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More stories below from this week (click on bolded words for more information):
- Museum workers scramble for cash amid the longest US government shutdown in history.
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The buzziest and most beautiful
museums opening in 2019.
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- Will the inaugural 2019 Los Angeles edition of Frieze get its big Hollywood break?
- Felix L.A. Art Fair reveals exhibitors, site-specific projects for Hollywood Roosevelt hotel debut.
- Art Los Angeles Contemporary announces 2019 exhibitors list.
- At UNTITLED San Francisco, dealers chase tech money while collectors remain circumspect.
- A few collectors and other visitors to gather their thoughts on FOG Design+Art San Francisco.
- At a frenetic Outsider Art Fair opening, memory jugs, new discoveries, and a family affair.
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- This month's must-see art guide to San Francisco.
- 2019 highlights from the UK art world and beyond.
- Optical art icon Bridget Riley unveils huge new work at the National Gallery.
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A mistakenly made penny
sold at auction for over $200,000 USD.
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After
Gerhard Richter disavowed a new movie based on his life, the director fires back.
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Artists, arts professionals call on
New Museum to allow unionization.
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Skarstedt gallery to open new space on New York’s Upper East Side.
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Gallery-share initiative Condo launches a
VIP app to connect galleries and collectors.
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Jeff Koons lays off dozens in a move toward a decentralized, automated studio practice.
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Jackson Pollock is perhaps the most-forged postwar artist, and this man wants to identify the fakes.
- How the world’s biggest financial scandal ensnared the art world.
- How a legendary Alexander Calder installation got ensnared in Sears’s tortuous bankruptcy saga.
- A scammer pretending to be Wendi Deng Murdoch duped 2 photographers out of thousands of dollars.
- The famed Jewish art dealer who fought to retrieve 400 stolen works from the Nazis.
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The dark side of surrealism that
exploited women’s “hysteria”
- What happens to the Surrealist mindset in the age of Artificial Intelligence.
- Adidas Originals to launch solo exhibition featuring new Keiichi Tanaami artworks.
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- Lucy Liu’s longtime but little-known art practice is deeply moving.
- Ulrike Müller's recent exhibition at Kunstverein Düsseldorf explores the categories of visual identification.
- Walter De Maria's masterpiece involved filling an apartment with 140 tons of dirt.
- Pablo Tomek leaves the social interpretation of his work up to the viewer.
- Joshua Vides installs black & white wedding chapel in Las Vegas.
- Banksy artwork found on garage in Wales sold for six-figure sum.
- Leading voices in the UK art world demand ‘people’s vote’ on Brexit.
- Why has China arrested award-winning photographer Lu Guang, and hundreds of other artists in Xinjiang?
- Scientists discover the secret to Rembrandt’s paint recipe.
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How 19th-century artists envisioned the
apocalypse.
- Why Mapplethorpe’s photographs remain subversive, even without the shock value.
- Why contemporary women artists are obsessed with the grotesque.
- PODCAST: Sisters are painting it for themselves—meet the female Old Masters finding prominence at last.
- PODCAST: Artist Laurie Simmons “I don’t want to be a second generation anything.”
- Why Jenny Holzer’s “Inflammatory Essays” is the perfect work for our times.
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Veteran curator
Marc-Olivier Wahler hopes his new Paris art center will draw in people by accident.
- How the Instagram egg broke the internet and became a study in exhaustion.
- Kanye West gifts $10 million to James Turrell’s ‘life-changing’ volcano crater art installation.
- Arts education in English primary schools is declining both in quality and quantity, new research suggests.
- US Vice President’s wife Karen Pence ‘excited’ to teach art at school that bans gay students.
- Max Bill and Georges Vantongerloo, a lasting friendship.
