Dodgers Collaborate With Japanese Artist Takashi Murakami On Merchandise Again. Here's How To Get It !
Broad Expands, Backed by Billion-Dollar Endowment; Increase gallery space about 70 percent; Expected to open in time for the 2028 Olympics
Broad 2.0 Breaks Ground
Did You Make the List? Announcing the 2025 Guggenheim Fellows; Guggenheim Foundation’s 100th Class of Fellows; Fine Arts: Theaster Gates, Raul Guerrero, Julie Tolentino; Fiction: Miranda July, Nicole Krauss, Jonathan Lethem; Photography: Denis Defibaugh, Farah Al Qasimi
JACK GOLDSTEIN (1945 - 2003)
Jack Goldstein and the Art of Spectacle
See the Works! Exhibition: 'Where is Jack Goldstein?' Venus Over Manhattan, November 2012 - February 2013
Artist Ashley Bickerton, Former Assistant Writes: "Jack ‘n Me: My time with Jack Goldstein"; CalArts Mafia; Coiled Malevolence
Who Was Performance and Conceptual Artist Jack Goldstein?
Video: Jack Goldstein's "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer" (1975), Recreated in HD
Selection of Jack Goldstein's Artworks on Artnet
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp: Laurels Too Late; Jack Goldstein thought a book about his life and art would revive his career... He chose suicide over waiting for the reviews !
New Criterion: Paintings About Painting; On “Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Post-War France, 1946–62,” at the Grey Art Museum, New York
BRAVING OPPRESSION
Video, Doc: A History of Entertainment Made By North Korea
Afghanistan’s Art Scene Weighs in on Taliban Move to Ban Images of Living Things; Cultural organizations are doing what they can to keep the nation’s powerful artistic representations alive under the regime’s tightening grip
What a Long-Banned Film Reveals About Thailand’s Political Agenda; There’s more than meets the eye in 'Shakespeare Must Die.' Saga of the Thai film in light of a longstanding ban being overturned this year
From Acid House to Ancient Rites: Jeremy Deller’s Enormous, Collaborative, Unsellable Art; Artist Jeremy Deller can’t really draw or paint. Instead of making things, he makes things happen. And later this year, he is planning to unleash a bacchanalian festival that will be his most daring public artwork yet; “The biggest, stupidest artwork ever”
Jeffrey Vallance : 'A Hole In The Heart, Teaching Art' "...due to the lack of viable models for cultivating long-term creativity..."
Still Life Painting That Is Anything But Still; Judith Linhares’s works comprise just a few elements, yet they are bodied forth in endless permutations that convey both whimsy and menace
Diana Horowitz 'Light is a Place' at Bookstein Projects
CERAMICS
The Story of Enslaved and Free Texas Potters, Told Sherd-by-Sherd; There is more to the history of H. Wilson and Co. Pottery and related sites than folklore holds; First business owned by an African American in Texas
Post War and Contemporary Ceramics at Auction
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
Zooming Trippy Infinity! How Much Detail Do Your Paintings Hold? Click Here to Go Down the Rabbit Hole!
'Post Human' at Jeffrey Deitch; Revival of the 1992 exhibition; "Uncanniness on top of an intended uncanniness"
Art Heals! Tosh Berman on Paul Cézanne, 'Farmhouse and Chestnut Trees at Jas de Bouffan'; 1884 Oil on canvas at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena
Book Review: Reading Georgia O’Keeffe Along Lines of Class and Race; New book "Georgia O’Keeffe: The Late Work" by Randall C. Griffin sets its sights on the artist’s lesser-known post-war career and her negotiations of identity
EXPERIENTIAL
Airbnb Faces Backlash for ‘Demeaning’ Gladiator Colosseum Experience
Want to See Inside the First Impressionist Exhibition?; There’s a V.R. Experience for That; On the 150th anniversary of the debut Impressionist exhibition, the public can stand alongside famed painters as they create iconic canvases
Podcast, Sponsored by the Menil Collection: 'The Rise of Immersive Spaces' with Glasstire's Jessica Fuentes, Gabriel Martinez, and Brandon Zech
The Wow Factor: Brian Droitcour on Art and the Immersive Experience Industry; Our critic reflects on recent works by Mark Leckey and Cory Arcangel that speak in the language of immersion to engage critically—and optimistically—with crowd-pleasing high-tech wonders
Netflix and Grill: Full-service Restaurant; Netflix Bites kicks off a year-long residency at MGM Grand, Las Vegas
THREADS
Monika Kinner: Prairie Land Thread Paintings
Yvonne Wells Started Quilting at 40. Now, at 85, the Art World Is Finally Taking Notice
STOP GROPING OUR [BUXOM] STATUE !
