Overtime stories of the week:

  • Walton Ford artwork and design featured on Rolling Stones album cover.
  • James Rosenquist’s latest exhibition inspired by fire that destroyed his studio and everything in it.
  • RIP: Terry Richardson’s mother Annie Lomax.  See photos he took of her last day at Terry Richardson’s Diary.
  • RIP: Tony Goldman.  He was known for such things as the Wynwood Walls & creating the Bowery Mural.
  • Painting bought at flea market for $50 may turn out to be a work by French master Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
  • Eric Clapton selling his Gerhard Richter piece Abstraktes Bild (809-4) at Sotheby’s for a likely large profit.
  • Judge dismisses lawsuit by Velvet Underground over rights to Warhol banana on their 1967 album sleeve.
  • Gagosian Gallery and Ron Perelman suing each other over sales.
  • Sotheby’s gains foothold in China via ten-year partnership with state-owned Beijing GeHua Art Company.
  • Chinese businessmen are purchasing art to launder their money.
  • Two galleries in Italy closed as the result of investigation into tax fraud and money laundering in the art world.
  • View the list of artists included in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Regarding Warhol exhibition.
  • Historians use 3D scanners to rewind paintings and reveal once and for all who created them.
  • The Met’s director is proposing to open museum doors on Mondays, making it open seven days a week.
  • A look at Gagosian Gallery by the numbers and a brief look at its history.
  • L&M Arts’ Dominique Lévy and Robert Mnuchin to part ways in NYC, but still jointly operate in Venice, CA.
  • LA Times writes about photographing the Ken Price sculpture retrospective at LACMA.
  • James Franco to teach a course at CalArts
  • Venice Architecture Biennale receives disappointing reviews.
  • New York Times writes about 3 big shows, including a Ken Price retrospective, opening in Los Angeles soon.
  • Nora Ephron’s art collection revealed through what she passed on to friends and family.
  • Banksy and  Sharktoof among artists included in 14 acts of graffiti that blur the line between art and vandalism.
  • Cai Guo-Qiang and Philip Glass each win Praemium Imperiale arts awards given out by Japan Art Association.
  • James Franco’s new work pays homage to Cindy Sherman.
  • Aaron Curry has created limited edition sculptures exclusively to benefit the Orange County Museum of Art.
  • Roberts & Tilton releasing a limited edition of A Little Liberty sculpture by Daniel Joseph Martinez.
  • Greg “Craola” Simkins, KMNDZ, Van Saro, and Codak Smith will all be painting live at Tarfest on Sept 22.
  • New York Art Department teams up w/Mountain Dew to take pop art stand against soda prohibition.
  • Platinum Cheese’s Stephanie Chefas interviews Judith Supine.
  • ArtInfo interviews Thomas Houseago.
  • Zócalo at Grand Park: How Can L.A.’s Art Museums Thrive?
  • A unique new limited edition from EVOL.
  • The Scion iQ customized by artists like David Choe, Mishka, and Andrew Schoultz.
  • A new mural from Sam3 – Actaeon – The thinker devoured by his own thoughts.
  • Vandalog interviews Jonathan LeVine and COST.
  • A look at Neck Face’s new show in Portland.
  • Some photos from the Rob Sato show at Giant Robot 2 in Los Angeles.
  • New work from Deth P. Sun for his show in Oakland.
  • Arts & Council’s show at the HVW8 Gallery recently opened.
  • Acclaim interviews Askew.
  • A new sculptural piece from Yoskay Yamamoto.
  • Dalek going in a slightly new direction – more curved.
  • Jen Stark working on a new intricate paper cut sculpture.
  • New Tiger Beer design from Will Barras, Jasper Wong, Gisèle Scanlon, and Kozyndan.