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- Global art market shows signs of growth for second year in a row.
- The global art market reached $67.4 billion in 2018, up 6%.
- Basquiat leads £93.2 million Sotheby’s sale of contemporary art.
- £38 million Hockney powers Christie’s contemporary sale.
- Subdued week of London auctions ends with £36.4 million contemporary art sale at Phillips.
- Sotheby’s will offer 100-plus Steinberg collection works, including two Rothkos, in New York in May.
- 7 artists who stole the show at New York’s Spring/Break.
- Sales at New York’s Armory Show prove more stable than its venue.
- The 20 best booths at The Armory Show 2019.
- ARTnews’s complete Armory Week 2019 coverage.
- A recent history of the hotel art fair, from the Gramercy Hotel to a Comfort Inn.
- Curator Ralph Rugoff reveals plans and artist list for 2019 Venice Biennale.
- Jack Shainman Gallery to mount first Paul Anthony Smith show in April.
- Smaller galleries rely on just one artist for almost half their income, report finds.
- Galleries are focusing on female artists to tackle the industry’s gender divide.
- Bosco Sodi unveils colossal ‘city of cubes’ on the Oaxacan coast.
- Atelier Van Lieshout’s doomsday devices take us back to the Industrial Revolution.
- Sean Scully’s figurative leap.
- The visionary work of Matthew Barney.
- The rediscovery of Robert Duran.
- Cristina BanBan combines anime and neoclassicism in her depictions of the female figure.
- Why is work by female artists still valued less than work by male artists?
- Inside Kiki Smith’s Magical World of work that spans four decades.
- Trailblazing feminist performance artist Carolee Schneemann has died aged 79.
- At 86, sculptor Kay Hofmann is making waves in Chicago.
- Photographer Mona Kuhn reflects on mysticism and modernism in Joshua Tree.
- Naima Green captures the many faces of the queer community.
- Daido Moriyama wins $110,000 Hasselblad Award for photography.
- Christina Quarles wins inaugural $50,000 Pérez Prize from PAMM.
- With painterly precision artist Georgia Gardner Gray reveals female fears.
- Erika Verzutti’s play with the soft and the hard.
- Watch artist Trenton Doyle Hancock render his superhero alter ego.
- Carnegie Prize winner Lynette Yiadom-Boakye explores fiction in painting.
- Artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy probe the pseudoscience behind how we think about race.
- Hank Willis Thomas to design Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial.
- New York to build monuments to four more female trailblazers.
- The strange, singular vision of Milwaukee outsider artist Bernard Gilardi.
- The Haas Brothers’ playful monsters are now a homeware line.
- Collezione Maramotti’s extraordinary art collection continues to evolve.
- The CIA agent who became a visionary art collector.
- 4 secrets to living a bold, creative life.
- Experts suggest Leonardo da Vinci drew ‘Nude Mona Lisa’.
- Harsh realities lurk behind picturesque Impressionist masterpieces.
- Why do so many Egyptian statues have broken noses?
Source: arrestedmotion