Stories of the week:

  • Leopold Museum agrees to settle with claimants to keep Schiele painting that was stolen by the Nazis.
  • A Picasso lithograph is one of the items missing after raging CA mansion party ends.  Update: Recovered.
  • RIP Wayne Roberts, aka Stay High 149.
  • Federal officials investigating the 1990 Gardner Museum heist plan public awareness campaign.
  • Jerry Saltz’s thoughts on Documenta 13.
  • David Shirgley’s gallery decides not to show his bin Laden piece at Art Basel.
  • Dubai discovers that there are more components than just money to a successful art market.
  • Behind the scenes and politics of art fair selection committees.
  • $20 million+ Gerhard Richter piece one of the works available at Art Basel.
  • Bloomberg reports on Basel sales – Gagosian brought an estimated $250 million of works to the fair.
  • Untitled (Paula) by Rudolf Stingel sells for $3 million at Basel to François Pinault.
  • A painting by Sir Winston Churchill is expected to fetch over a million dollars at auction.
  • The world’s wealthy turning to art and collectables in today’s low-return world.
  • Market for Jeff Koons works very volatile.
  • ARTINFO on the stagnation of the middle level of the art market.
  • Nonprofit arts and culture industry injects billions into local US economies, according to report.
  • LACMA announces shorter museum hours.
  • Battle in Los Angeles over food truck ban during Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk.
  • The Fondazione Prada buys Ed Kienholz’s Five Car Stud, 1969-72, for its permanent collection.
  • Vincent Gallo still has not exhibited any of his work at the Whitney Biennial.
  • Interview with ya boy, Hennessy Youngman.
  • Dasha Zhukova’s role in building a new Russia.
  • An interview with Tracey Emin.
  • NY Times Magazine interviews Marina Abramovic.
  • Thumbtack Press now offering UGLYDOLL artwork and prints.
  • Check out this wind map of the United States.
  • Rey Parlá documents JR and José Parlá’s collaboration in Cuba.
  • Fashion of attendees is the focus at Shepard Fairey exhibition at Perry Rubenstein Gallery.
  • Oldest confirmed cave art is single red dot.
  • A new piece by Brandi Milne for a charity show in Italy.
  • Portrait of Audrey Kawasaki and her cat.
  • Matt W. Moore designs some Coca Cola bottles for the Olympics.
  • A look at the Comic-Con exclusion version of Luke Chueh’s Target.
  • The Andy Warhol x BAPE x Medicom banana pillow.