Molly Malone Statue 'Violated' by Groping !
Dublin's Molly Malone Statue To Get Stewards To Stop the 'Groping'! Plans to re-patinate the shiny hand-polished, uh, part s
David Lynch’s Gravestone Unveiled in Hollywood; Influence of Hollywood's Night Blooming Jasmine; Daughter Jennifer says, "Dad is at rest at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Visit when you can. I will be.”
Nancy Baker Cahill 'Seismic' at Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles
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What is Bel Ami in Los Angeles Putting in Their Saddlebag for the Dallas Invitational?
"Survey Finds: Majority of Artists Only Read Reviews of Their Own Work; Some respondents added that they will occasionally hate-read a negative review of an artist they vehemently dislike” [Editor's Note: While this may be an April Fool's prank from our friends at Hyperallergic, we have found this to be actually true.]
LAWRENCE WESCHLER
Ed Kienholz, Part One: Of Cars and Carcasses
What Was SPY Projects in Los Angeles Secreting to the Dallas Art Fair?
PHOTOGRAPHY
A Mother and Daughter’s Joint Becoming; Magdalena Wywrot’s moody series “Pestka” captures eleven years in the life that she made with her only child, Barbara
The Surreal, and Sometimes Terrifying, Costumes of Mardi Gras; Photographer Jason Gardner Spent 15 Years Traveling The World To Document Spectacular Holiday Outfits
The Banal Evil of Atrocity Photography; In the dark genre of self-reported atrocity photography, governments take pictures of their crimes and file them away in an act of simultaneous remembering and forgetting
Photographer Kelli Connell’s Queer Americana; She does not refuse the romanticized American landscape that Edward Weston and Charis Wilson helped visualize, but her photographs filter it through a lens of lesbian desire
America’s Greatest Portrait Photographer, Richard Avedon, Had A Knack For Revealing The Humanity of Larger-Than-Life Celebrities at the Phoenix Art Museum
Chasing the Mafia: The Wild, Vespa-Riding Life of Photographer Letizia Battaglia; In pictures
GRAND DAME
LACMA Turns 60
Vintage Headline: "LACMA Opens New Campus on Wilshire, 1965; $11.5 Million Project"
Zumthor Mothership Gets a Flying Saucer; Three midcareer artists, Mariana Castillo Deball, Sarah Rosalena, and Shio Kusaka, have been commissioned to produce very cool artworks for architect Peter Zumthor's David Geffen Galleries
How To See The New LACMA Up Close: Museum Sets Opening For Plaza Around New Building
LAWRENCE WESCHLER
Ed Kienholz: TWA and the Tiffany Lamp
Exhibition Film: Paul Ruscha 'Life Mask' in the Winslow Studio Artists Gallery at Affeldt Mion Museum located at the historic La Posada Hotel in Winslow Arizona; Year long installation October 2024 - October 2025
Decades After the Creative Class Arrived, Winslow, a Small Arizona Town Confronts Dual Realities; “I don’t want it to be Marfa"
HEALTH + BEAUTY
Is Marina Abramovic’s “Longevity Method” for Profit or a Performance?
Want a Limited Edition Artwork Tattooed On Your Skin? Berlin is the place to go; City’s tattoo studios are booming while the art world flounders. Under a new initiative, buyers receive exclusive rights to an artist’s new design, and the artist receives 50% of the profit; Certificate of Authenticity
The Art of Sutherland Macdonald, Victorian England’s “Michelangelo of Tattooing” (ca. 1905)
LESS ART, Guest Column: Phyllis Green on the Scripps Ceramic Annual 2025; Longest running continuous ceramics exhibition in the U.S.!
