LIVING IN A POSTHUMAN AGE
Julia Friedman and David Hawkes: 'Murder in the Posthuman Age; What to make of the assassination of Charlie Kirk'
SAVE OUR MORRISSEY
Morrissey Cancels US Tour Dates Following Death Threats; 26-year-old Ottawa man posted repeated threats. Arrested and released on bail; Charlie Kirk Jitters; Man named Noah Castellano was arrested after he posted a threat against The Smiths frontman Morrissey on social media which read, "I will attempt to shoot you many times?

Yau: An Artist’s Unexpected Confrontation With Mortality; Asako Tabata never checks the usual boxes

Furry Artists Will Remake The World; The Next Avant-Garde Is at Anthrocon

Frieze Sculpture Unleashes a Provocative Play of Light and Shadow; See Five Standouts

Burning Man’s Black Vanguard; Years after I began photographing Black and Brown Burners, I returned to the festival simply to witness. What I saw humbled me

Official Teaser 'BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions'; Director Kahlil Joseph presents a documentary essay; Visual and intellectual journey through Black history and beyond

Against Symbolic Inclusion: Investing in Black Art

Charlie Engelman 'Pith' at Château Shatto; Old-growth redwood and high-density polyurethane foam
INTO THE PACIFIC
After 50 Years, LA Louver Is Closing Its Gallery In Venice; Transitioning; Gallerist Peter Goulds explains, "I have no intention to retire, ever, but we need a new business model”

Stromberg: LA Louver to Close Gallery Space and Shift Into Private Model; Los Angeles gallery’s vast archive will be donated to the Huntington Library
Book Review: In 'Black in Blues,' Imani Perry reaches to the height of the sky and the depth of the ocean, casting the history of blue as one of both triumph and tragedy, possibility and limitation; The color blue and the nature of Blackness

Emily Mason’s Quest for Color and Truth; Late painter was influenced by Abstract Expressionism, but she had none of the hubris of its male artists. For her, painting was not about an experience, it was an experience

Director of the Art, Design and Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara, Gabriel Ritter’s Five Favourite Works from Frieze Seoul Viewing Room

Interview: Matthew Barney, ‘I’m Not Interested In Participating In Consensus Culture’; Multidisiplinary American artist has put together an ambitious new live performance, the latest stage in a provocative and unusual career
Book Review: This Novel Is the Art World’s Black Mirror; We all know the protagonists of Vincenzo Latronico’s 'Perfection.' You’ve seen them at the gallery openings, on Instagram. In fact, there’s a good chance you are them; Berlin art scene
Closed 'Til Tariffs Chill Out.

How a Tennis Match Bonded Duchamp and Man Ray for Life; Initial language barrier didn’t hold the artists back from a lifelong friendship
PHOTOGRAPHY

Suck It Up! The Sinister Side of Holiday Snaps
New Book: "Flashes of Brilliance, The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History"; Story of the wildest experiments in early photography and the wild people who undertook them
The Camera and the Pen; Arts Writer Christian House Tracks the History of Novelists’ Engagements With Photography and Speaks With Three Contemporary Writers—William Boyd, Teju Cole, and Orhan Pamuk—About Their Own Approaches To The Medium

Video: Reimagining His Boyhood in the Midwest, 'Twelve Acres' by American Photographer Henry O. Head

Technicolour Lakes and Butterfly Brains: Wellcome Photography Prize 2025 – In Pictures

Tribute to Tim Walker; Pioneering neon expert and artist; Co-founded The Neon Gallery in Houston; Victim of the devastating Texas Hill Country floods; Fabrication and restoration of neon artworks made him a hero to conservators, curators, private collectors, and artists
BRINGING HOME THE PRIZED BACON

WSJ: Elaine Wynn’s Estate Donated $142 Million Francis Bacon Painting to L.A. Museum; Much Sought after “Three Studies of Lucian Freud”; Other masterpieces in the casino magnate’s trove will head to auction this fall
Poundstone: Wynn Bequeaths Francis Bacon Triptych to LACMA

Gordy Grundy: What a Role Model; The Continuing Art and Influence of Elaine Wynn

Laughs with Chen & Lampert: Art and Ecstatic Ambience in Las Vegas’s "Trip Trap Art" Vortex

WSJ: Industrialist, Art Collector and Champion-Horse Breeder On Why Great Art Matters — And How To Pick A Winner!

Artist Alina Lindquist’s Portraits of Avi Kwa Ame Dazzle at Nevada Humanities
Attic Discovery Reveals the Moment Man Ray Went Avant-Garde; 1913 watercolor sketch that just sold at auction offers rare insight into the Surrealist icon’s early artistic breakthrough

New Medium in the Making! Inside the Brave New World of Quantum Art: ‘Consciousness Is Too Limited’; Meet the artists who are translating the strangeness of quantum fields into new ways of making, and seeing, art
PHOTOGRAPHY

Art Review: A God’s-Eye-View of Earth’s Destruction; Edward Burtynsky’s photographs once offered a prescient vision of large-scale anthropogenic changes; now, they feel more and more like a pretext for aesthetic dazzle
Annie Leibovitz Shoots Fifty Shades of Anne Hathaway; Internet is up in arms about the art-inspired Vogue shoot, with many lambasting Leibovitz’s choice of color and lighting, or lack thereof; See what they are screaming about

Joining the Crowd: 'Shoot Like Wes: A Practical Guide to Creating Your Own Wes Anderson Photography'

Artist Video: Trippy and Beautiful Repetition; Official Video by Kevin McGloughlin
Archaeologists Recover Remnants of a Long-Lost Ancient Wonder from the Lighthouse of Alexandria

Karl Benjamin, His Influence and Many Friends; Defining Hard-Edge

David Rappeneau Is a Fast-Rising Star at Gladstone Gallery. But No One Knows Who He Is—Not Even His Gallery; Enigmatic drawings of David Rappeneau and his absence from the spotlight have fueled his cult following and career
Rainey Knudson: My Taste is Not Myself

‘The Hot Tar Splashed Everywhere’: Remembering The Dark Magic of Derek Jarman; In 1989, artist was living on the Kentish coast when he created a series of mysterious paintings with a bonfire and tar. A new exhibition brings these so-called Black Paintings to life – and shows why they still resonate today

Dino Valdez 'Anachronism' at M Contemporary Art
Waiting to Be Discovered? Curators Reveal How Emerging Artists Can Get Noticed; "You can't just sit in the studio," experts say
Olfactory Dialectics; Art and Smell; Learning through ambivalence and through our bodies

