More stories below from this week (click on bolded words for more information):
- Witnessing the catastrophic fire of Notre-Dame.
- How should France rebuild Notre Dame?
- The cultural battle over the meaning of the Notre Dame fire.
- Can ‘Assassin’s Creed’ help rebuild Notre Dame?
- The 7 of the most precious relics that survived the blaze at Notre Dame.
- What sold at this years Dallas Art Fair.
- Is the photography market sleepy or just getting started?
- Phillips auction house could reset Mark Bradford record again.
- Why Jeff Koons’s “Rabbit” could sell for up to $70 million.
- Keith Haring’s last print to be sold at upcoming Phillips New York auction.
- How this enormous Keith Haring mural was saved from destruction.
- Why it’s difficult to track the changing values of artworks.
- LACMA’s high-stakes Collectors Committee event raises $2.4 million, acquires 8 works.
- Iranian sculptor Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, dead at 97.
- Benon Lutaaya, maker of contemplative collages, has died.
- Artist Molly Crabapple collaborates with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to imagine a greener future.
- Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago stages Rob Pruitt Obama paintings exhibition.
- Guggenheim’s Hilma af Klint survey is most popular show in its history.
- A show in Vienna seeks to highlight the female artists of Austria’s golden age.
- ‘Time 100’ list includes artists David Hockney and Luchita Hurtado.
- ‘Mr. Dob’ Takashi Murakami’s most famous character explained.
- The rise and fall of internet art communities.
- Get lost in the strange, dizzying websites of these contemporary artists.
- Spencer Tunick is looking for an army of nude models in NY to help him fight censorship.
- Art history 101—an overview from Impressionism to Fluxus.
- This open source software could make museum websites more accessible.
- What can Max Ernst’s secret symbols tell us about Surrealism?
- Lucian Freud’s obsession with skin inspired powerful nude portraits.
- Understanding Renaissance master Raphael through 5 key artworks.
- Robert Lazzarini installs giant wave-distorted fence sculpture at The Hole NYC.
- These Smithsonian archival photos show famous artists with their cats.
- Understanding 11 great artists through the instructions they left behind.
- The romantic gestures of 7 famous artist couples.
- These 13,000-pound concrete blocks can be moved with one hand.
- The erotic topologies of Zilia Sánchez paintings.
- Through the lens of photographer Lydia Whitmore.
- How Sheila Hicks changed the way we think about sculpture.
- Aliza Nisenbaum’s new commission and the politics of paying attention.
- What’s behind the French National Assembly’s racist mural?
- Kent Monkman takes on the colonial art space.
- Artadia’s 2019 New York Awards go to Hadi Fallahpisheh and Devin N. Morris.
- Art-world socialite Miroslava Duma recently named in the Mueller Report.
- V&A defends plan to exhibit Kevin Spacey portrait.
