More stories below from this week (click on bolded words for more information):
- Zeng Fanzhi talks about his upcoming shows at three Hauser & Wirth locations in Zurich, London & Hong Kong.
- Inside the $200 million expansion of America’s new must-see museum.
- Hirshhorn Museum acquires Ai Weiwei installation, and Getty acquires Betye Saar archive.
- The Bronx Museum plans to open a new venue in Lower Manhattan.
- A Denver art project envisions alleys as social spaces.
- David Hockney debuts iPad-designed stained-glass window at Westminster Abbey.
- Max Hollein on how the Met will redefine the entire way we think about contemporary art.
- The market for female surrealists has finally reached a tipping point.
- The utopian visions of Geta Brătescu.
- David Kordansky announces representation of artist Fred Eversley.
- Agnes Martin and Navajo craftswomen made spiritual works inspired by the desert.
- The tragic life story of Jean-Michel Basquiat is going to become a major Broadway musical.
- The hoax art movement that fooled the art world establishment.
- Meet the onetime Disney illustrator Tracie Ching’s whose ‘KAVANOPE’ poster has gone totally viral.
- Artist Robin Bell projects a message of protest against Brett Kavanaugh onto his DC courthouse.
- How the #MeToo movement is transforming the performing arts.
- Jim Carrey’s political cartoons are getting a show at Maccarone Gallery, timed to the midterm elections.
- Watch how photographer Zanele Muholi uses her camera to tell the stories of trans women.
- The Soviet art school that cemented suprematism’s spot in history.
- Five works that caught our eye at the Art Berlin fair.
- At Expo Chicago, a ‘slow burn’ of interest from collectors.
- The oversaturated gallery landscape of Berlin loses two more galleries.
- With space-sharing programs, galleries band together to battle an uncertain market.
- Max Hetzler Gallery defies Brexit uncertainties and opens London gallery.
- Monet vs. Richter: Two $30 million paintings will duel at Christie’s and Sotheby’s this Fall.
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How to market yourself as an artist.
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“Jobs? Never!!” A new film displays Jim Greco’s passion for skateboarding.
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Damien Hirst to close Ilfracombe restaurant the Quay.
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Has artificial intelligence given us the next great art movement?
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The importance of being Delacroix, the last great artist who was not a modernist.
- How El Greco’s expressive paintings inspired artists from Velázquez to Van Gogh.
- Closed for nearly 30 years, the Chapel of the Holy Shroud reopens in Italy following a massive restoration.
- Charlotte Burns interviews artist Howardena Pindell.
- Decoding the densely packed feminist imagery of Suellen Rocca’s paintings.
- The worlds of Italian artist Stephen Spender.
- Pulling back the curtain on Alex Prager’s mysterious, cinematic imagery.
- Here’s a Fall 2018 list of fellowships, residencies, and prizes accepting applications.
- The man who attacked Marina Abramović claims he did it for his art.
- The brain-stimulating devices that people are using to jumpstart creativity.
- Dealer Ezra Chowaiki sentenced to 18 months in prison for fleecing high-profile art collectors of millions.
- Masks that conceal and reveal: Maxwell Deter interviewed by Naomi Falk.
- Cover albums reveal something about the evolution of shared taste and cultural memory.
- Five natural dyes you can create from the contents of your kitchen.