More stories from the week that ended Nov 2 (click on bolded words for more information):
- Images from the Michael Manning show at Bill Brady KC.
- Robert Falcon charged with Trigz’ murder.
- CalArts students protest the school’s handling of rape cases.
- FOLD Gallery in London burglarized with four sculptures by Tim Ellis stolen.
- Sotheby’s sued over alleged misattribution of possible Caravaggio painting.
- The Badische Landesmuseum identifies seven Nazi looted artworks within its collection.
- Christie’s and Sotheby’s differences in of sale of 2 Schieles shows difficulty of hadling Nazi looted restitution cases.
- Philippe Maestracci encounters difficulty in recovering his grandfather’s Nazi-looted Modigliani tied to Nahmads.
- Berlin commemorating 25 years since fall of Berlin Wall with 8,000 luminous balloon installation by Whitevoid & Bauderfilm.
- Dorothee Achenbach defends Helge Achenbach and declares his innocence.
- Carolina A. Miranda takes a look at why the World Wide Art Fair failed so badly.
- Brian Droitcour discusses The Perils of Post-Internet Art.
- Mina Gregori says she is confident of having made a “definitive” verification of Caravaggio’s Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy.
- A history of male nude modeling.
- Read a pristine $3.2 mil. issue of Action Comics #1 online.
- Sophia George designs game based on William Morris’ Strawberry Thief.
- LA Weekly visits Human Resources’ event “decolonizing the white box”.
- Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation opens in Monte Carlo.
- Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art displays its real Matisse painting next to a forgery of the work.
- Broad Museum in Los Angeles gets a expected opening date of fall 2015. It also revealed that the institution acquired one of Jordan Wolfson’s Female Figure works.
- Melissa Chiu talks about her plans for Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
- Tate Britain’s Alexander McQueen: Working Process to show Nick Waplington’s intimate photographs of the designer.
- Oslo’s city council approves plan for new Munch Museum on the waterfront in a vote.
- Harvard Art Museums’ new Renzo Piano building next to Le Corbusier’s building.
- Jerry Saltz reviews .
- Mark Mothersbaugh to have shows at Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver and the Santa Monica Museum of Art.
- How to deal with the end of Jeff Koons’ Whitney retrospective.
- Using high-profile names as exhibition curators and how Pharrell did not attend the museum show he curated.
- Francois Pinault reportedly buys 37 works at FIAC. What the Horts bought at the FIAC art fair. Sandy Rower with his top five picks for FIAC. Andrew Goldstein chooses ten pieces from FIAC.
- Artnet’s list of twenty of the world’s most innovative art collectors.
- Forbes shows you how to borrow money using your artwork as collateral.
- Bridget Donahue, director at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, to open gallery on Lower East Side.
- Responses to David Bryne’s feelings about the current contemporary art world.
- Christie’s to offer items for immediate purchase at a fixed price.
- Keith J Varadi answers twenty questions.
- Interview with Amalia Ulman. A review of her show at Evelyn Yard.
- Chloe makes Kickstarter for a project to create six-foot vagina.
- Pharrell Williams and Ryan McGinley team up on Adidas campaign.
- T.J. Wilcox, Paul Chan and George Condo commissioned to create two-minute previews for operas at Metropolitan Opera.
- Gagosian Gallery’s Picasso show focuses on the photographs he took.
- Elliott Hundley featured in latest episode of Art21.
- Profile of BGL, the artist collective representing Canada at the Venice Biennale.
- Review of Marina Abramovic show at Sean Kelly Gallery.
- Artnet reviews the Banksy Does New York HBO documentary film.
- Ari Marcopoulos and Andrew Kuo talk about art and sports at NeueHouse.
- Brad Jones – the collaboration between Jennifer Rubell and Brandi Twilley.
- How meeting Jean Tinguely changed the way Robert Rauschenberg worked.
- Sarah Thornton answers some questions about art, artists, and the art market. Andrew Russeth reveals some juicy tidbits from her new book.
- Teriha Yaegashi writes about Sohei Nishino’s new show opening in London.
- Tobias Zielony, Hito Steyerl, Olaf Nicolai, Jasmina Metwaly, and Philip Rizk chosen for Venice Biennale’s German Pavilion.
- Shark Toof Kickstarter page seeks funds to help preserve his mural in Downtown Los Angeles.
- Julien Prévieux wins Marcel Duchamp Prize, which comes with a €35,000 award.
- Louise Hearman wins 2014 Moran prize, which includes $150,000 award.
- Camille Blatrix wins the 2014 Prix d’Entreprise Ricard.
- Chris Ofili print available at New Museum store.
- Review of Kappo Masa, the sushi restaurant inside of Gagosian Gallery.
- Things Kanye West has said that sounds like Jenny Holzer.
- Lindsay Lohan commissions nude portrait by Pegasus.
- Snoop Dogg paints and talks about painting.