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More stories from the week that ended July 23 (click on bolded words for more information):
- 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.
