- Phlegm working on another new book. See some of the drawings.
- Instagram recommends AM [other IG accounts: arrestedmotion_sleepboy, khoi08, svenman, sazajane, rhinomilk, marcusslo, lowpro]
- RIP: Influential Chicago gallerist Donald Young. Dead at 69.
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US returns 16th century painting to heirs of Jewish man who died before Nazis stormed France.
- Suspected father and daughter art forging team arrested in Moscow.
- Italian museum director protests anti-austerity measures by burning art.
- Occupy Wall Street joins labor dispute protests against Frieze New York.
- Aidan, Marat Guelman and XL: three of Moscow’s leading art galleries are closing.
- David Hockney writes in support of tobacco/cigarette industry’s rights.
- Christian Marclay included in 2012 TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World.
- Bloomberg News interviews Maya Lin.
- Tobias Meyer discusses Roy Lichtenstein’s Sleeping Girl with Irving Blum.
- Ai Weiwei sues China’s tax office in tax evasion case against his company.
- Ai Weiwei getting a retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC.
- Thomas P. Campbell, director of the Met, was paid $1.04M in salary and benefits in 2010
- Qatar is expected to bid on the Munch Scream painting coming up for auction.
- Helsinki Guggenheim museum bid gains approval of mayor.
- Huffington Post compares Thomas Kinkade’s work to Damien Hirst’s.
- May Andersen, Hole Gallery Assistant Director, appears (and is covergirl) in Playboy.
- LACMA launching concert series for “emerging and experimental” local hip-hop artists.
- Yet more photos of Jeffrey Deitch’s house.
- Jason Lee takes creative and fun photographs of his young daughters.
- Victoria Beckham denies that she gave her eight-month-old a Damien Hirst baby monitor.
- Ron English weedvertisements.
- A peek at Audrey Kawasaki’s studio.
- Some new prints from Femke Hiemstra posted to her blog.
- Mia making some progress on her upcoming show at Corey Helford.
- ROID has a solo coming up in London.
- Flying Fortress gets his BBQ on.
- Some photos from Fafi’s book release party at Nucleus Gallery.