STELLAR STELLA

Carl Andre Was Lucky To Have A Friend Like Frank Stella; The scramble to get Carl Andre out of Rikers after he’d been arrested for the death of his wife

Frank Stella, Trailblazing Artist Who Pushed Abstraction to Its Limits

Frank Stella, American Artist Moved from Proto-Minimalism to Extreme Abstraction

Artforum 1966: Shape As Form: Frank Stella's New Paintings

Gagosian Quarterly: Frank Stella in conversation with art historian Megan Kincaid; Stella reflects on his life in art. The two speak about friendship, formalism, and physicality

First Trailer for Jean-Luc Godard's Final Film 'Scenarios'

BOOKS + WORDS

Love and Let Die; 'Ian Fleming: The Complete Man'

‘Whatever That Means’: The Duplicity of Percival Everett’s Literary Worlds; The novelist’s works, of literature and an adaptation, American Fiction, explore the at once transformative and insidious potential of language

America’s Great Poet of Darkness; A Reconsideration of Robert Frost at 150

The Must-Read Books Behind the Biggest Screen Adaptations of 2024; From big-momentum contemporary novels to great classics, these are the books that should be on your reading list if you're a fan of both literature and film and television

Constance Debré Finds Beauty in Cruelty; In her latest book 'Playboy,' the author addresses the unfair power dynamics that come with narrativising your life; 'Playboy' coming from Semiotext(e)

Living at the Home of Truth: Emma Kemp Blends History with Memoir in Marie’s Place; After living at an abandoned commune in rural Utah for eight years, author Emma Kemp blends history with memoir in her forthcoming book

Former Vanity Fair Chief Graydon Carter Goes Retro Cool, Opens a Classic Newsstand in NYC’s West Village

Brave New Huxley; On Aldous Huxley’s Letters

Going Out to the Cinema in 1913, Ashcan School Painter John Sloan's 'Movies'

Doc Trailer: Made In England: The Films of (Michael) Powell and (Emeric) Pressburger; Narrated by Martin Scorsese

PHOTOGRAPHY

Lewis Tanner, prolific photographer and urban cowboy, has died at 72; California Institute of the Arts in the 1970s; Expert on architectural and landscape photography, and his images appeared for years in The Inquirer’s Sunday magazine. “He had the perfect word to describe every moment and capture them on film,” his son said

Bodily Invasions: Images Inspired By Mysophobia; In Pictures; Photographer Lean Lui’s boundary-pushing pictures examine her fear of contamination – be it around the body or in her romantic relationships

Portraits Found in the Attic: Black Women in the Gilded Age

Roger Deakins On Taking The Shot

Tearing Away at the Time Escaping: On Pairing Photographs with Nobel Prize in Literature Winner Annie Ernaux’s 'Exteriors'

'Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm' opens at the Brooklyn Museum

Legendary New York Photographer James Hamilton Gets the Documentary Treatment; Over Four Decades, Hamilton Has Shot Everything From Artists And Live Concerts To War Zones And Celebrity Homes

Makin’ Copies: Cy Twombly Photos

Photographer and Great Wit Dudi Ben Simon’s Playful Photos Draw on Visual Puns and Humourous Happenstance

Maurizio Cattelan’s Armed Art Helpers; To create the gold-plated steel panels now on sale at the Gagosian gallery, the Italian artist hired licensed shooters to riddle them with bullets, in front of spectators like Jeff Koons

Artist Anthony James Shoots Maurizio Cattelan a Legal Missive Over Near-Identical Works; Both consist of sheets of shiny metal pockmarked with bullet holes

Are We Supposed to Believe Maurizio Cattelan Is Sincere Now? “Dismissed as a Prankster”

Yau: Painter Suspended Between Beauty and Waste; Something about Phillip Allen’s visual preoccupations speaks to the viewer’s mind and eye, the connections and ruptures between physical and visual sensations

