Raymond Pettibon, Frenchette (Installation View), via David Zwirner

With the days of FIAC now fading into the distance, the art world has settled down a bit in Paris, but some of the fresh energy and excitement of the week remains, particularly in the Marais, where David Zwirner’s brand new exhibition space at 108, rue Vieille du Temple has now opened permanently. The well-appointed space is christened by American artist Raymond Pettibon, who marks his first solo show in the city since 1995. (more…)

Instagram held a closed-door roundtable yesterday with art institutions and artists in New York about its community guidelines and content moderation policies as they relate to nudity in art, Art News reports. “Today was about meeting with the community in the art world to understand their feedback,” spokesperson Stephanie Otway said. “A lot of their feedback is based around our nudity policies, so we definitely felt it was a constructive day for us to think about how these policies evolve and develop in the future. I think it’s the start of a conversation between us and the art community.” (more…)

Amid discord in Hong Kong, the new list of exhibitors for next year’s edition of Art Basel Hong Kong has been announced, with 241 galleries on hand. (more…)

Berlin gallerist Michael Schultz has been arrested over suspicion of selling fake artworks. The arrest came after German authorities found an alleged fake by an when it was put up for sale at an auction house. (more…)

An Yves Klein from his Anthropometries series may beat the artist’s auction record at Christie’s next month in New York, estimated to sell at $12 million to $18 million. (more…)

St John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta will open its own wing dedicated to the Caravaggio tapestry set it holds in its collection, following a restoration. “Apart from cleaning the tapestries, losses and open seams were reinforced and lined is such a way that strengthens and supports the magnificent weavings so that they can hang again,” says Cynthia de Giorgio, the curator and museum project leader of St John’s Co-Cathedral.  (more…)

Andrea Lissoni the senior curator at Tate Modern, will take over as director at the Haus der Kunst, taking over for the late Okwui Enwezor. “We have found a convincing personality who is willing to and can face the challenges of the Haus der Kunst in the field of tension between international radiance and local embedding,” says Bernd Sibler, the art minister in the state of Bavaria. (more…)

Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping, a provocative and challenging practitioner who often brought forth taboo subjects in China, has passed away at 65. His death was confirmed by Gladstone Gallery. The artist’s work recently encountered controversy in New York, when his 1993 work Theater of the World was altered to remove animals preying on each other from the inside of the work. “Huang doesn’t give a damn,” said Kamel Mennour. “Sometimes I’ll point out important clients to him, but it makes no difference. He never goes to openings or parties, never reads magazines. He wears the same pants and shoes every day. He’s just obsessively focused on his work.” (more…)

On November 11 in New York Christie’s will sell Umberto Boccioni’s iconic sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, estimated at $3,800,000-4,500,000. “In his brief life, Boccioni reimagined time, space and movement in three dimensions,” says Max Carter, International Director, Head of Department, Impressionist and Modern Art at the auction house. “Where other works of art are rooted in the past, Unique Forms of Continuity of Space—Boccioni’s greatest achievement and one of the most important sculptures of the 20th century—was, is and will always be the future.” (more…)

Jim Shaw, Strange Beautiful (2019), via Praz-Delavallade

It’s hard to avoid the bizarre poignancy of Jim Shaw’s work in the modern era. The artist’s incisive and often hysterical engagements with the language of modern U.S. politics, moments of historical violence, pop culture and even commodity capitalism (usually all at once), makes him one of our era’s most erudite cultural critics, even if he may, simultaneously, be one of our most ribald. His work, on view now at Praz-Delavallade in Paris, makes the most of our current historical moment, putting the full weight of the current era into a new series of works. (more…)

A piece in the NYT looks at the friendship between Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas, and how the pair’s shared interests and styles helped usher in a new era of art. “Degas was surrounded by Americans,” says historian Nancy Mowll Mathews. “He was someone who liked having people like him. He got them interested in his ideas. Cassatt was one of many who came into the Impressionist circle through Degas.”  (more…)

A newly discovered painting by Rembrandt will go on view for the first time at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, The Guardian reports. “In his early paintings, prints and drawings we find a young artist exploring his own style, grappling with technical difficulties and making mistakes. But his progress is remarkable and the works in this exhibition demonstrate an amazing development from year to year,” says Christopher Brown, a former Ashmolean director and co-curator of the show. (more…)

