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More stories below from this week (click on bolded words for more information):
- Doug Aitken's mirrored mirage house installed in Swiss alps.
- The exhibitions to look forward to in 2019.
- What the art world is looking forward to in 2019 across Asia, the Middle East and Australasia.
- As Swiss art fair Artgenève opens its doors, your guide to the best shows in town.
- First Bangkok Art Biennale shows off city with art from near and far.
- The most Instagrammed artworks from Art Basel in Miami Beach 2018.
- Felipe Pantone becomes first contemporary artist to create Instagram face filters.
- Ramiken Gallery wins Armory Show’s inaugural Gramercy International Prize.
- Picasso’s drawings of bulls inspired Apple’s famously simple designs.
- Kehinde Wiley’s painted elegies for Wiley Ferguson.
- How Tomokazu Matsuyama appropriates images to create fine art.
- Swizz Beatz teams up with UTA Artist Space to showcase black artists in Los Angeles.
- Cecily Brown donates behemoth painting to Louisiana Museum in Denmark.
- Guggenheim deaccessions work by Zao Wou-Ki as the market for the artist swells.
- Phillips grew an impressive 29% in 2018 by focusing on winning categories.
- Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun painting sells at Sotheby’s Old Masters sale for $7.18 million, breaking record.
- Peter Paul Rubens drawing sells for record-setting $8.2 million at Sotheby’s.
- The British Museum has acquired its first work by Banksy.
- Grappling with the legacy of the woman who shot Andy Warhol.
- How nuns have shaped the course of art history.
- Inside New York’s last remaining artists’ housing.
- New York’s scrapped L-train shutdown is an emotional rollercoaster for Brooklyn-based galleries.
- 9 famous sites from art history are in danger of destruction.
- A tribute to Manny Faber’s "Termite Art" at MOCA Los Angeles creates a trans-historical dialogue.
- Hirshhorn extends Charline von Heyl show shuttered by shutdown.
- Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago offers discount tickets to gender pay gap victims.
- Art shippers play catch-up following U.S. Government shutdown.
- PODCAST: Expectations and epiphanies with NPG Director Nicholas Cullinan.
- PODCAST: Ruskin and Gombrich: revisiting two art historical heavyweights
- “Velvet Buzzsaw,” Netflix’s new art-world horror flick, is a bloody mess.
- A new Studio Swine exhibition in Brooklyn shines a light on, light.
- Olafur Eliasson to bring fog tunnel and rainbow mist to Tate Modern.
- Charlotte Keates’ paintings invite us into an all-American “dreamscape”.
- Meet the Berlin-based artist Claudia Wieser melding Bauhaus and ancient Rome.
- Sasha Gordon's intimate paintings explore her biracial identity.
- The magical life of 98-year-old painter Luchita Hurtado.
- Luchita Hurtado’s first solo exhibition, "Dark Years", focuses on the artist’s early works from the 1940s - 1950s.
- Artist Susan Hiller, explorer of consciousness and the occult, dies aged 78.
- How paraconceptualist artist Susan Hiller (1940-2019) probed the fringes of the familiar.
- Carolee Schneemann, Jeff Preiss and Geeta Dayal pay tribute to Jonas Mekas (1922–2019).
- These photographs capture the defiant sexuality of Punk.
- Photographer Heji Shin on shooting Kanye West, x-rays, and power.
- Mezzanine DNA matt black spray paint by Massive Attack wins Wallpaper Design Award.
- Artist makes blackest black paint in the world to protest Anish Kapoor.
- The artist-turned-color expert who made the perfect white paint.
- An artist and a curator’s death-defying dives 200 feet below the Pacific.
- Video art tales from China’s subtropical urban sprawl.
- 10 creative online courses you can take for free online.
- A new app is using art to help you feel better.
