More stories below from this week (click on bolded words for more information):
- Sterling Ruby creates new artworks for concurrent exhibitions in Belgium.
- San Francisco’s new transit center features public art by Jenny Holzer, Julie Chang, and Ned Kahn.
- NADA cancels its New York City fair to shift focus to supporting member galleries.
- Here are all the galleries heading to Art Berlin’s new home in Tempelhof Airport.
- Sotheby’s disappointing earnings highlight risk of art market’s overreliance on trophy lots.
- Sotheby’s and Steve Lazarides team up to test the market for street-artist Rammellzee in London.
- Banksy reveals new street sign artwork in England.
- This ska band’s album cover could be Banksy’s earliest work.
- Ten Picassos discovered amid Tehran Museum’s hidden collection of Western art.
- Nostalgia and reality in Picasso, Schiele, and Klimt.
- A new London show will reveal the painter Jusepe de Ribera as a master of violence.
- Who really painted ‘Salvator Mundi’? An Oxford art historian says it was Leonardo’s assistant.
- The Studio Museum in Harlem announced today that Legacy Russell will join the institution as associate curator.
- Joshua Vides on becoming a “professional” artist, his streetwear hustle & gifting LeBron his Nikes.
- Reigning Champ unveils new Muhammad Ali installation at La Brea store.
- We owe artists the crucial income resale royalties provide.
- Resale royalties would hurt emerging artists.
- Developer installs giant David Salle prints on McKim, Mead & White Building in New York.
- From Paul Klee to Alexander Calder, 7 artists who created inventive toys.
- Fondation Louis Vuitton spotlights Jean-Michel Basquiat & Egon Schiele for new exhibit.
- A Jackson Pollock painting gets a touch-up, and the public’s invited to watch.
- Artist who filled New York pothole with Trump’s face sees artwork removed by city.
- Does the spirit of Charles Dickens live on in his furniture?
- Your paints may contain toxic chemicals. Here’s how to avoid harming yourself and the environment.
- Jack Whitten’s newly published journals reveal a long, painful road to recognition.
- A view from the easel, artist studios in California, Maine, New York, and Ohio.
- What do photographers owe their subjects? Four photographers weigh in.
- How Larry Clark and others documented sex work in 80s and 90s America.
- Petitions and protests as art world rallies to free imprisoned photographer Shahidul Alam.
- This photographer is reimagining Norman Rockwell for the 21st Century.
- How Japan has inspired Western artists, from the Impressionists to today.
- Someone just gave student art historians $1 mil so they can afford to actually go see the art they’re studying.
- Bloomberg Philanthropies funds 45 organizations in Atlanta as part of $43 million arts training program.
- Building a legacy for an artist who shunned the art world.
- Facebook censors artist’s work criticising male-dominated society because it features naked breasts.
- Facebook censors Montreal Museum of Fine Art’s ad featuring nude Picasso painting.
- A new feminist poetry or a trudge through patriarchy,
- The world’s first museum of comedy is here.
- Interview with Aaron Ott, the first-ever curator of public art for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY.
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarding $43.1 million in support of 218 humanities projects.
- Understanding Edward Hopper’s lonely vision of America, beyond “Nighthawks”.
- List of 34,361 dead refugees and migrants goes back on show in Liverpool after being destroyed.
- The tortuous story of Gustav Klimt’s Nazi-looted, 100ft-wide Beethoven Frieze uncovered.
- 6 sculptures that rattled critics and shook up public art.
- ACT UP returns to the Whitney Museum’s Wojnarowicz retrospective, this time as guests.
- David Wojnarowicz was a poet, a fighter, a hustler, a survivor.
- At the Whitney, Eckhaus Latta blurs the line between fashion and contemporary art.
- Nicholas Galanin remixes Native American identity at Phoenix’s Heard Museum.
- Unraveling the mysteries behind Caspar David Friedrich’s “Wanderer”.
- LaKela Brown’s plaster-cast sculptures represent the common trappings and symbols of her 90s upbringing.
