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More stories below from this week (click on bolded words for more information):
- Jeffrey Deitch left MOCA amid controversy. Now he's returning to L.A. to launch a gallery on his own terms.
- United Talent Agency Fine Arts head Josh Roth dies at 40.
- The American architect and theorist Robert Venturi has died at the age of 93.
- Geta Brătescu, the Romanian multidisciplinary artist, has died at age 92.
- A Los Angeles federal judge allows Adrian Falkner aka Smash 137's lawsuit against GM to move forward.
- Los Angeles Gallery Chimento Contemporary takes down one of two exhibitions after anti-gentrification protest.
- Elon Musk plans to launch Japanese billionaire collector Yusaku Maezawa and eight artists into space.
- Hauser & Wirth is launching a new art magazine called ‘Ursula’ named after it's co-founder Ursula Hauser.
- Lucas Casso quits investment banking to start a gallery in Berlin—and may have the key to success.
- Only art fairs can solve the gallery crisis, says a New York Times op-ed.
- Remember how art helped bring down the world financial system in 2008?
- The romance between the art market and cryptocurrencies is getting weirder every day. It won’t end well.
- WAGE just released a calculator that tells artists if they're getting paid fairly for their work.
- Berlin shuts down an artist’s bold plan to rebuild the barrier.
- For his latest spectacle, JR will unveil a massive installation at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate.
- This art fair is offering Aston Martins alongside Alex Katz paintings to drive sales.
- 25 years later, Mario Sorrenti unveils intimate photos of Kate Moss.
- Millennials in mind: Unseen Amsterdam photography event tempts younger collectors.
- No gallery? No problem: 9 millennial art strategies that are shaping the future of contemporary art.
- This photographer subverts gender roles in an intimate series about her relationship.
- From the living room to the saleroom, how prize artworks get to auction.
- Sotheby's taps Swizz Beatz to curate a contemporary art sale.
- Damien Hirst’s former financial wizard conjures more than $13 million for his art collection at Sotheby’s London.
- Dutch taxidermy duo Jaap Sinke and Ferry van Tongeren elevate death to an art form.
- Walk of shame? A guerrilla artist put Donald Trump’s Hollywood star behind bars—literally.
- Ai Weiwei says he is heading to the US—but is too old for New York.
- Seven giants of Japanese contemporary art who aren’t Murakami or Kusama.
- This California winery is opening a massive sculpture park with works by Ai Weiwei, Yayoi Kusama, and more.
- Huma Bhabha’s unsettling sculpture will be the centerpiece of 2019 Yorkshire Sculpture International festival.
- What the western world has gotten wrong about African Hemba sculpture.
- What does the road to success look like? Case studies of African American artists from three generations.
- African American artists are more visible than ever. So why are museums giving them short shrift?
- The Baghdad-born, Los Angeles-based artist talks about the impetus for her new work at Susanne Vielmetter.
- Kathryn Andrews presents "Candy Butchers" at Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong.
- 5Pointz is gone but its artists have reunited to turn a New York stairwell into a ‘Museum of Street Art’.
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Ten artists who unpacked the
symbolism of the four seasons.
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- What astrology can tell us about these 12 famous artists.
- Salvator Mundi’s patchwork provenance now includes a 50-year stop in Louisiana.
- Returning to its Swiss roots, Hauser & Wirth is opening its ninth gallery in St. Moritz.
- Glenstone Museum's giant $200 million expansion is ready, but will visitors come?
- Met plans to leave Breuer building, making way for the Frick.
- Las Vegas is really high on its new cannabis museum—and its giant ‘hittable’ bong.
- An artist-designed Monopoly edition highlights the game’s anti-gentrification roots.
- Mystery identity of Van Gogh’s 'gardener' solved.
- Exhibition at Albertina Museum presents 100 paintings by Claude Monet.
- Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, the Dada Baroness who invented the readymade.
- Pat Steir will make monumental waterfall paintings for both the Barnes and the Hirshhorn in 2019.
- Why your doctor may be prescribing art classes in the future.