Inside Scoop at the Last Fog Design and Art Fair in San Francisco; We toured the 11th edition of the San Francisco fair with the keen-eyed collector Komal Shah; David Zwirner's Ruth Asawa
The Knowledge of Tree; Laura Owens’ Show at Matthew Marks
Can Porn Be Art? Erika Lust Thinks So; In her immersive VR installation, the feminist pornographer asks viewers to interrogate their desire
Artist Who Creates Terrariums From Street Trash Makes Her Gallery Debut; Kay Kasparhauser takes us through a week in her life
Could Hilma af Klint’s Works Be Removed From Public View? Artist’s great-grandnephew and foundation board chair stressed in an interview with Hyperallergic that the works should only be seen by “spiritual seekers”
Will They Sell the Frieze Empire? Ari Emanuel of Endeavor Changes Roles as Endeavor, a Global Sports and Entertainment holding company, Goes Private
About That Robert Irwin Documentary; Trailer
From Zero to Hero: 7 Artists With Explosive Jumps in the Artnet Price Database; Meet the artists on the market's radar
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LIQUOR, LIPS & ART CRITICISM
Another Critic Bites The Dust !
Inside Ousted New Yorker Critic’s Canoodle Catastrophe
When Bob Dylan Became An Art Critic
Podcast: The Vibe Shifted in Art. Now What? On Art Critic Dean Kissick, Biennial Politics and Downtown Reactionaries
ARTIST JO BAER (1929- 2025)
Art World Correspondent Josh Baer's Mom; Fantastic Painter Jo Baer, Pioneer of Hard-Edged Abstraction, Has Died Aged 95; Key figure of Minimalist painting, the artist radically challenged the limitations of the canvas
Fascinating! Jo Baer: Notes on 5 Recent Paintings (ArtForum May 1972)
GO, VAN GOGH
The Only Known Painting Van Gogh Sold During His Lifetime; Work went on view two years after it was painted, and now resides in Moscow
Climate Activists Who Threw Soup at Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ Found Guilty
L.A. Legend, L.A. Louver Celebrates 50 Years, 1975 to Now; 660 Exhibitions
New Yorker Cartoons for the Week!
BACK TO TOP
AI and Gunpowder! "Cai Guo-Qiang: A Material Odyssey" at USC Pacific Asia Museum
Less Art: Artist Steve Hurd on Nick Taggart, a Brit by Birth and an Angeleno at Heart
More Nick Taggart on IG
Gordy Grundy: The Art of Elaine Wynn (1942 - 2025) A Life Well-Lived! An Artful Legacy!
The Hype at Coachella This Year? Billboards! Some of the hottest advertising space is deep in the California desert, where Lady Gaga, Charli XCX, Djo, Post Malone and more generate buzz for their festival sets
7 Standouts from Art Dubai 2025; Picturesque Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai hosts to the 18th edition of the fair house in multiple buildings alongside public art installations speckled across the property
ART CAR
Book Review: ‘The Driving Machine’: How the World Got on a Roll; Carmakers tried all sorts of tricks to make their cars more appealing. Carl Benz’s first one looked like a birdcage
Mercedes Grand Prix Car Raced By Stirling Moss Fetches Record £42.7M; Silver W196 R Stromlinienwagen Sold At Stuttgart Auction For Highest Amount Ever Made By A Grand Prix Car
ARCHITECTURE: IT'S BRUTAL!
Art Brut; Will Brutalism’s Greatest Legacy Be Its Influence On Artists?
