More stories below from this week (click on bolded words for more information):
- Art Basel Hong Kong (29-31 March) is now a firm fixture on Asia’s art calendar.
- Here’s a rundown of the highlights to see during Art Basel Hong Kong.
- Persue launches “Wet Paint” exhibition in Tokyo’s Basement Ginza.
- Ahead of Gallery Weekend Beijing, a run-down of the best exhibitions in China’s capital.
- Asia’s most innovative and interesting institutions from Hong Kong to Japan.
- Amid a gloomy economic forecast and political tensions, Art Dubai tries to find stability.
- Sharjah Biennial 14 is raising the emirate’s cultural cachet.
- Venice to launch permanent Giudecca art district at Biennale.
- All of the artists in the 58th Venice Biennale opening in May.
- These galleries have the most artists in the Venice Biennale.
- A rash of gallery closures has plagued Berlin, but a new crop of dealers may have a solution.
- New contemporary art space opens in impoverished area outside Tunis.
- London’s Art Night 2019 promises to be star-studded.
- Tate will not accept further donations from Sackler family.
- London art dealers are hatching emergency plans to ship art abroad amid Brexit plans.
- Meet the art SWAT team that keeps fakes out of Europe’s fanciest art fair.
- Here are 2018’s most visited shows and museums.
- SFMOMA announces public unveiling on May 23rd of major installation by artist JR.
- Kehinde Wiley launches artist residency program in Senegal.
- Demanding deeper thinking, in tribute to Okwui Enwezor.
- The sitting targets of painter Lucian Freud.
- Why Manet’s masterpiece has confounded historians for over a century.
- The many styles of Pritzker Prize winner Japanese architect Arata Isozaki.
- The Bauhaus has shaped our world for 100 years.
- New prize will award unprecedented $1 million to artists to help realize an ambitious project.
- The dealer using Instagram as an auction house.
- A new app lets users explore art galleries in virtual 3D.
- Emma Kunz, the researcher who refused to become a guru.
- Christchurch shooting gives new sense of urgency to Simon Denny show.
- Painter Cy Gavin’s transhistorical reckoning at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York.
- Gabriel Rico’s first ever US exhibition investigates the relationship between humans & nature.
- The daily routines of 10 women artists, from Joan Mitchell to Diane Arbus.
- The collecting couple who became sleuths of photographic forgery.
- These photographers captured the fearless youth of the 1970s.
- New MoMA art supplies help kids find their inner artist.
- How to turn your vacation into an artistic retreat.
- More than 2,500 New York City subway cars are now artificial underwater reefs.
- Why art colleges and universities should not act like for-profit galleries.
- 7 things artists should know before filing taxes.
- How artworks get their prices and how experts determine value.
- Late Tang Dynasty sculpture bought at a garage sale for under $100 just sold for $2.1 million.