Julia Halperin
Sotheby’s stands alone and sweeps up $368.3m at Impressionist sales
The auction house took a chance sticking to a schedule that clashed with the Venice Biennale’s opening—and it paid off
Nepal’s cultural heritage celebrated in New York
The Rubin Museum of Art is showing art, organising tours and hosting events to help support the earthquake ravaged country
Museums in Europe and US draw up rescue plans for ravaged sites in Iraq
France takes the lead as calls grow for co-ordinated response after attacks by fanatics on Assyrian royal cities
The end is nigh for New York’s Museum of Biblical Art
Unable to afford Manhattan’s astronomical rents, the small secular museum will close in June with its hit exhibition of Donatello sculptures on loan from the Duomo museum
Lower East Side gallery Lu Magnus to close bricks and mortar space
Founder Lauren Scott Miller plans to “go mobile” with her creative programming
Saved by Jackie O in the 1960s, a restored Renwick Gallery to reopen this autumn
America’s first purpose-built art gallery, located just across from the White House, has undergone a $30m renovation
Excitement builds as public opening of new Whitney approaches
Leading artists among the guests at preview parties at New York museum
Democrats lobby for US artists’ economic rights with two bills
But it remains unclear what chance either proposal has of passing into law while Republicans control both houses of Congress
Artist wins case against neighbours he secretly photographed
Appellate Court upholds First Amendment rights but encourages stricter privacy laws in future
Almost one third of solo shows in US museums go to artists represented by five galleries
Survey reveals prevalence of Pace, Gagosian, David Zwirner, Marian Goodman and Hauser & Wirth in exhibition programming
How Frida Kahlo found her Mexican identity in Detroit
Though she distinctly disliked the experience, the Detroit Institute of Arts shows how it shaped her iconic imagery
Menil reveals secrets of Newman’s technique
An eight-year effort to restore a major work by Barnett Newman (1905-70) has shed new light on the artist’s methods.
New York leans to the left under mayor’s plans for art
De Blasio focuses on diversity, social value and access for all
Trust no one: victory for Gagosian in two-year case
Court concludes that dealers’ statements of value are legally meaningless
Visitors find Calders galore, works on a nautical theme, and some very lusty paintings at Art Basel in Miami Beach
Making a statement in Miami
Gagosian and Perelman urged to settle dispute
Many famous figures of the art world are caught up in the drama
Smithsonian Design Museum reopens with array of high-tech displays
Cooper Hewitt puts can-do spirit into the house Carnegie built
Richard Tuttle: Weaving his magic around the world
Trio of Richard Tuttle exhibitions includes his largest work to date in the Tate’s Turbine Hall
Richard Tuttle: now’s the time to be-weave
Tate Modern, the Whitechapel Gallery and Bowdoin are showing the textile artist’s works
Mugrabis dragged into Gagosian legal case
Ongoing lawsuit between the financier Ronald Perelman and the dealer Larry Gagosian
Rauschenberg inspires tomorrow’s curators
The Rauschenberg Foundation competition is now open
Collectors net website art by Rafaël Rozendaal
You can buy an animated fried egg for $6,000
Young collectors collaborate for MoCA
The Director’s Council comprises 25 to 30 names from the fashion, entertainment and finance industries.