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Postwar & Contemporary Art: Bringing Pharmacy Back to Life: An Oral History of Damien Hirst's Notorious London Art Restaurant

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 Sarah Lucas, Mat Collishaw, and others remember the stylish eatery, which is being recreated at Leeds Art Gallery.

Arts Policy: National Endowment for the Humanities Doles Out $40 Million in Grants, With a New Focus on Funding Digital Start-Ups

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 Funded projects include a New York Public Library app that will provide users with multimedia editions of musical theater.

Design & Architecture: Spinning Garbage Into Gold: Artist Justin Gignac on Using the Power of Design to Sell New Yorkers Their Own Trash

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 From the detritus of gay wedding celebrations to used Starbucks straws, Gignac has been cannily repackaging refuse as chic objets d'art.

Style: The Many Faces of Cindy Sherman: The Self-Portrait Artist Launches Makeup Line With MAC Cosmetics

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 The blue chip photographer channels three distinct characters for a makeup campaign debuting in September.

Art Market: Sotheby's Claims Record First Half, Citing Growth of the Asian Market

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 In a shareholder conference call, CEO William Ruprecht said that the global markets had come together into a stable "three legs to the stool."

Design & Architecture: Timber! Stockholm's visiondivision Designs an Arboreal Snack Stand for the Indianapolis Museum of Art

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 A new concession stand made from an entire 100-foot yellow poplar is slated to open next year at 100 Acres, the IMA's sculpture park.

The Daily Checklist: The Search for England's Floating Art Island, Richard Neutra's Kronish House Gets Stay of Execution, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, Delta strikes a deal to become the Whitney Museum's "official airline."

Photography: The Bling Surrealist: How Photographer Luis Gispert Soups Up Car Culture With Luxury Knockoffs

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 The New Jersey-born artist traveled the country searching for a deeply private car subculture that would become the subject of his latest show at Mary Boone gallery.

Museums: Miami Art Museum Hires Latin American Art Expert Tobias Ostrander as Chief Curator

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 Ostrander's position, created to address the growing institution's needs, involves overseeing MAM's public, education, and exhibition programs.

Art & Crime: Houston Socialite Behind "Charlie Wilson's War" Will Sell Painting Reclaimed From Sotheby's to Rebuild Afghanistan

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 Joanne King Herring had to fight to get back the stolen "Portrait of a Man" by Henry Raeburn, which she will now sell to benefit her Marshall Plan Charities.

Galleries: The Six Best Art Exhibitions in China This Summer

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 From Beijing to Shenzhen, exciting shows are shaking up the slow summer months, showcasing artists we'll likely be seeing more of in years to come.

Design & Architecture: Barbie Gets an Edgy, Eco-Friendly New Abode Courtesy of Two Harvard-Trained Architects

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 Ting Li and Maja Paklar designed a four-story home complete with low flow toilets, locally sourced furnishings, and bamboo floors for Mattel's iconic doll.

Design & Architecture: Popping Up the Question: How Architecture Firms ICRAVE and Z-A Studio Helped Usher Gay Marriage Into New York's Central Park

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 A total of 24 New York couples were married last weekend in a pair of Pop Up Chapels that the firms designed specially for the occasion.

Art Market: What Would Importing Droit de Suite to the U.S. Mean for the Art Market?

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 Advocates say the European practice of giving artists a cut of resale proceeds would make for a fairer art economy, but the reality is less than clear.

Art Market: To Kick Off the Year of Damien Hirst, Gagosian Will Blanket the World With the Artist's Spot Paintings

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 Is it a global case of chicken pox? No, it's a solo show of Hirst's paintings across the gallery's 11 international outposts.

Wine: Wine Style: Vintner Georges DuBoeuf Commissions Mr. Kaves to Be Its First Beaujolais Nouveau Street Artist

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 The pair are holding a contest to be featured alongside the artist in an exhibition celebrating 2011's batch of Beaujolais Nouveau.

The Daily Checklist: Michele Bachmann's Problem With the Renaissance, Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez's Love Immortalized in Sculpture, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, Michael Kimmelman suspects we're a bit unsophisticated about sculpture these days.

Performing Arts: James Franco Holds a Low-Key Art Opening in Terence Koh's ASS

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 The premiere of the celebrity artist's new show "High/Low, Rob Lowe" at Koh's Asia Song Society was a subdued, thoughtful affair.

Art and Politics: Reading Between the Lines of Ai Weiwei's First Post-Release Interview With Chinese State Media

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 Speaking to the Global Times, the Chinese artist remained impressively — and even defiantly — outspoken, despite the terms of his release.

Design & Architecture: Artist Daniel Arsham to Create the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's Final Set — With His iPhone

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 Photos from his camera phone are the basis for the last thing he designs for his one-time close friend.
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