• Lisa Yuskavage's debut show with Zwirner Gallery in London.
• RIP: Khadija Saye, who passed away at the age of 24. When she was among the missing after London tower blaze. David Lammy speaks about her and the fire, calling it "corporate manslaughter".
• RIP: Edit deAk (1950-2017).
• MAMA Gallery closes its space in LA.
• NY Times looks back on the life of the late Benjamin Cho.
• On Stellar Rays gallery to close and reopen as Stellar Projects.
• Dover residents campaigning against the demolition of a building on which Banksy painted his Brexit mural.
• Leonardo DiCaprio surrenders Picasso and Basquiat works to US government as part of 1MDB investigation.
• Jenny Dixon announces retirement as director of Noguchi Museum director.
• Partial blockade of Qatar by Middle East countries likely to destabilize cultural institutions and partnerships.
• Louvre Museum evacuated again after security threat.
• Mill of Blood by Antonio Vega Macotela at documenta 14 damaged and being repaired.
• Animal rights activists attack Aboubakar Fofana's studio because he used sheeps in his documenta 14 work.
• Marc Spiegler defends Art Basel from charges of colonialism.
• Painting discovered in an Arizona garage possibly by Jackson Pollock and could fetch $15mil.
• The Getty agrees to voluntarily return 1st-century BC sculpture to Italy.
• The Getty gets £24.5mil. Parmigianino after no UK museum tries to match price and export bar lifted.
• The Broad will host major Jasper Johns show in 2018.
• Met president Daniel Weiss takes over as chief executive, as museum searches for new director.
• Wolfgang Tillmans, Delya Allakhverdova, and Maria Sukkar elected to the ICA council.
• Forbes writes about Frank Lloyd Wright's MoMA retrospective.
• Rare images of daily life in North Korea to go on show at the American University Museum in DC.
• The history and future of Fondation Beyeler. Fondation Beyeler’s show during Art Basel 2018 to feature Giacometti and Bacon. Artnet reviews the Wolfgang Tillmans show there.
• Raphael's drawings at The Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford.
• Fahrelnissa Zeid exhibition opens at Tate Modern.
• Daniel Traub documents African residents of Guangzhou for show at the Shanghai Centre of Photography.
• The Art Newspaper interviews Wim Delvoye on occasion of his retrospective at the Museum Tinguely.
• A look at the Tony Smith show at LACMA.
• LACMA adds Allison Berg, Troy Carter, and Carter Reum as board members.
• The Art Newspaper's list of essential works and installations at Sculpture Projects Münster. Artnet also picks some highlights.
• The Power Station in Dallas has new artist exchange residency program called PROXIMIDAD.
• Ai Weiwei plants iron tree sculptures at the Israel Museum.
• The Museum of Capitalism (MOC) opens and explores capitalist economic systems.
• First-ever Kuala Lumpur Biennale (KLB) International Arts Exhibition to launch in November.
• Acute Art virtual reality platform launches with works by Jeff Koons, Marina Abramovic, and more.
• Sotheby’s to auction Dora Maar ring create by Picasso. Sotheby’s is also auctioning Andy Warhol’s first self-portrait.
• Agnes Gund sells Lichtenstein's Masterpiece to Steve Cohen to start criminal justice fund. Artnet interviews Ford Foundation president Darren Walker about the fund.
• Exploring art fair economics for smaller versus larger galleries.
• Artinfo has a sales report from Art Basel's VIP opening. Judd Tully also provides coverage. Alexander Forbes reports from the fair. The Art Newspaper also provides coverage on sales. Artnews lists some sales. Artinfo's sales report from day 2. Works from the '80s sell well at the fair.
• Rob Pruitt's art world lookalikes at Art Basel Unlimited. Artnet's highlights from Unlimited. Artists exploring LGBT causes at Art Basel. The Basquiat works for sale at the fair. Artnet's choices for The 10 Best Artworks at Art Basel 2017. Mechanical works were popular at Art Basel. Art from the fair that deserves a closer look.
• Artnet's list of 5 Rising Stars to Discover at the Liste Art Fair 2017.
• Artinfo interviews Sven Eisenhut about Photo Basel.
• Ten highlights from Design Miami/ Basel. Rodman Primack also makes some picks from the fair.
• Where all the artwork goes after a fair. A look at the art storage industry.
• The effect of documenta 14 on the market for artist's works.
• Upstairs Art Fair coming to the Hamptons, NY.
• The Art Newspaper explores the market for Gutai works.
• A look at the rise of the market for Alberto Giacometti's works.
• Andrew Goldstein interviews Brett Gorvy about his new market strategy.
• Katya Kazakina writes about bankers attending being in town during Art Basel.
• The must-see shows in Basel this week. Artnet also compiles a list.
• Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac to represent the estate of James Rosenquist.
• Lisson Gallery and The Vinyl Factory team up for multi-disciplinary art show at The Store Studios.
• Bill Viola made an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
• LA Times interviews Sam Durant about taking down his work.
• Artnet interviews Lucy Sparrow about her felt bodega installation.
• Artinfo interviews Joel Shapiro about his show at Pace London.
• Artnet profiles Claudia Comte.
• Jan Kiefer speaks with Blake Rayne.
• Frances Bean Cobain has her second show, at Gallery 30 South.
• Artinfo looks at Eric Fischl's show at Skarstedt, New York.
• Kevin Beasley in conversation with Kellie Jones.
• David Pagel reviews Bernadette Corporation's The Gay Signs at House of Gaga/Reena Saplings Fine Art.
• Eleven winners of 2017 Swiss Art Awards announced.
• Catherine Wagley reviews The Dream Colony, a book about Walter Hopps.
• Lushsux paints awkard hug denial by Jerry Seinfeld towards Kesha.
• Scarlett Johansson narrates MOCA video on Jeff Koons’s career.
• Paramount's Old Master Transformers painting marketing prank.
• The rise of Avocado Art.
• Justin Bieber did not attend the Art Basel fair.

