More stories from the week that ended June 5 (click on bolded words for more information):

  • Sebastian Black discusses his new paintings in Bomb Magazine.
  • RIP: Makiko Futaki, who passed away at the age of 58.
  • RIP: Baroness Marion Lambert, who passed away at the age of 73 after being hit by a bus.
  • Police in Spain arrest seven in relation to the theft of five Francis Bacon paintings from home in Madrid.
  • ARTnews covers censorship issue regarding Darja Bajagić work. The artist replies to curator Aaron Moulton.
  • Louvre and Musée d’Orsay close so that staff may move flood-threatened works from getting damaged.
  • Five year-old child destroys Lego sculpture an hour after exhibition opens.
  • Man damages and knocks clock off wall at National Watch & Clock Museum after fiddling with it.
  • The New York City department of parks and recreation wants Aaron Bell to alter his work due to noose.
  • Bernd Klüser honored with the Faega Lifetime Award by Art Basel, even though his gallery was rejected for fair.
  • Harry Macklowe leaving wife Linda Macklowe as a huge art collection hangs in the balance.
  • US Senate committee submits private museum findings and concerns to Internal Revenue Service.
  • Kenny Schachter talks about corruption in the art market. The Times covers the talk as well.
  • Controversy as Sotheby’s shares some of its dealings with Yves Bouvier with Dmitry Rybolovlev.
  • Is the pileup of $100mil.-plus homes around the globe a bad sign for the art market?
  • Staff members Susan Cernek and Sarah Goulet leave Paddle8.
  • Staffers from Christie’s are beginning to leave the auction house as well.
  • EVE has withdrawn an Native American Acoma ceremonial shield after protests.
  • Jerry Saltz writes about Alex Israel and the art world eating its delicious young.
  • How to survive a gallery dinner.
  • Henri Neuendorf explains biennials.
  • What it means to be promoted to the level of partner in a gallery.
  • The role of portraiture in art today.
  • Phaidon writes about the Land Art movement.
  • Ukranian art buyer hands back Izaak Ouwater painting that was stolen from Westfries Museum.
  • Catherine Wagley discusses the place of emerging and mid-career artists within LA’s new gallery scene.
  • Artists and their quest for affordable studio spaces in Manhattan.
  • DIS discusses curating the Berlin Biennale.
  • Artspace shows you the steps on how to ace your next museum director interview.
  • National Gallery of Victoria announces major exhibition of masterworks from MoMA’s collection in 2018.
  • Taco Dibbits named the new director of the Rijksmuseum.
  • Xavier Bray appointed the new director of the Wallace Collection.
  • Yung Ma to join the Centre Pompidou as curator in the contemporary and prospective creation department.
  • Carolina A. Miranda writes about the Underground Museum.
  • What happened during JR’s Lourve takeover.
  • LACMA acquires and shows James Turrell’s Light Reignfall.
  • Alexander Forbes writes about investing in art today.
  • Financial Times thinks that the art market finds a way to shine above the gloom.
  • How would Brexit affect the art market in Britain?
  • Matte white Himalaya Niloticus Crocodile Diamond Birkin sells for record $300k at Christie’s.
  • Christie’s talks to Asia’s most powerful art collectors.
  • Chiswick Auctions offering Francis Bacon’s painting gloves.
  • Jarrett Gregory and Eric Shiner appointed as the curators of the 2017 Armory Show.
  • Bhupen Khakhar’s auction market on the rise leading up to his Tate Modern retrospective exhibition.
  • Steve Martin’s role in Lawren Harris’ escalating auction results.
  • Liza Minnelli secretly selling her Andy Warhol collection.
  • Jordan Schnitzer talks about collecting prints.
  • Anton Kern moving gallery space from Chelsea to Midtown in NY.
  • Detroit Free Press covers Moran Bondaroff’s Detroit exhibition space. Forbes interviews Al Moran about the residency.
  • William Eggleston now represented by David Zwirner after being with Gagosian Gallery for five years.
  • Jim Dine now represented by Richard Gray Gallery.
  • Artspace interviews Derek Eller.
  • Jori Finkel interviews Richard Polsky about his art authentication service.
  • Artspace profiles 10 galleries you should know about in Berlin.
  • Jamian Juliano-Villani interviewed by Samuel Jablon.
  • Central Park getting a David Shrigley sculpture thanks for Public Art Fund.
  • The story behind Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother photograph.
  • Artspace talks with Paul McCarthy.
  • Mira Dancy profiled in Vogue.
  • Artnet interview with Amalia Ulman.
  • Pyotr Pavlensky nominated for the Russian Security Services’ (FSB) Prize for Literature and the Art.
  • Kenny Schachter talks about his late friend Zaha Hadid.
  • Fader profiles Derrick Adams.
  • Scott Indrisek visits and profiles Carmen Herrera.
  • First look at Rachel Whiteread’s Governor’s Island public art installation.
  • Etel Adnan discovers widespread success at a more advanced age.
  • NY Times writes about how Diane Arbus became the photographer people know her as today.
  • Petra Cortright talks about her artwork and working with Stefan Simchowitz.
  • Galen Pehrson’s The Caged Pillows animation film, commissioned and produced by RUINS Magazine.
  • Sobey Art Foundation and the National Gallery of Canada announce shortlist for the 2016 Sobey Art Award.
  • Artspace’s top ten worst ways to die in a Hieronymous Bosch painting.
  • Artnet’s 17 Tips for Aspiring Artists From the Year’s Top Commencement Speeches.
  • Artnet’s list of the most fashionable men in the art world.
  • Notable occasions when Julian Schnabel has worn pajamas.
  • Side Street Projects unveils Charles Gaines Phantom Ball print edition.
  • A look back at Jeffrey Deitch’s Artstar reality show.
  • Saved by the Bell pop-up diner opens in Chicago.
  • MC Hammer in ad for 3M’s hammerless art hanging product.