A series of paintings of drag queens and trans women by Andy Warhol will go on view next year at Tate Modern, The Guardian reports.  “I had heard there might be these paintings in existence and I met the people who own them now and I went to visit them and it was quite the most remarkable thing,” says Gregor Muir, a Tate director and co-curator. “They were mostly in storage and it was just very beautiful and exciting to pull out these paintings and handle them and start to look through each and every work.” (more…)

Benjamin Genocchio, former director of the Armory Show, has moved to a position as director at large for Shoshana Wayne Gallery. “I’m tremendously honored to be joining Shoshana Wayne Gallery, one of the oldest most prestigious galleries in Los Angeles with a 35-year history, as they embark on a new chapter with a custom-built 5,000-square-foot exhibition space set to open early next year,” he says. (more…)

New York Magazine’s architecture critic Justin Davidson and art critic Jerry Saltz debate the new MoMA  building this week in the magazine, discussing its merits and drawbacks. “I love that for the first time ever, you can get lost at MoMA,” Saltz says. “As with the Met, we may begin to tell ourselves our stories rather than being subjected to the old bullying ‘Cézanne begat Picasso who begat Duchamp who begat everything post-1979′ line.” (more…)

A piece in the New York times charts recent challenges faced by the Mayor’s Office as it rushes to build a range of new monuments across the city in the face of protest and criticism from scholars, community boards, and more. “There needs to be more Council oversight and an intentional reform of the process,” says Todd Fine, president of the Washington Street Historical Society, “especially before this battery of new monuments advances.” (more…)

A brush along the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles is nearing the Getty, and has been nicknamed “The Getty Fire” according to the LA Times. The fire has burned over 500 acres of land. (more…)

Roy DeCarava, Bill and Son (1962), via David Zwirner

Marking its first presentation of the work of photographer Roy DeCarava since announcing exclusive representation of his estate last year, David Zwirner has opened an impressive pair of shows devoted to divergent bodies of work. Exploring the artist’s expansive vision and unique sense of the image, the pair of shows highlight why Zwirner was so devoted to representing the artist’s work. (more…)

The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx will host a major Yayoi Kusama exhibition next year, including paintings and sculptures of flowers, and one of the artist’s “Infinity Rooms.”  “The more we researched her, the more we got excited about these stories we could tell here at the garden,”Karen Daubmann, the NYBG VP says. “We’re writing a story about Kusama that most people don’t know.” (more…)

Japanese collective teamLab, will open new spaces in Shanghai and Macao according to Art Newspaper. “When teamLab started it struggled to get opportunities inside Japan. It has always been the overseas galleries and art communities that have supported teamLab,” says founder Toshiyuki Inoko. (more…)

Art News profiles the challenges ahead of the new Haus der Kunst director Andrea Lissoni. “Dr. Lissoni has a very imposing legacy to live up to,” says artist Adrian Piper. “Okwui Enwezor [searched] for high-quality, cutting-edge art in every culture, every country, every community, and every artist’s studio, regardless of gender, so-called ‘race,’ ethnicity, geographical location, or art world connections.” (more…)

Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson, a collector of modern and contemporary works who gave the bulk of her collection if 20th-century American art to Stanford University, has passed away at 92. “Moo Anderson will forever be remembered for her love of art, but also for her love of sharing art,” says Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne. “She opened her home so that students could have that same experience of looking and learning about art. We are so deeply grateful that Moo and Hunk trusted Stanford to be stewards of their remarkable collection and enable people of all ages to experience it on a daily basis.” (more…)

Teresita Fernández is profiled in the NYT this week, as she opens a major survey at the Perez Art Museum Miami. “People are very seduced by their own image and the exercise of looking for themselves,” she says of her work. (more…)

N. Dash, Untitled (2019), via Casey Kaplan

Currently on view at Casey Kaplan’s exhibition space, artist N. Dash presents a selection of new works delving into process, time, material and the act of representation, a series complex silkscreen arrangements that seem to reference space and time, production and material as bound up in an ongoing exchange. The works, spread throughout the gallery space, serve as an intriguing meditation on the concept of production, and how the continued extension and elongation of the productive process can create an ever more expansive range of works.

N. Dash (Installation View), via Casey Kaplan

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Shirin Neshat gets a spotlight in the LA Times this week, as she opens new work in the city. “All of these things made their way into my work: fear, vulnerability, being an outcast,” she says of her new video work. “Every woman in my film is an outcast, they are rebellious, they are running away.” (more…)

Pace Gallery gets a profile in Town & Country this week, as artist Tara Donovan reflects on her time with the gallery and its impact on the art world. “I am in awe of the small gallery that Arne started in Boston in 1960 and the art empire he and Marc have built,” she says. “They may be father and son, but they have created a family for all of us who work alongside them.” (more…)

An show of work by Anthony van Dyck will use X-ray and infrared technology to provide new perspective into the artist’s methods.“We don’t know whether it was at the request of the client or whether it was his own artistic decision,” says curator Mirjam Neumeister. “But it shows that his paintings were prepared not just with drawing studies—they were also very intensely reworked during the painting process.” (more…)

A piece in the LA Times charts how the Trump tax cuts are negatively impacting artists and actors, showing how much money is now paid by many freelancers in tax after the new tax code eliminated itemized deductions. (more…)

Artist Dawoud Bey has joined Sean Kelly in New York.  “I have admired Dawoud’s work for many years and we have been friends for a long time,” Kelly says. “We very much look forward to welcoming him to the gallery and representing his inspiring and important body of work.” (more…)

A painting of the Madonna and child attributed as “close to Raphael” has sold for €1.27m in Vienna, Art Newspaper reports, more than three times its estimate.  The sales comes after one historian speculated the work was perhaps by the artist himself. “We think this probably made the work even more interesting,” says Doris Krumpl, a spokeswoman for Dorotheum, where the work was sold. (more…)

GQ profiles artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase, and the artist’s approach to depicting black queer men. “I’m interested in just being honest,” he says. “Everyone always asks, ‘How long have you done art? What’s your influence?’ That would be my mom, Mary Chase. She used to draw for me a lot, so that’s where I get my visual love from.”  (more…)

Saudi Arabia is planning a modern art museum outside Riyadh, Forbes reports.  Titled the Saudi Museum of Modern Art, it will be “designed according to a modern creative concept influenced by the traditional local architectural style.” (more…)

A piece in the Art Newspaper charts ongoing speculation over whether Salvator Mundi will be shown in the Louvre exhibition on Da Vinci, and provides more more background on the purchase and current speculation about the work’s whereabouts.  The piece looks at a 2018 order for the work that bills it as “attributed” to the artist rather than by him. (more…)

A new lawsuit filed in Florida sees art dealer Inigo Phil  facing off against Fine Art Partners (FAP), a Germany-based financial services company that claims the dealer is withholding $14 million in works by Donald Judd, and perhaps most notably, one of Yayoi Kusama‘s Infinity Room works. (more…)

Sotheby’s has announced  that Mark Rothko’s Blue Over Red will be a featured lot in the company’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale November 14^th in NYC.  The work was acquired directly from the artist by dealer and collector Harold Diamond, before being sold to a private collection from the holdings Baltimore collectors Israel and Selma Rosen. (more…)

Yayoi Kusama will have a balloon in this year’s Macy’s Day Parade, Art News reports.  “Her work lends itself to that playful whimsy that we like to see in the sky,” says Susan Tercero, the parade’s executive producer. “What’s fantastic about her art, and why I think she’s so world-renowned, is that it is so accessible. Everyone can look at her art and appreciate it, understand it, and feel something from it, and that’s what we’re trying to do.” (more…)