More stories below from this week (click on bolded words for more information):

  • Banksy market accelerates following shredding stunt.
  • Has the art market reached a stage of end-game nihilism? Kenny Schachter on NY’s $2 billion auctions.
  • 5 key trends from New York’s $2 billion auction week.
  • The biggest winner of auction week and 12 other takeaways from New York’s $2 billion sales.
  • The highs and lows of New York ‘gigaweek’.
  • Rembrandt painting featuring artist’s ‘fingerprints’ to go on sale in London.
  • Why the Christie’s and Sotheby’s duopoly is impregnable.
  • Sotheby’s Germany chief Philipp von Württemberg resigns.
  • How this photojournalist gets close to California’s devastating wildfires.
  • Among destruction brought by California fires, famous western town lays in ruins.
  • Phyllida Barlow discusses her exhibition ‘tilt’ at Hauser & Wirth New York.
  • A Picasso stolen in a major heist 6 years ago was found buried in a Romanian Forest.
  • Notorious forger Wolfgang Beltracchi on ethics, the art market and how to make a great fake.
  • How Mark Fisher turned punk writing on pop culture into an infectious critique of capitalism.
  • RETNA being investigated by the LAPD for vandalizing a gallery that declined to include his work in its show.
  • KRINK reveals new hand-pressurized sprayer.
  • Couple donates $40 million for MoMA’s renovation and expansion.
  • How will Amazon’s new headquarters affect the Queens art scene?
  • King of controversy Damien Hirst unveils new set of sculptures in Doha.
  • Austrian company behind Louvre Abu Dhabi dome is insolvent after non-payment.
  • The tortured 136-year history of building Gaudí’s Sagrada Família.
  • An art-covered stretch of the Berlin wall gains protection from encroaching real estate developers.
  • Revisiting Britain’s response to the Nazi “degenerate art” show.
  • Jocelyn Hobbie’s hypnotic portraits of women dazzle the eye with color and pattern.
  • The new breed of artist exploring society’s digital consciousness.
  • Tomoo Gokita to curate new SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery.
  • 7 female Impressionists every art history lover should know.
  • #MeToo whistleblower Rose McGowan says she is now focusing on her other major passion.
  • Betty Tompkins gives art history a #MeToo overhaul.
  • The four social classes of the art world.
  • Survey shows extent of class divide in creative industries.
  • Jim Carrey ‘is definitely an artist,’ Jerry Saltz says in a freewheeling conversation.
  • The craft breweries tapping artists to turn labels into works of art.
  • What did Gauguin say about Van Gogh behind his back? A new book reveals the raw details.
  • Smoking pipe, razor and revolver removed from Van Gogh sculpture in London’s Brixton.
  • Amsterdam show to explore Van Gogh’s influence on Hockney.
  • The fate of Leonardo’s ‘lost’ Salvator Mundi.
  • This early Rembrandt perfectly captures the anxiety of facing the blank canvas.
  • This week, artist studios in Australia, California, the Netherlands, New York, and West Virginia.
  • How to get started drawing with charcoal.
  • How to talk to kids about art.