The Brooklyn Army Terminal will become home to around 50 artist studios, with non-profit ArtBuilt launching construction work on-site.  The project came to fruition following an extensive research process. “This research quickly led us to realize that the affordable workspace market was entering a period of unprecedented crisis,” says Esther Robinson, co-executive director of ArtBuilt. (more…)

Following on a string of closures for New York art galleries, Chelsea space Off Vendome will close at the end of July, Artforum reports. The gallery was originally founded in Düsseldorf in 2013. (more…)

CalArts in Valencia has added artists Martine Syms and Cauleen Smith to its staff, Art News reports. The pair have shown widely in past years, and both were included in landmark exhibitions this year at MoMA and The Whitney, respectively. (more…)

The Fondation Louis Vuitton has landed the collection of Russian philanthropists Mikhail and Ivan Morozov for an exhibition in 2020.  The collection, which includes landmark works by Cézanne, Van Gogh, and Picasso, will be culled from the holdings of the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.  (more…)

Torrential rains in Paris have caused flooding at the Louvre, damaging some of the museum’s prized works by Nicolas Poussin and Jean François de Troy. The museum reports that, “water seeped into the mezzanine of the Denon wing (the Islamic Art and Eastern Mediterranean areas), the first floor of the Sully wing (Salle des Sept-Cheminées, Henri IV staircase) and the second floor of the Cour Carrée (certain French painting galleries).” (more…)

After a string of controversial reform measures for Italian museums, Italy’s Culture Ministry reports that the number of visitors to Italian museums continues to rise. Last year’s visitor count is up to 23 million, a growth of 7% over last year.   (more…)

The Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Turin has reached an agreement with the Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti per l’Arte to hold and exhibit the reclusive Italian millionaire’s art collection, valued at over $600 million. “He specialized in the concept of perfection,” says Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, director of the Castello di Rivoli Museum. “His collection is very personal, and it doesn’t have any particular geographical  or historical boundaries.” (more…)

An exhibition on Amedeo Modigliani at the Doge’s Palace in Genoa has been closed after 21 works in the show were discovered to be fakes. “They did the right thing. This was absolutely shameful,’ says art critic Carlo Pepi, who first suspected the fraud. “A Michelangelo is a Michelangelo. A Picasso is a Picasso. But when a painting is a fake, it is missing its soul, and these were missing that three dimensional elegance of Modigliani – even a child could see these were crude fakes.” (more…)

The Guggenheim Museum has announced plans for a comprehensive exhibition of the work of Danh Vo, which will open at the museum next February. This will be Vo’s second exhibition at the museum, the first coming in 2013 after winning the Hugo Boss Prize. (more…)

The New York Times has a lengthy piece this week asking various artists, musicians and celebrities what they’d like to see from a rehabilitated and financially strong Met Museum, with a number of imaginative and unique answers and solutions to the museum’s financial and leadership woes.  “I was at a talk where a prominent museum director was asked by a colleague, What was the most important lesson he had learned while on the job? His response was ‘I learned to listen to artists,'” says Glenn Ligon. “One thing the new director needs to do is make the galleries in the Met places where artists actually want to show their work. They need to make proper galleries to show their contemporary collection. And if they don’t change the galleries right away, they need to at least rotate the collection once in a while so it doesn’t feel like it is a storage area that someone left the door open to.” (more…)

The Hirshhorn Museum has announced a gala this coming November to honor a group of 31 female artists including Lorna Simpson, Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Yayoi Kusama. “Each year, the Hirshhorn celebrates incredible artists from around the world who throughout their careers continue to challenge and inspire us,” Melissa Chiu, the Hirshhorn’s director, said in a statement. “This year, I am especially proud to honor 31 outstanding female artists—from pioneers of performance and video art to emerging painters and sculptors—whose collective contributions to the field have transformed the way we look at art and set the stage for generations of creative talents yet to come.” (more…)

The self-professed “art detective” Arthur Brand is now claiming he is 100% positive that the paintings stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum are in Ireland, CBS News reports. “We have had talks with… former members of the IRA – and after a few Guinnesses, after a few talks – you can see in their eyes that they know more,” Brand says. (more…)

The Art Newspaper spotlights new measures and methods artists, art dealers and curators are exploring to survive in the current art market, from temporary shows and pop-up exhibitions to selling work directly online, bypassing gallery models entirely. “There’s a sense of things being cyclical,” says curator Holly Willats. “Despite the overwhelming difficulties, artists are finding new initiatives to continue to make and exhibit their work.” (more…)

