Asked to remake famous artworks, readers of Booooooom really delivered, reimagining and/or replicating works by Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, René Magritte, Joseph Beuys, and others. Click through to view the finalists and vote for your favorite.

For this out-of-the-ordinary year-end list, Richard McCoy looks at top art conservation projects, from SFMOMA preserving Janine Antoni’s chocolate and soap busts Lick and Lather to the refurbishing of our Spoonbridge and Cherry.

Despite protests against the partnership, Tate is accepting another round of funds from BP. The energy giant is spreading $15 million among Tate, the British Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Royal Opera House.

A bronze sculpture by the late Barbara Hepworth has been stolen—police believe to be sold as scrap metal—from a London park. The work Two Forms (Divided Circle) is more than two meters tall and has been in Dulwich Park for four decades.

The familiar tale of Marcel Duchamp’s entry of a urinal into a 1917 art show gets some facts wrong, argues art history professor Ezra Shales, who notes that porcelain toilets were for the upwardly mobile in the Dadaist’s era.

News of Kim Jong-il’s death brings to mind this work by Korean-born artist Chang-Jin Lee at Minnesota’s Franconia Sculpture Park: The inflatable statue is accompanied by a soundtrack of North Korean propaganda songs extolling the man’s god-like traits.

Tracy Emin, Margaret Atwood, and Naomi Klein are among cultural figures asked to suggest new currencies and banknotes for troubled times.

“I have a chance to talk to you,” says Ai Weiwei, naming civil rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who’s been detained by Chinese police for 20 months. “Millions of people in their lives can never even clearly state their life and emotions and will die in this darkness.”

What’s it feel like to win big? Four winners of top cultural prizes, including Turning Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing, discuss getting The Call and accepting The Award.