Pace Gallery gets a profile in Town & Country this week, as artist Tara Donovan reflects on her time with the gallery and its impact on the art world. “I am in awe of the small gallery that Arne started in Boston in 1960 and the art empire he and Marc have built,” she says. “They may be father and son, but they have created a family for all of us who work alongside them.” (more…)

An show of work by Anthony van Dyck will use X-ray and infrared technology to provide new perspective into the artist’s methods.“We don’t know whether it was at the request of the client or whether it was his own artistic decision,” says curator Mirjam Neumeister. “But it shows that his paintings were prepared not just with drawing studies—they were also very intensely reworked during the painting process.” (more…)

A piece in the LA Times charts how the Trump tax cuts are negatively impacting artists and actors, showing how much money is now paid by many freelancers in tax after the new tax code eliminated itemized deductions. (more…)

Artist Dawoud Bey has joined Sean Kelly in New York.  “I have admired Dawoud’s work for many years and we have been friends for a long time,” Kelly says. “We very much look forward to welcoming him to the gallery and representing his inspiring and important body of work.” (more…)

A painting of the Madonna and child attributed as “close to Raphael” has sold for €1.27m in Vienna, Art Newspaper reports, more than three times its estimate.  The sales comes after one historian speculated the work was perhaps by the artist himself. “We think this probably made the work even more interesting,” says Doris Krumpl, a spokeswoman for Dorotheum, where the work was sold. (more…)

Saudi Arabia is planning a modern art museum outside Riyadh, Forbes reports.  Titled the Saudi Museum of Modern Art, it will be “designed according to a modern creative concept influenced by the traditional local architectural style.” (more…)

A new lawsuit filed in Florida sees art dealer Inigo Phil  facing off against Fine Art Partners (FAP), a Germany-based financial services company that claims the dealer is withholding $14 million in works by Donald Judd, and perhaps most notably, one of Yayoi Kusama‘s Infinity Room works. (more…)

Sotheby’s has announced  that Mark Rothko’s Blue Over Red will be a featured lot in the company’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale November 14^th in NYC.  The work was acquired directly from the artist by dealer and collector Harold Diamond, before being sold to a private collection from the holdings Baltimore collectors Israel and Selma Rosen. (more…)

Yayoi Kusama will have a balloon in this year’s Macy’s Day Parade, Art News reports.  “Her work lends itself to that playful whimsy that we like to see in the sky,” says Susan Tercero, the parade’s executive producer. “What’s fantastic about her art, and why I think she’s so world-renowned, is that it is so accessible. Everyone can look at her art and appreciate it, understand it, and feel something from it, and that’s what we’re trying to do.” (more…)

Instagram held a closed-door roundtable yesterday with art institutions and artists in New York about its community guidelines and content moderation policies as they relate to nudity in art, Art News reports. “Today was about meeting with the community in the art world to understand their feedback,” spokesperson Stephanie Otway said. “A lot of their feedback is based around our nudity policies, so we definitely felt it was a constructive day for us to think about how these policies evolve and develop in the future. I think it’s the start of a conversation between us and the art community.” (more…)

Amid discord in Hong Kong, the new list of exhibitors for next year’s edition of Art Basel Hong Kong has been announced, with 241 galleries on hand. (more…)

Berlin gallerist Michael Schultz has been arrested over suspicion of selling fake artworks. The arrest came after German authorities found an alleged fake by an when it was put up for sale at an auction house. (more…)

An Yves Klein from his Anthropometries series may beat the artist’s auction record at Christie’s next month in New York, estimated to sell at $12 million to $18 million. (more…)

St John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta will open its own wing dedicated to the Caravaggio tapestry set it holds in its collection, following a restoration. “Apart from cleaning the tapestries, losses and open seams were reinforced and lined is such a way that strengthens and supports the magnificent weavings so that they can hang again,” says Cynthia de Giorgio, the curator and museum project leader of St John’s Co-Cathedral.  (more…)

Andrea Lissoni the senior curator at Tate Modern, will take over as director at the Haus der Kunst, taking over for the late Okwui Enwezor. “We have found a convincing personality who is willing to and can face the challenges of the Haus der Kunst in the field of tension between international radiance and local embedding,” says Bernd Sibler, the art minister in the state of Bavaria. (more…)

Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping, a provocative and challenging practitioner who often brought forth taboo subjects in China, has passed away at 65. His death was confirmed by Gladstone Gallery. The artist’s work recently encountered controversy in New York, when his 1993 work Theater of the World was altered to remove animals preying on each other from the inside of the work. “Huang doesn’t give a damn,” said Kamel Mennour. “Sometimes I’ll point out important clients to him, but it makes no difference. He never goes to openings or parties, never reads magazines. He wears the same pants and shoes every day. He’s just obsessively focused on his work.” (more…)

On November 11 in New York Christie’s will sell Umberto Boccioni’s iconic sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, estimated at $3,800,000-4,500,000. “In his brief life, Boccioni reimagined time, space and movement in three dimensions,” says Max Carter, International Director, Head of Department, Impressionist and Modern Art at the auction house. “Where other works of art are rooted in the past, Unique Forms of Continuity of Space—Boccioni’s greatest achievement and one of the most important sculptures of the 20th century—was, is and will always be the future.” (more…)

A piece in the NYT looks at the friendship between Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas, and how the pair’s shared interests and styles helped usher in a new era of art. “Degas was surrounded by Americans,” says historian Nancy Mowll Mathews. “He was someone who liked having people like him. He got them interested in his ideas. Cassatt was one of many who came into the Impressionist circle through Degas.”  (more…)

A newly discovered painting by Rembrandt will go on view for the first time at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, The Guardian reports. “In his early paintings, prints and drawings we find a young artist exploring his own style, grappling with technical difficulties and making mistakes. But his progress is remarkable and the works in this exhibition demonstrate an amazing development from year to year,” says Christopher Brown, a former Ashmolean director and co-curator of the show. (more…)

Environmental protestors from Extinction Rebellion coated themselves with fake oil at the National Portrait Gallery this week, in protest against the museum’s sponsorship by BP. “Who will there be left to see, who will there be left to paint, if we have no earth and no people?” a protestor said during the action. “We cannot be artists on a dead planet. Oil means the end, but art means the beginning.” (more…)

Volta Art Fair has been purchased by Ramsay Fairs, the group that owns the Affordable Art Fair and Pulse, the Financial Times reports. The new owners will work “to invest more in marketing and the fair experience,” according to a statement. (more…)

Hildegard Bachert, an art dealer focused on German and Austrian modernism, has died at age 98.  Bachert was a tireless advocate for the often challenging subject matter of the work she sold, once saying: “We don’t do pretty pictures—our art is tough. If we have people who come in saying, ‘I’m looking for a picture that works over my fireplace,’ I say, ‘I’m sorry but I can’t help you.’” (more…)

A Keith Haring mural is being cut out of the stairwell of Grace House, a Catholic youth center on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and prepared for auction, causing some to decry its removal. “When new kids came to that building and they saw all that stuff, they said, ‘Oh my god, this is Keith Haring. Is this real?’” says former director Gary Mallon. (more…)

Hollywood exec Ron Meyer has filed a $10m lawsuit against two art dealers he claims sold him a forged Mark Rothko. “Ron Meyer is probably Hollywood’s best liked person. The people he’s quietly helped are legion,” says lawyer Bertram Fields. “It’s a shame that Ron, of all people, should have been stuck with an expensive but fake painting.  We’ll try to right that wrong.” (more…)