VENICE!
Witty Christoph Büchel: Fear and Loathing in Venice; With an apparent appetite for destruction, not least that of his own reputation and even art, what, one might ask, are the Swiss artist’s motivations, and does he have any limits?
Nate Freeman: Inside the 2024 Venice Biennale: Papal Pavilions, a Polarizing Program, and Billionaires Aplenty; Art world's every-other-year Olympics is officially underway. Why even His Holiness is getting in on the action this go round
10 Must-See Exhibitions During the 2024 Venice Biennale; From Willem de Kooning at the Gallerie dell'Academia di Venezia to Julie Mehretu at the Palazzo Grassi, these are the top shows to discover beyond the Biennale
Reviews: Willem de Kooning’s Italy; Paintings from the late 1950s and on prove that de Kooning had sat at the feet of, and learnt much from, such old Italian masters as Titian and Tintoretto
Art Forum: Willem de Kooning, Last Master; His Obit
Julia Friedman Has an Essay, "The Meta of Marble" in a New Monograph on the British-Iranian artist Reza Aramesh, which Accompanies His site-specific, "Must-See" exhibition NUMBER 207 at Chiesa Di San Fantin in Venice. Read the Excellent Essay Here.
See Walton Ford's Epic Show 'Lion of God.' First solo exhibition in Italy at the Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in Venice
The Legacy and Mystery of The Display of Native American Art At The 1932 Venice Biennale; Remarkably little is known about the selection, reception and whereabouts of the Native art shown in the US pavilion at the 18th Biennale
MSCHF 'Art 2' at Perrotin
Crime Pays for Inigo Philbrick; Swindler Gets an HBO Series! What Will He Wear on the Red Carpet?
Kim Fay in Detroit: Earthlings Unite at Metropolitan Museum Of Design Detroit; A Radical Action Based Artivisim Exhibition on Energy Conservation
Clayton Campbell Shares a Long Look of His New Book "Trance of Thought," with Over 100 Digital Works and an Essay by Cansu Peker. Click Here!
CARAVAGGIO KORNER
Just How Did Caravaggio Die? Disease? Infection? Murder? Rumors and theories abound
Caravaggio Made Darkness Visible; In his violent, carnal visions, sparks of divinity may glow even from within the blackest confines of our fallen reality
Financial Times Review: The Last Caravaggio, National Gallery, London; A Final Dark Masterpiece Brought To Light; Painting that was attributed to the Italian master only in the 1970s is a priceless example of his brooding late style
Who is Painter Scott Kahn? Zwirner Just Picked Him Up; The 'Hobbyist' is Fetching High Six Figures
A Graphic Review: Mark Rothko’s Emotional Self-Portraits
Interview: The Inside Story of The Biggest Art Fraud In American History; Orlando Whitfield was a student when he became best friends with Inigo Philbrick, ‘the art world’s Bernie Madoff’. He talks about how their decade of hustling would lead one to a breakdown – and the other to jail
Andrew Alba’s New Works at Material Expose the Pain We Inherit
LAWRENCE WESCHLER
a) Art Spiegelman and Dan Nadal discuss Si Lewen at the James Cohan Gallery; b) Ren Weschler in conversation with Jamaica Kincaid about her roots, work, and years at the New Yorker, at the Chicago Humanities Festival in 2014
A Creepy, Entrancing German Pavilion Is This Venice Biennale’s Big Hit
The Aquatic Meets the Galactic in Artist Josèfa Ntjam’s Captivating Mythologies; Artist's stunningly psychedelic take on science and science fiction debuts at the Venice Biennale
Carolyn Castaño “Otros Seres” at Walter Maciel Gallery
AMAZING MOTHER NATURE
Most Breathtaking Photographs of the 2024 Solar Eclipse; You didn’t need to be in the path of totality to be awed
Rommelman: Tales from the Eclipse; It Wasn't Meant to Be Life-Changing. Or Was It?
