More stories from the week that ended April 13 (click on bolded words for more information):

  • Truong Tran uses old pornography and nature magazines to protest Hirst’s use of butterflies.
  • RIP: Alan Davie, who died at 93, a day before his retrospective was due to open at Tate Britain.
  • Hong Kong police search landfill for $3.7mil. painting dumped by cleaners at Grand Hyatt hotel after auction.
  • Matisse’s painting Sitting Woman, part of Gurlitt trove, now subject to two competing claims. Authorities returning the artwork trove to Gurlitt.
  • Experts refute the bold claim that Spain’s Holy Grail is the real deal.
  • Damian Hirst autobiography to reveal his criminal past.
  • Kevin Sutherland convicted of selling fake Damien Hirst paintings.
  • Fugitive becomes finance chief of Czech Republic’s National Museum of Agriculture and steals $500,000.
  • MOCA NoMi suing city of Miami for breach of contract.
  • Pérez Art Museum Miami being sued by engineering firm that accused it of failing to secure support beams.
  • Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to decide on Cape Cod consignment/bankruptcy case.
  • Pakistan artists’ collective challenging impersonal & indiscriminate drone deaths with giant images of victims.
  • Jonathan Jones calls for all artists to boycott Russia.
  • Report shows lack of arts education within NYC’s public schools.
  • The Getty Museum voluntarily returning illuminated New Testament after learning that it was stolen.
  • George Bush used Wikipedia to get the images for his paintings.
  • Joslyn Art Museum discovers Rembrandt painting in storage and has it authenticated.
  • George Stephanopoulos gifts his photography collection gifted to The Hyde Collection.
  • University of Granada says it has found an authentic copy of Raphael’s Madonna of Foligno.
  • Sergey Skaterschikov buys ARTnews Magazine.
  • Philippe Vergne placing increased emphasis on performance-based art at MOCA.
  • Broad Art Museum acquires Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room.
  • Beatrix Ruf announced as new director of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
  • Billboards across America this summer will showcase art thanks to Art Everywhere.
  • Four investors have made tentative billion-dollar bids for the DIA, or key portions of its collection.
  • Zhang Xiaogang’s painting Bloodline: Big Family No.3 sells for $12.1mil, a record for the artist.
  • Edward Dolman to become chairman and chief executive of Phillips.
  • Rui Costa Reis bids for 85 works by Joan Miro from Portuguese government.
  • Artwork from The Reiner Family Collection to be sold at Christie’s.
  • Carter Cleveland speaks about Artsy on After The Bell.
  • 15th century porcelain cup from China sells at Sotheby’s HK for $36mil.
  • Pieter Brueghel currently one of the hottest artists on the Old Master market.
  • The market for some young artists, like Dan Rees and Lucien Smith, is getting hotter.
  • According to Artnet, it is a good time to sell your Paul Gauguin prints.
  • What the art world tells us about the value of wealth.
  • Dealers looking at artists that may have been initially overlooked by the market and history.
  • Anthony Haden-Guest writes about artist poaching and the troubles mid-sized galleries face.
  • Pierre Huyghe is the latest artist to join the Hauser and Wirth stable.
  • Sket One and Mear One grow up from their illegal tagging and graffiti roots.
  • Extensive profile of Ryan McGinley in GQ.
  • A look at Aaron Curry.
  • An interview with Cory Arcangel on his Surfware brand.
  • Richard Serra’s latests project.
  • Laura Owens in conversation with Alex Katz.
  • Ryan Schneider interviewed in Whitewall about his show at Two Rams.
  • Keanu Reeves interviews Robert Longo.
  • An interview with Jordan Wolfson.
  • Mona Kuhn talks to Elizabeth Avedon about her new work.
  • Nan Goldin now photographing children.
  • Daniel Joseph Martinez wins Herb Alpert arts award.
  • Betye Saar will receive 55th annual Edward MacDowell Medal for lifetime achievement in the arts.
  • Mousse Magazine reviews Raster Raster exhibition at Aran Cravey.
  • Roberta Smith reviews George Bush’s show of paintings.
  • Matthew Brandt gets featured in The Week.
  • Ten interesting facts about Andreas Gursky.
  • CNN writes about Jack Kevorkian’s art exhibition in West Hollywood.
  • Parker Ito screen print available for pre-order.
  • New print available by Bjarne Melgaard.