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A Beautiful Deep Dive Into Our Worldwide Arts + Culture

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!



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


1933 Article


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


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