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The Big Review: Gary Simmons: Public Enemy at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Powerful retrospective of the New York-born artist that is all too timely in its examination of racism in American culture



Tiffany Chung: 'Rise into the Atmosphere'; Stories of migration



ArtReview: The Bittersweet Taste of the LA Art Scene



Kim Fay in Detroit: 'Faint' at Wasserman Projects with Loren Erdrich, Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson, Eleanor Oakes, Sara Nishikawa and Matt Wedel



New Yorker: Lisa Yuskavage’s Bodies of Work; For decades, the painter has provoked viewers with raunchy, virtuosic, mysterious images



Review: “Don Netzer: The Lethal Beauty of Violence” at PDNB Gallery, Dallas; "I wanted the cartridges to be in the viewer’s face, overwhelming them"; 38 x 29-inch prints



Yau: Richard Mayhew’s Visionary Mindscapes; Mayhew has not been embraced by the art world because the trajectory he has pursued challenges the categories to which Black artists are consigned



Fast-Rising Artist Jeanine Brito’s Visceral Paintings Put a ‘Dark and Grotesque’ Spin on Fairy Tales; From a collaboration with Nina Ricci to her first U.S. solo show in Los Angeles, the German-born artist is one to watch



In His Downtown L.A. Studio, Artist Cosmo Whyte Works Nights Surrounded by Books, Beads, and Two Taxidermied Roosters; Artist's solo show "Hush Now, Don't Explain" is currently on view at Anat Ebgi in Los Angeles


The Free Press: Are We Living Through ‘End Times’? Historian Peter Turchin predicted the turbulence of 2020. He tells me why, in 2024, America will reach a ‘break point’; “Elite overproduction”


THE MANY LOVES OF PABLO


What Happened to Picasso’s Mysterious Teenage Muse, Sylvette David?


When Bardot Met Picasso, the Only Man Who Could Resist Her



What paintings did Van Gogh hang above his bed? “Pictures within pictures” reveal more about life in the Yellow House


ART, NATURE, CLIMATE


Mystery Abounds in Lee Madgwick’s Uncanny Paintings of Derelict Buildings Lost in the Landscape


What is Art’s Role in the Climate Crisis? Four Colossal Events Explore Connections and Solutions


ART BUSINESS

Guggenheim latest NYC museum to hike admission costs as art institutions across US struggle to regain visitors

Is Metalabel, From the Former CEO of Kickstarter, the Cure for the Ills of the Creator Economy?


Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) the Devishly Tasmanian Art Museum Is Creating Culture Deep Down Under


He Overpaid, Bid Against Himself, and Hid a Monet in His Basement. Here’s What We Still Need to Learn From Visionary Art Dealer Joseph Duveen




Six Flavours of Ice Cream in Six Different Shades of Grey; Interactive ice cream artwork by João Loureiro at LAM museum


Artforum: Pee-Wee Hermeneutics; The Reubens: Dactyls and Pterridactyls on Wry


FORMERLY KNOWN AS CINEMA


Tim Burton Pays Tribute to Paul Reubens (1952 - 2023)


Our lead film critic Justin Tanner writes a fascinating review and remembrance of Francis Ford "King" Coppola's "The Cotton Club Encore." A must-read for everyone with an appreciation of cinema and artistic achievement.


Must See! With the Volume Up! King Coppola's 'The Cotton Club Encore' Trailer

Francis Ford Coppola Admits ‘Rumble Fish’ is His “Best Film”; Given his Work Before and After, Did 'Apocalypse Now' Break Him?


Francis Ford Coppola Talks ‘Barbenheimer’ and Believes We Are on the Verge of a “Golden Age” in Cinema

Napoleon’s Unscripted Slap Came From An Agreement To Go To Dark Places: ‘We (Joaquin Phoenix and I) Always Wanted To Surprise Each Other’, Says Film Lead Vanessa Kirby


New Doc Review: 'My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock'; Directed by Mark Cousins


'My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock' Official UK Trailer

Non-Linear Documentarian Mark Cousins: I binge-watched all Hitchcock films during lock down

Alfred Hitchcock Was Christopher Nolan's Guiding Light While Directing 'Dunkirk'


