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More stories below from this week (click on bolded words for more information):
- Anthony Bourdain dead at 61 of apparent suicide.
- Anthony Bourdain bought this ominous John Lurie painting days before he died.
- Summer preview: the most promising museum shows and biennials around the world.
- Must-See Art Guide, Seoul: Featuring Xu Zhen, Jacob Kassay, Joris Laarman, and more.
- Picasso, Warhol & more iconic artists spotlighted in major Australia exhibit.
- Australia's largest contemporary art gallery to be built in Melbourne.
- The Uffizi Gallery gathers some heavy hitters in a new room.
- Ai Weiwei's "Fan-Tan" exhibition to be inspired by his father, and his largest solo show in France.
- The Lichtenstein Foundation is closing—and it just donated 400 works to the Whitney.
- Brian Allen explains how artists can hurt rather than help museums like MoCA Los Angeles.
- From the Met and Christie’s to Cheim & Read: how the art world guest stars in ‘Ocean’s 8’.
- Art is becoming a financial product, and blockchain is making it happen.
- Podcast: From auction week to Art Basel, what’s happening in the art market.
- Podcast: Freud, Bacon, Hockney and the post-war London scene; and Signals gallery.
- Everything you ever wanted to know about the art market but didn't know who to ask.
- Di Donna brings Jasper Johns’s "Disappearance I" to Art Basel.
- Gorky, Mitchell will lead Hauser + Wirth Art Basel stand next week.
- Frieze offers a refund to dealers affected by the excessive heat at this year’s New York Fair.
- As fairs face unprecedented scrutiny, EXPO Chicago launches a new curator exchange platform.
- Impressionist masterpieces from London will head to Paris’s Foudation Louis Vuitton next year.
- Christie’s Loïc Gouzer on the regrettable rise of the ADD art collector.
- Collector appeals for return of Pissarro painting restituted through a 1945 order made by the Allies France.
- Sotheby’s brings Basquiat held in Italy for 35 years to London.
- Daughter sues her father over Jean-Michel Basquiat painting.
- Paul Kasmin Gallery to open fourth space in Chelsea, New York.
- New York gallery Tanya Bonakdar will open Los Angeles branch.
- Good-bye to all that: Boyle Heights, a hotbed of gentrification protests, sees galleries depart.
- Museums too: what should institutions do when artists are accused of abuse?
- Comedian Cheech Marin will open a museum for his collection of Chicano art in So. CA.
- Mark Bradford on his epic painting cycle at the Hirshhorn Museum, ‘Pickett’s Charge’.
- ‘We had to create something new’: Klaus Biesenbach on inventing the Berlin Biennale.
- The curator of the 10th Berlin Biennale, Gabi Ngcobo, refuses to exorcize Europe’s colonial ghosts.
- ‘A name we will remember for decades to come’: critics and artists memorialize Irving Sandler.
- Malcolm Morley, genre-crossing artist, is dead at 86.
- Architectural landmarks come to life in these performances.
- She’s not president (yet), but Oprah Winfrey has already taken over DC—as an art exhibition.
- The hidden women of architecture and design.
- What you need to know about Baroque master Artemisia Gentileschi.
- Beer with a painter: Joyce Pensato’s work is about grand gestures and not backing down.
- Innovative light and space artist Mary Corse is finally getting the exhibitions she deserves.
- From the archives: Haegue Yang brings storage to the spotlight, in 2010.
- Searching for the in-between: Margarita Cabrera’s collaborative art thinks beyond borders.
- Hair is a vibrant source of power in Lorna Simpson’s fantastical collages.
- An exclusive look inside Takashi Murakami's major retrospective in Texas.
- Takashi Murakami on his early years, Francis Bacon, and Kanye West.
- The artwork that inspired Kid Cudi & Kanye West’s 'Kids See Ghosts' album cover.
- Celebrity photographer Mark Seliger on the stories behind 8 of his iconic portraits.
- ‘A giant to those who know’: David Zwirner to represent estate of photographer Roy DeCarava.
- White Cube Gallery London, now represents artist Danh Vo.
- Alberto Giacometti abandoned Surrealist success to focus on the human body.
- Revealed: Van Gogh's failed attempt at art dealing.
- What was it like to conduct Marcel Duchamp's only live television interview?
- Jerry Saltz: Why is the Met’s new show about the body in art history so stultifying and dull?
- Woolworths cancels Spencer Tunick’s mass nude shoot in Melbourne—it would turn off shoppers.
- From Picasso’s signature to Kahlo’s unibrow, who legally owns the rights to an artist’s brand?
- Henry Taylor wins $25,000 Robert De Niro, Sr. prize.
- How dead artists continue producing work.
- The artists who have made the night sky their muse.
- 3 tried-and-true drawing lessons for beginners.
