The New York Times has a piece on Susan Unterberg, a donor who has advocated anonymously for women artists over the past four decades, and is now stepping publicly into her role. “It’s a great time for women to speak up,” she says. “I feel I can be a better advocate having my own voice.” (more…)

The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis will commission a Native artist to do a public artwork for the museum’s sculpture garden, a response to the controversy over artist Sam Durant’s Scaffold work. “We are extremely fortunate to be working with the expertise, knowledge, and creative thinking of this committee, who collectively will help bring an important new work of art to the Walker Art Center collection and to the Twin Cities,” says Siri Engberg, the Walker’s senior curator and director of exhibitions. (more…)

The Royal Academy in London will mount a show of works by Bill Viola alongside works by Michelangelo, The Guardian reports. “I got out the Michelangelos for him, thinking they had much more connection with the themes that Bill had been exploring throughout his career,” Martin Clayton, the head of prints and drawings at the Royal Collection, says of a meeting years ago between Viola and himself, “and he was blown away by them.” (more…)

Pace Gallery has appointed Whitney Ferrare senior director of its Hong Kong location, bringing her over from Gagosian’s Hong Kong space. “Pace is distinct for its long-held and dedicated engagement with the artists and collectors across Asia—having partnered with legendary dealer Leng Lin to be the first major Western gallery to open a space in Asia, launching Pace in Beijing in 2008,” Ferrare says. “It feels particularly momentous to join Pace as the gallery celebrates its 10th anniversary in Asia, now with galleries in Hong Kong and Seoul, as well as Beijing.” (more…)

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced the recipients of its Spring 2018 Curatorial Research Fellowships, with $295,000 split between six recipients. “These six curators are engaging with urgent cultural issues including income inequality, how we represent resistance, and how dominant narratives are shaped, and most importantly, by whom,” says Joel Wachs, the Warhol Foundation’s president. (more…)

The House of Representatives has voted down a proposal to cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities by 15%, Variety reports. “One of the largest vote margins in support of the NEA and NEH ever, this bipartisan showing and resounding vote is a testament to the good work of the federal agencies and the power of the arts in our communities, schools, lives, and work,” says Robert Lynch, the president and CEO of Americans for the Arts. (more…)

The Art Newspaper reports on the legacy of Robert Indiana, and the current lawsuits that could determine the fate of the late artist’s estate. A filing in Maine has sought to discover if some parties working with Indiana “may have been conveyed away or otherwise misappropriated or sold without due compensation.” (more…)

A new entrance at the V&A Museum in London has led to a spike in attendance, moving against wider trends in the UK. “All the data we have shows that it is much more attractive to non-traditional museum-goers,” says museum director Tristram Hunt. “It is less, frankly, scary.” (more…)

Creative Time has announced the lineup for the eleventh edition of the Creative Time Summit, which will set up shop in Miami this year from November 1-3.  “Fifty years after the upheavals of 1968, we continue to grapple with a host of pressing issues, from the ongoing legacies of colonialism to climate change and xenophobia,” says Creative Time executive director Justine Ludwig.  “There’s no better place for this conversation than Miami, a home to so many incredible artists, activists, and thinkers. We couldn’t be prouder to host the summit here, or of the participants and the invaluable insights they’ll be bringing to bear on some of the most critical issues of our time.” (more…)

A new initiative by New York’s library systems will grant free access to a range of NYC institutions with a library card, the New York Times reports. “Some people are intimidated by museums,” says Linda Johnson, president of the Brooklyn Public Library, said in a phone interview. “They shouldn’t be shut out of all the wonderful cultural offerings that are available to New York City dwellers.” (more…)

Liberté Nuti has joined Hauser & Wirth as International Senior Director of Impressionist & Modern Art, leaving her former post as International Director of Impressionist & Modern at Christie’s. “We are thrilled to welcome Liberté Nuti as a Senior Director in London,” Iwan Wirth says. “We look forward to this next chapter in Hauser & Wirth’s evolution as the gallery’s secondary market activity comes into sharper focus.” (more…)

