ARTNET NEWS

The art world is still reeling from last week’s discovery that one of its most respected galleries, the 165-year-old Knoedler & Co., was hoodwinked -- or possibly complicit -- in what looks like a big Ab-Ex art forgery ring operated by a little-known Long Island art dealer named Glafira Rosales.

Russian activist and Voina art collective member Leonid Nikolaev made a dramatic escape from police custody this week after being arrested during an election protest in St. Petersburg on Dec. 4, 2011.

For her first major museum exhibition, British sculptor Rachel Kneebone is installing eight of her large-scale figurative porcelain works at the Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum alongside 15 Auguste Rodin bronzes from the institution’s collection.