Must Read! Meet Richard Eurich, Artist Who Inspired Ruscha's Fire Paintings
More on the Talented Richard Eurich (1903-1992)
WHITNEY BIENNIAL
Julia Friedman: A Freestyle Biennial; On What To Expect From The Upcoming Whitney Biennial
It’s Bye Boomers, Hello Millennials at This Year’s Whitney Biennial; 81st edition of the renowned exhibition is younger, more geographically diverse, and not so male anymore, Hyperallergic’s analysis shows
The ‘Dissonant Chorus’ of the 2024 Whitney Biennial Lost Me; What do the politics of this show add up to?
Ready for the Biennale, Renowned Irish Novelist Colm Tóibín Observes Venice Through the Eyes of its Artists and Writers; Wanders the City's Streets, Immersed in its Cultural Offerings With One Rule: No Idling
The Unmissable Off-Site Exhibitions in Venice
Rainey Knudson: Maiden and Matron: Simone Leigh in Texas
Kim Fay in Detroit: Diana Alva at Detroit Contemporary
Devin Osorio and Joaquín Stacey-Calle 'Delicadeza Óptica: Cada Vez Que Te Hablo Estamos Cocinando' at Charlie James Gallery
Jess Valice’s Blank-Eyed Figures Are Taking the Art World by Storm; The neuroscience student turned art world wunderkind's first of two solo shows with Almine Rech is currently on view in New York
Future or End of Filmmaking? Chat GPT Version of a 1950's Styled 'Dune' Trailer
Why Picasso Carried a Revolver? Picasso inherited a revolver from a famous playwright, loaded it with blanks, and used it on his admirers
On The Edge: Los Angeles Art From The Joan and Jack Quinn Family Collection; Laguna Art Museum
We Finally Know How Much Money Meta Makes From Instagram; IG brought in more than a quarter of Meta's revenue in 2021
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp: The Artist As Wordsmith: The Ed Ruscha retrospective at LACMA—Now Then—takes on big questions about the passage of time and the march of civilization
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VIVA!
Jessica Gelt: LACMA Goes to Las Vegas; Govan Speaks! How exactly will that arrangement work? And Why?
Christopher Knight Commentary: LACMA finally is getting its satellite space. Regrettably, it’s in another state; "As bad art museum ideas go, this one is right up there."
William Poundstone: Loathing Las Vegas; 'My half-serious theory is, this is all about Elaine Wynn. Or Francis Bacon'
Newly Unearthed Agnes Pelton Painting Leads Auction; Original Sketch and Handwritten Notes Appear in Pelton's Sketchbook
Yau: The Quiet Urgency of Barbara Takenaga’s Paintings; Her paintings are searching for materially rooted forms while simultaneously reaching for something unfixed and uncontainable
The Must-Also-Haves: In Nicole Eisenman’s Paintings and Sculptures, a System’s Impending Demise May Reveal Itself in Feverish Hilarity
Van Gogh’s Meager Diet While Painting a Portrait of His Mother; In 1888, hungry Van Gogh wrote his brother asking for money for food; “I cannot stand the colorless photograph,” Van Gogh wrote. “I am trying to do one in a harmony of color, as I see her in my memory.”
‘I am not a Satanist!’: Meet the Great Blasphemer of Contemporary Art; The mischief-making Maurizio Cattelan on shaking up this year’s Venice Biennale, kneeling Hitler and that notorious solid-gold lavatory
Here Are Three Facts About Richard Serra’s ‘Tilted Arc’, Sculpture So Controversial It Was Put on Trial; The monumental sculpture, which was installed in Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan from 1981 to 1989, posited free speech considerations against the role of public opinion
Teruko Yokoi, a Retrospective at Marlborough Gallery
Why More Artists Are Forming Limited Liability Corporations?; More artists are incorporating their practices, and Observer dug into what prompts creatives to become corporations
Downtown Los Angeles Places Another Big Bet on The Arts
N. Dash: Down to Earth; Artist’s Own Brand of Conceptual Naturalism Draws a Line Between the Natural World and Human Ideals
Olafur Eliasson’s Art —and Dance Moves— Feature on Musician Peggy Gou’s New Album; Gou dons one of Eliasson's sculptures on the cover of her new album, "I Hear You"; Have a Listen!
