• A $200,000 reward is being offered for the return of 12 paintings which were recently stolen from a California home. The stolen paintings include works by Chagall and Rivera. (CBC News) Derek Fincham offers four possible reasons for the theft. (Illicit Cultural Properties)
• The story of an artist, expatriate Canadian, Joseph Plaskett, still painting at 90. (CBC News)
• Damien Hirst's $100-million diamond encrusted skull is now available at the reduced price of $24.95.(C-Monster)
• "He probably cried when Queen Victoria died." This was Damien Hirst's response to art critic Robert Hughes' recent criticism of his work. (The Sydney Morning Herald)