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The LA Times reports that the Claremont Museum in California will not be reopening its doors after the new year break; ‘going dark’ for 2010, to borrow a theatre term, due to continued financial pressure and a lack of donations. ...

With the hammer fallen on all the major auction sales of 2009 Bloomberg reports that Head of a Muse by Raphael was the highest grossing single lot of the year. The 1511 chalk drawing sold for $47.5m (£29,775,000) this month at Christie’s London. ...

Sadly the artist in question is not any of our twenty-first century contemporaries but Caravaggio. BBC News reports that the body of the Renaissance artist is being dug up from it current resting place ...

The not-for-profit organisation, which is seeking to transform a row of houses opposite Simon Rodia's iconic Watts Towers in Los Angeles will, according to the Los Angeles Times, receive a $125,000 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. ...

by Oliver Basciano For a variety of reasons, not least economic, the traveling exhibition is a prerequisite approach for the contemporary artist or curator...

A fashion furore has sprung up over in Boston following the Boston Globe newspaper’s ever eagerly awaited annual 25 Most Stylish Bostonians list. Curator of MIT List Visual Arts Center João Ribas, an only very recent émigré to the city, was to regret the honour bestowed by his inclusion however. ...

The Hermitage in St Petersburg’s current collaboration with the Saatchi Gallery, Newspeak, seems to be the first of a continuing engagement in contemporary art, if an interview with director Mikhaïl Piotrovski in Le Monde, is anything to go by. ...

The Contemporary Art Society has announced that the award for Commission to Collect will this year go to Museums Sheffield: Graves Gallery for their proposed commission with artist Katerina Šedá. The gallery will receive the sum of £60,000 towards an ambitious new commission with Šedá. ...

by Oliver Basciano A frequent problem encountered with our present relationship with early video art is that of time passed and the speed of technological development...

Laure Provoust is a French artist working in London who is best known for her video work and installations. She has exhibited widely in Europe and this year she was one of a group of Associate Artists working with LUX in London. Provost was the winner of this year's EAST International Award...