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
People were smoking in the Met at the Costume Institute gala! Call the police! [NYT]
“An artist from the Czech Republic has received £20,000 for winning a self-portrait competition.” [BBC]
Here’s a Paul McCarthy being installed in the rain at Frieze. [NYT]
Liz Glynn made a speakeasy in the Frieze tent. Read More
MoMA’s Party in the Garden will honor Mayor Bloomberg. [The Art Newspaper]
Van Gogh’s paintings used to be brighter. [The Guardian]
On the Folk Art Museum: “MoMA’s plan can hardly be a surprise, because its entire history since 1937 is based on demolishing potential landmarks.” [NYT]
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Felix Salmon on “the tragedy of Cooper Union.” [Reuters]
MOCA architecture show may be canceled. [LAT]
Here’s Tavares Strachen on his Venice project. [Art Review]
“A collector of Old Masters says that a painting he bought from Sotheby’s in 2004 is now worthless because it was once owned by the war criminal Hermann Read More
Jewish Museum of Vienna slow to return Nazi loot. [NYT]
Walters Art Museum in Baltimore names Julia Marciari-Alexander director. [ArtsBeat]
Zehra Jumabhoy hits the India Art Fair. [Artforum]
On Richard Prince’s car hoods. [Greg.org]
Emma Allen catches up with Tracey Emin in Times Square. [The New Yorker]
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“Richter, Basquiat Top $127 Million Auction at Christie’s [London]” [Bloomberg]
Want to buy a fine rhinoceros horn? Don’t even think about going to Denmark’s Bruun Rasmussen auction house. [The Art Newspaper]
Here’s a profile of the Art Institute of Chicago’s director, Douglas Druick. [WSJ]
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The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam buys its first abstract painting. [The Art Newspaper]
Court hears what may be “the last great Holocaust-era art restitution case.” [The LA Times]
The head of Interpol says he doesn’t think the paintings stolen from Rotterdam’s Kunsthal gallery last year will ever be recovered. Among the seven works stolen Read More
Vandal pleads guilty to defacing Rothko. [BBC]
Steve McQueen gets a catalogue raisonne—a rarity for a film specialist. [The Art Newspaper]
Roanoke’s Taubman Museum of Art won’t go under, says new board chairman. Read More
