A German court has fined a man for taking works discarded by Gerhard Richter and trying to sell them. “He just wanted his peace. The whole thing seemed to bother him,” a police officer told the court of Richter’s response. (more…)

Ross Bleckner gets a profile in the NYT this week, as he prepares for his first show of paintings in NYC in five years, and discusses his part in the recent arrest and sentencing of Mary Boone.  “Lot of people evade taxes,” Mr. Bleckner says. “A lot of people don’t get caught. I was surprised. Mary’s a very smart woman.  She shouldn’t have done it. And she’s paying the price.” (more…)

NADA is opening a new fair in Chicago this fall during EXPO Chicago, Art News reports. “Historically, Chicago has been a hotbed of artist-run galleries and alternative spaces,” Heather Hubbs, the executive director of NADA, said in a statement. “The city then and now embodies the experimental spirit of NADA, and we look forward to connecting our exhibitors with this audience.” (more…)

Beginning Monday, the Andy Warhol Foundation will share rare photographs from the Andy Warhol Photography Archive at Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center.  The photos will be united around the hashtag #IntimateAndy. (more…)

The Louvre will begin timed ticketing in an effort to manage the throngs of visitors to the museum each day.  “This will enable us to manage the flow of visitors and prevent them from  queuing,” says Jean-Luc Martinez, the Louvre’s president-director. “It’s about changing our visitors’ habits.”  (more…)

Sotheby’s Evening Sale this May in NYC will potentially set a new auction record for Lee Krasner, as the artist’s work The Eye is the First Circle (1960) will hit the block with an estimate of $10 million to $15 million, double her current estimate. “This painting represents a critical turning point for Krasner—a rebirth in a sense—as it was executed following a period of great personal loss and tragedy,” says Saara Pritchard, senior vice president and senior specialist of Sotheby’s contemporary art department. (more…)

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India is facing controversy over the sale of equipment and materials from the exhibition’s latest edition, which closed this March.  The injunction follows a claim the organization could not sell a series of air-conditioning units until it had paid for them in full. “Kochi Biennale Foundation has received an interim injunction from the district court pausing the auction of the ACs,” a spokesperson for the Biennale said in a statement. “The auction of all other materials will proceed as planned. The legal response to the injunction is being drafted.” (more…)

Phillips has hired American art specialist Elizabeth Goldberg from Sotheby’s, appointing her senior international specialist in American art and deputy chairman for the Americas.“As with other auction house categories, the market for American art has changed rather dramatically over the past 15 years, becoming highly selective at the high end with quality being key, ” Goldberg says. “Given this trend, there are certain artists who have emerged as having the power to hang alongside other titans of the twentieth century.”  (more…)

MoMA has announced that its long-anticipated show on the work of Donald Judd will open in 2020. “For someone in their 20s or 30s, there hasn’t been the opportunity to see more than one or two examples of his work at a U.S. museum at any given moment,” says Ann Temkin, MoMA’s chief curator of painting and sculpture. “Now, for a couple generations of younger people, it will be their first opportunity to see a large gathering of his work.”  (more…)

Planned Parenthood of New York has partnered with the Keith Haring Foundation to create a traveling health clinic designed to provide access to New Yorkers struggling with homelessness and other health and safety concerns, emblazoned with the artist’s designs. “We know many New Yorkers, especially LGBTQ communities, communities of color, and marginalized New Yorkers such as those experiencing homelessness, lack access. This brings care to New Yorkers, to meet them where they are,” said Laura McQuade, President and CEO, Planned Parenthood of New York City. (more…)

The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is expected to open around 2022, Richard Armstrong has said. “We are on track, we are on budget and we are looking forward to the commencement of the building construction soon,” he said in an interview this week. (more…)

The Creative Time Summit is returning to New York for its 10th year, scheduling a series of events focused on injustice and resistance under the title “Speaking Truth: Summit X.” “For the past decade the Summit has been a cornerstone of Creative Time’s annual program—an opportunity for a meeting of the minds where we pause and reflect upon our current socio-political reality, take a hard look at the past, and envision a path forward,” says Justine Ludwig, executive director of Creative Time. “I am thrilled to celebrate the Summit’s tenth anniversary with a new, expanded format.” (more…)

