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With A “Multicamera Global Livestream” In Place Of Its Usual New York Sale, Sotheby’s The Auction House Tried Breathing Life Back Into A Pandemic-Numbed Market.

Stuart Cornfeld, Beloved Producer and Ex-Hubby of Performance Artist Johanna Went, Dies at 67

Arts Are the First to Get Cut! Cuts to the Arts Help Philadelphia Address Huge Budget Gap

Teen Vogue: The ‘Art World’ Can’t Exist in a Decolonized Future; “If you take away imperial plunder, what else do you have to offer?”

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp: Jim Isermann, with Roger Herman and Heather Cook, at Praz Delavallade Gallery and Palm Springs Architecture and Design Center

JUST A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY REPEATING

Interpretive: The Emancipation Monument: “A Teaching Moment… The (Slave) Figure Is Rising, Looking Forward to a Future of Freedom”

Want To Tear Down Insidious Monuments To Racism And Segregation? Bulldoze L.A. Freeways

OUR CHANGING SOCIETY

Conviction Reveals Facebook’s Dangers

Driving Older Cars: Light on Tech, Heavy on Fun, No Surveillance

SFMOMA Official Who Defended Censorship of Black Former Employee Steps Down

6 Brands That Revealed Plans To Change And Reexamine Names, Mascots, And Logos With Racist Roots This Year

Eskimo Pie Ice Cream Bars Will Be Ditching Its ‘Derogatory’ Brand Name

Pennsylvania Art School Asks Faculty to Keep Professional Affiliation Separate From Activism and Gets Shamed!

ArtForum: Cy Gavin: “I thought about the ubiquity of the eagle on American seals—the mythology that surrounds the animal, this weird, moldering relic of an empire.”

EXCLUSIVE: ARTISTS ARISE! OUR TIME IS NOW!

Read Part 1: We Need a New Set of Celebrities

Read Part 2: Artists Arise! A True Portrait of the Artist

Read Part 3: Artists Arise! Our Fertile Landscape

OPPRESSION

Apple Caught China-Owned TikTok Spying on Millions of iPhone Users

Why One Playwright Would Like Her Controversial Work To No Longer Be Relevant

China Forces Birth Control On Uighurs To Suppress Population

China’s Software Stalked Uighurs Earlier and More Widely, Researchers Learn

In Memoriam: Chinese Dissident Photojournalist Li Zhensheng, Chronicler Of China's Cultural Revolution

ART 'N MUSIC

‘Was It a Lost Psych-Funk Classic?’ It’s Khruangbin, Right Now

Bárbara Wagner And Benjamin De Burca Probe Economics, Race And Gender In Brazilian Popular Music

FORMERLY KNOWN AS CINEMA

‘The Truth’ Review: Kore-eda’s First Movie Since ‘Shoplifters’ Is a Light but Complex French Drama; With Ethan Hawke and Catherine Deneuve

‘The Tax Collector’ Trailer: David Ayer Returns to His Bloody Crime Roots with Shia LaBeouf

“The Tax Collector”

Olivia de Havilland, the Last Remaining Star of Old Hollywood, Turns 104

Carl Reiner Was God

The Batman: Zoë Kravitz Compliments Robert Pattinson's Ability to Lead

Dark Days Inside The Cinema Business

Carter Burwell Remembers the ‘No Country for Old Men’ Score That Never Was; Work on "The Tragedy of Macbeth"

Nailing It in 12 Monkeys. Why Brad Pitt Had A Psychiatrist on Set for One of His Films, Directed Superbly by Terry Gilliam

Can the Cinema Survive?

The Coen Bros. Split Up for ‘Macbeth,’ and It Feels as Strange for Them as You Think

All New BBC Shows to Have At Least 20 Percent Diverse Talent Starting in April 2021

Upcoming Show "Cracka" Puts Blacks As Slave Owners And Whites As Slaves

HOMEMADE Trailer, a Collection of Coronavirus Creations with 18 Directors Including Ladj Ly, Pablo Larrain, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kristen Stewart and More!

