The city of Münster’s popular “Night of the Museums and Galleries” will see the Skulptur Projekte Münster join its list of institutions staying open late this weekend, with many works on view until 10PM or later. (more…)

Artist Trevor Paglen is profiled in the New York Times this week, as the artist prepares new work and looks back on several years spent observing and challenging the structures of modern surveillance. ‘‘People like to say that my work is about making the invisible visible, but that’s a misunderstanding,’’ he says. ‘‘It’s about showing what invisibility looks like.’’ (more…)

Crystal Bridges Museum has unveiled its plans for a converted Kraft Foods cheese plant, which will become a satellite space called the Momentary. “We’re definitely in a growth mode, and I think we’ll develop an innovative interplay between these projects and those in the new industrial facility,” says curator Lauren Haynes. (more…)

The Palais Brongniart in Paris will play home to a new art fair focused on drawing and sculpture this November, the Art Newspaper reports, aiming to fill a space in the city’s offerings for Old Masters works.  “I believe this fair is a reboot of Paris Tableau but that it will have a broader outlook,” says dealer Jill Newhouse, recalling Paris’s last fair dedicated to that category of works. “I have always sold well in Paris and to European collections so when this opportunity arose, I jumped!” (more…)

DIVINE DIALOGUES: Cy Twombly and Greek Antiquity, exhibition view. All images courtesy of the Museum of Cycladic Art.

On the occasion of Documenta 14 in Athens, the Museum of Cycladic Art presents “Divine Dialogues: Cy Twombly and Greek Antiquity,” an exhibition that juxtaposes twenty-seven works by the American artist Cy Twombly with twelve ancient Greek artworks and objects from the Archaic and Classical periods. As the press release concedes, the impact of Greece’s geography and mythos on Twombly’s artistic production is widely known; “Divine Dialogues” seeks not just to reaffirm the scope and depth of this influence, but to make a firm case for Greek antiquity’s continuing relevance to modern and contemporary art at large. (more…)

Artist Dread Scott’s flag work, A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday, is being added to the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the Whitney, Art News reports. “You’re approximately six times more likely to be killed by the police if you’re black than if you’re white,” Scott said. “That is the terror that is perpetuated among people today, and that is the legacy of lynching. I want this flag to be a phantasm of the past: both as a means to mark this horror from the past that exists in the present, but also as the resistance from the past that persists in the present. The flag was flown because the NAACP organized people to stop lynching.” (more…)

Takashi Murakami has opened his career retrospective at the MCA Chicago, and has designed a series of prints and other pieces on sale at the museum gift shop, Art Newspaper reports, causing a major surge in sales that sees no sign of slowing. “I’ve never had to ask so much from the retail department, as well as everyone else in the building, including the social media team,” Mark Millmore, the MCA’s director of retail says. (more…)

A group of citizens living around Washington Square Park are opposing Ai Weiwei’s proposed fence installation around the park’s iconic arch. “The monumental Arch is a work of art in itself. It does not need to be politicized with the proposed installation,” a letter to the Public Art Fund reads. “The shape is grand and sculptural, as are the statues of George Washington. We feel that the integrity of its design would be compromised by Mr. Weiwei’s art work. This installation sets a dangerous precedent that one of New York City’s most recognized monuments and pieces of art can be decorated and co-opted for 4 months at a time.” (more…)

Artist Cai Guo-Qiang is featured in the Financial Times’s ongoing “Lunch with the FT” series, dining with writer Leslie Hook at his studio. “I can come back and do things for China; that is not a problem, but I also have my own viewpoint, my own principles,” Cai says. (more…)

Ai Weiwei is interviewed in Variety this week, as his documentary Human Flow prepares for its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. “I know what it is like to be viewed as an outcast,” he says of his work. “The current-day displacement of people is the largest since the end of World War II. It’s a global issue and one which tests the resolve of developed nations to uphold human rights. I am eager to understand how those values — which form the foundation of democracy and freedom — are protected and how they have been violated.” (more…)

The 2018 Montreal Biennale has been canceled due to a lack of funding, the Art Newspaper reports. The previous exhibition suffered from major budgetary issues, despite critical praise. “General management was not their forte,”chairman of the board, Cédric Bisson said of the Biennale’s executive and artistic director Sylvie Fortin and her team.

