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Ignoring the three hour old news about the Turner Prize, here are a week’s worth of high quality links: You live by the market, you die by the market. Business Week reports that Damien Hirst has officially jumped the shark Guest on this week’s Modern Art Podcast is Sophie Calle.…

Sad week, as the extent of a hurricane’s destruction becomes apparent: But Chelsea gallerists are a resilient breed. So discovers the New York Times as Roberta Smith assesses damage caused by Sandy Art is no longer cool, according to Jacob Willer. This could be the best thing to happen to…

Even as he maintains his emolient sales pitch for rich customers, it is worth bearing in mind the real world catastophe at which Jeff Koons’ puppy was at the centre. This piece of inoffensive topiary is as cuddly as any 43ft high sculpture could ever be. Containing 60,000 plants it…

Storms have pushed art somewhat off the agenda this week. Imagine what Sandy might have done to a Frieze tent, anyway, I digress: Hyperallergic art blog catered for all your climate news needs, with a collection of photos compiled from social media by Hrag Vartanian. On the Guardian’s Northerner blog,…

Between the condoms by the notorious bed to the film about abortion, childlessness has emerged as a major theme in the work of Tracey Emin. As if she has traded creative fecundity for motherhood, her prolific art has more in common with masturbation rather than procreation. She sketches the former…

Apologies for the fortnight off, but my weekly link selection is I hope back on track: Romance of the ruin doesn’t sound half bad, but Steven Thomson is concerned that, in the wake of the Olympics, two of the most signifcant East London art projects were too nostalgic. A new…

Criticismism has just got back from warmer climes. The excuse to visit Toledo was a family wedding. So I headed to Spain for the party and stayed for the El Greco. Doménikos Theotokópoulos, the painter known to art history as The Greek, plays a large role in the identity of…

Some athletically aggregated art links for the week. (That’s the only Olympics reference here): Like most nurses, C-Monster’s Art Nurse could surprise you with her technical knowledge. Here she is advising on a tricky restoration project This sculptural installation looks good on screen. Is that a strength of the photographer…

Another week on the news-and-views merry-go-round: Frieze claims the art world has swallowed up the art itself and Dieter Roelstraete bemoans the amount of reference-heavy work that has come about as a result. In the Guardian #1: Rachel Cooke visits Jenny Saville to conduct a wide ranging interview about the…