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Overtime: July 21 – July 27

More stories from the week that ended July 27 (click on bolded words for more information): Azuma Makoto sends bonsai tree, orchids, lilies, other plants into the stratosphere, suspended in a balloon. RIP: Otto Piene, who died at the age of 85. Should Britain do more to protect cultural objects and sites during time of war? The Shrine of Jonah/Mosque of Yunus (Nineveh, Mosul, Iraq) has been destroyed, allegedly by ISIS. Artists destroy Beuys sculpture for an ingredient in liquor, which they drank. Eva Beuys takes […]

Overtime: July 14 – July 20

More stories from the week that ended July 20 (click on bolded words for more information): Profile of The Mistake Room and a look at Korakrit Arunanondchai exhibition there. RIP: Seymour Slive, who died at 93 after battling cancer. RIP: Otto Piene, who died in a taxi at the age of 86. One of the world’s greatest art collections in private hands in all likelihood is a hoax. Ronald Lauder urges Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum to return Pissarro painting looted by Nazis. Three paintings in Prussian Cultural Heritage […]

Overtime: July 7 – July 13

Image: © Nancy Rubins. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Erich Koyama More stories from the week that ended July 13 (click on bolded words for more information): Nancy Rubins’ Our Friend Fluid Metal opens at Gagosian Gallery W 21st St on July 17. RIP: On Kawara, who died at the age of 81. Helly Nahmad had a month-long “party” before heading off to prison. Stuart Krimko leaves his position as director at David Kordansky Gallery to focus on poetry. The […]

Overtime: June 30 – July 6

More stories from the week that ended July 6 (click on bolded words for more information): The Guardian reviews Barbara Kruger’s show at Modern Art Oxford. RIP: Madeleine Gekiere, who committed suicide at the age of 95. John D. Re accused of selling over 60 forged Jackson Pollock paintings to private collectors and on eBay. The band Unfathomable Ruination to play in sealed box until they run out of oxygen. SUV crashes into Addonis Parker’s studio in Miami. Indian art market plagued by fakes. Another […]

Overtime: June 23 – June 29

More stories from the week that ended June 29 (click on bolded words for more information): The Fifth Season show opens at James Cohan Gallery including Matthew Brandt, Pierre Huyghe, and others. RIP: Jennifer Wynne Reeves dies at the age of 51 due to brain cancer. RIP: Claude Simard, co-founder of Jack Shainman Gallery, who died unexpectedly. Helge Achenbach arrested due to fraud allegations. Nelson Saiers steps down as chief investment officer of Saiers Capital LLC to pursue a career as an artist. American exchange student pulled […]

Overtime: June 16 – June 22

More stories from the week that ended June 22 (click on bolded words for more information): A review of Franz West’s show at the Hepworth. RIP: Ultra Violet, who died at the age of 78 due to cancer. Heritage sues Christie’s for $60mil. over handbag personnel and trade secrets. Brad Pitt & Peter Capaldi lead efforts to raise £20mil. to restore fire-damaged Glasgow School of Art building. Finnish people unhappy with the possibility and feasibility study of Helsinki Guggenheim. More MOCANoMi drama between the board […]

Overtime: June 2 – June 8

More stories from the week that ended June 8 (click on bolded words for more information): Benjamin Redford draws a portrait of the entire internet. Frenchman Mehdi Nemmouche claims responsibility in Brussels Jewish Museum shooting. Katara Art Center to close at the end of the month due to loss of funding. Three allegedly-Islamist men steal a portion of John Latham’s God is Great (#4) work at Portikus. Patrick Vialaneix may face ten years in prison for conspiring to sell stolen Rembrandt he was obsessed with. […]

Overtime: May 27 – June 1

More stories from the week that ended June 1 (click on bolded words for more information): Jeff Koons’ Split-Rocker to be installed at 30 Rock. RIP: Maya Angelou, who died at the age of 86. RIP: Michael Schmidt, who died at the age of 68, three days after learning he had won Prix Pictet. Gunman opens fire and kills four people during attack at Brussels Jewish Museum. Alexander Selvik Wengshoel eats his own hip as part of art performance. Says it tastes like “wild sheep”. […]

Overtime: May 19 – May 25

More stories from the week that ended May 25 (click on bolded words for more information): Damien Hirst’s Gone But Not Forgotten sculpture raises $15mil. at Amfar fundraiser. RIP: Lynne Cohen, who died at the age of 69 following extended battle with lung cancer. Big fire breaks out at the Glasgow School of Art building. Lee Wen claims that he was attacked and left unconscious in bathroom at Hong Kong’s City University. Egypt has looting problem with its antiquities and is fighting it with spacecraft […]

Overtime: May 12 – May 18

More stories from the week that ended May 18 (click on bolded words for more information): Mark Grotjahn’s first museum exhibition of sculptural works coming to Nasher Sculpture Center. RIP: H.R. Giger, who died at 74 after being injured in fall. Hong Kong show of Antony Gormley’s rooftop statues cancelled after man jumps off roof and kills himself. Takashi Murakami thinks that the art world (including himself) is full of zombies. Cornelius Gurlitt wrote a second will. A look at his final days. Anne Baldassari […]