• Frieze reviews Joyce Pensato's show at Lisson Gallery, London.
• RIP: Hans Breder, who passed away at the age of 81.
• RIP: Joella Jean Mahoney, who passed away at the age of 84.
• RIP: Julius Schmidt, who passed away at the age of 94.
• Silberkuppe Gallery closes after 10 years in business in Berlin.
• ISIS bombs and destroys historic Al Nuri Grand Mosque in Mosul.
• Third noose discovered hanging near National Mall, outside the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
• Envoy Enterprises closes gallery after a decade in business.
• Lucy Sparrow has to close her fake bodega after selling out 9,000 works.
• Nearly every employee of the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art resigns.
• William Pordy has $12mil. worth of paintings stolen from his storage unit in Queens.
• Tate Britan to exhibit Khadija Saye's works as a tribute to the late artist, who died in London tower blaze. Two memorial appeals launched to remember the artist. A look back at her work.
• John McEnroe complains that Andy Warhol cockblocked him.
• Philippe Dupont sues Christie’s for cancelling auctioned David Hammons work after title had already passed.
• Jeff Koons lays off half of his studio staff of painters, going from 60 to 30.
• Helge Achenbach ordered to pay €18.7mil. to the heirs of Berthold Albrecht over fraud.
• Vincent Lopreto charged with selling $400k worth of fake Damien Hirst prints over two years.
• Richard Mosse arrested while observing anti-refugee rally on Greek island of Chios.
• Ei Arakawa work stolen at Skulptur Projekte Münster.
• Formal complaint calls for end to BP sponsorship of National Portrait Gallery.
• St. Petersburg court dismisses lawsuit filed by Andrey Vasilyev against art expert Yelena Basner.
• Artists in Antarctic Pavilion at Venice Biennale had to make works smaller to make room for curator's works.
• Famed D.C. mural replaces Bill Cosby with Dave Chappelle, Taraji P. Henson and Obamas.
• Artists in Hong Kong see or fear Chinese censorship in making their work.
• Theory suggests that Vincent van Gogh traded lives with a Scottish doppelgänger after failed suicide pact.
• Installation of Jeff Koons’s flower sculpture for Paris is delayed due to funding issues.
• Arts Council of England wants to measure culture.
• Did Goldie inadvertently reveal Banksy's true identity?
• Arthur Brand thinks that the missing Gardner paintings still exist and that he can recover them this year.
• Police discover a secret gallery of Nazi artifacts behind an art collector’s bookcase.
• LA City Hall provides $400k in relocation assistance for those who lived at former artists' warehouse.
• American Arts Revival Act bill to offer art student loan forgiveness up to $10k for qualified individuals.
• French military funds technology to document heritage in conflict zones with $1.1mil. grant.
• Art UK to put entire body of UK public sculpture online by 2020.
• Hermann Nitsch gets his biggest audience ever at MONA Museum’s Dark Mofo festival.
• Moca Taipei announces major LGBTQ show as Taiwan first Asian country to legalize gay marriage.
• The Centro Botín, designed by Renzo Piano, opens in Santander on June 23.
• Victoria and Albert Museum to unveil $69mil. expansion soon.
• Albright-Knox Gallery shares its $155mil. expansion plans.
• Pinkie the parrot gets to live in the Guggenheim for a month.
• Ben Davis reviews documenta 14.
• Kassel to build permanent Documenta Institute to serve as a research center and host shows and events.
• Sam Korman provides an unofficial user's guide to Skulptur Projekte Münster.
• Artnet covers the 9th Nordic Biennale.
• dOGUMENTA names 10 artists for NYC debut.
• Pinakothek der Moderne acquires five works by Anselm Kiefer.
• Patricia Phelps de Cisneros donates 119 works of colonial art to five leading institutions.
• Kara Walker's Figa at DESTE’s Project Space opens.
• Kandinsky record falls twice in Sotheby’s Imp/Mod sale.
• Jan Prasens named managing director of Sotheby’s Europe.
• Huang Binhong's Yellow Mountain sells for $50.6mil. at China Guardian Auctions.
• Colin Gleadell's report from Art Basel, Basel. Alain Servais’ top picks from Art Basel.
• Kenny Schachter writes about the collectables market and the rise of art, design, and cars. He also writes about his adventures in Basel.
• Exhibitor list announced for 1:54 art fair in London.
• Tim Schneider writes about the elusive art gallery waiting list.
• Antiques Roadshow discovers Fabergé flower study valued at an estimated £1mil.
• Julia Peyton-Jones joins Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac as Senior Global Director.
• Larry's List features Victor Benady and his collection.
• Magda Danysz Gallery now represents André Saraiva.
• The story of Maud Lewis.
• Artinfo interviews Ha Chong-Hyun.
• Someone named Mokie spray paints swimsuits onto Antony Gormly’s nude iron men.
• The Brilliance interviews Andrew Kuo.
• Jena Friedman reviews Jeff Koons' show at Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.
• Christopher Knight reviews Tatsuo Kawaguchi's show at Kayne Griffin Corcoran Gallery.
• Benjamin Sullivan wins BP Portrait Award 2017 - £30k and a commission.
• Jennifer Piejko's guide in Frieze to the best current shows in Los Angeles.
• The story of how YInMn Blue was brought to the masses and changed a chemist's life.
• Leonard Blavatnik is made a knight.
• Artnet interviews Michael Portnoy.
• Audrey Tautou has an exhibition of photographs in France.
• Artnet writes about 34 Amazing Public Art Shows to See in New York This Summer.
• The Daily Show has a New York pop-up exhibition featuring artwork with Donald Trump's tweets.

