More stories below (compiled with the help of YESNIK) mostly from February (click on bolded words for more information):
- Frieze to launch Los Angeles art fair at Paramount Studios in 2019.
- 5Pointz graffiti artist awarded $6.7 million for destroyed murals. Developer is planning to appeal.
- Another San Francisco art fair will target the ever-elusive tech industry collector.
- How the glitz and excess of the 1980s shaped contemporary art.
- Art storage facilities offer a new model for galleries priced out of Chelsea.
- For NY artist’s struggling to pay for their studios, New York City is enlisting nonprofits to help you out.
- Los Angeles’s Marc Foxx Gallery closes after more than 20 years.
- Years after controversial sale, art from Japanese Internment Camps go on view in Los Angeles at the JANM.
- Hidden details are uncovered beneath the surface of Picasso’s Blue Period painting.
- Jerry Saltz reviewing art made by artificial intelligence.
- How Paul Klee influenced a generation of American artists, from Pollock to Motherwell.
- Caledonia Curry’s (aka Swoon) first career retrospective at the Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center (CAC).
- Hauser & Wirth LA opens first gallery exhibition of Mark Bradford’s work in his hometown in over 15 years.
- The botany in Obama’s official portrait at The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, created by New York artist Kehinde Wiley, represents a history employed by the language of flowers.
- Demand soars for Amy Sherald’s work after reveal of her beautiful portrait of the First Lady Michelle Obama.
- Insight into why the Obama portraits are so important.
- How Bob Ross became everyone’s favorite art teacher painter, a reputation that still holds weight even today from his 1970s tv show “The Joy of Painting” on PBS.
- Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson is literally shining a light onto the world’s environmental crisis.
- Before he was a famous artist, Basquiat’s apartment was his gallery. New show at Cranbrook Art Museum.
- Architect Thomas Heatherwick’s giant new structure aims to be an Eiffel Tower for New York. Genius or folly?
- Hiroshi Sugimoto revamps Hirshhorn Museum Lobby which includes a 700-year-old Nutmeg Tree.
- Q+A with José Parlá about his recent mural “Amistad América” at the University of Texas’ newly opening Rowling Hall in Austin.
- Vhils x Shepard Fairey print launch today at Over The Influence in Los Angeles.
- An interview with Usugrow on The Hundreds, 13 years after they first worked together. New collaboration here.
- JR and Agnès Varda documentary nabs Oscar nomination.
- Jeremy Fish one of the artists to have artwork unveiled in Union Square (San Francisco).
- An interview with John Jacobsmeyer on his new show in New York.
- Leading up to his show in Los Angeles, Van Arno sits down to answer some questions.
