BEST

Seeing Red – The long awaited art center Ruby City opened in San Antonio,
Texas, with a building designed by David Adjaye—fulfilling the
dreams of the late Pace food heiress.

A New Perspective on Last Supper
– The female renaissance painter Plautilla Nelli’s vision
of The Last Supper is now on permanent display in
Florence, after years of restoration and conservation.

An African Art Star Skyrockets – The
market for Nigerian artist Ben Enwonwu is officially red hot, with
a recent portrait selling for almost eight times
its estimate at auction.

Waxing Poetic – Urs Fischer’s latest
melting wax sculpture is inspired by none other than Leonardo
DiCaprio. The artist sculpted the actor and art collector
standing alongside his parents.

Critical Eye on MoMA – Our chief art critic Ben Davis spent nearly 10 hours in the
newly renovated museum to lay out the perils of
re-contextualizing history, and how visitors might interact with
the newly displayed works.

Reversal on ‘Vitruvian Man’ – Just days
before a blockbuster Leonardo exhibit is set to open at the Louvre,
an Italian court ruled that the famous
Vitruvian Man drawing can travel from Italy after
all, despite last-ditch efforts to block the loan.

Sanyu Soaring – In next month’s Hong Kong
auctions, Christie’s is hoping to shatter the world
record for a work by Chinese-French artist Sanyu.

Mapping MoMA’s Future – artnet News’s
Andrew Goldstein spoke to MoMA director Glenn
Lowry about the museum’s re-hang, how it will
proceed, and what it can learn from its past.

WORST

John Giorno Has Died – The colorful
activist, artist, poet, and Andy Warhol star died at age 82. His avant-garde approach to
poetry, and his fight for gay rights, were celebrated in a
13-venue, multi-city retrospective curated by his partner, Ugo
Rondinone, in 2017.

Remembering Stefan Edlis – The art
collector and mega-patron died this week at the age of 94, but his legacy
lives on in the generous gifts he gave to institutions in Chicago
and beyond.

Flower Fail – People in Paris are not pleased with Jeff Koons’s tulip
sculpture, calling it “perverse” and “vile,” with a few
equating it to a less than attractive part of human anatomy.

Havoc in Hong Kong – The Asia Contemporary
Art Show has cancelled its spring 2020 edition, citing
ongoing turbulence in Hong Kong that had a devastating impact on
its most recent October edition.

Art Thefts Hobble Hobby Lobby – The family
behind the chain store Hobby Lobby and the Museum of the Bible are facing
allegations (for the second time) that artifacts on display
were stolen.

A Surreal Theft – In less than one minute,
a brazen thief stole a $20,000 etching
by Salvador Dalí from
an art gallery in San Francisco.

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