Wlodzimierz Umaniec, who vandalized a Rothko mural at Tate Modern to promote the made-up art movement Yellowism, has been sentenced to two years in prison. Restoration of the work could take 20 months and cost more than $300,000.

Covered since mid-November, a Kara Walker drawing at the Newark Public Library is now unobscured, despite protests from some visitors. Walker says the 6-by-9½-foot work “conjures horrors of reconstruction and 20th-century Jim Crow-ism and the Tea Party.”

A man visiting the Leopold Museum’s Nude Men show disrobed and walked through the galleries Saturday before being asked to garb up by a guard. Officials at the Vienna museum assure the “spontaneous act” wasn’t a marketing gimmick.

Alex Needham ranks SFMoMA’s showing of Cindy Sherman (now on view at the Walker) among 2012’s top shows. Visiting the career survey, he writes, “it became apparent that Sherman’s unsettling ability to expose the workings of stereotypes has intensified with time.”

Yoko Ono and her son, Sean Lennon, took out a full-page ad in Monday’s New York Times urging Gov. Cuomo to “Imagine There’s No Fracking.” The ad calls for an alternative to hydraulic fracturing, a method of harvesting natural gas.

Sylvia Chivaratanond, former Walker curatorial fellow in Visual Arts, has been appointed the first Suzanne Deal Booth Adjunct Curator of American Art for the Pompidou, where she’ll work on increasing the center’s holdings of works by US-based artists.

MOCA and USC are reportedly considering a partnership. While talks are preliminary, the pairing of the private university with the financially struggling LA museum could “enhance the missions of both institutions,” says a USC provost.

Turner winner Elizabeth Price says her career would’ve been impossible without education and public funding— both of which are imperiled in the UK. She fears art will become “available only to privileged people, and expressive only of that experience.”

A day after Theaster Gates was named one of 50 new USA Fellows, BR&S runs a Q&A with Gates on his dOCUMENTA (13) project, 12 ballads for Huguenot House, which he says is about “the possibility of culture in abandoned spaces.”