More stories from the week that ended Oct 12 (click on bolded words for more information):
- Final week to see Van Hanos – Not the Way at Tanya Leighton.
- RIP: Trigz, who was tragically shot and killed in North Hollywood. Go here to contribute and help the family.
- COST arrested in NYC.
- ArtBeam’s Material Evidence show’s Ukrainian display attacked and vandalized.
- Curator Vasyl Cherepanyn brutally beaten in public in Kiev last week.
- Dries Verhoeven’s Grindr art project cancelled prematurely after privacy invasion complaints.
- Broad Museum lawsuit set aside until construction completes on the site.
- Court documents reveal new details in Knoedler forgeries case.
- Susan Crile tax case ruling a victory for professional artists that don’t make a lot of money.
- Has Damien Hirst’s moment passed?
- Ben Davis writes about Maria Baibakova’s recent controversies.
- New films not portraying John Ruskin accurately?
- Eight famous artists that dropped out of college.
- Tracey Emin thinks that female artists should not have children.
- Ernst van de Wetering reattributes 70 paintings (previously attributed to his followers) to Rembrandt.
- Sheila Hicks remakes two monumental works at Ford Foundation.
- Newsha Tavakolian accepts Fondation Carmignac photojournalism award after previously turning it down.
- David Lynch announces the return of television show Twin Peaks in 2016.
- The world’s oldest art is found in Indonesian cave.
- Eiffel Tower’s two-year, €30mil. renovation of its first floor is complete.
- Jamian Juliano-Villani MOCAD exhibition, her first solo museum show, announced for early 2015.
- Glen Ligon’s Call and Response opens at Camden Arts Centre.
- Kunstmuseum Bern to decide next month whether to accept the gift of Cornelius Gurlitt’s collection.
- Victoria and Albert Museum at London’s former Olympic Park will spread over 215,000 sq. ft.
- SculptureCenter’s recent expansion.
- Tate may soon have to disclose how much sponsorship money BP gives the institution.
- MOCA chief curator Helen Molesworth is introduced.
- Use curate.la to keep up with what’s going on in the Los Angeles scene.
- Bjarne Melgaard adds musical soundtrack to his show with Edvard Munch at Munch Museum.
- The challenges and opportunities faced by and offered to American Kunsthalles.
- Artnet’s list of America’s Top 10 Private Contemporary Art Museums.
- Documenta 14 to be held in both Kassel and Athens.
- USC School of Cinematic Arts to display items from Dennis Hopper’s personal collection.
- Artprice finds that more new works (<5 years old) flipped today than in ’07, but for lower average prices.
- Work from the collection of the Family of Pierre and São Schlumberger at Sotheby’s this season.
- Sotheby’s thinks a white Robert Ryman painting offered next month at auction will sell for at least $20mil.
- Could a de Kooning sculpture sold by the artist’s granddaughters fetch $35mil. at Christie’s?
- Sotheby’s has at least seven Warhol portraits of iconic women at its Nov. contemporary art sales.
- Winston Churchill’s paintings and other personal items to be auctioned at Sotheby’s.
- Artwork owned by Adolf Hitler in high demand.
- Christie’s to hold its second art auction in India in December.
- eBay’s fine art live auction site launches.
- Artwork at the art fair and auctions during Frieze London starting to more closely resemble each other.
- Art Silicon Valley hoping to capture elusive key Silicon Valley/tech/start-up collectors.
- Financial Times looks at art fairs from the perspective of artists, collectors, and dealers.
- The story of the history of ownership of Christopher Wool’s Apocalypse Now painting.
- The loyalty of artists to galleries versus the loyalty of galleries to artists.
- Mark Moore Gallery celebrates thirty years in the business.
- Ryan Lee Gallery adds four artists to its roster.
- Kelly Allen opens Wisemaker Creative Reuse Store and Studio at The Geek Group in Grand Rapids, MI.
- Kappo Masa sushi restaurant, located below Gagosian Gallery at 980 Madison, opened on Friday.
- An in-depth look at mega-collector Steven A. Cohen.
- Art gallery opening receptions: New York City versus Los Angeles.
- Jackie Wullschlager reviews books by Sarah Thornton, Grayson Perry, Ossian Ward, and others.
- Mikhail Antonov organizes Putin-themed one-night-only exhibit on the eve of the Russian president’s birthday.
- Emily Mae Smith featured artist at Dream The End and in SculptureCenter’s SculptureNotebook.
- Blake Gopnik and Christian Viveros-Fauné look at Roxy Paine’s Marianne Boesky show.
- BBC Radio’s Front Row interviews Gerhard Richter.
- Chris Hadfield releases book of photography from outer-space.
- Scott Indrisek interviews Enrico Castellani.
- A look at the Michelle Grabner exhibition at James Cohan Gallery.
- The Guardian looks at Richard Serra’s show at Gagosian Gallery in London.
- Profile of Elizabeth Jaeger.
- Christopher Knight looks at the Katherine Bernhardt show at China Art Objects.
- A look at Gerhard Richter’s show at Marian Goodman in London.
- Marina Abramovic really wants Lars von Trier to direct a segment in her film.
- Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan’s Newspaper Reading Club.
- Richard Serra to receive lifetime achievement award at the Americans for the Arts gala.
- Artspace interviews Marcel Dzama.
- Video interview with Shepard Fairey about design.
- Maya Lin wins $300,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, to be presented at MoMA in Nov.
- Kehinde Wiley interview about why he is now painting black women.
- Two firms: Snohetta and the Metric System will design Norway’s new banknotes.
- Collaborative book by Keith J Varadi and John Roebas released by Bunk Edition.
- Mick Fleetwood exhibiting show of photographs at Liss Gallery.