Overtime stories of the week:
- Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’s exhibition features Vote Mitt Romney painting by Richard Phillips.
- Mitt Romney’s arts voting record not good.
- China to shut down Ai Weiwei’s art firm for not following annual registration requirements.
- MOCA launches its MOCAtv channel on YouTube. Offers free museum membership to subscribers.
- Four of Picasso’s heirs have formed Picasso Administration – dedicated to authenticating the artist’s work.
- According to study, Qatar will soon be global leader in museum industry.
- New art fair – ArtInternational Istanbul – due to coincide with the city’s international biennial next year.
- The National Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina will close after 124 years due to funding crisis.
- Wall Street Journal examines the strength of the art market in light of key global indicators.
- Cruise ship passenger attempts to steal fake Rembrandt painting that is the size of a door.
- Jenny Saville, Yan Pei-Ming and Luca del Baldo have created paintings of the corpse of Muammar Gaddafi.
- Turkey halts all loans to the Met in its efforts to repatriate art.
- Gustav Klimt’s renovated (using original photos) studio opens its doors.
- Project to photograph and catalogue all publicly-owned oil paintings in the UK is nearing completion.Typical booth prices and costs for doing business at a art fair. What participation in a art fair is worth.
- Could the Euro crisis lead to the next art movement?
- Asia developing a taste for European decorative arts market.
- Bidzina Ivanishvili, billionaire art collector, set to be next Georgian prime minister.
- Maurice Marciano, co-founder of Guess Jeans, planning to open contemporary art foundation in Los Angeles.
- Blum & Poe expanding its physical presence to Japan and opening a office in Tokyo.
- David Zwirner, on opening a gallery in London and on art collecting.
- Andrea Rosen and Hauser & Wirth opening second locations in NYC.
- List of ArtInfo’s Top 10 contemporary art collectors in the UK.
- Pablo Picasso’s play Desire Caught by the Tail to get a reading at the Guggenheim.
- Frida Kahlo’s inspirational fashion goes on display in Mexico.
- An interview with Luc Tuymans.
- Residents upset after Grayson Perry given the go-ahead to build a “Disneyland” gingerbread house.
- James Franco (collaborating with Travis Mathews) making gay art film, revisiting Cruising.
- Uta Barth and An-My Lê are among those in the class of 2013 MacArthur Fellows
- Peter Blake’s original collage for insert in Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s album included in Sotheby’s auction.