More stories from the week that ended Jan 29 (click on bolded words for more information):

  • NY Times explores the business of selling Land Art works. Above: Robert Smithson’s Broken Circle/Spiral Hill
  • RIP: Mark Baumer, who was killed at the age of 33 while walking cross-country in solo protest.
  • RIP: J.S.G. Boggs, who passed away at the age of 62.
  • RIP: Moshe Gershuni, who passed away at the age of 80.
  • RIP: Stephen Walker, who passed away at the age of 86.
  • RIP: Charles Recher, who passed away at the age of 66.
  • Shia LaBeouf arrested & charged with misdemeanor assault and harassment at HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US site.
  • European police bust major art trafficking network, recovering 3,561 stolen items and arresting 75 people.
  • Korea’s minister of culture resigns after blacklist of cultural figures to be excluded from gov support revealed.
  • Louise Blouin Media having financial difficulty with staff members reporting bounced paychecks.
  • MoMA dumps Pat Lasch sculpture from the 1970s without informing her.
  • Shia LaBeouf launches four-year performance project near Museum of Moving Image to protest Trump.
  • Faith Dorian-Wright accuses niece Mackenzie of stealing a Kandinsky and displaying it in her dorm room.
  • Clive of India’s flask and huqqa pipe treasures are up for export to Qatar again.
  • Museum visitor to Pfalzgalerie finds herself accidentally locked inside museum and triggers alarms to exit.
  • The escalation of violence and gore depicted in the street art in Brussels.
  • El Sexto, released from maximum security prison outside Havana, after being held two months without charge.
  • Donald Trump had design of Obama’s inauguration cake appropriated for his ceremony. W Magazine looks at the era of art under Trump. Art memes featuring Trump are popularized. How art and culture helped build Trumps wealth.
  • After 20 years and $15mil of his own money, Christo cancels Over the River project in protest against Trump.
  • Dr Oetker to return portrait by Anthony van Dyck acquired by Hermann Göring to heir of Jacques Goudstikker.
  • Eloy Torrez’s 70-foot-tall mural of Anthony Quinn in Downtown Los Angeles gets a makeover.
  • A look at the artists that have chosen to stay in Syria.
  • Kenny Schachter profiles Jerry Saltz.
  • 17th-century artist Michaelina Wautier to get her first ever exhibition, at the Rubens House.
  • Tate Modern announces that its Giacometti retrospective will reunite the artist’s Venice Biennale grouping.
  • LACMA acquires Random International’s Rain Room.
  • NY Historical Society, Bishopsgate Institute, and Smithsonian to preserve post-inauguration protest signs. Some photographs of art world figures protesting.
  • Museé Picasso presents program of exhibitions focused on Pablo Picasso‘s relationship to Mediterranean.
  • Botticelli’s Venus painting to go on view in the US for the first time at at Muscarelle Museum of Art in Virginia.
  • The Art Newspaper profiles Hasso Plattner, who just opened the Barberini Museum in Potsdam.
  • Mark Bradford and Xavier Veilhan’s respective projects for the Venice Biennale are revealed.
  • Biennale de La Biche opens, billed as the world’s smallest biennial, with the artworks dying on the island.
  • Tiffany Zabludowicz talks about her time in Puerto Rico during Puertos Ricos: A Festival of Arts and Natures.
  • Ken Harman juror on Virginia MOCA’s 22nd juried exhibition, New Waves 2017.
  • Evening Standard shows you how to get the most out of an art auction.
  • How the art market will react to the US stock market rally.
  • The market for David Hockney’s work escalating in anticipation of his Tate retrospective.
  • Artinfo has a preview of the 2017 edition of Art Los Angeles Contemporary. Artnet looks at what exhibitors will be bring to the fair. Those you should network with at ALAC. Artnet covers the opening.
  • Independent Brussels releases 2017 gallery lineup.
  • VOLTA NY exhibitor list for 2017 revealed.
  • Artinfo previews the 2017 edition of Artgenève Salon d’Art.
  • The first show at Praz-Delavallade Gallery’s Los Angeles space will be titled I Love L.A. and feature LA artists.
  • Glenn Ligon and his art collection.
  • The New Yorker profiles Brad Troemel.
  • Joyce Pensato talks about her career.
  • Henri Neuendorf interviews John Armleder.
  • Olivian Cha writes about Sadie Benning.
  • Zack Hatfield writes about Isamu Noguchi.
  • John Akomfrah wins Artes Mundi Prize and £40k.
  • Absolut announces the short list of finalists for the 2017 Absolut Art Award.
  • Artnet’s list of 8 Los Angeles-Based Emerging Artists to Keep on Your Radar.
  • Artspace’s list of 8 Mexico City-Based Emerging Artists You Need to Know.
  • Artspace profiles three artists from Mexico: Abraham Cruzvillegas, Gabriel Kuri, and Damián Ortega.
  • The Return of Curiosity: What Museums are Good for in the 21st Century book and why museums matter.
  • David Bowie becomes first artist to get royal stamp.