Radical Statement or Eyesore? Japan’s Divisive Brutalist Buildings, In Pictures; Country is known for wooden and ceramic creations – yet many argue these concrete behemoths fit with Japan’s traditional aesthetics too
Women Who Build: As London's Architectural Association Celebrates 100 Years Of Female Students, Rediscovering The City Designed By Women
Backlash Builds: Why The Architecture World Hates 'The Brutalist'; Brady Corbet’s Oscar-tipped film is clearly based on real-life modernist master Marcel Breuer but brazenly misrepresents him and his revered modernism
Desert X 2025
LAWRENCE WESCHLER
Ed Kienholz, Part Two: Of Cars and Carcasses
Heading To Bassano, Wish You Were Here! Postcards from Cy Twombly Reveal Insights into Work
On the Influence of Marcel Proust; Chapter One from 'Marcel Proust' by Edmund White
THE ART OF ECONOMICS
Art Auction Sales Dropped by 25% in 2024 Amid Global Volatility; Private sales rose, as did sales of works priced under $5,000, among other findings in the latest Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report
Which Country's Art Market Came Out on Top?
New Rubens Attribution Reignites Debate Over A.I. Authentication; When it comes to A.I. authentication, the importance of good data means cases are rarely cut and dry
Big Galleries Take Big Sales Hit
Review 'Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo' Masterpieces from a man with a heart as big as the Notre Dame
Ahead of Her Time, The Living Divinations of Ithell Colquhoun (1906 - 1988); Artist’s dreamy paintings and drawings transcend any specific culture, instead drawing on a perennial understanding of the sacred
Chopping Up Barnett Newman
Amanda Williams 'Run Together and Look Ugly after the First Rain' at Casey Kaplan
ARCHITECTURE
Sainthood for Antoni Gaudi? The Angels Say, "Si!" “God’s Architect” Antoni Gaudí Could Be Made a Saint; Pope Francis declared venerable the giant of Catalan Modernisme, who infused motifs from nature and Christianity into his Sagrada Família and other landmarks
Why Is TikTok So Hot for Cologne Cathedral? Gaping at Gothic architecture is in! One of Europe’s top tourist attractions; 30 million likes and 178 million views
James McNeill Whistler’s ‘The Peacock Room’ Is a Glittering Masterpiece With a Dark History; The Peacock Room, now in the collection of the National Museum of Asian Art, has a surprisingly fractious history; American painter James McNeill Whistler and English architect Thomas Jeckyll created the room
Art Deco Grandeur Abounds at the New Van Cleef & Arpels Store; New Van Cleef and Arpels Madison Avenue store in New York is a destination for fine jewelry and high design
LOVE SONGS FOR ARTISTS
The Dark Bob Sings Love Songs For Artists; Interview by Gordy Grundy: His New Double Album "Ekphrasis Synesthesia - Songs for Artists" Tells Tales of a Life in the Arts, Devoted Inspirations, the Birth of Performance Art and What Motivates the Courageous Few
Artist Jack Whitten: The Messenger
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Lo$ing Is the New Winning: Kenny Schachter on the Topsy-Turvy Market and Polke Problems
Through His Paintings, Gustavo Nazareno Brings His Afro-Brazilian Faith to the Global Stage
ARCHITECTURE: WRIGHT NEWS
Blueprint: How Frank Lloyd Wright Landed a Building Over a Waterfall; Architect defied engineering odds when he built Fallingwater
How Fallingwater Became Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architectural Comeback; Wright designed the iconic home perched over a waterfall in 1934 as a full realization of what he called "organic architecture"
The Story of a Country House: The Failure of Fallingwater
The Controversial Auction of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Skyscraper Hits a Roadblock; 19-story tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, was originally designed for a Manhattan site
Price Tower in Bartlesville to Be Auctioned Through Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Sale
Marc Jacobs Unveils His Restored Frank Lloyd Wright House; Photographer Gregory Crewdson captured a series of moody portraits of the designer at home for the December issue of 'Vogue'
Jurassic Tech Builds a Medieval Islamic Ceiling
THREADS
Monika Kinner: Prairie Land Thread Paintings
Yvonne Wells Started Quilting at 40. Now, at 85, the Art World Is Finally Taking Notice
Knight: Appreciation: Joe Goode Beautifully Blurred The Lines of the Art World
"Diary of Flowers: Artists and their Worlds" at MOCA; 80 Works; Permanent Collection Installation
Shanghai Museum Plans Orange County, CA Outpost; First overseas branch at Bowers Museum; Motive unclear
How Late Actor Val Kilmer Sought and Found a Creative Haven in Art; Away from the big screen, Kilmer maintained a visual art practice and studio
1918-68: Italian Art, Life and Politics in the Shadow of Fascism; With neo-fascist populism on the rise, two shows in Milan and Florence offer a timely look at a turbulent period in Italian history
Neverending Handwringing! Paris Metro Bans David Hockney Exhibition Poster Because Artist Is Holding Cigarette ; Exclusive: David Hockney condemns ‘dismal’ decision taken by Paris Metro over poster for biggest ever Hockney exhibition
Kim Fay in Detroit: Photographer Bill Rauhauser Retrospective at Coup D’Etat
Rad! Scandinavian Design at Auction; See the Lots!
