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…)

The Guggenheim’s Hilma Af Klint: Paintings for the Future has officially become the most-visited exhibition in the museum’s 60-year history, the museum has reported. The show has topped the impressive figure of 600,000 visitors.  (more…)

The blockchain based digital art registry Artory has raised $7.3 million through a Series A funding round, Art News reports. “By exceeding our initial goal with our Series A funding round, we’ve proven that the [Artory] Registry is a viable commercial product that will change the way collectors and buyers—established and new—engage with the marketplace for fine art and collectibles,” says Nanne Dekking, Artory’s founder and chief executive. (more…)

The New York Times profiles the life of Jayne Wrightsman today, a benefactor of the arts and grande dame of New York society whose celebrated collections of decorative and fine arts became a major part of the Met collection, and who passed away this week at 99. “Jayne Wrightsman’s incredible impact on the Metropolitan Museum of Art cannot be overstated,” says Met director Max Hollein. “Through her beneficence, expertise and guidance, she has forever transformed the museum, and the museum will be forever connected with her.” (more…)

Artist Olu Oguibe’s 50-foot-tall obelisk sculpture Das Fremdlinge und Flüchtlinge Monument (Monument for strangers and refugees), which caused protests and challenges by far-right protestors, has gone back on view in Kassel. “It means a lot to me that this important Documenta 14 art work is now permanently back in Kassel’s center,” says Sabine Schormann, the director general of Documenta, where the work was first show. (more…)

A Swiss farmer, Hanspeter Benz has won a competition by the Fondation Beyeler to hang a Picasso in his barn for 24 hours. The work was shown in Benz’s barn on April 16th. (more…)

The Chicago Artists Coalition has unveiled its list of 15 Chicago-based artists who will receive its first-ever round of micro-grants, which come with unrestricted purses of $2,000 each.  “We have truly visionary artists living and working in every neighborhood across the city. We hope that this new line of support will help bring some of their visions to life, for their individual benefit and that of their broader communities,” says Tracie D. Hall, director of the Joyce Foundation’s culture program. (more…)

Brooklyn Museum head Anne Pasternak gives NY Magazine a tour of her office, showcasing her art collection, which includes work by Kiki Smith and Kara Walker, and shares a story about a graffiti artist showing up to paint part of her wall.  “So one day he shows up in a clown outfit, complete clown outfit, doesn’t say a word, has a bucket with spray paint in it, puts down a tarp, paints for twenty minutes and leaves, never said a word,” she says. (more…)

Following Phillips’s $12m success with the sale of Mark Bradford’s Helter Skelter I in London last Winter, the auction house will sell the second part of the work this spring, carrying an $8m low estimate and a third party guarantee. “We are thrilled to offer Mark Bradford’s masterpiece, Helter Skelter II, in our May Evening Sale after realizing a world-record price for its companion work last year,” says Jean-Paul Engelen, Worldwide Co-Head of 20th Century & Contemporary Art. (more…)

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation has announced 111 grants to artists and 13 to nonprofit organizations, with $3.17 million distributed in total. “At the core of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation’s mission is fostering the work and development of artists, and our 2018–19 grant and award recipients highlight the impact we can have due to Lee Krasner’s legacy,” says Ronald D. Spencer, the foundation’s chairman and CEO. (more…)