Paula Cooper is temporarily relocating to 524 West 26th Street.  “I’m looking forward to it,” Cooper says. “We’ll be able to exhibit works in a completely different way. It will be exciting for the artists.” (more…)

Nan Goldin is profiled in the New York Times this month, as she reflects on her recovery from opioid addiction, and her newfounded protest pieces against the Sackler family, which has benefitted from the widespread prescription of OxyContin.  “I had heard it was a really evil drug, but I didn’t think it would do me,” she says. “I thought I had a lot of control.”  (more…)

Mitchell-Innes & Nash now represents the Kiki Kogelnik Foundation, Art News reports. “Kogelnik’s work bridges American Pop art and European figurative painting and sculpture of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, and her interest in Pop imagery, media, and feminism makes her a natural fit for our program,” the gallery says. (more…)

Tanya Bonakdar is opening a gallery space in Los Angeles, Art News reports.  “It’s a natural evolution,” Bonakdar says. “We really are artist-driven at the gallery. So many of our artists have expressed interest in having a presence on the West Coast. This is not a decision I have taken lightly. I have been looking and mulling the idea for four or five years. I found the perfect space, and the perfect team, and it all came together.” (more…)

David Zwirner now represents the estate of photographer Roy DeCarava worldwide, the gallery announced today. “He’s a giant to those who know the work, and I think he’ll be a real discovery for those, like myself, who didn’t know,” Zwirner says of the photographer, who documented the life and culture of black American throughout the 20th century.  (more…)

Pace Gallery has named Andria Hickey senior director and curator, with a curatorial focus that marks a new direction for the gallery. “It’s not necessarily a traditional gallery role,” Hickey says. “It’s about working closely with artists and having somebody in-house who can really focus on exhibitions, research, publications, and working with artists in their studios as they develop projects. That’s the way I like to work in any institution, and it’s exciting that I can do it in a new platform.” (more…)

The Dia Art Foundation has announced plans to improve its spaces in New York and Beacon, developing an operations endowment through a recently announced capital campaign. “I spent a lot of time talking to artists about what they wanted and what we could provide, and there was resounding enthusiasm for leaving the spaces as they are as much as possible” says director Jessica Morgan. “Artists are excited to use them because they’re not overwhelming or dominating and speak to the type of spaces we’ve always worked with.” (more…)

Danh Vo is now represented by White Cube, Art News reports, adding the gallery to an already impressive string of galleries including Marian Goodman Goodman, and Kurimanzutto. (more…)

As the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation prepares to wind itself down, the organization is a making a string of major donations to museums, including a donation of about 400 artworks to the Whitney Museum of American Art. “We decided we wanted to get out of the art-holding business,” foundation director Jack Cowart says. (more…)

Iran will open its first art fair, Teer, at the end of the month, Art Newspaper reports, even as the ongoing conflict with the U.S. makes securing work and sales a challenge in the country. “The transfer or receipt of money to or from abroad is a major issue as Iran is not connected to the international banking system. It’s an ongoing issue made worse due to current political decisions,” Salman Matinfar, the director of Tehran’s Ab-Anbar gallery, says. (more…)

UK Museum attendance has slipped sending the country’s museums down the list of top 20 most-visited museums in the world, down a collective 1.15 million in 2017.  “That said, international tourism to London grew at an estimated 7% according to Visit Britain, and expansions and blockbuster exhibitions are still the likeliest drivers of museum attendance ups and downs,” the official attendance report reads. (more…)

Iceland will exhibit the work of the artist Shoplifter at the 2019 Venice Biennale, Art News reports. “I’m really happy about this,” the artist says. “It’s like getting to the Olympics of art. The Icelandic Pavilion always draws attention, and I do not intend to change that.” (more…)

Dominique Lévy gets a profile in Forbes this week, as she reflects on her growing gallery program and her experience as a woman running a major art gallery. “Our mission is to be an internationally meaningful and relevant gallery that places art and artists at the center of the cultural conversation and makes an original contribution to the ever-evolving story of art,” she says. (more…)

A former mobster may hold the key to the disappearance of a Caravaggio work, with some reports claiming that the painting was sent to Switzerland after its theft in 1969. “We have collected enough evidence to launch a new investigation and ask the collaboration of foreign authorities, especially to the Swiss ones,” says Rosy Bindi, head of Italy’s anti-mafia commission. “We hope to find it and bring it back to its home in Palermo.” (more…)

A new project by artist Hank Willis Thomas’s For Freedoms PAC will buy billboards around the country, as midterm elections begin to heat up. “We are hoping to bring art to the center of public life in the lead-up to the midterms, which is where we think art should belong,” says co-founder Eric Gottesman. (more…)

Max Beckmann’s The Egyptian Woman (1942) has set a record for any work sold in Germany, after selling for â‚¬4.7m in Berlin this week. The piece was purchased by a private Swiss foundation.  (more…)

Helen Frankenthaler is remembered by her step-daughter Lise Motherwell in a piece in the WSJ this week, as the artist’s work goes on view in her former summer retreat of Provincetown. “I understand how enamored she would have been of Provincetown, being near like-minded people—and also its sheer physical beauty,” Motherwell says. “It must have fed her artistic imagination unbelievably. But Helen could paint anywhere.” (more…)

Matthew Marks and Greene Naftali are returning the ambitious Painting: Now and Forever series for a third iteration, held this summer. “The show always attempts to address a shifting landscape of ideas and material concerns in the world, and how painting specifically can [be involved in] this,” Carol Greene says. (more…)

Okwui Enwezor is leaving his position at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany, for health reasons. “There is never an ideal time to leave, but I am stepping down when the Haus der Kunst is in an artistic position of strength,” he said in a statement. “It has been a great privilege to lead this exceptional institution and work with such a dedicated and talented team.” (more…)

Photographer John Houck is now represented by Jessica Silverman Gallery in San Francisco, Art News reports. Houck will share representation with Marianne Boesky. (more…)

Philippe Vergne is leaving his post as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the New York Times reports. “A search committee for a new director has been formed, and there are artists from the board on that committee,” says museum spokeswoman, Sarah Stifler. “Artists plural.” (more…)

Following a public outcry, Jeff Koons will not install his Bouquet of Tulips sculpture in front of the Palais de Tokyo.  The artist is in discussions with the city about finding an appropriate place for the sculpture.  (more…)

The District Attorney of New York has filed a motion with the State’s Supreme Court calling for the return of an ancient limestone relief to Iran, the Art Newspaper reports.  The piece was confiscated from dealer Rupert Wace last fall. “Based on the absence of reasonable inquiry by Wace and Fogg, a jury may infer that both or either of [them] knew that the Persian Guard Relief was stolen,” writes assistant district attorney Matthew Bogdanos.  (more…)

Germany’s Kunsthalle Mannheim opens this week, following a large donation towards expansions from software billionaire Hans-Werner Hector. “The enthusiasm and excitement of the public has surprised us,” says Ulrike Lorenz, the Kunsthalle Mannheim’s director. (more…)