More stories below from this week (click on bolded words for more information):
- Diddy revealed as the buyer of Kerry James Marshall’s record-breaking $21 million painting.
- New York’s spring art auctions have seen some yawns and some records.
- In a Warhol smackdown at Christie’s, which $30 million work is the better bet?
- How Steve Wynn’s $70 million Picasso was punctured and damaged.
- A $40,000 KAWS print leads Paddle8’s latest street art auction.
- $45.3 million Basquiat is top lot in $131.6 million Phillips sale of 20th-Century & Contemporary Art.
- Sotheby’s sale takes $391 million, highlighted by Basquiat, Hockney, and an ‘Epic’ Kerry James Marshall.
- $157 million Modigliani breaks Sotheby’s record at otherwise underwhelming Impressionist & Modern sale.
- We need to work to build a more equal art market – it’s better for everyone.
- New Rembrandt masterpiece identified in Amsterdam.
- Art Stage Jakarta cancels its 2018 fair, citing conflict with the Asian Games.
- Give it away now: Here’s where the Corcoran Gallery’s art collection is headed.
- Zach Feuer on giving up his gallery, getting involved in local politics and going to work for Art Omi.
- 1960s Chicago gave birth to a colorful, frenetic art style that is still gathering steam.
- Sotheby’s spotlights Ai Weiwei & A$AP Rocky in new “Fearless Now” video series.
- Mark Coetzee resigns as director of Zeitz MOCAA amid an investigation into ‘professional conduct.’
- Western AUS Art Gallery’s $300m collection at risk of damage, damning auditor-general report finds.
- Women assaulted by Beijing Arts District guards for wearing rainbow flag pins.
- Israeli minister bans art by students protesting violence in Gaza.
- Arthur Jafa’s profound meditations on Black America.
- How this is Childish Gambino’s “This is America” video.
- Fate of midcentury mural in Mexico City still uncertain after 2017 quake.
- SVA’s ContinuEd Project Space presents Kathryn Hart: Searching.
- Judy Chicago’s after-party is here: The pioneering artist gets a major museum survey at the ICA Miami.
- Inside contemporary native artist Rick Bartow’s first major retrospective.
- Jean Jullien’s “ONAJI UMI” exhibition is filled with breezy beach scenes.
- Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham on 35 years of creative cohabitation.
- Daniel Arsham will launch new solo exhibits in Tokyo’s NANZUKA & Galerie Perrotin galleries.
- Painterly visions of being “All Too Human” on view at Tate Britain.
- A look inside Katharina Grosse’s “Prototypes of Imagination” exhibit at Gagosian, London.
- “Before the Fall” at Neue Galerie conveyed the hope that the world might reassemble itself.
- Artist Dan Colen confronts adulthood in new “Mailorder Mother Purgatory” exhibit.
- Daniel Hesidence’s views of an imaginary landscape.
- Tom Wolfe (RIP), New Journalism bon vivant and critic of modernism, dead at 88.
- Richard Gray (RIP), the veteran Chicago dealer, dies at 89.
- ‘He made Chicago a more beautiful place’: colleagues remember the late art dealer Richard Gray.
- See photographs taken by a teenage Stanley Kubrick.
- We only had one photograph of the entire earth—until three years ago.
