Patrick Charpenel, executive director of El Museo del Barrio in New York, and Franklin Sirmans, director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, will curate two new themed sections at its 2019 New York Frieze fair. “It is an honor to collaborate with these institutional leaders who are at the forefront of shaping the art and ideas of today,” says fair creative director Loring Randolph. With their contribution, Frieze New York 2019 will offer an experience that is both dynamic and challenging—pushing the boundaries of what an art fair can be.” (more…)

The Rijksmuseum’s 24-hour branch at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport is due to reopen in late January, Art Newspaper reports. The branch had previously been closed over fears of leaking water that may damage works. (more…)

Moscow citizens are calling for the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art to end its sponsorship agreement with the Russian real estate developer the PIK Group over unsavory business practices and corruption.  An open letter alleges the developer “does not aim at improving the environment and people’s lives, but rather at obtaining super profits and enhancing its own image through the patronage of cultural projects.” (more…)

Brazil’s Ministry of Culture, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo have selected Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca to represent the nation at the 2019 Venice Biennale. Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, who curated this year’s edition of the Bienal de São Paulo, will curate the pavilion. (more…)

A partnership with the Smithsonian Institution and Fulbright Commission will allow researchers from Brazil’s destroyed National Museum to continue their research. “We have lost part of our collection but not our ability to produce knowledge,” the museum’s director, Alexander Kellner, said in a statement. (more…)

New York Magazine profiles 15 Orient, the living room gallery opened by Michel Gondry’s son Paul in their Brooklyn home. The space has already hosted a number of exhibitions in the past year. (more…)

The New York Times spotlights a push for a museum dedicated to Judy Chicago in her home city of Belen, New Mexico, and the controversy her work has raised in the city. “If Judy Chicago wants to be successful in a museum, well bless her little heart,” says John K. Thompson, a resident and retired stockbroker. “But not in a sleepy little town in the middle of New Mexico. A lot of her art is very sexual, more fitting for some liberal city far from here.” (more…)

The trailer for Mapplethorpe, the biopic of the life and work of Robert Mapplethorpe, has been unveiled, starring Matt Smith as the photographer. The film explores the intersection of his art and his sexuality along with his struggle for mainstream recognition. (more…)

Tate Britain will rehang the last 60 years of its gallery displays with only female artists including Bridget Riley, Rachel Whiteread, and mroe the Guardian reports. “This presentation, 60 Years, will offer a significant moment to recognise and celebrate a selection of Britain’s most important artists working from the 1960s to the present day,” says Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson. (more…)

European biennial Manifesta has named the artistic team for its 13th edition, comprised of Katerina Chuchalina, Stefan Kalmár, Marina Otero Verzier, and Alya Sebti. The event will open in Marseille in 2020. “Marseille, with its great port city multiculturalism, and all its complexities and struggles, is for us maybe the ultimate test of how Marseille, France and Europe are facing the most important conflicts of our time,” says Manifesta’s director, Hedwig Fijen. “The appointed artistic team has our confidence to create a critical response to the current state of affairs in Europe and an artistic vision how we can look at global issues through the spectrum of Marseille.” (more…)

Loic Gouzer, who has served as Christie’s co-chairman of postwar and contemporary art for the past seven years, has announced he will depart from the auction house at the end of the year. “Those who know me best know that my two great passions in life have always been art and the environment,” he said in a statement. “I intend to spend the next few months concentrating on conservation and climate issues before coming back to the art world with a new project.” (more…)

Salvador Dali’s Lobster Telephone will remain in the UK after being purchased for £853,000 by the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS). “This major acquisition cements our position as one of the world’s greatest collections of surrealist art,” says Simon Groom, NSG’s director of modern and contemporary art. “Before this acquisition we had nothing of this kind.” (more…)

The full Egon Schiele Catalog Raisonné has been digitized, and is now available online for search adn exploration. “Several hundred works have been authenticated since the publication of the last print edition of Egon Schiele: The Complete Works in 1998,” says resarcher Jane Kallir. “So an update was long overdue.” (more…)

The Economist has a piece on auction guarantees, and how their use in major auctions has an impact on prices and market perceptions. “If enough leave what they see as a tilted playing field, the auction ends up being a “private sale in public’,” the piece reads. (more…)

Christie’s is planning to sell another high-profile David Hockney work this month, “Henry Geldzahler and Christopher Scott,” a 1969 piece from the collection of Barney A. Ebsworth next March in London. The work is expected to carry an estimate of £30 million. “David Hockney’s double portraits are undoubtedly some of the finest paintings the artist ever realized,” says Katharine Arnold, Christie’s head of the evening sale of post-war and contemporary art in London. (more…)

The WSJ profiles Muzeum Susch, an ambitious modern and contemporary art institution in the remote Swiss town. “There were these rural, industrial buildings, unlike anything in the region,” says founder Grażyna Kulczyk. “I very much liked them, and I looked into buying them because in my mind, of course, I still had an ambition to finally build this museum.” (more…)

A group of artworks exploring artificial intelligence and the human genome have been banned in China, and barred from exhibition in the Guangzhou Triennial. “The news is really filled with concern about the gene editing of babies,” says Heather Dewey-Hagborg, an American artist whose work “T3511” was among those pulled from the show. “It definitely seems like a moment where I can imagine that art or any kind of content that deals with biotechnological futures and some of the vulnerabilities and the dark side of those futures might seem to be dangerous.” (more…)

The Hammer Museum has added Jay Brown and Cindy Miscikowski to its board, and two new appointees to its board of overseers, Bill Block and Darren Star. “Cindy Miscikowski, Bill Block, Jay Brown, and Darren Star are all extraordinarily talented individuals who are passionate about art and the creative culture of Los Angeles. I am so thrilled to work with them during this exciting transformational time at the Hammer,” says Hammer director Ann Philbin. (more…)

A New York judge has ordered collectors Harry and Linda Macklowe to sell their collection and split the proceeds. The collection spans a vast selection of contemporary and post-war works, and is valued at over $700 million. (more…)

Kevin Beasley gets a profile in the NYT this week, as he prepares to open a show at the Whitney Museum. “There’s a story here that I think talks about migration, geography and ancestry,” he says. “But it’s really a Conceptual work.” (more…)

Brian Faucette, a director at Derek Eller Gallery, will head to Night Gallery in Los Angeles, Art News reports. “It’s been an honor working at Derek Eller Gallery these past years,” he says, “and I’d be remiss if I didn’t thank Derek and Abby for giving me the opportunity to organize some amazing exhibitions.” (more…)

Tania Bruguera will not attend the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, and instead will stay in Cuba to fight the implementation of the newly announced Decree 349 in the country, which limits artistic speech. “We are all waiting for the regulations and norms the Ministry of Culture will put forward to implement Decree 349 in the hope that they include the suggestions and demands so many artists shared with them,” she said in statement. “I would like to add that the instructor from the Ministry of Interior who is in charge of my case [threatened] me yesterday, saying that if I didn’t leave Cuba and if I did ‘something’, I would not be able to leave in the future.” (more…)

A protest at The Whitney this past Sunday called for the departure of Warren B. Kanders, the vice chair of the museum’s board, from his post. “We are not fools,” the group Decolonize This Place said in a statement. “We know law is not justice. Your statement makes it clear which side you are on: the side of Safariland, and this we simply cannot accept.” (more…)

Kimberly Drew is profiled in the New York Times this week, as she moves on from her position at The Met and embraces writing full-time. “I want to give my whole heart to this skill that I have been cultivating,” she says. (more…)