Anish Kapoor has enlisted Mark Wallinger, Bob and Roberta Smith, Tom Phillips and other art world heavyweights such as Alison Myners, chair of the ICA, and Tamara Rojo, artistic director of the English National Ballet to create a Gangnam Style video in support of Ai Weiwei. “It had to be done,” said Kapoor, “Yes, it is desperately silly, but what is the paradigm of the artist? The artist does stupid things with serious intent.” (more…)

Phillips de Pury & Co. is set to auction AK-47 weapons decorated by Damien Hirst and other artists in October in London. The guns, decorated by more than 20 different artists, are on display at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London until Sept 30th and Phillips will host the auction on Oct 4th. (more…)