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
  • 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.