• Sale of Basquiat’s Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown) on hold over ownership dispute.
  • RIP: LeRoy Neiman who died at the age of 91.
  • Uli Sigg presented with gift of artwork by Hong Hao at the ceremony marking his donation to HK.
  • Dave Hickey announced as co-curator of High Desert Test Sites 2013 (to expand towards Albuquerque).
  • Members of MTA settle with the LA city attorney’s office to avoid at least $3.7 million in clean up fees.
  • Riverside police made more graffiti-related arrests in first four months of ’12 than they did in ’11 or ’10.
  • One Denver neighborhood homeowner’s association is trying to put a stop to sidewalk chalk art.
  • Art world weighs in on Tony Shafrazi’s decision to exhibit his own art at his gallery’s booth at Basel.
  • Chinese police are warning Ai Weiwei to stay away from court for his tax hearing as lawyer disappears.
  • SFMOMA to go on hiatus for three years as it undergoes $300 million expansion.
  • Occupy group takes over an empty house owned by Anish Kapoor for a one-day arts event.
  • Study finds that there is no link between art’s emotional value and its price.
  • New Thermal Quasi-Reflectography technology reveals unseen details of Renaissance artworks.
  • Donations to the arts in the U.S. rose ~4.1% in 2011 – to $13.1 billion, according to report.
  • Hermann Göring – one of the greatest art thieves in history – has his art collection go online.
  • FBI announces return of more than 120 stolen artifacts to Chicago’s Polish Museum of America.
  • UNESCO’s Paris headquarters has an exhibition of stolen artifacts and artwork.
  • Vandalized Picasso at the Menil Collection in Houston has been restored and is ready to hang.
  • Art scholars hesitant to give opinions concerning authenticity due to fear of lawsuits.
  • London auction market booming.
  • Nude model sues city of New York, claiming her civil rights were violated during live body painting.
  • Sarah Thornton goes behind the scenes of Jeff Koons’s new museum show.
  • Chris Ofili has spent two years creating sets and costumes for an epic ballet inspired by Titian.
  • Marina Abramovic has sold her one-bedroom Soho loft for $3.2 million
  • Mungo Thomson has created a helium balloon version of Levitated Mass.
  • Vija Celmins to exhibit her dark paintings at Tate alongside light paintings by Turner.
  • Brad Pitt flies to Documenta and spends “thousands on paintings”.  He also picks up some Bambi pieces.
  • Cheech Marin to receive the Arts Patron of the Year Award at ArtHamptons in July.
  • Grayson Perry signs two-year exclusive television deal.
  • Peter Brant and Stephanie Seymour’s sons – Harry and Peter II – living it up.
  • Anthony Lister is cover artist for the new issue of VNA.
  • New work from Dan May for the upcoming Kingdom Animalia show.
  • The Dreams Towards Reality book from Andrew Hem is almost ready for release.
  • A new print ready from Luke Chueh for SDCC.
  • A visit to the studio of Cancun-based sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor.
  • The Hundreds visits TK and his collection, founder of Silly Thing.
  • Street artist EPOS 257 built himself a giant paint cannon.
  • A new indoor mural from Liqen in Okinawa.