More stories below from this week (click on bolded words for more information):
- Warhol’s newly restored 102-canvas work Shadows goes on show in New York.
- The artists turning famous photographs into elaborate dioramas.
- Artist Mickalene Thomas on how photography became the center of her practice.
- Alex Katz takes art lovers on a stroll through art history with his new book.
- Ben Eine elevates typography artworks for his London exhibition at StolenSpace.
- Picasso and the muse that was his modern day Mona Lisa.
- Mr. Brainwash is back in New York with a new show.
- Anish Kapoor’s copyright infringement lawsuit against the NRA heads south to their home turf.
- Artist accuses Florida officials of censoring his photographs of queer life.
- Art Doc ‘The Price of Everything’ is so hypnotized by price that it neglects to say much of value about value.
- Unauthorized ‘Art of Banksy’ exhibition coming to Miami for Art Basel 2018.
- Natascha Süder Happelmann will represent Germany at the 2019 Venice Biennale.
- Bangkok’s inventive new biennial brings contemporary art to Buddhist temples.
- One of China’s most expensive artists Zeng Fanzhi gets a global rebrand.
- Harold Stevenson, freethinking artist, gallivanter, and painter of ‘The New Adam,’ dies at 89.
- Yoko Ott, Executive Director of Portland’s Yale Union, dies at 48.
- With an assist from Google, the Met will make more than 406,000 digital images of art publicly available.
- The vicarious warmth of Amy Sillman’s paintings currently on view at Camden Arts Centre, London.
- Jeremy Deller says studios are ‘a lifeline’ for artists as Studio Voltaire announces £2.3 million expansion.
- ‘Collaborating Is Evidence of Being Human’: Virgil Abloh and Takashi Murakami join forces for Gagosian show.
- Yayoi Kusama and Takashi Murakami challenge counterfeit exhibitions of their art in China.
- Van Gogh shows planned for Houston, London, Amsterdam and Den Bosch in 2019.
- Petah Coyne goes deeper into darkness at Galerie Lelong in New York.
- Jim Dine breaks out: The New York art world has never been kind to him.
- What can an art fair offer amid political instability? For dealers at this year’s ARTBO, the answer is complicated
- Frieze announces partnership with Manhatten museum The Drawing Center.
- Here’s the exhibitor list for the inaugural edition of Felix LA art fair.
- Ai Weiwei takes over Los Angeles with 3 new shows.
- Jim Carrey’s ‘piercing scream’: A blisteringly political art show offers a window to his soul.
- PODCAST: Curating with Cecilia Alemani and Ingrid Schaffner.
- PODCAST: Bruce Nauman’s NY takeover. Plus, the British Museum dusts down its Islamic art galleries
- What I’ve learned in the year since I uprooted my gallery.
- Mary Iverson’s new landscape paintings go under the knife.
- Ana Mendieta Estate and Amazon Studios reach a settlement on ‘Suspiria’ copyright infringement suit.
- Giorgio de Chirico copied his most popular works to mess with his collectors.
- Bernar Venet’s retrospective creates a modernist mausoleum.
- Sara Morawetz walks from Dunkirk to Barcelona to measure the curvature of the earth.
- How the massive artworks at music festivals are created.
- Russia announces major Kandinsky show in Saudi Arabia amid Khashoggi murder controversy.
- Can art cure you? Doctors to prescribe museum visits in pioneering treatment.
- Artemisia Gentileschi’s market gains steam as collectors catch up with art historians.
- Christie’s sells first artwork created entirely by artificial intelligence for 40 times initial estimate.
- With largest-ever allotment for Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC grants $43.9 million to arts programs.
- Roy Lichtenstein Foundation gives $5 million to The Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art.
- Worcester Art Museum receives $600,000 grant from Barr and the Klarman Family Foundation.
- These famous artists proved that staying up late can lead to great ideas.
- Diego Marcon wins 2018 MAXXI Bulgari Prize.
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