Each week, we scour the internet for the most significant, surprising, and outrageous art news—helping you stay informed (and sound smart). Have a suggestion? Let us know on social media (@meetmeural) with the tag #thisweekinartnews. (See all installments.)

1. “The Juiciest Gossip about the Renaissance Masters” by Alina Cohen, Artsy

Art history and criticism can be dry, but, as one of the forebears of the genre proved, it doesn’t have to be. The painter Giorgio Vasari’s The Lives of Artists, “published in 1550, narrativized artistic innovations from the mid-13th to the late-16th century in a series of biographies on the Italian artists he considered most important.” But it also delivers Renaissance gossip—plenty of it. For Artsy, Alina Cohen dives into the period’s best scuttlebutt, including rivalries, jealousies, and some of the more temperamental Old Masters.

2. “Museum Workers Share Their Salaries and Urge Industry-Wide Reform” by Zachary Small, Hyperallergic

“Transparency can be radical, especially in an industry as financially oblique as the art world.” Thus begins Hyperallergic’s story on an anonymous spreadsheet of museum workers’ salaries. When the story filed on Monday, 660 arts professionals had responses. That number is now more than 1500. (You can see the spreadsheet for yourself here.) Not only does it give you a sense of what average art professionals make, but it also shows you how much top earners at specific institutions earn (just go to “TAB 2: Museum 990, Sched J–Salaries Top Staff”). As the article deftly points out, “Even as museums are described as ‘cash-strapped’ and expensive to run, their employees (and the public) are increasingly aware of how infeasible it is for people from low-income or middle-class backgrounds to work in such institutions without other independent sources of income.”

3. “Kehinde Wiley, Spoiler of Artists” by Dionne Searcey, The New York Times

Every rule has an exception that proves it. In this case, the rule is that artists struggle, and the exception is Kehinde Wiley’s artists’ residence meets spa studio space in Dakar, Senegal. Wiley, who came to fame with his official presidential portrait of Barack Obama, hopes to bring together artists of all stripes (writers included), along with a rotating chef. Wiley is interviewed by Dionne Searcey, who doesn’t hide her amazement with the “20-foot wooden entry door, the floor-to-ceiling windows, the infinity pool, the sauna, the bath robes and alarm clocks embossed with the Black Rock golden insignia, the lush garden in a region tucked under the Sahara.” It’s no wonder over 700 artists have already applied.

4. “Pride 2019: 5 New York exhibitions that honor the legacy of Stonewall,” CNN

It’s Pride month, and all across the world, people and institutions are honoring the battles behind the progress for gay rights. The yearly celebration takes place around the anniversary of the Stonewall riots—when, in 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York. Today, all across the city, various art exhibits aim to capture those momentous times. With the help of CNN Style, you can hone your options.