- Nate Lowman - America Sneezes opens at Dallas Contemporary.
- RIP: Dr. Frederic Brandt, who may have died of a suicide at age 65. A look at his art collection.
- Badria Mohamed al Balloushi and husband Hamad Obaid Rashash found guilty of murdering Ahmed Hussain Salarey.
- The fate of Erich Slomovic's collection, after he tried to flee and escape the Nazis.
- Police in Gaza seize Banksy door that is in dispute.
- Richard Tobin drinks two bottles of vodka, steals £750k in Faberge items from Christie's, then goes to jail.
- Rembrandt paintings may leave France, since the country does not have enough money to buy them.
- Museums fear deaccessioning as the value of art increases and state deficits also increase.
- Hartman Rare Art suing Capo Auction over the authenticity of a Picasso work.
- Dave Poulin's statue of Lucille Ball draws outrage and protest on the internet.
- David Lynch drops out of directing Twin Peaks revival series.
- Indigenous Australians calling for objects on show at British Museum exhibition to be returned.
- MoMA admits that Björk show did not live up to their standards.
- Doreen Bolger stepping down as the director of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
- Neil MacGregor set to retire as director of the British Museum in London.
- Cooper Union Board decides not to renew contract of President Jamshed Bharucha.
- How being a good forger helped Michelangelo in his career.
- Robert Storr criticizes art critics today.
- Euro symbol sculpture in Frankfurt is in need of repair and sponsors are sought.
- Federal judge rules that Igor Olenicoff will not have to pay damages to David Wakefield for counterfeiting his work.
- Three artists collaborate to install Edward Snowden bust in Fort Greene Park. Bust is removed, but The Illuminator Art Collective projects a hologram of Snowden in its place.
- Study shows that since 1800, paintings are getting more blue in color.
- KCET looks at the Southern California art scene today. LA Weekly takes a look at the gallery scene in Los Angeles.
- April becoming Dallas' month for their art scene. Observer reports on activity at the Dallas Art Fair. Artnet also investigates this year's fair.
- Should you get an MFA?
- Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals name for their new building: The Met Breuer.
- Tiffany becomes lead sponsor of Whitney Biennial after $5mil. gift.
- Interview with Arnold Lehman about his time heading the Brooklyn Museum.
- Matthew Teitelbaum to become new director of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.
- OCMA getting itself prepared for a move from Newport Beach to Costa Mesa.
- New-York Historical Society to unveil conserved Picasso curtain in May.
- Dia Art Foundation's first purchase with new acquisition funds is Dream House by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela.
- Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art receives $11.7mil. gift from the Bloch Family Foundation to fund renovations.
- The Gluten Free Museum imagines what its like when you remove gluten from classic artworks and images.
- A look at Fondazione Prada.
- Vatican to participate in Venice Biennale for the second time ever to resume a historic “dialogue between art and faith.”
- Standard Culture visits the Bert Rodriguez Museum.
- Obama visits the Bob Marley Museum while in Jamaica.
- Report finds that LA museums organized virtually as many shows of contemporary art as NY between 2007-2013.
- Optimism in the air as the new Whitney Museum of American Art is about to open.
- CollegeRanks lists the top museums on America's college campuses.
- Whitney curators choose their favorite pieces in the museum's inaugural exhibition in its new space.
- Anderson Ranch announces its lineup, including Stella and Trecartin, for its Featured Artists & Conversations Series.
- Tad Smith may have been hired by Sotheby's in order to build the brand and help facilitate the sale of the company.
- Steven A. Cohen said to be selling 1961 Jean Dubuffet painting valued at $25mil. at Christie's in May.
- Sotheby's does fantastic with watches and wine in Hong Kong, but art does not perform as well.
- Heirs of the owner of Monet painting sold under duress during WWII to receive portion of sale at Christie's.
- How Gustav Klimt was viewed differently after the $135mil. sale of Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I.
- OODE sells works by Dutch artists that were once in the government’s art collection.
- Pace Gallery expands in Chelsea, NY.
- Artnet lists 50 galleries in Britain that you should know about.
- An interview with Michael Hort about art collecting.
- Artelligence Podcast talks to Joshua Roth.
- Summary about Walter Robinson and Chris Dorland's conversation about the art market.
- Interview with Ed Bartlett.
- Artists provide tips on how to achieve a successful art career.
- Joanna Moorhead tracks down Leonora Carrington and learns of her story.
- Joan Jonas in profiled in T, The New York Times Style Magazine.
