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	David Hockney denies criticising Damien Hirst Artist David Hockney has denied attacking Damien Hirst for using assistants to complete his works. 09 January '12 www.bbc.co.uk
	Picasso and Mondrian works stolen from Athens art gallery Four works taken in pre-dawn heist at Greece's biggest public art museum but one was dropped as thieves fled. 09 January '12 www.guardian.co.uk
	Amid Dutch dike break fears, Groninger Museum moves two exhibitions from ground floors Police and military personnel evacuated 800 people from four villages in the low-lying northern Netherlands on Friday amid fears of a dike break following days of drenching rains. 08 January '12 www.artdaily.org
	Attacker Faces Charges for Damaging $40 Million Clyfford Still Painting A painting valued at $30 million to $40 million was attacked by a woman at the new Clyfford Still Museum in Denver on Dec. 29. 06 January '12 www.artfixdaily.com
	Chinese authorities agree to review Ai Weiwei tax case Authorities in China have agreed to Ai Weiwei's request to review a $2.4m (£1.55m) fine imposed by the tax bureau for ''back taxes''. 06 January '12 www.bbc.co.uk
	Rare first edition of John James Audubon 's 'The Birds of America' to be sold at Christie's A rare first edition of John James Audubon's sumptuously illustrated "The Birds of America," depicting more than 400 life-size North American species in four monumental volumes, is going on the auction block for an estimated $7 million to $10 million. 05 January '12 www.artdaily.org
	Polish art student hangs own painting at National Museum in the southwestern city of Wroclaw Art student Andrzej Sobiepan didn't want to wait decades for his work to appear in museums. So he took matters in his own hands, covertly hanging one of his paintings in a major Polish gallery. 05 January '12 www.artdaily.org
	A Magic Carpet Rises Over the Louvre's New Islamic Arts Gallery Founded in 2003 (compare to the museum's 1793 opening date), Islamic Arts is the Louvre's newest department, boasting a collection of 18,000 objects from the 7th to the 19th century, ranging in provenance from Spain to India. 05 January '12 www.artinfo.com
	David Hockney and Damien Hirst go head to head with solo London shows Hockney makes dig at Hirst's use of assistants in notes for Royal Academy exhibition 04 January '12 www.guardian.co.uk
	Antiques Roadshow announces 2012 tour destinations Antiques Roadshow, PBS’s most-watched primetime series, has announced its Summer 2012 Tour destinations: Boston, Myrtle Beach, SC; Rapid City, SD; Cincinnati; Corpus Christi, Texas; and Seattle. 04 January '12 acn.liveauctioneers.com
	Remembering Frank Uytterhaegen, a Pioneering Catalyst of Beijing’s Art Scene Yesterday, as a freezing wind off the Gobi Desert scrubbed the last patches of pollution from Beijing’s sky, a crowd gathered in the Caochangdi Art District on the outskirts of the capital to pay tribute to Frank Uytterhaegen, a pioneer of China’s contemporary art scene, who died early on the morning of December 27 after a long struggle with cancer. He was 57. 04 January '12 www.artinfo.com
	Louvre’s 8.5 Million Visitors Keep It as No. 1 Museum Worldwide The Louvre in Paris and the British Museum in London were the world’s most visited museums last year, drawing 8.5 million and 5.93 million people respectively, the Art Newspaper said in an annual ranking. 03 January '12 www.bloomberg.com
	Still’s $61.7 Million Abstract Tops Picasso, Warhol: 2011 Sales As the European debt crisis roiled financial markets in 2011, the value of the most expensive works of art sold at auction fell 41 percent. 02 January '12 www.bloomberg.com
	The Controversies That Inflamed the Art World in 2011 By now, it’s fairly clear that the protester is the figure who truly defined the year (even Time magazine and Shepard Fairey agree), and it’s as true in the realm of culture as it is in politics. 02 January '12 www.artinfo.com
	Exhibition of Japanese prints by Tsukioka Kogyo to open at Bonnefantenmuseum The presentation The beauty of Silence – Japanese prints by Tsukioka Kōgyo will be opening in the Bonnefantenmuseum on 15 January 2012. 02 January '12 www.artdaily.org
