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More stories from the week that ended June 5 (click on bolded words for more information):
- Sebastian Black discusses his new paintings in Bomb Magazine.
- RIP: Makiko Futaki, who passed away at the age of 58.
- RIP: Baroness Marion Lambert, who passed away at the age of 73 after being hit by a bus.
- Police in Spain arrest seven in relation to the theft of five Francis Bacon paintings from home in Madrid.
- ARTnews covers censorship issue regarding Darja Bajagić work. The artist replies to curator Aaron Moulton.
- Louvre and Musée d'Orsay close so that staff may move flood-threatened works from getting damaged.
- Five year-old child destroys Lego sculpture an hour after exhibition opens.
- Man damages and knocks clock off wall at National Watch & Clock Museum after fiddling with it.
- The New York City department of parks and recreation wants Aaron Bell to alter his work due to noose.
- Bernd Klüser honored with the Faega Lifetime Award by Art Basel, even though his gallery was rejected for fair.
- Harry Macklowe leaving wife Linda Macklowe as a huge art collection hangs in the balance.
- US Senate committee submits private museum findings and concerns to Internal Revenue Service.
- Kenny Schachter talks about corruption in the art market. The Times covers the talk as well.
- Controversy as Sotheby's shares some of its dealings with Yves Bouvier with Dmitry Rybolovlev.
- Is the pileup of $100mil.-plus homes around the globe a bad sign for the art market?
- Staff members Susan Cernek and Sarah Goulet leave Paddle8.
- Staffers from Christie's are beginning to leave the auction house as well.
- EVE has withdrawn an Native American Acoma ceremonial shield after protests.
- Jerry Saltz writes about Alex Israel and the art world eating its delicious young.
- How to survive a gallery dinner.
- Henri Neuendorf explains biennials.
- What it means to be promoted to the level of partner in a gallery.
- The role of portraiture in art today.
- Phaidon writes about the Land Art movement.
- Ukranian art buyer hands back Izaak Ouwater painting that was stolen from Westfries Museum.
- Catherine Wagley discusses the place of emerging and mid-career artists within LA's new gallery scene.
- Artists and their quest for affordable studio spaces in Manhattan.
- DIS discusses curating the Berlin Biennale.
- Artspace shows you the steps on how to ace your next museum director interview.
- National Gallery of Victoria announces major exhibition of masterworks from MoMA's collection in 2018.
- Taco Dibbits named the new director of the Rijksmuseum.
- Xavier Bray appointed the new director of the Wallace Collection.
- Yung Ma to join the Centre Pompidou as curator in the contemporary and prospective creation department.
- Carolina A. Miranda writes about the Underground Museum.
- What happened during JR's Lourve takeover.
- LACMA acquires and shows James Turrell's Light Reignfall.
- Alexander Forbes writes about investing in art today.
- Financial Times thinks that the art market finds a way to shine above the gloom.
- How would Brexit affect the art market in Britain?
- Matte white Himalaya Niloticus Crocodile Diamond Birkin sells for record $300k at Christie's.
- Christie's talks to Asia's most powerful art collectors.
- Chiswick Auctions offering Francis Bacon's painting gloves.
- Jarrett Gregory and Eric Shiner appointed as the curators of the 2017 Armory Show.
- Bhupen Khakhar's auction market on the rise leading up to his Tate Modern retrospective exhibition.
- Steve Martin's role in Lawren Harris' escalating auction results.
- Liza Minnelli secretly selling her Andy Warhol collection.
- Jordan Schnitzer talks about collecting prints.
- Anton Kern moving gallery space from Chelsea to Midtown in NY.
- Detroit Free Press covers Moran Bondaroff's Detroit exhibition space. Forbes interviews Al Moran about the residency.
- William Eggleston now represented by David Zwirner after being with Gagosian Gallery for five years.
- Jim Dine now represented by Richard Gray Gallery.
- Artspace interviews Derek Eller.
- Jori Finkel interviews Richard Polsky about his art authentication service.
- Artspace profiles 10 galleries you should know about in Berlin.
- Jamian Juliano-Villani interviewed by Samuel Jablon.
- Central Park getting a David Shrigley sculpture thanks for Public Art Fund.
- The story behind Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother photograph.
- Artspace talks with Paul McCarthy.
- Mira Dancy profiled in Vogue.
- Artnet interview with Amalia Ulman.
- Pyotr Pavlensky nominated for the Russian Security Services' (FSB) Prize for Literature and the Art.
- Kenny Schachter talks about his late friend Zaha Hadid.
- Fader profiles Derrick Adams.
- Scott Indrisek visits and profiles Carmen Herrera.
- First look at Rachel Whiteread's Governor's Island public art installation.
- Etel Adnan discovers widespread success at a more advanced age.
- NY Times writes about how Diane Arbus became the photographer people know her as today.
- Petra Cortright talks about her artwork and working with Stefan Simchowitz.
- Galen Pehrson's The Caged Pillows animation film, commissioned and produced by RUINS Magazine.
- Sobey Art Foundation and the National Gallery of Canada announce shortlist for the 2016 Sobey Art Award.
- Artspace's top ten worst ways to die in a Hieronymous Bosch painting.
- Artnet's 17 Tips for Aspiring Artists From the Year's Top Commencement Speeches.
- Artnet's list of the most fashionable men in the art world.
- Notable occasions when Julian Schnabel has worn pajamas.
- Side Street Projects unveils Charles Gaines Phantom Ball print edition.
- A look back at Jeffrey Deitch's Artstar reality show.
- Saved by the Bell pop-up diner opens in Chicago.
- MC Hammer in ad for 3M's hammerless art hanging product.