- Arne Svenson wins his Supreme Court case over photographs taken with telephoto lens without subjects' permission.
- Maya Lin chosen to lead the redesign of the Smith College library.
- A look at the work of Watanabe Katsumi.
- Ted Gahl chooses some music to drive to.
- LA Taco's coverage of Redact Whatever Is Privilege, a one-night exhibition at The Gibson.
- Paddle8 asks Ryan Estep some questions.
- Observer writes about Jen Stark's work in the Facebook offices.
- Creative Time staging performance of Tania Bruguera's Tatlin's Whisper #6 in Times Square on April 13.
- Christian Jankowski is the winner of the 2015 Finkenwerder Art Prize.
- Plastic Jesus puts up "No Kardashian Parking" signs around Los Angeles.
- Caitlin Cherry among recipients selected for Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund for the Performing and Visual Arts prize.
- Arthur J. Williams Jr. goes from being a convicted currency counterfeiter to an artist with a gallery show.
- Christopher Knight reviews William Hackman's book Out of Sight about the '60s LA art scene.
- Ella Kruglyanskaya limited edition of 80 beach towel available.
- Thom Malone launches Kickstarter campaign to break Guinness record for a mosaic featuring Nicolas Cage's face.
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Overtime: April 6 – April 12
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Previews: Agostino Iacurci –“Appearance and Disappearance” @ Galleria Patricia Armocida
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Basel Week HK ’15: Art Basel Hong Kong – (Part I)
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Streets: Faith47 –“Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem” (Johannesburg)
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Streets: Artists for “Different Strokes” (Penang)
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Streets: Sainer (Lisbon)
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Overtime: April 13 – April 19
- Images and information from Ted Gahl's show up at the Mier Gallery site.
- RIP: Günter Grass, who died at the age of 87.
- RIP: Moira Gemmill, who died at the age of 55, killed while bicycling.
- Russian Federal Security Service orders shutdown of WWII show at Metenkov House-Museum of Photography.
- Rago auction of art and objects made by Japanese-Americans while detained in internment camps sparks protest.
- Le Corbusier may have been a fascist and Nazi sympathizer.
- Occupy protestors project on the side of the Whitney museum about the pipeline near the building.
- Megumi Igarashi criticizes Japan's backwards attitude to sexual expression after her arrest for creating vagina sculptures.
- Two paintings, including one by Roy Lichtenstein, stolen from Sam Simon Foundation in Malibu.
- The Santa Monica Museum of Art is leaving its current location at Bergamot Station. Rosamund Felsen also leaves Bergamot Station for Downtown Los Angeles.
- Artists that put up Edward Snowden bust in NY that was confiscated by police want it back.
- 2,622 artifacts worth over $100mil. seized from Subhash Kapoor, who had them smuggled or looted from India.
- Artists gather in Time Square to demand the release of Tania Bruguera in Cuba.
- Gagosian Gallery no longer represents Robert Rauschenberg estate.
- Wuhan Institute of Bioengineering receiving criticism for building a replica of the Great Wall of China.
- Britto sues Apple over its Start Something New campaign featuring artwork that resembles his.
- Sotheby's sued over proceeds from sale of Van Gogh painting.
- Five galleries, including Tomio Koyama Gallery, to close at Gillman Barracks in Singapore.
- Stephane Charbonnier, aka Charb, to posthumously release book about upholding the right to ridicule religion.
- Anti-Clinton street art pops up in Brooklyn.
- University of the Arts London taking legal action against students that staged occupation against cuts to courses.
- Artnet's 11 Art World Rules Decoded for 20-Something Newbies.
- Wallace Foundation announces six-year $52mil. effort to help art groups.
- How the Fauvism movement caught on because of a scandal.
- Leonardo da Vinci's Head of a Young Woman to be shown at MFA Boston.
- Dallas Museum of Art and Tate Liverpool to have exhibitions of Jackson Pollock's pour paintings.
- Ben David looks at the Martin Wong show at the Wattis Institute.
- Profile of Joanne Heyler, director of the Broad Museum.
- The list of 407 artists that will be in the debut show at Whitney. Artnet's 10 Fun Facts About the Whitney Museum.
- Gender composition at Venice Biennale 54% men to 33% women, with 13% collective collaborations.
- Havana Biennial expected to draw huge crowds of American art collectors to Cuba.
- Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation seeks to preserve Auschwitz concentration camp exactly as it was.
- Adam Szymczyk wants to show the entirety of the Gurlitt trove at Documenta.
