More stories below from this week (click on bolded words for more information):
- A new cryptocurrency art auction is selling shares in an Andy Warhol painting.
- An ambitious Whitney show will investigate Warhol’s early and lesser-known works.
- David Nash comes to terms with the end of ‘Ash Dome’.
- Why have there been no great black art dealers? How a small but influential group is correcting history.
- Here’s the 2018 exhibitor list for 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London.
- After sixteen years in operation, the Pasadena Museum of California Art will close.
- Curator Helen Molesworth offered these 5 pieces of advice in her UCLA commencement address.
- Grow up, ‘Fearless Girl’: New York City wants to create monuments honoring its fearless women.
- Whitney to open seven days a week for summer.
- Ai Weiwei launches sale of works to benefit World Refugee Day.
- Ai Weiwei retraces his father’s steps to Marseille in 1929 for new show.
- Cleveland Museum acquires key Emma Amos painting.
- Saudi Arabian foundation donates €9m to Berlin Museum of Islamic Art.
- The financial wizard who made Damien Hirst a star is now cashing in.
- Court disbars lawyer who represented Atlanta art collector.
- Gagosian fires back, moving to dismiss lawsuits by two disgruntled Jeff Koons collectors.
- Anish Kapoor sues NRA for copyright infringement over ‘Cloud Gate’ sculpture.
- An unseen Banksy is on show at “Hang-Ten” Exhibition in London.
- Wielding paint rollers, an art collective scaled a Bay Area billboard to protest Trump’s immigration policy.
- Pittsburgh cartoonist says he was fired after 25 years for making fun of Trump.
- The 57th Carnegie Museum of Art’s exhibition includes new works by Zoe Leonard, Joan Jonas & others.
- A suspected gang shooting at a New Jersey Art Festival has left one dead and 22 injured.
- Victoria Beckham and Sotheby’s team up for a show in London.
- Sotheby’s begins the summer season with a limp $116 million Impressionist and Modern sale.
- New prismatic murals by Xomatok cover the streets of Lima with bursts of color.
- Beijing street artists taking graffiti in China to the next level, transforming the city.
- ‘Beijing is not a static place’: A report from the Chinese capital’s gallery weekend.
- Price check! Here’s what sold—and for how much—at Art Basel 2018.
- The gray market: Why Art Basel is both a gift and a curse.
- Get over the unpronounceable names—go east for talented, smart artists at affordable prices.
- How Romanian painter Adrian Ghenie conquered the art market.
- Which of Picasso’s muses is the art market’s darling?
- Jasper Johns’ life and work: A conversation between John Yau, Martha Wilson & William Villalongo.
- Painter Etel Adnan’s career didn’t take off until her eighties—now she’s an inspiration to young artists.
- Why Michael Jackson remains a thrilling inspiration for artists.
- Iconic David Bowie portraits transformed into Ukiyo-e artworks.
- The 10 art clichés the art world hates to love (or maybe just plain loves).
- Geoff McFetridge teases Mickey Mouse artworks for new Uniqlo collab.
- Instagram star caught using other people’s photos.
- Meet Norm, the painter-for-hire beloved by L.A.’s leading artists.
- Amy Sherald on how she went from obscurity to a museum survey (and the White House).
- 6 works that explain Yayoi Kusama’s rise to art world stardom.
- Can Yayoi Kusama make the Rockaways this summer’s viral art destination? Klaus Biesenbach hopes so.
- Rising star Caitlin Keogh on how vintage fashion and contemporary poetry inspire her hypnotic paintings.
- The mind reimagined in paper brains by artist Elsa Mora.
- The Inamori Foundation in Japan has revealed the winners of this year’s Kyoto Prize.
- $10,000 Artadia Houston awards go to Francis Almendarez and Dana Frankfort.
- MOCA Cleveland names Sondra Perry first winner of $50,000 Toby’s Prize.
- Richard Diebenkorn brought California light to abstract expressionism.
- Cosima von Bonin to install 30-foot-long playground in front of de Young Museum in San Francisco.
- Must-see art guide San Francisco. This week’s guide features Shara Hughes, Patricia Treib, and more.
- How the scandal around “Sleepwalker” foreshadowed today’s culture wars.
- The Glasgow School of Art has burned down again. Will Scotland rebuild it (again)?
- 20 curators taking a cutting-edge approach to art history.
- Understanding Christo and Jeanne-Claude through 6 pivotal artworks.
- Watch Nick Cave describe the origins of his trademark soundsuits.
- The stories behind 7 objects that made up Frida Kahlo’s iconic look.
- Is this painted tile Leonardo da Vinci’s earliest known artwork? Experts are at odds.
- The best places to take ceramics classes across the U.S.
- ‘A little time capsule’: Giacometti Institute opens in Paris with a reconstruction of artist’s studio.
- Podcast: Art and football plus John Akomfrah interview.