Yoab Vera 'Thogal: Pausa nel Paesaggio' Magenta District, Milan
Must See! "Collective Vision: Collector's Circle Museum Acquisitions" in Long Beach, CA
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt: AI Companies Want To Legalize Theft; Big Tech’s newest products would be worth $0 without everyone’s data, but they don’t want to pay for it
Une Historie de Niki de Saint Phalle (In English)
Painter Catherine Goodman On Abstract Palimpsests and Other Realms of Consciousness “Silent Music” at Hauser & Wirth in New York
'Prettiness' Is Political for Marie Laurencin; Artist has a point: Why is aesthetic pleasure often relegated to the sidelines of art? Why paint rotting fish when you can paint pretty femmes?
Sculptures of Music or Experience; In Early 2000s Artist Erik Hanson Was Making Sculptures of Music
Back to the Future: Takashi Murakami’s Kyoto Paintings; With Videos!
JOE GOODE (1937 - 2025)
Joe Goode, Californian Painter Known for His ‘Milk Bottle’ Series, Dies at 88
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp: Abstraction Is in His Nature; Onetime Pop artist Joe Goode reveals another side in a survey
Gordy Grundy: Joe Goode, You Blew My Mind
GALLERY HYPERREALITY
Jessica Chastain Will Play a Gallerist Opposite Adam Driver’s Artist in Upcoming Series ‘The Dealer’; Apple TV+ production comes from the company behind ‘The Morning Show’ and ‘Pachinko.’
Why Apple TV+ Is Worth Losing $1 Billion a Year
The Gallerist Lisa Schiff Question: Does 2.5 Years in Jail Balance $6.5 Million in Fraud
"The reliance on art dealers and advisors as intermediaries to exchange payments, communicate between buyers and sellers and take custody of artworks” creates a fertile breeding ground for grifters, prosecutors said at her sentencing
U
.S. Museums Could Benefit Financially From Offering Free Admission: Report; New report by Remuseum finds that museums spend on average $101 per visitor each year
The Humour in Michael Asher’s Institutional Critique; It may be a fool’s errand to mount an exhibition devoted to this conceptual artist – but New York’s Artists Space (mostly) pulls it off
"Writers Sit In Rooms Imagining, Photographers Are Out and About Beholding;" The Camera and the Pen; Tracking the History Of Novelists’ Engagements With Photography; Speaks with three contemporary writers, William Boyd, Teju Cole, and Orhan Pamuk—about their own approaches to the medium
Yau: WTF Is Planar Painting? It is refreshing to see a group show that hews to its curatorial statement, and includes both old friends and unexpected twists
Fashion Designer and Artist Susan Cianciolo Memory Process
Wow! Northern Lights: How the Boreal Forest Inspired Artists of Canada and Scandinavia
Milner Library’s Circus Wardrobe Collection Open for Research
The Interplay Between Art and Sports; Exhibition animates new scripts for both art-making and sport, positing their languages of rhythmic choreography as sites of possibility and reclamation
Artist du Jour Suzanne Valadon: The Little-Known Legacy of a Bohemian Bloodline
How Fashion Columnist Marie-Madeleine Fourcade Escaped the Gestapo Twice and Became The Only Woman To Head An Underground Resistance Network of 3,000 Against the Nazi Occupation in France
A Greater Appreciation for the Painter's Talent; On Gustave Caillebotte "Painting Men" at the Getty Center
People Are Getting Anne Imhof’s ‘DOOM’ All Wrong; There's a lot to love and a lot to think about in the German artist's weird and wooly spectacle
Book Excerpt: "A Fire in His Soul: Van Gogh, Paris, and the Making of an Artist (2025)" by Miles J. Unger
Good for Google! SFMOMA Gets $1.5M From Google for Ruth Asawa Exhibition; Largest corporate donation the museum has ever received for a single show in its history
MONSIEUR NOUAR: LE FRANCAIS BUSTER KEATON
Influencer. Part 5
Yau: Anything Can Happen in Geoffrey Todd Smith’s Paintings; Fresh and challenging, Smith’s art sits on the cusp between eccentric abstraction and automated sci-fi figures, and contributes to Chicago’s dense art history
Podcast: Art Dirt: Reporting on the Recent Dallas Art Fairs 2025
BEWARE THE ART GURUS
Art Review: Don’t Listen to the Art Gurus; Ways of Not Seeing; Celebrity authors are rebranding themselves as philosophers of art; Extraordinary dumbing down of culture has occurred
Hard Choices With Laughs: Chen & Lampert Ask "Should You Try Guru Marina Abramović’s Longevity Method?"
