Overtime articles of the week:

  • Damien Hirst reinterprets AK-47 using his spin technique.  Sale proceeds benefit Peace One Day’s campaign.
  • Molly Crabapple shares her experience on being arrested at Occupy Wall Street.
  • Ilya Bolotowsky painting bought for $9.99 from a Goodwill store sells for $34,375 at Sotheby’s.
  • $7 Flea-market Renoir allegedly was stolen from Baltimore Museum of Art. Auction is subsequently canceled.
  • A painting thought to be by JMW Turner, which could be worth £20m, was purchased for just £3,700.
  • Jeffrey Gundlach offers $200,000 reward for return of art stolen from his CA home.  Reward now increased.  Update: All artwork has been recovered and two suspects have been arrested.
  • Chinese court upholds $2.4 million tax evasion fine against Ai Weiwei.  He might get prison time.
  • Half of galleries on Mayfair’s Cork St art hub in London face being forced out due to property development.
  • Search for mysterious lost Da Vinci Battle of Anghiari fresco called off.
  • A personal account of inheriting a Da Vinci painting.
  • Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ causing controversy again in advance of the artist’s mini-retrospective.
  • Axl Rose sends cease & desist letter to Laura London accusing defamation & requesting she cancel exhibition.
  • Shanghai to unveil two huge art museums repurposed from structures built for the city’s World Expo in 2010.
  • The Getty trademarks the name Pacific Standard Time to build brand going forward with different projects.
  • The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’s debut show as a New York exhibiting institution.
  • The Isleworth Mona Lisa, a slightly larger version of the Louvre’s original, is due to be unveiled in Geneva.
  • What the Warhol Foundation’s art sale tells us about artist-endowed philanthropic foundations.
  • Brooklyn Museum and Hirshhorn Museum selling hot and fashionable works from its collections to raise funds.
  • Peter Brant using the artwork in his collection as collateral for loans to save business.
  • Ai Weiwei is among four artists representing Germany at the next Venice Biennale.
  • What will happen to Damien Hirst’s and Marc Quinn’s huge pieces for London Olympics and Paralympics?
  • A history of artists, such as Andy Warhol and Ansel Adams, that have used Polaroid cameras.
  • Gallerist NY scrutinizes Almine Rech’s press release for its Jeff Koons exhibition.
  • Major art exhibition in Los Angeles being organized centered on the television show Lost.
  • Danh Vo scatters his “We the People” around to different cities.
  • Perry Rubenstein Gallery to show Mike Kelley’s “Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites” in Nov.
  • Banksy pieces extracted from the streets will be shown at CONTEXT Art Miami during Basel week.
  • ArtInfo asks Mark Flood 27 questions.
  • Walead Beshty leaves his NY gallery, Wallspace and is currently without representation in that city.
  • Sean Vegezzi releases a book of his photographs with a release party at The Hole.
  • Os Gemeos exhibition poster available from the ICA.
  • Steve McCurry: The Iconic Photographs monograph by Phaidon available in a signed edition.
  • Paddy Johnson finds no redeeming qualities in Richard Phillips’s Gagosian exhibition.
  • Robert Clarke writes a book about his friendship with Banksy.
  • Trustocorp has a new print featuring all the sign interventions they have ever done.
  • KAWS getting ready for a talk in Texas on Tuesday at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
  • TitiFreak putting in work in Japan.
  • Ceramics for Sam3.
  • Luke Chueh working a series of new works for a showing in London.
  • New hand-embellished edition from Amy Sol.