More stories from the week that ended April 27 (click on bolded words for more information):
- Ryan McGinley shown by Team Gallery at Paris Photo LA, which opened this weekend.
- RIP: Robert Olsen, who died at the age of 44 from a probable heart attack.
- Vogue not working with Terry Richardson after new allegations (denied by Richardson) by Emma Appleton.
- A vandal uses razor to damage Arezoo Moseni’s work in a exhibition at Gallery 61.
- Jose Carlos Bergantiños Diaz arrested after being suspected of dealing in fake art.
- Helly Nahmad begs court judge to give him community service in lieu of prison time.
- Pei-Shen Qia escapes to China to avoid likely lengthy prison time.
- Building housing Tony Shafrazi, Lehmann Maupin, and Stephen Haller’s galleries to be demolished.
- Benjamin Sutton thinks James Franco’s Pace Gallery show is bad and also offensive. Roberta Smith thinks he should stick to acting.
- Banksy issues a statement disapproving the Stealing Banksy exhibition in London.
- Jonathan Jones criticizes Andy Scott’s sculptures of colossal Clydesdale horse heads in Scotland.
- Lawsuit filed over destruction of public mural in Venice created in 1969 by Los Angeles Fine Arts Squad.
- Cornelia Gurlitt, the aunt of Cornelius Gurlitt, revealed to have been an artist who committed suicide in her 20s.
- Foundation for Art and Creative Technology lays off paid staff members in favor of volunteers.
- Emergence of digitally printed film posters drives painters in India to look at alternative means of livelihood.
- Pearl Paint in Tribeca closes its doors after 50 years in business.
- Richard Serra’s thoughts on today’s New York art scene community.
- Obama may return collection of lost Korean artifacts during his visit to the country.
- States and cities vying for the Obama presidential museum.
- Ten politicians that have dabbled in creating fine art.
- Twenty-eight digital experiments by Andy Warhol discovered on aging floppy disks from 1985.
- New evidence obtained in one collectors’ thirty year quest in having his Rothko authenticated.
- Study finds that artists have structurally different (more developed) brains compared with non-artists.
- Two legendary women art dealers you should know about.
- The history of the found object in art history.
- The Andy Warhol Museum rehanging his works for the first time since it opened in 1994.
- Alexander McQueen’s Savage Beauty show, originally shown at Met, to come to London.
- NY’s museums once again take up trend of presenting dance performances in their exhibition spaces.
- New Governors Island Park will be receiving new site-specific public art installations.
- Christie’s forces Phillips’ hand in moving their evening sale day.
- FIAC’s Los Angeles debut will coincide with Paris Photo L.A. in May 2015.
- Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner to lead a private tour of their collection and storage facility.
- Larry Gagosian buys condo in Faena Residence Miami Beach.
- New UK law on rings and joint acquisitions aims to stop market manipulation at auction sales.
- Is the depth of the global art market exaggerated?
- Brent Donovan talks about his print collection and what draws him to certain prints.
- A list of the Top 10 Most Expensive Living French Artists and also a list of the Top 10 Most Expensive Living German Artists.
- Last week’s live Twitter Q&A with Philippe Vergne.
- Fulton Ryder now represents Genieve Figgis. It also represents bp laval.
- Steve McQueen one of Time’s Most Influential People.
- Takashi Murakami’s first feature film, Jellyfish Eyes, about to tour eight cities in the US.
- Roberta Smith takes a look at Sara Cwynar’s show Flat Death.
- Review of Tom Sachs’s Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac show.
- An interview with Gabriele De Santis.
- Marsea Goldberg answers some questions.
- Amalia Ulman’s hospital experience after receiving surgery.
- Andrew M. Goldstein interviews Peter Brant.
- Profile of and interview with Kyle DeWoody by Derek Blasberg.
- New Liam Everett etchings produced by Paulson Bott Press.
- Parra screen print released this week by HVW8.
- Will Barras x Stendec print out now.
- Serpentine Galleries collaborates with Comme des Garçons to develop unisex fragrance.