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Artist Alex Israel will release SPF-18, the feature-length teen surf film he directed, this fall, Art News reports. “It’s an artwork for teenagers, who watch movies at school, on iTunes, and on Netflix,” Israel says. “Distributing it through their channels is key, and I can’t wait for our high school tour. It was great to collaborate with so many incredibly talented people whom I’ve long admired throughout this process.” (more…)

The Art Market Monitor has a studied recap on the current lawsuit between Chinese collectors Lin San and Zhang Chang over the purchase of Gerhard Richter’s Dusenjager.  The work was reportedly bought by Zhang Chang and not paid for, resulting in Phillips auction house claiming of the work, before Lin (who loaned the money for another purchase) stepped in with a lawsuit trying to claim the piece.  (more…)

The Hammer Museum has added Linda Janger, artist Glenn Kaino and Dean Valentine to its board, Art News reports. The group has a long relationship with the museum, having worked in various capacities with the Hammer over the past years. (more…)

Jeff Koons has created a 40-foot high balloon sculpture for Jay-Z’s upcoming tour, continuing the rapper’s ongoing references and interest in the artist’s work.  The work saw its debut at the UK’s V Festival last week. (more…)

Carlos Motta, Towards a Homoerotic Historiography (2015) (detail) Courtesy of the artist

Praz-Delavallade, a main figure in the Paris gallery scene since the ‘90s, opened its first space in the United States in Los Angeles this past January. This summer, the gallery continues its program on the west coast with Over the Rainbow, a group exhibition dedicated socio-political trajectory of the LGTQ movement in the United States, and its ebbs and flows through painting, photography, sculpture, and video. As a French import on the city’s gallery-dense Wilshire Boulevard, the gallery brings together an intergenerational group of artists drawn from a global spectrum of interests and backgrounds, each looking at seminal moments in the gay liberation movement, such as the Stonewall upheaval, the outbreak and aftermath of HIV/AIDS epidemic, and marriage equality granted to same-sex couples through allusive or direct approaches that grasp at a timeless, global sensitivity. (more…)

Alexander Calder, Red Lily Pads (1956), via Art Observed

An embarrassment of riches is spread along the winding pathway of the Guggenheim Museum this spring, tracing the long and storied history of the New York institution through its interconnected relationships with the collectors and avant-garde pioneers that helped to grow the institution into the powerhouse that it has since become.  Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim offers visitors a firsthand look at the inception of one of the city’s enduring guardians of modern and contemporary art, all through the eyes and hands of the various parties involved in its early years. (more…)

A new report published shows that, despite the diversity of New York City’s neighborhoods, the museum boards for its many museums remain overwhelmingly white, the New York Times reports. “It’s not just who you hire,” Tom Finkelpearl, the commissioner of Cultural Affairs says. “Are people then actually involved in the decision making? Is it tokenism or is it something that’s fundamental? In what categories are people’s careers being nurtured and are people being included?” (more…)

Solange Knowles has announced plans to perform a series of compositions in front of Donald Judd’s 15 Untitled Works in Concrete in Marfa, TX. “Donald Judd’s profound work has had tremendous impact on the way in which I see the world,” the artist said in a statement. “I have visited these works at the Chinati in Marfa various times, at landmark moments in my life and am completely and utterly honored to deliver my performance piece, Scales, alongside these phenomenal installations.”  (more…)

Artist Ai Weiwei and the Public Art Fund have launched an $80,000 Kickstarter project to fund the erection of fences around New York City, expanding the artist’s original proposal for his piece Fences Make Good Neighbors. “Fences can be used to regulate and detain people, to segregate and to train people to accept the given conditions,” the artist says of his work. (more…)

MoMA PS1 has hired SculptureCenter’s Ruba Katrib as curator, Art News reports. “MoMA PS1 is undoubtedly one of the most influential contemporary art museums today,” she said in a statement, “and I look forward to continuing its legacy of working with artists at crucial points in their careers and introducing them to wider audiences.” (more…)

The New York Times profiles the current lawsuit against sculptor Dale Chihuly, who is being accused of taking ideas from an assistant and not properly compensating them for their work. “Yeah, I would say it probably made it easier to attack me,” Chihuly says of the nature of his labor-intensive process and the number of workers on his projects. “I absolutely need my teams.” (more…)

Documenta 14 is at the center of more political conflict this week, after a far-right German politician attacked a pro-refugee sculpture by Nigerian-born, US-based artist Olu Oguibe. Kassel city council member Thomas Materner, a member of Germany’s far-right AfD party, called the work “ideologically polarizing, disfigured art,” over its message. Curator Adam Szymczyk was reportedly “appalled” by the comments. (more…)

Bulgari is aligning itself with Rome’s Maxxi museum to present a new prize for Italian contemporary arts, WWD reports. “The Premio Maxxi sees Italy at the center of the work of the artists involved,” says Jean Christophe Babin, Bulgari’s chief executive officer. “Supporting a prize that valorizes Italy but with significant international scope is in perfect harmony with the identity and values of a company such as Bulgari,” said Babin. “I am sure that this partnership will give new impetus to the prize.” (more…)