More stories from the week that ended June 4 (click on bolded words for more information):

  • Rome’s first permanent installation of contemporary art is Giuseppe Penone’s Foglie di pietra.
  • RIP: Ronald Markman, who passed away at the age of 86.
  • RIP: Dan Tranberg, who passed away at the age of 53.
  • Sam Durant sculpture will likely be removed from the sculpture garden at the Walker Art Center after Native American protests. Walker Art Center postpones opening of sculpture park after the protests. The work will be dismantled and burned in ceremony overseen by Dakota elders. How this work and Dana Schutz’s painting of Emmett Till relate to issues of cultural appropriation.
  • Ali and Hicham Aboutaam entangled in ISIS antiquities-looting investigations.
  • A look at the most significant cultural heritage sites that ISIS has destroyed to date.
  • Nooses found hanging outside National Museum of African American History and Culture and Hirshhorn.
  • Alexandra Bell, a trained journalist, is using public art to expose media racism.
  • Lisson Gallery closes its Milan location.
  • Study shows that 80% of the artists in NYC’s top galleries are white.
  • Florentijn Hofman alleges that giant rubber duck floating in Canada is counterfeit.
  • LGBTQI refugee rights group steals Roger Bernat’s Replica of Oath Stone at documenta14 in protest.
  • Boyle Heights Alliance Against Artwashing and Displacement responds to Charles Gaines re: gentrification.
  • Iziko South African National Gallery faces lawsuit over the gallery’s Fuck White People exhibition.
  • Christie’s to close its South Kensington sale room on July 29.
  • Tom Megalis withdraws Tamir Rice painting from art festival after cultural appropriation outrage.
  • 5Pointz luxury towers will feature graffiti artwork and artists are criticizing it for being disrespectful.
  • Art Basel sues Adidas over trademark infringement.
  • Tauba Auerbach on why art flippers have changed her perspective on pricing her work.
  • Tracey Emin goes off on artists that are too concerned and obsessed with money.
  • Orange County School of the Arts Students do battle on sidewalk against anti-LGBT religious fanatics.
  • Alex Gardega places pissing dog sculpture in retaliation to Fearless Girl placement.
  • Ai Weiwei poses as drowned Syrian refugee toddler once again, this time at his installation at Israel Museum.
  • Students in artworxLA continuation school program say art is helping them graduate.
  • Cameroon’s first contemporary art gallery opens.
  • World’s oldest art studio discovered in Ethiopian cave.
  • How Nicholas Serota transformed the Tate into a powerhouse.
  • Final design for MoMA’s $400mil. expansion project officially unveiled. First phase of expansion has less gallery space than before.
  • The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation receives donation of Amedeo Modigliani’s Woman in a Sailor Shirt.
  • Artnet profiles the Skulptur Projekte Münster decennial event. Kasper König discusses the show.
  • Conservators at Gemeentemuseum examine all 301 Mondrian works in its collection. The Art Newspaper writes about the show.
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art names Eungie Joo curator of contemporary art.
  • Flash Art reviews the Jim Shaw show at the Marciano Art Foundation.
  • BMW unveils latest BMW Art Car by Cao Fei at the Minsheng Art Museum in Beijing.
  • Andres Serrano exhibition, including Piss Christ, opening this week at Station Museum of Contemporary Art.
  • Norman Foster opens his archive and international research center on June 1 in Madrid.
  • David Goldblatt brings ex-offender portrait series to British jails and also gets Centre Pompidou career survey.
  • Carmen Herrera-designed mural will be painted by Bronx students through the program Publicolor.
  • Marlie Mul leaves the space empty for her exhibition at Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art.
  • Emily Jacir plans to transform her family home into the Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research.
  • Highlights from Aros Triennial.
  • Inaugural I3 Arts Festival arrives in downtown Los Angeles.
  • The Architects Newspaper writes about the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center space.
  • The Brooklyn Rail interviews Jerry Saltz.
  • Interview with Jens Hoffmann on curating and the future of art.
  • Christie’s sets new auction record for Zao Wou-ki, selling the artist’s 29.09.64 for $19.7mil.
  • Sotheby’s adds masterpieces by Giacometti, Miró, and Kandinsky to Imp/Mod sale in London.
  • Christie’s offering Pablo Picasso’s Femme écrivant (Marie-Thérèse) in its Imp/Mod sale in London.
  • Loney Abrams interviews Joel Mesler about his new gallery and the state of the gallery system.
  • Goodman Gallery announces representation of Yinka Shonibare MBE, Samson Kambalu, and other artists.
  • Lévy Gorvy to co-represent Dan Colen with Gagosian Gallery and Massimo de Carlo.
  • NY Times profiles Wayne Thiebaud.
  • Cornelia Parker wants children to tweet Trump about climate change.
  • Mernet Larsen discusses her work.
  • Artnet interviews Emma Sulkowicz and discusses her new piece.
  • Gillie and Marc Schattner want to save rhinos by creating the world’s largest rhino sculpture.
  • Kehinde Wiley, Christina Kim and others receive honorary doctorate from Rhode Island School of Design.
  • The first book on Andy Warhol’s sculptures emphasizes their historical importance.
  • Al Diaz launches SAMO products and originals.
  • Ben Davis writes about David Lynch and Twin Peaks.
  • Art world appearances during the Cannes Film Festival. Swedish art gallery satire The Square wins Palme d’Or award.
  • NPR explores why Peter Blake’s Sgt. Pepper’s cover art matters as much as the album’s music.