Art Guru: Free Online AI Art Generator
Some Things John Waters Collected; At the Baltimore Museum of Art; Curated by Catherine Opie and Jack Pierson
Tosh Berman Discovers That Lucifer Is Very Much A Happy-Go-Lucky Guy; Kenneth Anger's Approach in "Lucifer Rising"
Gordy Grundy: Duck Duck Shed Returns! The Neon Museum’s Celebration of Design, Architecture, and Vintage Las Vegas! Four Day Schedule; "The Line-Up of Fascinating Presentations is Incredible!"
Kim Fay in Detroit: Detroit Artists Market at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
Kent Monkman Meets Albert Bierstadt at the Timken
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MIKE KELLEY's FINAL INTERVIEW
[Editor's Note: With The Dark Bob's commentary on his friend Mike Kelley, we thought it valuable to share the insights of Artillery magazine's interviews with the artist.]
Tulsa Kinney: Mike Kelley: Part One, Straight Outta Detroit
Tulsa Kinney: Mike Kelley: Part Two
What is Vielmetter Taking to the Dallas Art Fair This Weekend?
A li'l ray of sunshine from David Shrigley!
“Forerunner to the Work of Kerry James Marshall and Barkley L. Hendricks” Marcia Marcus, Painter Who Gained Late-Career Raves for Her Portraits, Dies at 97; Made off-kilter portraits of herself and others in relative obscurity
Choose Your Commisions Wisely! Artist Sarah Boardman, Who Painted ‘Worst’ Trump Portrait For Colorado Capitol, Says 41-Year Career May Be Doomed After Presiden Trump’s Criticism
Last Weekend to Get a Beuys at Track 16! Joseph Beuys 'Potential Goods'
SIZE MATTERS
Ellsworth Kelly Extra Long; Hard to Fit on a Wall
Ellsworth Kelly Extra Small
Artists David Cooper and Korey Replogle Celebrate Las Vegas’ Iconic Defunct Motels in ‘Vacancy: The Dead Motels of Las Vegas’ Exhibit; New Works on Paper and New Works in Wood, with Custom Frames
ART and HONG KONG
‘Not a First-Day Fair’: Sales Trickle In at Art Basel Hong Kong as Dealers Wait for Tentative, ‘Deliberate’ Collectors
What Will the Northern Metropolis Mean for Hong Kong’s Future?
