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

  • 5 standout New York exhibitions to see this March (Derrick Adams at Luxembourg & Dayan above).
  • Must-see exhibitions during NYC’s Amory week.
  • London’s Masterpiece fair to expand to Hong Kong with Fine Art Asia.
  • Carmen Herrera sells for $2.9 million setting new record at Sotheby’s charity auction.
  • Sotheby’s sales rose 16% in 2018, with private sales topping $1 billion.
  • New records set for Signac and Caillebotte at Christie’s Impressionist and Modern sale.
  • Monet and Schiele power £87.7 million Impressionist and Modern sale at Sotheby’s London.
  • 2019 Whitney Biennial names participating artists, but Michael Rakowitz drops out in protest.
  • MOCA Cleveland will become free as part of inclusivity initiative.
  • SFMOMA names Janet Bishop as Chief Curator.
  • Brant Foundation’s new East Village space brings Basquiat back to his roots.
  • The most influential living African-American artists.
  • Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald’s Obama paintings boost National Portrait Gallery attendance.
  • PODCAST: Artist Mickalene Thomas is to contemporary painting what Daft Punk is to music.
  • PODCAST: Rembrandt special—the complete artist.
  • Patrick Martinez’s cake paintings of civil rights leaders to display in NYC show.
  • Sarah Lucas disrupts Franz West’s Tate Modern survey in off-kilter meeting of art provocateurs.
  • The bad boy artists of the 1980s owe a debt to their feminist predecessors.
  • Ai Weiwei show brings out tensions between Canada and China.
  • Artist Sharon Lockhart’s call for female empowerment.
  • How Shirin Neshat got her start as an artist.
  • Theaster Gates explores the troubling history of a coastal community forced out of home.
  • Artist Ariel Schlesinger’s show at Galleria Massimo Minini enlightens our ‘New Dark Age’.
  • Art patron Francesca von Habsburg opens the doors to her Vienna residence.
  • Art subscription service Wombat thinks inside the box.
  • Kevin Roche, Pritzker Prize-winning architect has died at 96.
  • 8 iconic Bauhaus sites to visit for its 100th anniversary.
  • These famous logos were given the Bauhaus treatment.
  • Apple reveals winners of shot on iPhone challenge.
  • The secret language of jewelry in women’s portraits.
  • CBD’s calming effects may give artists a more creative mindset.
  • Study finds artists become famous through their friends, not the originality of their work.
  • Hans Ulrich Obrist pays tribute to designer Karl Lagerfeld and his passion for books.
  • How Japanese woodblock prints transformed Van Gogh’s dreams of utopia.
  • The free-spirited Amalfi Coast weekend that launched Arte Povera.