Beats the Heck Out of a Lobby Installation! Artist Jacky Tsai’s Painting Launches Into Space, Literally
ARCHITECTURE

Ten Recent Buildings That Prove Domed Architecture Is Back In Vogue

Why Architects Are Talking About This Giant Timber Ring at Expo 2025; Sou Fujimoto’s soaring glulam megastructure might be the only reason to visit Osaka’s struggling World Expo—and a masterclass in scale and sustainability
PHOTOGRAPHY

Space Odyssey: Tadao Ando’s Lessons in Light; From Paris to Osaka to St. Louis, a new coffee-table book collects the Japanese architect’s bright, delicate designs, photographed by Richard Pare

‘People Laughing In The Galleries’: Finding Humor In Photography; At The Phoenix Arts Museum, New Exhibition Displays Different Approaches To Comedy Within Photography
Koons Is Hulk Is Koons; "...back to Yayoi Kusama to find an artist more embedded, photographically, in their own work"

Sink or Swim; In Tod Papageorge’s photographs of L.A. beachgoers in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, he transforms formally challenging scrums into theatrical vignettes or semi-abstractions

Dust Storm Blows Away Ukrainian Artwork at Burning Man; Monumental work “Black Cloud” was destroyed within hours of installation on Ukraine’s Independence Day; Video
WHISPERS OF THE SELDOM SPOKEN

“We Rarely Speak of the Shadow of (Nuclear Bomb) Annihilation” Filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow on Her Upcoming Thriller ‘A House of Dynamite’

Black Rain, Gold Screen; “There is a six-panel folding screen, donated recently by a Hiroshima family, whose gold expanses are streaked by black rain (from the Hiroshima blast): the most terrifying abstract painting I have ever seen”

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Holds Thousands of “A-Bomb Drawings by Survivors"

The Pleasure of Patterns in Art; Interplay between repetition and variation is central to how we perceive structure, rhythm, and depth across mediums
Did Michelangelo Pull Off Art History’s Greatest Hoax With ‘Laocoon’? Monumental sculpture stands as an exemplar of Hellenistic artistry—but not to everyone

One Fine Show: ‘Picasso and Paper’ at the Cleveland Museum of Art; The Role Picasso's experimentation with the material played in his overall artistic practice is showcased brilliantly here

Emerging Artist Li Hei Di Calls Her London Studio a ‘Parallel Universe,’ Where Hong Kong’s Cinematic Heroines and Mystical Abstraction Meet; Chinese-born artist had her first solo exhibition with Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles
ARCHITECTURE

How Architectural Sculpture in the U.S. Reimagines Public Space

Architect Who Designed the Iconic Entrances to the Paris Métro Is Finally Getting the Attention He Deserves; When Hector Guimard’s subway designs were unveiled in the early 1900s, the public rejected his Art Nouveau style
13 Frank Lloyd Wright Legacy Homes That Shaped Modern Architecture

Marek Wolfryd and Michele Lorusso “A Collapsing Reflection” at John Doe Gallery
One Fine Show: “From the Heart to the Hand: Dolce & Gabbana” at the Grand Palais; Exhibition embraces Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana's deep theatricality by building sets in which their baroque outfits can really chew the scenery
STREETWISE

Massive Mural of Ashamed Statue of Liberty Emerges in France; Dutch street artist Judith de Leeuw said she created the piece in response to the United States’s cruel immigration policies

Street Artist Michael Stewart’s Death Still Haunts New York; In 1985, police were acquitted in the killing of a graffiti artist and painter, a grisly act that galvanized the city’s art underground. Why has he been forgotten?

Graffiti Legend Brings His ‘Dark Green Daze’ to Ibiza; Showcased by Dark Green in a private residence, the solo presentation marks the artist's debut on the Spanish island
RATTLE OF THE DYING PATRIARCHY
Slow Death of the Contemporary Art Gallery; Hunger for new voices and unconventional methods is reshaping the market; “The old model was built on scarcity and prestige. The new one runs on access and attention.”

‘It Was the Greatest Adventure of My Life’: Gallerist Olivier Babin and the True Story of CLEARING Closing; "We scaled up pretty fast, because that’s what it’s about," he says. "That was pure magic. It was an adventure, a trip, the purest part of my life—there was no money, but we made it work."
One of our faves, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery to Close Los Angeles Space
'Art World’s on Life Support, I Need More Potent Weed, and I’m Still Not Invited to the Zwirner Wedding': The Last Art Daddy Dispatch Until the Fall Season
Ted Gioia: 30 Ways to Revitalize Arts and Culture "I Can Dream, Can't I?"
Wild! NYC Gilded Age Mansion With Ties To Mark Rothko and Elvis Asks Just $9.5M — But There’s A Catch
The Taxidermist A-Listers Call When They Need a Ram’s Head for the Wall; Amber Maykut has sold butterflies to Drew Barrymore, an antler mount to Nick Jonas and a miniature white horse to Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka
Truly Remarkable; Everything You Need to Know About the Bayeux Tapestry; As the U.K. prepares to receive the 950-year-old, 230-foot artwork, centuries of shared — and contested — cultural history come back into focus

‘The Ocean Is Spitting Our Rubbish Back’: Italy’s Museum Of Plastic Pollution; Faded items dating back to 1950s have been found on Italian beaches, underscoring plastic’s problematic longevity
CARLA: Artmaking and Apocalypse: Four Artists on Author Octavia E. Butler

How Reginald Sylvester II Transforms Dark Industrial Histories Into Powerful Abstract Meditations; In this Source Material, we follow the rising artist on trips from Home Depot to the streets of Ridgewood, Queens

Worth a Read. Who Was Georges Seurat and Why Was He So Important?
The Stellar Stoic: You Still Have Time,
Pt. II
How Egg Tempera Painters Crack the Mystery of the Perfect Yolk; We’ve hatched a practical guide to the centuries-old egg-based paint
THREADS

Fiber Art Has Officially Taken Over New York’s Museums and Galleries; At Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, Sikkema Malloy Jenkins Gallery, American Folk Art Museum, International Studio & Curatorial Program, Magenta Plains, Albertz Benda, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

Glorious Show of Textile Art Unspools in 18th-Century New York Building; In-demand curator Elissa Auther of New York’s Museum of Arts and Design

