• Cai Guo-Qiang is commissioned by the Museum of Fine Art Houston (MFAH) to produce Odyssey, the largest gunpowder drawing he has made to date (10 by 162 feet)
  • Adam Lindemann has a seven-story townhouse in Manhatten filled with blue-chip art.
  • Richard Avedon’s “Dovima with the Elephants” set a record for the artist’s work at auction when it sold for $1,148,910 at Christie’s Paris last Saturday.  The photograph was purchased by Dior fashion house (Dovima is wearing a Dior dress designed by Yves Saint-Laurent).
  • When young artists have quick meteoric rises in price.
  • Los Angeles Contemporary Art Forum, from producers of Armory, coming Sept 2011.
  • George Condo discusses his Kanye West covers. And, Condo will be showing at the New Museum.
  • Pop-up space scarce in Miami for Art Basel Week.
  • Richard Colman and Retna team up on the interiors of a house in Detroit.
  • Ellis G is suing NYC for $1 million.
  • The Guardian meets Princess Hijab.
  • Eine an Faith47 in South Africa and on video.
  • Paris Hilton joins the MSK CREW?
  • Eric Fortune sketches out plans for what may be his next show.
  • Melissa Haslam caught on video by her sister.
  • Mars-1 has a new print.