The Independent NY Fair has announced the 63 galleries that will show work in its 2020 edition at Spring Studios, including twenty-one of the exhibitors are first-time participants. (more…)

Pope.L’s performance Conquest took place this weekend at Corporal John A. Seravalli Playground, with over a hundred participants crawling across the ground. “I just want to introduce some controversy,” the artist said. “This is not my crawl. Yeah, I know it’s what it says on the sign. But today, I’m giving it away. I want to share the pain.” (more…)

Olafur Eliasson has been named a Goodwill Ambassador of the UN’s Development Program. “Life on Earth is about co-existence—among people, non-human animals, ecosystems, and the environment,” he says. “Co-existence is beautiful and generative, chaotic and challenging. The fact is, we’re in it together. That’s why we all have to take the climate emergency seriously.” (more…)

The New York Times profiles Trevor Paglen’s recent project ImageNet Roulette, and its critiques of AI-driven data analysis. “We want to show how layers of bias and racism and misogyny move from one system to the next,” Paglen says. “The point is to let people see the work that is being done behind the scenes, to see how we are being processed and categorized all the time.” (more…)

The Sao Paulo Bienal has announced its first round of projects, focused around a range of solo shows opening months before the main exhibition.  Projects include a show of work by Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Clara Ianni, Deana Lawson, and a never-before-realized Hélio Oiticica performance to be staged at the opening of the main group show. (more…)

Art News profiles recent work by LaToya Ruby Frazier documenting the closure of a GM plant in Ohio and the resulting protests. “When I saw the news, I was moved because I understood the calamity that this was going to create,” she says. “I knew they were going to reduce these workers to statistics based on shares and stocks, and no one was going to pay attention to their livelihood.” (more…)

The Dia Art Foundation will offer free admission across all New York City sites starting in September 2020. “Our inaugural season will take full advantage of our revitalized and light-filled exhibition spaces at Dia:Chelsea,” says director Jessica Morgan. “It will also reflect the evolution of our program, which today embraces a broader stable of artists and perspectives while still exploring the formal pillars central to artists working at the time of Dia’s establishment.” (more…)

Painter Peter Saul will have his first New York museum survey, opening on February 11 at the New Museum. “We live in a world that resembles the absurdity of Peter Saul’s paintings,” says Massimiliano Gioni, the museum’s artistic director. (more…)

A new study has found that only 2% of global art auction spending is on work by women. “When we set out to do this project, we were excited to track just how much things had changed for female artists,” syas Julia Halperin, artnet News executive editor. “So, it was quite disheartening for us to find that the numbers remained so low, and there had been so little measurable change. But we can’t solve a problem until we acknowledge it exists, and this project serves as an important reminder that we have a long way to go before we reach parity.” (more…)

Anne Imhof has released the soundtrack to her Golden Lion-winning performance Faust through Berlin experimental club label PAN. (more…)

Art Institute of Chicago head James Rondeau is featured in Art Newspaper this week, as he holds court on his vision of the museum of the future. “Visitors recognize themselves more and more in our collections, exhibitions, and programming, but we must go beyond that and reimagine how our spaces themselves can telegraph: ‘This is your experience,'” he says. (more…)

Italian bank UniCredit will sell 312 works in an effort to raise €50m to fund a Social Impact Banking initiative, Art Market Monitor reports. The first set of works will sell in London in the coming weeks. (more…)

Jerry Saltz pens a piece in NY Mag this week trumpeting the return of the TriBeCa art scene, as a range of galleries open in the neighborhood. “Against all odds, can New York have a good art neighborhood with a walkable density of galleries?” He asks.  “Galleries with wooden floors, flaws, and funny footprints, which are more like where artists actually make art than all those perfect, concrete-floored slick showrooms?” (more…)

The Whitney has broken ground on David Hammons’s Day’s End (2020), a permanent install across from the museum in the southern edge of Gansevoort Peninsula.  The piece is referred to by the artist as a “ghost monument” to Gordon Matta-Clark’s 1975 work of the same name in the same location. (more…)

The Guardian’s running series of highlights of 21st Century arts features Ragnar Kjartansson’s The Visitors, calling it the best artwork of the 21st Century so far.  “It has a special place in my heart, but it was such a feelgood piece that I had to make some really dark shit afterwards,” he says of his work. “No artist has a favorite piece. Maybe you can pick one when you’re really old – but it’s something I’m super proud of. It took on a life of its own.” (more…)

A major Old Master forgery scandal is boiling over after painter Lino Frongia, 61, was arrested by the Carabinieri in northern Italy. The scandal over allegedly forged works sold by dealer Giuliano Ruffini, has embroiled some of the world’s most prominent museums. (more…)

Artist Niki de Saint Phalle will be the subject of a major MoMA PS1 retrospective, Art News reports. “She’s one of the most famous female artists of the 20th-century, but she’s so misunderstood and, in some ways, under-recognized,” curator Ruba Katrib says. (more…)

Luhring Augustine is the latest gallery to announce plans for an exhibition space in TriBeCa, opening a space at 17 White Street this fall. “We have long been looking for a space in Tribeca where we could join the growing community of notable galleries, both older and younger, in providing a fresh and exciting new context that is rejuvenating the contemporary art scene in New York City,” co-founders Lawrence Luhring and Roland Augustine said in a statement. (more…)

Phillips‘s Edward Dolman is interviewed in Art News this week, as the auction house gears up for the fall season. “Collectors have changed,” he says. “They want to be there at the beginning when an artist emerges. If it’s not working for them, they’ll sell. Their own tastes will change but they’ll take a profit if there’s a profit.” (more…)

Untitled Miami has unveiled its exhibitor list for its 2019 edition, with 126 exhibitors included for its eight edition. (more…)

The Guardian has tapped the Tate Modern as one of the great buildings of the early 21st Century, profiling how the conversion of the Bankside Power Station has changed the face of London. “It is totally unimaginable now,” says architect Jacques Herzog, “but this was a huge chunk of the city that was completely excluded from public life, overgrown and set back behind high walls. It felt like Sleeping Beauty’s castle.” (more…)

Hilton Als pens a piece on photographer Roy DeCarava this week in The New Yorker, reflecting on the development of his craft and his impact on the world of African-American art. “I’m not sure if the immediacy of photography—the ability to record one’s impressions of the world relatively quickly—contributed to DeCarava’s love of the medium,” he writes, “but as a young black man he knew something about how ephemeral life could be, and about the forces around him that didn’t want him to exist at all.” (more…)

Scientists at MIT have developed a black even darker than Vantablack, previously thought to be the darkest color ever made. “Any object covered with this CNT material loses all its plasticity and appears entirely flat, abbreviated/reduced to a black silhouette,” says Diemut Strebe, the artist who collaborated on the project. (more…)

Art Newspaper profiles ProjectArt, as the Harlem-based arts education program looks to expand beyond New York. “In terms of less populated communities, we’ll get there too,” says director Diana Buckley Muchmore. “Eventually, we’ll be in all the cities that have libraries.” (more…)