COURTESY ADAM SJOBERG/VIA THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
The Trevi Fountain’s 18-month-long, Fendi-sponsored restoration is almost complete. [The Art Newspaper]
It’s not easy being an art newspaper in the post-print era. [The New York Times]
A North Korean defector who created propaganda posters in a former life now uses his skills to make fun of North Korean rulers. [Los Angeles Times]
“The Ins and Outs of Art Gallery Waiting Lists.” [Wall Street Journal]
“Art, like sex, is hard to define,” Ai Weiwei told the Berlin University of the Arts. [Deutsche Welle]
The family of late billionaire A. Alfred Taubman is fighting ahead of the sale of his estimated $500 million art collection at Sotheby’s this Wednesday. [Page Six]
At the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery, walls made entirely of bugs. [Refinery29]
DIA has received funding to support conservation and digitizing artworks from its collection. [AP]