Stories of the week:
- The Village Voice visits Chuck Close on occasion of his upcoming Pace Gallery show.
- Original cover for Amazing Spiderman no. 328 by Todd McFarlane sells for record $675,250.
- RIP – Franz West, who has been sick for quite some time, dies at age 65.
- RIP – Herbert Vogel dies at the age of 89.
- Judd Tully looks back on the life of Herbert Vogel.
- RIP – Karl Benjamin, who died at the age of 86.
- Roberta Smith finally comments on the MOCA situation and proposes her solutions to its problems.
- Lee Rosenbaum responds to Roberta Smith’s MOCA plan, calling it “a kind of mission impossible.”
- Former MOCA chief executive Charles Young writes to Eli Broad, demanding dismissal of Jeffrey Deitch.
- Robert Storr (former MoMA curator) blasts MOCA and Jeffrey Deitch.
- Jason Edward Kaufman criticizes Deitch’s MOCA run & thinks he needs to step down before things get better.
- Staff member Leigh Silverton writes about why she is quitting MOCA.
- MOCA Mobilization issues press release and list of demands.
- MOCA pulls out of Richard Hamilton retrospective. Paul Schimmel is one of the exhibition’s curators.
- A look into the financial picture of the nation’s major museums.
- Financially struggling Memphis College of Art selling off much of its art collection in order to raise funds.
- IRS values Robert Rauschenberg combine at $65 mil.- however it can not ever be sold due to stuffed eagle.
- Alexander Schaefer, Burning Banks artist, arrested for chalk drawings outside Chase Bank in LA.
- Arrest warrant issued to NY dealer for receiving items stolen from religious sites in India and elsewhere.
- Russian collector wins £1.7m refund from Christie’s after auction house sold him fake painting.
- India requests Beijing gallery to censor artwork shown at Hans Ulrich Obrist-curated exhibition.
- Architectural Digest revisits Georgia O’Keefe’s New Mexico home on occasion of her 125th birthday.
- Big Ben to chime 40 times in three min. as part of Martin Creed’s bell-ringing event marking start of Olympics.
- Ai Weiwei provides his thoughts about the Olympics.
- Overshadowed – ten artistic relatives of famous artists.
- Zurich brings public art by artists such as Ai Weiwei and Subodh Gupta to the city’s streets.
- Gagosian Gallery will stage a major sculpture exhibition in warehouse in Rio de Janeiro as part of ArtRio fair.
- Nate Lowman, Hanna Liden and Leo Fitzpatrick curate new TriBeCa project space called Home Alone.
- Profile of Mark Flood on occasion of his solo exhibition at Luxembourg and Dayan.
- An article about Instagram/Hipstamatic, photography, and context.
- First in a series of articles about the anti-graffiti industry in cities by Kurt Iveson.
- A sneak peek at Eric Haze’s latest mural, part of a major installation based on the 2012 Olympics.
- Something new from Melissa Cooke.
- Kickstarter for the Wall Writers project.
- Dan May has posted up an image of his latest painting, a commission piece.
- Another new painting from the visually intriguing Matthew Palladino.
- Looks like Dave Kinsey has designed the new album cover for Tommy Guerrero.