The Public Art Fund has promoted  Kellie Honeycutt as its deputy director and Daniel S. Palmer as curator. “A key aspect of Public Art Fund culture is to nurture creative talent, and that includes our own extraordinary team. Both Kellie and Daniel are outstanding professionals, leaders in our field, and wonderful colleagues,” says Chief Curator and Director Nicholas Baume. “As we continue to embrace new opportunities to fulfill our mission, I’m excited to further our collaboration in their new roles.” (more…)

The Pérez Art Museum Miami has received $1 million the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation towards the institution’s new Caribbean Cultural Institute. “It’s something that is in our DNA, and we’ve been talking about this for a long time,” says Franklin Sirmans, PAMM’s director. “Now we’re really going to be able to move the dial.”  (more…)

The Rothko Chapel has received $2 million from the Houston Endowment, which will help fund the chapel’s renovation plan. “Houston Endowment envisions Houston as a vibrant community where all people have the opportunity to thrive, and a vibrant community needs a strong arts ecosystem,” says Long Chu, the program officer of the Houston Endowment. “Fulfillment of the master plan will elevate Rothko Chapel’s role as one of Houston’s significant cultural institutions and expand its ability to contribute to Houston’s vibrancy.” (more…)

Artist Ibrahim Mahama is interviewed in The Guardian this week, talking the paper through his recent show at Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery, and his conceptual interests. “Not everything is about Brexit,” he says when asked about the show’s ties to the British vote to leave the EU. “But sure. It’s about Brexit among other things. Ghana is very connected with Britain even now. So why not Brexit?” (more…)

After several years of struggles, Munich’s Haus der Kunst may lay off two-thirds of its part-time or replace jobs with outsourced labor.  The museum has suffered from financial troubles in the past months.  Sources say the layoffs come “because we are aiming for a partial closure rather than a complete closure during the due renovation.”  (more…)

Two chairmen of the Biennale Paris’s vetting committee have resigned over the inclusion of exhibitors targeted by criminal investigations in the fair.  The fair has seen controversies mount since a 2016 investigation over the inclusion of forged works. (more…)

P.P.O.W. Gallery in Manhattan has added painter Hilary Harkness, who joins from the now shuttered Mary Boone.  “She has a very individual voice,” cofounder Wendy Olsoff says. “Her point of view and technique and idiosyncratic style are very much her own… I think a lot of younger women and men don’t know her work and seeing it at our gallery will be eye-opening and exciting.” (more…)

The Tate has announced that more than 5,000 sketches, drawings, and commercial artworks by artist Ithell Colquhoun have been given to it by the National Trust.  “She had very few solo exhibitions … that’s why this collection is so amazing – it is going to be a re-evaluation of her whole career because there is so much in the collection,” says Tate archivist Adrian Glew. (more…)

Artist Pyotr Pavlensky, who has been arrested for a number of vandalisms of major Russian sites and government buildings. “The government’s aim is to suppress or neutralize art, to reduce me to a vandal, a madman, a provocateur,” he says, “but the criminal case becomes one of the layers of the artwork, the portal through which you enter and see the mechanisms of power exposed.” (more…)

New York Supreme Court judge has ruled that Pace Gallery founder Arne Glimcher and members of the Agnes Martin catalogue raisonné committee were within their rights to exclude 13 works owned by London art dealer James Mayor from the artist’s catalogue raisonné. “Whether any catalogue raisonné’s inclusion or non-inclusion of an artwork has any bearing on the work’s value has been recognized by New York courts as a function of the art marketplace,” ruled Judge Andrea Masley, “and it is not for the court to determine what the art market should or should not credit as reliable.”  (more…)

Beijing police evicted scores of artists from several studio buildings in the city’s arts district this week. “They are driving us all away on the excuse of cleaning up the underworld,” artist Canon Duan says. “We’re not prepared at all. And no one has explained it to us.”  (more…)

