Overtime stories of the week:

  • More spectacular aerial images of New York by Iwan Baan after parts of it loses power due to Sandy. How he captured the images.
  • Galleries struggling to navigate complex options of insurance policies regarding flooding post-Sandy.
  • Sandy exposes major flaw in design of National September 11 Memorial and Museum.
  • Artwork damaged due to Sandy overwhelm art conservators in the NY area.
  • Doug and Mike Starn’s South Ferry mosaics escape damage from Superstorm Sandy.
  • Sandy miraculously spared 1st phase of Artlantic – planned 5 year $13 mil. public art project in Atlantic City.
  • Artists and other cultural figures alike head to Mark Hotel for refuge.
  • The Kitchen suffers severe damage as a result of Sandy, but aims to keep season’s programming intact.
  • AI’s resources for artists and art organizations who need financial and other assistance after Sandy.
  • Film posters looted by Nazis during WWII to go on sale after they are returned to rightful heir.
  • Artworks deemed forgeries keep on popping up back in the market.
  • An edition of Rachel Whiteread’s Untitled (24 Switches) stolen from the walls of gallery.
  • Takashi Murakami sues Marianne Boesky over use of wallpaper design.
  • Analysis by Felix Salmon of the Gagosian vs. Cowles lawsuit.
  • Assets belonging to Saud Bin Mohammed Al-Thani frozen because of unpaid bills to auction houses.
  • Paintings by Turner & Rubens donated to Britain in lieu of inheritance tax after the deaths of their owners.
  • Toronto creates an official five-member Graffiti Panel.
  • Sir Nicholas Serota and Danny Boyle plea to halt the sale of a Henry Moore sculpture by a London council. Museum of London offers to be home to the sculpture.
  • Met and Louvre have invested heavily in their Islamic art collections.
  • The Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach lays off its chief curator and four other workers to cut costs.
  • JK Iguatemi hosts SP-Arte/Foto, the most important photography fair in Latin America, in São Paulo.
  • Artliner selling duty-free Damien Hirst artwork (priced between £55,000 to £500,000) at private airports.
  • Art history majors may soon be paying higher tuition than other majors in Florida’s public universities.
  • Tasya van Ree solo exhibition opens at Stephen Webster – Beverly Hills.
  • A pick-up truck painted by Donald Judd.
  • Art in America interviews Paul Schimmel.
  • Jim Drain gets asked and subsequently answers twenty-five questions.
  • Cool Hunting interviews Jen Stark.
  • Jordi Ruiz Cirera wins the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize.
  • Tom Wolfe writes a book set at Art Basel Miami Beach that may feature some real art world figures.
  • Owner of home formerly lived in by Titian having a hard time selling the house.