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# As the Art World Turns … #NotReally
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/as-the-art-world-turns-notreally/
- Published: 2012-12-14T19:23:28.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:45:44.000Z
- Description: There's so much strange news this week in the art world, so we decided to give you a link list of the news bites #WithCommentary …
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: News, Opinion, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

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There’s so much strange news this week in the art world, so we decided to give you a link list of news bites #WithCommentary:

[](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/required-reading/) The man who vandalized the Rothko at the Tate Modern in London has been [sentenced to two years in prison](http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/dec/13/mark-rothko-vandal-jailed?ref=hyperallergic.com). #HaveFunInPrison

[](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/required-reading/) [Damien Hirst is leaving Gagosian](http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/13/damien-hirst-leaves-gagosian/?ref=hyperallergic.com), and the gallery says, “We wish him continued success for the future,” which makes this all sound like a bad breakup. All this amidst the news that Jeff [Koons is cheating on Gagosian](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-14/hirst-ends-17-year-relationship-with-gagosian-gallery.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) with David Zwirner. #MaybeGagosianIsLookingForSomeoneYounger

[](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/required-reading/) One of only four surviving copies of [the Heinz Schulz-Neudamm-designed poster for the classic Fritz Lang film *Metropolis* fetched $1.2m at auction](http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/metropolis-poster-purchased-12-million-la-courthouse-auction-69281?ref=hyperallergic.com#ixzz2F3HvcglA) this week in LA. #ThatIsALotOfMoney

[](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/required-reading/) “[Greenberg Van Doren](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/14/arts/design/vermeers-girl-with-a-pearl-earring-at-frick-collection.html?pagewanted=2&ref=design&%5Fr=0), a 13-year-old space at 730 Fifth Avenue specializing in postwar and contemporary art, is shutting its doors next Friday \[in Manhattan\].” #Sad

[](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/required-reading/) The Obama administration’s [$60-billion emergency aid package for victims of superstorm Sandy has this peculiar line item](http://www.12newsnow.com/story/20345990/sandy-aid-package-includes-millions-for-smithsonian-space-center-forests?ref=hyperallergic.com), “$2 million to repair roof damage at Smithsonian buildings in Washington that pre-dates the storm.” #AwkwardButNormalForDC

[](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/required-reading/) And there’s a rush of art publications buying art fairs … Louise Blouin of BlouinArtInfo (yes, that’s the real name) is reputedly [buying the embattled Armory](http://galleristny.com/2012/12/louise-blouin-will-buy-the-armory-show/?ref=hyperallergic.com) in New York (and paying cash!), while Italy’s [*Flash Art* is planning to start its own art fair](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/1e987220-3eda-11e2-a095-00144feabdc0.html?ref=hyperallergic.com#axzz2EOTyU9be). #ThereGoesArtMagazineObjectivity