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More stories from the week that ended Oct 30 (click on bolded words for more information):
- Artspace profiles Nathan Cash Davidson, Torey Thornton, and Avery Singer. (above: Torey Thornton's Rapport Vroom show at Shane Campbell Gallery).
- Frieze reviews Jamian Juliano-Villani's The World’s Greatest Planet on Earth at Studio Voltaire.
- RIP: Raymond Brown, who passed away during scaffolding accident in Miami while painting a mural.
- RIP: Tom Doyle, who passed away on Oct 8.
- RIP: Marwan Kassab-Bachi, who passed away at the age of 82.
- RIP: Steve Dillon, who passed away at the age of 54.
- Ottawa Sgt. Chris Hrnchiar charged after racist comments over death of Annie Pootoogook.
- The New Art Gallery in Walsall is at risk of closure under cost-cutting proposals by the local council.
- The British Museum’s Townley Venus sculpture had its thumb broken off by outside caterers.
- More heritage sites damaged by two strong earthquakes that struck central Italy.
- Christie’s had doubts concerning provenance of suspected Frans Hals forgery and declined to sell it.
- Patrizia Asproni resigns as head of the Turin Museum Foundation after feud with mayor.
- Urs Schwarzenbach fined $4mil. for bringing in over 200 artworks into Switzerland and avoiding taxes on them.
- The National Gallery contesting legal claim in a NY court over ownership of Matisse’s Greta Moll portrait.
- Vivienne Westwood accused of plagiarizing Roberta Marrero’s work and brand calls to apologize & negotiate.
- Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame destroyed by vandal dressed as construction worker. Jamie Otis arrested on suspicion of felony vandalism for the act.
- Mary Boone accuses Alec Baldwin of tax avoidance when he had his Bleckner shipped to CA instead of NY.
- South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announce plans for new law to clamp down on forgeries.
- Mayor Gallery files lawsuit against Agnes Martin authentication committee for catalogue raisonné exclusions.
- Steve McCurry speaks out against arrest of Sharbat Gula, the subject of his famous photograph.
- Pussy Riot attacks Donald Trump with new video.
- Ben Davis on Vine Art in honor of the platform's demise.
- Unknown Kirchner painting discovered during tests beneath later canvas.
- London mayor Sadiq Khan pledges to create affordable artists’ studios in the city.
- 200-year old Museo del Prado opens Clara Peeters show, its first exhibition dedicated to a female artist.
- Luc Tuymans organizes James Ensore show at London’s Royal Academy of Arts.
- MoMA adds NTT DOCOMO’s original set of 176 emoji to its collection.
- Marlene and Spencer Hays donate major collection (Bonnard, Vuillard, Redon, others) to Musée d’Orsay.
- Christopher Knight reviews The Shimmer of Gold: Giovanni di Paolo in Renaissance Siena at The Getty.
- Ben Davis reviews Pipilotti Rist’s New Museum show Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest.
- Keith J Varadi reviews Tamara Henderson's Seasons End: Panting Healer show at REDCAT.
- The growth of museums in Los Angeles.
- Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego plans renovation and expansion by Annabelle Selldorf.
- Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in SoHo expanding to double its space.
- Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art to receive challenge grant up to $900k from Walton Family Foundation.
- David M. Rubenstein to become chairman of the Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents.
- Anne Imhof will represent Germany in the 2017 Venice Biennale.
- Herzog & de Meuron wins competition to design Berlin’s Museum of the 20th Century.
- Architecture Research Office selected to renovate Rothko Chapel.
- Ragnar Kjartansson creates Yoko Ono work from 1993 Simpsons episode for show at Reykjavik Art Museum.
- Independent Curators International names Miguel A. Lopez '16 winner of Independent Vision Curatorial Award.
- Sotheby's to offer Edvard Munch's Girls on the Bridge, estimated to sell for $50mil. at auction.
- Sales at Sotheby's and Christie's shows that Islamic art market continues to grow.
- Conor Jordan on Wassily Kandinsky’s Rigide et Courbé (Rigid and Curved), which is being offered by Christie's.
- Phillips to offer five works from the collection of Tommy Hilfiger.
- Marc Newson's Pod of Drawers 1987 sells for €1mil. at Artcurial Heavy Metal sale.
- Indecline's The Emperor Has No Balls naked Donald Trump sculpture sells for $22k at Julien's Auctions.
- Sotheby’s acquires the Mei Moses Art Indices and will rename it the Sotheby's Mei Moses. The experts weigh in on the acquisition.
- Naomi Watts buys four works at the Take Home a Nude benefit auction.
- ARTnews visits the opening of the TEFAF art fair in NY. Judd Tully also reports from the fair. Art Market Monitor has a summary of what sold.
- Scott Indrisik previews Artbo 2016.
- Pioneer Works announces the first Alternative Art School Fair.
- Kenny Schachters' adventures in Paris during FIAC.
- Galerie Perrotin to open a space in Tokyo.
- James Tarmy profiles Almine Ruiz-Picasso.
- Henri Neuendorf interviews David Kordanksy.
- Henri Neuendorf also interviews Vito Schnabel.
- Fortune writes about Steve Cohen's art collection.
- The emerging role of fine art in luxury real estate staging.
- Artnet's list of the 100 most collectible living artists.
- Sotheby's provides an inside look at the Steven & Ann Ames collection.
- A look at Anderson Cooper's interest in art.
- The Art Newspaper interviews Kerry James Marshall.
- Isa Genzken in W Magazine.
- Derrick Adams wins 2016 Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize and $50k.
- NY Times profiles Carolee Schneemann.
- Danny Fox discusses some of his new paintings.
- Jenny Holzer turns excerpts from interviews about AIDS into a new series of artworks projected onto buildings. Surface interviews the artist about the project.
- Nigel Cooke talks about painting.
- Frieze reviews Amelie von Wulffen's show at Galerie Barbara Weiss
- Sam Falls interview in Purple.
- LA Times covers shows that you should visit in Los Angeles right now.
- Artnet's list of 10 Disruptors Who Are Completely Changing the Art World.
- Why some artists are remembered more than others.
- The week in NY's social scene.
- Mitch Putnam, of OMG Posters, has put out a 11"x14" book called OMG Posters: A Decade of Rock Art.
- A look at some of the lessons learned from Marina Abramovic's memoir.
- Tiqui Atencio's Could Have, Would Have, Should Have: Inside the World of the Art Collector book.
- Artnet writes about 11 Fascinating Books About Art History’s Most Scandalous Forgeries.
- Liu Yiqian buys a $23.5mil. apartment in a high-rise facing Central Park.
- James Franco directs a video for Sotheby's.
- SAIC lions wear Cubs hats for the first time ever on occasion of the team being in the World Series.
- Eight of the hottest Halloween art parties in NY.
