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More stories below from this week (click on bolded words for more information):
- Sterling Ruby's massive sculptures to go on display in Dallas.
- Frieze Art Fair unveils artists, films and talks for inaugural L.A. event.
- Snarkitecture’s pop-up installation brings beach season to Chicago’s Navy Pier.
- Tupac Shakur's erotic artworks sold for over $21,000 USD at auction.
- Yayoi Kusama editions snap up world auction record.
- Here's what sold at Taipei Dangdai.
- Taiwanese mega-collector Pierre Chen wants to open a private museum in the mountains outside Taipei.
- Germany and France to establish joint culture institutes.
- Banksy artwork honoring victims of terrorism robbed in Paris.
- Lehmann Maupin Gallery accuses an ex-employee of stealing valuable client data and trade secrets.
- Gallery representation dwindles for established female artists, new research finds.
- Victoria Beckham on how she became an unlikely celebrity spokesperson for female old masters.
- A bold social commentary since the 1970s, Barbara Kruger’s art is as incisive as ever.
- The US government shutdown is costing the Smithsonian $1 million a week.
- In a landslide decision, employees at the New Museum vote to unionize.
- The MCA Chicago lowers admission prices for those affected by the gender pay gap.
- Artists urged to boycott Whitney Biennial in protest against tear gas manufacturer links.
- Mariana Castillo Deball's home truths in her new solo show at the New Museum.
- This spring, the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg will unveil a new interactive, AI version of the artist.
- A massive 17th-century painting was hiding in the walls of an Oscar de la Renta boutique.
- The Dutch florist behind the Met’s grandiose bouquets.
- Louise Bourgeois at the opening of Tate Modern.
- How Cecily Brown’s ambiguous canvases mirror the political instabilities of our times.
- PODCAST: Mapplethorpe at the Guggenheim, Bill Viola at the Royal Academy.
- Bill Viola/Michelangelo—a meditation on mortality and revival at the Royal Academy.
- HBO instantly snapped up artist Rashid Johnson’s directorial debut ‘Native Son’ at Sundance.
- The politics of seeing in Egon Schiele’s glowing, pulsating bodies.
- Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ staying put in Amsterdam museum.
- Why artists love the eerie sensation of characters that look almost human.
- From Avedon to Arbus, artists dissect the complex legacy of James Baldwin.
- Ana Leovy paints empowered characters in a celebration of diversity and equality.
- Makoto Funatsu’s scenic paintings induce “peace, nostalgia, sorrow and joy”.
- One of Poland’s richest women is turning a Swiss village into a haven for art by women.
- Jonas Mekas, a patron saint of New York’s avant-garde film scene, has died at 96.
- The avant-garde art that was made for TV.
- Bas Jan Ader’s fateful, final work left him lost at sea.
- Jumana Manna interviewed by Hakim Bishara.
- The case of the disappearing 800-pound hammer sculpture.
- The ins and outs of insiders and outsiders.
- How collectible designer toys became an art form.
- How NASA used art to shape our vision of the future.
- You don’t have to be good at art to benefit from an artistic hobby.
- A guide to painting a still life like Matisse.
- 10 artistic masterpieces meant to be experienced online.