	Arab protesters put their art on the streets The Cairo-based artist Ganzeer’s stencil of Egyptian riot police, bravely painted on the side of the Mogamma government building on Tahrir Square last month, is the latest in a long line of works of art that have flourished in Egypt’s streets since Hosni Mubarak was ousted in February 2011. 02 January '12 www.theartnewspaper.com
	Eva Zeisel, Ceramic Artist and Designer, Dies at 105 Eva Zeisel, a ceramic artist whose elegant, eccentric designs for dinnerware in the 1940s and ’50s helped to revolutionize the way Americans set their tables, died on Friday in New City, N.Y. She was 105. 01 January '12 www.nytimes.com
	Louvre accused of 'overcleaning' Leonardo masterpiece Art historians at the Louvre have been accused of "overcleaning" a masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci, leaving the painting with a brightness that was never intended. 31 December '11 www.telegraph.co.uk
	Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract Painter Who Shaped a Movement, Dies at 83 Helen Frankenthaler, the lyrically abstract painter whose technique of staining pigment into raw canvas helped shape an influential art movement in the mid-20th century and who became one of the most admired artists of her generation, died on Tuesday at her home in Darien, Conn. She was 83. 28 December '11 www.nytimes.com
	James Rizzi, US pop artist, dies aged 61 US pop artist James Rizzi, best known for his bright, cartoon-like drawings and 3D constructions, has died aged 61. 28 December '11 www.bbc.co.uk
	During Art Rotterdam, Hotel Rotterdam offers overnight stays in the studios and homes of artists in Rotterdam. Exclusively for guests of Art Rotterdam, we now present Hotel Rotterdam. During Art Rotterdam, Hotel Rotterdam offers overnight stays in the studios and homes of artists in Rotterdam. 27 December '11 www.wakeupinart.nl
	One of the world's most important annual photography events to be held at the Park Avenue Armory in March The Association of International Photography Art Dealers will hold the 32nd edition of The AIPAD Photography Show New York, one of the world’s most important annual photography events, March 29 – April 1, 2012, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. 27 December '11 www.artdaily.org
	Japanese Art Dealers Association announces exhibition to be held during Asia Week 2012 Masterworks of the traditional fine arts of Japan will be on view during New York’s Asia Week in JADA 2012: An Exhibition by the Japanese Art Dealers Association. 26 December '11 www.artdaily.org
	Art dealers claim droit de suite levy threatens London's art trade From New Year, dealers and auctioneers must pay artists' heirs up to 4% of the sale price of works sold for more than €1,000. 26 December '11 www.guardian.co.uk
	Hirst, Warhol Prices Outperform S&P 500 in Art-Investment Index for Decade Art by Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol outperformed the Standard & Poor’s 500 index over the past 10 years, according to a new measure by Artnet AG designed to rank the performance of art as an asset. 25 December '11 www.bloomberg.com
	Metropolitan Museum enhances online access to its collections with Google Goggles The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it is collaborating with Google to allow users to search the Web via pictures they take on their mobile phones, to increase access to information online about its encyclopedic collections. 22 December '11 www.artdaily.org
	VIP Art Fair announce second edition exhibitors The VIP Art Fair has announced the list of exhibitors for its second edition, which opens in February. 20 December '11 www.artreview.com
	Elizabeth Taylor Christie's auction fetches $150m A four-day New York auction of the belongings of Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor has fetched more than $150m, with one leather-bound film script selling for 50 times its estimate. 18 December '11 www.bbc.co.uk
	Banksy unveils church abuse work Street artist Banksy has installed a vandalised sculpture of a priest in a gallery in Liverpool. 16 December '11 www.bbc.co.uk
	Color Photographs since 1970 by Joel Sternfeld on view at Foam in Amsterdam In mid-December Foam presents the first major retrospective exhibition in the Netherlands of the work of Joel Sternfeld (1944, New York), one of the pioneers of color photography. 16 December '11 www.artdaily.org