More stories from the week that ended Nov 3 (click on bolded words for more information):

  • Space Invader reportedly arrested in NY for putting up street work (as shown above).
  • RIP: Arthur C. Danto dies at the age of 89.
  • RIP: Karin Higa, who died at 47 due to cancer.
  • Dutch museums have identified 139 artworks that may have been looted during the Nazi era.
  • Max Stern’s heirs announced the recovery of a painting he lost 76 years ago, but they lose two others.
  • 1,300 year-old Quran and antique swords missing from Yemen museum.
  • Alexander Calder’s heirs accuse Klaus G. Perls of fraud.
  • Prominent art lawyer Ralph E. Lerner suspended from practicing law in New York State for a year.
  • Tobias Natter resigns from his position as the director of the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
  • A judge has extended a temporary order blocking developers’ plans to demolish 5Pointz.
  • Government shutdown cost Smithsonian nearly $3mil. in lost revenue.
  • Iran’s artists complain that US and European sanctions are affecting their work.
  • Banksy’s 1WTC op-ed piece published on his site actually different than the one he submitted to NYT. His architectural criticism has been criticized. Jonathan Jones thinks he got it wrong.
  • A response to Banksy’s NY residency on the walls of Rag & Bone store.
  • Extensive article on the problems that face the art market in China, including forgeries and corruption.
  • Qatar removes Adel Abdessemed’s Zindane statue after one month on display.
  • Paintings to be removed from Oslo building over terror attack associations after staff complaints.
  • Renovation of Picasso Museum facing more delays after four years of closure already.
  • David Hockney rebuffed Apple’s advances for him to endorse its products.
  • Adrian Piper pulls out of black performance art show asserting that it marginalizes African American artists.
  • Eik Kahng believes that she has identified a previously unknown painting by Eugène Delacroix.
  • 1,800 year-old Roman eagle in near pristine condition has been found by archaeologists in City of London.
  • Couple performs guerrilla wedding ceremony at Art Institute of Chicago in front of Seurat painting.
  • Museums are often the first early adopters of innovation for and accommodation to people with disabilities.
  • The New Museum plans to transform neighboring warehouse into an incubator for art, design and technology.
  • Queens Museum undergoes $69mil. renovation and re-brands itself and shortens its name.
  • Saddam’s former Basra palace now has new life as Basra Museum, an Iraqi cultural hub.
  • Steven Cohen has many pieces from his collection consigned to the upcoming auction sales.
  • James Whistler’s Chelsea house has gone on the market for £30mil.
  • Article about the effect of selection bias in the analysis of returns in the art market.
  • Two of Van Gogh’s five surviving Sunflowers paintings to be exhibited side by side in London.
  • Jerry Saltz gives his rankings for Banksy’s NY pieces.
  • Developer Stephen Ross selects Thomas Heatherwick for possibly most expensive public art work in world.
  • Some excerpts from the new edition of Artspeak.
  • Restoration Hardware’s RH Contemporary Art Journal publication to be released on Nov. 9.
  • Kehinde Wiley and Eugene V. Thaw to receive the American Federation of Arts Cultural Leadership award.
  • Gary Simmons recipient of Studio Museum’s Joyce Alexander Wein prize.
  • Bridget Riley joins David Zwirner Gallery.
  • Matthew Barney’s River of Fundament film will be presented in full for the first time at Adelaide Festival.
  • Richard Serra’s choice for greatest living artist revealed.
  • Quam Odunsi featured in Hypebeast’s Through the Lens.
  • Catherine Wagley reviews Matthew Porter’s exhibition at M+B Gallery.
  • Shepard Fairey has a new documentary style series on MTV World called Rebel Music.
  • Donovan Wylie’s exhibition at Imperial War Museum explores military observation as a means of control.
  • A look at Park Seo-Bo and contemporary Korean art.
  • Jonathan Jones writes about the book Wanksy: Interpreting a Graffiti Virtuoso
  • Damien Hirst collaborates with Prada.
  • The Hollywood Reporter’s list of the industry’s top 25 art collectors.
  • Video recap of the sheOne exhibition in Edinburgh.