“I Don’t Smell Fear”: The Hong Kong Art Scene Endures; Despite recent changes to the National Security Law and a troubling political climate, the city’s artworld continues to grow in new directions
In Austerity, Big Euro Luxury Brands Bet on Exhibitions to Reach China’s ‘Forgotten’ Middle Class
Michele Chu: “In Hong Kong There’s an Undercurrent of Loss”; Artist’s immersive installation facilitates moments of human connection, while ruminating on an anticipatory sense of grief
Forge’ Review: Game of Cat-and-Mouse in the Miami Art World Makes for a Thrilling Directorial Debut; SXSW: A portrait of an underground forgery artist whose desire for recognition brings her too close to the sun, this Florida-set thriller should establish Jing Ai Ng as a director to watch
See Vija Celmins Collage'd Postcard to Wallace Berman
The Building Blocks: Artists Amanda Williams and Alteronce Gumby; Jordan Carter, curator at Dia Art Foundation, sits down with artists Alteronce Gumby and Amanda Williams to speak about the profound significance of color in their work, as well as the intersections between art and architecture
Nate Lewis 'Tuning The Signals' at Vielmetter Los Angeles
Steve McQueen Is an Art Doer; On the virtues of doing stuff instead of thinking about doing stuffSteve McQueen Is an Art Doer; On the virtues of doing stuff instead of thinking about doing stuff
On the Road with Ed Ruscha
‘The Art Institution of Tomorrow’ by Fatoş Üstek, Reviewed; "There’s no doubt that today’s art institutions are f**ked"
Joy in Transformation: An Interview With Artist Tadáskía; For this Brazilian rising star, color is life and freedom is hers to share
From Studio Secrets to Art World Scandals: A Roundup of the Best Art Podcasts; Shows offer listeners drama, insider insights and plenty of fun
New Yorker Documentary: “The Last of the Nightingales” Tells the Story of How Soundscapes Change After a Fire; Masha Karpoukhina’s documentary follows a soundscape ecologist who lost everything in a California wildfire
GERHARD RICHTER'S CRITIQUE OF THE ART MARKET
Gerhard Richter, Viral Artist
There Are At Least 906 Blattecke
The Story of a Long Lost Jasper Johns; 'Gastro' Made in Tokyo 1964
Loie Hollowell Reflects on a Decade of Work at The Aldrich
Art History Majors Face Highest Unemployment Rates, Report Shows; But other data shows that art history and art degrees are still popular
See the Show! Band of Vices Presents 'In the Paint' Featuring some of the city’s finest emerging artists! Honored by the Los Angeles Lakers! The 2024-25 Lakers In the Paint selected artists are: Abby Aceves, Estefania Ajcip, Jessica Taylor Bellamy, Daryll Cumbie, Derick Edwards, Megan Gabrielle Harris, Marlon Ivory, Larry Li, Ann Phong and Michael the Khoi Tran
Sweet Story! Book Revew: A Garden of Ideas in John Berger’s Letters to His Son; 'Over to You' is an ever-evolving meditation on images by the art critic and his youngest son, two men linked by blood and art
New Book Out Now: "How To Not F*** Up Your Art-World Happiness, Vol. 2"; 60 more tips and tricks on how to stay relaxed and mentally sane in the art industry; Tips include: Sell artworks on a dating APP, detox digitally and embrace elderly people.
How Christo and Jean-Claude Wove Magic Through Central Park; Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of their installation "The Gates" is a dedicated exhibition and augmented reality experience at the Shed
More Than Real: On the art of Robert Longo; "The Image Is Epic, Iconic, Alien..."
STAGE STRUCK
Director Sam Mendes on Bringing ‘The Hills of California’ To Broadway; “This is one of the hardest plays that I have ever directed," says Mendes. "It’s big in scale, but it’s also delicate and needs precision and a gentle hand."
‘Sunset Boulevard’ Review: Nicole Scherzinger, Former Pussycat Doll, Debuts and Stuns In Scorching, Brilliant Broadway Revival
Review 'Romeo + Juliet' Maximalist Broadway Reinvention Goes Too Far; 'West Side Story'’s Rachel Zegler and 'Heartstopper'’s Kit Connor lift an aggressively poppy new youth take
on the tragic romance
MUCH LOVED WALTER ROBINSON (1950 - 2025) FIND OUT WHY!
Saltz Sez: Walter Robinson, Rogue Pirate of the Art World by Jerry Saltz
Maverick Painter and Critic Walter Robinson, Who Helmed Artnet Magazine, Is Dead at 74; Edited influential outlets, made alluring appropriation art, and with a rare, wry sensibility, helped define his era
Charlie James Gallery Remembers Walter Robinson: "Light gleamed on the spear’s point as she thrust it at me in a lightning move..."
