More stories from the week that ended Sept 14 (click on bolded words for more information):
- Images and info for Jamian Juliano-Villani’s Nudge the Judge at Tanya Leighton up on gallery’s website.
- RIP: Dahlia Yehia, 25, who was beaten to death after traveling to Nepal to assist in earthquake relief efforts.
- RIP: John Perreault, who died at the age of 78 from complications resulting from gastrointestinal surgery.
- Someone spray-painting “NO MORE CHINESE” graffiti around multiple locations in San Francisco.
- Anish Kapoor refuses to remove anti-semitic graffiti from his Versailles sculpture after it is vandalized again. Fabien Bouglé accuses the artist of inciting racial hatred. His work is vandalized a third time.
- Atena Farghadani could see her prison sentence extended after shaking her lawyer’s hand.
- Detroit Institute of Arts to lose paintings on loan from A. Alfred Taubman after they will be pulled for auction.
- Forged Dada artwork proliferating in Germany.
- City of Los Angeles cleaned up 32.4mil. sq. ft. of graffiti in 2014.
- Petition demands that Sinebrychoff Art Museum put end to its “Coca-Cola Bottle 100 years” exhibition.
- 9 Andy Warhol prints stolen from office in LA and replaced with fakes.
- Adam Solow threatening to sue US government after Goncalo Mabunda’s War Throne piece confiscated.
- Clara Zevi questions Massimiliano Gioni’s knowledge of women.
- The future of some of Isaumu Noguchi’s works in doubt.
- Kenneth Rogoff thinks that Chinese art buyers will buy less art and that will highly impact the art market.
- NY Times writes about Banksy and the problem with sarcastic art.
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Baroness Elsa/Else Hildegarde Plötz may have been the real artist behind Duchamp’s Fountain.
- Scientists discover another massive Neolithic monument just one mile away from Stonehenge.
- NPR discusses the art scene in Saudi Arabia.
- Tokyo’s art scene goes high tech.
- Musée d’Art Moderne’s upcoming CO- WORKERS show includes Darja Bajagić, Ryan Trecartin, and more.
- Ben Davis reviews “Picasso Sculpture” show at MoMA.
- Israeli artists, academics, activists launching exhibition space in Jerusalem to celebrate Iranian culture.
- Maze made of 125k sunflowers on Museumplein on occasion of Van Gogh museum entrance hall opening.
- Roy Lichtenstein’s destroyed mural at Leo Castelli Gallery comes back to life as Greene Street Mural.
- LA Times interviews Eli Broad as the Broad is about to open. Christopher Knight discusses the Broad’s plans for lending out works from its collection. Knight also looks at 5 important works of Pop Art in the Broad’s collection.
- A review of the Istanbul Biennial.
- A look at the use of technological guides during the museum viewing experience.
- Sotheby’s and Artsy teams up on a online sale.
- Sotheby’s gave Taubman estate an approx. $500mil. guarantee according to SEC filings.
- Christie’s names Sonya Roth managing director for its Southern California office.
- Katya Kazakina writes about the new staff at Phillips.
- Some of Mets’s collection of English furniture and decorative arts will be deaccessioned at Christie’s.
- Kenny Schachter writes about the art market this past summer and what to expect coming up.
- Christie’s lists 7 reasons to get excited about collecting photography.
- Exhibitor list for Art Basel Miami Beach released.
- Carole Server’s picks her favorite works from the EXPO fair. Deborah Aaronson also takes a shot.
- Artspace provides their guide to the Chicago scene on occasion of EXPO.
- Chelsea appears to still be New York’s top gallery district.
- Bloomberg Business profiles Michele Maccarone.
- Jeffrey Deitch to stage Marjorie Cameron Parsons Kimmel show at his former space on 76 Grand Street.
- Interview with Stefan Simchowitz on SFAQ.
- Wall Street Journal visits Phillip Lim’s house and we get a glimpse of his art collection.
- The story of Luciano Benetton’s collection of small works.
- Visit and interview with Frank Stella on occasion of his upcoming show at the Whitney.
- Jerry Saltz writes about Pablo Picasso’s sculptural work.
- Alex Israel talks about Chris Burden.
- Christopher Rothko talks about Mark Rothko.
- Mitchell-Innes & Nash to present survey of Tom Wesselmann’s works.
- Paddle8 lists Tauba Auerbach’s 8 Most Inter-Disciplinary Moments.
- Autre interviews Brian Kokoska.
- Flash Art reviews Darja Bajagić’s show at Bed Stuy Love Affair.
- CBS News interviews José Parlá.
- Soraya Doolbaz takes photographs of dressed-up penises.
- James Franco to speak at UCI about art and life.
- Holand Cotter discusses the upcoming art season.
- Hans Ulrich Obrist wins International Folkwang Prize for 2015.
- Banksy may be working as a parking lot attendant at Dismaland.
- André Saraiva opens Café Henrie, which will serve breakfast and coffee and have Peter Shire-designed cups.
- Tommy Hilfiger teams up with Jeffrey Deitch and Shepard Fairey on Rock Style show in London.
- T Magazine’s photoshoot of artists, musicians, and cultural figures that defined New York in the 70s and 80s.
- Leonardo DiCaprio gets the VIP treatment at Hauser & Wirth.
- Artnet’s 31 Women Share Their Secrets to Art World Success: Part Three.
- Collected images from Instagram of the art displayed at Burning Man.
- Artnet’s list of ten high profile college art professors.
- John Slattery spotted buying art at the Affordable Art Fair.
- Mark Jenkins tape babies available from Freeway Editions.
- The Thing releases Michelle Grabner soccer ball.