Morning Links: Helsinki Edition

Zeng Fanzhi work sells for $23.3 million at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, setting the record for a contemporary Asian artist at

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Zeng Fanzhi work sells for $23.3 million at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, setting the record for a contemporary Asian artist at auction. [Bloomberg]

Los Angeles’s Hammer Museum will begin offering free admission. [Los Angeles Times]

Writer and art collector Francesco Pellizzi is tussling with a dealer who sold a Basquiat drawing that he claims was stolen from him for $627,000. [New York Post]

A Guggenheim Helsinki is in the works. [CultureGrrl]

Cartoonist Al Jaffee is donating work and archival material to Columbia. [NYT]

The artist John Keane says the Frieze art fair is elitist. [The Observer]

Aaron Curry installs sculptures at Lincoln Center. [WSJ]

“Lost Leonardo da Vinci painting found in Swiss bank vault.” [The Independent]

Chris Burden’s Tower of Power piece at the New Museum has a 24-hour security detail. [The Guardian]

The Louvre’s new director wants to make the museum “more accessible.” [WSJ] Morning Links: Helsinki Edition