Art & Licensing News

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

Ugo Rondinone, thanx 4 nothing (A Tribute to John Giorno) (Installation View), via Gladstone When the poet John Giorno passed away late last year, he left behind a lifetime of artistic adventurism and exploration, a reputation for his tireless support of the arts and his energetic commitment to collaboration, connection and creativity.  It makes sense then, […]

Gardeners found the painting in the wall of the Italian museum it was stolen from almost 23 years ago. […]

Our critic explores Yuichiro Ukai’s pen-and-marker dinosaurs and samurai, ceramic animals from the Peruvian Amazon and the photography of Vivian Maier. […]

A painting discovered inside the walls of an Italian art gallery has been confirmed as a Gustav Klimt. “It’s with no small emotion that I can tell you the work is authentic,” Piacenza prosecutor Ornella Chicca said in a statement. Read more at The Guardian &nbs […]

The new edition of Felix LA is set to open next month, with William J. Simmons taking on curating the special projects. “I was thinking through imagination at this time when we’re beleaguered by questions of identity,” Simmons says. “We’re all kind of afraid. Where is the optimism in all of this? Where is queer and feminism optimism […]

Gelsey Bell, a wide-ranging singer, composer and scholar, is leading listening sessions of works from the MoMA sound archives. […]

Zoé Whitley, the current senior curator of London’s Hayward Gallery has been tapped as the new head of Chisenhale Gallery. “I’ve been inspired by Chisenhale Gallery’s program since I first became a curator,” Whitley said in a statement. “I’m honored to have been selected to lead its next chapter as director and excited by the challenges […]

The Honolulu Biennial will switch to a triennial format for 2022, with Melissa Chiu, the director of Washington DC’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden taking on curator duties. “The Honolulu Biennial has had tremendous impact in Hawai’i in a very short period of time, and, in thinking about the opportunities ahead, the Honolulu Biennial Foundation unanimously agreed […]

Artists Tschabalala Self has an interview in Art News this week, giving the magazine a tour of her New Haven studio. “I think people expect me either to have this super noncritical admiration for black American pop culture tropes, which I don’t have, or to have this disdain for it, which I also don’t have,” she says […]

The Park Avenue Armory and National Black Theatre has invited ten New York City cultural institutions for 100 Years | 100 Women, a project celebrating the 19th amendment to the US Constitution giving women the right to vote. The show will feature 100 women artists. “I expect a very lively, informative and massive gathering in our Drill Hall […]

Jamie Botín, the head of Grupo Santander, has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for smuggling the Picasso work Head of a Young Woman (1906) out of Spain.  The work was discovered aboard Botín’s yacht, with the businessman claiming he was sailing to Geneva to store the work. Read more at Art News &nbs […]

Hong Kong real-estate tycoon Joseph Lau is the seller of David Hockney’s A Splash, which will go to auction at Sotheby’s London this February. Lau was sentenced to five years in prison for bribery and tax evasion but has avoided jail time by staying outside mainland China. Read more at Art News &nbs […]

The London-based actress finds time for cultural enrichment between starring in “Sex Education” and “The Crown.&rdquo […]

If there’s something not many of us were expecting for 2020, it surely has to be that Formula One is looking to speed into the toy aisle with its first official toy line for kids and collectors alike. Upon momentary reflection, however, it actually makes perfect sense. The F1 brand isn’t exactly new to the […]