More stories below from this week (click on bolded words for more information):
- David Hockney painting to go on the block at Sotheby’s in May, with $20-$30m. estimate.
- Christie’s adds 22 Richard Diebenkorn works to May auctions in New York.
- Marc Chagall painting will not be sold, National Gallery says.
- Is stock market volatility good for the art market?
- How Danh Vo rocketed to market stardom with art designed to confound collectors.
- What you need to know about J.M.W. Turner, Britain’s great painter of tempestuous seas.
- From the archives: A look at Leon Golub’s early work, in 1955.
- Rome’s Galleria Borghese Director to stand trial for going to the gym.
- Nan Goldin takes her anti-opioid protest to the Smithsonian—and the Senate—in Washington, DC.
- Nan Goldin’s P.A.I.N. group stages pill-purging protest at Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C.
- Rochelle Steiner joins Vancouver Art Gallery as Associate Director and Chief Curator.
- Can art museums help illuminate early American connections to slavery?
- Norval Foundation near Cape Town opens months after launch of city’s Zeitz museum.
- Carnegie Mellon’s School of Art to open new facility for its MFA program.
- Andy Warhol Museum Appoints Demetrios T. Patrinos as New Board Chair.
- Artist Eugenio Merino creates life-sized sculpture of Andy Warhol’s corpse.
- UAE donates $50 Million to UNESCO to rebuild cultural heritage in Mosul.
- Golden leaves are stolen from the dome of Vienna’s Secession building.
- Thirty-Third Bienal de São Paulo names participating artists.
- Sabrina Mandanici on the opening of the EVA International, Ireland’s 38th biennial.
- Cranbrook acquires Frank Lloyd Wright house.
- Lauren Halsey’s site-specific installation bringing the signs and textures of So Central LA into MOCA.
- ArtCubed aims to carve out a sacred space for art and food in Los Angeles.
- Antiques trade groups sue to strike down New York’s ‘restrictive’ ivory law.
- New gallery focused on performance, photography, and architecture, will open on NY’s Lower East Side.
- New York’s latest art district? A string of five bodegas downtown.
- Photographer Andrew Garn’s book captures the unique personalities of New York City pigeons.
- How Marcel Duchamp impacted contemporary Chinese art.
- After 30 years of scrutiny, David Salle’s paintings still confound.
- What the Mona Lisa tells us about art in the Instagram era.
- ‘It doesn’t produce anxiety’: meet Are.na, a social network created by artists.
- One of the defining features of Philip Guston’s last decade is a paradoxical faith in the elusiveness of truth.
- The magical world of beloved Ohio artist La Wilson.
- Expressive color-filled portraits of friends and family by Hope Gangloff.
- Tin cans transformed into famous art historical self-portraits by Allan Rubin.
- Glass sculptures by Dylan Martinez perfectly imitate water-filled plastic bags.
- Readymade art may have been the very first human art form.
- This eerie, human-like Russian sculpture is twice as old as Egypt’s pyramids.
- These hyperrealistic portraits by artist Cayce Zavaglia are actually made from yarn.
- Dazzling three-dimensional paper sculptures of birds, bees, and crustaceans by Lisa Lloyd.
- Kengo Kuma artfully tackles air pollution with huge origami sculpture.
- Two more beloved galleries bite the dust as Copenhagen’s David Risley & Brooklyn’s Real Fine Arts shutter.
- Paris’s Galerie Samy Abraham to close after seven years.
- Artist Sophia Al-Maria wins the US’s first major award for contemporary Middle Eastern art.
- Faena Prize for the Arts goes to Tamar Guimarães and Kasper Akhøj.
- Ka-Man Tse has been chosen as the winner of the 2018 Aperture Portfolio Prize.
- Le Nuage: An animated short explores the frustrations of creative expression.
- The two colors that researchers say will make you more creative, smarter.
- R.I.P. Abbas Attar, an Iranian-born photographer (1944-2018)
- R.I.P. Laura Aguilar, a Mexican American photographer (1944-2018)
- In Berlin, artists find a home.
- An interview with Drew Merritt ahead of his show at Thinkspace.
- A look at Daniel Arsham’s Snarkitecture.
- Art & Life with Mark Dean Veca.
- JR left a little surprise by the ocean for Arte Careyes in Mexico.