MORE MSCHF
Viral Pranksters MSCHF Secretly Replaced a Sink at the Met Museum; "Met’s Sink of Theseus" is one of the works now on view at the collective's new show at Perrotin L.A.
'MSCHF Stole a Sink from The Met, but Don't Worry, They Replaced it With Their Own!'
A Short History of Artists Sneaking Their Work Into Museums
"FUN IS MY WEAPON OF CHOICE"
Patti Astor, Founder of Downtown New York’s Legendary Fun Gallery, Dies at 74
Bomb Magazine (2013): Patti Astor Talks About Her New Book And Her Role In The New York Art Scene of the 1980s
Patti Astor’s True Story of the Fun Gallery and Jean-Michel Basquiat
Newly Revealed Archive of East Village Eye Newspaper Gives Unusual View Into Forgotten NYC Arts and Music Underground; Defined by Artists Like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons and Keith Haring
Rocco Ritchie (Son of Madonna and Guy Ritchie) Has a New Show Titled "Pack a Punch." He Has Quietly Been Building a Body of Work as a London-based Artist
Painter Rocco Ritchie, Son of Madonna, Takes a Bow with Miami Pop-Up; From a young age, art 'gave me a place to escape,' the artist says in an interview
Review: The Art World and the American Hustle Meet in 'Problemista'; Julio Torres’s directorial debut takes a fantastical approach to depicting the very real trials of immigration and creative work
Trailer: 'Problemista' TIFF 2024
Little (Jasper) Johns Literally
Takashi Murakami’s New Works Fill His First Japanese Exhibition in Eight Years; “Takashi Murakami Mononoke Kyoto” will run until September 1; 170 works, the vast majority are new
STREETWISE
JR Punches a Tunnel Through Milan’s Central Railway Station In Latest Optical Illusion
The Street Artist’s New Public Art Commission Coincides With Milan Design Week
Graffiti ‘Takeover’ Roils Downtown Los Angeles
Art Report Today Has Been Publishing for 5 Years! (or 1,825 12-Hour Days!) Wish Us 5 More by Forwarding This News Platform to 5 Friends!
For Our Birthday Celebration, Join Us as We Sing Along with the Dark Bob, Now in the Smithsonian Collection!
“Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha Happy Birthday!” by LA Performance Artist Pioneer, The Dark Bob
Julia Friedman: Me, Myself and Art History, Narcissism for All! Forty-five years ago, Christopher Lasch identified what has become a defining feature of modern activism: “the ever-present, neurotic need to be recognized and affirmed.”
Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe’s Intimately Textured Portraits Challenge the Weight of Performance
Vivian Greven and Benjamin Houlihan Embrace Fragmentation; Inspired by a theory of the mind, ‘EGOSTATE’ brings together two artists who mirror each other in their dislocation
Sargent Claude Johnson, a Major Black Modernist, Emerges Anew in His First Survey in Decades
Low Inventory; Two Works by Rare-to-Market Painter Florine Stettheimer Head to Christie’s
June Edmonds “Meditations on African Resilience” at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
MONSIEUR NOUAR
Chez Le Chiropracteur
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Why are Celebrities Destroying Multimillion Dollar Mansions?
Outrage After Actor Chris Pratt Destroys Iconic Mid-Century Home in LA; Advocates decried Pratt and wife Katherine Schwarzenegger’s decision to raze an architecturally significant home for yet another “McMansion”
Yau: Painting at the Periphery of Language; Mary Lum is interested in the deeply rooted human desire to make meaning out of everything, while recognizing that language is a slippery phenomenon
This Isn't Happiness: 'Watch Me Burn All of My Art in My Front Yard (Free Event)'
See the Show! Arghavan Khosravi 'At Her Fingertips' at M+B
Not a Poet? You Can Be, By Taking a Picture; New AI Camera turns the visual into poetry
All In It Together? A Guide to Artworld Friendships; Contemporary Art Runs On A Cocktail Of Fuels: Alcohol, Bullshit and Bonhomie
Did Pollock Really Pee in Peggy Guggenheim’s Fireplace? Considering all that Guggenheim had been through, what's a little urine between friends?