Penske Media Corporation will acquire Art Market Monitor, the online publication of Marion Maneker, who will become editorial director of a holding company overseeing ARTnews and Art in America.  “In the art world, where a significantly fragmented audience spans so many websites, newsletters, and brands, PMC sees the opportunity to augment these exceptional brands with further investments in content and editorial, complemented by robust data and analytic tools, and growing an engaging live media and event business,” says chairman Jay Penske. “This acquisition adds a strong subscription business that expands PMC’s reach and influence in the art vertical.” (more…)

Hartwig Fischer, director of the British Museum, endorsed BP as a sponsor this week, as pressure continues over the company’s role in the operation of various museums.  Fischer praised the museum for helping “create unique learning opportunities.” (more…)

New York appellate court has upheld the return of two Egon Schiele drawings to the heirs of singer Fritz Grünbaum, whose art collection was confiscated before he was killed in a Nazi concentration camp.  “The tragic consequences of the Nazi occupation of Europe on the lives, liberty and property of the Jews continue to confront us today,” the judges wrote in their ruling. (more…)

David Zwirner will open a gallery in Paris’s Marais neighborhood this fall, coinciding with this year’s edition of FIAC. “In recent years, Paris has quickly become one of the most vibrant cities for the visual arts in Europe,” Zwirner said in a statement. “It’s a city where history meets the present, and we are endlessly excited to be able to occupy one of the most beautiful and legendary gallery spaces in Le Marais.” (more…)

Art dealer Subhash Kapoor has been arrested and charged with trafficking more than $140 million in stolen antiquities. “These are, in many instances, priceless works that represent the culture and history of the countries from which they were stolen,” said Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. “They are of enormous value.” (more…)

The Studio Museum in Harlem has invited  E. Jane, Naudline Pierre, and Elliot Reed as  recipients of its 2019-2020 artist-in-residence program.  “In form, subject matter, and concept, the diverse practices of our three artists in residence for 2019–20 are all on the cutting edge, expanding the canon and showing us what’s possible in art today and even giving us a glimpse of what art might be tomorrow,” says curator and director Thelma Golden. (more…)

Cory Arcangel and Andy Robert are now represented by New York’s Greene Naftali, Art News reports. “I feel that both of these artists represent the future, as far as the issues their work engages with. For me as a gallerist, I’m always looking for an artist that challenges a paradigm,” says founder Carol Greene. (more…)

A piece in the LA Times this week follows Hammer Museum preparator Jason Pugh as he prepares for the Sarah Lucas retrospective to open for the museum, including time spent frying eggs for one of the artist’s works. “We had a long discussion about the yolks,” he says. “Like most artists, Sarah has a very specific vision. Sure, the materials, the titles, the set-ups are hilarious, but she is very particular about the choices that are made with the materials. We procured a lot of different types of kebabs.” (more…)

Arter, a contemporary art non-profit in Turkey, will open a new museum space in Istanbul, a 18,000 sq. m building in the central Dolapdere district designed by Grimshaw Architects. The space is “what Turkey needed”, says director Melih Fereli, to “compensate for the rather big gap” in the country’s education system, adding that “analytical thinking and discovering your own creativity is not really encouraged.” (more…)

Mark di Suvero‘s Declaration, a longtime fixture at Venice Beach in Los Angeles, is scheduled to be taken down this fall.  The artist’s work has been on view since 2001.  (more…)

Kayne Griffin Corcoran has named Jamie Goldblatt Manné co-director, joining colleague Colleen Grennan. “We couldn’t be happier to welcome Jamie to Kayne Griffin Corcoran and know she will be a tremendous asset as we continually look for new and innovative ways to support and service our artists,” says founder Maggie Kane. (more…)

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles has tapped Anne Ellegood as its new director, formerly senior curator of the Hammer Museum.  “It has played such an important role in the constellation of museums here in L.A.,” Ellegood said  of the ICA. “It’s an exciting moment—it’s the next chapter.” (more…)

The foundation behind the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art in Napa will sell off most of its 1,600 works of art to focus on exhibitions and education. “The decision to reduce and focus the collection is necessary to keep (the center’s) doors open,” Brenda Mixson, president of the foundation’s board of directors, said in a statement on Friday. (more…)