Former Tate head Nicholas Serota has gone on record calling for the protection of artists during and after Brexit negotiations, claiming that their right to travel and move in and out of the country is essential to the British nation. “We owe much of how we see ourselves – especially our romantic side – to the perspective of incomers,” Serota says. “Where would the visual arts in this country be without the contribution made by artists like Frank Auerbach and Lucian Freud in one generation, Chris Ofili, Mona Hatoum or John Akomfrah in another?” (more…)

The Met has set a new attendance record this year, counting 7 million visitors over the last 12 months, a boost in visitors created by the addition of the Met Breuer to the museum’s exhibition program. “The Met is thrilled to see our visitors responding so enthusiastically to our collection, exhibitions, and programs” said Daniel H. Weiss, President and CEO of The Met. “We’re honored that so many people decided to spend their time with us this year.”  (more…)

The Shed, the soon-to-open New York City arts center headed by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Alex Poots, has appointed Emma Enderby as one of its curators. Enderby formerly worked as an associate curator at New York’s Public Art Fund. “Emma’s experience in contemporary visual art and across other artistic disciplines is impressive and wide-ranging. Her work in New York and internationally reflects the Shed’s commitment to creating a local and global program,” Poots said in a statement. “I’m thrilled to begin working with her.” (more…)

Artist Arthur Jafa has been tapped to direct the most recent video for rapper JAY-Z, whose new album 4:44 was released this month.  The video is only available for subscribers to Tidal, the artist’s music-streaming service, but a short preview of the eight minute-long video is available on his artist page. (more…)

Ai Weiwei has publicly called for the release of dissident activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, who is currently in the custody of the Chinese government, and who is suffering from liver cancer. “I think the government should release him. This is a historic mistake,” he said. “The government should just release him and have a better record – because this is going to be remembered by the whole world … what they are doing.” (more…)

Artist Martine Syms is the subject of a profile in the New Yorker this week, as the artist closes her first exhibition at MoMA this month. “I wanted to give the museum a social life,” Syms says. “Ideally, you’ll hear it from the hallway.” She gestured to the emptiness of the atrium outside of the gallery. “I wanted to enlarge it all, to make it obnoxious.” (more…)

The landscape of Armory Week is changing in 2018, with the ADAA Art Show holding its dates to February, while the Armory Show and NADA will open a week later in the second week of March. “After the ADAA and our partners at Henry Street Settlement confirmed the dates for the rental of the Park Avenue Armory for the 2018 fair, the Armory Show informed us that their leadership had decided to push the fair back a week for the first time in many years,” says ADAA president Adam Sheffer. (more…)

The Dia Foundation is expanding its collection of Asian art from the 1960s and 1970s, adding works by Kishio Suga and Lee Ufan to its collection. “Since arriving at Dia, I have had a strong desire to deepen the institution’s commitment to reflect a greater understanding of the seminal work that was being made internationally during the period that Dia has championed,” says director Jessica Morgan. “The addition of Lee Ufan and Kishio Suga to Dia’s collection was a natural progression for our foundation. Both artists were contributing to parallel conversations around Minimalism and post-Minimalism in the 1960s and 1970s, and are still developing their resonant and influential practices today.” (more…)

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has revived a lawsuit by the Cassirer family, pushing Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum to return a Camille Pissarro work believed to be Nazi loot. “The Cassirers have created a triable issue of fact whether (the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection) knew the painting was stolen from Lilly (Cassirer) when TBC purchased the painting,” Circuit Judge Carlos Bea wrote. “There is a triable issue of fact as to the Baron’s good faith.” (more…)

Artist Conrad Shawcross is profiled in Bloomberg this month, as the artist explores new modes of funding his projects. “It really became about how to get things made,” he says of his work. “It’s about how to get people to be enthused about helping.” (more…)

The Art Newspaper takes a closer look at the work of Ukrainian artist Oksana Zhnikrup, who created a trove of statuettes for mass production in Russia, and whose work serves as the bedrock for Jeff Koons’s recent Seated Ballerina pieces.  Koons bought the rights to Zhnikrup’s family in 2006, says Elena Korus, a Ukranian art historian. “Of course they weren’t against it” she continues. “There was no longer any factory and this art had been forgotten.” (more…)