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Overtime: Aug 10 – Aug 16

Posted by Khoi, August 16, 2015

More stories from the week that ended Aug 16 (click on bolded words for more information): Ramiro Gomez profiled by NY Times. RIP: Susanne Hilberry, who died at 72 due to complications of a brain tumor. RIP: Karen Sinsheimer, who died of pancreatic cancer. Tali Lennox’s boyfriend Ian Jones still missing after kayak accident. His body is later found. 55 Gansevoort to close after two years to make room for Restoration Hardware’s hotel. Paper Magazine visits the gallery’s final opening and Queer Thought’s first opening in NY. Hirshhorn’s decision […]

Overtime: Aug 3 – Aug 9

Posted by Khoi, August 9, 2015

More stories from the week that ended Aug 9 (click on bolded words for more information): Aaron Moulton provides a video walkthrough for Gagosian Gallery’s Theories on Forgetting show. RIP: Ruben Espinosa, who was found shot to death in Mexico City apartment. RIP: Lance Kinz, who died at the age of 64. RIP: Charles Goldstein, who died at the age of 78 due to complications of an infection. Opus Art Gallery closes and owners flees to France as they allegedly have swindled collectors and consignors. Mixed Green gallery closes as its […]

Overtime: July 27 – Aug 2

Posted by Khoi, August 2, 2015

More stories from the week that ended Aug 2 (click on bolded words for more information): Sun Yuan and Peng Yu unveil fallen angel sculptural installation, called Angel. RIP: Shigeko Kubota, who died at the age of 77 due to cancer. RIP: Yasuo Minagawa, who died at the age of 69 due to esophageal cancer. Eight year old girl killed in Santa Cruz artist colony by a teen living at the art center. Stepson of Nick Korniloff, founder of the Art Miami fair, missing at sea after boat found […]

Overtime: July 20 – July 26

Posted by Khoi, July 26, 2015

More stories from the week that ended July 26 (click on bolded words for more information): Images and information up for David Hockney’s show at L.A. Louver. Sergei Ustinov, founder of Museum of Jewish History in Russia remains hospitalized after being shot in head. Gerhard Richter disowns his early works from West German period. Georg Baselitz follows through with his threat to remove his artwork on loan to German museums. Xiao Yuan accused of stealing 143 paintings over course of two years and replacing them with forgeries. […]

Overtime: July 13 – July 19

Posted by Khoi, July 19, 2015

More stories from the week that ended July 19 (click on bolded words for more information): Images and info up for Michael Rey show at ZERO. RIP: Lee Towndrow and Amber Scorah’s son, who died at three months during first day of daycare. RIP: unnamed 28-year-old construction worker from Pakistan killed while working on Louvre Abu Dhabi. German government cultural protection law plans could cripple the market for German artists and undermine the country’s role in the art market. Georg Baselitz withdraws loaned artworks from German museums […]

Previews: “Step and Repeat” @ The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

Posted by Khoi, July 16, 2015

Step and Repeat, MOCA’s annual celebration of performance art, comedy, poetry, live music, and other pleasant surprises, returns this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The weekend-long celebration will take place at The Geffen Contemporary and will feature never been seen performances by Geo Wyeth, James Fauntleroy, Cali Thornhill Dewitt, and Juliana Huxtable, and other artists. Come and see other ways of experiencing art besides viewing paintings on the wall or objects on the floor.

Overtime: July 6 – July 12

Posted by Khoi, July 12, 2015

More stories from the week that ended July 12 (click on bolded words for more information): DRAWINGS|FRIDGES (Aaron Garber-Maikovska, Eric Yahnker, more) images at Greene Exhibitions now up. Nicolas Bourriaud fired as director of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. Major public cultural institutions in Greece to close due to lack of funding. Court stops Lutfur Rahman from trying to sell $26mil. Henry Moore sculpture to pay town’s debts. MFA Boston’s Dress Up in a Kimono event causes controversy for its “cultural appropriation and orientalism“. The museum subsequently apologizes […]

Overtime: June 29 – July 5

Posted by Khoi, July 5, 2015

More stories from the week that ended July 5 (click on bolded words for more information): Jamian Juliano-Villani featured by Art21. RIP: Harold Feinstein, who died at the age of 84 due to chronic heart failure. Delaware Art Museum privately sells Homer’s Milking Time as well as Wyeth’s Arthur Cleveland. Destruction of antiquities and heritage sites by Islamic State and others could amount to war crimes. Street art widespread in Greece as nation is in financial and economic chaos. Members of Sotheby’s’ cleaning staff have been suspended pending investigation of water pistol […]

Overtime: June 22 – June 28

Posted by Khoi, June 28, 2015

More stories from the week that ended June 28 (click on bolded words for more information): Documentation of Landon Metz’ show at Andersen’s. RIP: Miriam Schapiro, who died at the age of 91. Cady Noland disavows another one of her works after it was restored without her consultation. Richard Dorment looks back on his career as an art critic as he heads into retirement. Worker accidentally dismantles and throws out Jim Osman outdoor sculpture he mistook for trash. Anish Kapoor feels that vandalization of his vagina sculpture […]

Overtime: June 15 – June 21

Posted by Khoi, June 21, 2015

More stories from the week that ended June 21 (click on bolded words for more information): Some recent Broad Museum acquisitions revealed, such as 82-ft Murakami and Robert Longo Ferguson piece. Activists occupy Tate, staging 25-hour “textual intervention” to protest BP sponsorship agreement. Louvre and Sainte-Chapelle church accused of discrimination after refusing tours to Israeli students. Joseph Gibbons pleads guilty to robbing banks in the name of art and receives one year prison sentence. Richard Matt gave Joyce Mitchell a painting he painted of her children before […]