The Inspired and Revolutionary Pairing of Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore; "Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore: Giants of Modern Art" at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the juxtaposition of the artists' works provides added depth and dimension

ART NOIR

Henri Matisse’s Eldest Daughter Was His Muse, Cataloguer, and a War-Time Resistance Fighter

I’m an Art Expert; I Use AI to Expose Sellers of Fake Paintings on Sites Like eBay

Courbet’s Famous Painting of a Vulva Tagged With “MeToo”; “The Origin of the World” was one of several artworks targeted in a performance by artist Deborah De Robertis at the Centre Pompidou-Metz

The Gang That Preyed On America's Small Museums For A Long Time

Was Edgar Degas Actually Jack the Ripper? This Dogged TikToker Has a Theory ... ... The TikTok Theorist

The British Museum’s Blockbuster Scandals; While facing renewed accusations of cultural theft, the institution announced that it had been the victim of actual theft—from someone on the inside

Based on a Short Story Written by the Artist Leonora Carrington; Watch Animated Short 'The Debutante'; From animation filmmaker Lizzy Hobbs; Amusing story of a woman in the 1930s who persuades a hyena from the London Zoo to take her place at a dreaded dinner dance

Fascinating Read! The Roots of Neorealism: Films from Italy and Beyond Prefigured The Themes and Formal Innovation Of Neorealism, A Style That Would Become One Of Cinema’s Most Influential Movements

First Images from Filmmaker Richard Linklater's ‘Nouvelle Vague'; First project shot entirely in French. The film will reconstruct the story behind the creation of the Nouvelle Vague movement in French cinema and focus on the production of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1959 groundbreaker, “A Bout de Souffle” (“Breathless”)

The Sculpture Garden at Castle Howard: Stage Set For Bridgerton and Brideshead, and Now Sculptor Tony Cragg; The Liverpool-born sculptor's 50-year engagement with organic, layered, forms works in natural harmony with the Yorkshire treasure house and its Arcadian grounds

Pierre Huyghe Takes on AI and Nonhuman Evolution in Venice; More accessible is a 19-minute video titled 'Human Mask' (2014). Shot in post-nuclear-disaster Fukushima, Japan, it follows the peripatetic movements of a macaque monkey outfitted to resemble a young girl in a dress, wig, and white Noh-like mask

For these Native American Creatives, Fashion And Art Are Inextricably Linked; Melissa Cody, Jeffrey Gibson, and Kent Monkman are among the multidisciplinary makers exploring what Indigenous identity looks like in the 21st century

Actress Aubrey Plaza Interviews Artist Olivia Erlanger and Her Industrial Futurama at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston

Stephen Seemayer 'Dark Side of Paradise' at Bermudez Projects

Tulsa Kinney: Margaret Lazzari “The Cancer Series” at USC Fisher Museum of Art

MAURIZIO!


Maurizio Cattelan's Got a Gun Show; His new works are pierced by bullets — steel panels plated in 24-karat gold to a mirrorlike reflection, their ammunition wounds warping the metal surfaces.

Is Maurizio Cattelan’s New Work a Bit Too Similar to Sculptures by Anthony James? Both are made with bullets and shiny metals

At Gagosian, Maurizio Cattelan Offers a Furtive Fountain; Rare show of new work by the Italian artist features a vaguely indecent sculpture

Review: Frank Stella's Vibrant Sculpture Comes Alive; Octogenarian American exhibits highly polished, monumental works at Jeffrey Deitch, NYC

Shark Maintenance: How Damien Hirst Got His Shark(s); Original tiger shark was replaced after it began to rot

Review: John Forse’s Exploration of Rough-and-Tumble Houston

Fine Artist Arthur Jafa Produces a Nauseating Disappointment with a Revisionist Take on ‘Taxi Driver’ at Gladstone Gallery

STAGE STRUCK

The 2024 Tony Nominations Were Pretty Brutal; Few New Musicals Chosen

'Hell's Kitchen' and 'Stereophonic' Tie for Most Tony Nominations

‘Lempicka’ Musical Scores Three Tony Award Nominations; Star of the show, Eden Espinosa, received her first Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role

