen’s art collection.
  • Olga Koumoundouros turns abandoned home in Glassell Park into art project.
  • Barbara Kruger designs a bus wrap in LA to stress the importance of arts education in public schools
  • ArtInfo has 15 Questions for Jesper Just.
  • Louis Vuitton has commissioned RETNA to paint a mural on the façade of new Miami store location.
  • Lolcats given show at The Photographer’s Gallery in London.