• Serpentine Galleries releases new Gerhard Richter edition, produced by HENI Productions.
• RIP: Sylvia Hougland, who passed away at the age of 78.
• RIP: Richard Benson, who passed away at the age of 74.
• RIP: Paul Fitzgerald, who passed away at the age of 94.
• Judge orders Salvador Dali's body to be exhumed for a paternity suit.
• Two people have died looking for Forrest Fenn's buried treasure.
• Native American artists from around US criticizing Jimmie Durham show at the Walker Art Center. He is labeled as a "fraud" and not Cherokee.
• Group gathers outside of the Station Museum of Contemporary Art to protest Andres Serrano exhibition.
• NY Times writes about the recent increase in gallery closures.
• Financially-threatened Walsall gallery saved by Arts Council grant.
• Julia Joern departs as a partner at David Zwirner Gallery due to health reasons.
• Dafen’s long-term viability as the world's oil painting capital may be in jeopardy.
• Illicit international art market in looted cultural artifacts may help finance terrorism.
• William Powhida explores that political art can play in today's world.
• CNN hires William J. Hennessy, Jr. to sketch White House press conference after cameras are banned.
• Simon de Pury sues for £10mil. commission over sale of Gauguin painting.
• Founder of Zurich’s Le Corbusier Museum sues culture minister for defamation.
• Austrian court rules in favor of Franz West’s family in legal battle over estate.
• Artists you may not have heard of that were in two of the three biggest exhibitions this year.
• Brooklyn Beckham criticized for his book of photography.
• Tim Schneider on Why the Internet Won’t Actually Change the Game for Unrepresented Artists.
• The Louvre may soon be surpassed by the Met as the most popular museum in the world.
• City of Chicago commissions $1mil. in public art in all 50 city wards this summer and fall.
• Jerry Saltz writes about today's art world.
• British Museum acquires photographs by artists documenting refugee crisis and Syrian civil war.
• Public will finally be allowed to view Gurlitt trove for the first time, at the Bundeskunsthalle.
• Getty Villa will display works chronologically, which will supersede themed galleries.
• George Lucas’s $1.5bil. Museum of Narrative Art gets approval from LA City Council.
• Ten Modigliani nude paintings to go on exhibition at Tate Modern later this year.
• Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power exhibition coming soon to Tate Modern.
• The Met's Talking Pictures: Camera-Phone Conversations Between Artists features works made using iPhone.
• How much you can expect to make while working at a museum.
• Arts Council England unveils first major grant program since Nicholas Serota took over as chairman.
• Jeff Koons donates gazing ball work to SAIC to establish the Jeff Koons Scholarship Fund.
• High Museum of Art acquires major work by Kara Walker.
• Artnews creates a map of the curator universe.
• The rise in popularity of music events and concerts in museums and galleries.
• Bulk of V&A’s £50mil. museum expansion sponsored by four donors. The museum is hoping to lure creative types with the expansion.
• Steve Cohen donates $50mil. to MoMA.
• Palais de Tokyo picks 13 artists for satellite exhibition at EXPO Chicago.
• François Pinault to convert former Paris stock exchange to major art museum designed by Tadao Ando.
• Magazzino private museum opens on June 28 in New York.
• Bangkok Art Biennal coming in 2018.
• Dallas Museum of Art attempting to hold largest single gathering of people dressed as Frida Kahlo.
• The Art Newspaper covers Christie's Impressionist and Modern sale in London. Colin Gleadell also analyzes the sale. Artinfo also takes a look.
• The Art Newspaper covers Sotheby’s post-war contemporary art sale. Colin Gleadell reports on the sale as well.
• Colin Gleadell provides an overall analysis of the June auction sales. Anny Shaw also writes about the sales.
• Sotheby's to hold sale of Edward Albee’s art collection, which will benefit his foundation.
• Van Ham to auction off Auctionata's remaining inventory.
• Ludlow Racecourse to auction Hitler's paintings.
• Houston MFA buys MoMA's $6mil. Léger mantlepiece from Gmurzynska at Art Basel.
• UTA's Fine Arts division to exhibit Kurt Cobain paintings at Seattle Art Fair.
• Exhibitor list for Vienna Contemporary released.
• The Art Newspaper preview the eighth edition of Masterpiece art fair. Artnet highlights some works.
• A look at the financial returns on art versus the return on financial assets.
• Financial Times looks at how art galleries are exploring new models of exhibiting.
• Dem Passwords goes to the Ojai Valley in California.
• Artspace interviews Morgan Mandalay about SPF15.
• Artnet writes about the Condo art initiative.
• Does Basquiat's auction prices affect how his work is viewed?
• Alexander Gray Associates now represents Valeska Soares.
• Jean Pigozzi's $19mil. NY apartment hits the market.
• Ed Templeton in pictures in The Guardian.
• Aman Mojadidi rewires phone booths in Times Square to tell the tales of immigrants.
• Anselm Kiefer's walk around New York.
• Chelsea Manning to exhibit collaborative works at Fridman Gallery.
• How Queering Contemporary Asian American Art is changing the way we see art.
• Ai Weiwei Drifting documentary follows Ai Weiwei for a year. Chelsea Manning meets Ai Weiwei.
• Daniel H. Weiss writing a book.
• Artnet's list of books to read during summer.
• Bubbles, the chimp, to have an exhibition of paintings.

