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Habitat: Obsessions—Artists, Curators, and Dealers Share Their Unusual Collections

By Maximilíano Durón and Katherine McMahon Posted 09/19/16 12:14 pm

While this issue of ARTnews focuses on today’s prominent art collectors, the urge to amass objects—both valuable and not—is nearly as old as mankind. The ancient Greeks and Romans collected, as Erin Thompson writes in her recently published book Possession: … Read More

Pictures at an Exhibition

A temporary locker room in the basement.MAXIMILIÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS

Ryan McNamara’s ‘Back to School’ Benefit at MoMA PS1

By Maximilíano Durón Posted 09/26/16 5:17 pm

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News

Kings owner Vivek Ranadivé and Jeff Koons.COURTESY GOLDEN 1 CENTER

Here’s a Photo of Jeff Koons’s Newly Installed Permanent Sculpture in Sacramento, California

By The Editors of ARTnews Posted 09/26/16 4:39 pm

It feels like Jeff Koons has been a little quiet in recent months, so it was wonderful to hear this morning that he was out in Sacramento, California, today to unveil a permanent work commissioned for a plaza outside the Golden … Read More

News

Jonathan Horowitz, Hillary Clinton is a Person Too (2008), installation view. MOCAD

MOCAD Adds Jonathan Horowitz Hillary Clinton Sculpture to Current Exhibition

By John Chiaverina Posted 09/26/16 1:11 pm

As the nightmare 2016 election season continues to ramp up, some art institutions are reacting. A bronze Jonathan Horowitz sculpture of a young Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton is a Person Too, has been added to the current Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit … Read More

News

The icon for Martine Syms, Notes toward a Kanye West VMA visionary award acceptance speech, 2015.COURTESY BADLANDS UNLIMITED

Badlands Unlimited Launches ‘Files,’ a Series of Downloadable Works

By Nate Freeman Posted 09/26/16 12:56 pm

Badlands Unlimited, the publishing house cofounded by Paul Chan, is now selling on its website a series of works called “Files,” which one can download upon purchase. The first three artists who have put some pretty wild downloadable artwork up for … Read More

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Rondinone's Miami Mountain. COURTESY THE BASS

Bass Museum Announces Ten-Year Acquisitions Initiative, Starting With Work by Ugo Rondinone and Sylvie Fleury

By Robin Scher Posted 09/26/16 12:49 pm

Miami Beach’s Bass Museum has announced an acquisitions initiative that will add “a major work of contemporary art” to its permanent collection every year in the fall over the next decade. The first set of acquired works are a Ugo Rondinone … Read More

Event Horizon: Art Happenings Around New York

Martha Rosler, If You Lived Here…, 1989, installation view, ‪at 77 Wooster Street, New York. OREN SLOR/©MARTHA ROSLER

9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week

By The Editors of ARTnews Posted 09/26/16 12:11 pm

A guide to the next seven days Read More

Artists

Installation view of “Josh Kline: Unemployment,” at 47 Canal, New York.
JOERG LOHSE/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND 47 CANAL, NEW YORK

Political Fantasist: Josh Kline Lectures to a Jam-Packed Auditorium at the New School

By Alex Greenberger Posted 09/26/16 11:55 am

Last week, the excitement surrounding Josh Kline kept mounting. At Phillips in Midtown Manhattan, in an auction called “The New Now,” a 2011 sculpture by Kline shot $20,000 over its high estimate, ultimately selling for $37,500. Then, a day later, at … Read More

Editor's Letter Fall 2016, The Top 200 Issue

Editor’s Letter: The Top 200 Issue | Fall 2016

By Sarah Douglas Posted 09/26/16 11:00 am

As we at ARTnews were putting this issue together, I kept returning to the story of Ernest Hemingway and The Farm. Hemingway bought Joan Miró’s painting of that title—an exacting inventory of a typical Catalan farm, from donkey to watering … Read More

Artists consumer reports

Consumer Reports: Matthew Linde

By The Editors of ARTnews Posted 09/26/16 10:00 am

Matthew Linde is an artist, curator, and student living in New York. He is the director of the Melbourne-based fashion exhibition space and store Centre for Style, which was included in this year’s Berlin Biennale. Linde is also a Columnist … Read More

Habitat Fall 2016, The Top 200 Issue

Janey Borden surrounded by some of her Holt Howard ceramics.

Habitat: Obsessions—A Look at Janet Borden’s Collection of Howard Holt Ceramics

By Katherine McMahon Posted 09/26/16 9:30 am

Habitat: Obsessions is a ten-part series of visits to the surprising non-art collections of art-world professionals.“The internet has made it a lot less fun for me—now it’s just a matter of putting a big bid in,” New York photography dealer Janet … Read More

Morning Links

Abramović and Ulay during Abramović's The Artist Is Present performance at MoMA. YOUTUBE

Morning Links: Marina Abramovic and Ulay Trial Recap Edition

By The Editors of ARTnews Posted 09/26/16 8:51 am

Must-read stories from around the art world
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Market News

Joyce Pensato's Bo Bo Batman (2016) digital billboard, a contribution for Expo Chicago's Override project.ARTNEWS

The Center of Attraction: Expo Chicago Stretches From the Highways to the Pier

By Dushko Petrovich Posted 09/24/16 11:53 am

The most serene art-viewing experience offered by Expo Chicago turns out to be on Grand Avenue, just west of Peoria Street, above eight lanes of traffic on the I-90/94 overpass. I began my fair experience there, two miles inland, with … Read More

Pictures at an Exhibition

Danny Lyon, Woman Holds Off A Mob, Atlanta, 1963, gelatin silver enlargement print. ©DANNY LYON/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND EDWYNN HOUK GALLERY, NEW YORK AND ZURICH

Danny Lyon at Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York

By The Editors of ARTnews Posted 09/23/16 4:00 pm

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News

The Martos Gallery Los Angeles space, which will now house Shoot the Lobster.COURTESY MARTOS GALLERY

Martos Gallery Rechristens Los Angeles Space as West Coast Offshoot of Shoot the Lobster

By Nate Freeman Posted 09/23/16 11:40 am

Two years after opening a 1,000-square-foot space in Los Angeles, Martos Gallery has decided to switch gears: instead of being a Martos Gallery outpost, it will be an outpost of owner Jose Martos’s project space, Shoot the Lobster.The news comes just … Read More