It’s been a huge week in art, if you live in Miami. On these shores it was the Turner Prize. And there was no escaping either.
- My favourite coverage of the aforementioned Prize came from music journalist Alexis Petridis writing in the Guardian. Second fave bit of coverage came from the good folk at Pipe
- Meanwhile the Art Newspaper pulled together a compendium of opinions on the parlous state of the art (fair) world
- Art Info also posted a slideshow that could make you despair to not have a million or two reserved for such occasions
- News abounded this week. From The Independent: two men were jailed for stealing a Henry Moore and selling it for £46. And a Raphael sketch went for considerably more
- RIP Oscar Niemeyer, curve-loving architect responsible for Brazilia. He had a good innings, designing a 2003 Serpentine Pavilion in his 90s
- The Telegraph interviewed Chuck Close. “Very often women seem to love me†– not my words
- A Hyperallergic review of Phyllida Barlow suggests a transatlantic continuation of the form she hit last year at Hauser & Wirth Picadilly
- Can’t wait for this British Museum show of ice age art. 40,000 years in the making, etc. The Guardian reports
- Art Wednesday pose a Q&A with the winner of the 2012 Jerwood Drawing Prize: Karolina Glusiec
- Finally the film of the book of the artist Robert Motherwell. That’s a gift idea you can have for free.