• 1000 GESTALTEN performance takes place during G20 Summit.
• RIP: Jan Fontein, who passed away at the age of 89.
• RIP: Xavier Douroux, who passed away at the age of 61.
• America Meredith on Why It Matters That Jimmie Durham Is Not a Cherokee.
• New cybersecurity law goes into effect in China, causing greater self-censorship by artists.
• Hobby Lobby accused of buying up Iraqi war loot in quest to amass biblical artifacts for museum.
• $3.9mil. in jewelry stolen from booth at London’s Masterpiece Art Fair.
• How departing director Perdita Hunt saved the deteriorating Watts Gallery from near death.
• The effect of the Qatar blockade on cultural relations.
• Curators from across the United States share lessons learned from Sam Durant Scaffold controversy.
• Patti Smith declines to lend her support to Mapplethorpe film.
• Catherine G. Wagley review of Sprüth Magers' Power details problematic nature of its display and curation.
• Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev defends documenta 14.
• Leonard A. Lauder's major donation of works to the Met is not at risk.
• Vatican discovers paintings by Raphael hidden in plain sight, right on its walls.
• Royal Academy of Arts to stage its greatest spectacle with 250th Summer Exhibition.
• British Museum reveals plan to redisplay entire collection, as well as to revitalize the Round Reading Room.
• The David Hockney Gallery will open next year on July 7 at the Cartwright Hall.
• Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art acquires Francesco Federico Cerruti's art collection.
• Roberto Polo will loan his collection of 7,000 artworks to Spain for 15 years.
• Hepworth Wakefield wins Art Fund UK Museum of the Year prize.
• David Smith: The White Sculptures at the Storm King Art Center.
• Whitechapel Gallery to host first major Thomas Ruff retrospective in London.
• Cass Sculpture Foundation to commission public art for Battersea Power Station district.
• Museum of Broken Relationships is coming to New York City with a pop-up.
• Free museum days in LA for July.
• Exploring the value of getting a master's degree in curating.
• Ava DuVernay's 13th inspired Agnes Gund to sell Lichtenstein painting for criminal justice reform fund.
• This week's London auctions poised to regain Old Master crown from New York.
• J.M.W Turner’s Ehrenbreitstein sells for £19mil. at Sotheby’s.
• Christie’s sells Francesco Guardi painting for £26.2mil. at auction.
• Kenny Schachter writes about the London contemporary art auctions.
• Frieze Sculpture exhibition in London comes three months before Frieze art fair. A preview of the works.
• Paris Photo announces exhibitor list for 2017 fair.
• Exhibitor list revealed for first-ever edition of Art Berlin.
• The art fair scene in the Hamptons.
• Art sold out of a vending machine in Brighton.
• Artnet looks at 11 Young Art Dealers Who Are Revitalizing Their Art Scenes.
• The Art Dealers Association of America adds four new members.
• Artnet interviews Stefania Bortolami.
• Leo Fitzpatrick discusses his show of collaborations at Marlborough Contemporary.
• Lio Malca's Casa Malca featured by de zeen.
• Swizz Beatz talks about collecting art.
• Jia Aili now represented by Gagosian Gallery.
• Gary Hume creates new works for relaunch of Sprüth Magers' London space.
• Bunny Burson uses confetti from Hillary Clinton’s election-night loss to make art.
• Mel Chin honored by Vanderbilt University with the 2017 Distinguished Alumnus Award.
• Sidney Nolan’s undisturbed UK studio opens to the public.
• Stan Douglas featured by Art21.
• Artnet writes about John Perreault's new show at Bellport's MARQUEE PROJECTS.
• Dennis Hopper’s Lost Albums photographs to be exhibited at Kohn Gallery.
• Ten interesting facts about Piet Mondrian.
• A selection of group shows in NY this summer.
• 9 patriotic art shows to see across the US on occasion of the 4th of July holiday.
• Some theories on whom Banksy could be.
• Pope Francis - My Idea of Art film reveals what Pope Francis thinks about art.
• How to dress and live like a Hauser & Wirth gallery assistant.
• Lee Kang-bin paints famous artworks and other designs into lattes.

Arrested Motion (AM): History has always been a central concern in your work, so how significant do you see this moment being in the history of the UK and the EU?

