links for 2009-09-05

• Flood Maps
• Damien Hirst installation owner charges teen art-rival with theft of £500,000 for removing box of pencils from installation
  A teenaged artist who was forced to stop selling his collages when Damien Hirst sent threats to his gallery (the collages incorporated ironic images of Hirst's diamond-encrusted skull sculpture) is now facing a possible jail sentence because he took a box of pencils from a Hirst installation as a prank and offered to return them only if Hirst would let him go back to displaying and selling his art. Hirst claims the box of pencils — Faber Castell Mongol 482s from 1990 — is worth GBP500,000, making this one of the gravest modern art thefts in British history.