Takashi Murakami is no longer represented by Blum & Poe. Murakami had shown at the gallery for more than 20 years, and is also currently represented by Gagosian, Perrotin, and Kaikai Kiki Gallery. “After 25 years of a mutually successful partnership, we have come to the decision that it is in both of our best interests that we no longer continue our working relationship. We wish Takashi all the very best moving forward,” a Blum & Poe rep said in a statement. (more…)

Henry Wollman Bloch, a co-founder of H&R Block Inc. and a major supporter of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, has died at age 96. “Henry is irreplaceable,” Julián Zugazagoitia, the director and CEO of the Nelson-Atkins, said in a statement. “His leadership and dedication have been vital to the success of the Nelson-Atkins. But beyond the museum, Henry has been an outstanding citizen whose generosity and vision have had a transformative impact on Kansas City being the great city it is today. . . . We will miss him very much.” (more…)

The Rothschild family will send a selection of works and objects from their holdings to auction, sending 57 lots to Christie’s July 4 auction in London.  “There’s something mythical about the Rothschilds that’s attached to whatever they owned,” says Robert Couturier, an interior designer in New York. “They created their own world of taste and elegance. There’s an abandon of luxury that few other families had.” (more…)

The Louvre is planning to buy Rembrandt van Rijn’s The Standard Bearer (1636) following France’s culture minister Franck Riester classification of the work as a “national treasure.”  The Museum now has 30 months to find the funds to buy the work. (more…)

Gagosian has tapped Kelly Huang as director of its San Francisco space, heading its operations alongside Charlie Spalding. “It’s a small community,” Huang said of San Francisco. “I’m really excited to continue working with the clients I worked with at Zlot Buell. It’s definitely a different role, being on a different side of things, but I’m looking forward to serving [Bay Area collectors] just as well as I served them before.” (more…)

LACMA’s annual Collectors Committee Weekend took place this past weekend, with eight works being added to its collection while adding $2.4 million in donations.  “I think everyone knows this is a momentous weekend for LACMA,” says director Michael Govan. (more…)

David Zwirner now represents the family of visionary artist Paul Klee, the gallery has announced. The gallery will show some of the artist’s work at its booth at TEFAF NY next week.  (more…)

Klaus Biesenbach is returning the annual MOCA Benefit this year, LA Times reports, honoring the artists that have helped make the city such a vibrant arts hub. “A benefit is not about being served, it’s about being of service,” Biesenbach says. “So it’s turning it around: How can I contribute; how can I participate? It’s all very aligned with what the museum should be doing. We should be of service to share these incredible works of art.” (more…)

A piece in NYT profiles the recently opened ArtBuilt studios at Brooklyn Army Terminal, NYX’s largest nonprofit artist-space project in 20 years.  “There need to be places for artists to thrive in place, and that is extremely important to this entire enterprise,” says Tom Finkelpearl, the commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs, which oversees the Affordable Real Estate for Artists program. “Three years ago, the mayor said that we really have to look at ways to keep artists in the city. There’s an affordability problem that’s absolutely a looming problem for artists in the city.” (more…)

Art Newspaper spotlights the tributes paid to the recently deceased Iranian artist Monir Farmanfarmaian.  “Monir Farmanfarmaian, the greatest and legendary Iranian woman artist, sadly left this world but her legacy and beautiful art will live on,” says Shirin Neshat. (more…)

The Whitney Museum in New York has set up a digital platform for the Whitney Biennial as documentation for some of the prior exhibitions dating back nearly 90 years.  (more…)

MoMA will stage a show on Dorothea Lange in 2020, featuring 100 works culled from the museum’s collection, including pictures that were originally published in Life magazine and others produced for An American Exodus, a book on the Dust Bowl and its impact on the American South. The show is organized by curator Sarah Meister alongside River Bullock, a curatorial fellow at the museum, and intern Madeline Weisburg. “It seems both timely and urgent that we renew our attention to Lange’s extraordinary achievements,” Meister said in a statement. (more…)