More stories below from this week (click on bolded words for more information):
- H&M files lawsuit against graffiti artist Jason “Revok” Williams, then apologizes.
- Is H&M’s graffiti scandal apology too little too late?
- Why that story about H&M stealing graffiti isn’t so simple.
- Street artists in the US have more rights than they thought. How now, they’ll be taken more seriously.
- The most promising Spring museum shows and biennials around the world.
- New exhibition focuses on KAWS-style customizations.
- Dealer Johann König on why art galleries need smart branding.
- Web traffic is the new foot traffic: Why galleries are investing big to chase digital natives.
- To boost the market, Germany may restore tax breaks on art sales—not everyone is convinced.
- George Lucas’s new museum breaks ground in Los Angeles.
- Climate protest prompts partial evacuation at Louvre.
- Tips for artists on how to talk about their art.
- Here’s the artist behind the Public Enemy x UNDERCOVER x Supreme artwork.
- Cooper Union plans to bring back free tuition, marking historic pivot.
- Wendy’s guide to art grad school.
- Why artists are allowed to copy masterpieces from the world’s most prestigious museums.
- How POW!WOW! Hawaii revived a forgotten neighborhood in Honolulu.
- Is Brazil’s most famous art movement built on racial inequality? New generation argues ‘Yes’.
- Looking to Cuba’s past to fabricate tomorrow’s utopia.
- Parisian Gallery Perrotin to open new space in Shanghai.
- Los Angeles’s Park View/Paul Soto Gallery will open Brussels space.
- French collector and designer Hubert de Givenchy dies at 91.
- British Collector David Roberts picks new director and puts his planned move to the countryside on hold.
- The Artsy Podcast, No. 73: Miami mega-collector Jorge Pérez on why Cuban art matters.
- The Art Market grew to $63.7 billion in 2017, and other key takeaways from Art Basel report.
- Global art market grows for the first time in two years, according to Art Basel report.
- Has the Great Depression struck galleries? Kenny Schachter ventures among the art hobos at Armory Week.
- Why fewer galleries are opening today than 10 years ago.
- MOCA fires Helen Molesworth, its chief curator, but many are shocked.
- Leonardo DiCaprio scoops up a Jean-Pierre Roy painting for $38,000, adding to his many works.
- Creating the works himself for the first time in a long time—Damien Hirst’s ”The Veil Paintings” at Gagosian.
- Ethel Stein, who created intricate textile art, dies at 100.
- Judy Chicago & Miriam Schapiro’s feminist Installation ‘Womanhouse’ gets a tribute in DC.
- Mike Lee presents the female empowerment aeries “Besties” at Arsham/Fieg Gallery.
- The NRA used Anish Kapoor’s most famous work in a political ad. Now the artist is blasting back.
- How Jeff Koons sold out – and why his jumbo tulips don’t belong in Paris.
- ‘Trump Kills Teens’: Artist Paul Chan & Badlands Unlimited mint signs for gun protests.
- Shepard Fairey’s studio creates national school walkout posters in protest of gun violence.
- Want to get rich quick? Fresh from the London auctions, Kenny Schachter explains how to game the system.
- Nicole Eisenman’s ‘Dark Light’ at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.
- A look inside Joshua Vides’ “Reality to Idea” exhibition in LA at The Seventh Letter.
- Frank Gehry tapped for Colburn School expansion in downtown Los Angeles.
- Sculptor Kazuhiro Tsuji wins Oscar for his day job – hair & makeup for movies. The first Asian to do so.
- How to be an artist, according to Georgia O’Keeffe.
