More stories from the week that ended Sep 17 (click on bolded words for more information):
- Huffington Post has a review of Kara Walker show.
- RIP: Axel Kasseböhmer (1952–2017).
- British Museum apologizes after curator’s tweet provokes accusations of racism against Asians.
- Jonathan Poole gets four years in prison after pleading guilty to 26 counts of fraud and theft.
- Ann Freedman, former Knoedler director, settles tenth and final lawsuit related to forgeries.
- Documenta 14 director Adam Szymczyk led it to the brink of bankruptcy, after exhibition ran way over budget. Documenta 14 curators respond to criticism.
- City of Los Angeles clears away Lovell Moore, aka Crenshaw Cowboy’s, artworks from street corner.
- Bruce High Quality Foundation University to close after eight years.
- Texas Contemporary Art Fair and Miami Project fair suspended for 2017.
- Madeleine Josephine Fierz stripped of photography prize after entering Sasin Tipchai’s work as her own.
- Huang Rui’s studio in China slated for demolition.
- Can Britain limit the effects of Brexit on its creative industries?
- Conference looks at how museums speed up the return of art looted during the Nazi era.
- UK’s restitution powers to be extended indefinitely for Nazi-era loot.
- Seven art materials that could kill you.
- Rachel Whiteread critical of so-called plop art public art that seems randomly conceived and placed.
- Ad agency has iconic Sydney mural controversially painted over with advertisement for Darren Aronofsky film.
- Piet Mondriaan painting exhibited at Bozar may have been a fake.
- Phillips pulls Mark Grotjahn work from auction after artist posts on Instagram that it may be fake.
- Possible story of the de Kooning painting theft from University of Arizona Museum of Art.
- PETA and photographer David Slater reach a settlement in the monkey selfie case.
- Budi Tek presses China to make his Yuz Museum public so the museum can succeed its founder.
- Art museums and organizations in Florida seem to have escaped Hurricane Irma relatively unscathed. How they are assessing damages and preparing to reopen.
- Apollo on Why museums need their own ethics departments.
- Anthony Ausgang remembers Gregory Escalante.
- Henry Christian-Slane donating part of winnings from BP Portrait Award to Greenpeace.
- How Rodin’s studio paved the way for artists that came after him.
- Catherine Wagley writes about Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
- The Broad to offer 40k more tickets to Kusama show.
- The Art Newspaper takes us inside Zeitz MOCAA.
- What the Met is looking for in its new leader.
- Julian Schnabel slated to have show at the Legion of Honor at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco in ’18.
- Spectrosynthesis: Asian LGBTQ Issues and Art Now opens at Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art.
- How MoMA chose which works to send to Paris for its most extensive loan show ever.
- Artnet interviews Jamillah James about ICA LA.
- Sarah Cascone interviews Michelle Rich of LACMA.
- The Art Newspaper previews the 15th Istanbul Biennial.
- Christine Eyene to curate 2018 Casablanca Biennial.
- The Art Newspaper previews The Chicago Architecture Biennial.
- Performa 17 will open with reenactment of Yoko Ono performance works.
- Rhizome names winners of 2017 microgrants.
- MSU Broad awarded $1mil. from MSU Federal Credit Union for second building.
- Artnet covers Sotheby’s Mario Testino sales auction.
- Details released for the first Art Basel Cities initiative: Buenos Aires.
- A report of art berlin 2017.
- NY Times looks at La Biennale Paris.
- John Corbett discusses the top places to visit in Chicago during EXPO. The Art Newspaper previews the fair. Artnet’s list of The 7 Best Artworks on Offer at EXPO Chicago 2017.
- ARTA receives $3mil. in investment.
- Artspace’s tips on how to build a relationship with a gallery.
- Dealers creating new art enclave in Istanbul.
- NY Times writes about Richard Bellamy.
- Johann König to open location in London.
- ARTnews’s 2017 list of the top 200 collectors. They let us See What the Top 200 Collectors Bought in the Past Year.
- Christie’s visits Yusaku Maezawa.
- Ingvild Goetz discusses her Arte Povera show at Hauser & Wirth, NY.
- Larry’s List interviews Alberto Chehebar.
- Artspace interviews Jenny Holzer.
- Richard Serra featured on Gagosian Now.
- Artnet interviews Simon Fujiwara.
- New Republic profiles Celeste Dupuy-Spencer.
- Sterling Ruby sculpture in Calvin Klein fashion show.
- SABER interviewed in Dope Magazine.
- Judy Baca’s Great Wall of Los Angeles to get even greater.
- Jose Dávila’s PST: LA/LA project.
- Interview with Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset.
- Artspace chooses 8 Artists to Watch in September.
- Artnet’s Editors’ Picks: 15 Things to See in New York This Week.
- Artnet writes about momento mori in art.
- David Shrigley Really Good scarf available.
- Crayola’s new blue crayon is named Bluetiful.