Image: © Nancy Rubins. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Erich Koyama
More stories from the week that ended July 13 (click on bolded words for more information):
- Nancy Rubins’ Our Friend Fluid Metal opens at Gagosian Gallery W 21st St on July 17.
- RIP: On Kawara, who died at the age of 81.
- Helly Nahmad had a month-long “party” before heading off to prison.
- Stuart Krimko leaves his position as director at David Kordansky Gallery to focus on poetry.
- The Louvre and Eiffel Tower were targets of Islamist terrorists.
- Images, video, and reports of ISIS destroying historic sites in Iraq and Syria.
- Convicted child killer damages historic Chinese urn that was in Seattle Art Museum collection.
- Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome at risk of closure due to budget cuts.
- Protesters urge Hong Kong Museum of Art to remove ivory and rhino horn exhibits.
- Egypt’s feelings hurt after Northampton Museum decides to auction ancient Egyptian statue.
- Russian TV’s hoax of “well-known Prague gallery.
- Large number of Helmut Newton forgeries uncovered.
- The current rampant proliferation of fake art being sold on eBay.
- Mark Lawrence admits to misrepresenting the true provenance of alleged Van Gogh painting.
- Van Dyck portrait discovered during an episode of Antiques Roadshow fails to sell at auction.
- Residents petition to reject Catherine Yass’s plan of dropping a piano from a tower.
- Aby Rosen allowed to keep 33-ft-tall Damien Hirst sculpture on his property in NY after compromise.
- Story of Robert Shelton, a docent at Kara Walker’s exhibition at Domino Sugar Factory. The exhibition drew a total of 130,000 visitors.
- Leena McCall painting that was previously censored and removed returns to gallery walls.
- Carter Cleveland discusses the future of art and how the internet will play a role.
- Eileen Cooper calls for positive discrimination in favor of women in the art world.
- World’s earliest erotic graffiti discovered in Greece?
- Caryatid statues restored after three and a half year process and controversy renewed.
- Egyptian monument nearly 3,500 years old gets a laser cleaning.
- Seventh season of ART21 coming in October.
- President Ceren’s official residence in San Salvador into museum & arts center for poor & disadvantaged.
- Recovered Matisse Odalisque in Red Pants painting stolen ten years ago returned to Venezuelan authorities.
- The 2014 ARTnews 200 Top Collectors.
- Monumenta now a biennial. Next one to be in 2016.
- Pittsburgh Biennial hoping to raise more awareness about art in the city.
- LACMA plans new wing spanning Wilshire Blvd. & proposing skyscraper. Michael Govan’s ambitious vision.
- New expert appraisal of Detroit Institute of Art collection finds works could be worth $2.7bil. to $4.6 bil.
- The Pérez Art Museum Miami wants a $2.5mil. boost in government support.
- A look at Frank Gehry’s plan for the renovation and expansion of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. First of four Gehry pods to open at Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art.
- Yorkshire Sculpture Park named UK museum of the year, winning the £100,000 Art Fund prize.
- Woman who paid £70 for two original Banksy pieces during NYC residency sells them for £125k at Bonhams.
- Steve Lazarides talks about the street art market in podcast.
- How Instagram is affecting the art market.
- Artnet News has a list of the Top 10 Most Expensive Living West Coast Artists.
- A look at The 10 Highest Prices for Art at Auction in June 2014.
- A overall analysis of the post-war auctions last week in London. Another look at the sales.
- An auction where the highest bid is based on emotions.
- Works by Sam Gilliam and Alex Katz among those sold by Graham Holdings from corporate art collection.
- Hauser and Wirth’s Somerset location opens.
- ZieherSmith and Horton Gallery in Chelsea, NY to merge by September.
- A look at the Hamptons’ art fairs.
- Artspace interviews Eric Fischl.
- Critics and art scholars discuss whether Terry Richardson’s photography qualifies as art.
- Marina Abramovic collaborates on a film with Adidas. Gallerist also has a take on it.
- Review of Amy Sillman’s mid-career survey at Bard.
- Ed Ruscha interviews Joe Goode.
- Edward Marshall Shenk and Victor Vaughn creates work for Dazed.
- A day in the life of Michael Manning.
- Yoko Ono guests on Chicks on Speed track and they will perform in museums later this year.
- Deutsche Bank honors Koki Tanaka as “Artist of the Year” 2015.
- William Powhida creates a work of art using Carolina Miranda’s Jeff Koons poem. The story of Koons’ Michael Jackson and Bubbles sculpture. Phaidon asks if Koons still has the power to shock.
- A primer on Sol Lewitt.
- Images from the world bodypainting festival.
- Marina Abramović Made Brazil Cry