Jessica Lange Finds New Ways to Melt Hearts in ‘Mother Play’; Drinking, cursing, disco dancing, it’s a hateful character—but also a colorful role that shows the many diverse factions of Jessica Lange’s talent

Bill Smith: Staying Inside The Lines; Painting AI's Possible Future

Travel Plans: 9 Must-See Shows Around the U.S. This Spring; Spotlights on Mickalene Thomas, Huguette Caland, Walter Price, and Raqib Shaw all made our list

Nate Freeman: What Does the Future Hold for Frieze? Those in the know found themselves preoccupied with one potential sale in particular: that of the art fair itself

Interview with Orlando Whitfield, Author of 'All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art' The Inside Story of Inigo Philbrick's Biggest Art Fraud In American History

Collector and Comedian Steve Martin in the New Yorker: Looking at Art with Peter Schjeldahl; Recalling a Friendship with the Late Art Critic

Video: Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight, from the site-specific installation at The Huntington

NYT Interview: Betye Saar Remains Guided by the Spirit

LAWRENCE WESCHLER

Magiciens De La Terre: I.) See Buster Keaton do his own stunts! II.) Hear Sound Effects Genie Fred Newman channel a new poem by Garrison Keillor

Best of Buster Keaton's Greatest Stunts

Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice Presents Jean Cocteau: The Juggler’s Revenge; Largest retrospective ever organized in Italy dedicated to Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)

Video: 'Jean Cocteau: The Juggler’s Revenge'

Why Frida Kahlo Hated the French Surrealists; Was Frida Kahlo a Surrealist? She didn’t think so. And she hated them

When Frida Kahlo Met Josephine Baker; In Paris in 1939, they admired each other, all the way to the bedroom

'Museum-Worthy' a Short Comedy with Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo Contend with Clients and Dealers

Our Film Critic Justin Tanner Recommends You See This Classic!
Director John Maclean's 2015 'Slow West' is a beautifully structured, and photographed, slow-burn Western starring Kodi Smit-McPhee (Power of the Dog), Michael Fassbender (The Killer) and Ben Mendelsohn (Bloodlines).
It’s the brutal tale of a heartbroken Scotsman (McPhee) trying to reach the object of his affection (Caren Pistorious as a lovely outlaw wanted for murder) before a savage bounty hunter (Fassbender) does.
The film takes its sweet time getting to the explosive ending. But what an ending it is: a kinetically choreographed and violent shoot out on the middle of the prairie that makes it one of the best siege films in recent memory. ~Justin Tanner

Trailer: 'Slow West'; Directed by John Maclean; Starring Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ben Mendelsohn, and Caren Pistorious

CERAMICS

Woody De Othello Is on a Quest to ‘Simplify Sculpture’

American & European Art Pottery at Auction

An Artist Asked Her Community for Yonic Imagery. The Result Is on View at Hauser & Wirth; Jennifer Rochlin's new show "Paintings on Clay" melds intimate and communal narratives on terracotta canvases, featuring her standout piece Honey Pot—a collaborative celebration of femininity

As The World Turns, Doc Director Deborah Stratman Gazes Into the Abyss of Time

Peggy Guggenheim’s Favorite Painting; Grace Hartigan's lush ode to Ireland occupied a prime spot on the great patron's walls

Jónsi’s “VOX” at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

“This is New York: 100 Years of Art and Pop Culture" highlights the many ways in which the city has served as a potent muse to artists and creatives

Marianne Wex (1937–2020) 'Let’s Take Back Our Space' at Tanya Leighton

Blood: Medieval/Modern at the Getty Museum

At 92 Years Old, Photorealist Painter Audrey Flack is Having a Moment

New Book Explores M.C. Escher’s Lesser-Known Works; Previously unpublished pieces from the artist’s oeuvre trace the origins of his unique perspective

