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More stories from the week that ended Dec 18 (click on bolded words for more information):
- Aperture writes about Matthew Brandt's new works.
- Palmyra attacked and recaptured by Isil militants and fears are growing over its fate.
- PULSE cancels New York edition of its far and launches new year-round programming.
- Heritage auction house sues Christie’s and Collectrium over alleged data theft.
- Henry Rollins thinks that burning punk rock artifacts and memorabilia is not punk.
- American Institute of Architects posthumously awards Paul Revere Williams its highest honor.
- Bern's Kunstmuseum inherits Gurlitt collection as court rejects challenge that Gurlitt was mentally unfit.
- Austrian government to seize Hitler’s birthplace in order to discourage neo-Nazi pilgrimages.
- Beat Raeber and Matthias von Stenglin announce that they are ending their partnership and closing space.
- Johnetta Cole will retire in March 2017 as director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art.
- Convicted art fraudster Luke Brugnara's SF home on the market with an asking price of $19.7mil.
- Makeup artist Courtney Lether arrested for stealing $1.4mil. worth of artwork by Pat Trivigno.
- Employee of museum of natural history in Orleans, France convicted of stealing 666 fossils and stones.
- The court of appeal in Aix-en-Provence upholds two-year suspended prison sentence of Pierre Le Guennec.
- Jan Porcellis and Willem Buytewech the Younger paintings sold in Nazi era return to the heirs of Max Stern.
- Drawing taken to Tajan auction house turns out to be an authentic Leonardo Da Vinci study.
- How the art world rediscovers overlooked artists.
- Bill protecting works of art on loan to the US from foreign institutions from seizure passed by the Senate.
- Leading art world figures’ highlights and lowlights of 2016.
- Staff at artnet News makes predictions for 2017.
- Oscar Wilde portrait by Robert Harper Pennington to return to UK for first time at Tate Britain.
- Nicholas Serota to receive the 2017 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence and $25k.
- Harry Hyams has left £387 million ($490 Million) in the form of his fine art and vintage car collection to Britain.
- Christopher Knight reviews R.H. Quaytman’s show at MOCA.
- Yayoi Kusama 8' pumpkin sculpture appears outside the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
- J. Landis Martin and his wife Sharon Martin donate $25mil. to Denver Art Museum for revitalization of building.
- Details on Sculpture Projects Münster revealed.
- Christie’s hires Guillaume Cerutti as CEO. He replaces Patricia Barbizet, who will be vice chairman.
- James Ensor’s Squelette arrêtant masques (Skeleton stopping masks) sells for record €7,357,500 at Sotheby's.
- Sotheby’s hires Christy MacLear, of Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, as vice chairman of fine arts division.
- WSJ writes about Sotheby’s New Bid to Manage Artists’ Careers.
- Artnet's top auction moments of 2016.
- Exhibitor list for Art Brussels 2017 released.
- Empty Gallery expands in Hong Kong and may open a Silicon Valley location.
- NY Times profiles and talks to Marian Goodman.
- Artinfo profiles Domenico and Eleanore De Sole.
- Larry's List interviews Christopher Tsai.
- Andrew Goldstein interviews Stefan Simchowitz.
- Lévy Gorvy partnership debuts with Yves Klein symphony in San Francisco.
- R.H. Quaytman wins Robert De Niro Sr. Artist Prize and $25k.
- British Journal of Photography interviews Ed Templeton.
- Kim Gordon in Playboy.
- Graham Short engraved five £5 notes with a minuscule portrait of Jane Austen and circulated them.
- Banksy caught on 1995 video?
- LA Louver interviews Patrick Martinez.
- Jeff Brouws, Henry Chalfant, and Melanie Schiff discuss William Eggleston's work.
- Phaidon interviews David Diao.
- Artnet's list of the top ten most exciting artists working in the US today.
- LA Times reviews shows in Los Angeles, including by Kelly Akashi, Mickalene Thomas, and Yong Soon Min.
- Michael Green creates series of graphic digital images that explore Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
- Everything is Terrible! makes an art installation out of 14,000 VHS copies of Jerry Macguire.
- Artinfo's list of The 2016 Power List: High-Wattage Women of the Art World, Part 1.
- Vogue's list of The Best Art Shows of 2016.
- Sedition looks at the top digital artists of the past five years.
- New Tauba Auerbach limited edition 3D printed sculpture available.
- Exhibition A releases Emily Mae Smith limited edition wall clock.
- Some artist collaboration holiday gift products, including by Jen Stark, Olafur Eliasson, and Alex Katz.
- Artnet's list of 35 Holiday Gifts for the Art Lover in Your Life.
- What Donald Trump Learned From the 1980s New York Art World.
- Donald Trump considering Sylvester Stallone for Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts in US. Ben Davis comments.
- Artnet covers some of NY's holiday parties and events.
- Art in bathrooms.
