“Out-of-town visitors, drawn to New York by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection and three high-profile exhibitions, spent some $401 million this spring and summer, according to a study released Monday by the museum.” [WSJ]
And the Times goes back to August Hecksher to see how the museum’s fees originally started. [NYT]
Damien Hirst debuts new sculptures in (where else!) Qatar. [NYT]
“Art’s real-life couples.” [The Guardian]
Michael Wolff (!) on “why really rich men try to take over the art world.” [The Guardian]
“Chinese collectors warm up to Hong Kong art and antiques fair.” [The Art Newspaper]
The Detroit Institute of Arts is mulling a plan to ask Michigan to take over the institution to protect its collection from creditors. [NYT]
The Wall Street Journal is all over this Banksy craze. [WSJ]
Critics haven’t loved Breakfast With Lucian, Geordie Grieg’s new biography of the British painter: “this is the kind of intimate and unpretty memoir that Freud would have utterly loathed, and which its prurient readers will delight to read.” [The Independent]
