More stories from the week that ended Dec 20 (click on bolded words for more information):
- Gothamist visits Martin Creed’s Work No. 2592 red ballon room at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise.
- RIP: Hema Upadhyay, who passed away at the age of 43. She was murdered, along with her lawyer.
- RIP: Charles Moffett, who passed away at the age of 70.
- RIP: Huynh Phuong Dong, who passed away at the age of 88 after having a stroke in the shower.
- RIP: George Ortman, who passed away at the age of 89.
- RIP: Joseph A. Whalen, who passed away at the age of 87 after a long illness.
- RIP: Morris Barazani, who passed away at the age of 91.
- RIP: Ales Vesely, who passed away at the age of 80.
- RIP: Stuart Jackson, who passed away at the age of 74 due to injuries from beating.
- RIP: Brent McDonald, a popular art school teacher and youth mentor, who passed away at 49 after being shot.
- Robert Andrew Falcon sentenced to 16 years in prison for murder of Trigz.
- Palestinian artist Rehab Nazzal allegedly shot by sniper in Israel while taking photographs on December 11.
- Tunisian artists imprisoned for cannabis use, after being wrongly accused of terrorist activity.
- Babacar M’Bow, MOCANOMI director, placed on paid leave due to allegations of sexual harassment.
- Sotheby’s avoids layoffs by accepting buyouts of 80 employees, or 5% of its global work force.
- Timothée Chaillou, artistic director of Also Known as Africa (AKAA) art fair resigns after ’15 fair is cancelled.
- Patrick McClymont will resign as Sotheby’s chief financial officer and executive vice president.
- LA Weekly says goodbye to galleries in Los Angeles that closed in 2015.
- Russian art market hurting due to oil prices.
- Jeff Koons sued by Mitchel Gray for copyright infringement over Gordon’s gin ad photograph. Experts analyze the case.
- Emma Sulkowicz threatens Newsweek with legal action in response to publishing other side of story.
- Former Field Museum employee accused of stealing $900k over 7 years from unrecorded membership sales.
- Public art in England disappearing through destruction, loss, theft, or sale, according to Historic England.
- Luigi Brugnaro may seek to reduce Venice’s debt by deaccessioning artwork from city’s public museums.
- Board member Tiny Fey targeted by protestors of NY’s American Museum of Natural History expansion plan.
- Francis Alÿs to visit refugee camps in Iraq and work with people forced to flee their homes by Isil.
- Picasso mural in Norway is among Europe’s most threatened heritage sites according to Europa Nostra.
- College students adding notes on slavery to their campus monuments.
- Joseph Harker and Stephen Moss discuss the renaming of artwork with offensive words.
- Judge allows Cooper Union to temporarily charge students tuition in the short run while developing its plan.
- London Metropolitan University students occupy campus building to protest its proposed sale.
- Prado and the Patrimonio Nacional settle long-running dispute over major paintings by Bosch and others.
- Paris Photo & Reed Exhibitions provide 20% reimbursement to exhibitors for costs & expenses related to fair.
- Painting in private collection in St Petersburg might be a second version of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
- Open Source Gallery in Brooklyn hosts free soup kitchen this month.
- Pussy Riot‘s Maria Alyokhina announces plans to open a “women’s-only” museum in Montenegro.
- Museum of Tomorrow, designed by Santiago Calatrava, opens in Rio de Janeiro.
- Nancy Spector joins Brooklyn Museum as Chief Curator.
- Ed Ruscha donates 18 recent print editions and promises one impression of all future prints to Tate.
- Dallas Museum of Art receives $500k grant from Texas Commission on the Arts to support Pollock show.
- Pai Camil crowdsourcing items in exchange for limited edition sweater as part of her New Museum installation.
- MoMA and SFMOMA announce retrospective of the work of Bruce Conner.
- Whitney announces Flatlands exhibition, which includes Jamian Juliano-Villani, Orion Martin, and more. Its Mirror Cells exhibition includes Elizabeth Jaeger, Maggie Lee, Win McCarthy, and others.
- Lari Pittman, Adam Sender, Mary Klaus Martin, and Gabriel Brener join MOCA’s board.
- Catherine Opie added to board of the Warhol Foundation.
- Emma Enderby named new associate curator of The Public Art Fund.
- James Turrell’s Meeting at MoMA PS1 will reopen this summer, following renovations.
- Mark Flood Gratest Hits show coming next year to Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
- Christopher Knight reviews Alex Israel show at Huntington Library.
- Reuters covers the Anselm Kiefer retrospective at Centre Pompidou.
- Christopher Knight’s list of The 10 best art exhibitions at L.A. museums in 2015. Hyperallergic’s list of the top 10 art shows in Brooklyn.
