More stories from the week that ended July 10 (click on bolded words for more information):

  • Dread Scott updates historic protest flag and installs it outside of Jack Shainman Gallery.
  • RIP: Elyse Grinstein, who passed away at the age of 87.
  • RIP: Abbas Kiarostami, who passed away at the age of 76, after being diagnosed with gastrointestinal disease.
  • RIP: Dave Heath, who passed away on his 85th birthday after a fall.
  • The demise of Artlist.
  • Tracy Williams, Ltd. closes gallery space.
  • Brooklyn Museum closed for the weekend due to air conditioning outage.
  • Swiss prosecutors seize Giacometti drawings from Grisons Museum of Fine Arts due to ownership dispute.
  • Does Sotheby’s failure to sell $71mil. Lesedi La Rona diamond at auction point to larger issues?
  • Helga Wall-Apelt sues John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art for breach of contract related to large donation.
  • Lucas Museum of Narrative Art looking to build in San Francisco or LA after being spurned by Chicago.
  • Lee Ufan actually authenticates 13 suspected forgeries of his work presented to him by police.
  • Nira Levine sues Woodward Gallery for selling her Warhol prints with doctored or nonexistent documents.
  • Ruedi Hofmann in dispute with Richard Avedon Foundation over unsigned prints he claimed artist gave him.
  • Parviz Tanavoli has his passport confiscated and is barred from leaving Iran.
  • Despite widespread protests, German parliament passes controversial law to protect cultural heritage.
  • Profile of Holocaust hustler James Palmer.
  • Anthony Haden-Guest explains how he did not kill Jean-Michel Basquiat.
  • Work in Kamenz honoring Georg Baselitz is defiled.
  • Eric Shiner, leaves job as director of the Andy Warhol Museum to work at Sotheby’s.
  • Louis Murphy passes out from drinking at Flagler Museum, gets locked inside, and breaks glass to escape.
  • Frieze NY reduces the number of days the fair will be open from five to four.
  • Peter Doig forced to prove that painting attributed to him was not painted by him.
  • Northeast corner of Fifth Ave and East Fifty-Seventh St in NY temporarily renamed Bill Cunningham Corner.
  • Henri Neuendorf writes about the underground art scene in Los Angeles.
  • The British Museum announces that 2015-16 was its most successful year ever, with 6.9mil. visitors.
  • Kate Middleton presents the Art Fund Museum of the Year Award for 2016 to the Victoria & Albert Museum.
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art has highest attendance in 101-year history.
  • V-A-C Foundation expanding to Moscow and Venice.
  • Louvre Abu Dhabi to host summit on culture versus terrorism, led by French president and president of UAE.
  • The Norton Museum of Art announces acquisition of Super Blue Omo by Njideka Akunyili Crosby.
  • Sterling Ruby has his first European show at Vienna’s Winterpalais.
  • Francis Bacon: Monaco and French Culture opens at the Grimaldi Forum.
  • Street Art: a global view” (Futura, NUNCA, VHILS, more) opens at at CAFA Art Museum in Beijing.
  • Artinfo reviews Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency at MoMA.
  • Scott Indrisek reviews the Made in L.A. biennial at the Hammer Museum.
  • Mami Kataoka, named artistic director of the Biennale of Sydney.
  • Claudia Schmuckli named curator-in-charge of contemporary art at Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
  • Vice buys Garage Magazine.
  • Artcurial’s 1st semester sales jump 6% over last year’s figures.
  • Hugh Edmeades discusses the art of auctioneering.
  • Art Basel making a move towards online sales territory with acquisition of Curiator?
  • Brooke Shields makes her curatorial debut with the New York Academy of Art at Art Southampton. Artinfo previews Art Southampton.
  • Artinfo visits the Market Art + Design fair.
  • Éric de Rothschild explains why the family sold their Rembrandts.
  • Chinese collectors increasingly collecting art from Africa.
  • Why you should drop two months worth of rent to buy a piece of art.
  • Items and ephemera from Christo’s dismantled Floating Piers installation appearing on eBay.
  • Timothy Taylor is expanding gallery into the US with plans to open a space in Chelsea, New York.
  • Scott Indrisek writes about Dan Attoe’s work.
  • Katharina Grosse now represented by Gagosian Gallery.
  • Sandro Chia returns to the art world and is now represented by Marc Straus.
  • Sotheby’s S|2 hosting an exhibition of work by The Estate of Joel Mesler.
  • Mona Kuhn photographs Emily Ratajkowski for Bazaar interview with the actress and model.
  • Imi Knoebel will be named Knight of the Order by the French Order of Arts and Letters.
  • Ssense interviews Lucien Smith.
  • Review of Alicja Kwade’s I Rise Again, Changed but the Same at 303 Gallery
  • Darren Flook interviews Eddie Peake. The artist will have a series of performances at Jeffrey Deitch’s 18 Wooster St.
  • Damien Hirst’s 1985 assemblages, series he used to apply to school at Goldsmiths, on view in Hydra show.
  • Financial Times profiles Autumn de Forest.
  • Jonas Mekas talks about filmmaking.
  • Yuri Pattison now represented by Labor Gallery.
  • Wolfgang Tillmans releases his first techno record.
  • Artillery visits Ecaterina Vrana show at Nicodim Gallery.
  • 6 facts about the Dansaekhwa movement.
  • Six artists talk about making work based on Donald Trump.
  • Artinfo visits Skyslide at the US Bank Tower in Downtown LA.
  • Collection of art world Instagrams on occasion of Fourth of July and summer.
  • Wydr is the Tinder for buying art.