At the end of each week, Whitewall is here to help sift through the news so you don’t have to. After the jump, find what’s worth reading from this week’s news.
1. Art critic Holland Cotter of the New York Times wins the Pulitzer Prize for criticism.
2. The Royal Albert Hall, London, has commissioned a number of street artists to cover the walls of its loading bay for a one-day exhibition.
3. Clint Arthur, the angry purchaser of a Takashi Murakami print from the boutique at the “Copyright Murakami” exhibition at the LA MOCA, has added an allegation of fraud to his initial allegation against Louis Vuitton.
4. Starting this July, artist Antony Gormley’s public sculpture One & Other will exhibit 2,400 people for an hour each on the Fourth Plinth of Trafalgar Square, London.
5. Sotheby’s has announced that they will be adding a section of Ukranian contemporary art to their Russian contemporary art sale in London this June.
6. If you’re in New York tomorrow, make sure to check out the latest Saturday @ Phillips sale. Of note are works from the collection of Bill Powers and Cynthia Rowley, TRACE’s Claude Grunitsky, and Alaska’s Sebastian Montabonel.
7. Seeking Alpha, an art advisory website, breaks down how we should look at art, if we must look at it as an investment.
8. SOFA at the Park Avenue Armory in New York did pretty well this year. Craft makes a less pejorative place for itself in the lexicon of contemporary art and design.
9. Damien Hirst interviewed by John Varoli for Bloomberg has some comforting opinions for art collectors worried about the falling value of art in their collection, “I really believe art is the most powerful currency in the world. I think that’s why it trades for large amounts of money.”
10. Sotheby’s Russian sale that began today will be a test for the once utterly buoyant market.