- France creates replica of Grotte Chauvet cave with reproductions of cave art.
- The pros and cons of column-free spaces in museums.
- Eight-panel series of paintings by Cui Ruzhuo sells for $30mil. (record for living Asian artist) at Poly Auction Hong Kong.
- Cy Twombly blackboard painting reported to have been sold on the private market for $60mil.
- Christie’s announces a $30mil. Edward Hopper painting to lead its American art sale.
- Christie's will have a $30mil. Peter Doig painting in its May evening sale.
- Six-foot-tall Alberto Giacometti Pointing Man sculpture could become most expensive sculpture sold at auction. Sheldon Solow is revealed to be the seller.
- Speculation concerning the inevitability of the $1 billion work of art.
- Christie's to sell work from Nina Castelli Sundell’s estate, featuring artwork from Ileana Sonnabend collection.
- Design Miami to launch in Hong Kong during Art Basel Hong Kong.
- Katya Kazakina writes about Bob Rennie's collection.
- Part 2 of Artspace's interview with Michael Hort.
- Roberta Smith has a list of ten galleries to visit in Chelsea.
- The risks associated with investing in artwork.
- Adding conditions and restrictions to sales agreements becoming more common for galleries.
- The Scheryn Art Collectors Fund launches to invest money in artists from Africa and its diaspora.
- Etsy to share some of its IPO with vendors that sell on the site.
- Phaidon explains how Leonardo da Vinci used science to elevate art.
- Jamian Juliano-Villani's show opening at JTT is one of this week's NY events Observer is highlighting.
- Alexsandro Palombo responds to recent police violence with Simpsons artwork featuring black Bart Simpson.
- Roger Ballen talks about a particularly dangerous time he went shooting.
- WSJ profiles Adam Pendleton.
- Six young photographers that are trying to take the nude in new directions.
- Phaidon looks at David Shrigley's show at Anton Kern.
- Artnet reports on Ryan Hewett's exhibition, which sold out three weeks in advance of the opening.
- G. James Daichendt wrties about REVOK's evolution as an artist.
- David Adjaye talks about Chris Ofili. Marina Abramovic talks about Björk. Both on occasion of the two being included in TIME's 100 Most Influntial peoples list.
- Phaidon interviews Aki Sasamoto.
- Seven things you may not have known about Yoko Ono.
- Bomb Magazine posts images of new drawings by Davis Rhoades.
- ArtPrize will now feature new $40k curatorial fellowship and $30k grant program for local exhibition venues.
- 2015 Guggenheim fellows announced.
- Vincent van Goat paintings sell for $40 each at the New Mexico BioPark Society.
- Jay Mercado paints donuts.
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Streets: Bezt x Natalia Rak (Caserta)
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Streets: Ron English (New York)
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Publications: JR for NYT Magazine Walking New York Issue
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Overtime: April 20 – April 26
- Images and press release for Jamian Juliano-Villani's Crypod show a JTT gallery. The exhibition is a critic's pick at Artforum.
- RIP: A. Alfred Taubman, who died at the age of 91 of a heart attack. A look at his art collection and what may become of the works in it.
- Robert V. Gentile questioned again about Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist after he is arrested.
- James Meyer sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing from his boss Jasper Johns. Expresses regret.
- Germany and Iraq asks UN to take action against the destruction by jihadist groups of Iraq's cultural sites.
- Michael Ovitz sues AIG over Richard Prince paintings consigned to Perry Rubenstein and subsequently stolen.
- Paul Nungesser sues Columbia University over Emma Sulkowicz art project mattress performance on campus.
- The Museum of Sex hit with $82,192 lien in February for failing to pay sales tax since 2011.
- Auctionata lays off 30 members (out of 60 total) of its New York staff.
- Cecily Brown leaves Gagosian Gallery for Thomas Dane Gallery.
- Strikes continue at London's National Gallery as union protests against museum’s plans to outsource jobs.
- WSJ questions the sanity of art collectors.
- Egypt reports that it has recovered 123 ancient artifacts that had been smuggled outside the country.
- Stephen Shaheen explores authorship and the use of fabricators by artists.
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres painting discovered in attic of the chapel of the former hospital Hôtel-Dieu.
- LA Times writes about LACMA's 50th-anniversary gala, which raised $5mil.
- Jerry Saltz writes about the new Whitney Museum. NY Times has a feature on the architecture of the new Whitney. Reservations for the May 2 block party are already full. Brian Boucher's 10 Reasons To Be Excited About The New Whitney Museum. Adam Weinberg eats cupcakes and talks about the new building.