Vhils: The big concern here is that no one knows how this is going to play out, either for the UK or for the rest of Europe. We can clearly see that for most of the time over the last 70 years Europe has been at peace with itself and, like it or not, we have to admit that the EU played a huge role in this. I think that, despite all of its defects, a lot has been achieved through the EU. It's not a perfect model, it's swamped with bureaucracy, it has failed to resolve many serious issues – from the wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s to the 2008 financial crisis, the ensuing sovereign debt crisis and the current so-called migration crisis, among many others – but it's the only organisation we have to settle our differences amongst ourselves and work together. Whatever its faults – and I believe these can and should be worked on from within – the EU has served this purpose very well. Even though I don't agree with the positions that led to Brexit, I respect the people's desire to try to change things. The problem here is that Brexit is not an attempt to change things constructively. For most of us in Europe, and I believe for many in the UK also, Brexit looks like an ill-thought out tantrum thrown by manipulative self-serving political forces. It's like someone who uses a suicide attempt to call out for attention while banking on the fact that someone will reach out to them in time. Yet, in this case, the emergency services arrived a little too late. The UK has always had the power to hold a prominent position within the EU but has always chosen to be a half-hearted member instead. Cooperation is obviously about consensus and this is only achieved through some form of compromise which ensures mutual benefits. The idea that the UK has been the victim of a European conspiracy that has exploited it to the benefit of the rest of the continent is absurd. The irony, of course, is that all the major issues that led people to vote for Brexit – mainly this idea of "taking back control of our borders” and stopping the “swarm” of marauding migrants – will not be affected in the least by this decision. Yes, Europe is facing serious issues. Yes, the EU needs major changes, but the level of polarisation and fear-mongering which is being fomented by the extremists from within is much more serious and threatening to our well-being than any other issue. Working together has always been the best way to settle differences. Despite the fact that art and music are universal languages and therefore can easily foster connections and cooperation, artists and musicians clearly show how powerful we can be when we achieve this, and this is one of the purposes of Iminente. To show that, despite our differences, we can and should work together.

Vhils: To be honest, it came as a shock. I feel that I was a pretty lucky European to have grown up during a time when this interaction was possible with the UK. What the future will hold nobody knows, but despite all its shortcomings, the EU created the conditions to make this interaction possible among its member states. People tend to focus on politics and the economy, but this interaction has been very positive for artists and other creatives working in various fields. My generation was given access to these amazing privileges, which are very easy to forget when you take them for granted. For each solution a thousand problems are created. We may have serious problems to solve here, but I don't think we have really evaluated properly what problems will arise from this particular solution. Regardless of the outcome, we all stand to lose both in the UK and the rest of Europe.

Vhils: I look at my work as being more concerned with social issues than political issues, but I can also see how easily these can be connected. My main concern is to create a reflection on how the fast changes brought about by the model of socio-economic development we're following without much critical consideration are affecting individual and cultural identities. How, while we are growing increasingly connected, we are also witnessing the erosion of the differences that made each culture unique. Working as I do with the material layers of our cultures that have sedimented over time, the act of digging into them and bringing to light fragments from the past can be seen as a statement on this loss, and how our collective memory tends to forget things very quickly.

AM: Can you tell us a bit about why you've chosen this particular group of artists for Festival Iminente?

Vhils: All of these are essentially artists whose work I both respect and admire. It's as simple as that. I wish we could have more artists, but that would affect the spirit of the festival, which is meant to be a very low-key and intimate experience. What they share in common is that they all come from Europe, they are all breaking new ground in their respective ways, they all have something interesting to say and in essence they all represent a utopian view of what a real European community can look like. We are all very different people but what separates us is nothing compared with what brings us together. In this respect we share a sort of identity amongst us. And this is the key issue here.

The festival is being supported by Super Bock and will run (2pm to 3am) Friday 28th and Saturday 29th July 2017 at 93 Feet East, Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL. Tickets are available now from festivaliminente.com.

Photo credit: Festival Iminente

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• The highlights of Frieze Sculpture Park 2017 in London.
• The Bridge art fair coming to the Hamptons.
• Three of primary NY Armory Week fairs held first week of March, while ADAA Art Show opens week earlier.
• Artinfo writes about Condo New York.
• Africa’s art scene may be about to take Asia’s place in the spotlight.
• The latest edition of Joel Mesler's True Confessions of a Justified Art Dealer.
• Larry's List interviews Elliot Perry about collecting.
• Walter Robinson and Lisa Rosen's art collection.
• Collecteurs releases and sells a capsule edition of Max Frintrop originals.
• David Zwirner’s Hong Kong space to launch with new works by Michaël Borremans.
• The Art Newspaper profiles Oksana Zhnikrup, whose work Jeff Koons appropriated for his sculptures.
• Theaster Gates plans DJ booth and fire hose artwork for 95th St. Red Line in Chicago.
• Diane Arbus's sexual adventures and how it related to her photography and art.
• Tom Sachs on the art of space.
• Aki Sasamoto featured by art21.
• Paper Magazine writes about Adrian and Kai Schachter.
• Liam Gillick collaborates with New Order to design set for Manchester International Festival performances.
• Morgan O'Hara on getting people to write the US Constitution by hand.
• Douglas Coupland puts a giant van Gogh head in a vineyard.
• Rasheed Araeen discusses the influence of Anthony Caro.
• Charles Saatchi's writes about Frida Kahlo's The Two Fridas.
• Artnet's list of The Best Art Shows to See in the Greek Islands This Summer.
• Study says that AI-generated art now looks more convincingly human than work at Art Basel.