Susie Vickery: Embroidery in Motion
What CLEARING’s Closure Tells Us About the Fragile Economics of Art Galleries; CLEARING's untimely end lays bare the high pressures and paradoxes that are challenging, and potentially reshaping, the traditional gallery system

See the Show: Gio Swaby, 'How We Go' at Vielmetter Los Angeles
Patti Smith Says Her New Memoir Cover, Shot by Robert Mapplethorpe, Captures “a Deeply Transitional Moment”; Smith’s forthcoming memoir, she shares the intimate love story behind the image
"Art World’s on Life Support, I Need More Potent Weed, and I’m Still Not Invited to the Zwirner Wedding": The Last Art Daddy Dispatch Until the Fall Season Madness

See the Pics. George Lucas Offers a Peek Into His New Museum: ‘A Temple to the People’s Art’; Filmmaker previewed the ambitious project at his first-ever appearance at San Diego's Comic-Con

School That Became a Refuge For Artists From Georgia O’Keeffe to Tony Smith; As the Art Students League celebrates its 150th anniversary, an exhibition highlights the school's remarkable alumni; Has Influenced Generations of Artists

Never Heard of Her... Doc Trailer: 'Monk in Pieces' Film about Artist Meredith Monk: Composer, Performer, Visionary
Interview: Artist Jerry West “It Was a Magic Thing, Our Life On That Little Prairie World”

Rad! NYC Subway Mural Evokes Hilma af Klint’s Mysticism; Abstract mural by feminist collective Hilma’s Ghost draws from tarot archetypes and hero myths to honor the journeys commuters embark on every day
ARCHITECTURE
From Breton Brut to Brick: A Review of The Tuskegee Chapel at Yale
Frank Lloyd Wright’s The Fountainhead – A Shining Example Of Usonian Design – Is Now On The Market; Quintessential Wright home – built in a vibrant mid-century neighbourhood – was named after a novel inspired by the architect; See the pics
David Sellers, Architect Who Built What He Designed, Dies at 86; He believed that architects could design better buildings if they did the construction themselves. His do-it-yourself approach caught on
THE STELLAR STOIC: What This Philosophy Is Here For
THREADS

Celebrating 100 Years Since George Hewitt Myers Established The Textile Museum

Six Textile Works at MoMA That Reframe the Story of Modern Abstraction; Landmark exhibition at MoMA reframes textiles not as peripheral craft, but as central to the evolution of modern abstraction—from Anni Albers to Rosemarie Trockel

Kenny Nguyen’s Beautiful Refusal; People of Color Are Often Called Upon To Perform Their Identities, But Nguyen’s Lush Tapestries Largely Avoid That Trap
Art Critic Waldemar Januszczak: The Art Of Getting High, From Tea To Ayahuasca

Review: Nanette Carter’s Abstract Balancing Act; In this retrospective, the Montclair, New Jersy-raised artist gives the viewer a look at an artistic language that continues to evolve and shed layers to reveal its essence

In ‘Spirit Level,’ at David Zwirner, Tau Lewis Blurs Boundaries Between Matter and Meaning; Through a deeply personal process of collecting, sorting and assembling remnants and found objects, Lewis channels the unseen—creating sculptures that function as spiritual transmitters bridging lived experience and the divine
DUCK AND COVER!

Horrors of the Atomic Age Through Artists’ Eyes; Art and literature in 'Invisible Colors' turn our gaze toward the blinding fury of the atom’s explosion in its singular purpose to raze and slaughter

Arthur Beaumont (1890-1978); As the official artist for Operation Crossroads – a series of nuclear tests that took place in the Marshall Islands, Beaumont recorded the history with a series of watercolors. The events produced a fascinating color palette. See what he saw! Click Here.

Visual Language of the Nuclear Age; Eighty years after the US bombed Hiroshima, a show tracks the cultural reception of both nuclear weapons and nuclear power

When in Las Vegas, Visit The Atomic Museum!
STREETWISE

Monoliths and Market Forces: SpY’s Golden Intervention in Lille, France

Review: When Graffiti Met Conceptual Art; 'Gordon Matta-Clark: NYC Graffiti 1972/3' Has The Feel Of A Time Capsule That Never Veers Too Far Into Didacticism, While The Art Almost Makes You Feel Like You’re There

Artist Known for Scaling Buildings Was Arrested at His Show’s Opening; Isaac Wright took a vertiginous photograph of the Empire State Building after he climbed to the top of its spire — evidence the police used to arrest him
VINCENT VALDEZ

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Adds Vincent Valdez Series; 'Excerpts for John' Series of six grisaille paintings of a military funeral for childhood best pal

First Museum Survey Of Works By Vincent Valdez On View at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
BAS JAN ADER

Bas Jan Ader Made Fate Into an Art; So much of what Ader explored was about surrendering to destiny, but also about heeding internal calls — to adventure, open horizons, and the sublime
Retrospective Dispels Myths Surrounding Bas Jan Ader

Video: 'Dreadnaught' Short Experiential Film on Bas Jan Ader

Mavis Pusey’s First Solo Museum Exhibition Spotlights Her Work in Geometric Abstraction at ICA Philadelphia; (1928–2019)

New Yorker Cartoons for the Week!
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Valuable Read; Rainey Knudson: 'Halfdan Was Here' (527 words): Viking Graffiti in the Hagia Sophia, a Poem to Street Art, and a Prayer to Life As We Know It
BELL RINGING

Interview: Larry Bell’s Art Through the Looking Glass; Soon to be unveiling his largest public art project to date

Art Report Today Podcast: Artist Larry Bell Discusses His Life, Work and Career
STEALING LIKE AN ARTIST
A Curious Incident, a Dog in 'Night Watch' Was a Copy by Rembrandt, Expert Claims
Rijksmuseum says that just like Shakespeare, Rembrandt drew widely and shamelessly from earlier sources

Chloe Sherman Renegade, at Von Lintel Gallery; Interviewed by Ezrha Jean Black

Working Hand-in-Hand: On L.A.’s History of Collaborative Printmaking
2025 California Biennial: Desperate, Scared, But Social at Orange County Museum of Art

Duelling Reviews: Peter Frank and RC Peck: Mary Corse and Hearts of Glass at Pace Gallery

