From Hillary Clinton’s Venice Visit to the Death of Photographer Robert Frank: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week

Catch up on this week's news, fast.

Hillary Clinton read her own emails as part of an art exhibition in Venice. Photo by Steve Parsons/PA Images via Getty Images.

BEST?

It’s All About That Pace – The mega-gallery has opened up a new headquarters in Chelsea, and we got a sneak peak at the cavernous new digs.

But Pace Yourself – artnet News’s Tim Schneider has a few reservations about the new behemoth, and will be closely following the program as it develops.

Stonehenge in Spain – A massive drought in Spain has revealed a long-submerged megalithic stone structure, probably used for burial ceremonies.

A Frenchwoman in Germany – The French artist Pauline Curnier Jardin won Germany’s prestigious Preis der Nationalgalerie.

Hillary Reads… Her Own Emails –  Artist and poet Kenneth Goldsmith’s show in Venice dedicated to the Democrat’s email debacle had a very special visitor.

Q-Tip’s Tip – Rapper Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest is revealing his personal fine art collection in a non-selling exhibition at Bonhams in New York.

Introducing Intelligence – Our Intelligence Report for fall 2019 is now live, with data analysis, features delving into the African art market and a look back at 30 years of artnet’s own business, among others.

Museum Mania – All of the museum shows you can’t afford to miss this fall in New York, from the Whitney to the Queens Museum and everywhere in between.

Long Live Disco – The Brooklyn Museum is dedicating a show to the epic New York nightclub Studio 54 and the visual aesthetics it inspired.

 

WORST?

Remembering Robert Frank – The photographer who ushered in a new documentary style and inspired generations of artists died this week at age 94.

Losing Mary Abbott – The painter died at age 98 after a long career that saw her rise through the ranks of New York’s Abstract Expressionist movement.

Sexism in Specimens? – Analyses of natural history museums in the US and Canada reveal that modern mammal specimens are overwhelmingly male.

Attack on an Icon – The Wall Street sculpture Charging Bull was attacked by a man wielding a spiked banjo, thrashing the bronze animal in broad daylight.

Hockney’s Leaving America – The lovable British artist is shipping out from his LA digs to Normandy, where he will be allowed to smoke wherever he pleases.

O’Keeffe or O’Keefe?? – In “news of the weird,” an online conspiracy theory holds that the different spellings of Georgia O’Keeffe’s name are proof we are slipping between multiple dimensions.


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