Overtime stories of the week:

  • Tate Modern considers Liberate Tate’s wind turbine given to museum during art performance for its collection.
  • RIP: Malcolm Browne – photographer who took iconic burning monk protest photograph passes away at 81.
  • Broad Foundation makes $1.5 million payment to MOCA after controversial delay.
  • The dramatic story about Jackson Pollock’s last canvas.
  • Gallery Gevik has three valuable paintings stolen after thieves smash the gallery’s windows with a car jack.
  • The Wall Street Journal on the current state of the bustling Islamic art market.
  • Magazine de Fuera de Serie’s cover of Michelle Obama as semi-nude ‘negress slave’ causes controversy.
  • Go inside Barack Obama’s White House art collection.
  • Ai Weiwei chats with cardboard cutouts of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
  • At Only Women, Women Only show, only work by women displayed – for first month, only women allowed in.
  • A selection of artists, curators and writers discuss the relationship between art and politics.
  • CNN commissions artists, like Wiliam Powhida, to illustrate the theme of Power ahead of the 2012 election.
  • Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon organize 180 artists together to protest against fracking.
  • Artmageddon is coming – 100 Los Angeles artists unite to put an arts spin on Carmageddon 2.
  • Animal rights campaigners criticize project to airbrush pigeons for exhibition during Venice Biennale.
  • China Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo will reopen to the public on October 1 as the China Art Museum.
  • Recently renovated Courbet Museum acquires one of Courbet’s most emblematic works for $5 million.
  • The Getty acquires 29 Cy Twombly photographs for its collection.
  • Gagosian Gallery bringing 80 works of art worth a total of $130mil to Brazil for ArtRio.
  • David Shirgley and Dave Muller create artwork for limited-edition Aspen lift tickets.
  • Damien Hirst reveals that inspiration for spin paintings was from an episode of TV show Blue Peter, in 1975.
  • Richard Serra’s Delineator to be shown at MoMA.  Read about the piece and check out installation shots.
  • Artinfo interviews Futura on occasion of his upcoming solo show in NYC.
  • Wall Street Journal writes about Shepard Fairey’s show and its star-studded crowd.  (See our coverage here).
  • Bumblebee, Sharktoof and Linelinedot discuss themselves and their work in LA Weekly.
  • Rosie O’Donnell selling her paintings on eBay to raise money for Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation.
  • Luke Chueh has a new bearbrick custom for his upcoming show in Chicago.
  • A peek into Phlegm’s studio and the book he is working for?
  • The Nuart Festival announces their lineup for this year – some good artists involved…
  • The always dirty Lush opens a new show in New York.
  • Los Angeles’ war on street artists as seen by LA Weekly.
  • The gallery work of Pixel Pancho.
  • Legos used in the streets?
  • Sneak peeks from Judith Supine as he prepares for his show at Jonathan LeVine.
  • Ektopia interviews Vinnie Nylon.
  • A new print – Mind Form – available from Naoto Hattori.
  • Vandalog interviews Jeff Soto ahead of his show in New York – Decay and Overgrowth.
  • Diego Gravinese working on a new painting.
  • A summer update from Stella Im Hultberg.
  • Linnea Strid working on some new paintings for an upcoming group show in Hong Kong.
  • A look inside the sketchbook of Amy Sol.