• Cady Noland files lawsuit seeking the destruction of her work Log Cabin, claiming that it is a copy.
• Arthur Brand claims scientific certainty that Gardner Museum paintings stolen in 1990 is currently in Ireland.
• Authorities in Genoa close exhibition and confiscate 21 suspected fake Amedeo Modigliani paintings.
• Istanbul’s Rampa Gallery closes shop.
• Off Vendome closes its gallery.
• Other Criteria to close and become Other Criteria Books, focused on only publishing specialist art books.
• Anti-Gentrification protests seek to stop art-washing in Santa Ana.
• Violent storms in Paris affect the Louvre, damaging art by Poussin and other works.
• Nicole Eisenman’s installation for Skulptur Projekte Münster vandalized and damaged.
• US District Judge rules that Instagram copyright case against Richard Prince can move forward.
• Did LG steal from or plagiarize Lygia Pape?
• Tomb robbing and its risks of injury and life makes a return in China.
• China's artists defy censorship ban to mourn Liu Xiaobo.
• Hicham Aboutaam sues WSJ after report he was under investigation for trafficking in looted ISIS artifacts.
• Paul Nungesser, who was accused by Emma Sulkowicz of rape, settles out of court with Columbia University.
• Melanie Abramov files lawsuit against Museum of Sex after injuring herself in boob bounce house.
• Annie Leibovitz photographs caught in quandary and may not be displayed by Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.
• Berkshire Museum plans to auction 40 of its works, including two Norman Rockwells, within next six months.
• Why Käthe Kollwitz is still so controversial, half a century after her death.
• Five famous feuds that shaped the course of art history.
• An inside look at the overnight exhumation of Salvador Dalí’s corpse.
• Max Blagg remembers Glenn O'Brien.
• Alice Cooper realizes that he owns a  Warhol red Little Electric Chair painting he received forty years ago.
• Spanish police have recovered three of five paintings by Francis Bacon that were stolen in 2015.
• Congressman Ken Calvert submits proposal for 2018 federal budget including $145mil. per for NEA and NEH.
• Lucien Smith transforms his LA studio into a project space and food bank.
• Andrew Russeth examines the cost for museum admission tickets.
• Centre Pompidou finalizes deal for launch of its first Chinese outpost, in wing of West Bund Art Museum.
• The Getty Museum spends over $100mil. on Old Masters acquisitions.
• Parrish Art Museum receives $500k from Agnes Gund to create a new social change initiative.
• Send Me SFMOMA project uses text messages to make art go viral.
• KPCC on how museums are engaging the public today.
• The Louis Vuitton Foundation will show The Morozov Collection in 2020.
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City gets copy of Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise.
• The Broad announces on-sale date for $25 tickets to Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors. LA Weekly writes about the rooms.
• The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation gives $400k to art journalists for $50k annual awards.
• SF’s Mexican Museum sets the record straight after it says report of fakes at the museum was exaggerated.
• Royal Academy of Arts (RA), Burlington House, takes another step nearer to completion.
• 20 well-known figures offer suggestions on how to fix the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Artnet interviews Amanda Hunt and Eric Crosby about collaborative curating.
• Artnet looks at FRONT Triennial, Cleveland’s attempt at the next documenta.
• Christie’s posts positive first-half results for 2017, with sales up 29% from previous year.
• Neil Armstrong's bag containing moon dust sells for $1.8mil. at Sotheby's.
• Profile of LAMA's Peter Loughrey.
• Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation auction commissions nine auctions for benefit works.
• Artsy raises $50mil. in funding at $275mil. valuation to enhance their auction strategy.
• Untitled Art Fair hires Manuela Mozo to lead the company.
• British Art Market Federation report shows UK hosts second largest art market in world, with £9.2bil. in sales.
• Designer dealers back at FIAC.
• Richard Polsky releases unauthorized addendum to Andy Warhol catalogue raisonné.
• Cauleen Smith and Martine Syms join the staff at CalArts.
• Frieze has a questionnaire for Glenn Ligon.
• Lyles & King now represents Erica Mahinay.
• Eddie Peake's Volcano Extravaganza performances.
• Nathalie du Pasquier has a comeback show at Pace London.
• Edward Munch’s pioneering use of color science.
• Freedom Conference & Festival to exhibit series of paintings by George W Bush.
• Catherine Opie unveils portraits of David Hockney, Gillian Wearing and Isaac Julien.
• fnnch's 9 Cans of LaCroix exhibition includes work that features LaCroix cans as its subject.
• Artillery Magazine covers openings in LA's Chinatown.
• Artists and curators share their favorite summer art pilgrimages.
• Alexandra Grant, Jessica Fleischmann, and Keanu Reeves launch new independent press X Artists' Books.
• Nike x Tom Sachs Mars Yard 2.0 shoe releasing Juy 27.
• Six art books to read this summer.
• Gravitas Ventures purchases t worldwide VOD rights to the Barry Avrich art documentary Blurred Lines.
• When television shows include art world elements.

