More stories from the week that ended June 26 (click on bolded words for more information):
- Images and information up for Darja Bajagić’s Unlimited Hate at Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien.
- RIP: Bill Cunningham, who passed away at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke.
- RIP: Tony Feher, who passed away at the age of 60 due to cancer-related causes.
- RIP: Bill Berkson, who passed away at the age of 76 due to a heart attack.
- RIP: Lorna Kelly, who passed away at the age of 70 due to a stroke.
- RIP: Nicolás García Uriburu, who passed away at the age of 78.
- Performers claim Laura Lima pressured them to insert end of rope inside their vagina during performance.
- Milo Moiré detained in London for performance involving the public touching her breasts and vagina.
- Brexit worries caused caution in the art market. Damien Hirst supported the campaign for Britain to stay in the EU. John Akomfrah thought that an exit would be “scary, near-suicidal political strategy”.
- Artnet collects the art world’s takes on what Brexit means for them. Artinfo also shares some responses. Artists react to the vote as well.
- London art auctions next week seemed to have been poorly planned, in retrospect. Buyers will be in search of bargains.
- Aaron Bell’s Stand Tall, Stand Loud goes up in Riverside Park after alteration to previously censored work.
- Sree Sreenivasan, Cynthia Round, and Susan Sellers leave the Met amid financial troubles with the institution.
- Christo’s The Floating Piers installation now has closing hours at night because visitors are wearing it out. Thousands become stranded on their way to visit the work.
- Lucas Museum of Narrative Art no longer considering Chicago as a site for the museum and will choose CA.
- US federal government fights to reclaim New Deal-era Ad Reinhardt painting.
- Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum closes basement due to fear of flooding.
- Sole lone student HaeAhn Kwon drops out of USC’s MFA program.
- Art Cologne moves forward one day to avoid clash with Berlin Gallery Weekend.
- Terence Koh will honor victims of Orlando massacre by reading victims names and transmitting to outer space.
- Knoedler & Company forgery scandal appears to have no lasting impact on the art market.
- Artsy examines how much control an artist has over her or his work after it is sold.
- Pablo Picasso’s The Studio, part of The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, receiving a restoration.
- Spain to get a new Barcelona Hermitage Museum to open in 2019.
- NY Times profiles Le Consortium.
- Musée nationale des beaux-arts de Québec doubles space for local artists with $103m expansion.
- Contemporary Art Society and Frieze London launch acquisition fund for UK regional museums.
- Works from State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg to show at 28th edition of Biennale des Antiquaires.
- 10 things to know about the Tate Modern Switch House extension.
- Christopher Knight reviews Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only at Hammer Museum.
- Artinfo reviews Ella Kruglyanskaya’s show at Tate Liverpool.
- Flash Art reviews Yngve Holen’s exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel.
- Museum of the City of New York’s Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York show opens in fall.
- Christian Viveros-Fauné looks at Danny Lyon’s show at the Whitney Museum.
- Peter Morton now be a member of MOCA’s board of trustees.
- MoMA PS1 extends free admission and adds new board members, including Maria Arena Bell & Adrian Cheng.
- Marie Lavandier appointed new director of Louvre-Lens.
- Maxwell L. Anderson will become the president of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation.
- Tamara Chalabi and Paolo Colombo will co-curate Iraq’s pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale.
- Gal Weinstein will represent Israel at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Egill Sæbjörnsson will represent Iceland. Zad Moultaka will represent Lebanon.
- Judd Tully examines some works in Christie’s evening sale. Colin Gleadell also looks at the auction.
- Judd Tully reports on Christie’s Impressionist and Modern evening sale. Colin Gleadell writes about the auction as well.
- Christie’s to offer Frank Auerbach painting and Glen Brown’s appropriation of that painting in the same sale.
- Sotheby’s will begin holding sales of modern and contemporary African art in London.
- Judd Tully analyzes Sotheby’s London Impressionist and Modern evening sale.
- David LaChapelle consigns Keith Haring’s The Last Rainforest to Sotheby’s.
- Banksy SWAT van offered by Bonhams at auction with estimate of £200,000 to £300,000.
- Lock of David Bowie’s hair to be auctioned by Heritage Auctions.
- Man from Argentina buys over 50 Nazi items at Hermann Historica auction sale.
- Dai Zhikang now investing in art, now that he feels Chinese real estate has peaked.
- Linda Yablonsky’s adventures during Art Basel.
- Artnet’s final sales report on Art Basel 2016.
- How committees decide what galleries to admit to art fairs.
- The New Art Dealers Alliance adds nine new members to its roster.
- Inigo Philbrick discusses Rudolf Stingel’s market in the Artelligence Podcast.
- Show + Tell Projects opens in Downtown Los Angeles.
- William and his daughter Andra Eggleston’s relationship.
- Images of Christo’s The Floating Piers on Italy’s Lake Iseo.
- Elad Lassry at his studio.
- ARTnews interviews Body by Body.
- Kenny Scharf and Victor Matthews paint street murals in the Bronx.
- Christopher Knight reviews Federico Solmi’s The Brotherhood at Luis De Jesus Gallery.
- Artsy interviews Knowledge Bennett.
- Giant Robot interviews Edwin Ushiro.
- Yusaku Maezawa’s CAF Foundation announces £20k art award with 3-month residency at Delfina Foundation.
- The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads book by Spoke Art Gallery, with foreward by Ken Harman forthcoming.
- Judith Hess selling her condo, where you can see work up by Condo, Prince, and Bouchet, among others.
- Kanye West’s Famous music video inspired by Vincent Desiderio’s Sleep painting.
- Mas Subramanian explains the properties of the blue he discovered – YInMn blue.
- Kurt Cobain’s artwork to get a traveling exhibition.