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Backstory: How Gagosian’s Blockbuster LA Basquiat Show Happened; Stars and billionaire lenders had to align for the mega-gallery’s museum-quality show of the late artist’s work, currently on display in Los Angeles

Hear What Happens When Basquiat’s Sisters Met with Filmmaker Tamra Davis, Art Dealer Larry Gagosian, and Author and Curator Fred Hoffman

When MOCA Said "No Thanks!" to This Basquiat; Curator Paul Schimmel Turned it Down


Hunter Drohojowska-Philp: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s LA-made Work Goes on Show at Gagosian



[Hollywood Reporter Exclusive] Hilde Lynn Helphenstein Signs With UTA (United Talent Agency); The visual artist and digital content creator is the force behind the popular Instagram meme account @jerrygogosian

How Galleries Are Increasingly Funding Museum Shows; Museums need support from galleries, but is it only blue-chips landing the best partnerships?



Big Trouble, Two Ways: Jamian Juliano-Villani and Jordan Wolfson Interview Each Other

Jordan Wolfson’s Top 18, UBU, June 2011



The Art World’s Enfant Terrible Runs for Senate; Stefan Simchowitz is a provocateur. ‘Why am I running as a Republican? Because I’ve seen up close the hypocrisy of the left and it’s unfathomable’

Art Dealer Stefan Simchowitz Scores 0.24 Percent of Votes in U.S. Senate Bid; It was not a performance, he insisted, but an honest-to-goodness candidacy



Revisiting Jean-Michel Basquiat's Los Angeles Breakthroughs; New show, co-curated by Larry Gagosian, includes works Basquiat made with dismantled fenceposts from the property in Venice that he used as a studio

Taylor Swift's Boyfriend (Travis Kelce) Is Producing the Jean-Michel Basquiat documentary ‘King Pleasure’



Access To Abstraction; Anne Libby and Anna Rosen Find Freedom in Collaboration


When Feminism Ruled CalArts



The Mask Dancers; Costumes are More Sculpture Than Clothing; Early 20th Century



Gary Simmons and The Art of Unearthing Ugly American Truths; ‘My hope is to put work out there that ignites a healthy intellectual back-and-forth,’ the artist says ahead of his survey at Pérez Art Museum Miami



Jim Shrosbree’s “Out West” at Spellerberg Projects, Lockhart, Texas


The $1 Billion Art Collection That’s Tearing a Family Apart; Hubert Neumann spent his life building a storied art collection to bequeath his three daughters. Then his wife’s will changed everything



Artist Erin Trefry 'Happy Phantom' at Lowell Ryan Projects



American Painter 'Dorothy Fratt: Color Mirage' at SMoCA, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art


Best Booths at Felix L.A., From Erotically Charged Paintings to Retooled Mythology



Dealer Honor Fraser Brings Us Along on a Whistle-Stop Tour of the L.A. Art World During a Busy Frieze Week; Los Angeles gallerist let us tag along as she bounced between studio visits, gallery tours, and a spin around the art fair


Giant of Cape Town’s Art Scene Sets up Shop in Los Angeles, With Plans to Reach a New Community



Wanda Koop, 'Objects of Interest' at Night Gallery


noé olivas 'Gilded Dreams' at Charlie James



Sharing The Burden; Selling Chris Burden



LA, IN ONE WORK OF ART

The Affidavit, a Quarterly Publication, Asks Theodora Allen, Sebastian Gladstone, Glenn Kaino, Patrick Martinez, BJ Panda Bear and Tif Sigfrids to Select a Work of Art that Epitomizes Los Angeles; See Their Choices


Art Report Today, Without Any Doubt, Selects Artist Sandow Birk's 'Los Angeles County Museum on Fire (after Ed Ruscha)' from His Track 16 Show 'Los Angeles and Her Surroundings' [See the Show Here] This seminal work reflects the past and the future of the great city, as well as the sense of humor and social-mindedness of the artist

"Loops" An Essay on Los Angeles by Eliza Barry Callahan; ‘Los Angeles gives me this feeling that I am perpetually on the edge of town. Never arriving’



‘Frida’ Documentary Animated Kahlo’s Paintings. Deal with It; Director Carla Gutierrez on intentionally crafting a documentary about the artist that engages with her writing and her art in revelatory ways


Clip: Painted A Little 'Frida'



Kim Fay in Detroit: Brach Tiller at Louis Buhl & Co.


