Germany honors slain Egyptian blogger Khaled Said with a Berlin Wall portrait. Plus, trade time for an artist-cooked lunch, Tom Otterness set up stalled, Ireland auctions debtor’s $2.eight mil art assortment. Five “tune-up” sales of up to date art in New York kick off the fall public sale season. Cultural Olympiad 2012 ART AT THE HEART OF THE GAME by Emily NathanThe first-ever Cultural Olympiad, held in conjunction with London’s 2012 Olympic Games, brings 12,000 cultural occasions by 25,000 worldwide artists to the U.K. This year, the competition will be a part of forces with the state’s largest art museum,…

Germany honors slain Egyptian blogger Khaled Said with a Berlin Wall portrait. Plus, trade time for an artist-cooked lunch, Tom Otterness set up stalled, Ireland auctions debtor’s $2.eight mil art assortment. Five “tune-up” sales of up to date art in New York kick off the fall public sale season. Cultural Olympiad 2012 ART AT THE HEART OF THE GAME by Emily NathanThe first-ever Cultural Olympiad, held in conjunction with London’s 2012 Olympic Games, brings 12,000 cultural occasions by 25,000 worldwide artists to the U.K. This year, the competition will be a part of forces with the state’s largest art museum,…