— Judd’s Last Stack Hits the Block: Christie’s has announced that Donald Judd’s “Untitled (Bernstein 93-1),” 1993, will go up at its evening sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art on November 12. Created just before the artist’s death, the piece represents an important landmark that the auction house reportedly thinks will break records. Currently, estimates place the bid at $7 to $9 million. [Art Market Monitor]
— Helsinki Bucks Guggenheim: The Guggenheim’s architectural competition for its planned Helsinki outpost may have ended this week, but a local group has proposed an alternative competition. Calling themselves Next Helsinki, the group is pushing back against the Guggenheim’s corporate presence and hoping to “attract innovative ideas about how to more fully meet the city’s cultural, spatial and sustainability needs.” [The Guardian]
— Hammer Museum Honors Joni Mitchell: The Hammer Museum has announced details of its annual gala and the event is set to be a celebrity fest. Not to be outdone by LACMA’s Leonardo DiCaprio-chaired event, the Hammer’s fundraiser will be co-chaired by Emily Blunt and John Krasinski. Artist Mark Bradford and musician Joni Mitchell are honorees. [LAT]
— Australian Art Prize Judge Knocks Aboriginal Art: Claiming she saw “nothing fresh or original,” judge Perpetua Durack Clancy declined to award the Shinju Matsuri prize for Indigenous art at all, instead rolling over the $1,000 winnings to next year’s competition. “It’s so insulting to the artists there, where you’ve got an old non-Indigenous lady saying these Indigenous art works are not worthy of being awarded any prize,” said attending artist Michael Torres. [ABC]
— New Program for Art in Natural Disasters: Just in time for hurricane season, CultureAID promises to provide information and resources for artists and art institutions in the event of another storm like Sandy. [NYT]
— LA non-profit LAXArt is relocating from Culver City to Hollywood. [LAT]
— Here’s Linda Yablonsky’s entertaining diary of the past week of fashion/art world hoopla. [Artforum]
— Ron Dominguez is a New York City doorman — and an art collector! [WSJ]
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