Emilie Gordenker will serve as the next director of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, signing on from the Mauritshuis museum in the Hague. “After 12 wonderful years at the Mauritshuis, it is time for a new challenge,” Gordenker said in a statement. “I am absolutely thrilled to move to the Van Gogh Museum. It will be an honor to lead such a successful museum and I look forward to building on that success in the future.” (more…)

Stefan T. Edlis, the Chicago of postwar and contemporary art, has died at the age of 94.  “There are thousands of good artists,” he once said. “If you try to understand more than what you can get through your head, you won’t give them the proper attention.” (more…)

Christie’s will offer a rarely-seen David Hockney valued at a $25 million-to-$45 million estimate this November in New York.  The work, Sur la Terrasse, from 1971, was painted at almost exact scale. “This work marks a momentous turning point in the artist’s personal and professional lives,” says Ana Maria Celis, Christie’s head of evening sale, postwar and contemporary art. “We are very pleased to be bringing Sur la Terrasse to market and into the public eye after residing within a private collection for nearly 40 years, where it went unseen by the public for almost as long.” (more…)

Sotheby’s will offer Francis Bacon’s Pope on to benefit the Brooklyn Museum‘s collection this November in New York. “Pope offers a rare glimpse into the psychology of the artist and the influences behind the works he created during a passionate yet volatile love affair with Peter Lacy,” the auction house writes in its statement. (more…)

A massive crowd of protestors descended on the steps of The Met yesterday, part of a protest against Columbus Day. “I want to remind you that this was not brought to you by the Met,”says Amin Husain, a member of Decolonize This Place. “This was brought to you by the comrades who came together to say Columbus Day is a sham.” (more…)

Gavin Turk gets a profile in The Guardian, discussing his recent activism and protest, and how he sees the art world unfolding in the face of climate crisis.   “Art is bound to get caught up in what’s happening in the wider world,” he says.  (more…)

Nayland Blake gives the NYT a tour of their Flatbush apartment, showcasing work from fellow queer artists and the clutters of material and work that adorn their one bedroom space. “The only way that queer or marginalized cultures survive is through somebody loving them and somebody acting as the curator of their own museum,” Blake says. “That kind of intimate culture is just as valid as the high cultures that museums often traffic.” (more…)

A Salvador Dalí print valued at $20,000 was stolen from a San Francisco gallery this weekend. “He was in and out of there in a shot,” says Rasjad Hopkins, gallery director at Dennis Rae Fine Art, where the work was stolen.   (more…)

The Italian Culture Ministry has renewed Eike Schmidt’s contract as director of the Uffizi after he cancelled plans to take the helm at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum at the last minute. (more…)

Hans Haacke gets the profile treatment in the New York Times this week, as he prepares to mount a major retrospective at the New Museum. “To introduce something that deals with the social and political world that we live in — that was alien,” Haacke says of his early work. “Maybe I was naïve, but I did not expect that this would cause problems.” (more…)

A decision in a trade dispute between the US and the EU could cause a price hike for American buyers of photographs and prints. “Because the tariffs apply to lithographs and photographs printed in the last twenty years, they will also have a considerable impact on living artists, who rely on galleries as an important vehicle to sell their works and to foster cultural exchange,” a statement from the ADAA says. “Additionally problematic is the short time between the WTO’s decision and the tariffs’ enforcement, leaving small businesses little time to prepare and adapt.” (more…)

The Courtauld Institute of Art in London is creating two new permanent teaching posts in modern and contemporary art of Africa and the African diaspora, after a $750,000 grant in funding from the New York-based Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. “The grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will help further develop the Courtauld’s robust research program that focuses attention on migration, diversity, and artists who have been marginalised by curricula and arts institutions,” the institute said in a statement. (more…)

David Zwirner Gallery is expecting over 100,000 visitors to its show of new works by Yayoi Kusama, including a new Infinity Room by the artist. “Every time Kusama has a show, whether it’s in a museum or a gallery, attendance grows,” says senior partner Hanna Schouwink. “The interest in her work continues to grow. People always think, ‘If I come Tuesday, there won’t be lines.’ For sure, there will always be lines.” (more…)

In an open letter published this week, over 220 artists, academics, and curators have asked MoMA and one of its trustees, Larry Fink, to stop relying on financial services that have stakes in private prisons. “We denounce MoMA’s connections to mass incarceration, global dispossession and climate catastrophe, and demand that MoMA’s Board member Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, divest from prison companies, the war machine and the destruction of the global environment,” the letter reads.  (more…)

Gagosian Gallery is offering a selection of works by Cindy Sherman and Catherine Opie as series of signet rings and brooches. “The project aligns a strong sense of tradition with the present through a unique, artisan sensibility,” says designer Liz Swig. “The beauty of the objects is powerful, but so is the meaning behind this project—a strong respect for both the old and the new.” (more…)

Mark Bradford gets a profile in the Washington Post as part of its “Decade Influencers” section, reviewing his work and process. “There is improvisation,” he says of his deftly layering constructions, “but I know what I put under there. I keep exacting notes. Every time I put on a different piece of paper, I take a picture and it goes into my database. I know exactly what color I put on yesterday. So when I’m sanding, I know it’s a dark gray.” (more…)

A piece in Art Newspaper this week looks at the theft of Caravaggio’s Nativity in 1969, and asks if police have been chasing red herrings and bad tips during their 50-year search for the work. (more…)

Art News asks a group of artists what they’d like to see in a renovated MoMA as the museum prepares to reopen. “I am curious to see what the new MoMA will do with the reimagined hanging of the permanent collection,” says Betty Tompkins. “I think of art history as a conversation between generations over time. I hope the new reimagined rooms have some aspect of that.” (more…)

François Pinault’s new, $170 million museum in the former Bourse de Commerce is scheduled to open in June 2020.  The space is anticipated to be a closely watched institution for contemporary art. (more…)

An Italian court has blocked the Gallerie dell’Accademia from lending da Vinci’s 1490 drawing Virtruvian Man, to the Louvre, saying the work is too fragile.  The announcement came after lobbying from Italia Nostra, a nonprofit group dedicated to protecting Italian artworks. (more…)

The ICA Philadelphia has received an anonymous gift of $1.15 million, which will be used to endow the position of director of public engagement. “ICA is extremely grateful to this anonymous donor for making such a visionary gift,” says interim director John McInerney. (more…)

Artists Simone Leigh, Amy Sherald and Lorna Simpson are interviewed in the NYT this week, reviewing the expectations faced by black women in the art world and how they respond to these expectations in their work. “This is a moment, but I think this is also a moment that has been in the making,” Simpson says. (more…)

Restoration of Keith Haring’s famed Crack is Wack is nearly complete at Harlem River Park. The piece has been restored multiple times since it was first painted in 1986. (more…)

Robert Mnuchin will sell a Willem de Kooning, at Sotheby’s next month in NYC, estimated at $25 million to $35 million. “This was one of the best from that period,” says dealer David Nash. “Now, 15 years later, they are extremely rare. They’ve been dispersed to private collections and museums.” (more…)