LAWRENCE WESCHLER


A Special Issue Devoted To James Baldwin at The Centennial Year of His Birth; Discussing James Baldwin With Scholar and Author Rich Blint


Baldwin Readings: Jimmy at High Noon, Part 1



Artist Jennifer West Weaves 'Quilts' Made From Sewn-Together Strips of Film Stock; 'Space Webs' at Gattopardo Gallery



Art Report Today: Michael Delgado: Jason Rhoades at Hauser and Wirth; Cars: Scene and Be Seen; Someone said that People in LA Wear their Cars like People in NY Wear Coats


Abel Guzmán “serás más macho” at la BEAST Gallery


Gray Wielebinski 'Fraticide' at Anat Ebgi



Dan Herschlein 'The Long-Fingered Hand' at Matthew Brown



See Inside the Revelatory Retrospective for Filipino American Artist Pacita Abad


Stromberg: With the Help of LA, a Las Vegas Art Museum Forges Ahead; Of the 30 largest US cities, Las Vegas is the only one without a standalone art museum



Stephen Wong on His Technicolor Landscapes, Where David Hockney Meets Anime


STELLAR SAAR


Betye Saar’s Stellar Installation; A look back on the evolution of the artist’s shapeshifting Celestial Universe


Influences: Betye Saar; The US artist reflects on the art and events that have shaped a career spanning almost seven decades


Valley Guy, Part 3: Kenny Schachter on Fake Kusamas, an Illicit Photo Sale, and Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Star Turn; And our columnist is mulling a move to Los Angeles, despite some fender-benders



For LA Artist Ozzie Juarez, Art Is the Vehicle to Create Community



Los Angeles City Council voted to spend nearly $4 million to clean and secure an abandoned, unfinished skyscraper development project known as Oceanwide Plaza, which made headlines in recent weeks when dozens of floors were found covered in graffiti


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Rodney Graham 'Paintings and Lightboxes' at Lisson Gallery


That Time Carl Andre Wrote Me a Letter; He copyrighted the letter and ended it with “for your eyes only,” as if to say, don’t even think of showing this to anybody; Whatever happened on that terrible night, Andre felt guilty and lived with that guilt for the rest of his life


Carl Andre Mail Art


Dutch Artist Is Delving Into the Murky Attribution of Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’; Barbara Visser's new film, "Alreadymade," Invites Audiences To Contemplate The Boundaries Between Authenticity And Imitation


This Honolulu Exhibition of David Hockney Prints Trades One Paradise for Another; Show, which brings together sixty year's worth of drawings, collages, photographic works and iPad sketches, is worth the trip to the Aloha State


Reflections on David Hockney



"Art for the People" at the Huntington



The Other Side of Rothko: 5 Intimate, Must-See ‘Paintings on Paper’




Kim Fay in Detroit: Tead One at Janice Charach Gallery; Group SHow of Street Artists



George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” Turns 100; Champion of the great American songbook reveals how Gershwin’s brother, Ira, shaped a musical masterpiece



Miron Schmückle and Hortus Conclusus "Nature Studies" at Setareh; See the Show!



These Beats Are a Beautiful Place to Be: Stavroz "Smile This Mixtape, No. 3'


Interview with Co-Founder and Director Brett W. Schultz; Mexico City’s Material Fair, Known for Its Line-Up of Cutting Edge Galleries, Celebrates 10 Years!



BEST OF THE WEEK with JERRY GOGOSIAN



New Yorker Cartoons for the Week!



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McMansion Hell: This Blog With Excellent Commentary on the Madness of McMansions


Vision of Transcendence: Recent Sacred Architecture From Around The World

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Salman Rushdie: 'Literature Is Powerful, Writers Are Fragile' "If we can't trust ourselves as a culture to accommodate ideas we don't like," the novelist said at the Library of Congress, "then our ideas lose their value as well, because they become authoritarian."

David Sedaris in the New Yorker: The Violence of the Rams, “I know you can't hold animals to human standards. That said, rams are assholes.”


10 Books That Every Surfer Should Read; On 'Wave Woman,' If this book had come out in 1963 it may have changed the entire direction of the sport

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Ezrha Jean Black: Acaye Kerunen Finds Purpose and Community in a Scarred Landscape; at Blum


Asher Liftin: 24-Year-Old Art World Darling, Whose Fans Include David Geffen, Stages His First Solo Show In New York City



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Oculi Mundi: Explore Old Maps of the Earth and Skies; Huge Resource

The Artificial Glacier Growing In The Desert


‘Holy Grail of Shipwrecks’ to be Exhumed Off Colombia with $20B Sunken Treasure

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Edel Rodriguez Isn’t Afraid to Live With the Consequences; Political artist drew some of the most provocative images of the Trump presidency. “Worm,” his new graphic memoir of emigrating from Cuba to the U.S., skewers the powerful once more


