Frieze London will install its first augmented reality work this fall in Regent’s Park, The Guardian reports, a piece by Korean artist Koo Jong A. “No shipping, no installation costs,” says Frieze director, Victoria Siddall. “It is interesting for us to be able to test the boundaries of what sculpture can be.” (more…)

William Kentridge and Mona Hatoum have won this year’s Praemium Imperiale awards, among the largest cash prizes for art in the world. Other 2019 Praemium Imperiale laureates include architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, musician Anne-Sophie Mutter, and actor Bando Tamasaburo V. (more…)

Artist Charles Ray will curate a show of  Renaissance and Baroque bronze sculptures alongside his own works at the Hill Art Foundation this fall.  “I’m interested in dialogues as a way to show the influence of work,” collector J. Tomilson Hill says. “I want to create these dialogues that use the art of today to look back but also use the art of the past to inform the art of today.” (more…)

Artist Lari Pittman gets a profile in the LA Times, as he prepares for his museum retrospective at the Hammer Museum.  “The language prompts the imagery,” he says of his work. “I’ve never separated language from visual culture.” (more…)

Artist Kathleen Ryan gets a profile in NYT this week, as she prepares for a show of new works at Art Basel Miami Beach. “They’re not just opulent, there’s an inherent sense of decline built into them,” she says, “which is also something that’s happening in the world: The economy is inflating, but so is wealth inequality, all at the expense of the environment.”  (more…)

A Daniel Buren painting has been damaged severely after a man slashed the work at Centre Pompidou. Experts are now considering how they should go about restoring the work. (more…)

A Sandro Botticelli portrait will test the Old Masters market this fall at Frieze Masters, with an asking price around $30 million. “That’s an intelligent range,” says dealer Carlo Orsi. (more…)

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow will take over running Russia’s National Center for Contemporary Arts, which includes nine branches across the country. “We are in the process of understanding the opportunities, which are huge, of working across our country’s considerable expanse,” says director Marina Loshak. (more…)

The National Art Gallery of the Bahamas in Nassau is spearheading recovery efforts in the country after last week’s brutal hurricane. “We’re dealing with people first,” says executive director Amanda Coulson. “The whole country is traumatized.” (more…)

Arts Council England has published details of 46 objects and collections worth £58.6m that will go to UK museums and galleries in lieu of tax, among them works by Damien Hirst and a portrait by Rubens. “It is also heartening to see that, in line with last year, around 86% of the total tax settled has been for items allocated outside London,” says ACE Chair Nicholas Serrota. (more…)

The Oakland Museum of California is launching an $85 million capital campaign for renovations to its building. “We are as close to a town square as Oakland has,” says Lori Fogarty, the director and chief executive of the Oakland Museum of California. “We started with the framework that the museum was going to contribute to Oakland becoming a more equitable and empathetic city.”  (more…)

Art News asked visitors at Pace Gallery’s opening last week about the “craziest experience” they’d had at an art opening. “I had a friend in Vienna who lost a bet and he had to take his pants off and order a drink at the bar,” says artist Christian Rosa. (more…)

Maurizio Cattelan’s 18-karat golden toilet has been stolen from its installation at Blenheim Palace. “We are shocked and saddened by this news and are working with the Police to restore the artwork to the exhibition as soon as possible,” says Edward Spencer-Churchill, the founder of the Blenheim Art Foundation. (more…)

The Manchester Art Gallery is taking an active role in improving gender imbalances in its collection, The Guardian reports, acquiring a series of works by women in an attempt to even out representation among its holdings. “They will, without doubt, extend the discourse around representation and identity through their integration into the permanent collection,” says Caroline Douglas, the director of Contemporary Art Society, who donated works to the collection. (more…)

Kenneth Goldsmith’s Venice project displaying Hilary Clinton’s privately stored emails received an unexpected visitor this past week, the former Secretary of State and First Lady herself, who read some of the emails back.. “It’s amazing—it completed the circle, in a way,” Goldsmith says. (more…)

Norah Stone, the Bay Area philanthropist and art collector who has long ranked on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list, has died at the age of 81. “The Stones really wanted to know what was happening in the world now. They loved the unusual art that paved new territory, and asked provocative and compelling questions,” says longtime advisor Thea Westreich. (more…)

Felix LA will return in 2020 with an expanded exhibitor list of 60 gallerists.  “We are thrilled to expand Felix’s community and welcome an incredible slate of new and returning exhibitors for the second edition,” founders Dean Valentine, Al Morán, and Mills Morán said in a statement. “The growth and diversification of our roster attests to the burgeoning Los Angeles art scene and the desperate need for the new type of art fair experience that Felix offered collectors and exhibitors alike.” (more…)

Four departments at the Tate Modern have brought on new talent under the title Curator, International Art, signaling an expanded focus for the institution’s programming.  “Their significant experience and expertise will play an important part in expanding our knowledge of modern and contemporary art from Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East, furthering our ambition to present a truly international story of art through our program and collection,” says Frances Morris, Tate Modern’s director. (more…)

Artist Nicholas Galanin has a piece in Art News this week as he discusses his decisions to pull work from this year’s Whitney Biennial.  “My decision to remove my work from the Whitney came when my hope for meaningful conversation was met with inaction—on the part of many but, most fatefully, by the museum, which for weeks and then months failed to issue any meaningful response to protests mounting within its walls,” he says. “For me, that inaction translated to complicity with militarized denial of the right of Indigenous people to freely move through land that we belong to.” (more…)

Larry Gagosian gets an interview in GQ this week, talking about his rise through the ranks of the art world, and his views on running a business in the arts. “All businesses are competitive,” he says. “If you’re not in a competitive business, you’re probably in a shitty business.” (more…)

Gagosian has taken over representation of the estate of artist Simon Hantaï, Art News reports. “If the works are of good quality, it’s always a good opportunity,” says Jean-Olivier Després, a director of Gagosian Paris. “There’s no strategy of focusing on living artists or estates. We’re focusing on good things.” (more…)

NYC Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Tom Finklepearl has a piece in the Art Newspaper this week emphasizes that the importance of diversity and inclusion in New York cultural institutions, and emphasizes the improvements to workplace culture that steps to emphasize these values can have at arts organizations. “Today, we are developing new plans that we hope will open our institutions’ doors wider than ever,” he writes. “It matters who leads and who makes decisions at these organizations: diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels will make our cultural community more dynamic, open and intellectually complex. (more…)

The Whitney has awarded its $100,000 Whitney Biennial Bucksbaum Award to Tiona Nekkia McClodden. “McClodden’s work is bold and original and her contribution to the Whitney Biennial is extraordinarily rich with cultural, historical, and spiritual resonances,” says museum director Adam Weinberg. (more…)

A piece in Bloomberg this week looks at the market for Vija Celmins, and how the artist’s growing market stature might explode after her show opens this fall at the Met Breuer. “Her collector base grew from the initial people who were interested to other people who saw her museum shows and wanted a work in their collection,” says dealer Renee McKee. “It was always as difficult to get her to release her work as it was to get her to raise her prices. That’s Vija.” (more…)