More stories from the week that ended Dec 15 (click on bolded words for more information):

  • Do Ho Suh creates a home within a home at the MMCA in South Korea.
  • Adrian Procop, final suspect in Dutch art heist, arrested in Britain.
  • A drug dealer tells what happens in Miami during Art Basel.
  • Jack Armstrong has been accused of drugging and raping a woman after a night out in Beverly Hills.
  • Despite record prices, broader art market is in the doldrums, according to experts who track sales data.
  • French court allows auction of  25 Hopi artifacts to proceed despite legal protests by the tribe.
  • Egyptian police recover ancient statue of Tutankhamun’s sister, stolen during unrest in August.
  • William Kentridge believes South Africa let Nelson Mandela down.
  • Mike Nelson’s plans to dismantle residential block and rebuild it as pyramidal sculpture met with opposition.
  • Two Damien Hirst prints stolen from Exhibitionist Gallery in London.
  • Ronald Lauder urges Germany to comb its public museums for Nazi loot.
  • US and Israel stepping up pressure on Germany to overhaul way it handles return of Nazi-seized art.
  • The defense in trial over Farrah Fawcett portrait by Andy Warhol rests its case.
  • Plans for Tefaf Beijing 2014 art fair fall through.
  • Amy Cappellazzo leaving Christie’s to work as a private dealer and adviser.
  • A security guard’s experience working for a high-end gallery (Gagosian?) in London.
  • Annenberg Foundation buys 24 Hopi and Apachi artifacts and plans to return them to the tribes.
  • DIA joins in talks to protect its art in bankruptcy and free it from city ownership.
  • Artnet to start a 24-hour global news site headed by Benjamin Genocchio.
  • Don’t take pictures of artwork if you want to remember it better.
  • Artists like Wael Shawky and Ryan Gander opening alternative art schools.
  • Gallery and museum attendance in UK up despite decrease in arts participation.
  • LACMA launches its Art + Technology Lab, bringing artists and technologists together.
  • Michael Sullivan gives 400 works of modern Chinese art to The Ashmolean Museum.
  • Steve Martin will co-curate a 2015 Lawren Harris exhibition at the Hammer Museum.
  • NYPL opening exhibitions of antiapartheid memorabilia and election ballots to commemorate Mandela.
  • Damien Hirst’s private Murderme art collection exhibited for the first time in Moscow.
  • NEA announces its grants for 2013.
  • A Art Basel Miami Beach buying experience with Steve Wilson and Laura Lee Brown.
  • Jerry Saltz’s picks for ten best art shows of the year.
  • Artes Mundi prize shortlist announced.
  • Paul Chan, Charline von Heyl, & Steven McQueen among finalists for Hugo Boss prize.
  • Vulture’s ten best television shows of 2013.
  • Alexandra Lange and Mark Lamster’s best and worst architecture and design of 2013.
  • The first sketches of the town (“Hirst-on-Sea”) that Damien Hirst hopes to build.
  • Daniel Arsham’s Future Relic No 1 film, created with Swizz Beatz and Richard Chai.
  • Take a look into Alex Prager’s Silver Lake, CA studio.
  • Christopher Bollen interviews power couple Roberta Smith and Jerry Saltz.
  • LA Canvas feature on Jen Stark. Complex interviews her.
  • Lucien Smith in Inteview Magazine.
  • PIN-UP 15 features a collaboration with Jon Rafman.
  • Video interview with Mickalene Thomas.
  • Art Spiegelman speaks about Ad Reinhardt.
  • Jeff Koons lithograph available from Gagosian Gallery.
  • Barbara Kruger L.A. Rays Sunglasses by Freeway Eyewear and ForYourArt now available.
  • How to Succeed in Contemporary Art Without Really Trying.
  • David Blaine joins Madonna as a guest curator for the December installment of Art for Freedom competition.
  • White House holiday card this year is a pop-up style one featuring Bo and Sunny.