Is this £1,500, internet purchased drawing a lost portrait of Vincent Van Gogh? [AO Newslink]

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Ai WeiWei pens an editorial on Beijing that is, considering his recent incarceration, strikingly direct, yet also somehow resigned: “you truly believe they can do anything to you. There’s no way to even question it. You’re not protected by anything” [AO Newslink]

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Blood Orange during a set, all photos for Art Observed by Gautier Pellegrin

As New York City and the rest of the the Eastern Seaboard hunker down for a storm here is a photoset of last week’s balmy “warm up” at MoMA’s PS1 in Long Island City, New York which featured The Juan Maclean, DFA, Blood Orange, Solange, Pictureplane and others.

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Jeanette Ingberman, a founder of 3-decade strong Exit Art in New York, died at age 59 on Wednesday in Manhattan [AO Newslink]

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The story of the global powerhouse Pace gallery and the family behind it [AO Newslink]

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East Coast Collectors scramble to fortify artwork from expected impact of Hurricane Irene [AO Newslink]

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The Wall Street Journal interviews Mark di Suvero, “America’s greatest living Constructivist sculptor”
at his studio in Long Island City, New York [AO Newslink]

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Dasha Zhukova launches Garage magazine with fashion/art collaborations from Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, John Baldessari, Raymond Pettibon, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Paul McCarthy and Richard Prince [AO Newslink]

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Tracey Emin surreptitiously installs a neon work at David Cameron’s headquarters at No. 10 Downing Street, London [AO Newslink]

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The New York Times surveys this summer’s selection of outdoor sculpture in New York City [AO Newslink]

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Judge dismisses photographer Janine “Jah Jah” Gordon’s copyright infringement case against Ryan McGinley citing “Such a conception of copyright law has no basis in statute, case law, or common sense” [AO Newslink]

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Ai WeiWei interview with LATimes regarding his Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads at LACMA; preoccupation with missing cat [AO Newslink]

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Larry Gagosian buys $36.5 million , 20,000 sf, 50-foot wide Harkness Mansion at 4 E.75th St.; roughly 200 meters from his Upper East Side Gallery on Madison Avenue [AO Newslink]

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Trailer released for Anselm Kiefer: Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow by Sophie Fiennes [AO Newslink]

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Assume Vivid Astro Focus and Lady Gaga to collaborate on a holiday window at Barney’s New York [AO Newslink]

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Edward Hopper’s 1935 painting The Long Leg to become a US Postage Stamp [AO Newslink]

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Chelsea’s Luhring Augustine gallery establishes new storage and exhibition space on Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn [AO Newslink]

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$250,000 Rembrandt drawing stolen Saturday evening from private art exhibition at Ritz Carlton Marina del Rey in Los Angeles [AO Newslink]

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Hague government pays €1 million to heir of Jewish art dealer for painting looted by Hermann Goering [AO Newslink]

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Architectural artist Daniel Arsham to design sets for Merce Cunningham Company’s final performance at Park Avenue Armory [AO Newslink]

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On Friday Aug. 5th, the same woman who attacked an $80 million Gauguin work months ago dismounted and repeatedly slammed a $2.5 million Henri Mattisse work against the wall at the National Gallery in Washington and was subsequently sent to a psychiatric facility [AO Newslink]

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Installation shot of Vanessa Beecroft’s “Performance VB70 – VB Marmi” in Milan. All images courtesy Galleria Lia Rumma unless otherwise noted.

In a sprawling gallery space in Milan, women with marbled skin mingle with marble plinths. One hundred and fifty people at a time streamed in to take in the sight of the vivid hues– green onyx, French red ochre, Portuguese pink marble, lapis lazuli, sodalite blue, macaubus light blue, and black Belgian– glowing against a white cube setting. As Roberta Smith said in a 1998 New York Times review of the artist’s work, “It’s art; it’s fashion. It’s good; it’s bad. It’s sexist; it’s not. It’s Vanessa Beecroft‘s performance art.”

Opening in Milan

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Shepard Fairey assaulted in Copenhagen while being called an”Obama illuminati”: “I have a black eye and a bruised rib” [AO Newslink]

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Thief steals $100k KAWS work from Marc Ecko “during business hours” [AO Newslink]

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