Overtime: May 6 – May 19

• $91m sale of Rabbit once again makes Jeff Koons world’s most expensive living artist.
• It’s also costly to put on a Koons show – $1m price tag for one museum.
• $97m sale of Monet painting sets record for Impressionist work at Sotheby’s.
• Over at Christie’s, a $59m Cézanne sale leads sales.
• What does $89m sale of a prime Robert Rauschenberg at Christie’s mean for his long dormant market?
• Van Gogh’s letter to thank art critic goes on view in Amsterdam.
• Catherine Opie and Cindy Sherman make a cameo appearance in Venice.
• One review of the 58th Venice Biennale.
• Roundup from artnet including their thoughts on 10 best pavilions.
• Swiss artist Christoph Büchel brings to Venice the shell of deadly boat that sank killing hundreds of migrants.
• Art Basel Miami adds section for monumental projects.
• Hyperallergic’s initial thoughts and highlights from the Whitney Biennial.
• A photographic tour of the Whitney Biennial. Another look here.
• Belgian leather goods house Delvaux celebrates launch of a new partnership with the Magritte Foundation.
• KAWS profiled by New York Times will have showing at Brooklyn Museum in 2021.
• Futura launching a new show in Singapore soon.
• Anish Kapoor will become the second foreign artist to show in Beijing’s Forbidden City.
• Kapoor also unveils new paintings that evoke menstruation.
• 60 minutes profiles Mark Bradford.
• Kehinde Wiley talks new show in Paris and residency program he will be opening next month in Senegal.
• A look at how ancient artworks looked in their day compared to now.
• The taboo history of women’s body hair in art.
• Complicating history between fashion and art.
• Inside the Statue of Liberty’s new $100m museum.
• An update on the plans for restoration of Notre Dame.
• Head turning historical portraits by Ewa Juszkiewicz.
• Estate of late artist Robert Indiana is trying to halt reproduction of his works.
• Why so many artists have been drawn to New Mexico.
• How bloody if too bloody, when it comes to blood money for the arts.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC no longer taking money from Sackler family tied to America’s opioid crisis.
• Renowned architect I.M. Pei dies at age 102.
• The legacy of late Chinese photographer Ren Hang.
• Val Kilmer accused of ripping off artist with his golden tumbleweeds.
• Nelson Mandela’s sketch of his prison door sells for $100K+.
• Painting techniques of five famous artists.

Source: arrestedmotion