Georgia O’Keeffe: She Lived Deliciously Alone in the Wild, Wild West
*cough* How This A.I. Image Became the First to Snag Copyright Protection; U.S. Copyright Office ruled generally last month that work created from A.I. text prompts could not be copyrighted
Kim Fay in Detroit: ’Nightshade': The World In The Evening at Oakland University Art Gallery
MEXICO CITY ART WEEK
Observer’s Guide to the Gallery Shows Not to Miss During Mexico City Art Week; If you're headed to ZONAMACO, put these exhibitions on your itinerary
Céramica Suro, Ceramics Workshop and Residency Have Been Instrumental In Creating An Extremely Cohesive Artistic Community; Attracted a roster of celebrated artists from Marcel Dzama and Jorge Pardo to Jeffrey Gibson, Nairy Baghramian, Pae White and Alicia Kwade; How Guadalajara Became a Go-To Artist Hotspot: An Interview With José Noé Suro
Look Inside the Whitney's Annual Art-World Bash; Young creatives and patrons alike gathered for a glittering, disco-themed evening in support of the Whitney’s Independent Study Program, a postgraduate initiative that supports living artists throughout their careers
DESIGN
Crafted in Wood: Including Works from the Collection of Ken Spitzbard
A Modern History of Commercialised Fetishism
They Started a Design Firm in Their Living Room. Now They’re Grossing $50 Million a Year; Blockbuster design brands may be battling retail headwinds, but boutique firm Roman and Williams, beloved by the Hollywood set, is soaring. Their only complaint? Knockoffs
How the Gleeful Aesthetic of L.A.’s 1984 Olympics Unified a Sprawling City
Maya Fuji 'Igokochi' at Charlie James Gallery
An Art Critic Goes to the Rodeo; Uniform, merchandise, alcohol, nationalism – these are the real markers of a ritual gathering. A bucking cow or the installation of art is just the excuse
On the Subject of an Artists Late Work; "Late works are eyewitnesses from the edge, from the end of life"
Kim Fay In Detroit: Joshua Rainer at Louis Buhl & Co.
Yau: Myron Stout’s Monkish Devotion to Art; Stout achieved an ascetic sensuality in his geometric abstractions, a paradoxical synthesis of restraint and hedonism that is unmatched by any of his contemporaries
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LA Te Quiero' at Charlie James Gallery with Luke Butler, Danie Cansino, Elmer Guevara, Ozzie Juarez, Manuel López, Patrick Martinez, Erick Medel and Shizu Saldamando
Kenny Schachter: Biker-Gang Art Forgers! Hauser Hoovers Up Another Hotel! Kenny Schachter Files from the Swiss Alps; Readying a New York show in the Engadine, our columnist still finds time to meet up with a revered dealer, visit the local pool, and much more
JAKE GREWAL
‘I’m Not Worried About Going Stagnant Or Out Of Fashion’: An Interview With Jake Grewal
Jake Grewal: Under the Same Sky
Baz Luhrmann and an Art Collector Open a Secret Bar in the East Village; The director tells Vanity Fair he’s treating his latest project “like a movie.” His muse? A fictitious dandy called Monsieur
We’re Being Frozen Out of British Cultural Life, Say Jewish Artists; Artists, writers and performers claim they are being excluded because they refuse to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocidal
Coming to Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles; George Rouy 'The Bleed, Part II'; Read about the stealth ultra-contemporary art star, click here
Indictment Era Andre: Though he didn’t show in the US in the years between the murder of his wife Ana Mendieta and his indictment for said murder in 1985 and his trial, where he got off, in 1988, Carl Andre did have quite a busy European exhibition schedule
SALLY MANN IN FORT WORTH
Sally Mann Photos Seized From Texas Museum Following Official Complaint
National Organizations Weigh in on Controversy at the Modern in Fort Worth
NYT: The Disturbing Photography of Sally Mann
The Free Press: How to Like Things More; Get Lost In A Tiny Detail. Memorize. Find The One Flaw. Here’s How To Truly Enjoy Every Experience
First Museum Survey Of Works By Vincent Valdez On View at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
BEST OF THE WEEK with JERRY GOGOSIAN