A Robert Motherwell painting that disappeared from a New York warehouse in 1978 has been found, the New York Times reports. The painting was found in a garage upstate by the son of a mover who had worked for Motherwell. (more…)

Eric Shiner is leaving his place as senior vice president of contemporary art at Sotheby’s to serve as artistic director of White Cube gallery in New York. “This new role allows me to return to making sure the most relevant voices of our age are heard and celebrated,” he said in a statement. (more…)

The Venice Biennale has announced its opening dates for its 2019 edition, with the title May You Live in Interesting Times, an allusion to periods of uncertainty, crisis, and turmoil.  “At a moment when the digital dissemination of fake news and ‘alternative facts’ is corroding political discourse and the trust on which it depends, it is worth pausing whenever possible to reassess our terms of reference,” says curator Ralph Rugoff. (more…)

The next iteration of Documenta will be held in 2022, with a selection committee for the next edition’s artistic director just announced. “Documenta is an essential forum for contemporary art and, as the legacy of Arnold Bode, a treasure that enhances the image of the city of Kassel,” says Kassel’s mayor, Christian Geselle. “I am very pleased to note that an international finding commission composed of outstanding experts has been chosen to find an artistic director for Documenta 15. And we are right on schedule.” (more…)

The LA Times has a piece on the Pablo Picasso pieces that once hung in a special room at the paper, alongside a range of other works from the newspaper’s collection. “They gave us this gift of thinking highly enough of us to surround us with beautiful things,” says former bureau chief Geraldine Baum. (more…)

Jacolby Satterwhite is joining Mitchell-Innes and Nash, Art News reports. “I was first introduced to the work at the Studio Museum in 2012 and was drawn to the rigorous and subversive nature of his practice, both aesthetically and conceptually,”says Lucy Mitchell-Innes.  (more…)

A fire at Paula Cooper Gallery’s Chelsea space has led to an inspection to make sure works in storage were not damaged by smoke, Art News reports. “The fire marshall is here trying to determine what caused the fire,” Cooper said. “It started this morning and it was contained. No one got hurt, fortunately, and it didn’t spread. It was contained in our storage room.” (more…)

Blinky Palermo’s To the People of New York City (1976) will return to New York City after thirty years, going on view this fall at Dia.  “To the People of New York City has often been described as the most influential work of Palermo’s short but remarkable career—representing a complex investigation into the formal language of Minimalism and the legacy of abstraction, while foreshadowing the paradigms of Conceptual practice. In the context of Dia’s rich collection of work by both Palermo and his peers, this presentation will foster important and in-depth engagement with this artist’s rarely exhibited work,” said Jessica Morgan, Dia’s Nathalie de Gunzburg Director. (more…)

Curator Nikki Columbus is accusing MoMA PS1 of rescinding a job offer once the museum learned she had had a baby, the New York Times reports. “I was told by every woman I spoke with, don’t discuss your pregnancy until you get the job,” Columbus says. “I just went forward thinking that this is not their business, it’s not relevant to the job and to my abilities.” (more…)

Kathy Noble has joined the Performa as curator and manager of curatorial affairs, Art News reports. “Kathy will be somebody who looks at the total picture with me,” Performa founder and chief curator RoseLee Goldberg says. (more…)

Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building will be rebuilt after a fire last month, the institution announced. “We’re going to rebuild the Mackintosh building,” director Tom Inns says. “There’s been a huge amount of speculation about what should happen with the site and quite rightly so, but from our point of view and that of the city of Glasgow, it is critically important that the building comes back as the Mackintosh building.” (more…)

A new art fair called Felix LA will launch next year in conjunction with Frieze Los Angeles, Art News reports, located at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. “I had a strong feeling that a lot of what I enjoyed about the art world was missing,” says founder and collector Dean Valentine. (more…)

New Museum curator Margot Norton and Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles curator Jamillah James will co-organize the 2021 New Museum Triennial, Art News reports.   (more…)