Damien Hirst and Alexander McQueen have teamed up to create a 30-piece scarf collection in celebration of the 10th anniversary of McQueen's iconic scull print. The collection blends McQueen's signature symbol with Hirst's “Entomology” series, featuring butterflies, bugs, spiders, and other insects. Style.com In celebration of the return of Julian Schnabel check out the Wall Street Journal's "20 Odd Questions" for the artist, whose comprehensive retrospective opened this week in New York. WSJ Christie's held a record-breaking auction last night with sales including a Francis Bacon triptych selling for over 142M, setting a record as the highest-priced sale held at auction. ArtInfo The 25 newly discovered works for the Munich art cache are now online. Check out the photos and the full list of artists here. ArtInfo  

In its latest issue, Harper's Bazaar has teamed up with artist Takashi Murakami. The spread features Murakami and his fantastical monsters posing alongside model Angela Lindvall. TheDailyBeast PERFORMA, New York's premier performance art festival is back for its fifth installment. With over 100 performances, and 40 venues check out the nine must-see shows as suggested by the team behind PERFORMA. TheDailyBeast More details of Nazi looting surface, including previously unreported works by the likes of Max Liebermann, Otto Dix, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Carl Spitzweg, and Ernst Ludwig. ArtInfo Banky's balloons, the last installment in the artist's month-long New York residency, have been confiscated by the New York PD. NYT Want more PERFORMA? Check out this Q&A from PERFORMA artist Tameka Norris. ArtInfo

Bansky's final piece from his New York residency appeared in Queens today, paying homage to fellow graffiti artists. Hyperallergic Check out this Q&A from sculptor Tony Tasset, whose latest piece, a 30-foot-tall “Eye” sculpture debuts at the Joule Hotel in Dallas today. ArtInfo Restoration Hardware’s new quarterly, RH Contemporary Art Journal, is set to debut on November 9, and is part of RH's new contemporary art platform which also includes documentaries, artist residencies and a web emporium. T Magazine Trick or... Hyperallergic

Paris kicks of the FIAC this week and with the addition of two new areas: the Petit Palais, and the banks of the Seine River, located on the left bank between the Pont de Solférino and the Pont des Invalides. Notable works this year include an installation by artist Tadashi Kawamata entitled, “Tree Huts at Place Vendôme, 2013.” Check out the video here: ArtInfo Dutch video artist Aernout Mik compares religious gatherings and business meetings in his new work, Speaking in Tongues. The installation puts documentary video recordings of Pentecostal churches in Brazil and Nigeria inside staged business conferences. The exhibition opens in Berlin at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, November 7th. e-flux Performance Now, a touring exhibition from curator RoseLee Goldberg, is a showcase of the most important performance artists working today. Through video and documentation, the show features the likes of Marina Abramovic, Guy Ben-Ner, Kalup Linzy, William Kentridge, Laurie Simmons, and Ryan Trecartin all under one roof.  Hyperallergic  Banksy update: A stencil depicting a man in a tux, holding a bouquet of wilting flowers has been placed on the door of the Hustler Club in Hell's Kitchen. On Banksy's website, it is accompanied by the caption "Waiting in vain... at the door of the club."  Banksyny

The latest piece in Banksy's month-long stint in New York City appears this time in Brooklyn. The stencil, featuring two ladies adjacent to a bonsai tree, transforms an otherwise ambiguous arch on the street in East Williamsburg into a Japanese bridge.  Hyperallergic In other Banksy news: Did you miss your opportunity to own a Bansky original for as little as $60? You're not the only one. And what does this say about the relationship between context and the value of contemporary art. NYDailyNews Owners of the forthcoming West Hollywood nightclub DBA (Doing Business As) can add community art project patrons to their resumes. Inspired by artist Candy Chang, the owners transformed the construction site into a interactive installation dubbed "Before I Die", which allows the passerby to write in their wishes with chalk in one of the 120 stenciled lines. LATimes Beginning October 24th, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Michigan will present 9 Artists, a group exhibition featuring the work of Yael Bartana, Liam Gillick, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Renzo Martens, Bjarne Melgaard, Nástio Mosquito, Hito Steyerl, and Danh Vo. The exhibition, a melange of international and multigenerational artists, focuses on the changing role of the artist in contemporary culture and their processes for managing an ever changing, complex and networked world. e-flux Duane Linklater is the newest recipient of the Sobey Award, Canada's pre-eminent award for contemporary art. An Omaskêko Cree, from Moose Cree First Nation in Northern Ontario and currently based in North Bay, Ontario, the artist creates works ranging from video and film installation to performance, and sculptural objects. Linklater, as well as the nominees', work is on view at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia until January 5, 2014. e-flux

