LA’s David Kordansky Gallery now represents Huma Bhabha, Art News reports. In a statement, Kordansky said he was “fascinated by her synthesis of artificial and organic materials, modernism and monsters, notions of the universal and the alien. Both topical and transcendent, her forms give unexpected—and unflinching—life to the figurative tradition.” (more…)

Two major works from the estate of Robert Indiana will hit the auction block this month, sold to help pay for his estate’s mounting legal fees and repairs to his former mansion in Maine. “Litigation is expensive, especially in New York,” says Indiana’s executor James Brannan. “If any papers so much as cast a shadow on a desk, they bill for it.” (more…)

Sadaharu Horio, one of the last living members of the Japanese avant-garde collective Gutai, has passed away at the age of 79. Horio worked experimentally for decades, using found materials like scrap metal, string, wood, roots, stones, and planks while he worked a day job in a factory.  (more…)

Kerry James Marshall says he is done making public art, following the controversy over the city of Chicago attempted a sale of a mural he did for a city library. “It just seemed like a way of exploiting the work of artists in the city for short-term gain in a really shortsighted kind of way,” he says. (more…)

Larry Bell is profiled in The Guardian this week, reflecting on his practice as he opens a major retrospective at ICA Miami. “It’s simply light trapped at the surface,” he says. “Where you see blue on the water, the gasoline is thinner than where you see red on the water, and all the colors are on the spectrum between the blue and the red.” (more…)

Art advisor Tobias Meyer is reportedly the seller behind Phillips‘ offering of an Andy Warhol Gun painting next week.  Estimated at $7 million to $10 million, it’s the most expensive Warhol offered during this month’s auctions in New York. (more…)

The court case between residents at a London development and the Tate Modern began this week, over whether the museum can permit visitors on an observation deck in its new building that provides clear views into the development’s apartments. According to Tate lawyer Guy Fetherstonhaugh the case ultimately seeks to “deny to the public the right to use the viewing platform for its intended purpose merely to give the claimants an unencumbered right to enjoy their own view.” (more…)

The National Trust in the UK is facing criticism after a show honoring Margaret Armstrong saw a number of her collection’s works featuring men covered up. “Sometimes it doesn’t work as we intended and we accept the feedback we have received,” the trust said. “We’ve had a mix of positive and negative comments. We’re going to look at it closely and it will be reviewed thoroughly.” (more…)

Art News takes a look at The Hill Art Foundation, the project of collector J. Tomilson Hill and his wife, Janine, a world-class collection of more than 400 works, valued at over $800 million that will go on view near the High Line. “Ideally, I want an artist who has done great work in every decade they have lived,” he says. (more…)

The Queens Museum in New York has hired Sally Tallant, the director of the Liverpool Biennial as its new director, the New York Times reports. “Her unique combination of local and global experience in the arts world made her the superlative choice for leading the Queens Museum, and for serving the borough’s distinctively international constituency,” says Mark J. Coleman, the museum’s board chairman. (more…)

The Chicago Public Library has withdrawn a Kerry James Marshall mural from the upcoming Christie’s Contemporary sale in New York. “I was swimming and thought ‘This is not what I wanted, given the city’s contributions to public art, and Kerry’s a friend and also a great ambassador for Chicago,’ ” said Mayor Rahm Emanuel. “I reached out to him and said, ‘Look, I don’t want this. If you’re not happy, I don’t want to go forward.’ ” (more…)

MCH Group, the Swiss-based firm that owns Art Basel fair, will abandon its regional fair business plan, selling its shares in Art Düsseldorf and the India Art Fair. “We must and wish to further develop our classical live-event competence into an integrated experience-marketing competence in the physical and digital fields,” says Hans-Kristian Hoejsgaard, the interim chief executive of MCH Group since September. (more…)

The Tate Britain is preparing to hold its first Vincent van Gogh exhibition since 1947, bringing 45 works in for a show that will make it one of the largest in the last several decades.  “I think our floors are more robust these days,” said director Alex Farquharson, referencing the 1947 show’s popularity, bringing so many people to the museum that the gallery floors were damaged. (more…)

Two Finnish Gallerists were arrested this weekend and ordered to pay 13 million euros for selling hundreds of forged artworks. Kati Marjatta Karkkiainen, 46, and Reijo Pollari, 75, were each found guilty of 30 charges of aggravated fraud.  (more…)

The Knight Foundation has unveiled the list of Detroit arts organizations that will receive funding from its new $20 million initiative, among them the Arts League of Michigan and Creative Many Michigan Inc.“Detroit is rewriting its narrative, and artists are leading the way,” said Victoria Rogers, vice president for arts at the foundation. “With our funding, we look to add to that momentum, supporting organizations big and small, as a way to build community through the arts.” (more…)

V&A East, the Victoria and Albert Museum’s future venue on the former Olympic site in Stratford has unveiled its initial plans. It will combine exhibition and research space. (more…)

Trevor Paglen has won the Nam June Paik Art Center Prize 2018. “It’s an honor to be awarded the Nam June Paik Art Center Prize. Nam June Paik was an incredible visionary, an artist who taught us how to see a rapidly changing world, and an huge inspiration to me personally. To be recognized in relation to Nam June Paik is truly one of the greatest honors I can imagine,” he says. (more…)

Sotheby’s has reported a net loss of $27.8 million for the third quarter, a 19 percent drop over the same period last year.  “With respect to the market conditions,” says Sotheby’s president and CEO Tad Smith, “there are uncertainties, including political noise here and abroad, as well as rising interest rates and slowing global growth.” (more…)

Houston’s Menil Drawing Institute is set to open this weekend following a lengthy construction proces. “We’ve been sticklers and are proud of it,” says director Rebecca Rabinow. “I’m very proud of this board of trustees, that they agreed to slightly delay the opening in order to take the time to get everything right. Because when you walk into this building, it shows.” (more…)

The New York Times does another spotlight on Andy Warhol’s business practices this week, exploring how his work set the stage for so many artists exploring the nuances of business and commerce as aspects of their work. “I think it’s impossible to make art today without somehow taking that on board,” Damien Hirst says. “I think business in art is more important than politics.” (more…)

As MoMA prepares to open its landmark Andy Warhol retrospective, Bloomberg takes an inside look at the market, noting the artist’s recent lull in auction prices but his uptick in private sales. “It’s not a market that’s on fire, making big moves,” says Evan Beard, an art-service executive for Bank of America’s U.S. Trust unit. “It’s a little soft.” (more…)

Art Basel Hong Kong has revealed the exhibitor list for its forthcoming edition, running March 29 to 31 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The show will include 240 galleries with 21 of them showing at the fair for the first time. (more…)

Lévy Gorvy gallery has added Bona Yoo as sales director, based in NYC. “She has deep knowledge and passion for 20th century art, and has an incredible global network, with expertise and experience working in Asia, and Korea in particular,” Lévy said in a statement. (more…)

A group of artists including Mickalene Thomas and Julia Wachtel are interviewed in the NYT this week, discussing the impact Andy Warhol had on their lives and art. “I remember going to MoMA and seeing his Campbell Soup Cans (1962), and it was at that moment I decided to become an artist,” Wachtel says. “What makes Warhol the gold standard is the utter elegance, simplicity and directness of his paintings — his ability to distill a world of information out of a picture through minimal but brilliant intervention.” (more…)