‘Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty’ Review: HBO’s Throwback Series Is Charismatic But Not As Slick In Season 2


'Unidentified' Trailer No.1 (2023); Directorial debut of Korean filmmaker Jude Chun; Mockumentary, Comedy

Film Criticism: Who Needs Film Critics When Studios Can Be Sure Influencers Will Praise Their Films? Shift from knowledgable writers to those simply in search of free tickets devalues cinema and the audience experience

Fascinating Update on Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Evil Does Not Exist’; Director of “Drive My Car” and “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy”


'Telemarketers' Official Trailer, Produced by the dangerous team of Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, and Danny McBride


Paul Schrader Offered to Direct David Mamet’s JFK Assassination Movie; Starring Viggo Mortensen, Shia LaBeouf, Al Pacino, John Travolta and Courtney Love; Cinematographer is Robert Elswitt of “There Will Be Blood,” “Punch Drunk-Love,” “Magnolia”


A24: First Image of Harmony Korine’s ‘Aggro Dr1ft,’ Shot Entirely in Infrared; No plot synopsis available for the 80-minute “Aggro Dr1ft”


Take a Look! Well-Reviewed Aussie Indie Mystery Neo-Noir 'Limbo' Trailer; Starring an unrecognizable Simon Baker


Hollywood on the Tiber: Stars return to Rome studios once home to Heston and Fellini; Sprawling Cinecittà complex is in demand again thanks to tax breaks and boom in film and TV production

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Artist Siah Armajani's "Back Porch with Picnic Table" at MOCA



BOOKS + WORDS


Gagosian Gallery Launches an Advisory Service for Rare Books; Led by Gagosian's rare books expert Douglas Flamm, the new service expands its surprising array of book-related operations

Douglas Murray: What Will Survive of Us Is Love; Poet Philip Larkin led a miserable life. Yet he conjured the divine


Review: 'The Visionaries' by Wolfram Eilenberger; Four Women Who Changed The World; complicated lives and questing minds of Ayn Rand, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Weil


Eight Books We Can’t Stop Talking About This Month; Novels about rich people behaving badly, a self-professed scammer’s memoir, and more delicious summer reads recommended by the staff of Vanity Fair


COLLECTORS


Five Collectors on the Artwork That Shaped Their Collection; Michael Sherman, Anne Huntington Sharma, Mark Hilbert, Queenie Rosita Law and India Rose James

Billionaire Art Collector Joe Lewis Indicted in New York for Insider Trading and Financial Fraud; Authorities accuse Lewis of orchestrating a 'brazen' scheme where he provided inside information to friends and associates on multiple occasions


DIGITAL ART WORLD


Nefarious Data Collection Masking as Public Art? An A.I. Company Worldcoin Has Placed Mirrored Spheres Around the World in a Massive Eye-Scanning Project; Worldcoin's effort has been criticized by the likes of Edward Snowden, who tweeted, "Don't catalogue eyeballs"

Europe and the U.S. Will Probably Regulate A.I. Differently. That Will Have Long-Term Consequences for the Global Art Market


ILLUSTRATION


Texas Book Festival Announces Jon Flaming as its 2023 Festival Poster Artist


There Would Be No 'Star Wars' Without 'Valerian', the Wild French Comic From the '60s


Treat Yourself to a Moment with Artist Miena and her Moving GIF Illustrations


PHOTOGRAPHY


Gregory Crewdson’s Cathedral of the Pines Series: An Exhausted Dream: America Faces Its Twilight; In Pictures; Influenced by the paintings of Edward Hopper and the film Vertigo, Gregory Crewdson’s portraits of middle America have a dreamy, cinematic quality


Photographer Ethan James Green Prizes 20th-Century American Art, Handmade Gifts, and a Family Ring He Never Takes Off; We asked the photographer and founder New York Life Gallery about the things he values most—in art and in life



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Joni Mitchell and Her Summer in the Caves of Crete; Her Song 'Carey'

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Seeing Ourselves Through Martha Alf’s Paintings of Toilet Paper Rolls; Alf transformed rolls of toilet paper and paper towels into monolithic altars set against a backdrop resembling an Ellsworth Kelly geometric abstraction


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