Overtime stories of the week:
- Impossible Architecture, a series of works utilizing digital collaging technique & real photos from Filip Dujardin.
- Nigeria seeking return of art from Britain, which they say looted works from them more than a century ago.
- Workers uncover six murals by Otto Dix behind a bookshelf in the artist’s former home during renovations.
- The story of how Peru High School in Peru Indiana acquired its multimillion dollar art collection.
- William Cole criticizes today’s art market and wonders aloud if we are in a bubble.
- TEFAF looks at the Gerhard Richter market.
- Daily Paintworks, which sells paintings and charges artists a monthly membership fee, is thriving online.
- The Economist writes about Artsy and the digital realm of the art market.
- What’s next for Simon de Pury and Phillips now that they’ve gone their own separate ways?
- Today’s artists are rediscovering wallpaper due to improved new technology.
- US art will travel to South Korea and in exchange Korean art will be coming to America in cultural exchange.
- Anonymous donor gives Seaport Museum $500,000 for post-Sandy repairs.
- Tim Noble and Sue Webster divorce, but will continue to make art together.
- Australia’s totemic ghost gum trees made famous by Albert Namatjira’s watercolors burnt in suspected arson.
- NY Times culture editor Jonathan Landman to accept buyout and leave paper.
- George Ball sues Cook Fine Art for $5.3 million due to missing art.
- Epidemic of sculpture knock-offs plaguing the art world while law enforcement has a difficult time keeping up.
- Picasso authentication now streamlined and simplified to a single person – his son Claude.
- Joerg Colberg looks back at the best photobooks of 2012.
- Miami NewTimes’ Top 10 New Wynwood Murals.
- Quentin Blake has been knighted in the New Year honours list for his work as an illustrator.
- Bedford (UK) coffee shop boasts Michelangelo fresco recreation will last thousands of years.
- Kanye West is going to design Lil Wayne’s new album cover.
- Pharrell Williams to collaborate with Zaha Hadid.
- Paula Deen is also an artist.
- A look at Lena Dunham’s art world roots.
- The first image from Nate Frizzell’s upcoming solo show released.
- Martha Cooper had her portrait painted by Os Gemeos.
- Street Art London unveils an iPad app
- Dabs Myla choose some music for a road trip.
- Eric Fortune documents a new piece he is working on.
- Phlegm’s new drawing and new year’s greeting.
- WeiWei-isms – A Dissident’s Tips for Survival – new book from Ai Weiwei.
