This year marks 50 years of the Billy Apple® brand and as part of the celebrations Apple has worked with Waiheke winemakers to produce Billy Apple®: Official Selection; premium red wines from the classic 2010 vintage in a limited edition case. The wines are from Kennedy Point, Man O'War, Miro, Obsidian, Peacock Sky and Poderi Crisci.

Presented initially at Artsonje in Seoul, the second iteration of City Within th City opens tonight at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne with new installation works by three of the artists, including Alicia Frankovich's Volution and Choreography I.

Shanghai opens two huge art museums today, both repurposed from structures built for the city's World Expo in 2010. The China Art Museum, showing Chinese Modern art from the late Qing dynasty to 1980, occupies the Expo's scarlet-hued China Pavilion, and extends to 160,000 square meters, while the Power Station of Art will host post-1980 contemporary art, mainly from China, in over 41,000 square meters of space in the former factory-shaped Pavilion of the Future. The opening programme in the China Art Museum includes Meridian Lines: Contemporary Art from the Museum of New Zealand, an exhibition from the collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa curated by Sarrah Farrar.
Image: The China Art Museum

Jae Hoon Lee's Antarctic Fever continues this week at Starkwhite.
Image: Jae Hoon Lee, Waiting for your call (2012), video still

Open Air is new interactive light experience created by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer “to open up a new public space for Philadelphians to express themselves in.” Using a free mobile app developed by Lozano-Hemmer's studio, participants are invited to record and submit messages of up to 30 seconds in shout-outs, poems, songs, rants dedications and proposals. In response 24 powerful robotic searchlights stationed along a half-mile section of Benjamin Franklin Parkway create a dynamic light formation in the sky. The lights respond in brightness and position to the GPS location of participants and the frequency and amplitude of their voice recordings. All participants receive a personalised webpage created automatically with their message and images of the light sculpture that their voice created.
Image: Rafael Lozano-Hemmers' Open Air, staged with the Association for Art in Philadelphia

Following the announcement by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts that it has sealed a deal with Christies to liquidate its remaining art holdings of around 20,000 works, The Art Newspaper looks at what the decision tells us about the Foundation's mission and how it differs from other forms of artist-endowed foundations.

Unlike many others, The Warhol Foundation's intentions from the outset has been to liquidate art assets to build a a financial endowment and fund grants to support its charitable purpose to advance the visual arts. This has enabled the Foundation to achieve a significant, generative impact on the visual arts on a national scale. Read more…

Image: Nathan Coley's A Place Beyond Belief in Pristina, Kosovo 

Jae Hoon Lee's Antarctic Fever continues at Starkwhite to 13 October.
Image Jae Hoon Lee, Blue Glacier (2012), duratrans on lightbox, 995 x 1330 mm

White Rabbit is a not-for-profit art gallery in Sydney established to house and exhibit the collection of Kerr and Judith Neilson. When Swiss collector Uli Sigg completes the transfer of over 1400 works to M+ museum in Hong Kong in 2014, the Neilsons will possess the world's largest private collection of contemporary Chinese art.

Their collection covers the Chinese superstars that have become household names around the world, but they have also focused on museum-quality work by younger, emerging artists, giving it an adventurous edge that is often lacking in public collections.

White Rabbit's current exhibition, Double Take, is the sixth rotation of the collection since the gallery opened its doors to the public three years ago and reflects the family vision to share their collection with Australia. As Judith Neilson says: “What's the point of having it, if you can't share it.”
Image: Sydney's White Rabbit, which houses the collection of Kerr and Judith Neilson

Tatsu Nishi's new Public Art Fund-commissioned work puts viewers in a room with Christopher Columbus. Nishi has placed a spacious, furnished living room 60 feet above NY's Columbus Circle, atop a pedestal of metal scaffolding. Visitors climb six flights of stairs to to reach the room, which measures 30 x 17 feet with a 16-foot ceiling height. In the centre of the room is the 13-foot-tall marble statue of Christopher Columbus, made by Gaetano Russo, that has stood over the plaza for 120 years.
Image: Tatsu Nishi's Discovering Columbus, Columbus Circle, New York

Russia's Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev, has joined the ranks of celebrities and political heavyweights calling for the jailed members of Pussy Riot to be released. Medvedev has long sought to portray himself as a liberal reformer, but critics say he fails to follow through and deliver results. In this case, he was quick to say he has no intention of interfering in Russia's notoriously politicised court system. 
Image: Members of Pussy Riot show the court's verdict as they sit in a courtroom in Moscow.

dOCUMENTA [13] closed on 16 September on a high note. After 100 days open to the public the total number of visitors was 860,000, amounting to an increase of 110,000 or a 14% increase from its previous 2007 edition.

Jae Hoon Lee's Antarctic Fever opens tonight at 6pm and runs to 13 October.
Image: Jae Hoon Lee, Blue Glacier (2012), duratrans on lightbox, 950 x 1330 mm

The Keith Haring Foundation has decided to disband its authentication committee and will no longer review works attributed to the artist. The news comes just months after the Warhol Foundation and Basquiat estate announced they will cease authenticating artworks because of the risks posed by legal action stemming from disputes over such judgements.
Keith Haring, Untitled, 1984, acrylic on canvas

One of New Zealand's finest private art collections goes under the hammer this week in a two-part auction at Art+Object on Wednesday and Thursday. Formed by Les and Milly Paris over four and a half decades, the collection covered just about every square inch of their walls, prompting a later decision to lift their home and build a gallery space underneath it. Collecting was an all-consuming passion for Les and Milly, but it wasn't ever just about the art. They built longstanding, personal relationships with artists fortunate enough to be in their collecting sights, becoming much-loved figures in the New Zealand art world.
Image: Peter Peryer's 1989 portrait of Les and Milly Paris

You can see a live performance of Alicia Frankovich's Floor Resistance at the Auckland Art Gallery today. The performance takes place at 3pm in the artist's space in the Walters Prize exhibition.
Image: Alicia Frankovich, Floor Resistance, shown at Hebbel Am Ufer, HAU3, Berlin (25 June 2011)

You can catch a live performance of Alicia Frankovich's Floor Resistance at the Auckland Art Gallery tomorrow. It takes place in the artist's space in the Walters Prize exhibition.

When the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground off Isola del Giglio, its captain made headlines because he abandoned ship and was ordered by a coast guard officer to return to the boat. Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn found poetry in the situation. “I liked that a lot,” he said in a recent interview. “You have to come back on the boat – you know, 'Man there is no escape in our time!' There is no escaping, you cannot escape.”

The disaster inspired Hirschhorn's latest installation Concordia, Concordia at the Gladstone Gallery where he has created a room inside a room, a giant box built from plywood and decorated in cruise-ship chintz, and it is capsizing, not capsized. Read more…
Image: Thomas Hirschhorn Concordia, Concorda, Gladstone Gallery, NY