People The Head of South Africa’s New Contemporary Art Museum Resigns Amid Investigation Into ‘Professional Conduct’ Local press reports that the director had acted inappropriately toward junior staff. By Sarah Cascone, May 18, 2018
Art World Art Industry News: Damien Hirst Designs a High-End Bar in Las Vegas + More Must-Read Stories Plus, Sting is selling his design collection at Phillips and a judge approves the removal of Confederate statues in Memphis. By artnet News, May 18, 2018
Art World MoMA Is Suing MoMaCha Teashop Over Its Name—and the Cafe Thinks It’s ‘Absurd’ An artsy teashop takes on the Museum of Modern Art. By Sarah Cascone, May 17, 2018
Politics In an Effort to Correct Its Cultural ‘Blind Spot,’ Germany Releases a Code of Conduct for Colonial-Era Artifacts The sweeping 130-page guidelines outline methodologies for provenance research and possibilities for restitution. By Kate Brown, May 17, 2018
Art World Art Industry News: Godard Is Turning His Next Film Into a Traveling Exhibition + More Must-Read Stories Plus, Banksy's fake caveman art returns to the British Museum and Art Basel for cars comes to the city of Miami. By artnet News, May 17, 2018
Art World ‘He Copies Me Much More Than I Copy Him’: Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham on 35 Years of Creative Cohabitation For the first time, the husband-and-wife artists are having concurrent solo shows in New York. By Sarah Cascone, May 17, 2018
Art World An Art Dealer Claims He’s Discovered a Previously Unknown Rembrandt. Where’d He Find It? At Christie’s Bought for $172,000, the portrait could be worth millions of dollars. By Naomi Rea, May 16, 2018
People What Can New Yorkers Expect From the Met’s New Director? Friends and Colleagues Call Max Hollein a Change Agent With an Artist’s Touch In conversations with art-world figures on both sides of the Atlantic, the Austrian-born museum director comes off as a efficient dynamo. By Julia Halperin, May 16, 2018
Art World Art Industry News: The Secret Message Hidden in Mark Grotjahn’s Cryptic Kitchen Instagrams + More Must-Read Stories Plus, the Anne Frank museum reveals racy unseen pages from her diary and the writer and art-world observer Tom Wolfe has died. By artnet News, May 16, 2018
Art World A Record-Breaking Brancusi Sets the Tone for Christie’s Buoyant $415.8 Million Impressionist and Modern Sale With one-third of the lots selling above their high estimates, results were muscular—but left room for bigger dreams. By Tim Schneider, May 16, 2018
People Rising Star Hartmut Dorgerloh Is Appointed Director of Berlin’s Massive Humboldt Forum Museum Project The incoming director takes the helm of one of the most ambitious and expensive cultural projects in Europe. By Henri Neuendorf, May 16, 2018
Art World The World’s Earliest Artists May Have Been Autistic, Scientists Say in a New Study Could human artistic creativity be an evolutionary development? By Henri Neuendorf, May 15, 2018
Art World The Smithsonian Gets an Injection of Super Soldier Serum as Captain America’s Shield Enters Its Collection It is a prop shield, and not actually made of the mythical metal vibranium. By Taylor Dafoe, May 15, 2018
Art World ‘It Was Not Easy’: Architect David Chipperfield on His Surgical Overhaul of London’s Royal Academy London's great artist-run institution completes a $64 million unification of its back-to-back buildings just in time for its 250th anniversary. By Javier Pes, May 15, 2018
People 11 Art World Players Who Made the 2018 Sunday Times ‘Rich List’ Once again, Damien Hirst and Anish Kapoor are the only artists to break onto the list of Britain's richest 1000 people. By Naomi Rea, May 15, 2018
