— Mr. and Mrs. Carter Take Frieze: Over the weekend, Beyoncé and Jay Z caused a ruckus by posting several pictures of an after-hours visit to the Louvre (that included a few portraits with the Mona Lisa). So it’s no surprise that Frieze was the next stop on the dynamic duo’s European art tour. While in London they took a private tour of the fair with Salon 94 dealer Jeanne Greenberg, took pictures in Helly Nahmad’s booth at Frieze Masters, and stopped by Anish Kapoor’s studio. [TAN, Daily Mail]
— Jasper Johns Forger Jailed: Jasper Johns forger Brian Ramnarine has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for attempting to sell a fake work for $11 million. Ramnarine, who owns the Empire Bronze Art Foundry, created the “Flag” from a mold Johns had given him to create a wax cast. “Brian Ramnarine’s only art was as a con artist who concocted and carried out not one, but three separate schemes to peddle fake sculptures to unsuspecting buyers for million of dollars, pretending they had been made by well-known artists,” Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement. [NYT]
— Eisenhower Memorial Approved: After some turmoil, the Commission of Fine Arts has approved Frank Gehry’s edited Eisenhower Memorial plan. In other Gehry news, Christopher Hawthorne gave his new museum for the Louis Vuitton Foundation a glowing review and it turns out he may be brought on to renovate LA MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary. [WP, LAT, TAN]
— Sherman’s Stills Hit the Block: Today in Carol Vogel’s column we learn that 21 of Cindy Sherman’s “Untitled Film Stills” will be up for grabs at Christie’s, Sotheby’s S/2 is planning a Maurizio Cattelan show, and Ellsworth Kelly has big plans for the Fondation Louis Vuitton. [NYT]
— DC’s High Line: More details have been released about OMA and Olin’s 11th Street Bridge Park project. [WP]
— Fiber Art is Having a Moment: “It’s not an embarrassing material any more,” said Tate Modern director Chris Dercon. [TAN]
— The National Gallery of Australia has chosen Gerard Vaughan as its new director. [The Guardian]
— “Blackness has always been stigmatized, even amongst black people who flee from the density of that blackness. Some black people recoil from black people who are that dark because it has always been stigmatized.” — Kerry James Marshall discusses the issues surrounding his work. [The Independent]
— Tim Disney has been named the new CalArts chairman. [LAT]
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