• Lady Gaga unveiled her new album cover today designed by none other than media art darling Jeff Koons. The cover features a life-like sculpture of Gaga naked, cut with images of Botticelli’s "The Birth of Venus" and as a nod to Koons' stainless-steel balloon animals a metallic, blue ball rests between the singers legs. The sculpture will be on show for fans to see at the album release party in November. LATimes

In their first collaborative project, Drawing Room, London and Drawing Center, New York, will introduce parallel exhibitions exploring the relationship between linguistic communication and drawing in current art. The exhibit Marking Language will seek to define the properties of language and art but also express the relationship between the two. e-flux Haegue Yang will present her first solo show in Norway at Bergen Kunstall, one of the Nordic regions premier arenas for contemporary art. Yang's work, known for its eloquent and alluring articulation of visual abstraction, often combined with sensory experiences, is a series of pieces especially conceived for the space. In a continuation of her conversation with modern art, the artist pieces will be an exploration of Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet. e-flux

As part of a month long residency, famed, and mysterious British graffiti artist Bansky will hit the streets of New York. The artist has already stenciled two works as recent as Wednesday morning with an accompanying note reading, “For the next month Banksy will be attempting to host an entire show on the streets of New York”. But hurry and check it out, the first piece has been painted over already. NYTimes Beginning October 3rd, Gasworks in London will present The Lustful Turk, a solo exhibition by Italian artist Patrizio Di Massimo. Inspired by an erotic epistolary novel bearing the same name first published in 1828, The Lustful Turk is an ongoing project by the artist and features the use of lush colors, soft furnishings and delicate brushstrokes all to exhibit the novels scurrility and racial stereotypes. e-flu Grand Rapids, Michigan is hosting it's annual ArtPrize, an enormous art competition which seeks to determine the difference between Art and "art". Questioning the fine line between art and self-expression as well as pointing a finger at the Art Worlds elitist culture, ArtPrize is a competition where anyone can participate and the winners are determined by a combination of public and jurors votes. With 1,524 participants this year, check back October 4th to see who the lucky winners are. Hyperallergic

This month will mark of the completion of "Artlantic" the seven-acre site placed on the ruins of the Sands Casino Hotel on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. "Artlantic", a series of public artworks supported by casino tax funds is part of governor Chris Christie's plan to revitalize the resort town. Organized by curator Lance Fung, "Artlantic" is not only an opportunity for public artwork but also for a beautiful public space. Art News On September 26th Reflections from Damaged Life, An Exhibition on Psychedelia opens at Raven Row in London. Exploring on the themes of psychedelic art, the exhibition will seek to redefine and question exactly what "psychedelic art" is and may be. The exhibition will show pieces in a myriad of historical and cultural contexts and feature pieces from the fifties all the way to present day. e-flux Black Beauty, an exhibition by American artist Lutz Bacher opens this week at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, marking the first major solo exhibition in the UK by the artist. Combining works made specifically for the ICA along with recent works, Bacher work's explores the concept of human identity through themes of gender, sexuality and body and will feature installations with film, sound, and sculpture. e-flux

September 12, 2013 To kick off one of the largest nights of art openings of the year in Chelsea, Michael Shvo, a real estate developer and art collection, transformed an old filling station at the Getty into a pasture complete with grazing sheep. "Sheep Station" doesn't officially open until September 17th and will feature 25 of the late artist Francois-Xavier Lalanne's sheep sculptures, marking the largest collection to be show together in an open-air setting.  Art Info Artists in Berlin protested this weekend against the destruction of the East Side Gallery, an exhibition space which covers 1.3km of the Berlin Wall. The plein-air gallery features murals completed in 1990 by international artists, painted across the longest remaining stretch of the wall. Segments of the wall were removed in March to make way for luxury apartments. So far, artists have covered 100m of wall in paper as part of the protest but plan to envelope the entirety of the space. The Art Newspaper To counter its lack of an art museum, MGM CEO and chairman James Murren is taking contemporary art to the Las Vegas strip. Scattered along the campus of CityCenter, a MGM development and down the famed Vegas street are notable and museum-quality pieces from the likes of laes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Henry Moore, Isa Genzken, Frank Stella, as well as large-scale, site-specific commissions by Maya Lin, Nancy Rubins, Jenny Holzer, and including a new installation from James Turrell. The collection forms a part of Murren's vision for a more civic-aimed development. Art Info

Check out the 2013 Winter Issue of Utah Style & Design Magazine, on news stands now. On page 22, Mikell Stringham gives tips on how to start collecting art and display it in your home. Thank you, Utah Style & Design, for the great write-up!