More stories below from this week (click on bolded words for more information):
- The much-hyped Chinese art market’s best days may already be gone.
- The boom in pop-up galleries is only just getting started.
- 7 art-historical treasures for sale at TEFAF Maastricht.
- Powerful collectors open up in TEFAF Maastricht’s Chinese art market report.
- The bookseller who supplied Sister Wendy a copy of Mapplethorpe’s ‘X Portfolio’ is selling her library.
- Bid me up before you go-go: sun goes down on George Michael’s art collection at Christie’s.
- George Michael’s art collection fetches $12.3 million at Christie’s London.
- Claude Monet’s haystack will hit the auction block at Sotheby’s NY in May with $55 million estimate
- Caravaggio found in an Attic will travel to NY before it hits the auction block for an estimated $170 million.
- The auction price of an artwork is directly related to how much blue or red is in it, a new study finds.
- How Curator Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) changed the course of art.
- Barbara Hammer, pioneering queer experimental filmmaker, dead at 79.
- Prize-winning curator Kristy Edmunds discusses how she helps artists realize visionary work.
- Kaywin Feldman shatters the glass ceiling at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
- At home with the man who helped bring African art to New Orleans.
- The radical legacy of Hannah Höch, one of the only female Dadaists.
- Artist Kiki Smith explains how her unusual upbringing inspires her work.
- Discoveries under the floorboards of Van Gogh’s bedroom in Brixton.
- Stolen in 1985, a recovered de Kooning will undergo conservation treatment.
- Italian police may have solved the mystery of an exhibition of fake Modigliani paintings in Genoa.
- A Paul Signac painting has been identified as another work of Nazi-looted art from the Gurlitt Trove.
- Dutch duo Scheltens & Abbenes embrace the ordinary to create the extraordinary.
- Artist Eric Mack’s Desert X sculpture vandalized, burned and stolen’.
- Anthea Hamilton is a force to be reckoned with at Thomas Dane Gallery.
- Watch how artist Tyrrell Winston turns trash into fine art.
- PODCAST: Ian Cheng wants to change the way you think.
- PODCAST: Wham! The George Michael auction and the YBA market. Plus, Sharjah Biennial.
- ArtPrize names artists creating large-scale works for inaugural project biennial.
- Dalí, Hockney, and Koons have all designed labels for this French winery.
- Why Dorothea Tanning’s powerful surrealist art defied convention.
- How Nina Katchadourian uses airplane bathrooms as her studio.
- From monumental to microscopic, these works changed the history of art in Japan.
- 7 artists changing our perceptions of the world at the Sharjah Biennial.
- Lessons from the Afghan women who weave modern war into an ancient tradition.
- Max Porter’s Book, ‘Lanny’, evades easy categorization.
- Rashid Johnson’s directorial debut, ‘Native Son’.
- Jerry Saltz is writing a book on how to be an artist.
- Two photographers traveled to the Arctic to capture powerful images of the rapidly militarizing region.
- Through five years of intimate photographs, this couple challenges clichés about love.
- Want to paint outdoors? Here’s what you’ll need to paint en plein air.
