Daniel Buren, Photo-souvenir Tondo n°10, situated work, September 2015 (2015), via Art Observed

Currently on view at Bortolami Gallery in New York, the renowned French conceptualist Daniel Buren has brought his Tondi to bear on the gallery, offering striking continuation and renewal of his interest in place, space and perception that he has continually refined and occasionally redefined over the course of 50 years of practice.  The Tondi were initially exhibited at Le Centquatre-Paris in France in 2015, and subsequently at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogota, Colombia, in 2017. In their new, third configuration at Bortolami, they are situated within the specific architecture of the gallery, allowing the well-lit, spacious TriBeCa room to participate expressively in their presentation and form.  They are patterned arrangements of colored glass, filtering light into patterns of expressive color that underscore the work’s position and relationship to the gallery.   (more…)

Art Newspaper reviews the recent defense of a body of Instagram works by Richard Prince, including quotes and testimony from art world professionals like New Museum director Lisa Phillips. “An image need not be altered to be transformed into a new work of art” she said of Prince’s long practice of appropriation. (more…)

Banksy’s Girl with Balloon, which destroyed  itself London last week during the Sotheby’s auction, has officially been sold under a new name and identitication: Love is in the Bin (2018).  The work has reportedly been authenticated by Banksy’s authentication body, Pest Control.  (more…)

Leonardo da Vinci’s disputed Salvator Mundi is authentic, according to a leading expert on the artist. “I am convinced, for reasons I won’t go in to, that when people said it was because of doubts about the attribution, that’s not right,” says Martin Kemp. (more…)

Storm King Art Center is adding a new permanent work to its collection, a piece by Sarah Sze. “I wanted to do something potentially radical in form,” she says of her work, Fallen Sky. “Something that was much more interwoven, intertwined — that imitates nature rather than marks it.” (more…)

The For Freedoms project gets a profile in Art Newspaper this week, as it launches its large-scale installation of billboard-based artworks around the U.S. “The 21st-century museum is a place for dialogue, and it can be perhaps a place where, mediated through art, some of the tensions around that dialogue might fall away more easily,” says Matthew McLendon, the director of the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia. (more…)

Ai Weiwei is profiled in The Guardian this week, as he opens a trio of exhibitions in Los Angeles. “I cannot accept anything which is not precise, or I feel ashamed,” he says. (more…)

An investigation project has uncovered 170 works in Dutch museums stolen from Jewish families by the Nazi regime, including a painting in the royal collection, The Guardian reports. “This research is important to do justice to history. A museum can only show an piece of art properly if the story and history behind the object is clear, says Chris Janssen, a spokesman for Museale Verwervingen. (more…)

Francis Bacon’s Study of Henrietta Moraes Laughing (1969) previously in the collection of S.I. Newhouse will go to Christie’s New York on November 15 for its postwar and contemporary art evening sale. The piece is estimated at $14 million to $18 million. “It is an honor for Christie’s to present Francis Bacon’s remarkable Study of Henrietta Moraes Laughing from the Collection of S.I. Newhouse,” says Christie’s CEO Guillaume Cerutti. “This consummate canvas by Bacon is a wonderful representation of Mr. Newhouse’s extraordinary eye for quality, that has been constantly reflected throughout his entire art collection.” (more…)

Art Dubai has named its new international director, Chloe Vaitsou, formerly the head of audience development for Frieze Fairs. “Art Dubai has been the catalyst for the growth of the region’s art scene over the past decade. I’m excited by Art Dubai’s plans to grow the brand internationally and I hope my international experience will support these ambitions,” Vaitsou says.  (more…)

The Studio Museum in Harlem has launched a new initiative, “Find Art Here,” which places reproductions of works from its collection at public schools, libraries, and service centers in Harlem. “‘Find Art Here’ renews and deepens our relationships in one of the best ways possible, by bringing our collection into the lives of our neighbors, right where they are,” says Studio Museum director Thelma Golden. “We have always been a point of contact between extraordinary artists of African descent and the Harlem communities that we’re proud to serve.” (more…)

Lygia Pape, Tecelar (1955), All images via Hauser & Wirth

On view through October 20^th, Hauser & Wirth in New York is presenting a comprehensive solo exhibition of the work of Lygia Pape, the gallery’s first United States solo exhibition of the artist since announcing its worldwide representation of Projeto Lygia Pape in 2016.  Pape, a founding member of Brazil’s Neo-Concrete movement, created work that foregrounded the sensorial experience of the viewer and spanned a range of media from sculpture to drawing, engraving to filmmaking, and even large-scale installation. Her expansive body of work, and the elaborate series of themes and concepts demonstrated throughout make for a thrilling exhibition, as the gallery seeks to explore Pape’s work in all of its breadth and depth. (more…)

Maria Seferian will take the helm of the MOCA Board in LA, taking the place of Maurice Marciano and Lilly Tartikoff Karatz.  She previously  served as interim director of the museum from the fall of 2013 into the spring 2014. (more…)

Liza Lou, Pyrocumulus (2018), All images via Lehmann Maupin.

