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"\u2013 TEFAF and Sotheby's to Launch Art Fair in China:&amp;nbsp;The European Fine Art Foundation is in talks with an unlikely ally to launch a new art fair in China. TEFAF Beijing 2014 is a planned collaboration between the Netherlands-based TEFAF, the world's biggest art and antiques fair, and&amp;nbsp;Sotheby's. The collaboration would allow TEFAF to test the market for European art in China, while Sotheby's seeks to take advantage of a freeport it is developing in Beijing. [Bloomberg]\u2013&amp;nbsp;Bowie a V&amp;amp;A Blockbuster Before Even Opening:  David Bowie Is,  the new exhibition devoted to the glam rock star that opens at London's Victoria &amp;amp; Albert Museum on Saturday, is already breaking attendance records. With more than 42,000 advance tickets sold, it boasts more than double the pre-opening ticket sales for any other V&amp;amp;A exhibition. The show features more than 60 stage costumes, early photographs, and assorted memorabilia on view from the David Bowie Archive. [BBC]\u2013&amp;nbsp;Damien Hirst Covers 30 Seconds to Mars Album: Is&amp;nbsp;Damien Hirst&amp;nbsp;getting into album covers? One of the British artist's unmistakable spot paintings adorns the cover of&amp;nbsp;30 Seconds to Mars's latest release, entitled  Love Lust Faith + Dreams.  The album, produced by lead vocalist (and former  My So-Called Life  star)&amp;nbsp;Jared Leto, was written and recorded in various locations around the world, from California to India. Perhaps it's only fitting, then, that the band decorate the cover with Hirst's spots,&amp;nbsp;which have also canvassed the entire globe. [Pure Volume]\u2013&amp;nbsp;Smithsonian American Latino Museum Goes Before Congress: A pair of bipartisan bills to create an&amp;nbsp;American Latino Museum&amp;nbsp;in a 132-year-old&amp;nbsp;Smithsonian Institute&amp;nbsp;building on the National Mall were reintroduced before the U.S. House and Senate on Friday after failing to gain support when first submitted in November 2011. If passed, the bills would designate the Arts and Industries building as the museum's future home, and pave the way for the Smithsonian's Board of Regents to begin tackling the institution's planning, design, and construction. In 2011, the museum's cost was estimated at over $400 million. [LAT]\u2013&amp;nbsp;Artist Slams Hayward Gallery: Philip Vaughan's glowing  Neon Tower  \u2014 a 45-foot-tall light sculpture responding to changes in wind speed and direction that was commissioned by the Arts Council in 1970 \u2014 stood on the Hayward Gallery's roof from 1972 until it was taken down in 2008. The artist is now accusing the gallery's director Ralph Rugoff of leaving the popular, publicly funded work to deteriorate in storage.  This sculpture was not referred to as temporary when it was originally commissioned,  Vaughan said.  The term appears to be a fig leaf to justify the removal of the tower and the current administration of the Hayward Gallery\u2019s reneging on their commitment to restore it.  [Independent]\u2013 Breaking Down Auction Sales for 2012: The art market database Artprice has released a report breaking down Western auction sales in 2012 by house. Christie's&amp;nbsp;leads the pack&amp;nbsp;with 37.9 percent of the market share; Sotheby's follows closely behind with 34.7 percent. Phillips de Pury is a distant third, carrying 3.8 percent, and Bonhams&amp;nbsp;comes in fourth with 1.5 percent. [AMM]&amp;nbsp;\u2013&amp;nbsp;Malick Curates Museum's Movies: Oklahoma's&amp;nbsp;Philbrook Museum of Art&amp;nbsp;has tapped acclaimed director (and native Oklahoman) Terrence Malick&amp;nbsp;to curate the lineup of films that will be shown in the museum's  Films on the Lawn  outdoor screening series this summer. His picks are not necessarily what you'd expect from the director of  The Tree of Life  and  The Thin Red Line : They include  Zoolander,  the Ben Stiller comedy from 2001, seminal Hollywood films  Beat the Devil  (1953) and  The Lady Eve  (1941), and his own  Badlands  (1973), whose 40th anniversary coincides with the late-July screening. [HitFix]\u2013&amp;nbsp;Lebanon Museum Looted: Thieves made off with some 30 artifacts of great historical and material value in an overnight robbery at an archaeological museum in the Lebanese city of Jbeil yesterday. The thieves easily carried the objects out of the museum, said culture minister Gaby Layoun&amp;nbsp;after visiting the crime scene, which he added was being inspected by a police forensics team in an effort to recover the perpetrators' fingerprints. [The Daily Star]\u2013 Long Road to Belgium's Train Museum: The road to building Belgium's first national train museum has been a bumpy one. The country, which built Europe's first railway line in 1835, long has been unable to decide where to locate the institution. Now it has another problem: too many trains. Following a secret meeting, Belgium's rail heritage associations have decided to divide up the collection, which may result in the creation of multiple train institutions. [WSJ]&amp;nbsp;\u2013 Museums Buy Big at TEFAF: Museums are among the most serious shoppers at this year's European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has asked Manhattan dealer Otto Nauman to reserve Dirck van Baburen's  Apollo Flaying Marsyas  (1623), while the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York picked up  Virgil's Tomb in Moonlight,  a 1779 painting by Joseph Wright, from the Matthiesen Gallery in London. It is the first British landscape the museum has purchased since 1944. [NYT]&amp;nbsp;VIDEO OF THE DAYPhilip Vaughan's  Neon Tower  at the HaywardHayward Gallery Neon Tower, London from Vertex Productions on Vimeo.ALSO ON ARTINFO:26 Questions for Semiotically Inclined Photo and OWS Sign Artist Jason LazarusThe New Museum's  1993  Is a Meandering Nostalgia Trip \u2014 But for Whom?Hiroshi Sugimoto Trades Photography for Dance Theater at the GuggenheimPace Beijing's Leng Lin on Taking Advantage of the  Window Toward Asia American Academy in Rome's Christopher Celenza on Decoding Latin and LiteratureVIDEO: Judd Tully Tours TEFAF 2013For more art news throughout the day, check ARTINFO's&amp;nbsp;In the Air&amp;nbsp;blog."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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