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The Albright-Knox Art Gallery announces a new exhibition, Artist to Artist, featuring photographs of prominent twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists from the Albright-Knox’s Collection.

Taken by fellow artists, these portraits were created over a span of more than seventy years, and capture artistic figures that define the modern and contemporary art world. Artist to Artist blurs the boundaries between artist and subject while highlighting the museum’s long history as an artist-centric museum through active engagement with contemporary artists.

Gerhard Richter's catalogue raisonné continues to take shape as the artist's output from 1976 to 1994 has now been fully documented.

But what about the artist's early works? The painter has developed a reputation for rigorously editing his oeuvre, routinely striking works from catalogues, Tagesspiegel reports. He's also threatened to pull loaned works from museum collections.

ome 80 years after Pablo Picasso had settled in the upper levels of the Hôtel de Savoie, on 7 rue des Grands Augustins in Paris, the artist's Left Bank studio will be made accessible to the public again thanks to an initiative by his daughter, Maya Widmaier-Picasso.

It was here that Picasso created his dark masterpiece, Guernica, in 1936, at the start of the Spanish Civil War.

One of the most important spaces for the permanent exhibition of artists from the Minimalist generation — the Hallen für Neue Kunst (or Halls for New Art), in Schaffhausen, Switzerland — was forced to close last year, the victim of a protracted lawsuit that depleted its modest resources. But at least for a while, Europe’s loss will be New York’s gain. The Dia Art Foundation, whose focus on the artists of the 1960s and ’70s made it a kind of American sister to the Schaffhausen institution, announced that it would mount the first American survey in more than 20 years of the work of Robert Ryman, whose austere white-on-white paintings are among the most important of the postwar period and who long had a sizable body of work on display in Schaffhausen.

Coinciding with the release of a quasi-confession from Bill Cosby, whose art collection is on view until early 2016 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African art, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announced Tuesday the acquisition of new works by a dozen artists and artist groups from Iran, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, the U.K., and the United States.

 Art Southampton, the Hamptons’ premier contemporary and modern art and design fair, is kicking off its fourth edition at a stunning new location. Held at the Nova’s Art Project, a sprawling sculpture park in Bridgehampton, Art Southampton will bring together art and design from the 20th and 21st centuries in a pastoral yet decidedly luxe setting.

Produced by Art Miami LLC, the company behind a number of the country’s top art fairs, including its flagship fair Art Miami, Art Southampton will open with a...

The Portland Art Museum has hired one-time Seattleite Sara Krajewski as its new curator of modern and contemporary art, museum leaders announced this week. She replaces longtime curator Bruce Guenther, who retired in October 2014 after 14 years at the museum.

Krajewski comes to Portland after serving for three years as the director of the INOVA (Institute of Visual Arts) galleries at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Christie's kept the international art auction caravan rolling with an impressionist and modern art sale that brought in $113 million (£71.88 million) on Tuesday.

A Claude Monet study of mauve irises swaying against a pale blue sky in his Giverny garden was the star lot at $17 million. A 1969 Pablo Picasso head, with all the startling vigour of his old age, came in next at $7 million.

Tate Britain presents the first major London retrospective for almost half a century of the work of Barbara Hepworth, one of Britain’s greatest artists. Barbara Hepworth (1903-75) was a leading figure of the international modern art movement in the 1930s, and one of the most successful sculptors in the world during the 1950s and 1960s. This major retrospective emphasises Hepworth’s often overlooked prominence in the international art world. It also highlights the different contexts and spaces in which Hepworth developed and presented her work, from the studio to the landscape.

The UK is fighting to keep a Paul Cézanne landscape painting in the country following its sale for £13.5 million ($20.5 million) at Christie's London during its $222.8 million Impressionist and modern art sale in February.

At the auction, "Vue sur L'Estaque et Le Château d'If" (1883–85) barely topped its pre-sale estimate of £8–12 million ($13–19 million), and was sold to Nancy Whyte, an American art advisor.