- A look at OCMA's efforts to rebrand itself.
- MoMA launches walking tour of Jacob Lawrence's Harlem.
- El Anatsui to be honored with Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at Venice Biennale.
- 100-year commemoration of Armenian massacre to be marked at the Venice Biennale.
- Stefan Edlis and wife donate collection of 42 works worth combined $500 million to Art Institute of Chicago.
- Prada Foundation has a new arts complex in Milan.
- Ben Davis lists New York's top ten secret art sites.
- Chinati hosts two-hour sunrise tour of Donald Judd’s untitled installation of 100 aluminum boxes
- Woody Allen Center museum dedicated to the film director to open in Barcelona.
- Archaeologists discover ruins in China which may have been part of the Great Wall.
- Bonham's sale of Iraqi Modernism (the first of its kind) breaks records and totals £1,237,250.
- Artsy writes about how people are using Instagram to buy art.
- Hiscox Online Art Trade Report using ArtTactic data reports that the online art market expanded in 2014.
- A sneak peak at what some dealers are showing at Frieze New York.
- Artsy takes a look at work by some emerging artists at Art Brussels.
- Artnet has ten tips on how to make visiting art fairs more fun.
- How and why some works of art are financed by outside investors.
- Forbes looks at Rise Art, which rents artwork with the option to buy.
- Larry Fink says contemporary art and luxury apartments are now better hedges against inflation than gold.
- What the ultra-rich are buying to compete with their friends.
- W Magazine shoots photographs of those behind online art world sites.
- Tiroche DeLeon fund does well by investing in works by artists in developing countries.
- Rachel Uffner's tips on becoming a boss.
- Exhibition A interviews Artsy's Elena Soboleva.
- A look at Marc and Sara Schiller's art collection.
- Hyperallergic writes about Smart Objects's Armory Captures show.
- Spike Magazine visits Matthew Robert Lutz-Kinoy.
- Eight things you should be aware of regarding Rashid Johnson.
- Caleb Neelon enlists youths from different sides of Bosnia’s ethnic divide to work on mural project.
- The Creators Projects premieres new audiovisual work by Christian Marclay.
- Roberta Smith talks about looking at art.
- Audrey Wollen discusses Richard Prince's "The Figures" show at Luxembourg & Dayan.
- Christo to create 3km of yellow walkways on Lake Iseo that will link islands to the mainland for first time.
- Trudy Benson has a music playlist for when you're doing your hustle in the studio.
- Phaidon looks at Sonia Delaunay.
- Artspace interviews Jonas Mekas.
- Seven fun facts about Willem de Kooning on occasion of his birthday.
- David Ebony's Top 10 New York Gallery Shows for April on Artnet.
- Paddle8 visits Dustin Yellin's studio.
- Catherine Opie joins Lehmann Maupin's artist roster.
- Jeremiah Jenkins art project gives you an MFA after 90 minutes of class and costs $0.
- Mark Boulos, Emily Jacir, David Schutter, and Senam Okudzet among winners of 2015 Rome Prize.
- Jessica Lange exhibition of photography opens in the Arts Santa Mònica center in Barcelona.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat skate decks produced by The Skateroom available at Artspace.
- Carolina Miranda asks - is it Art Basel or Coachella?
- Alexa Chung's photography.
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Streets: Jeff Soto x Maxx242 (Riverside) – Part I
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Streets: Anthony Lister (Detroit)
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Streets: DALeast (Perth)
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Streets: Jeff Soto x Maxx242 (Riverside) – Part II
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Overtime: April 27 – May 3
- Images and information up for Aaron Garber-Maikovska's exhibition at Greene Exhibitions.
- RIP: Sabeen Mahmud after she was murdered by gunmen outside her T2F art space.
- RIP: Jane Farver, who died at 67 while in Venice working with Joan Jonas on her Biennale presentation.
- Nepal's historic cultural landmarks severely damaged or destroyed in devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
- New York's Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA) to close for good this summer, after operating for a decade.
- Costa Rica and Kenya both withdraw from the Venice Biennale.
- Braun Barends hole piece at Mannheim museum ruled by court as not being art and will be covered.
- Art Spiegelman's Maus book censored and removed from bookstores in Russia.
- China government cracks down on art and literary awards.
- Kenyan government has officially denounced its own pavilion at the upcoming 2015 Venice Biennale.
- Uta Werner appealing a Munich court’s rejection of her legal challenge to Gurlitt art trove.