To Be ‘Silent and Invisible’: How Gemini G.E.L. Cofounder Sidney Felsen Got Up Close to Artists Over 50 Years

BRAVING OPPRESSION

Iranian Authorities Sentence Mohammad Rasoulof ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig' Director to 8 Years in Prison and Flogging; Asking the director to remove the film from the Cannes Festival

EXPERIENTIAL

Meow Wolf Co-Founder Departs Organization to Launch Immersive Sensory Art Spa in Austin ... ... The Submersive Website

Barcelona’s Casa Batlló Gets Lit With Sofia Crespo’s A.I.-Generated Projections. See It Here

Tipping Point: How New Immersive Institutions Are Changing The Art World; Digital Art Venues Are A Global Phenomenon, Attracting Massive Audiences With Radical New Forms Of Immersive Experiences. Are They A Threat Or An Opportunity For Traditional Galleries And Museums?

New Trailer: 'The Count of Monte Cristo'

Dystopian Filters: Ethel Lilienfeld Considers the Nuances of our Virtual Selves

Saltz Sez: Taxi Driver Was Always About Race; On Arthur Jafa

Frames Matter, See How! Jan van Eyck’s ‘Arnolfini Portrait’ Gets a New Frame, Polarizing Social Media Users

Colby Chamberlain, 'On Collaboration'; “Collaboration is a patchwork process of working with rather than working against, of temporary solutions and improvised repairs.” Thanks to greg.org

Must Read! Marion Maneker: Art Fraudster Inigo Philbrick Rehabs Himself; Timothy Chalamet with Red Hair? Hilarious!

See Inside Christoph Büchel’s Provocative and Symbol-Laden Show in Venice

Alex Da Corte 'THE DÆMON' at Matthew Marks Gallery

Gerhard Richter’s New Sculpture Puts a Fresh Spin on His Iconic ‘Strip Paintings’

ART BUSINESS

The Impact of Art Gallery Closures on Artists and Collectors; “When a gallery closes for good,” Thomas C. Danziger, a New York City attorney who specializes in art law, “the question becomes: Who owns the art?”

An Unexpected Player Has Begun Providing Auction Guarantees; Toledo Museum of Art made $500,000 this year using the financial instrument. 'The beauty of it is they win either way,' MoMA's director said

The Sotheby’s Debt Soap Opera; Implementing a neat little trick to maximize revenue without increasing sales

'Lee' Official Teaser Trailer; Starring Kate Winslet; Biopic of Photojournalist Lee Miller

VIVA!

Jessica Gelt: LACMA Goes to Las Vegas; Govan Speaks! How exactly will that arrangement work? And Why?

Christopher Knight Commentary: LACMA finally is getting its satellite space. Regrettably, it’s in another state; "As bad art museum ideas go, this one is right up there."


William Poundstone: Loathing Las Vegas; 'My half-serious theory is, this is all about Elaine Wynn. Or Francis Bacon'

Newly Unearthed Agnes Pelton Painting Leads Auction; Original Sketch and Handwritten Notes Appear in Pelton's Sketchbook

Yau: The Quiet Urgency of Barbara Takenaga’s Paintings; Her paintings are searching for materially rooted forms while simultaneously reaching for something unfixed and uncontainable

The Must-Also-Haves: In Nicole Eisenman’s Paintings and Sculptures, a System’s Impending Demise May Reveal Itself in Feverish Hilarity

Van Gogh’s Meager Diet While Painting a Portrait of His Mother; In 1888, hungry Van Gogh wrote his brother asking for money for food; “I cannot stand the colorless photograph,” Van Gogh wrote. “I am trying to do one in a harmony of color, as I see her in my memory.”

