More stories below from this week (click on bolded words for more information):
- Art Dealer says he found 6 de Kooning paintings in a New Jersey storage unit.
- Gallery owner’s $15K gamble on storage locker pays off big time.
- The secrets hidden on the backs of famous artworks.
- New York’s Miles McEnery Gallery to open second space in Chelsea.
- Jeffrey Deitch will launch his Los Angeles gallery with an ambitious Ai Weiwei exhibition.
- Amid MoMA’s $450 million expansion, employee tensions are running high.
- Art gets damaged all the time. Here’s how it gets back to the market.
- Charles Saumarez Smith to leave Royal Academy of Arts to become senior director of Blain Southern.
- 8 English art terms you should know.
- 6 artist-approved platforms for building your website.
- 5 reasons why you should try painting with acrylics instead of oils.
- The $835 million Rockefeller auctions fueled a record half year for Christie’s.
- Christie’s reports record half-year sales of £2.97 billion.
- Lawsuit alleges Robert Indiana was swindled by his associates.
- Publishing company American Image Art strikes back in Robert Indiana case.
- Painter Mary Corse is having a late-career market moment.
- Hauser & Wirth teams up with MoMA PS1’s bookshop to celebrate the joys of art publishing.
- Students claim for-profit Art Institutes defrauded them with predatory lending practices.
- Iranian gallerists released on bail after two years in Tehran prison.
- She married into a European dynasty. Angela Gulbenkian now accused of art world fraud.
- The notorious Stefan Simchowitz on art dealing, social media, and faith in art.
- 8 Detroit galleries fueling the city’s creative community.
- Tuesday Smillie wins Rose Art Museum’s artist-in-residence award.
- Denver Art Museum to be lone US host for exhaustive Monet exhibit.
- Tate blockbuster to prove Pierre Bonnard was a great Modern painter.
- The new BBC television series and what we mean when we say “Civilization”.
- A chance to revisit Barbara Loden’s only feature film, considered a feminist masterpiece.
- Following $1.5 million, gift Cleveland Museum of Art to launch center for Chinese paintings conservation.
- Artist Lee Bul’s violent and beautiful reflections of South Korea.
- Yale photography MFAs smash the thin border between fiction and reality.
- The Queens Museum releases the list of artists that will appear in its upcoming biennial.
- Trump’s State Department has yet to pick a US representative for the Venice Biennale.
- After London Design Museum hosts Arms Industry Event, artists demand their work be removed.
- How the co-founder of FEMEN used art as a powerful feminist statement.
- This 1989 artwork asked viewers to step on the flag. It ignited a firestorm that’s still raging
- Warhol Foundation calls on University of Kansas to reverse removal of Josephine Meckseper flag.
- Fondation Louis Vuitton will spotlight 120 Jean-Michel Basquiat works.
- Juergen Teller photoshoot of Rihanna accused of mimicking Mickalene Thomas.
- Preview Art21’s report on the Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland.
- What the U.S. & China trade war means for the art market.
- Jason Williams, aka REVOK to launch limited edition zine at Beyond The Streets LA.
- In new study, scientists explain clouds in Edvard Munch’s ‘Scream’ as unusual meteorological condition.
- KAWS creates massive light installation for Seoul’s LOTTE World Tower.
- 7 artists smashing our expectations of what marble can be.
- Inside his Taos studio, Larry Bell reflects on his lifelong dedication to the glass cube.
- The Tate is displaying rarely seen work by Jenny Holzer, and it’s free to the public.
- Masterful Xu Bing retrospective inaugurates UCCA’s newly expanded Great Hall.
- James Turrell’s iconic light installations featured in new book published by Hatje Cantz.
- The science and pleasures of how we see.
- An ever-shifting Austin art space makes its biggest move yet.
- Artist-duo CYRCLE transforms an underground parking garage into large-scale installation.
- Colorful installations of spray paint and mesh form connections between the analog and digital worlds.
- Artists stage a contemporary art “Black Market” in Tokyo.
- Artists are addressing the tide of gentrification in LA’s Little Tokyo.
- Republican candidate denounces $10 million public funding for Cheech Marin’s museum.
- Texas Museum deliberates how to display a mural about hate crimes against Latinos.
- Hans Ulrich Obrist to lead 5-hour-long ‘Interview Marathon’ in Chicago.
- Here’s the exhibitor list for the Outsider Art Fair’s 2018 Paris edition.
