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

  • Images from Alex Da Corte’s exhibition A Night in Hell at Carl Kostyál.
  • Artists and galleries battling eviction threats from landlord at building in Queens, NY.
  • Petition to save Santa Monica’s Bergamont Station arts district from new development.
  • Rembrandt previously said was a copy declared as definitely genuine.
  • Unknown forger of Czech artwork fools even the experts.
  • Knoedler & Company forger actually misspelled Pollock’s name on one of the pieces.
  • Igor Olenicoff fined $450,000 for copying Donald Wakefield’s sculptures for his developments.
  • Guccifer sentenced to four years in prison for hacking George W. Bush and outing him as a painter.
  • Guo Jian to be deported to Australia from China, likely due to his provocative work.
  • Norton Simon Museum battling claim that its Lucas Cranach the Elder was Nazi-looted.
  • Matisse painting in Gurlitt trove confirmed to have been looted and belonged to Paul Rosenberg.
  • Pinakothek museum posts 14 new works to Germany’s online clearing house for potential Nazi loot.
  • Tess David assists in the return of sculptures looted during Cambodian civil war.
  • Helly Nahmad’s lawyer denies that his client is hiding Nazi-looted Modigliani painting.
  • James Clar sues Rihanna for $6.64mil. for plagiarism.
  • Robert Raphael’s public art work on Randall’s Island in New York destroyed by vandals.
  • Eduardo Chillida’s sculptures in Bilbao damaged due to pollution.
  • MOCA’s questionable loan of a Frank Stella painting to Honor Fraser for commerical gallery exhibition.
  • Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum losing four members of its staff this month.
  • Eileen Hickey-Hulme facing eviction for renting out her rent-controlled loft on Airbnb.
  • Shalva Chigirinsky suing ex-wife for not preserving their collection of art, antiques, and other valuables.
  • Jeff Koons strips naked, lifts weights, gets photographed. You can see his butt. Some think it’s nice.
  • Why connoisseurship in art matters.
  • Glasgow School of Art degree show proceeds despite fire that destroyed some work.
  • Pablo Picasso stage curtain will be moved from the Four Seasons in NYC.
  • Historians use nuclear fallout to help identify fake art.
  • Google creating a street art database.
  • Hopes for a art museum in Sarajevo boosted after illy helps with funding.
  • T Magazine looks at the Made in L.A. 2014 show at Hammer Museum.
  • Cy Twombly foundation donates three paintings and five bronzes to Tate Modern.
  • Detroit Automakers pledge a combined $26mil. to help save DIA’s art. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will pledge $10mil. and J. Paul Getty Trust is pledging $3mil.
  • The Getty Museum acquires its first sculpture by Auguste Rodin and puts it on display.
  • Frick Collection plans expansion, including new six-story wing, opening of private space, and rooftop garden.
  • Wiscombe and Gilmore plan major museum in Downtown Los Angeles’s historic core.
  • LA mayor Eric Garcetti wants George Lucas to build his planned art museum in LA.
  • Joan Mitchell Foundation has invested about $20mil. into the city of New Orleans.
  • Marina Abramović’s 512 Hours at the Serpentine Gallery will just be her and audience in a empty room. There are long lines to get into the show.
  • John von Schmid demonstrates how part of large Koons sculpture will get through the door at Whitney.
  • Björk’s Biophilia is the first app to be acquired by MoMA.
  • Exhibits featuring luxury fashion and jewelry brands appearing more often in museums.
  • London conference explores the investment aspect of art and why it is not a asset class.
  • James Tomilson Hill declared a billionaire partly due to the appreciation of his art collection.
  • Earliest Johannes Vermeer painting has been authenticated and will be put up for sale.
  • Gouro mask from Côte d’Ivoire sold for more than a million euros, making a new record for a Gouro mask.
  • Major Peter Doig painting to head to auction at Sotheby’s.
  • Two of Banksy’s $60 paintings sold during his NY residency to be auctioned at Bonhams.
  • Some artists reveal their thoughts about Art Rank.
  • Kenny Schachter writes about his thoughts on the art market.
  • Walter Robinson’s column discusses KAWS among others and how everyone gets a piece in the art world.
  • Auction houses are increasingly asking independent art dealers to organize selling exhibitions in their spaces.
  • Anthony Haden-Guest, on how art dealers are rarely consulted for their knowledge by museums.
  • Artnet shows you how to get a VIP card for Art Basel art fair.
  • Ai Weiwei’s leg gun meme on Instagram.
  • Andrew Goldstein interviews Margaret Lee.
  • Profile of RoseLee Goldberg.
  • The first podcast of Amalia Ulman’s In Bed With Amalia.
  • Comprehensive profile of JPW3.
  • Q&A with Banksy.
  • Interview with Noam Rappaport.
  • Pace Gallery now represents Nigel Cooke.
  • Sleep in a Anthony Gormley sculpture hotel room.
  • Christian Viveros-Fauné reviews Larry Clark’s Luhring Augustine show.
  • Hand-finished print edition by SABER released by The Outsiders.
  • Simon Lee Gallery in London will sell Larry Clark photographs for £100 each.
  • New issue of Tomcat released.
  • California drivers can get a Snoopy license plate.