Mitchell-Innes & Nash will represent the Jay DeFeo Trust. DeFeo’s show at the Whitney runs through June 2. [NYT]

Apparently toasting his victory in the “Canal Zone” case, Richard Prince teases new work about the 57 girlfriends that Jerry had on Seinfeld. [@RichardPrince4/Twitter] Read More

Here’s the Turner prize short list: Tino Sehgal, David Shrigley, Laure Prouvost and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. [Bloomberg]

In a hearing yesterday, Helly Nahmad was accused of being a part of “an international conspiracy that uses fear” to collect debts. [NYP]

“The American Folk Art Museum, New York, whose former midtown home is poised to be demolished by the neighboring Museum of Modern Art, is due to surrender more than 200 works from its collection to be auctioned to cover debts amassed by its former chairman.” [The Art Newspaper] Read More

Here are details of the Morgan Library’s new trove of letters by J.D. Salinger. [NYT]

Collector Frank Cohen opens gallery inside a milk depot in London’s Bloomsbury district. [Bloomberg]

No more lengthy car rides to the outskirts of the DF! The new home of collector Eugenio Lopez’s contemporary art-rich Jumex Collection in the Polanco neighborhood of Mexico City is set to be completed by July. [The Art Newspaper] Read More

“Richard Meier, Thom Mayne, Steven Holl, Hugh Hardy and Robert A.M. Stern are among the prominent architects who on Monday called for the Museum of Modern Art to reconsider its decision to demolish the former home of the American Folk Art Museum.” [NYT]

James S. Russell: “Folk Art Museum Should Not Be Whacked by Big MoMA” [Bloomberg] Read More

A great interview with George Condo: “Warhol’s minions soon discovered that Condo was an artist – he touched up a speck on a Diana Ross portrait with a dab of ink – and hired him to help print the ‘Myths’ series. During his eight-month stint, Condo was in Warhol’s presence only once, when he carried the proofs for the artist’s approval. ‘He made some funny comment like, “How come I always have to sign them?’””
[FT via AMM]

Here’s Geoff Dyer on the new show at the Annenberg Space for Photography. [LA Times via Tyler Green] Read More

Carol Vogel profiles billionaire couple Mitchell and Emily Rales, who run the low-profile Glenstone museum in Potomac, Md. The private museum is set to expand. “Back in the 1940s and ‘50s artists like de Kooning and Pollock were considered outcasts and revolutionaries,” Mr. Rales told the paper. “My brother and I were seen as two upstarts in a world of older C.E.O.’s.” [NYT] Read More

A campaign for the Pritzker Prize to recognize Denise Scott Brown, whose husband and collaborator won the award in 1991. Protesting her lack of recognition, she did not attend his award ceremony. [NYT]

Jonathan Jones on an attempt to create an “alternative British national artwork”—the “Fuckyeux Tapestry.” [The Guardian]

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Randy Kennedy on Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead project in Detroit, a replica of the artist’s childhood home complete with a subterranean area “reserved for secret rites of an antisocial nature.” [NYT]

Bice Curiger, curator of the 2011 Venice Biennale, has been named the artistic director of the Vincent Van Gogh Foundation in Arles, France. [The Art Newspaper]

British Telecom is building an online museum. [TAP] Read More

“A concept by the artist John Baldessari to display a human cadaver as a work of art could one day be realized  a leading curator believes, despite a recent failed effort to find and display a dead body within the strict legal framework surrounding death and physical remains.” [The Art Newspaper]

Dasha Zukova had her baby here in New York last week. [NYP] Read More

Morley Safer visits Marfa, Texas, “the capital of quirkiness.” [60 Minutes]

“Quite a few people think that Jasper Johns is this country’s greatest living artist. Not too many are up on his career as a foundation executive.” [The New Yorker] Read More