Art & Licensing News
- Empty Frames and Other Oddities From the Unsolved Gardner Museum Heistby Tom Mashberg on March 18, 2024 at 5:39 pm
After 34 years, not one of the 13 works stolen during the largest art theft in history has surfaced but the puzzling peculiarities of the case still draw interest.
- ‘Tropical Modernism’ at the Victoria and Albert Museumby Emily LaBarge on March 18, 2024 at 5:17 pm
Britain exported the architectural style to West Africa and India, but local practitioners adapted it for a different climate and a new kind of politics.
- Ceramic Artist Toshiko Takaezu Gets a Posthumous Reappraisalby Hilarie M. Sheets on March 18, 2024 at 4:13 pm
The ceramic artist Toshiko Takaezu is getting a posthumous reappraisal, thanks to her devoted acolytes — and major shows highlighting her poetic forms.
- One Collector’s High Mountain Road to Hokusaiby Geraldine Fabrikant on March 18, 2024 at 9:04 am
A professor’s 30-year dream of assembling a complete set of “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji,” the pinnacle of the artist’s career, leads to an auction.
- How to Style a Book Shelf: Jeremiah Brent Shares His Tipsby Tim McKeough on March 15, 2024 at 9:03 am
Jeremiah Brent, the newest cast member of Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” shows how he styles the shelves in the home he shares with his husband, Nate Berkus.
- Asia Week Festival’s Rare and Unusual Objectsby Will Heinrich on March 14, 2024 at 10:43 pm
A mini-fair offers an opportunity for aesthetes steeped mainly in Western art to broaden their horizons.
- In Whitney Biennial Artwork, a Message Reveals Itself: ‘Free Palestine’by Zachary Small on March 14, 2024 at 7:03 pm
Museum curators said they had been unaware that the artist Demian DinéYazhi’ included the message through the flickering letters of their neon installation.
- Art Review: Three Critics on the Whitney Biennial 2024by Jason Farago, Travis Diehl and Martha Schwendener on March 14, 2024 at 6:32 pm
“Even Better Than the Real Thing” is as a well-intentioned edition of the perpetually debated show. Will it go down as a notable one?
- Artforum Selects Tina Rivers Ryan as New Top Editorby Zachary Small on March 14, 2024 at 3:12 pm
The curator and essayist will become the magazine’s next leader after a period of turmoil.
- What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in Marchby Roberta Smith and Jillian Steinhauer on March 14, 2024 at 2:05 pm
This week, Holland Cotter covers the Studio Museum in Harlem’s residency results, Sarah Grilo’s little-seen paintings and Mary Lucier’s experimental and heartfelt video art.
- Norman Zammitt, Californian Modernist, Had His Eye to the Skyby Jonathan Griffin on March 14, 2024 at 9:03 am
The Light and Space artist who flew under the radar has his moment in the sun.
- Len Sirowitz, Whose Bold, Offbeat Ads Captured an Era, Dies at 91by Richard Sandomir on March 14, 2024 at 5:13 am
An award-winning agency art director, he brought a striking visual touch to campaigns for the Volkswagen Beetle, Sara Lee and Sony in the 1960s as well as to the antiwar and antinuclear movements.
- The Last Gold Beater in Veniceby Milena Lazazzera and Matteo de Mayda on March 13, 2024 at 3:44 pm
In the 1700s, there were about 300 artisans making gold leaf in the city. Now there is just Marino Menegazzo, who is also one of very few remaining in Europe.
- Artist’s Response to Racist Whistler Mural at Tate Britain Walks a Fine Lineby Alex Marshall on March 13, 2024 at 3:33 pm
Activists urged Tate Britain to take an offensive artwork from 1927 off its walls, but the museum instead commissioned Keith Piper to create a response.
- Seattle University to Receive $300 Million Art Collectionby Christopher Kuo on March 13, 2024 at 10:00 am
The hotel developer Richard Hedreen is donating more than 200 artworks, and $25 million in seed money, in honor of his wife, Betty, an alumna.