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After Giving Birth to Elon Musk's Child, Pop Star Grimes Turns to Conceptual Art. In Her First Online Art Exhibition, Grimes Will Sell a Piece of Her Soul

Tesla’s Elon Musk Gets Performance-Based Payday Worth Nearly $800 Million

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

Ai Weiwei Creates 10,000 Masks In Aid Of Coronavirus Charities

Shepard Fairey Uploads Joy with Downloadable Art for Essential Workers

Marina Abramović on Ulay, Her Former Partner In Love And Art

Martha Graham, Rita Hayworth Share Bill in 1923

Frida Kahlo’s Visits to the United States Helped Crystallize Her Unique Artistic Persona

The Busy Corona-Speakeasies

JOHN STEPPLING

Prolegomena to a Podcast: Once there is a stage, there is a narrative. But what creates a stage? Not a collection of actors because what does that even mean? It is more about groupings of people who are listening. Listening with purpose, even.

How Artist CJ Hendry used Instagram to make millions from her art -- and sell Kanye to Kanye

Executed by the Nazis: The Story Of Vincent Van Gogh’s Brave Great-Nephew

A 1665 HISTORICAL MUST READ: WITH FASCINATING PARALLELS TO TODAY

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

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IV. LIFE & STYLE IN QUARANTINE

In other cases, some had gardens, and walls or pales, between them and their neighbours, or yards and back-houses; and these, by friendship and entreaties, would get leave to get over those walls or pales, and so go out at their neighbours’ doors; or, by giving money to their servants, get them to let them through in the night; so that in short, the shutting up of houses was in no wise to be depended upon. Neither did it answer the end at all, serving more to make the people desperate, and drive them to such extremities as that they would break out at all adventures.

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ARCHITECTURE REPORT TODAY

Pristine Ancient Roman Mosaic Floor Discovered Under Italian Vineyard

American Architect Robert T. Coles Passes Away at 90

Architects, not Architecture: Kjetil Thorsen from Snøhetta

How Design Helps Us Fight Infection

A Case for a More Literal Architecture

Coronavirus Pandemic Causing "Significant Decline" In UK Architects' Mental Health

U.S. architects add a chorus of new voices to Architects Declare movement

Architects, not Architecture: Dan Stubbergaard from COBE

Art Report Today Podcast: Art Critic and Curator Paddy Johnson Discusses Art Spaces, Artist Statements and an Online Presence, Host Michael Delgado

THE PLAGUE

Our Greatest Minds at Work

Masses of Artists Rejected By Uk Government’s Self-Employment Support Scheme

Why American Life Went On As Normal During The Hong Kong Flu Killer Pandemic Of 1969
“That generation approached viruses with calm, rationality and intelligence,” he said. “We left disease mitigation to medical professionals, individuals and families, rather than politics, politicians and government.”

COMMENTARY "AN ARTIST'S OPPORTUNITY IN OUR PANDEMIC TRAGEDY"

Part 1: We Need a New Set of Celebrities

Part 2: Who Are Our Heroes Now? A True Portrait of the Artist

Part 3: Artists Arise! Our Fertile Landscape

INFINITE DRONE: Composers inspired by Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away at the Broad

Infinite Drone | Noveller, Pattern Recognition (2020)

Infinite Drone | Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, On The Gold Mirage

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As Most Of The World's Art Fairs Have Been Cancelled Or Postponed, Hong Kong Launches A New One

Will The Loss Of Hong Kong’s Special Trade Status And Stricter Oversight From Beijing End Its Appeal As Asia’s Biggest Arts Hub?