- G&G Productions sues Rita Rusic claiming she stole a Basquiat from her husband that belongs to them.
- Marco Evaristti jailed for pouring fruit dye into the Strokkur Geysir.
- Obama administration proposing to eliminate 1031 tax break for exchanges of art and other collectibles.
- Whitney Museum misrepresents Christopher Knight's opinion from over 20 years ago.
- Ben Davis has worries about the new Whitney Museum.
- Guggenheim NY occupied by protesters over workers rights issues linked to museum’s Abu Dhabi location.
- Is Nicholas Serota to blame for the troubles at The Tate?
- Kiev Biennial to open in Sept at Visual Culture Research Center after postponement.
- Benjamin Genocchio criticizes purpose and findings of Hiscox Online Art Trade Report.
- The debate about graffiti in nature parks and communities.
- Bruce Cook defiant after police order him to take down a hay sculpture they deem offensive.
- Hyundai commercial borrows heavily from the work of well-known street artists.
- Christopher Knight reviews the new Whitney Museum building.
- MoMA board endorse and give their support to Glen Lowry and Klaus Biesenbach.
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe announces $1mil. gift to the Smithsonian Asian art museums.
- Daniel W. Dietrich II donates $10mil. to ICA Philadelphia's curatorial program.
- LA Weekly reviews the William Pope L show at MOCA.
- WSJ talks to Okwui Enwezor about curating for the Venice Biennale.
- Abraham Cruzvillegas plans to create large-scale installation with horticultural element for the Turbine Hall.
- 10% of visitors to Dulwich Picture Gallery were able to spot single fake painting out of 270 in show.
- Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art (MAK) purchases Harm van den Dorpel work using bitcoin.
- KÖNIG GALERIE opens in Berlin with shows by Katharina Frosse and Jeppe Hein and has a 120-year lease.
- Larry Gagosian may be planning on opening a gallery location in West Hollywood, CA.
- Judd Tully reports on Phillips Design evening sale in London.
- AFR reports on the Sotheby's Australia auction sale.
- Part 1 of Artnet's Top 200 Art Collectors Worldwide for 2015. And here is Part 2.
- Artnet writes about the Paris Photo LA art fair. Artinfo also has a preview.
- Artinfo has highlights from the Art Brussels art fair.
- Printed Matter moving to a larger, two-story location in Chelsea, NY.
- CRG Gallery moving form Chelsea to the Lower East Side.
- The Creators Project interviews Elmgreen and Dragset.
- 2015 BP portrait award shortlist includes Michael Gaskell, Matan Ben-Cnaan, and Borja Buces Renard.
- Monika Rostvold sits nude outside Texas State University campus library for art project about beauty. She talks about her project on the KTSW radio station.
- Tyler Green talks to Liz Larner and Tamara Schenkenberg in the Modern Art Notes Podcast.
- Eddie Martinez joins the artist stable at Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
- A look at thirty years after The Guerrilla Girls came onto the scene.
- Artnet talks to Thomas Struth.
- Jeffrey Deitch plans street art show in Coney Island. Brian Boucher does not feel that it is a very smart project for him to take.
- 2014 AICA award winners include Kara Walker, Mickalene Thomas, Robert Gober, and Pierre Huyghe.
- Maurizio Cattelan's destroyed and buried sculpture.
- WSJ profiles Alex Katz.
- A day in the life of Sam McKinness.
- NY Times writes about Banksy in Gaza.
- Wanksy paints penises around potholes to bring them to the city's attention.
- Paper Magazine's beautiful people in art list includes Chloe Wise, Sam McKinness, and Petra Cortright.
- The Wall Street Journal reviews the Rina Banerjee show at Jacob Lewis Gallery.
- LA><ART producing a ten-year anniversary publication with funds raised via Kickstarter.
- Raymond Pettibon print featuring Kim Gordon and Dan Graham available to benefit The Kitchen.
- Interview with Lee Skolnick about building a beach house with presentation of an art collection in mind.
- Pierpaolo Barzan and Valeria Sorci of Depart Foundation share their favorite spots in Los Angeles.
- Leonard Ursachi complaining that children are treating his sculpture like a jungle gym.
- Aric Snee and Justin Crowe design the selfie-arm, so selfiers can pretend someone is with them taking their picture.
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Videos / Streets: KATSU Drone Tag (New York)
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Streets: Stephen “ESPO” Powers (Miami)
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Art Focus: Cinta Vidal
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Streets: ROA (Jersey City)
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