More stories below from this week (click on bolded words for more information):
- Major street art & graffiti retrospective Beyond the Streets is coming to LA.
- Hong Kong’s most important Gallery District is in a brand new 26-story skyscraper.
- Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art is the first museum certified by W.A.G.E.
- London’s leading museums face growing scrutiny over donations linked to the opioid crisis.
- This Activist Group Thinks Your Met Ticket Price Should Depend on Your Tax Bracket.
- Rio de Janeiro’s Modern Art Museum selling prized Jackson Pollock to stay afloat.
- MOCA still mum about curator Helen Molesworth’s firing, despite crucial questions and too few answers.
- Prior to her firing, curator Helen Molesworth made public statements critical of MOCA practices.
- Steven Holl to design new Angers Collectors Museum.
- Discover 5 artists breathing new life into photography at MoMA’s biannual survey.
- Trump signs bill boosting the NEA and NEH budgets he wanted to eliminate.
- ACLU files art censorship lawsuit against the city of New Orleans.
- Artworks that Facebook so oddly censored as NSFW, “Pornographic Material.”
- Enchanting and unsettling art that imitates the Natural World.
- How German artists rebuilt an art scene after World War II.
- Gallery or auction house? When to buy from each.
- Why Picasso and Condo make for the ultimate “Face-Off” at Sotheby’s.
- Asian collectors’ appetite for Western art, Sotheby’s organizes $200M selling exhibition in Hong Kong.
- Former Art Basel Hong Kong director to launch New Fair in Taipei.
- The art of Black Panther.
- Second round release of Luke Chueh’s BOBA (White) on preorder now.
- Daniel Arsham releases new FRACTURED furniture through Snarkitecture.
- Picasso market, already on fire, could heat up.
- How Mitchell Algus became New York’s most beloved, least successful art dealer.
- Want to get the most out of an artist Residency? Here are 7 simple tips.
- This new website is offering FREE art lessons from professors and artists.
- Rare Vincent van Gogh painting expected to sell for over $35 million USD.
- Basel is getting a new art fair dedicated to works on paper this year.
- Banksy’s 14th Street Rat already taken down by building owners.
- New York state senator calls on the developer to keep Banksy’s 14th street rat on public view.
- Virgil Abloh’s exhibition is all about media and advertising.
- Felipe Pantone’s upcoming Paris exhibit is a Dynamic Phenomena.
- Ben Sanders’s surreal paintings embody L.A.’s hedonism and spirituality.
- Virginia MOCA presents Inka Essenhigh: A Fine Line.
- Michelle Obama portraitist Amy Sherald to be represented by Hauser & Wirth.
- How M.C. Escher transfixed the world with his mind-bending works.
- Spot the difference – Damien Hirst’s new vision.
- Ai Weiwei on why he was drawn to document the refugee crisis.
- See toaster, toilet paper holder, and everything else Alexander Calder made for his Connecticut home.
- For directorial debut, artist Rashid Johnson casts Moonlight actor to star in his adaptation of Native Son.
- How 500 high schoolers helped Keith Haring pull off one of his most ambitious projects.
- “It takes a while to figure out who you really are” – artist Paul McMahon on his curious menagerie of a career.
- Legendary photographer Bill Cunningham wrote a secret memoir.