- Artinfo’s list of The Best Museum Exhibitions of 2015.
- NY Times writes about Franklin Sirmans’ new director position at Pérez Art Museum Miami.
- Art in General temporarily relocating to DUMBO in Brooklyn.
- Financial Times looks at the world’s new private art museums.
- Kitty Scott named co-curator of 2018 edition of the Liverpool Biennial.
- Corinne Diserens to curate tenth Taipei Biennial.
- Geoffrey Farmer to represent Canada at the 2017 Venice Biennale.
- Ken Johnson reviews four shows in Philadelphia.
- Travel + Leisure profiles Brussels as an art hub.
- Rozalia Jovanovic named Editor in Chief of artnet News.
- Artinfo looks at Sotheby’s €38.4mil. total December Paris sales.
- Sotheby’s picks for its most memorable moments of 2015.
- Vasudeo S Gaitonde’s painting sells for $4.4mil. at Christie’s, setting a new world record for Indian artwork.
- Basquiat painting sold at Christie’s for $37mil in May still mysteriously owned by Tony Shafrazi, its consignor.
- Chinese auction houses starting to introduce Western artwork in their sales.
- Artnet’s list of Top 10 Most Expensive Living Female Artists.
- Colin Gleadell analyzes the Old Masters sales.
- Private sales by auction houses on the rise for Old Masters.
- Art fair sponsors being more creative with their fair partnerships.
- Ben Genocchio appointed director of the Armory Show.
- ArtTactic speaks to Kelly Crow about Art Basel Miami Beach.
- Kenny Schachter discusses Peggy Guggenheim on occasion of the film Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict.
- Neville Wakefield named the curator for the spring 2016 season at Red Bull Studios.
- Artnet interviews Luis De Jesus.
- Wallpaper writes about Gavlak Gallery’s ten years in the business.
- David Shelton moves to a larger gallery space.
- LA Weekly writes about Corey Helford Gallery’s new space in downtown Los Angeles.
- Artinfo’s choices for The Best Gallery Shows of 2015.
- Christoph Noe interviews Kim Chang-Il.
- United Talent Agency hires Allese Thomson as the new creative director of its fine arts division.
- Alberto Mugrabi pays $18,583,062.50 for pair of ground-floor triplex “mansions” at the Schumacher.
- Adam Lindemann’s $50mil. purchase of former Andy Warhol estate in Montauk completes.
- Artists that have had architecture projects and works and architects that have had art projects and works.
- Darja Bajagić’s show at New Galerie is an Artforum Critic’s Pick.
- Wade Guyton talks to Peter Fischli.
- LA Times profiles Lydia Emily.
- Andrew Russeth writes about Jared Madere’s Bed Stuy Love Affair truck.
- Tyler Green talks to Frances Stark in Modern Art Notes Podcast.
- John Baldessari shows us how to make a conceptual soap piece.
- Fader interviews Elise R Peterson.
- Artsy looks at Thomas Houseago: Before the Room at Xavier Hufkens.
- LA Times looks at the Gina Beavers show at Michael Benevento.
- Artnet writes about Banksy’s latest street works.
- Magali Reus awarded 2015 Prix de Rome, which comes with a monetary prize of about $43k.
- Artinfo talks with Jeff Wall.
- Mona Kuhn talks with Elizabeth Avedon about the 2nd Billboard Creative exhibition.
- Stacy Kranitz is TIME’s choice for Instagram photographer of the year in 2015.
- TimeOut New York’s list of the 10 artists every art fan should know about.
- Artsy’s list of The Top 10 Living Artists of 2015. And their list of The Top 15 Emerging Artists of 2015.
- Modern Painters’ list of 18 Artists to Watch : Part I and also Part II and finally, Part III. Artsy also has a list of 16 Emerging Artists to Watch in 2016.
- Art Report’s list of 7 female performance artists you need to know about.
- Artsy’s list of The 15 Most Influential Art World Cities of 2015. And also its list of The 20 Biggest Art News Stories in 2015.
- Shia LaBeouf, Luke Turner and Nastja Säde Rönkkö discuss their performance projects.
- Artspace’s list of the 6-most important artist-run magazines.
- NGV offers Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei limited edition book with accompanying archival print by Ai Weiwei.
- Jen Stark embroidered patch available from The Standard.
- uvproductionhouse’s KAWS seedbomb kit available in their Etsy store.
- Scott Campbell limited edition tattoo kit available from his site.
- Ben Eine releases an edition for the holidays.
- Paper Magazine’s list of 10 gifts for art lovers.
- Curtis Kulig collaborates with Topman on a line of clothing.
- The Medical-core fashion trend.
- Michael Lutin’s Astrological Predictions for Art World Success in 2016.
- The worst police sketch ever?