Sad: The Imperfect but Invaluable Experience of Virtual Figure-Drawing Classes

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The Nature of Mark Grotjahn

Kent Monkman Issues Apology For Painting That Depicts The 'Sexual Assault' Of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

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OUR CHANGING CIVILIZATION

Teledildonics Soar As Lockdown Lovers 'Have Sex Over The Internet'

Buddhism’s Maitreya and the Pandemic: Hope For The Future

The Real Real: Psychoanalysis During the Pandemic

Social Distancing In The Context Of Japanese Art, Part 1

Social Distancing In The Context Of Japanese Art, Part 2

An E-Commerce Future, Ready Or Not

NY Times: Technology Will Not Save Us

You Are Being Influenced: The Viral Influencer

Skateboarding Prodigy Makes History With First 1080 Degree Turn

The Pandemic Is Changing How Human Beings Think About Status

Futurists Predict What Your Sex Life May Look Like After The Pandemic

Prisoner of the Hamptons: Art Giant on Life in the Covid Age

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Urges the West to Counter China’s ‘Dangerous’ Internet Regulation

FORMERLY KNOWN AS CINEMA

Martin Scorsese Self-Shoots Short Film for BBC About Being in Isolation

Hollywood Legend Mae West Profiled in New PBS Documentary: 'She Was a Sexual Gangster'

How an Unfinished Memoir Reveals Polly Platt’s Forgotten Hollywood Legacy

Director Peter Bogdanovich: “He Always Knew What He Wanted”

Apple Lands Martin Scorsese ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Movie Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert DeNiro

‘Parasite’ Exclusive: Check Out Bong Joon Ho’s Storyboards from the Graphic Novel

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Drive-in Cinema Summer Tour Set in US

From Unloved Curiosity To Beloved Classic: The Surprising 40-Year Legacy Of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining

New Spike Lee; “Crushed By Tumbling Tides” Da 5 Bloods

Da 5 Bloods: Spike Lee’s Explosive New Film Reckons with the Vietnam War

Paul Schrader Wants Netflix and Amazon to Save the World’s Biggest Film Festivals

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2020 Turner Prize Is Canceled; Tate Will Instead Distribute £100,000 to 10 Artists

Peter Alexander, Los Angeles Artist Known for Transcendent Sculptures, Has Died at 81

Plagens: The Sculpture of Peter Alexander

Peter Alexander, Who Created Ethereal Worlds Out Of Resin, Dies At 81

Knight: Appreciation: How artist Peter Alexander Caught Clouds In A Box And Used Color To Profound Effect

Ed Ruscha: Drum Skins

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ART NOIR

The Unbelievable True Story of an Artist Who Formed a Lasting Bond With Her Thief

A Philip Glass Score Was Lost. 50 Years Later, Here It Is.

What Do You Do With a Stolen van Gogh? Octave Durham, the Thief Knows and Spills

Goldman: Hunting For Art Encounters Around Los Angeles

An Endeavoring Artist Confection: SynesthesiaMe: The Colors of Your Name

MUSEUM BLUES

X-Appeal: Millennial Collectors Open Private Museum In Beijing

Five European Museum Directors Explain Their Reopening Strategies

Pérez Art Museum Miami Buys Art from Local Galleries to Bolster Cultural Sector

COLLECTOR'S CIRCLE

Does the Artist’s Muse Have a Place in Our Modern #MeToo World?

Top specialists at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Elsewhere Shift Tactics To Sell Millions Of Dollars Of Art During Lockdown

Art Keeps Collectors Going: Grażyna Kulczyk

Former Board President of the Akron Art Museum Calls for Replacement of Director

As One Private Collector Shuts Down Berlin Space, Julia Stoschek Threatens To Follow

Inside the Art-Filled Dhaka Home of Mega Collectors Nadia and Rajeeb Samdani

In Conversation with Collector Matthew Diehl

Art Keeps Collector Helen Toomer Going

Gallery Platform LA Launches

No One Wanted to Buy Our Pies: A History of The Copley Galleries, Beverly Hills, 1948–49

Gallery Platform LA Visits with LA Artists, Collectors, Gallerists

80 LA Galleries Band Together To Stay Afloat

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Exploring questions such as “Who is American?”, “What does citizenship mean?” and “How long do you have to be here to be considered a bona fide member of this mongrel group?” Setsuko Winchester hand-pinched 120 yellow tea bowls in various sizes and shades of yellow.

Setsuko Winchester and her author husband Simon Winchester Explore Design and Meaning