Artists William Powhida and Ellsworth Kelly: The Art World In Two Drawings
GOVERNMENT ARTS
Could Rejecting State Art Grants Be the New Anti-Trump Resistance?
Art Organizations Prevail in Legal Battle Over NEA Grants; Here's how the Trump administration is drastically reshaping the arts landscape
Trump’s “Gender Ideology” Ban for Art Grants Ruled Unconstitutional
Is This the Breaking Point for Museums? Severe cuts to public funding and political uncertainties are straining museums across the West and Europe; Climate of Anxiety for Museums
The Intelligence Report, Mid-Year Economic Review 2025
Pop Art in the Age of AI; 'Pop on Paper: Lichtenstein, Ruscha & Warhol,' Modest-Sized But Elegant Exhibition at the Tyler Museum of Art
ARCHITECTURE
Earthen Architecture and Culture (Xi'an) Research Center / OnEarthStudio

Forget Roadside America, Let’s Location Scout in “Weird France”; Architectural Wonders

‘I Live in a 1900's Sears Catalog Home— Here’s What It’s Like To Own a House That Arrived in a Box’

Historic Artifacts From Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Skyscraper, Price Tower, Saved by Conservancy; Frank Lloyd Wright Conservancy has snapped up the objects to keep them off the private market

Remember When Art Was Fun? Bob & Bob Are Back. Read Part One: 'Birth of an Art World Duo at the Dawn of Performance Art'
'Ukraine Must Win': Five Members of Pussy Riot Sentenced to Jail In Russia; Fortunately in absentia

Life-Sized Dollhouse by Artist Anna Weyant Is One of New York Fashion Week's Hottest Tickets; Marc Jacobs designed outfits for the models roaming the rooms

Video Studio Visit: Benjamin Langford: Scenes and Images, at OCHI, Idaho

Less Art: Christine Wertheim Reviews Nancy Buchanan Truthfully; At The Brick, Los Angeles: Truthfully, Nancy Buchanan A Retrospective
ALWAYS EMERGING
Art Adviser Josh Baer Says Collectors Should Pay No More Than $15,000 for Emerging Artists’ First Solo Show Works
When Artists Are Too Old to Be “Emerging”; If the art world is serious about equity, it has to stop equating emergence with youth and start building structures that reflect the multiplicity of artistic timelines
STAGE STRUCK

‘Art’ Review: James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris drone on about paintings in retro Broadway comedy
Exhibition at the National Theatre; The Greeks: Radical Reinvention; Sense of different approaches to staging Greek tragedy over the years
Jeremy O. Harris Is the Greatest Showman; Talented multihyphenate is a playwright, producer, performer, provocateur, dandy, bon vivant, and depending who you ask, a genius. As his latest wave of projects gains momentum, can Harris keep all the plates spinning?

When Was the Last Time You Did Nothing? In London, shows by Bruce Nauman, Klara Lidén and Helen Cammock reflect on the pleasures and politics of idleness
Rediscovered Cache. Jamie Wyeth’s Lost Portraits of Andy Warhol See the Light After 50 Years

Deep Look at Para-Pastoral Movement Is Taking Root in Art. It’s Anything but Idyllic; Why contemporary artists are co-opting the romantic language of pastoral painting and bringing it to an uncanny new dimension

Check Him Out: Walter Swennen, Revered Belgian Painter and Poet, Has Died Aged 79; Paintings were illogical, joyful, and radically free

Gordy Grundy: Annually, Over 80 Art Shows, Across 15 Galleries, Exhibiting 400 Artists; In Las Vegas, the Engine of the Fine Arts Community Is the Public Library
BAD, BAD BANKSY! THE BRICK WALL WAS A TEMPLE

New Banksy Mural Appears at Royal Courts of Justice; Too Contemporary? Quickly Covered Up
Haunting Shadow of Scrubbed Banksy Mural Goes Viral
Banksy: A Look at the Artist’s Other Works That Were Destroyed
Banksy Could Be Forced to Reveal Identity as UK Police Probe Latest Artwork; “Criminal damage” "Grade I listed heritage designation of the building"
Las Vegas Artist Sydney Gallindo and Her New Documentary 'Unseen Territories'; Premiere at Nuwu; Site-Responsive Exhibition for cultural reclamation and collective authorship; Flags and parades
A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
Maybe it's the new doc out about singer, actress and Mick Jagger's squeeze Marianne Faithfull. Or maybe it's about that Ukranian refugee, safe on a public bus in North Carolina, who was slaughtered by a ghoul straight out of a Blum House horror. Or maybe it's the inconceivable assassination of a lawful, earnest seeker. I just can't get this sad and adamant song out of my head.
OUR MODERN LIVING
Does Minimalism Actually Make You Happier? Yes. Sharing actual stuff: 'skills, food, time, labor. You know, community.'
Neuroscientist’s Guide To Banishing Stress, Self-Doubt and Loneliness; Don’t believe everything ‘wellness’ brands and books say – for a happier, healthier life, make your brain your best friend
The Stellar Stoic: Don’t Just Settle for a Shortcut, Do the Work

Barrick Museums’s ‘Living Here’ Exhibit Examines Asian Identity, Memory and Belonging
Lawrence Weschler's Issue No. 98: Threadworks and the Needlepoint Vermeer; Collecting amateur needlepoint knock-offs of Vermeer paintings; The Trouble with AI Cartoons

Must See! ‘Remarkably Executed, Compelling and Resonant’: $100,000 Hadley’s (All Mediums) Art Prize; In Pictures; Most outstanding portrayal of Australian landscape
VIJA CELMINS

Vija Celmins Painted Surfaces

Podcast: Tyler Green's Modern Art Notes with Vija Celmins

‘Overwhelming and Sublime’: The Primal Power of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinematic Art; Cannes-winning film-maker’s latest work, created specially for Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, is a tribute to his obsession with the magic of light and shadow
How Top Curators Spot the Artists of Tomorrow; Gatekeepers of contemporary art share how they identify emerging talent—and the unexpected places they discover it

Belonging, Independence and Restoration: “Los Encuentros” at Ballroom Marfa
Ted Gioia: Why Are Quiet Spaces Disappearing? And how do we get them back?

