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More stories below from this week (click on bolded words for more information):
- Why artist Barry McGee has no interest in a traditional museum retrospective.
- A list of the must-see gallery shows in New York this September.
- See the first trailer for HBO’s new documentary about the high-flying art market.
- Secrets of the LA art world, Part I: The Hills.
- David Teiger’s blue-chip art collection could exceed $100 million at Sotheby’s.
- Richanda Rhoden, a fascinating painter whose work was rarely shown in her lifetime.
- Is the art world ready for the sanctuary movement?
- Major London exhibition will spotlight iconic street artist Richard Hambleton.
- José Parlá’s Amistad América by Osman Can Yerebakan.
- Art spaces can bridge social divides—but first you need to know your neighbor.
- What is the real-world value of a left-wing art show?
- Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is judging an open call for artist-designed coins.
- Christopher Anderson commissioned from Shenzhen’s Daken Art Organization to capture life in China.
- Artist Simone Leigh will create a towering bust for the High Line’s first Plinth commission.
- Can Kansas City’s Open Spaces biennial help bridge the divide in one of America’s most segregated cities?
- Guggenheim receives $750,000 grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for 1960s and ’70s art.
- Culture pass has New Yorkers reaching for their library cards—but demand is exceeding supply.
- Conceptual art wasn’t meant to be collected. Now it sells for six figures.
- New online database of Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings offers a template for a more up-to-date resource.
- Preview Art21’s profile of pioneering sound artist Susan Philipsz in Berlin.
- Frieze Film 2018 commissions The Otolith Group, Paul Pfeiffer and Lucy Raven.
- Artists to watch at the Governors Island Art Fair.
- Can ex-gallerist Joanna Kamm design a more sustainable art fair?
- These artists reveal the artists they collect.
- Marvel Comics legend Marie Severin dies at 89.
- Why I did not see the Picasso show at the Tate Modern.
- London's National Portrait Gallery's steep decline in visitors due to counting error.
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fraud case against the Academy of Art University in San Francisco can go to trial, judge rules.
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The revealing story of the painting that inspired
Julian Schnabel’s new Van Gogh film.
- A drawing of Van Gogh’s most famous painting Starry Night is being held by Russia.
- The museum pieces that every school kid in the US needs to see.
- How two thieves stole thousands of prints from university libraries.
- The pleasures and pitfalls of starting and sustaining an artist-run gallery.
- Artists on the materials that inspire and drive their work.
- The Drawing Center’s new director Laura Hoptman on the big potential of a small museum.
- Julie Mehretu paints to make sense of a violent and chaotic world.
- AI-generated art just got its first mainstream gallery show.
- Street artist Escif is using augmented reality to challenge the boundaries of graffiti.
- I saw Burning Man art in a museum while not on drugs, and here’s what happened.
- Is Burning Man’s art relevant off the playa?
- Experts uncover ‘exciting’ new evidence in Leonardo's Salvator Mundi painting.
- The German Expressionists’ shockingly raw work exploded bourgeois values and reinvented art.
- How brutalist luminary Marcel Breuer became a master of concrete.
- 'The Village Voice' folds after 60 years of publication.
- ‘Interview’ Magazine will relaunch in September after Peter Brant essentially repurchased it from himself.
- How gorgers and grifters have conned the art world for generations.
- The frescoes in Pompeii’s lavish villas reveal the fabulous lives of ancient Romans.
- Annie Leibovitz shoots Stormy Daniels and Michael Avenatti for Vogue.
