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What.You.Need.To.Know. or the Top Posts This Week on Hyperallergic

• Hotel Offers Rooms in Exchange for Art — The Clarion Hotel Stockholm has started a program that lets artists … stay at the hotel in exchange for an artwork. 

• The Art-Fair-ification of the Art World — Each year in June the art world power elite comes together for a mutual admiration lovefest of cash and culture in Basel, Switz. It shouldn’t be any surprise that the Swiss are ideal art-fair organizers.

• Can Performance Art be Collected…and Still Maintain its Original Message…? — In other words, is it possible for a piece to be “owned” by anyone other than the artist once the performance is over?

• WTF Is Up With Marina Abramović: The Movie? A Review — Our writers and siblings Brendan & Marisa Carroll went to see Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, here’s their review.

• Documenta 13’s Art Laboratory — “International in a way that doesn’t feel like a checklist, and with clusters of strong work from the Middle East, the exhibition includes a couple hundred artists working in all media …”

• Artist Is Charged in Picasso Vandalism Case — The first rule of art vandalism: if you did it, don’t claim it on YouTube or post about it on your Facebook page — unless you want to get charged.

• Artist Denied Right to Paint in Prison
• Surprise! Study Finds US Arts Orgs Overbuilt in the Last 2 Decades
• A Secret History: Modern Art in Zambia
• Christo’s Colorado Project Faces Serious Traffic Review
• Smile! Yoko Ono’s App Will Send it Around the World
• John Waters Does Vegas?

Photo caption: Doug Aitken, “Fountain (Earth fountain)” (2012), mixed media, at Galerie Presenhuber’s booth at Art Basel (photo by Meredith Rosenberg for Hyperallergic)