A federal lawsuit brought by Ronald Lauder against the International Museum of World War II has been dismissed last week with prejudice, meaning that it cannot be litigated again, Art News reports. Lauder had reportedly given a collection of objects valued at $25 million to the museum, but was rebuffed when he tried to assert ownership over the objects later on. (more…)

Marilyn Minter is interviewed in New York Magazine’s “How I Get It Done” column, discussing her work and activism. “I always get stressed before I start a new project,” she says. “I totally feel like I’m going to fail. I’ll never get it, I don’t know what I’m doing. It’s usually right before the shoot. Who doesn’t have self-doubt? I don’t know anybody who thinks everything they do is great.” (more…)

Wolfgang Tillmans has been named the new chair of the board of the Institute of Contemporary Arts.  “Since my student days, the ICA has given me the opportunity to see pioneering art of varying media first-hand”, the artist said. “I am proud to serve this important institution […] at a time when its importance as a progressive space for culture in the heart of London is becoming ever more important.” (more…)

A group of artists and activists have criticized Ford Foundation president Darren Walker over comments they see as encouraging the expansion of the U.S. prison system. “I am deeply grateful to activists in the movement—including activists in the abolition and criminal justice reform movements—for all they have done to accelerate an end to mass incarceration,” Walker wrote in a follow-up essay. “I do want to clarify that, in order for our common goal of de-carceration to be realized in New York City and our nation, we must come together in dialogue and work together where possible.” (more…)

A piece in the New York Times profiles Kara Walker’s commission at the Tate Modern, a reworking of the language of the Queen Victoria Memorial she first saw after her initial site visit to the museum. “I hadn’t even seen it before,” she says. “I took a bunch of pictures out the window, because I was like — this is so totally my thing.” (more…)

After a counting error, the British Museum has once again reclaimed its place as the most visited museum in the UK. “The electronic counting system at the main entrance was undercounting because of incorrect light levels caused by a broken light fitting,” according to a spokesperson. (more…)

Hauser & Wirth will stage a three-show series with the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Art News reports.  “We really see him as the quintessential artist in the history of postwar European art, and internationally, he’s not where we think he should be, especially not for certain aspects of his work,” says VP and Partner Marc Payot. “Today, the art world is very global. We feel that we can be pushing even more, in terms of his growth and legacy.” (more…)

David Zwirner has tapped Skarstedt partner Brady Doty as a new senior director, with a focus on the secondary market. “I am very excited to begin the next chapter of my career at David Zwirner’s Upper East Side gallery,” Doty says. “I have always followed the gallery’s program, and I am continually impressed with the quality and caliber of their exhibitions.” (more…)

The MFA Houston has acquired a long-lost version of Eugène Delacroix’s Women of Algiers in Their Apartment, a version of which hangs in the Louvre. “We didn’t know he created a first version of the composition,” said Gary Tinterow, the Margaret Alkek Williams director of the MFA Houston. “It shows us how Delacroix composed in an additive fashion.” (more…)

Max Hollein joins host Charlotte Burns on the Art Agency Partners podcast this week to discuss future plans for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “At the Met, you’re always being confronted with endless opportunities,” he says. “If you’re not clear on where you want the institution to go—what mission you want to fulfill, what are the important steps to get there—you can get distracted at any moment in time. And you could get opportunistic.” (more…)

Piotr Uklanski is profiled in the NYT this week, as he opens a show of works at the Istanbul Biennial, which rework paintings of European men dressed up as Ottomans. “I have a long history of appropriation in my practice, and reinventing it in my own way,” he says. (more…)

A classic Josef Albers mural originally commissioned for 200 Park Ave (currently referred to as the MetLife Building) has been restored and placed back on view. “It’s all centered on a vantage point of the Albers piece,” says Rob Speyer, the president and chief executive of Tishman Speyer. “We were able to take a piece of the building’s history, which could’ve been forgotten, and instead restored it as the centerpiece of the building.” (more…)

Art collectors Lynda and Stewart Resnick will give $750 million to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena as part of an effort to combat climate change. “In order to comprehensively manage the climate crisis, we need breakthrough innovations, the kind that will only be possible through significant investment in university research,” Stewart Resnick says. “Science and bold creativity must unite to address the most pressing challenges facing energy, water, and sustainability.” (more…)

After a long negotiation, da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man will show at the Louvre this October. The loan from the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice was announced this week. (more…)

Vox Media will acquire New York Media, the company behind New York Magazine and a series of other publications, in an all-stock transaction.  “No one had to do this,” says Pamela Wasserstein, CEO of New York Media, said on Tuesday. “It’s a brilliant, in our view, opportunity, so that’s why we leaned into it. It’s not out of need. It’s out of ambition.” (more…)

Artist Cameron Rowland, Mel Chin and Jeffrey Gibson have been awarded MacArthur Genius Grants. “I finished the call and sat there dumbfounded,” Gibson says. “I’m familiar with MacArthur, but I never even knew how it worked.” (more…)

The NYT reports on the work of artist Ben Enwonwu, the Nigerian artist who is among the nation, and the continent’s most famous, as the market for his work continues to appreciate. “I’m very happy that my father is getting his due, but there’s still a long way to go,” said the artist’s son Oliver Enwonwu. (more…)

Kara Walker gets a profile in the Guardian this week, as she prepares to open her Tate Modern Turbine Hall Commission. “The Turbine Hall is like a grand prize,” she says. “You’ve been offered this gargantuan space and it’s all yours. It’s irresistible.”  (more…)

After 13 years as director of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Lawrence Rinder will step down. “For more than a decade, Lawrence Rinder has been an outstanding leader of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, amplifying the museum’s international reputation and deepening its public impact through programming that advances the highest creative and intellectual aspirations of UC Berkeley,” says Carol Christ, the chancellor of the University of California Berkeley. (more…)

Bruce W. Ferguson, the first director of SITE Santa Fe, has died at 73. A groundbreaking curator, he pioneered a unique approach to art and exhibition-making that established SITE as a major force in the American Southwest. (more…)

Art News profiles the art collection of the artist KAWS, as the artist continues to grow in stature. “He sees art without prejudice and hierarchies, on a very honest level,” says Wendy Olsoff, co-founder of P.P.O.W. “He sees the sincerity and individualism of each artist.” (more…)

A Renaissance masterwork by Cimabue has been discovered in a small kitchen outside Paris, The Gaurdian reports.  “I had a week to give an expert view on the house contents and empty it,” consultant Philomène Wolf says of discovering the work. “I had to make room in my schedule … if I didn’t, then everything was due to go to the dump.” (more…)

Gagosian is appealing a lawsuit against collector Steven A. Tananbaum over an  alleged failure to deliver three works by Jeff Koons. In its statement on an appeal, the gallery argued Tananbaum was “well aware of Koons’ perfectionism.” (more…)

A piece in Daily Beast looks at the new Pace Gallery space, and asks how the art world might evolve in the years to come.  “We do not believe that the big galleries have the capacity to edge out all these small and medium-size galleries,” Marc Glimcher said. “They may have the economic power to do it. But they don’t have the capacity to replace what those galleries are doing. So we know that something can happen. The market is very imperfect.  So our answer is that we’re very collaborative, we are very dedicated to working with medium and small galleries.” (more…)