Para-Pastoral Movement Is Taking Root in Art. It’s Anything but Idyllic; Why contemporary artists are co-opting the romantic language of pastoral painting and bringing it to an uncanny new dimension
In Menorca, Cindy Sherman’s Cinematic Take on Womanhood; Hauser & Worth show, curator Tanya Barson celebrates Sherman’s ability to amalgamate collective imagery and channel it into something new

Visionary Qatari Artist, Wafa Al-Hamad (1964 – 2012), Reasserts Her Legacy; "Sites of Imagination" at Doha's Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art shines a light on the multifacted Qatari artist
The Nazis Are Coming! How to Bury an Entire Museum, Fast!
VIJA CELMINS

Vija Celmins Painted Surfaces

Podcast: Tyler Green's Modern Art Notes with Vija Celmins
THREADS

Interview: Sam Dienst Weaves the Everyday Into Rich Tapestries; Dienst wrests playfulness and movement from the warp and weft of weaving
Stitch Picks: The Best Sewing Machines For Textile Art

Tapestry Transformed: Five Artists Pushing The Boundaries
How Textile Artist Maria Lai Turned ‘Women’s Work’ Into Avant-Garde Art; Artist has never had a museum show in North America before

Richard Mensah “Tangled Embrace” at Band of Vices
Cosmo Whyte’s Whispering Portals; By blurring the line between individual and collective memory, the works demonstrate the Panafrican ideal that our experiences are part of a shared narrative

The Investigative Strategies of Juliana Halpert and Chris Kraus; New show at Bel Ami, Los Angeles, makes detectives of viewers by inundating them with documentation
Kenny Schachter: When Good Dealers Go Bad: On Gallery Closures, Unpaid Artists, and Clawbacks; And stop the complaining! It's time to find a way forward

One Fine Show: Steve McQueen’s ‘Bass’ at the Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager Basel
In this complicated and enveloping work, the artist seeks to expand the limits of our perception

Why You Should Know Maruja Mallo, the Artist Who Redefined Spanish Modernism; Hailed as one of Spain's foremost painters within her lifetime, the artist fell into obscurity after her death
Book Review; ‘Matisse in Morocco’ Review: The Light in Tangier; In a hotel room converted to a studio, Henri Matisse set out to liberate his painting from gloom
Spike Lee’s New Film Turns His Art Collection Into a Cinematic Set Piece; "Highest 2 Lowest" stars Denzel Washington and selections from the director's own trove of art

Lawrence Weschler: What We Can Learn From OG Film Editor and Filmmaker Walter Murch and Fine Artist Tristan Duke
The Stellar Stoic: What If This Made You Stronger?

“Breakfast Special”: a New Short Story by Woody Allen
THREADS

Transforming Sites of Violence, One Stitch at a Time; Photographer Spandita Malik invited nine women in North India to embroider their own portraits, reclaiming domestic spaces as liberated havens for their inner worlds

Do Ho Suh’s Monumental Fabric Homes Probe Urgent Questions in an Age of Borders; London-based Korean artist confronts ideas of belonging with his sculptural installations at Tate Modern

Bauhaus-Trained Artist Silvia Heyden Wove Tapestries in the Woods for Decades. Now, Her Legacy Comes Into Focus

Emily Ginsburg “Metabolic” at SE Cooper Contemporary, Portland
The Case for Installing Temporary Public Art; Time-limited, swappable public art installations come with shorter approval timelines, lower costs, less-intensive maintenance provisions and more favorable reviews
STAGE STRUCK
Busy Ayo Edebiri, Don Cheadle To Star in Broadway Revival of 'Proof'; First revival David Auburn's Tony- and Pulitzer-winning play
Disney Can’t Get ‘Hercules’ Right — Musical Doesn’t Go The Distance Again In London

Off Broadway Revival, "House of McQueen" at The Mansion at Hudson Yards; Iconic fashion designer Alexander McQueen

Patriotic Brits Cough Up the Funds to Keep Modern Sculpture Masterwork in the UK. After Fundraising Campaign, Citizens Bought the Barbara Hepworth 'Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red' (1943), by Fiat From the Hands of an Overseas Private Collector

Chinese Dissident Artist Badiucao on His First Solo Gallery Show; 'Being able to finally have an exhibition that I can share with my own little community is a moving experience,' the Australia-based activist says
The Asian Modernists of Paris; Living in Paris in the Twenties; Landmark exhibition; More than 220 works by Asian artists, a landmark exhibition tells a different story of the city’s golden age

Parkour and the Art and Origins of Running Across Paris Rooftops; Wild Pics and Video; See Ben Cante, 'Le Charli Chaplin des temps modernes'; Leaps and Laughs
COLLECTOR'S CORNER
Christophe de Menil, Patron with Deep Connections to Top Artists, Dies at 92; Close to Merce Cunningham, Andy Warhol, and Willem de Kooning; Married the artist Enrique Castro-Cid; Grandmother of late artist Dash Snow

Legendary Art Collector Sylvio Perlstein Has Died; Hauser & Wirth confirmed the news; Expansive inclusion of “Dada and Surrealism (Max Ernst, Man Ray, Dora Maar, René Magritte, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle); American minimalism and post-minimalism (Donald Judd, Ad Reinhardt, Brice Marden, Fred Sandback); and Land art (Richard Long, Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer, Gordon Matta-Clark)”

Away From A Slant Step Theory of Postwar Sculpture
Self-Marketing Notes: The Artist as Philanthropist: Why Giving Back Matters; While splashy million-dollar donations make headlines, more artists are quietly giving back and crafting their own legacies through targeted foundations, grassroots initiatives and hands-on community-building

Video: Prized Works from the Cy Twombly Foundation
PHOTOGRAPHY
Nobody Captured Summer Vibes More Elegantly Than Slim Aarons; From Marisa Berenson sunbathing in Capri to C.Z. Guest poolside in Palm Beach, Aarons’s photos of the rich and famous have been a vicarious ticket to the jet set for decades

Review: ‘You Can Almost Smell The Marijuana’ Dennis Morris, The Boy Photographer Who Made Bob Marley Catch Fire

Book Review: “Border Documents” by Arturo Soto
ARCHITECTURE

Inside a Sublime and Approachable Island Cottage in Hawaii; Lucas Interior’s design for a couple of aesthetes creates a California beach bungalow–meets–Fire Island vibe

RIBA Announces Best British Buildings For 2025

Brazilian Studio Bernardes Arquitetura Crowns Underground Gallery With Cantilevered Roof

Fine Artist Julian Schnabel’s New Film ‘In the Hand of Dante’ Leaks Online Weeks Before Venice Premiere; 150-minute epic; Starring Oscar Isaac, Martin Scorsese, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, John Malkovich, Gerard Butler, Al Pacino; Who leaked the film online?; "Leak couldn’t have come at a worse time."; Backstage drama

Official Trailer 'Peter Hujar's Day'; One long conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and Linda Rosenkrantz in 1974; Directed and Written by Filmmaker Ira Sachs; Starring Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall
Museum of Jurassic Technology Reopens After Escaping Destruction In Fire; ‘A place of mysterious inquiry’