• Julian Schnabel’s work in permanent collection currently on view at Glass House. Artsy also has info and images.
• RIP: Cool "Disco" Dan, who passed away at the age of 47.
• RIP: Robert Loder (1934–2017).
• Breese Little gallery closing its doors.
• Three paintings on loan from the Louvre destroyed in fire on a French island of Tatihou.
• Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí decries Dali exhumation, saying it is inappropriate and ungrounded.
• Jaime Botín faces prison and €100mil. fine for allegedly trying to smuggle a Picasso on his yacht.
• Berkshire Museum's plans to auction 40 works of art from its collection may violate museum code of ethics. American Alliance of Museums and the Association of Art Museum Directors issue open letter criticizing the deaccession plan.
• Serial art thief, at it for 20 years, caught in Avignon, France.
• Abounaddara remove videos from the internet, in response to alleged improper use by exhibition.
• Leon Zinder admits to attempting to sell stolen artwork through a Manhattan flea market.
• Skepta’s clothing line MAINS accused of plagiarism by Ilyes Griyeb.
• Protesters call on ICA Boston to cancel Dana Schutz show.
• Six former South Korean officials sentenced to prison for blacklisting artists due to their political beliefs.
• Menil Drawing Institute opening delayed due to construction issues.
• Kunstmuseum Bern embarks on provenance research as it takes possession of first works from Gurlitt trove.
• Basquiat's strength in pop culture as opposed to his lack of institutional support.
• Ida Ekblad wins court battles over appropriated Birkenstock ad image.
• Legal battle over the ownership of Paul Klee seized by Nazis reaches a settlement.
• Kenny Schachter visits Los Angeles and writes about his thoughts and experiences in the city.
• Grenfell victims and survivors honored with London mural by Ben Eine reproducing Ben Okri’s poem on the fire.
• Family discovers that their Norman Rockwell is actually an original and not a print.
• Banksy's Girl With Balloon voted UK's favorite work of art.
• Rosetta Stone can now be viewed in 3D from the comfort of your own home.
• Italian government can proceed with plan to create a new archaeological park around the Colosseum in Rome.
• François Pinault funds restoration of historic drawings of Paris's former stock exchange.
• LACMA plans satellite location in South LA.
• Smithsonian successfully uses Kickstarter to raise money.
• Jerry Saltz writes about MoMA's expansion.
• Beirut Arab Art Museum, a private museum of Arab art, is in the pipeline for 2020 opening.
• Getty Museum's recent windfall Old Masters acquisitions said to come from the collection of Luca Padulli.
• Jewish History Museum acquires Phillip Ratner's sculpture models of immigrants on Ellis and Liberty Island.
• University of Chicago Library receives gift of vintage Vivian Maier prints from John Maloof.
• Tate Liverpool honoring its art handling manager, Ken Simons, with his own show drawn from its collection.
• Artnet has info and images from the Dana Schutz show at ICA Boston.
• Ettore Sottsass: Design Radical retrospective now on view at the Met Breuer.
• Paul Ramírez Jonas making fake IDs at his exhibition and residency Half Truths at New Museum.
• Thomas Campbell awarded the Getty Rothschild Fellowship.
• Ei Arakawa’s Skulptur Projekte Münster work repaired.
• Artnet has the full list of artists participating in the 15th Istanbul Biennial.
• Yorkshire Sculpture International triennial expected to launch in summer 2019.
• Five must-see exhibitions during Pacific Standard Time.
• Pussy Riot embarks on six-week immersive theater experience called Inside Pussy Riot at Saatchi Gallery.
• Sotheby's share price hits record high.
• Laura Paulson appointed Vice Chairman of Christie’s Americas Advisory Board and Senior Advisor. Jonathan Stone and Tina Zonars to head Christie’s Asian Art dept.
• Drawing of the Manhattan skyline by Donald Trump sells for $29,184 at Nate D. Sanders auction.
• We Dream Under the Same Sky show at Palais de Tokyo feature works that will be sold in aid of NGOs.
• Tim Schneider's thoughts on Artsy's funding and valuation, as well as other topical issues.
• Artnet's How to Master the Old Master Market: 7 Practical Strategies From Top Experts. Five areas of value in the Old Masters market.
• Olivia Erlanger announced as artist selected to create first BMW Open Work for Frieze London 2017.
• Expo Chicago reveals artists who will participate in the fair's In/Situ sector.
• Ren Hang’s photographs will be featured in Shanghai Photofairs’ new Spotlight section.
• Art Chengdu art fair to launch next year in China.
• Philippe de Montebello, joins Acquavella Galleries as director.
• Condo launching in Shanghai and Mexico City in 2018.
• Interview with Cheech Marin about his collection.
• Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump disclose $25mil. art collection.
• The use of Bitcoin in the art market.
• Artsy writes about the ways artists can get gallery representation.
• Kara Walker speaks to WABE 90.1.
• Carroll Dunham talks to Joe Bradley.
• Elizabeth Peyton paints Angela Merkel for Vogue.
• Markus Lüpertz to create a multipart mural depicting story of Genesis in subway stations of Karlsruhe.
• Farah Atassi's show at Ghebaly Gallery is an Art Forum critic's pick.
• Artnet looks at Gelatin's current work.
• Ana Teresa Fernández, Hank Willis Thomas, others transform Muslim prayer rugs for For-Site Sanctuary show.
• Artnet interviews Marguerite Humeau.
• Rachel Whiteread works on structures in Joshua Tree, CA.
• Artnet profiles Marinella Senatore.
• Standard looks at 7 emerging artists out of Los Angeles.
• WestwoodWestwood interviews Simon Birch.
• Michael Fried's new book of poetry, Promesse du Bonheur, published by David Zwirner Books and nonsite.org.
• Frick Diptychs series of books to be published by Frick that pair masterworks from its collection with essays.
• Newly released Twyla x i am OTHER Collection includes work by Freegums, Angelica Hicks, M. Tony Peralta.
• Turntable Lab releases Keith Haring collection of items.
• Roman Abramovich, Jeff Koons, and Larry Gagosian's homes in Curb's list of outrageous NY megamansions.

