This week’s Overtime news summary:
- A tribute mural to Adam Youch aka MCA by The Entree Lifestyle crew near his Alma Mater in Brooklyn.
- Neil Young gets Shepard Fairey to make some paintings for him based on songs. Exhibition to come.
- Shepard Fairey designs limited edition Artist Series vinyl for Serato.
- Sotheby’s reported a first-quarter loss as auction sales dropped 29 percent from a year earlier.
- Knoedler & Company may have sold Diebenkorn pieces they were informed were fake by Diebenkorn family.
- French cave art oldest of their kind in the world, study finds.
- Iraq’s archaeological sites are being protected from smuggling via satellites.
- Chinese court to hear Ai Weiwei’s lawsuit.
- Australian hotel group is giving away Warhol painting to guest who can pick the real one from a fake.
- The Harvard Art Museums won’t reopen until late 2014 – a year later than planned.
- Australia’s busiest museum (Victoria) to cut staff and extend shows to meet funding shortfall.
- An interview with Emmanuel Perrotin on occasion of his new gallery opening in Hong Kong by Hypebeast.
- Van Gogh Museum acquires Van Gogh watercolor (first purchase in five years).
- Whitney Museum putting together a Jeff Koons retrospective.
- Indian officials think New Yorker responsible for clandestine international racket in ancient artifacts.
- Perry Rubenstein’s debut show for new gallery in LA to feature Helmut Newton.
- Scream drawing was held in National Gallery of Art’s vault for 17 years and shown to scholars and visitors. There is now a huge demand for Scream posters in response to record sale.
- The Boston Globe asks if money is destroying the art world.
- Gallery shows with million dollar works, where nothing is for sale.
- Software developed to recognize terrorist faces being adapted to solving portraits of unidentified people.
- Thomas Kinkade cause of death: drug and alcohol overdose, according to coroner.
- Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers in Interview Magazine.
- The Hole Gallery opens restaurant called Hole Foods.
- Justin Beiber purchases Holton Rower artwork from The Hole.
- Photographs in UK’s Daily Mail show Philadelphia’s seedy underbelly and its inhabitants’ struggle to survive
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How some art world professionals deal with the ever intensifying art fair circuit.
- Forever Marilyn sculpture will temporarily be shown in Palm Springs.
- Stephen Colbert discusses art on The Colbert Report.
- Melly gives 50 reasons not to date a photographer.
- T Magazine features Adam Wallacavage.
- New prints available now from Stella Im Hultberg.
- A new large limited edition from COOP.
- Vandalog interviews The London Police.
- Hypebeast visits the studio of Chaz Bojorquez.
- Take a 360 degree look at Smash137 Beautiful Struggle show.
- Phlegm’s idea of surveillance.
- Photos from the KAWS and IKEPOD watch launch event.
- Legal wall from Cope2, Sand, and Vyal buffed in Los Angeles.