More stories from the week that ended March 16 (click on bolded words for more information):

  • Jesse Krimes creates 39-Panel mural made from bedsheets, hair gel and newspapers while in prison.
  • 18 Chinese artists (calligraphers, painters, poets) were aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
  • Dodge Gallery in NYC’s Lower East Side will close after four years in business.
  • Elmgreen & Dragset’s Prada Marfa heavily defaced and vandalized. Elmgreen & Dragset respond.
  • Emil Nolde painting stolen from Ølstrup Church in Denmark.
  • 70 identified artworks stolen recently from the National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana worth close to $1.5mil.
  • Student artwork at UC Davis removed after it was mistaken for vandalism.
  • Patrick Cramer sues Calder Foundation after it says Eight Black Leaves mobile is just fragment of larger work.
  • Women museum directors earn about a third less than their male counterparts, according to report.
  • Advertisement image of Michelangelo’s David brandishing an AR-50A1 sold by ArmaLite angering those in Italy.
  • Sotheby’s rejects Daniel Loeb’s nominees for board and nominates two other members.
  • Higher salaries in North America are attracting an increasing number of British curators to make the move.
  • France returns 3 paintings stolen by Nazis.
  • Missing Norman Rockwell painting Sport recovered after it went missing from storage facility.
  • Harvard Art Museums will reopen in Nov. after a six-year, $350 million renovation and expansion.
  • Banksy works resurface in Syria and Detroit. Detroit Banksy may not be by Banksy.
  • Manifesta 10 to stay in Russia, despite calls for it to relocate.
  • Cézanne web-based catalogue raisonné to be able to be accessed for free.
  • Stonehedge monument might be able to make music, according to study.
  • Maccarone Gallery to open space in Los Angeles on South Mission Road.
  • Successful investments help Getty endowment rise to $6.2 billion for 2013.
  • Shanghai’s K11 Art Mall has a Monet show in the basement.
  • National Gallery of Art receives donation of 30 photographs from Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker.
  • Long-rumored merger between North Miami MOCA and Bass Museum moving forward.
  • Las Vegas planning new contemporary art museum.
  • Afrika Bambaataa and others plan to open Universal Hip Hop museum in Bronx.
  • Williams College’s art museum allows students to borrow works.
  • A look at San Francisco’s Bitcoin Art Fair.
  • Tour of the Hort family collection during Armory week.
  • TEFAF art market report says 2013 best year on record since 2007 and market outlook bullish.
  • Calder sculpture that had been on view in Gramercy Park for the past three years turns up for sale in Maastricht.
  • Art works confiscated from family of Chun Doo-Hwan auctioned to pay fines imposed for bribes.
  • Christie’s sale of Alexis Adler’s Basquiat works has been postponed.
  • Jonathan Demme selling most of his art collection at auction.
  • The complex issues that surround insurance for artwork.
  • Jackson Pollock’s Mural proven to have been painted for more than just one night.
  • Alice Aycock sculptural installation goes on view on Park Ave.
  • BGL will represent Canada at the 2015 Venice Biennale.
  • The return of Plastic Little.
  • Simon Evans’s wife wants more credit for art work, as she also contributes.
  • Bobby Hundreds interviews Eric Nakamura.
  • Florentijn Hofman’s Rubber Duck making appearance at The Chrysler Museum of Art reopening.
  • A look at Grazyna Kulczyk and her art collection.
  • Profile of and updates on Emmanuel Perrotin.
  • More on Oscar Murillo and his next show, his first at David Zwirner Gallery.
  • Walead Besthy show at Regen Projects reviewed by David Pagel.
  • A review of the Yoshitomo Nara show at Blum & Poe.
  • LA Times takes a look at Jacob Hashimoto’s installation at MOCA PDC.
  • A look at Mark Flood’s show at Modern Art.
  • Paddy Johnson reviews Brad Troemel’s show at Zach Feuer Gallery.
  • Daniel Gordon wins Foam Paul Huf Award 2014.
  • Limited edition BÄST high tops for Marc Jacobs, made from original canvases.
  • New Jeremy Fish limited edition print available for pre-order.