• Alex da Corte's Slow Graffiti at Vienna Secession.
• RIP: Harold M. Williams, who passed away at the age of 89.
• RIP: Concetto Pozzati, who passed away at the age of 81.
• Israeli authorities arrest five Palestinian antiquities dealers in Jerusalem connected to Hobby Lobby scandal.
• Skulptur Projekte Münster attracts repeat acts of thievery and vandalism.
• Police arrest 67-year-old woman accused of stealing Basquiat painting (of questionable authenticity).
• Anti-gentrification movement in Southern California spreads to South Los Angeles art spaces.
• Rainer Ganahl's works removed by Surf Lodge due to customer complaints.
• Questions about whether the land surrounding Michael Heizer’s City will stay protected.
• Robert M. Rubin criticizes Jeff Koons for giving his Bouquet of Tulips to Paris, calling it a poisoned chalice.
• The Met surrenders possibly looted ancient greek vase to the authorities for investigation.
• Javier Pes to step down as editor of The Art Newspaper.
• Stolen Guercino painting that was rolled inside a carpet will need a year of conservation.
• Watermill Center Summer Benefit & Auction did not welcome Kanye West this year to its event.
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum director Anne Hawley to step down after 25 years.
• Artnet profiles those that have closed their galleries and their next steps.
• 80 National Academy members sign letter in support of Dana Schutz and ICA Boston.
• Street art in Bulgarian village of Staro Zhelezare.
• Uri Vaknin working to bring a art museum to downtown Las Vegas.
• US's National Endowment for the Humanities awards $39mil. in grants in last round of funding for 2017.
• Julie Mehretu executes commission for SFMoMA.
• LACMA Art+Film Gala to honor Mark Bradford and George Lucas.
• Wildenstein Platter Institute puts letters of Picasso’s dealer and Impressionist archives online.
• Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art announces major Gerhard Richter retrospective.
• Treasures on Trial exhibition at Winterthur Museum includes a fake Rothko painting from Knoedler.
• Artspace visits Yayoi Kusama's five Infinity Rooms at the Seattle Art Museum.
• The Philadelphia Museum of Art to exhibit Marcel Duchamp and the Fountain Scandal.
•  Matisse in the Studio at the Royal Academy of Arts will exhibit Matisse's possessions.
• The Drawing Center will host Eddie Martinez exhibition.
• Bass Museum acquires Allora & Calzadilla petrol pump installation.
• The 9 most audacious museum designs that were never built.
• How Getty's Multicultural Internship Program is changing the face of arts leadership in L.A.
• Jimmie Durham show curator Anne Ellegood discusses the complexities of his native identity and work.
• Artnet interviews Philippe de Montebello.
• Bill Sherman appointed director of Warburg Institute at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.
• Budi Tek to be awarded France’s premier award, the Chevalier de l’Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur.
• How to start having an amazing print collection.
• Paul Walter’s collection to be sold by Christie's.
• Sotheby’s increases private sales, but loses ground on auction sales in first half of 2017.
• Graham Nash auctioning his Robert Crumb originals through Heritage Auctions.
• Vanity Fair takes us inside the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation auction fundraiser.
• Artspace shares 8 Highlights From the Seattle Art Fair 2017. Artnet covers the fair.
• Contemporary Istanbul announces participating exhibitors and program.
• NY Times writes about Mark Grotjahn and the market for his work. Jerry Saltz responds to the piece.
• Tim Schneider's thoughts on deaccessioning, Philippe de Montebello, and the Artist Pension Trust controversy.
• How artwork is now used to market and sell condos.
• Marinaro Gallery will move to Chinatown from Lower East Side.
• Sherrie Levine now represented by Xavier Hufkens.
• Yusaku Maezawa buys Jenny Holzer work at Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation auction.
• Jamian Juliano-Villani and Kara Walker's exhibitions currently on view in Hydra.
• Cindy Sherman has been on Instagram and her account is now public.
• LA Weekly writes about David Choe's The Choe Show.
• Mitch Cairns wins $100k Archibald Prize for portraiture.
• Sheila Hicks's Hop, Skip, Jump, and Fly: Escape From Gravity on the High Line.
• Alex Chinneck's Six pins and half a dozen needles (2017) public work unveiled in UK.
• Performa teams up with MIT scientists to find out if rapid 3-D printing can boost performance art.
• Artsy looks at the greatest bromances in art history.
• Ai Weiwei’s film Human Flow picked up by Amazon.
• Brillo Box (3¢ Off) documentary comes to HBO.
• Original works available by Cool "Disco" Dan.
• New JR print with Laz Inc.
• Ben Venom limited edition embroidered patch released.
• Artware having a sale on art products.
• Miley Cyrus wants to exhibit her artwork in a New York gallery.