More stories from the week that ended Jan 3 (click on bolded words for more information):
- Njideka Akunyili Crosby billboard now on display across from the Whitney museum.
- Artinfo remembers those that passed away in 2015.
- RIP: Eugenie Schwartz, aka Ersy, who passed away at 64 from complications following ulcer surgery.
- Preservationists making 3D records of threatened heritage sites in effort to preserve for future generations. France will start to control imports of archaeological works and create refuges where museum collections and recovered goods can be held.
- Townhouse Gallery and Rawabet Theater in Cairo closed after interagency (inc. Censorship Authority) raid.
- Art Basel Miami Beach stabbing suspect Siyuan Zhao pleads not guilty to attempted murder.
- Airport workers at Fiumicino airport in Rome busted for running an art theft ring.
- Ai Weiwei visits Lesbos and posts video and pics drawing attention to plight of refugees.
- New York Art, Antique & Jewelry Show can no longer be held at Park Avenue Armory each year.
- Susie Lingham steps down from her director position at Singapore Art Museum.
- Battle continues between Getty Museum and Italy regarding Lysippos’ Victorious Youth.
- Richard Fisher sues Petr Konchalovsky Foundation after its deauthentification of painting he consigned.
- Matthew Roberts, purportedly Charles Manson’s son, performs piece related to father’s trial at Vector Gallery.
- Three private aircraft at Van Nuys Airport vandalized by graffiti artists.
- Adult coloring books an increasingly popular form of stress relief.
- Hyperallergic’s list of The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2015 Edition.
- Artinfo shares its choices for the top 18 under-appreciated films from 2015.
- Eileen Kinsella’s list of Art World Trends We Wish Would Go Away In 2016.
- Guardian thinks that the international art market may have peaked.
- Old Navy appears to discourage kids from aspiring to become artists.
- Artnet’s list of the winners and losers of the art world in 2015.
- Mayor of Venice pitching sale of artwork, such as by Klimt and Chagall to help get city out of debt.
- Detroit becomes first city in the US to be named a UNESCO “City of Design”.
- Alfred and Isabel Bader donate $80mil. Rembrandt painting to Queen’s University.
- Bridget Riley Art Foundation funds three-year project allowing students access to British Museum collection.
- Broad Museum’s 2016 spring season.
- Milwaukee Art Museum unveils $34mil renovations to its buildings.
- Egypt plans to construct a $150mil. underwater antiquities museum in Alexandria.
- Modern Painters reviews Martin Wong show at The Bronx Museum of the Arts.
- Ben Eastham reviews John Hoyland at Newport Street Gallery.
- OC Weekly talks to Soulaf Abas about exhibition on Syria at Orange County Center for Contemporary Art.
- Nicole Herden named curator of art at the Boise Art Museum.
- Artinfo’s list of 6 Historical Shows That Mattered in 2015.
- Artnet’s list of The 15 Weirdest and Wildest Art Stories of 2015.
- Cait Munro’s choices for The 10 Biggest Art News Stories of 2015.
- Katya Kazakina on the ArtTactic Podcast, recapping the top stories and trends in the art market from 2015.
- Kenny Schachter writes about the debut of Vito Schnabel’s gallery in St. Moritz and quickly recaps 2015.
- Scott Reyburn looks at the art market of 2015.
- Pace Gallery opening a space in Palo Alto, CA and launching Pace Art & Technology.
- Georgina Adam looks ahead at what lies in store for the art market in 2016.
- Artnet’s list of The Top 10 Most Expensive Chinese Artists of 2015.
- Alexander and Bonin Gallery relocating from Chelsea to TriBeca.
- Artnet’s list of The Most Respected US Contemporary Art Dealers of 2015.
- Andrew Russeth looks at the year in the galleries of NY.
- Papillon Art’s best of 2015.
- Widewalls looks at Os Gêmeos at auction.
- Larry’s List interviews Kevin Poon about art collecting.
- The top ten timepieces sold at auction in 2015. Almost all were Patek Phillipe.
- Jerry Saltz writes about Ellsworth Kelly after his passing. Scott Rothkopf talks about him. Eli Broad and other art world figures remember the artist. One of Kelly’s last interviews.
- Phyllida Barlow inducted into Order of the British Empire and made a CBE for her services to the arts.
- Jenny Holzer contributing to app linked to NY memorial commemorating those who have died from HIV/AIDS.
- The Arabian Street Artists, the group that placed subversive graffiti on set of Homeland, releases a film.
- Polly Apfelbaum at 56 Henry is an ArtForum Critic’s Pick.
- Gilbert & George perform an extract from Fuckosophy.
- Crave profiles Jen DeNike.
- JR interviewed in Artreport.
- Martine Syms in Interview Magazine.
- Kim Druce-Sava’s never-before-seen Polaroids from the set of Kids.
- Scott Indrisek surveys what artists loved in 2015.
- Artnet shares 8 quotes by Henri Matisse on occasion of his birthday.
- Artsy’s list of 10 Artists Who Defied Classification in 2015.
- Artspace’s forecast for 2016 from a survey of art world individuals.
- Jamie Sterns’ 2016 Art Predictions.
- Artspace’s choices for 12 Masterpieces of 21st-Century Painting You Need to Know Now.
- Raphael Olivier’s photographs of the town of Ordos, in Inner Mongolia, which is now a modern ghost town.
- Culture+Travel’s list of Top 10 Instagram Photographers of 2015.
- Artinfo’s list of 9 Must-Read Art-Related Books From 2015.
- Scott Indrisek’s Shit My Cat Reads looks back at the year in books.
- Nine of the top ten books checked out from NY Public Library’s 92 branches in 2015 were written by women.
- Used bookstores thriving in the age of digital reading.
- Artinfo’s list of the 13 most anticipated buildings of 2016.
- The role of sound in architecture.
- Simon Beck’s artwork in the snow.
- Thrillist’s list of the most essential podcasts of 2015.
- JR included in Mr Porter’s best-dressed men of the year list for 2015.