‘I am not a Satanist!’: Meet the Great Blasphemer of Contemporary Art; The mischief-making Maurizio Cattelan on shaking up this year’s Venice Biennale, kneeling Hitler and that notorious solid-gold lavatory

Here Are Three Facts About Richard Serra’s ‘Tilted Arc’, Sculpture So Controversial It Was Put on Trial; The monumental sculpture, which was installed in Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan from 1981 to 1989, posited free speech considerations against the role of public opinion

Teruko Yokoi, a Retrospective at Marlborough Gallery

Why More Artists Are Forming Limited Liability Corporations?; More artists are incorporating their practices, and Observer dug into what prompts creatives to become corporations

Downtown Los Angeles Places Another Big Bet on The Arts

N. Dash: Down to Earth; Artist’s Own Brand of Conceptual Naturalism Draws a Line Between the Natural World and Human Ideals

Olafur Eliasson’s Art —and Dance Moves— Feature on Musician Peggy Gou’s New Album; Gou dons one of Eliasson's sculptures on the cover of her new album, "I Hear You"; Have a Listen!

Vivian Greven and Benjamin Houlihan Embrace Fragmentation; Inspired by a theory of the mind, ‘EGOSTATE’ brings together two artists who mirror each other in their dislocation

MONSIEUR NOUAR

Le Français Buster Keaton: Supermarket Shopping

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KING COPPOLA


Must See! First Teaser Trailer! 'Megalopolis' Says the Director Francis Ford Coppola, "Our new film 'Megalopolis' is the best work I've ever had the privilege to preside over"

Jordan Ruimy Review: Cannes: ‘Megalopolis': Boos, and Some Cheers, Greet Coppola's Ambitious WTF Statement; “Staggering in its passion”; “to redefine how a movie can be told and seen”

(Hit Job Article?) ‘Has This Guy Ever Made a Movie Before?’ Francis Ford Coppola’s 40-Year Battle To Film 'Megalopolis'; Some of His Crew Members Are Questioning His Methods; “Old School” In His Behaviour Around Women

‘Megalopolis’ Producer Addresses Report of Francis Ford Coppola Trying to Kiss Extras on Set: ‘I Was Never Aware of Any Complaints of Harassment’

ARCHITECTURE

Inside the Brick House, Philip Johnson’s Private Playground; After a major restoration, the Glass House's sister property opens to the public for the first time, revealing the secret history of an architectural curiosity, and the interior life of its mastermind

When the Abstract Meets The Everyday: A Residence In Lisbon; House without idea by Fala Atelier in Lisbon is composed of spaces and elements that deconstruct traditional living to recompose it in an eccentric and surprising form

Inside One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Final-Ever Designs

Inside an Architect’s Big Sur Retreat, Complete With a Vintage Trailer; Cayley Lambur of Electric Bowery updated the interiors of her redwood-clad California home while maintaining renowned architect Mickey Muennig’s original organic vision

Glass Panes Interlock Between Concrete Slabs Residential Development In Athens' Suburbs

How Generative AI Will Change The Jobs Of Architects And Civil Engineers

End of the Line? Saudi Arabia ‘Forced To Scale Back’ Plans For Desert Megacity; Crown prince’s pet project was sold as a 105-mile-long city of the future, but finances may have led to a rethink

Neom: Saudi Forces 'Told To Kill' To Clear Land For Eco-City

Five Unique Experiences at Harajuku’s (the Entertainment District) Latest Development Harakado in Central Tokyo

Rainey Knudson: Sim City in Reverse: Depopulation Edition

COLLECTORS CIRCLE

Video: Meet the collectors: Eugenio López Alonso

10 Well Heeled New York Collectors to Know

Collector Alex Abedine Balances His Life in Law With the Joyful Chaos of Art

Why I collect: Amélie Huynh; Paris-based jewelry designer on her entrepreneurial endeavors and approach to collecting

Tate Britain Acquires First Painting By Pioneering English Female Artist Louise Jopling Overlooked For A Century (1843-1933)

ROGER CORMAN'S LAST REEL

Roger Corman, Giant of Independent Filmmaking, Dies at 98; Fabled "King of the B’s" producer and director influenced the careers of Jack Nicholson, Ron Howard, Peter Bogdanovich, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Demme and many others

