Overtime stories of the week:

  • Excerpts from Patti Astor’s (FUN Gallery) new memoir. Astor and Futura pictured – image © Anita Rosenberg.
  • RIP William Turnbull, who died at age 90.
  • Hot art market for South African works a contributing factor to big $2 mil. heist. Few days later, four of the five stolen paintings found on a bench in a cemetery in Port Elizabeth.
  • Brian Ramnarine indicted on charges he used Jasper Johns’s mold to make unauthorized bronze sculpture.
  • Met Museum being sued over misleading admission fees.
  • Gizmodo defends Rhianna and SNL after web artists cry foul over appropriation.
  • Christie’s sues Chritrs Group over similar name.
  • Sotheby’s accused of collusion in sale of Khmer statue.
  • More on damage caused by Superstorm Sandy and the institutions that are helping out with recovery efforts.
  • Klaus Biesenbach’s relief efforts in the Rockaways.
  • Anish Kapoor planning Gangnam Style video parody w/artists, actors, & dancers to support Ai Weiwei.
  • Guggenheim Abu Dhabi director Richard Armstrong reveals six works out of ~100 acquisitions made so far.
  • Crystal Bridges’ first-year attendance of 604,000 more than double anticipated number for the museum.
  • The Musée du Louvre and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco announce a five-year collaboration.
  • National Gallery of Art in Washington acquires Glenn Ligon Untitled (I Am a Man) painting.
  • The Museum of Modern Art acquires earliest extant version of John Cage’s 4’33.
  • Christie’s first sale to raise money for the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts brings in $17 million.
  • How the Warhol market developed in comparison to the S&P500 financial index over the past ten years.
  • On day U.S. stocks lost $240 billion+ in value, Christie’s held its largest-ever postwar & contemporary sale.
  • Are brand name artists like Hirst, Koon, & Murakami losing their shine in today’s more serious climate?
  • When college students meet their 16th century doppelgangers on canvas at a museum.
  • Theaster Gates wins inaugural Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics presented by The New School.
  • Saadiyat island set to house architecture by Gehry, Sir Norman Foster, Nouvel, Hadid, & Ando.
  • Bob and Roberta Smith organize flash mob to protest in bid to save Henry Moore’s Old Flo sculpture.
  • Thomas Schütte builds Ferienhaus für Terroristen (Holiday Home for Terrorists) on a property in Austria.
  • David Lynch’s Club Silencio coming to Miami at Delano South Beach for Art Basel Miami Beach week.
  • Barry McGee in conversation with Chris Johanson.
  • Catching up with Jim Shaw.
  • The Telegraph interviews Grayson Perry.
  • Annie Leibovitz photographs Aung San Suu Kyi.
  • CBS Morning News segment about Stephen Wilkes’s Day to Night project.
  • Financial Times interviews Dasha Zhukova.
  • Jen Stark one of the artists featured in Rising Tide: A Story of Miami Artists television documentary.
  • Bobby Hundreds visits the Barry McGee retrospective up north (and takes some pics).
  • New Jeff Koons signed and numbered plate available at Almine Rech Gallery’s shop.