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More stories below from this week (click on bolded words for more information):
- UTA Moves Into a New Ai Weiwei-Designed Space in Beverly Hills.
- Cheim & Read partner Adam Sheffer to join Pace as vice president.
- From Frida Kahlo in London to Casanova in Boston, here are 29 museum shows worth seeing this summer.
- 130,000 unseen photos of Andy Warhol will be made public at The Warhol Foundation.
- Artist SMASH 137 sues GM for unauthorized use of his Detriot mural for a Cadillac ad.
- Red Bull restructures and expands its arts initiative in Detroit.
- Five Picassos went missing from the L.A. Times. What happened to them?
- The FBI has recovered a crimson Robert Motherwell painting stolen 40 years ago by a moving man.
- What Art Basel in Miami Beach’s most Instagrammed works tell us about the art world today.
- Art Basel owner to launch contemporary art fair ART SG in Singapore next year.
- New art fair, Felix LA—the brainchild of Dean Valentine—to coincide with Frieze Los Angeles in 2019.
- Art Santa Fe, New Mexico sees growth under new owner.
- What drove London’s June auctions 77% higher than last year.
- The new collector’s guide to good manners, according to design dealer Patrick Parrish.
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Don’t forget the
women who forged Saudi Arabia’s thriving art scene.
- Colby College acquires what its museum director describes as a “turning point” painting by Jackson Pollock.
- Artist Greg Mike improvises sprawling new murals in Georgia locking himself into rooms for two weeks.
- Measured and visually musical, artists Shiferaw and Melake harmonize in their new two-person show.
- How a female-led art restoration movement in Florence is reshaping the canon.
- Dallas Museum of Art says thank you to a life-long patron.
- Programme of paid internships aims to make US museum staff more diverse.
- Dalí foundation sues California museum for use of artist’s name and image.
- Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum appoints Cybele Maylone as Executive Director.
- A Look inside the little-known image library that’s inspired artists for over a century.
- $890 million Sydney museum move could be the most expensive museum relocation in history.
- Brutalism, air fresheners, and augmented reality at Cleveland’s FRONT International Triennial.
- Rising-star curators from opposite coasts are chosen to organize the fifth New Museum Triennial.
- Many creative geniuses may have procrastinated—but that doesn’t mean you should.
- David Wojnarowicz’s art endures, and so does his spirit of rage and revolt.
- The University of Kansas removes altered US flag art.
- Deported veterans ‘distress’ flag mural on US-Mexico border under review.
- William Kentridge outplays the England match with Tate premiere of performance The Head and the Load.
- Donald Trump’s UK visit sparks backlash from the art world.
- Bossy baby Trump blimp heads north to haunt Scotland and greet the US President.
- Can two festivals bring hope to Trump country?
- Cleon Peterson’s violent paintings strike at the heart of a divided America.
- Interview with Cleon Peterson about his new show “Blood & Soil” at Over The Influence in Los Angeles.
- New film Gauguin about his voyage to Tahiti, is a sombre picture of the artist under the sun.
- In today’s art market, the ‘male gaze’ is not a good look.
- An Afro-Surrealist project deifies god-like bodies of color.
- Liberté Nuti, former international director of Impressionist and Modern at Christie’s, joins Hauser & Wirth.
- Organic shapes emerge in new installations of intertwined rope by Janaina Mello Landini.
- Wayne Thiebaud’s confections are sprinkled with touches of Cézanne, Degas, and others.
- Alex Colombino on paying attention and playing with space in Los Angeles.
- ‘A nautical traffic jam’: Mel Chin imagines an underwater world in Times Square New York.
- A look at Raul Guerrero's new exhibition at Ortuzar Projects, New York.
- Paula Cooper Gallery in New York hit by fire.
- Korean artist Lee Bull uses manga and rotting fish as social commentary.
- Neon queen Meryl Pataky’s new solo show is highly experimental and slyly self aware.
- Swaths of old-fashioned fabric obscure faces and bodies in unsettling portraits by Markus Åkesson.
- Exploring Takashi Murakami's rise from the bottom of the slope to becoming king of the hill.
- SHOK-1 brings x-ray artworks to new Arsham/Fieg Gallery exhibit.
- Yayoi Kusama announces a major new exhibition in London featuring a large ‘Infinity Room Mirror.’
- Why art exhibitions are returning to domestic settings.
- Arte al Rescate provides relief to victims of Hurricane Maria through art.
- Architect Frank Gehry to design Art Museum restaurant in Philadelphia.
- The city as a canvas, Ghana’s artists are building—and engaging—communities.
- California tried to give artists a cut, but the Judges said no.
- Pierre Alechinsky and Fujiko Nakaya win £100,000 Japanese Praemium Imperiale art prize.
- Dealing with creative block? A deck of cards might help.
