Stories of the week:

  • Jean-Michel Basquiat Untitled 1981 self-portrait to fetch a new auction record for the artist.
  • Woman who scratched, punched, and urinated near a Clyfford Still painting bottomless is sentenced.
  • Richard Phillips creates another film featuring Lindsay Lohan – to premiere at Art Basel.
  • Erykah Badu not happy with artistic decisions made by The Flaming Lips.
  • Drew Barrymore marries art dealer Will Kopelman in Southern California.
  • Vice Magazine reviews Tyler Shields’ LA exhibition. The Birkin bag that he destroyed may have been a fake.
  • Mainland China has a problem with deadbeat auction buyers.
  • Elli Bern Angellino claims the Saudi royal family owes him $12.6 million for 29 sculptures.
  • Las Vegas looking at taxes to help fund public art program.
  • Huntington Library buys a Robert Rauschenberg Spread painting for its collection.
  • Liza Essers, gallery owner of the show that scandalized South Africa, speaks.
  • Cambodia seeks return of statues, currently at The Met, that they said were looted.
  • TIME compiles a list of five sites for art collectors.
  • LA Weekly writes about Los Angeles paper-mache street artists.
  • Ramiro Gomez pays homage to LA’s unseen workers in Beverly Hills.
  • L.A. Center for Digital Art to have a show based on Instagram images.
  • Artist turns his dead cat into flying helicopter after it is killed by a car.
  • The MacDowell Colony awards Nan Goldin a medal for lifetime achievement in the arts.
  • Retired artist Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrar create a new billboard near the High Line.
  • Guggenheim, MFA Houston and LACMA to show James Turrell in 2013.
  • Barry McGee monograph coming in the end of summer.
  • ARTINFO asks David Benjamin Sherry some questions.
  • Hen’s egg with self-portrait by Lucian Freud set sell after being hidden in drawer for 33 years.
  • James Franco brings psychic to The New Museum for the launch of his artist switchblade.
  • Q&A with Kehinde Wiley on his collaboration with Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci.
  • Two new prints from Dran.
  • Some new sculptures from Sam3 of his shadow creatures.
  • Candice Tripp creates the cover art for the Let The Right One In soundtrack.
  • Futura garners the cover for the UK’s EXIT magazine.
  • Some photos of Todd James’ (REAS) new show in Tokyo.
  • Moneyless and Mark Lyken worked on some collaborative installations in Glasgow.
  • An interview with Phil Hale on Erratic Phenomena.
  • Some new work in progress from Frank Gonzales.
  • A new table lamp designed by Aiko inspired by Isamu Noguchi.
  • Online support building for arrested Singapore street artist where illegal public art can be punished by up to 3 years in prison and lashing.