State Fair Rejects: Art that didn’t make the Fine Arts Competition
COWBOYS AND INDIANS

See What Sold and For How Much at the July 26, 2025 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, Fine Western and American Art

Off-Market: 11 Must-See Satellite Shows and Events for Santa Fe Indian Market 2025

In L.A., Artist Aya Takano Channels Cosmic Consciousness Through a Manga Lens; Artist's latest works, on view at Perrotin, fuse anime aesthetics with myth and universal thinking in one spiritually-charged show

An Artist Who Builds Dreamworlds Alongside Moths, Stones, and Stars; Sculptor - photographer Virginia L. Montgomery is based somewhere between science and dreams
Curator's Choice, Art Baby, Contemporary Bathwater; What to Preserve? The Artist or the History?
PHOTOGRAPHY

Contorted Bodies and Bare Bottoms: Photographer Ralph Gibson’s All-Seeing Eye – In Pictures; Photographer has spent six decades photographing Hollywood, New York … and lots of women. He talks us through his favourite images
British Victorian Photographer Julia Margaret Cameron Put Her Personal Imprint On Art’s Newest Medium To Indelible Effect; Devised the Close-Up

Down By The River: A Meditation On Mental Health – In Pictures; During a period of deep personal turmoil, Marjolein Martinot took her camera down to the riverside in southern France – and began to feel connected again
ANDREA FRASER
How Artist, With a Funny Bone, Andrea Fraser Turned Institutional Critique Into a Lifelong Practice; Fraser reflected on the politics of making art, teaching with purpose and holding museums accountable in a spectacle-driven culture

The Field of Contemporary Art: A Diagram; Artist Andrea Fraser represents the field of contemporary art fragmenting into relatively autonomous subfields; Where do you fit in?

Interview with Curator Erin Christovale; 'Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal', at the Hammer; 'Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation' at the Hammer
TOOR AND THE MAYOR

Portrait of a Mayor as a Young Man; See Salman Toor's 'Portrait of Zohran Mamdani,' (2007); Toor was a 24-year old student at Pratt and Zohran Mamdani was then 14
RAGNAR KJARTANSSON

Promise and Impossibility of Belonging in Ragnar Kjartansson’s Most Beloved Work; 'The Visitors' is one of the most lauded artworks of the 21st Century. That doesn’t make it easy to sit through; Vistor reaction
Ragnar Kjartansson, The Visitors Complete Video
Art Critic Waldemar Januszczak: The Art Of Getting High, From Tea To Ayahuasca
The Stellar Stoic: You Can Find Peace
ARCHITECTURE
The Ransacking of Britain: Why The People Finally Rose Up Against ‘Sod You Architecture’; Inspired by Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier, who believed streets fostered disease, a vision of Britain was cooked up that would see historic city centres flattened for flats and ring roads. But the public decided they’d had enough – and took to the streets

Gagosian: Architect Carlo Ratti: On The Cities of Tomorrow; To see how digital tools can help create smarter cities
Piece of Japan’s Most Iconic Futurist Tower Just Landed at MoMA; useum's spotlight on the Nagakin Capsule Tower includes a newly restored pod recovered from the building

MAD Unveils Giant Graceful ‘Chinese Paper Umbrella’ at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
HEALING POWER OF POP (AND PUNK)
From the Hit New Blockbuster:
Lois Lane: “My point is I question everything and everyone. You trust everyone and think everyone you ever met is, like... beautiful.”
Clark Kent (aka Superman): “Maybe that’s the real punk rock.”

Doug Harvey's Less Art: Guest Columnist Steve Hurd: Field Trip Report From The Desert Lighthouse
MONSIEUR NOUAR: LE FRANCAIS BUSTER KEATON

Stop Spending Your Money on Stupid Sh*t!
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Masterpiece by Diego Rivera's Wife Poised to Fetch a Record-Shattering $60 Million; Painting is part of Sotheby's sale of Surrealist works including those by René Magritte and Dorothea Tanning

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ENHANCING COLLECTOR EXPERIENCE

Superstar Cj Hendry’s Hit Floral Art Spectacle Blooms Again; You can build your own bouquet of flowers real and imagined, for $5 a blossom
Experiential Floral Art Spectacle on Instagram

Kenny Schachter: When Gagosian Goes So Do His Galleries; How Hockney’s Swimmer Swam Away; Moving Chairs and Price Reductions in the Gallery World; Teasing Smith and Saltz
BOOKS + WORDS
Woody Allen Published His First Novel; Film-maker has previously written short stories and essays but this story about a middle-aged Jewish author whose marriage is on the rocks is his first published novel
‘Deeply Concerning’: Reading For Fun In The Us Has Fallen By 40%, New Study Says; Over the last 20 years, the number of Americans who read daily for pleasure has seen a considerable decline
The Onion Brought Back Its Print Edition. The Gamble Is Paying Off. Publications turn to the old-style products to appeal to nostalgic readers and stand out in a crowded digital media landscape

Mick Herron’s Horse Sense; The 'Slow Horses' author on the inspiration for Jackson Lamb, taking a page out of Stephen King’s book, and what his third act would look like
The Stellar Stoic: You Can Find Peace
ART NOIR
Collusion, Evasion, and Theft! 25 Years in Art Market Scandals; Artists, dealers, and collectors have been accused of all sorts of malfeasance. The fallout has varied
The Spy Who Came In from the Burning Picassos; Working undercover for the French Resistance, Rose Valland witnessed the Nazis’ destruction of 500 precious artworks
Lies, Private Jets And A Missing $86M: Inigo Philbrick’s Art World Swindle; Convicted fraudster expresses regret, not remorse, in a two-part BBC documentary but also asks ‘What about all the good deals?’

