Overtime stories of the week:

  • Raphael drawing – Head Of A Young Apostle – sells for £30 million – new record for paper piece at auction.
  • Prominent collector Steven Cohen under investigation and noticeably absent at Art Basel Miami Beach.
  • Woman purchases Alexander Calder print worth $9k for $12.34 at a Goodwill store.
  • ESSAM arrested and given multiple charges after outing himself in a video interview.
  • Five looted Indian sculptures (worth $5 mil.)seized at Port Newark by Homeland Security Investigations.
  • Identity of thief who stole Goya painting in 1961 revealed.
  • Pair of thieves that stole Henry Moore sculpture for £46 sentenced to jail.
  • FBI solves Gundlach art theft with help by using Google – an idea given to them by the victim.
  • Italy’s specialist art theft police track down and brings home a lost Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece.
  • Italian police recover 2,000-year-old Egyptian sphinx stolen from Etruscan necropolis of Montem Rossulum.
  • Dallas Museum of Art returns stolen mosaic to Turkey, launches cultural exchange program.
  • 12 students barricaded themselves inside  room at Cooper Union Foundation Building to protest tuition.
  • New York Post’s decision to put photograph by R. Umar Abbasi of doomed man on cover spurs controversy.
  • Yangon imposes ban prohibiting drawing on public buildings, roads, bridges, in schools & parks.
  • Controversy erupts as gallery in Sweden exhibits art work made from ashes of Holocaust victims.
  • Uzbekistan claims that undiscovered masterpiece is by Italian Renaissance master Paolo Veronese.
  • Turkey’s art market exploding as Istanbul gets three more art fairs.
  • The future of public art at risk as spending cuts across Europe slash budgets.
  • USC and MOCA may enter into a possible partnership.
  • Jude Law to present the Turner Prize.
  • Jerry Saltz’s Top 10 Art Picks of 2012.
  • First of nine lists for Art+Auction’s Power 2012, Part 1: Auction Power. And Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.
  • The market for fine art photography is on the steady rise.
  • Paul Morris launching Chosen – an exclusive club that brings together collectors with must-have works of art.
  • A drawing by prime minister David Cameron to go up for auction benefiting Eden Project charity.
  • Jeff Koons to have solo exhibition with David Zwirner in May.
  • Interview with Jonas Mekas – “the godfather of avant-garde cinema”.
  • Bloomberg Businessweek interviews Wade Guyton.
  • Interview with Oscar Murillo as he prepares for his exhibition with The Rubell Collection.
  • T Magazine reviews Sam Falls’ book Problems With Decomposition, published by Morel Books.
  • Kraftwerk to perform eight complete album sets at Tate Modern, following successful MoMA shows.
  • Jay-Z meets Ellen Grossman on a subway train and does not know who she is and vice versa.
  • A$AP Rocky hosts art show with HVW8 and Adidas at in Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach.
  • Michael Jackson’s chimp Bubbles selling his abstract paintings during Art Basel Miami Beach.
  • Julian Lennon exhibits photographs during Art Basel Miami Beach. Sales benefit White Feather Foundation.
  • New restaurant in Los Angeles – Black Cat – features a selection of artwork curated by Poster Child Prints.
  • Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen team up with Damien Hirst to create luxury backpacks for their label The Row.