More stories below from this week (click on bolded words for more information):
- Artists are entrepreneurs. We should compensate them accordingly.
- Banksy learns about a bootleg show of his work in Moscow and responds in a very Banksy way.
- One of Philly’s oldest art collectives, Space 1026, to lose its home of 20 years.
- Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery honors Aretha Franklin.
- JR on creating public art, his Perrotin Gallery show, and why he wants to remain secretive.
- After protest and months of negotiations, the MoMA Local 2110 union reaches an agreement.
- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has received a $1 million grant from the Tokyo-based Ishibashi Foundation.
- Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego expansion is a ‘mistake,’ critics say in an open letter.
- Killer Mike, the High Museum’s newest board member, on how he wants to make art more accessible.
- “We Live in a nuthouse!”: Zero Mostel on art, politics and America.
- PODCAST: Art across America with Chrissie Iles, Carolyn Ramo & Hamza Walker.
- Dealer Andrew Fabricant joins Gagosian, leaving Richard Gray Gallery after 22 years.
- Who should replace Klaus Biesenbach at MoMA?
- 5 pieces of advice for MOCA LA’s incoming director Klaus Biesenbach.
- Madonna is secretly an art world influencer.
- This abandoned Spanish convent is filled with impactful artworks.
- Mirrored installations by Sarah Meyohas create infinite tunnels strewn with dangling flowers.
- New York City launches public art initiative to honor women’s history.
- Who is Martin Puryear? A primer on America’s next representative at the Venice Biennale.
- Toledo, Ohio’s Momentum features glass, music, art and makers in Free Festival, September 13–15.
- Münster on track to raise funds for Nicole Eisenman fountain as artist and gallery reduce price.
- When Lucian Freud used £100 million in paintings to pay off his bookie.
- All 16 of The Met’s Van Gogh paintings have been reunited in New York at last.
- How Georgia O’Keeffe’s garden keeps growing, three decades after her death.
- Watch how artist Andrea Zittel is helping artists realize their escapist dreams.
- Marina Abramović created a poster for an Italian sailing event. The far-right wants to censor it as ‘propaganda’.
- What do you do when a project you curate is censored by the state?
- The artist who gave America its first signature art form.
- Vandalized artwork commemorating dead refugees will symbolically remain in destroyed condition.
- Galerie Kleindienst drops Axel Krause from its roster after the expressing anti-immigrant views on Facebook.
- William Kentridge’s real and metaphorical cages illuminate a protest on deportation.
- Who won Damien Hirst’s Instagram caption contest?
- The criminally overlooked talent of Baroque painter Michaelina Wautier.
- In striking monochrome, photographer Zanele Muholi masterfully explores self-image.
- Frieze sculpture piece marks sixth anniversary of South African mining massacre.
- ‘This was no accident’, says architect Renzo Piano about Genoa bridge collapse.
- Man hospitalized after falling in Anish Kapoor installation.
- Decoding the symbolism in Hans Holbein’s “Ambassadors”.
- Naked ‘clown Trump‘ statue installed on Los Angeles billboard.
- The morning routines of famous artists, from Andy Warhol to Louise Bourgeois.
- What debt does mid-century American abstract painting owe to Monet?
- 5 essential tips for collecting limited edition artist prints.
- 9 types of printmaking you need to know.
- This weeks artist studio visits in California, Idaho, Illinois, New York, and North Carolina.
- Artist thwacked for Conan the Barbarian infringement.
- Burning Man artists on 15 of this year’s most anticipated artworks.
