Benjamin Genocchio, former director of the Armory Show, has moved to a position as director at large for Shoshana Wayne Gallery. “I’m tremendously honored to be joining Shoshana Wayne Gallery, one of the oldest most prestigious galleries in Los Angeles with a 35-year history, as they embark on a new chapter with a custom-built 5,000-square-foot exhibition space set to open early next year,” he says. (more…)

New York Magazine’s architecture critic Justin Davidson and art critic Jerry Saltz debate the new MoMA  building this week in the magazine, discussing its merits and drawbacks. “I love that for the first time ever, you can get lost at MoMA,” Saltz says. “As with the Met, we may begin to tell ourselves our stories rather than being subjected to the old bullying ‘Cézanne begat Picasso who begat Duchamp who begat everything post-1979′ line.” (more…)

A piece in the New York times charts recent challenges faced by the Mayor’s Office as it rushes to build a range of new monuments across the city in the face of protest and criticism from scholars, community boards, and more. “There needs to be more Council oversight and an intentional reform of the process,” says Todd Fine, president of the Washington Street Historical Society, “especially before this battery of new monuments advances.” (more…)

A brush along the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles is nearing the Getty, and has been nicknamed “The Getty Fire” according to the LA Times. The fire has burned over 500 acres of land. (more…)

The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx will host a major Yayoi Kusama exhibition next year, including paintings and sculptures of flowers, and one of the artist’s “Infinity Rooms.”  “The more we researched her, the more we got excited about these stories we could tell here at the garden,”Karen Daubmann, the NYBG VP says. “We’re writing a story about Kusama that most people don’t know.” (more…)

Japanese collective teamLab, will open new spaces in Shanghai and Macao according to Art Newspaper. “When teamLab started it struggled to get opportunities inside Japan. It has always been the overseas galleries and art communities that have supported teamLab,” says founder Toshiyuki Inoko. (more…)

Art News profiles the challenges ahead of the new Haus der Kunst director Andrea Lissoni. “Dr. Lissoni has a very imposing legacy to live up to,” says artist Adrian Piper. “Okwui Enwezor [searched] for high-quality, cutting-edge art in every culture, every country, every community, and every artist’s studio, regardless of gender, so-called ‘race,’ ethnicity, geographical location, or art world connections.” (more…)

Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson, a collector of modern and contemporary works who gave the bulk of her collection if 20th-century American art to Stanford University, has passed away at 92. “Moo Anderson will forever be remembered for her love of art, but also for her love of sharing art,” says Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne. “She opened her home so that students could have that same experience of looking and learning about art. We are so deeply grateful that Moo and Hunk trusted Stanford to be stewards of their remarkable collection and enable people of all ages to experience it on a daily basis.” (more…)

Teresita Fernández is profiled in the NYT this week, as she opens a major survey at the Perez Art Museum Miami. “People are very seduced by their own image and the exercise of looking for themselves,” she says of her work. (more…)

Shirin Neshat gets a spotlight in the LA Times this week, as she opens new work in the city. “All of these things made their way into my work: fear, vulnerability, being an outcast,” she says of her new video work. “Every woman in my film is an outcast, they are rebellious, they are running away.” (more…)

Pace Gallery gets a profile in Town & Country this week, as artist Tara Donovan reflects on her time with the gallery and its impact on the art world. “I am in awe of the small gallery that Arne started in Boston in 1960 and the art empire he and Marc have built,” she says. “They may be father and son, but they have created a family for all of us who work alongside them.” (more…)

An show of work by Anthony van Dyck will use X-ray and infrared technology to provide new perspective into the artist’s methods.“We don’t know whether it was at the request of the client or whether it was his own artistic decision,” says curator Mirjam Neumeister. “But it shows that his paintings were prepared not just with drawing studies—they were also very intensely reworked during the painting process.” (more…)

A piece in the LA Times charts how the Trump tax cuts are negatively impacting artists and actors, showing how much money is now paid by many freelancers in tax after the new tax code eliminated itemized deductions. (more…)

Artist Dawoud Bey has joined Sean Kelly in New York.  “I have admired Dawoud’s work for many years and we have been friends for a long time,” Kelly says. “We very much look forward to welcoming him to the gallery and representing his inspiring and important body of work.” (more…)

A painting of the Madonna and child attributed as “close to Raphael” has sold for €1.27m in Vienna, Art Newspaper reports, more than three times its estimate.  The sales comes after one historian speculated the work was perhaps by the artist himself. “We think this probably made the work even more interesting,” says Doris Krumpl, a spokeswoman for Dorotheum, where the work was sold. (more…)

Saudi Arabia is planning a modern art museum outside Riyadh, Forbes reports.  Titled the Saudi Museum of Modern Art, it will be “designed according to a modern creative concept influenced by the traditional local architectural style.” (more…)

A new lawsuit filed in Florida sees art dealer Inigo Phil  facing off against Fine Art Partners (FAP), a Germany-based financial services company that claims the dealer is withholding $14 million in works by Donald Judd, and perhaps most notably, one of Yayoi Kusama‘s Infinity Room works. (more…)

Sotheby’s has announced  that Mark Rothko’s Blue Over Red will be a featured lot in the company’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale November 14^th in NYC.  The work was acquired directly from the artist by dealer and collector Harold Diamond, before being sold to a private collection from the holdings Baltimore collectors Israel and Selma Rosen. (more…)

Yayoi Kusama will have a balloon in this year’s Macy’s Day Parade, Art News reports.  “Her work lends itself to that playful whimsy that we like to see in the sky,” says Susan Tercero, the parade’s executive producer. “What’s fantastic about her art, and why I think she’s so world-renowned, is that it is so accessible. Everyone can look at her art and appreciate it, understand it, and feel something from it, and that’s what we’re trying to do.” (more…)

Instagram held a closed-door roundtable yesterday with art institutions and artists in New York about its community guidelines and content moderation policies as they relate to nudity in art, Art News reports. “Today was about meeting with the community in the art world to understand their feedback,” spokesperson Stephanie Otway said. “A lot of their feedback is based around our nudity policies, so we definitely felt it was a constructive day for us to think about how these policies evolve and develop in the future. I think it’s the start of a conversation between us and the art community.” (more…)

Amid discord in Hong Kong, the new list of exhibitors for next year’s edition of Art Basel Hong Kong has been announced, with 241 galleries on hand. (more…)

Berlin gallerist Michael Schultz has been arrested over suspicion of selling fake artworks. The arrest came after German authorities found an alleged fake by an when it was put up for sale at an auction house. (more…)

An Yves Klein from his Anthropometries series may beat the artist’s auction record at Christie’s next month in New York, estimated to sell at $12 million to $18 million. (more…)

St John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta will open its own wing dedicated to the Caravaggio tapestry set it holds in its collection, following a restoration. “Apart from cleaning the tapestries, losses and open seams were reinforced and lined is such a way that strengthens and supports the magnificent weavings so that they can hang again,” says Cynthia de Giorgio, the curator and museum project leader of St John’s Co-Cathedral.  (more…)