A Roger Corman Horror Movie 'Dementia 13' Gave Francis Ford Coppola His Directorial Debut; Francis Ford Coppola's debut is an overlooked, chilly, eerie mystery

Full Documentary: 'Corman's World'

Earth Art Pioneer Alan Sonfist on Galvanizing a New Generation of Land Artists; Key figure of the environmental art movement addresses the fragility of our natural world

Podcast: Jerry Gogosian's Art Smack: Hosts Jerry and Annie Discuss: TEFAF, New York City's Beauty Queen of Art Fairs; Their love of art in honor of Mother's Day; A rabbit hole of other trade shows including Private Jet Shows, Yacht Shows, and gun shows!

Janitor James Hampton’s Mysterious Masterpiece; His magnum opus was discovered posthumously in a rented garage he had converted into his studio; Now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Emerging Artist Duo Pakui Hardware Grafts the Medicinal Industry Onto Their Surrealistic Art at the Venice Biennale

'Sturtevant' at Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles; Work made by the artist between 1965 and 2004

The Last Sleepover: Artist Farah Al Qasimi presents 'Desert Dreamscape,' a surreal portrait of contemporary anxiety

Live Video: Farah Al Qasimi’s Desert Dreamscape: Magical Mirage Cozy Bedroom, Sandstorm Ambience Day to Night; from Hyundai Artlab

War Photographer Lee Miller Taking a Bath in Hitler’s Tub for Vogue

From David Hockney to Salvador Dalí: 10 Artists Who Were Inspired by Their Pets; Some artists turn to their animal companions for inspiration, others for comfort

Trailer: 'Kinds of Kindness' Trailer; Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

Film Comment Interview: Radu Jude on 'Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World'

Hilarious Trailer 'Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World'

DESIGN

Best of Milan Design Week from Hermès, Thom Browne, Cassina, and More

Jonathan Anderson, Creative Director, Sheds Light on LOEWE Lamps

Why are Celebrities Destroying Multimillion Dollar Mansions?

Outrage After Actor Chris Pratt Destroys Iconic Mid-Century Home in LA; Advocates decried Pratt and wife Katherine Schwarzenegger’s decision to raze an architecturally significant home for yet another “McMansion”

Yau: Painting at the Periphery of Language; Mary Lum is interested in the deeply rooted human desire to make meaning out of everything, while recognizing that language is a slippery phenomenon

This Isn't Happiness: 'Watch Me Burn All of My Art in My Front Yard (Free Event)'

See the Show! Arghavan Khosravi 'At Her Fingertips' at M+B

Not a Poet? You Can Be, By Taking a Picture; New AI Camera turns the visual into poetry

All In It Together? A Guide to Artworld Friendships; Contemporary Art Runs On A Cocktail Of Fuels: Alcohol, Bullshit and Bonhomie

Did Pollock Really Pee in Peggy Guggenheim’s Fireplace? Considering all that Guggenheim had been through, what's a little urine between friends?

Yau: San Francisco Art Pioneer’s Collaged Dream Worlds; With the layers of his collaged “paste-ups,” Jess pulls us into an oneiric world, at once delightful and perplexing, magical and sublime

Must Read! Hills Snyder Review: Georganne Deen’s “When I Was a Riot of Spring” at Bale Creek Allen Gallery, Fort Worth

“The Greatest Collection of California Art that Nobody has Seen”

Art Market Expert Magnus Resch "How to Collect Art" with Jerry Gogosian

Yau: When Paris Was the Center of New York’s Art World; Americans in Paris at the Grey Art Museum highlights the vibrancy and openness of the Paris scene for Americans

“The Substantiality of Spirit” Georgiana Houghton’s Pictures from the Other Side'; First exhibited her abstract paintings in 1871

BEST OF THE WEEK with JERRY GOGOSIAN

New Yorker Cartoons for the Week!

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