Art & Licensing News

Lorna Simpson, Five Properties (2018), via Hauser & Wirth Marking her first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth London with a body of new works, artist Lorna Simpson’s Unanswerable features new and recent paintings, photographic collages and sculpture.  Continuing the artist’s pioneering approach to conceptual photography, which features powerful juxtapositions of text and staged images, often bringing into […]

A neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to the spring’s best shows. […]

The arrival of dozens of international galleries and project spaces in a concentrated area has created a thriving scene. […]

Storms, stars and survival in small spaces — the cosmos in a storefront. […]

A sampling of the visual riches available this weekend in Chelsea, the most disdained of New York’s gallery neighborhoods. […]

Begin in NoHo on Great Jones Street, ramble south and east. You’ll uncover outposts from Zurich and South Asia, transplants from Chelsea, and one of the oldest arts centers in town. […]

Young and artist-run spaces are the dynamic specialties of these two boroughs, which have the city’s most dynamic art scene. […]

African women face cultural and financial resistance to careers in art, but a Johannesburg residency and an international art fair in Brooklyn may help them succeed. […]

The Mexico City gallery has opened a New York branch, showing movers and shakers from Latin America — and still resisting expectations. […]

Thomas Dane Gallery now represents Dana Schutz, Art News reports. Schutz will have her first show with the gallery in October 2019 in London.  Read more at Art News […]

The New York Times explores the recent trend in museum curating towards “transhistorical” exhibitions, pairing contemporary works with pieces from deeper into the art historical canon. “What it is trying to do is to say that history lives,” says Sheena Wagstaff, chairwoman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s modern and contemporary art department. Read more at NYT […]

Firehouse, Engine Company 31, a historic fire station in Lower Manhattan will host “Bring Down the Walls,” a new project by Creative Time that will mix workshops and exhibitions each day with live performances and DJ nights each night.  Read more at Art News […]

Eva Rothschild will represent Ireland at the 2019 Venice Biennale, Ireland’s Minister of Culture, Heritage, and the Gaeltacht has announced.  “My intention is to make a sculptural environment which engages with current social changes through embodiment, presence, and materiality,” Rothschild says. “I want to create a situation that suggests multiple sculptural possibilities for rearrangement and reordering […]

The Documenta exhibition has appointed executive Sabine Schormann, formerly of of Lower Saxony’s Sparkasse bank and the foundation of VGH insurance, as its new CEO. “I see my role as an enabler. I want to strengthen public perception and ensure the greatest possible development of Documenta without intervening artistically,” Schormann says. Read more at Artforum   &nbs […]

Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon. […]