Environmental protestors from Extinction Rebellion coated themselves with fake oil at the National Portrait Gallery this week, in protest against the museum’s sponsorship by BP. “Who will there be left to see, who will there be left to paint, if we have no earth and no people?” a protestor said during the action. “We cannot be artists on a dead planet. Oil means the end, but art means the beginning.” (more…)

Volta Art Fair has been purchased by Ramsay Fairs, the group that owns the Affordable Art Fair and Pulse, the Financial Times reports. The new owners will work “to invest more in marketing and the fair experience,” according to a statement. (more…)

Ed Clark, Untitled (2005), via Hauser & Wirth

Pioneering painter Ed Clark, the African-American painter known for his use of a push broom to spread bold colors across his canvases to create energetic and engaging comments on the state of the world, has passes away at the age of 93.  His death was announced by his gallery, Hauser & Wirth. (more…)

Hildegard Bachert, an art dealer focused on German and Austrian modernism, has died at age 98.  Bachert was a tireless advocate for the often challenging subject matter of the work she sold, once saying: “We don’t do pretty pictures—our art is tough. If we have people who come in saying, ‘I’m looking for a picture that works over my fireplace,’ I say, ‘I’m sorry but I can’t help you.’” (more…)

A Keith Haring mural is being cut out of the stairwell of Grace House, a Catholic youth center on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and prepared for auction, causing some to decry its removal. “When new kids came to that building and they saw all that stuff, they said, ‘Oh my god, this is Keith Haring. Is this real?’” says former director Gary Mallon. (more…)

Hollywood exec Ron Meyer has filed a $10m lawsuit against two art dealers he claims sold him a forged Mark Rothko. “Ron Meyer is probably Hollywood’s best liked person. The people he’s quietly helped are legion,” says lawyer Bertram Fields. “It’s a shame that Ron, of all people, should have been stuck with an expensive but fake painting.  We’ll try to right that wrong.” (more…)

A pair of protests were staged at MoMA the past few days, with groups disrupting the opening this morning over Steven Tananbaum’s position as trustee, and his company’s holding of $2.5 billion in debt from Puerto Rico, which is currently facing government austerity, as well as a protest this past weekend over alleged museum ties to Fidelity Investments, which has stakes in GEO Group and CoreCivic, two private-prison companies. (more…)

In a surprise move, MoMA opened its doors on its newly renovated space a day early, offering free admission all Sunday.  “We decided to celebrate with visitors from New York and around the world by offering free admission to all on Sunday, one day before we officially open the new MoMA on October 21. Come and celebrate with us!” a MoMA spokesperson said in an email. (more…)

Jeppe Hein, Moon Mirror (2019), via 303

Artist Jeppe Hein rounds out a new show of works at 303 Gallery this month, a selection of works that continue a frank, emotive sensibility and a meditative approach towards perception and understanding in his work.  The show, including neon works, LED-lit sculptures and painted canvases, seems to reflect and rework a range of expressive tendencies from the contemporary canon through a colorful, subdued lens. (more…)

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Shirin Neshat has some choice words about the Trump administration in an interview with Art Newspaper this week, as she opens a major retrospective at The Broad. “For me, the demon lives on both sides,” she says. “This US government is looking more and more like the Iranian government every day. I am cornered on both sides in a way, maybe not so badly yet in the US. At the moment the sanctions are killing Iran­â€”not just the government but the people too—and they are desperately trying to find a solution. And then in the US, my God—it is just going to hell. There are such profound problems: corruption, healthcare, education, the issue of poverty. ” (more…)

Jonathan Lyndon Chase, watch shopping (2019), via Mitchell-Innes & Nash

Currently on view at its Chelsea exhibition space, Mitchell-Innes & Nash is currently presenting Embodiment, a group exhibition of works by Pope.L, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Cheyenne Julien and Tschabalala Self that explores the different ways in which corporeality is envisioned and depicted within the spatial confines of the two-dimensional picture plane. Focusing on a selection of works that tease and turn the human form through a variety of perspectives and varied iterations, the show is a fascinating investigation of how the human form exists in contemporary art, and how it might be incorporated in the future. (more…)