- Video: Banks Violette talks about his new show at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris.
- Laurel Nakadate and James Franco create three-part project based around Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie for their Performa Commission.
- Ai Weiwei curates show at Taipei Fine Arts Museum called Ai Weiwei is Absent.
- Preparations well underway for Art Basel Miami Beach 2011.
- Small group of artists occupy Artists Space. Gets evicted.
- There could be a Louvre Museum branch opening in Abu Dhabi in 2013.
- Artist delivers her baby in a gallery as part of conceptual art project.
- Mark Grotjahn sues Dean Valentine over 5% royalty fees for resale of artwork.
- Take a seat in Steve McCurry’s One Minute Masterclass.
- Installing Cy Twombly‘s monumental Untitled (1970) in MoMA’s main lobby.
- MoMA acquires Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Untitled (Free) – will serve curry for free in museum.
- Larry Bell may have influenced architect Frank Gehry.
- Occupy Museums offers its support to Sotheby’s striking art handlers.
- George Condo lists his five favorite paintings in the National Gallery.
- Two Picasso paintings stolen in Switzerland found in Serbia after three years.
- Gallery owner Magda Danysz talks about her space in Rue Amelot.
- Billionaire French art collector Claude Dray shot dead in suspected hit.
- Buy the Jeff Koons BMW Art Car (in 1:18 scale).
- Yoshitomo Nara goes to Pace Gallery (formerly represented by Marianne Boesky in NY).
- Rare early Smurfs comic drawings by Peyo set to go on sale.
- Previously unseen sketches and paintings by JRR Tolkien to be published.
- New prints from Andrew Hem (1xrun), Dan May, and Dran.
- Under pressure from artists, LA revising a 2002 law banning murals on most private property.
- LA legend Mear One interviewed by LA Taco.
- Lush creates the Ultimate Writer.
- Cash for Warhol interviewed by the Warholian.
- A water Chinese calligraphy machine for the streets.
- SupaKitch & Koralie team up for a mural in Paris (caught on video).
- Top 25 graffiti artists of Los Angeles list put together by REVOK.
- New work posted on flickr by Evol and posted on his blog by Herbert Baglione.
- Keith Haring customizes Land Rover (from 1983)
- Kickstarter for Cheryl Dunn’s Everybody Street documentary.
- Eight-foot tall Lego man washes ashore in FL. Said to be work of Ego Leonard.
Overtime: Oct 24 – Oct 30
Posted by Khoi, October 30, 2011