Chef Ruthie Rogers and Ed Ruscha On Their Obsession With Lemons; When the chef and the artist decided to make a cookbook together, only one fruit would do

Video Worth Your Time; Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos' Magical and Very Funny Prada Short Film with Scarlett Johansson
STREETWISE

Graphic Short Story: I Never Was a Graffiti Artist; "Revisiting my teenage years working for artists Freedom and Crash and renovating Keith Haring’s Pop Shop, I wrestle with the ironies of parenting as my son takes up tagging"

Brooklyn Street Art Images of the Week

Interview: Alex Itin and Rene Lerude in the Streets: Contrarians, Punchlines, and Miles Davis; Hand-rendered one-off posters and stickers

Frieze Video: 'How to Look at Silver'

Gisela Colón: Earthworks and New Worlds; Monograph of Global Site Installations from Skira; Essay by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

‘In the Hand of Dante’: Julian Schnabel’s Operatic Misfire That Thinks It’s a Masterpiece [Venice]

As More Downtown LA Businesses Shutter, Indie Art Gallery Superchief Faces Possible Closure
LACMA EXPANDS

LACMA Will Time-Share Christian Marclay's "The Clock" with Las Vegas Museum of Art; Note the Comments

Video; LACMA Construction Update (08.25.25)

At the Armory Show, First-Time Artists Steal the Spotlight; For all the whispers about the art market downturn, newcomers prove the New York fair can still serve as a stage for fresh voice

TikToker Freaked Out When He Found a Painting of His Living Room Displayed in a London Gallery. Here’s How It Ended Up There; 'They have an oil painting of my living room... this can't be real'
How a Billionaire Owner Brought Turmoil and Trouble to Sotheby’s; Patrick Drahi made a fortune through debt-fuelled telecommunications companies. Now he’s bringing his methods to the art market
EASY EAMES

Inside the Eames House, the Newly Restored and Reopened Modernist Icon; New reopening now makes the Eameses' studio available to visitors

Creative Legacy of Ray and Charles Eames Finds a New Home; Architects Herzog and de Meuron will design the new museum in the heart of Marin County
SUMMER'S END

Long Hot Summer: The Mythos of the Pool On Screen

Trailer: 'Diabolique' (1955) Directed by Henri‑Georges Clouzot; Starring Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, and Paul Meurisse
Wet Hot American Summer; Backyard swimming pool moves the spirit unlike any other status symbol

Official Trailer Indie 'Pools'; By filmmaker Sam Hayes; Starring Odessa A'zion, Mason Gooding, and Ariel Winter

Film Commentary: 'La Pisine: Story Beneath the Surface' (1969) Avec Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet et Jane Birkin

Trailer: 'A Bigger Splash' (2015); 'La Pisine' Inspired; Directed by Luca Guadagnino; Starring Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ralph Fiennes, and Dakota Johnson

Trailer: 'The Graduate' (1967) Directed by Mike Nichols
PAINTER PORN

Click to Enlarge! Detail, of the Eye of Saint Peter, in Caravaggio's 'Crucifixion of Saint Peter,' 1600-01, Oil on canvas, 230 x 175 cm (Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome)
LAWRENCE WESCHLER

Tristan Duke, an LA Art Magus, Captures, Among Other Things, Light in Flight at a Trillion Frames A Second

Before Labubu, 1950s 'The Moomins' Changed Children’s Literature Forever. History Repeats. Artist Tove Jansson Created an IP and a Fortune

Gagosian Artist Kathleen Ryan: Time, Crafted; Ryan’s artistic process, methods of assemblage, and how her studio resembles an excavation site

When You’re Pontus Hultén They Let You Do It; Founding director of at least three modern art museums; One of the most influential figures in 20th century art; Groundbreaking curator; And a stone cold crook
RICHARD PRINCE

Coming to a Theater Near You? 'Deposition' (2025) Reviewed; Full 7-hour performance of Richard Prince talking extremely slowly in an adversarial conversation/deposition with offscreen lawyers
Artist and Bibliophile Richard Prince Has Amassed an Idiosyncratic Collection of First Editions and Literary Curios; Rare Bits & Pieces; Room-size walk-in fireproof safe

Podcast: Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin: Interview with Richard Prince (2025)

Jim Carrey Donates 1913 Picasso to LACMA; See Cary Grant and His 1980 gift of Diego Rivera's The Flower Vendor to the Norton Simon Museum

Ukrainian Artist and Anarchist David Chichkan Was Killed Fighting For His Country Against Russia

“Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists”; At Pallant House Gallery, Artists Capture Each Other With Candor, Compassion and Bite; Some artists express love for their subjects in their work, but others are less generous when their subjects are fellow creators
Curator Nada Shabout Traces the Enduring Legacy of the Baghdad Modern Art Group; Group sprang up in the roaring art scene and political ebullience of 1950s Iraq

Video: Steve Martin Goes to the Frick! And You Should Too!
Chicago on Lucas Museum: Regrets, Trollbait, Sour Grapes; Comic-Con prompted the Chicago Tribune to run an editorial lamenting the loss of the museum to L.A.: "This was a Midwestern mistake for the ages"
Dueling With Science, Argument of Our Times: Lowdown on Ronald Perelman’s $410 Million Art Damage Lawsuit Nears Verdict; Summary arguments have been filed in a contentious dispute stemming from a 2018 fire at Perelman's East Hamptons estate; Whose Science shall win?

Rainey Knudson: The Butter Thief, Regarding Unconditional Love
ROBERT WILSON (1941 - 2025)
Robert Wilson, Provocative Playwright and Director, Is Dead at 83; Upended theatrical norms with his own stunningly visualized works and his collaborations with a wide range of artists, from Philip
The Subject As Star; Robert Wilson, King of The Avant-Garde, Multi-Media Performance Event, Will Create Your Lifesize Video Portrait (2006)

Financial Times: My Favourite Holiday Photo – Artists and Designers Share Their Snaps
PETER LODATO (1946–2025)
William Turner Gallery Remembers Peter Lodato, Old School Light and Space Artist

Video: Joan Quinn Profiles
with Peter Lodato

Digital Catalogue "L.A. Louver Celebrates 50 Years"
Whales on the Move! Kenny Schachter Uncovers Real Estate Plays by the Nahmads, Mugrabis; Artist, collector, dealer . . . and poet? Columnist blasts art-market pessimists in spoken word piece
FANBOY SPHERE

Tornadoes, Monkeys and Towering Flames: How the Sphere Plans to Bring ‘The Wizard of Oz’ to Life; Senior executives from the Las Vegas attraction are recreating key moments from the film inside the venue at the same moment they happen on its massive screen
Listen to the Difference! Behind the Scenes of the Sound, Score and Infrasound Technology of The Wizard Of Oz at Sphere
American Eagle Is Investing In Sydney Sweeney and The Sphere For Its Largest-Ever Fall Campaign
ART NOIR: UPDATES ON THE ART CRIME OF THE CENTURY
What To Know About The Gardner Museum Heist, 35 Years Later

Documentary Trailer 'This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist'
(Art True Crime) Podcast: 'Last Seen' Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; All 10 Episodes
Essential Reading To Help You Understand The Gardner Museum Heist
JASPER JOHNS

Jasper Johns: Take An Object, Add Some Little Guys To It
To Brutally Paraphrase the American Artist Jasper Johns: Good art clashes two flinty ideas together, causing a spark, and then seeing becomes thinking. Johns believed that art should provoke cognition...

