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More stories from the week that ended Aug 27 (click on bolded words for more information):
- Banksy's Snorting Copper street work rediscovered and will be put on display again.
- RIP: Karl Otto Götz, who passed away at the age of 103.
- RIP: Masatoyo Kishi, who passed away at the age of 93.
- Barcelona attack suspects were planning to bomb Sagrada Familia and other major monuments.
- 12 art historians and scholars on the way forward after removal of Confederate monuments.
- Arrest of theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov alarms Russian arts scene.
- IFAR uncovers bizarre Jackson Pollock forgery scam.
- Visitor to Centre for Fine Arts (Bozar) in Brussels steps on and damages Yves Klein work.
- The lack of diversity on New York's cultural boards.
- Yale University alters campus sculpture depicting violence against a Native American.
- Works hanging in National Gallery are not insured due to cost of insurance.
- Christopher Knight criticizes the Berkshire on its deaccessioning plans.
- The Village Voice will no longer be in print.
- Lawsuit brings up the question of whom is really creating Dale Chihuly's art.
- KAWS Seated Companion figure stolen from Southampton shop.
- documenta 14 cancels Auschwitz on the Beach performance amid intense criticism.
- Derek Jeter can not remove Red Grooms sculpture from Miami Marlins Park because the county owns it.
- Maurizio Cattelan's America to be removed from MoMA on Sept. 15. Where will the toilet go?
- Spencer Finch creates color portrait of disappearing Spiral Jetty.
- The challenges and concerns in selling a Frank Lloyd Wright house.
- Conservators remove fungus and cobwebs from Gurlitt hoard.
- Why contemporary art sales at auction have shrunk.
- Petition to replace the Confederate monument in Portsmouth with statue of Missy Elliott.
- Sotheby’s drops buyer’s premium on online-only auctions.
- Holland Cotter makes the case to move Confederate statues, instead of destroying them.
- New Andy Warhol book will include explosive details about his love life as well as his work.
- Artnet looks at 11 women candidates who could run the Met.
- Palestinian Museum opens after 15-month delay with show about Jerusalem.
- Poster House, NYC's first art space dedicated entirely to posters will open in 2018.
- Leah Dickerman to lead new content team at MoMA.
- London's National Gallery buys painting by Bellotto for over £11mil.
- Studio Museum in Harlem announces list of 19 artists to show this fall in Fictions show.
- The Art Newspaper reviews Florine Stettheimer show at the Jewish Museum.
- Free museum admission day announced for Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA on Sept 17.
- Lewis Carroll’s portraits of the real Alice in Wonderland to go on show at the National Portrait Gallery.
- Artnet's list of the 30 of the Most Important Museum Exhibitions to See Around the Globe This Season.
- The Sobey Art Award shortlist dominated by women.
- Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts announces $100k grant to Grand Central Art Center.
- University of Arkansas establishes School of Art thanks to $120mil. gift from Walmart's family foundation.
- Allegra Pesenti named associate director and senior curator of Grunwald Center, part of Hammer Museum.
- 2017 Moscow Bienniale artist list announced.
- Commercial galleries from Asia join major museum projects at Shanghai’s West Bund Cultural Corridor.
- Sotheby’s to integrate contemporary Latin American art into its contemporary art sales in NY in fall.
- John Constable painting originally thought of as fake is actually the real deal worth £2mil.
- Art market continues its pursuit of the tech collectors.
- The top-heavy nature of the art market.
- 60,000 ceramic Dalí tiles purchased 40 years ago ready to hit the market.
- 2017 NADA Miami Beach exhibitor list released.
- Moniker Art Fair coming to NY in the spring.
- Manhattan Rare Books offers set of Richard Corman's 66 original Polaroid photos of Madonna, taken in 1983.
- Ben Davis asks if Slow Art is the next big art movement.
- Françoise Gilot discusses painting and life with and after Picasso.
- Cai Guo-Qiang's house, designed by Frank Gehry.
- ARTNEWS Consumer Reports: Jamian Juliano-Villani.
- Katharina Grosse commissioned by Carriageworks to create third Schwartz Carriageworks visual arts project.
- Shepard Fairey will be on Henry Rollins' radio show on Sept 4.
- Marilyn Minter photographs St. Vincent’s Annie Clark.
- Artnet interviews Mike Mitchell about his anti-Trump logo.
- Frieze remembers Chiara Fumai.
- Artnet looks at Matthew Day Jackson-organized Observatories eclipse show in Wyoming.
- The Art Newspaper looks back at a time when Spanish-language cinema flourished in Los Angeles.
- Artnet shares 12 habits of highly effective artists.
- Why contemporary artists like Shirin Neshat are flocking to the opera house.
- The Art Newspaper reviews Redo an Eye, Roberta Bernstein's book about Jasper Johns.
- Bernardaud to produce Yayoi Kusama tableware.
- Bobby Hundreds releases free downloadable anti-hate, anti-Trump artwork.
- Some of the artists behind Trump magazine covers.
- Solange Knowles will perform in Marfa, Texas in front of Donald Judd installation.
- How the art world commemorated the solar eclipse on social media.
- Crowded cluster of security cameras at JFK airport makes people think Banksy.
- Stefan Simchowitz has a small role in Darren Aronofsky’s new film.
- Jerry Lewis's foray into photography.
