A federal judge in California has ruled unconstitutional a law that gives artists a cut when their art is resold. Chuck Close and other artists had filed a class-action suit against Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and eBay over not being paid for past sales.

Dan Byers, former Walker curatorial fellow and a co-curator of the 2013 Carnegie International, has been named the Richard Armstrong Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum of Art. He’s the first appointee to the new endowed position.

Like Warhol after him, René Magritte paid his bills through commercial work early in his career. His stylized sheet music covers from the mid-1920—including one for Fernand Rousseau’s Marche des Snobs—predated album cover art by nearly two decades.

“Part memoir, part critique, part artistic statement,” Yayoi Kusama’s new autobiography is a unique if “weird” book, addressing themes of mental illness, poverty, and sexuality, including a comical if sad anecdote about making out with Joseph Cornell.

As an Art in America “roving eye,” Walker Art Center chief curator Darsie Alexander looks at the Minneapolis-St. Paul art scene and her studio visits with artists Cameron Gainer, Katherine Turczan, and Nate Young.

Falling in a lake at age 6 was a seminal experience for Bill Viola. “I saw the most beautiful world I’d ever seen: fish, shafts of light, plants waving in the breeze. That’s why my art has so much to do with water—because I dream about going back to that place.”

Shocked by the Time cover bearing Martin Schoeller’s image of a mom breastfeeding her 3-year old? Then steer clear of “Roman Charity,” a tale interpreted by Rubens and Caravaggio that shows a daughter breastfeeding her jailed father to save him from starvation.