Kcho at Juan Ruiz Galeria from Maracaibo, Venezuela at Art Miami. (Photo by C-M.)
- Kaiju paintings on black velvet.
- Art Market-palooza: The Economist reports on the state of all things money. (Art Observed.)
- Did Damien Hirst buy his show at the Wallace Collection? Includes a round-up of other ethically-questionable museum shows. (Art Observed.)
- Another private museum opens in Miami: this one housing the De la Cruz collection.
- Basel Frazzle now trying to reach rich Latin Americans.
- Find the Miami Herald‘s hub of Bazzle coverage here. And if that doesn’t saturate your vision, find another helpful round-up here.
- An early Richard Serra sculpture receives protected status in Ontario.
- Barry McGee: An SFMOMA conservator talks about maintaining works that are about transformation and decay.
- A digital reconstruction of Da Vinci’s Last Supper as it would have appeared when it was first painted. (Arts Journal.)
- Brooklyn’s 3rd Ward Moviehouse is looking for three-minute films.
- Involuntary parks.
- A killer set of images featuring photography from Artissima, Turin’s contemporary art fair.
- The Minimum Wage Machine. (ackackack.)
- Drowning: The photographs of Asako Narahashi.
- The Pink Lady of Malibu. (Eyeteeth.)
- Pritzker Prize Winner Peter Zumthor working on a plan to give LACMA’s campus a serious facelift.
- Nuts: The Swiss are trying to ban minarets. More here. (architecture.mnp.)
- Dubai sheik tweets about Islamic art as his emirate struggles to stay afloat under the weight of its own debt.
- Photo Essay: The gangs of Rio.
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