'The Seven Lady Godivas': Dr. Seuss’s Little-Known “Adult” Book of Nudes

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Threads of Potential – The Market For Textiles By Women Artists


East Sussex institution hails the pioneering queer couple who changed textiles; Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft is displaying an exhibition that pays homage to the unsung influence and secret history of Hilary Bourne and Barbara Allen

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Off the Court and Field, Top Athletes Become Players in the Art Market; Sports figures are increasingly becoming serious collectors, helping drive interest in contemporary art and particularly in artists of color


In Los Angeles, Bulleit Frontier Whiskey Opens a Bar That Transforms as the Night Wears On; With the help of advanced projection and audiovisual work, the whiskey brand has invented a new kind of night out

On Balance: Hauser & Wirth and Nicola Vassell Unveil New ‘Collective Impact’ Model for Small Galleries; Industry Moves

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Gravity-Defying Sculptures Shatter Traditional Notions of Pottery; Inspired by the Dutch tradition of Delft blue pottery that imitated Chinese porcelain, Patrick Bergsma incorporates handcrafted bonsai trees into his exploding works

Neil Brownsword: Exploring Exchanges Between China And The West Through Ceramics

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Inside the Artist's Mind with Lee Ufan and His New Illy Design


Crafted in Wood

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Investors and Banks Hoping to Cash in on the Success of ‘Immersive Van Gogh’ Are Pouring Funds Into Art Experiences for Klimt, Kahlo, and More; Immersive art experiences are proliferating around the globe, despite the often high price of tickets


Rihanna’s One-Time Cover Artist Is Opening an Immersive Museum in New York; Created by Roy Nachum, Mercer Labs occupies the former Century 21 building

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Incredible Maps Reveal Where In The Body Different Types Of Music Are Felt - From Sad Songs In Your Chest To Happy Tunes In Your Toes

In An Ancient Church In Germany, A 639-Year Organ Performance of a John Cage Composition Is About To Have Its Next Note Change

‘I Want Her To Be Known As Her Own Artist’: Who Was The Real June Carter Cash? New Documentary Aims To Add Depth To The Story Of The Singer-Songwriter Who Was Often Just Referred To As The Wife Of Johnny Cash


George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” Turns 100; Champion of the great American songbook reveals how Gershwin’s brother, Ira, shaped a musical masterpiece

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Here’s How to See Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli on Broadway


Review: John Douglas Thompson and Alfred Molina’s clash of titans transcends dated ‘Inherit the Wind’; Director Michael Michetti

Office’ star Steve Carell is headed to Broadway; Chekhov's “Uncle Vanya”

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A Stolen Van Gogh Drawing Recovered Outside A Public Lavatory 20 Years Ago Goes On Show; Whitworth's Watercolour Will Be A Highlight at The Royal Academy’s Exhibition; “The intention was not to steal only to highlight the woeful security”

Scorsese’s ‘Kundun’ Banned by Disney, Much to China’s Delight

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New Trailers, Film Reviews, News!


'A Quiet Place: Day One' Official Trailer (2024); Third film in the blockbuster series; Written and directed by Michael Sarnoski; Director of the excellent “Pig” (2021) with Nicolas Cage


'Baltimore' Trailer; Starring Imogen Poots; Based on the infamous true story of the English heiress who became an Irish revolutionary; Filmmaker duo Joe Lawlor & Christine Molloy

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We Celebrate the Engines of the Art World


Art acquired by the late ‘Ghostbusters’ director Ivan Reitman could fetch more than $60m at Christie’s New York; Collection is led by Pablo Picasso’s 'Femme endormie' (1934) which the auction house estimates will sell for between $25m and $35m


Philanthropist Pete Scantland Goes Running With Artists and Dreams of Camping Out at the Met; Billboard baron has cultivated a vast treasure trove of contemporary art, including works by Derek Fordjour, Jenna Gribbon, and Tau Lewis

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Exposed: Meta’s $36 Billion Plot to Reengineer Society and Mark Zuckerberg’s Dangerous Future Plans for Tech Addiction


Edith Piaf AI-Generated Biopic in the Works at Warner Music

AI-Generated Actor Jimmy Stewart Narrates A New Bedtime Story For Calm App 25 Years After His Death; Family Gave Permission

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Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards


Fascinating Read! Strange sightings in Port Talbot

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20 New Impact-Driven Projects by Female Artists Have Been Funded by Anonymous Was a Woman’s $309,000 Environmental Art Grants; For the second year, the grants program is supporting work that addresses the climate crisis



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Brooklyn Street Art Images of the Week

Atomik (Adam Vargas) in Miami; Oranges Grow on Prime Real Estate


Brooklyn Street Art Images of the Week

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