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Old Masters & Antiquities: Happy Birthday, Art History!: As Giorgio Vasari Turns 500, How His Da Vinci Clue May Yet Unlock His Discipline's High-Tech Future

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 The author of "The Lives of the Artists" laid the foundation for today's art historians, and a mystery involving him may point to what's next.

Photography: Monsters, Inc.: Terry Richardson Teams Up With Lady Gaga for "Revelatory" Photo Book

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 Grand Central Publishing will release a book of photographs by Richardson featuring the pop superstar's most intimate moments.

Museums: $20 Million Walmart Gift Makes Crystal Bridges Museum Free for Visitors, Forever

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 Money just keeps pouring in for Alice Walton's museum in Bentonville, Arkansas.

The Daily Checklist: MoMA Raises Admission to Price of Fancy Dinner, Zaha Hadid Debuts $439 Million Swimming Pool in London, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, MoMA PS1 to hold 9/11-inspired art show.

Art Market: Art Fairs Are the New Normal: 5 Striking Findings From Recent Research On the Art Market's Globalization

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 Can old-fashioned galleries compete in the brave new jet-setting world of 2011?

The Daily Checklist: Lady Gaga Didn't Eat Her Meat Dress After All, Holland Cotter Warns the Met of "A Big Mistake," and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, the Abu Dhabi Art fair moves to Saadiyat Island.

People: Artist William Powhida Discusses the Outrageous Misbehavior of That Notorious Art-World Wastrel, William Powhida

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 From an artist residency in Wisconsin, William Powhida divulges the secrets of his bad boy alter ego.

Art Market: Sotheby's Art Handlers Take to Picket Lines After Dramatic Weekend Lockout Inflames Negotiations

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 The auction house stunned the Teamsters by telling workers not to come in on Monday, replacing them with scabs.

Art Market: The Ascent of the Art Advisor: 5 Things to Know About the Growing Taste-for-Hire Industry

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 The world's wealthiest people are increasingly outsourcing collecting decisions to A-list advisers.

Arts Policy: Even as Federal Arts Funding Teeters on a Cliff, State Agencies Are Being Starved Nationwide

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 The effect of these cutbacks still remains uncertain, but they are likely to create a more conservative cultural landcape.

Performing Arts: ARTINFO Video: See Art Band NewVillager Do Crazy Things to an L.A. Gallery

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 Their live-in environment at Human Resources had them create a 10-room live-in environment corresponding to the tracks on their new album.

Performing Arts: Before the Paparazzi: See Celebrity Portraits by Hollywood's Original Photographers at the National Portrait Gallery

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 With a new exhibition, the London museum is celebrating a bygone era portraiture from the early days of the silver screen.

Old Masters & Antiquities: Shattered Trust?: Crusading Netizens Unmask Cover-Up of Mangled Imperial Dish at Beijing's Palace Museum

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 The accident with a Song Dynasty relic was bad enough — but it's the authorities' dishonesty that outrages commentators.

Art Market: Online Auctioneer Hopes to Sell Portraits of Hitler's Parents to Scholars, Not Nazis — And for $100,000

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 The paintings Alois and Klara Hitler were "liberated" from Europe by a French veteran and later brought to the United States.

Museums: El Museo del Barrio Names Christie's Exec Margarita Aguilar as Its New Director

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 Ending a yearlong search, the auction house's specialist will return to El Museo del Barrio, where she previously worked as a curator.

Fashion: Dennis Hopper's Art Becomes Skater Fashion With His Posthumous Vans Clothing Line

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 The California skatewear company worked with late actor on a clothing line before his death.

Old Masters & Antiquities: Would Finishing a Florence Church Facade that Michelangelo Left Behind Mean Tampering With Art History?

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 Plans to complete Michelangelo's design for a 500 year-old basilica meet with art historical controversy.

The Daily Checklist: See London's Endangered Olympics Street Art, Ripley's Buys Canned Michael Jackson Portrait (Believe It or Not), and More Must Read Art News

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 Plus, the Jersey City Museum is no more.

Museums: The Demure BMW Guggenheim Lab Brings Anti-Starchitecture to the Lower East Side

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 The tent-like Atelier Bow-Wow structure will hosts an interactive urbanism game and lectures.

Art and Politics: "We're the Unsung Heroes": Hear the Remarkable Stories of the Art Handlers on the Sotheby's Picket Line

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 As union art handlers picket outside the tony auction house, five protesters take a break to chat with ARTINFO about why they love their job.
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