Video: "Jasper Johns: Take an Object"; A film by Hans Namuth and Judith Wechsler (1990)

Guardian UK: ‘They Digest Externally’: The Artist Who Creates Paintings With Live Flies; For over a decade, John Knuth has created art using the regurgitation of flies and after he lost his home in the California wildfires, his work has a new perspective
GROUP SHOW?
The Artists Confronting Sexual Violence: Laia Abril, Gabrielle Goliath and Lydia Pettit amplify the voices of survivors – and challenge the narratives that silence them
Stripper Collective’s Life Drawing Merges Sex Work and Art; East London group sees their life drawing sessions “as a natural progression from the age-old practice of hiring professional harlots and hussies as models for art”

Now, That's Punk!

In Menorca, Cindy Sherman’s Cinematic Take on Womanhood; In a new Hauser & Wirth show, curator Tanya Barson celebrates Sherman’s ability to amalgamate collective imagery and channel it into something new; Shown here in reverse chronology

If You’re Looking for the Best Southwest Landscape Art, Become a Gamer
THREADS

Books Reviews: Mapping Patchwork Across the Globe; Catherine Legrand’s 'Patchwork: A World Tour' is an important step towards finally giving this art form the appreciation it deserves

The Artist Reviving a Native Hawaiian Clothmaking Tradition; Lehuauakea, one of the few kapa practitioners under the age of 30 working in the art form today, is the recipient of a Walker Youngbird Foundation grant for emerging Native American artists

My Grandma’s Doilies Are Not a Joke; When will art institutions finally pay respect to our foremothers’ artistry?

The Feminist Revival of Embroidery; Once denounced as “women’s work” with no artistic merit, embroidery is experiencing a revival, with a feminist punch

Box Office: ‘Superman’ Aims for $55 Million or More in Second Weekend; Earned $155 million domestically and $250 million globally

'O Superman' Official Music Video, by Laurie Anderson
FAN BOY SPHERE
‘Wizard of Oz at Sphere’ Sound Is Yet Another Groundbreaking Moment; New Depth in New Audio Creation

See This Video! Listen to the Difference! Behind the Scenes of the Sound, Score and Infrasound Technology of The Wizard Of Oz at Sphere
STREETWISE

Brooklyn Street Art Images of the Week

Brooklyn Street Art: Street Art Goes Orbital: Shepard Fairey Lights Up the Sphere in Vegas. What a Ball!
Video: Shepard Fairey “Earth Power Globe” at the Sphere Las Vegas!

Brooklyn Street Art Images of the Week

Taste Is the New Intelligence; Why Curation, Discernment, and Restraint Matter More Than Ever; We’re drowning in content

Joe Overstreet’s Activism Through Abstraction; Fundamental part of Overstreet’s mission was to break free of the flat, rectangular picture plane and the Eurocentric view of painting that dominated American art
Lloyd Wright’s Wayfarers Chapel: Inside the Rescue of a National Landmark; More details emerge for Lloyd Wright’s beloved glass-and-timber ‘tree chapel’ and its proposed new location. Backers lay out their vision and a timeline to reassemble the landmark wrecked by the Rancho Palos Verdes landslide

Enter the Twisted World of Overlooked Surrealist Bona de Mandiargues; Regular among Surrealist circles in Paris, the artist is finally getting her due

Ultra-Contemporary Chinese Artists to Know Now; These artists, based in authoritarian China are commanding attention around the world

Must See! Yau: Tim Hawkinson Makes the Ordinary Otherworldly; Recent paintings of everyday life transcend the literal without becoming overtly symbolic; This is the tight rope he walks; 'Tim Hawkinson: Cabinet Pictures' at Miles McEnery Gallery
Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh's Dark Comedy ‘The Christophers' to World Premiere at TIFF; About "the estranged children of an artist who hire a forger to complete his unfinished works"

Noah Davis at the Hammer

Beuys Collector Collection Shelf
George Lucas’ Spaceship of a Museum Lands In L.A. With a Wonderful Surprise; Foothills, groves, canyons and mesas

Maura Brewer Turns Money Laundering into Art
She Brought Surrealism to America and Painted Her Own Myth. How Was She Forgotten by History? Lucia Wilcox rubbed shoulders with Surrealists in Paris, reinvented herself in New York, and created fantastical scenes of jubilant women. A new show brings her visionary work back into view

The Marciano Is Back
OCMA and UC Irvine Consider a Merger
Cindy Sherman Will Destroy And Replace Aging Prints In New Legacy Project; Damaged Works to Be Reprinted; "Integrity of my work is protected in perpetuity"

Publisher and Printer Maurice Darantiere and the Distinct Color of Blue of the James Joyce 'Ulysses' Cover Proof

Matthew Rosenquist and Rob Thom 'Somewhere Else, Right Here' at M+B, Beverly Hills; Parallel visions of Los Angeles personhood
PHOTOGRAPHY

Review: Neal Slavin’s Photographic Series “When Two or More are Gathered Together” at Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas

What Comes After The End? John Divola Asks Us: What Am I Looking At? Is It Real? Where Does That Distinction Now Lie, Given The Technology Required To Make A Photograph Now?

Perfumery and Photography Together; Chris Rusak and Amelia Konow are exploring what a photograph of a fragrance could be

15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Summer; Jeffrey Gibson’s ebullient beadwork, Luchita Hurtado’s restitched canvases, Black cowboy history, Barbara T. Smith’s photocopy experimentation, and more to see this season

Gordy Grundy: How Does an Artist Say Goodbye To Lost Art Works?

Tosh Berman Discovers That Lucifer Is Very Much A Happy-Go-Lucky Guy; Kenneth Anger's Approach in "Lucifer Rising"
CERAMICS

Must See! This Turkish Artist Duo Mines History to Create Ceramics That Probe the Present Condition; Ertuğrul Güngör and Faruk Ertekin are the subject of their first European solo show with Anna Laudel gallery in Düsseldorf

Black Holes, Luna Moths, Marfa Lights, and Dreaming: An Interview with Virginia L. Montgomery
BEST OF THE WEEK with JERRY GOGOSIAN

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