Stories of the week:

  • Dave Rittinger’s proposal for a public art sculpture – Color Pencil Tree.
  • RIP – art critic and historian Robert Hughes, dead at age 74.
  • MOCA announces it will will hire a new chief curator, reversing an earlier decision to leave the post vacant.
  • Eli Broad hasn’t made planned payments to MOCA because it has $2.1M that haven’t been used yet.
  • MOCA board concerned with future of museum and feels that Eli Broad may be taking over.
  • Christopher Knight thinks MOCA may have taken a shot at recently resigned board member John Baldessari.
  • Mat Gleason shows you How to Argue with a Deitch-Basher.
  • Art in America interviews MOCA trustees Lenore S. Greenberg about the direction of the museum. They also interview Beyte Burton and Frederick Nicholas in separate conversations.
  • Letters from readers to the LA Times discussing the direction of MOCA.
  • Adam Lindemann gives his opinion on directing blame for the MOCA mess.
  • $2.8 billion M+ museum to open in Hong Kong in 2017.
  • The Garage announces a program of stipends for young artists in Russia.
  • Topaz Museum and Education Center Japanese American internment camp museum breaks ground in Utah.
  • Michelle Yun joins Asia Society New York as curator of modern and contemporary art.
  • The American Art Museum announces 15 nominees for $25,000 contemporary artist award.
  • Raoul Cadet sues the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Memorial Committee for $25,000 due to unpaid work.
  • Protestors arrested hours before start of Downtown Los Angeles ArtWalk due to chalking.
  • Six 2,000-year-old figurines smuggled from Nigeria being returned  after they were seized at JFK Airport.
  • A Da Vinci painting may have been found hanging on the wall of a Scottish farmhouse.
  • London not as lenient as Beijing when it comes to street art during the Olympics.  Four already arrested.
  • Many New York galleries opening outposts in London.
  • Santa Clarita vending machine dispenses original art. Proceeds help fund city-run arts education programs.
  • Site-specific installation by Xavier Veilhan is in Silver Lake through mid-September.
  • After Anaheim shootings, group collects donated supplies and brings art to kids of Anna Drive.
  • Pic-ass-o the rescue donkey creates paintings that sell for more than £100.
  • The Daily Beast reviews Bravo’s new art world reality show Gallery Girls. Show features two women from OC.
  • Matthew Higgs interviews Paula Cooper for Interview Magazine.
  • Taryn Simon and Aaron Swartz bridge the fields of art and technology through the creation of Image Atlas.
  • Theaster Gates attempting to enlist Chicago’s help to transform abandoned bank into cultural hub & library.
  • John Chamberlain’s works to be displayed at plaza of Seagram Building.
  • Tom Sachs watched the Mars Curiosity landing in Aspen while eating cheeseburger and drinking Coke.
  • W Magazine visits Steve Powers’s studio in Brooklyn.
  • Bert Rodriguez documents his move from Miami to LA.
  • Kelly Richardson’s  Mariner 9 uses data sent by satellite to create a reconstruction of the surface of Mars.
  • Target’s Dog Balloon Lamp looks like it may or may not be inspired by Jeff Koons.
  • A look at Peter Gronquist’s new show in San Francisco.
  • Large new painting from Melissa Cooke.
  • Photo summary of the Adam Wallacavage show in Philadelphia.