More stories below from this week (click on bolded words for more information):

  • Zeng Fanzhi talks about his upcoming shows at three Hauser & Wirth locations in Zurich, London & Hong Kong.
  • Inside the $200 million expansion of America’s new must-see museum.
  • Hirshhorn Museum acquires Ai Weiwei installation, and Getty acquires Betye Saar archive.
  • The Bronx Museum plans to open a new venue in Lower Manhattan.
  • A Denver art project envisions alleys as social spaces.
  • David Hockney debuts iPad-designed stained-glass window at Westminster Abbey.
  • Max Hollein on how the Met will redefine the entire way we think about contemporary art.
  • The market for female surrealists has finally reached a tipping point.
  • The utopian visions of Geta Brătescu.
  • David Kordansky announces representation of artist Fred Eversley.
  • Agnes Martin and Navajo craftswomen made spiritual works inspired by the desert.
  • The tragic life story of Jean-Michel Basquiat is going to become a major Broadway musical.
  • The hoax art movement that fooled the art world establishment.
  • Meet the onetime Disney illustrator Tracie Ching’s whose ‘KAVANOPE’ poster has gone totally viral.
  • Artist Robin Bell projects a message of protest against Brett Kavanaugh onto his DC courthouse.
  • How the #MeToo movement is transforming the performing arts.
  • Jim Carrey’s political cartoons are getting a show at Maccarone Gallery, timed to the midterm elections.
  • Watch how photographer Zanele Muholi uses her camera to tell the stories of trans women.
  • The Soviet art school that cemented suprematism’s spot in history.
  • Five works that caught our eye at the Art Berlin fair.
  • At Expo Chicago, a ‘slow burn’ of interest from collectors.
  • The oversaturated gallery landscape of Berlin loses two more galleries.
  • With space-sharing programs, galleries band together to battle an uncertain market.
  • Max Hetzler Gallery defies Brexit uncertainties and opens London gallery.
  • Monet vs. Richter: Two $30 million paintings will duel at Christie’s and Sotheby’s this Fall.
  • How to market yourself as an artist.
  • “Jobs? Never!!” A new film displays Jim Greco’s passion for skateboarding.
  • Damien Hirst to close Ilfracombe restaurant the Quay.
  • Has artificial intelligence given us the next great art movement?
  • The importance of being Delacroix, the last great artist who was not a modernist.
  • How El Greco’s expressive paintings inspired artists from Velázquez to Van Gogh.
  • Closed for nearly 30 years, the Chapel of the Holy Shroud reopens in Italy following a massive restoration.
  • Charlotte Burns interviews artist Howardena Pindell.
  • Decoding the densely packed feminist imagery of Suellen Rocca’s paintings.
  • The worlds of Italian artist Stephen Spender.
  • Pulling back the curtain on Alex Prager’s mysterious, cinematic imagery.
  • Here’s a Fall 2018 list of fellowships, residencies, and prizes accepting applications.
  • The man who attacked Marina Abramović claims he did it for his art.
  • The brain-stimulating devices that people are using to jumpstart creativity.
  • Dealer Ezra Chowaiki sentenced to 18 months in prison for fleecing high-profile art collectors of millions.
  • Masks that conceal and reveal: Maxwell Deter interviewed by Naomi Falk.
  • Cover albums reveal something about the evolution of shared taste and cultural memory.
  • Five natural dyes you can create from the contents of your kitchen.