ART NOIR

Spanish Dealer Claims To Find Long-Lost Frida Kahlo Painting; Missing for six decades, La Mesa Herida (The Wounded Table) may be in a London warehouse, but experts say the work is likely a fake

Art Dealer Anatole Shagalov Must Pay Sotheby's $2m for Keith Haring Painting, Judge Rules

Van Gogh Held Hostage: Private Detective Tells Us He Has More Photographs

California Man Pleads Guilty to Modern Art Fraud Scheme

Art Report Today Podcast: James Hayward Discusses Painting, Life in the Arts and His Many Indiscretions; Host Michael Delgado

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Growing Boldly and Aggressively, Expanding Its Presence in Switzerland Hometown, Hauser & Wirth Opens New Public Space in Zurich

Hauser & Wirth Will Open Groovy New Space in Long Island’s Southampton

Paintings Reaps 6,700% Return Less Than Year After Artist Matthew Wong's Death

Adding to Action in the Hamptons, Michael Werner Gallery Opens Pop-Up Exhibition Space

Unseen Picasso Portrait Of Lover And Muse To Appear At Sotheby’s; 1931 Charcoal Drawing That Shines Light On Artist’s Affair with Marie-Thérèse Walter

Three Artists On The Future Of The Gallery System After Covid-19. What Are Art Galleries For?

What Teen Author and Influencer Kimberly Drew Knows About Art and Activism

Gallery Ross + Kramer to take over old Bungalow 8 space in Chelsea

SURFING

I’m Ready to Embrace Our New Wave Pool Overlords

Milton Glaser's unseen design for New York: 'Together'

Farago: Ten Signature Images From Milton Glaser’s Eclectic Career; In his graphic designs, he mingled Dürer with de Chirico, Breuer with Klimt, Islamic ornament with African textiles.

RESOURCES: Print Your Art on a Mask

JOHN STEPPLING

Emptying the Human: The Corona event has, among other things, served to reveal the architecture of class sedimentation in western society, both symbolically, psychologically, and literally.

THE PLAGUE

New Mexico Artists Struggle as Pandemic Halts Tourism

As Galleries Begin To Re-Open, Dealerships That Survived The Spanish Flu Reflect On Art Sales In The Age Of Pandemics

Tech Goliaths Act Like Davids

Landon Ross: We Live When it’s Beautiful

What Little Richard Taught These Music Legends: From Soul To Sex

ArtForum 1984: Little Richard From A to Zeeza

OUR NEW FEATURE: THE INSTAGRAM LAUGH SENSATION!
BEST OF THE WEEK with JERRY GOGOSIAN

Jordan Wolfson’s Latest Provocation Has Already Been Acquired by the National Gallery of Australia

New Yorker: Jordan Wolfson’s Edgelord Art

MUSEUM BLUES

The Realized Fantasy of Visiting an Empty Museum

Curators at Guggenheim Demand ‘Urgent’ Reforms Of Racial Inequities At Museum

Curators Urge Guggenheim to Fix Culture That ‘Enables Racism’

Upheaval Over Race Reaches Met Museum After White Curator’s Instagram Post Called Destructive Protesters "Zealots"

Seattle Art Museum Isn’t Dissolving, Despite A Fake News Release Claiming To Give the Museum to BIPOC Arts Organizations

SFMOMA Staffers Condemn ‘Racist Censorship’ and Institutional Inequities in Letter Calling for Change

OUR NEW FEATURE!
Liljestrand House DESIGN CONVERSATION SERIES
Brigitte Shim and Elke Krasny

Architect Brigitte Shim and writer, curator and cultural theorist Elke Krasny presented "Building Our Collective Memory: The House / Museum"

GALLERY PLATFORM LA

A Chat With Suzanne Vielmetter

There is a Lotta Art History in the LA Museum That Never Was, Stripped Bare, Even

Sam Durant Ends White Supremacy

Sharif Farrag Drawings and Vessels at François Ghebaly

How the Black Death Made the Rich Richer

A 1665 HISTORICAL MUST READ: WITH FASCINATING PARALLELS TO TODAY

Art Report Today Proudly Presents
JOURNAL of the PLAGUE YEAR
by Daniel Defoe

Part I: Click Here

IX. HOW TO LEGISLATE SOCIAL DISTANCING

"...On this they called a new council, and now the towns had no need to be afraid they should settle near them; but, on the contrary, several families of the poorer sort of the inhabitants quitted their houses and built huts in the forest after the same manner as they had done....."

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