- Christie’s will offer Monet’s Nymphéas water lillies painting. It is estimated to sell between $30-50 mil.
- Mark Rothko’s Black on Maroon – part of Seagram mural, defaced by man at Tate Modern museum.
- Jonathan Jones on why the greatest works of art get attacked.
- Buddhist nun stops sale of £1million Zhang Daqian painting after ownership is called into question.
- Diaries could provide a vital clue to origin of controversial early original Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa.
- Restorers tackle obscene (including genitalia) 17th-century graffiti on rediscovered frescoes
- Art restorer says saving Ecce Homo fresco “destroyed” by Cecilia Giménez could be done in minutes.
- Egypt cracking down hard on street art and graffiti in the country.
- French government might start taxing art.
- Newly discovered Magritte works to be unveiled.
- It’s been discovered that Pablo Picasso was first artist to use common house paint in his work.
- Ai Weiwei angered by Mo Yan Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Christo launches Christo and Jeanne-Claude Award in Abu Dhabi.
- Adonna Khare wins ArtPrize 2012 and $200,000 with her Elephants piece.
- The Tate establishing South Asian acquisitions committee to collect art from India, Russia, Eastern Europe.
- The Met digitizes their art catalogs.
- Fundraiser at Hammer Museum honoring Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman raises record $2 million.
- An interview with Larry Gagosian about his current plans and state of the international art market.
- Gagosian Gallery and China are the two engines driving contemporary auction market, according to Artprice.
- Galerie Perrotin to open Manhattan branch in 2013, sharing the building with Dominique Levy.
- Lehmann Maupin opening space in Hong Kong in 2013.
- Thaddaeus Ropac opening space in Paris that features a performance center.
- Financial Times writes about Steve Lazarides’s Bedlam.
- Costco once again selling fine art, including Warhol, Braque, and Matisse lithographs.
- Unseen sketches by Andy Warhol exhibited at Frieze Art Fair.
- More artists, like Kenny Scharf and Curtis Kulig, are working with cosmetics brands.
- Art discovery site Art.sy launches to the public.
- Leon Black acquires publishing house Phaidon Press Ltd.
- A look at Paul Allen’s art collection.
- Olga Koumoundouros turns abandoned home in Glassell Park into art project.
- Barbara Kruger designs a bus wrap in LA to stress the importance of arts education in public schools
- ArtInfo has 15 Questions for Jesper Just.
- Louis Vuitton has commissioned RETNA to paint a mural on the façade of new Miami store location.
- Lolcats given show at The Photographer’s Gallery in London.
