More stories from the week ended May 5:

  • An in-depth look at JR’s studio.
  • RIP: Channa Horwitz.
  • MOCA architecture show, funded by Getty, could face cancellation due to financial issues.
  • Sequestration temporarily closes parts of Hirshhorn, African Art Museum, and Smithsonian Castle.
  • MBW’s Sid Vicious works, based on Dennis Morris photo are “not transformative”, breaks copyright.
  • Collector files lawsuit against Sotheby’s saying it sold him Nazi-looted artwork.
  • Canadian government funds research on Holocaust-era art provenance project.
  • Peter Doig’s parole officer claims to own early Doig painting that the artist refuses to acknowledge as his work.
  • Plans to install Katharina Fritsch’s giant blue cockerel in Trafalgar Square causes controversy.
  • Charles Ray’s Boy With Frog to be removed in Venice, replaced with reproduction of former lamppost.
  • A sudden weather change is being blamed for popping Paul McCarthy’s huge inflatable poop sculpture.
  • The perils and censorship involved with being an Iranian cartoonist.
  • Some clients pull works out of Christie’s Fine Art Storage Services’ warehouse after Superstorm Sandy.
  • Sotheby’s will be opening a gallery for private sales close to its branch in London.
  • ArtNet Statistics indicate exceedingly strong market for female artists.
  • Merton Simpson’s Flatiron gallery being evicted, son says, due to mismanagement.
  • Dr. Simon Ottenberg gifts 145 works of art to Newerk Museum’s collection of African art.
  • LACMA draws up ambitious plans for a $650-million new look, designed by Peter Zumthor.
  • MoMA announces that for remainder of May, it is offering free admission to the first 100 visitors on Tuesdays.
  • The Brooklyn Museum acquires Black Block by El Anatsui.
  • Mao portraits left out as Andy Warhol exhibition opens at Shanghai’s contemporary art museum.
  • New Met European painting galleries mean fewer blockbusters, gift shops.
  • British Museum’s £135m extension is on time and on budget, say curators. Will open next March.
  • Louvre opens a new series of exhibitions by contemporary artists with Michelangelo Pistoletto.
  • Artists turn Bosnia nuke bunker into art gallery.
  • Irish businessman Bill Condon launches Asian art prize called Multitude Art Prize.
  • Jay Jopling and White Cube celebrate twenty years in the business.
  • Saloua Raouda Choucair finally receives international recognition for her work at the age of 97.
  • John Lennon artwork goes on display in LA at Westfield Century City mall.
  • Carol Bove installs her sculptures on undeveloped stretch of the High Line between West 30th & 34th Streets.
  • Marina Abramovic tries her hand at ballet.
  • Maya Lin’s new memorial, exhibited at Pace Gallery, is a city.
  • George Lucas named a finalist to create new museum in San Francisco.
  • Ivan Lendl has world’s most complete collection of Mucha original posters and will display them in Prague.
  • The story of Saddam Hussein’s sculptor Natiq al Alousi.
  • ArtInfo has 25 Questions for Sara VanDerBeek.