Overtime stories of the week:
- Raphael drawing – Head Of A Young Apostle – sells for £30 million – new record for paper piece at auction.
- Prominent collector Steven Cohen under investigation and noticeably absent at Art Basel Miami Beach.
- Woman purchases Alexander Calder print worth $9k for $12.34 at a Goodwill store.
- ESSAM arrested and given multiple charges after outing himself in a video interview.
- Five looted Indian sculptures (worth $5 mil.)seized at Port Newark by Homeland Security Investigations.
- Identity of thief who stole Goya painting in 1961 revealed.
- Pair of thieves that stole Henry Moore sculpture for £46 sentenced to jail.
- FBI solves Gundlach art theft with help by using Google – an idea given to them by the victim.
- Italy’s specialist art theft police track down and brings home a lost Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece.
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Italian police recover 2,000-year-old Egyptian sphinx stolen from Etruscan necropolis of Montem Rossulum.
- 12 students barricaded themselves inside room at Cooper Union Foundation Building to protest tuition.
- New York Post’s decision to put photograph by R. Umar Abbasi of doomed man on cover spurs controversy.
- Yangon imposes ban prohibiting drawing on public buildings, roads, bridges, in schools & parks.
- Controversy erupts as gallery in Sweden exhibits art work made from ashes of Holocaust victims.
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Uzbekistan claims that undiscovered masterpiece is by Italian Renaissance master Paolo Veronese.
- Turkey’s art market exploding as Istanbul gets three more art fairs.
- The future of public art at risk as spending cuts across Europe slash budgets.
- USC and MOCA may enter into a possible partnership.
- Jude Law to present the Turner Prize.
- Jerry Saltz’s Top 10 Art Picks of 2012.
- First of nine lists for Art+Auction’s Power 2012, Part 1: Auction Power. And Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.
- The market for fine art photography is on the steady rise.
- Paul Morris launching Chosen – an exclusive club that brings together collectors with must-have works of art.
- A drawing by prime minister David Cameron to go up for auction benefiting Eden Project charity.
- Jeff Koons to have solo exhibition with David Zwirner in May.
- Interview with Jonas Mekas – “the godfather of avant-garde cinema”.
- Bloomberg Businessweek interviews Wade Guyton.
- Interview with Oscar Murillo as he prepares for his exhibition with The Rubell Collection.
- T Magazine reviews Sam Falls’ book Problems With Decomposition, published by Morel Books.
- Kraftwerk to perform eight complete album sets at Tate Modern, following successful MoMA shows.
- Jay-Z meets Ellen Grossman on a subway train and does not know who she is and vice versa.
- A$AP Rocky hosts art show with HVW8 and Adidas at in Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach.
- Michael Jackson’s chimp Bubbles selling his abstract paintings during Art Basel Miami Beach.
- Julian Lennon exhibits photographs during Art Basel Miami Beach. Sales benefit White Feather Foundation.
- New restaurant in Los Angeles – Black Cat – features a selection of artwork curated by Poster Child Prints.
- Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen team up with Damien Hirst to create luxury backpacks for their label The Row.
