More stories from the week that ended Feb 28 (click on bolded words for more information):

  • Images and information up for Louisa Gagliardi – La Belle Heure solo exhibition at Tomorrow Gallery.
  • RIP: Umberto Eco, who passed away at the age of 84.
  • RIP: Donald Drapkin, who passed away at the age of 67 after falling down during skiing.
  • Two assailants shoot two guards dead at an archaeological site in Egypt’s Deir el-Bersha to steal artifacts.
  • Laurel Gitlen Gallery will close after seven years on New York’s Lower East Side.
  • The Paris Pinacotheque gallery shuts its doors.
  • St. Mark’s Bookshop goes out of business.
  • La Corte Arte Contemporanea in Florence is closing its doors.
  • Timothy’s Gallery also closes its doors for good.
  • Middle market in Asian art is slumping.
  • How will Sotheby’s navigate a possible bear market in 2016? Sotheby’s reports loss of $11mil. in fourth quarter of 2015. Bloomberg reports on Sotheby’s down fourth quarter performance. Sotheby’s loses two key staff members as Alex Rotter and David Norman leave the auction house.
  • Townhouse gallery in Cairo faces unprecedented censorship as it seeks to reopen to the public next month.
  • Sàn Art Laboratory temporarily suspended after warning from Vietnamese government.
  • David Černy found guilty of defaming Milan Knizak by Prague High Court and ordered to pay $4,060.
  • Austria’s right-wing populist FPÖ party condemns Vienna’s Bank Austria Kunstforum Balthus exhibition.
  • French court rejects plea by Maya Widmaier-Picasso to void Qatari royal family’s seizure order for bust.
  • The Daily Beast reviews Damien Hirst’s Pharmacy 2 restaurant and thinks the food is worse than his artwork.
  • China seeks to ban weird architecture in the country.
  • Woman injured as a taxi jumps the curb and hits a light post outside Metropolitan Museum.
  • Stacy Engman accused of biting a fellow passenger in her back during a flight. She denies it.
  • Art Cologne organizers write open letter opposing the amendment of Germany’s cultural protection act.
  • Artnet’s list of  The 10 Worst Art Fair Ideas in History.
  • Richard Serra and Lawrence Weiner among artists signing letter denouncing FBI’s request to unlock iPhone.
  • Scott Indrisek writes about the art world effects of a temporary stoppage in service of the L-train.
  • Elizabeth Schuyler sat in prison for a portrait painted by Ralph Earl, who was incarcerated due to debts.
  • University of Oklahoma to return Nazi-stolen Pissarro and it will share time between two museums.
  • British culture minister Ed Vaizey imposes export ban on a plaster sculpture by Alberto Giacometti.
  • The day that Andy Warhol died.
  • Thomas Schütte constructing museum to house his own artwork in the town of Hombroich, near Düsseldorf.
  • UC Davis opening new art museum in November.
  • Oslo’s new city government approves plans for new $314mil. Munch Museum building.
  • Andrea Fraser brings sounds of Sing Sing jail into the Whitney for her site-specific installation.
  • Introspective Magazine looks at Takashi Murakami’s collection show at Yokohama Museum of Art.
  • NY Times visits Painting in Four Takes at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
  • Artinfo gives us a tour of The Illusive Eye Op Art show at El Museo del Barrio.
  • MoMA has a film screening program with Neïl Beloufa on Monday, Feb 29.
  • Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan 1994 Museum starts Kickstarter for The Olsen Twins Hiding From Paparazzi. Cait Munro writes about the exhibition.
  • Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art opens at Hong Kong’s M+ museum.
  • Désiré Feuerle opens The Feuerle Collection private museum in Berlin.
  • David Hockney to get huge retrospective at Tate Britain in 2017.
  • Profile of Dia Art Foundation’s Jessica Morgan.
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art receives donation of 50 works and $10mil. from Daniel Dietrich II.
  • Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood portrait by Jonathan Yeo hung at Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
  • Mats Stjernstedt to curate Norway, Sweden, & Finland’s joint exhibition for Nordic Pavilion at Venice Biennale.
  • The Berlin Biennale reveals its list of main venues.
  • Christian Viveros-Fauné writes about how the Met Breuer will drastically alter the New York art scene.
  • Julie Lasky reviews Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s design for Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
  • Art UK to put all of the UK’s publicly owned art online.
  • Artprice index indicates that global art market bounces back after 10% slump in 2015.
  • Major auction houses are increasingly turning their attention to the middle market, where the profits are better.
  • Artforum visits the LA Art Book Fair, Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market, and LaRosa Social Club.
  • Business Times reports on Art Fair Phillipines.
  • Market for Rodin sculptures is hot.
  • Sotheby’s London has its first guest-curated sale.
  • Artsy writes about the Independent art fair.
  • Artnet’s picks for the 10 best booths at ARCO Madrid. They also have a sales report from the fair.
  • Brian Boucher explores art fairs’ strategies of expansion.
  • LA Times writes about Sprüth Magers opening its Los Angeles location.
  • The artists that earned the most at auction, by category.
  • Pace Gallery’s new permanent location in Palo Alto.
  • Christie’s list of 7 things new buyers need to know about contemporary art.
  • W Magazine profiles Christie’s Xin Li.
  • Shepard Fairey sells one of his Los Feliz homes to Jason Segal for $2.25mil.
  • Phaidon explores Glenn Ligon’s work Untitled (“I am an invisible man”).
  • Carrie Mae Weems recipient of Anderson Ranch Art Center’s 2016 National Artist Award.
  • Vice interviews Harmony Korine. He is also interviewed by Guardian.
  • Park McArthur in Purple.
  • Art Viewer looks at Ian Swanson’s exhibition at ASHES/ASHES.
  • Alexandra Grant’s Shadows book features Keanu Reeves as her subject.
  • Seth Price at 356 S Mission Rd is a Artforum Critic’s Pick.
  • Jonathan Griffin reviews the Juliana Paciulli show at Greene Exhibitions.
  • David Pagel visits Paul Pascal Theriault at Grice Bench for LA Times.
  • Stefan Simchowitz on Apolonia Sokol for Vogue.
  • Daniel Arnold photographs the Alex Israel and Bret Easton Ellis show at Gagosian Gallery.
  • LA Times visits Evan Holloway’s show at David Kordansky Gallery.
  • Khaled Jarrar installs work in Juarez, Mexico, which he says is a “monument to the global issue of migration”.
  • Blake Gopnik examines Andy Warhol’s Open This End piece.
  • Artinfo has a list of 5 Shanghai Artists to Watch.
  • Signed limited edition print by Richard Prince released by The Kitchen.
  • Jeff Wootton’s The Way The Light limited edition features Damien Hirst designed artwork.
  • KAWS working with NIGO for Uniqlo UT collaboration.
  • Where’s Warhol? book by Catherine Ingram and Andrew Rae.
  • Nine examples of how artists are portrayed in film and television.
  • Cecilia Giménez Beast Jesus restoration gets film documentary treatment in Fresco Fiasco.
  • Artsy writes about Amar’e Stoudemire’s enthusiasm for art and collecting.
  • What the inside of a 787-8 Boeing Dreamliner looks like unpainted and unfurnished.
  • London Fashion Week’s Fall 2016 collection includes much historical artwork influence.
  • How Kanye West compares to Pablo Picasso at specific stages in their lives. Quotes by Kanye or Picasso.