Now through October 27^th, Lehmann Maupin will host Liza Lou: Classification and Nomenclature of Clouds as its inaugural exhibition of the gallery’s new West 24^th Street location. The show continues at the gallery’s West 22^nd Street location, in which a room is dedicated to works from Lou’s Terra series. This is the artist’s first exhibition in New York City in over a decade, and includes works of painting, sculpture, drawing, and video. (more…)

Late collect Peggy Cooper Cafritz’s holdings of African American art will be donated to Duke Ellington School of the Arts in D.C. and the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Washington Post reports. “She was always very clear that her collection was not only important to her, but it had to live beyond her,” says artist and Duke Ellington alum Hank Willis Thomas. (more…)

Julian Schnabel is interviewed in the New York Times this week as he opens a show of his works shown alongside pieces from the collection of the Musée d’Orsay. “At a certain moment the museum said: ‘You can’t have this or that painting,’ so I said ‘I can’t do it,’ ” he says. “I thought, if I can’t pick the paintings, there’s no reason for me to say that I picked the paintings.” (more…)

Mickalene Thomas is interviewed in Harper’s Bazaar this week, sitting down with Kimberly Drew to speak on diversity, representation and practice. “I think it’s important for us to see ourselves continually,” she says. “When you see yourself, that gives you a sense of power, of ownership and validation.”  (more…)

The city of Chicago’s decision to sell a mural by Kerry James Marshall in order to fund improvements to its library branch has met with controversy, including a critique by Marshall himself.  “Considering that only last year Mayor [Rahm] Emanuel and Commissioner [of the Department of Cultural Affairs Mark] Kelly dedicated another mural I designed downtown for which I was asked to accept one dollar, you could say the City of Big Shoulders has wrung every bit of value they could from the fruits of my labor,” he says. (more…)

Julia Turner will become the Arts Editor at the LA Times. “Los Angeles is where entertainment, culture and technology intersect in interesting and exciting ways,” says Times Executive Editor Norman Pearlstine. “Julia is a versatile and experienced editor who will work with our journalists to capture, criticize and have a conversation about everything from literature to emerging business models.” (more…)

Art Newspaper has a piece this week on Anni Albers, and her work in the field of textiles. “Painting is applied on to something,” she writes in one text. “Sculpture uses a given material… [Weaving] is closest to architecture because it is a building-up out of a single element, building a whole out of single elements.”

New York Magazine has a piece on dealer David Killen’s discovery of a series of unauthenticated works he attributes to Willem de Kooning works in a New Jersey storage locker, and his decision to auction them off himself after provenance issues scared auction houses off. “My hope,” Killen says, “is that serious people come to the exhibition, bring their expert with them, and let the expert whisper in their ear, ‘Yeah, they’re real.’ ” (more…)

Landscapes of the Mind: Masterpieces from Tate Britain (1700-1980), a show on view at the Shanghai Museum this year, attracted 615,000 visitors over its 14 week run, making it The Tate’s most popular ever.  (more…)

Zhang Xiaogang at Pace, via Art Observed

Pace Gallery in New York is currently exhibiting a selection of new works by the renowned Chinese painter Zhang Xiaogang, a body of works that sees him continuing to explore and interpret his unique painterly language.  Mixing together domestic scenes and surrealist iconographies, then populating them with a mixture of shared cultural symbols and figures from his own childhood memories. Xiaogang’s work is a remarkable window into complex psychological states and cultural moorings.  (more…)

Josep Maynou, Rugs (2018) Bombon _Projects

Located at the University of Westminster, the Sunday Art Fair is a decidedly mellow counterpoint to the expansive aisles and big-ticket sales of the proceedings at Regent’s Park. Capped at just 30 international galleries exhibiting solo projects or curated group presentations, the exhibition welcomes galleries dedicated to emerging artists, new concepts and new contexts for showing work.  (more…)