“I’ll admit, when I first saw ‘party in the garden,’ I hoped it had something to do with the Knicks,” Mr. Bloomberg said. “But this is the party in the garden [at MoMA].” [WSJ]

“After a two-year battle, a Brooklyn carpenter has beaten a $2,000 ticket for picking up a discarded TV antenna for Read More

“Artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei has released a heavy-metal single called “Dumbass’”—meant to reconstruct his 81-day detention in 2011, which was part of an overall crackdown on dissent by the Chinese government.” With video! [The Telegraph]

And Jonathan Jones argues that Mr. Ai is a “modern master in his moment.” He writes, “It’s like being the contemporaries of Beuys in the 1970s or Marcel Duchamp when he was calling that urinal art.” [The Guardian] Read More

Anish Kappor’s wax cannon in Berlin requires ear plugs. [Bloomberg]

Two new curators with very Met-sounding names, Peter Barnet and C. Griffith Mann, are hired by the Met. [Artforum] Read More

Felix Salmon on “Cooper Union’s shameless trustees.” [Reuters]

Twenty Frank Lloyd Wright homes are on the market. Living in one may sound glamorous, but it is may be a lot of work. [WSJ]

Here is a profile of the artist Jeffrey Gibson. [NYT] Read More

A look inside the Nahmad family. [NYT]

A little late to this, but worth a listen: fashion-trend forecasters say that Dubai and Frank Stella are hot. [NPR Planet Money]

Here are some obscure Dalí watercolors of rather erotic fruits. [The Guardian]

Thomas M. Messer, a pioneering director of the Guggenheim, Read More

Artist Tracey Emin: Critics Are Harsher Because I’m a Woman [Vanity Fair]

“Buoyed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s decision this month to return two stolen statues, Cambodia is asking other museums to examine any Khmer antiquities they acquired after 1970, when a 20-year period of civil war and genocide gave thieves free range to Read More

“The German federal association of galleries and dealers (Bundesverband Deutscher Galerien und Kunsthändler—BDGV) has, for the moment, won a major battle to keep VAT rates down on the purchase of original works of art.” [The Art Newspaper]

NYU suspends art history prof Ross Finocchio after he is accused of filming women undressing at Beacon’s Closet. [Read More

Marion Maneker warns that last night’s Leo auction “had all the hallmarks of a market driven by anything but fundamentals.” [Art Market Monitor]

Here’s a party report from the Brant Foundation’s Sunday event. [WSJ] Read More

“Valuable as Art, but Priceless as a Tool to Launder Money” [NYT]

Michael Kimmelman says MoMA shouldn’t tear down the American Folk Art Museum building. [NYT]

Here’s a list of all the ladies that James Franco brought to Frieze and MoMA PS1. [Page Six] Read More

“A real-estate developer who collects contemporary art is building a new fine-art storage facility in Queens to rival spaces such as Christie’s Brooklyn storage facility, where art was damaged by flooding during superstorm Sandy.” [WSJ]

MoMA considers not tearing down the Folk Art building. [NYT] Read More