Kim Fay in Detroit: Tom Livo at Black Box
Yau: San Francisco Art Pioneer’s Collaged Dream Worlds; With the layers of his collaged “paste-ups,” Jess pulls us into an oneiric world, at once delightful and perplexing, magical and sublime
Must Read! Hills Snyder Review: Georganne Deen’s “When I Was a Riot of Spring” at Bale Creek Allen Gallery, Fort Worth
“The Greatest Collection of California Art that Nobody has Seen”
Art Market Expert Magnus Resch "How to Collect Art" with Jerry Gogosian
End of the Line? Saudi Arabia ‘Forced To Scale Back’ Plans For Desert Megacity; Crown prince’s pet project was sold as a 105-mile-long city of the future, but finances may have led to a rethink
Yau: When Paris Was the Center of New York’s Art World; Americans in Paris at the Grey Art Museum highlights the vibrancy and openness of the Paris scene for Americans
KEEPING IT CIVIL
A “Civil War” Conversation; Is it Propaganda Masquerading as Neutral Drama? ... ... First 65% of “Civil War” Is Gripping But Also Relationship-Driven in a Spotty, Not-Great Way ... ... The Movie 'Civil War' is Live-action Role-playing Games for the Ladies of The View; You won’t find many negative reviews for 'Civil War' on Rotten Tomatoes ... ... Civil War: What Is It Good For? Absolutely nothing
'Civil War' Official Final Trailer
Evangeline AdaLioryn “Her Labyrinth” at Sebastian Gladstone
Art, Media, and Two Centuries of Avant-Garde Efforts, Part One of Two
Art, Media, and Two Centuries of Avant-Garde Efforts, Part Two of Two
WOODY'S REDEMPTION
Rex Reed: ‘Coup de Chance’ Is Woody Allen’s Best Film in Years
WSJ: Opinion: Woody Allen’s Cancellation Is a Crime Against Culture; Great director made his 50th film far from Hollywood, which has unjustly shunned him
“All the Romance of Filmmaking is Gone” Woody Allen on Paris, Cancel Culture, Retirement, and “The Whole Mortality Question”
Author Patricia Highsmith Was Almost as Twisted as Her Character Tom Ripley; She never murdered anyone—as far as we know—but the iconic author’s diaries and biographies reveal that the devious Highsmith had a lot in common with her most infamous character.
The Phantasmagoric Allure of Leonor Fini; As Surrealism's centennial nears, its dark star Leonor Fini's legend is peaking. Her life was as idiosyncratic as her daring, sensuous work
Sisters Roselyn and Alexandra Mathews Shed Light on Their Family’s Illustrious Art Collection; Prominent Texan family provides state-of-the-art lighting to top art institutions around the world, and has built an enviable collection to boot
“The Substantiality of Spirit” Georgiana Houghton’s Pictures from the Other Side'; First exhibited her abstract paintings in 1871
ART NOIR
Disgraced Art Dealer Inigo Philbrick Is Out of Prison—and Planning a Comeback; 'I'd like to get re-established as an art dealer," he says in a splashy new Vanity Fair feature
Vanity Fair: The Saga! Episodes 1-6! The Confessions of Inigo Philbrick, Art Fraudster Extraordinaire; Pleaded guilty as part of the largest art fraud in US history. Now out of prison and “wearing the scarlet letter,” he’s searching for a second act.
The Phantasmagoric Allure of Leonor Fini; As Surrealism's centennial nears, its dark star Leonor Fini's legend is peaking. Her life was as idiosyncratic as her daring, sensuous work
SERRA
Calvin Tomkins’s Profile of Sculptor Richard Serra in Which He Presents a Man Seemingly Inured to Criticism and Indifferent to Acclaim
Discover Richard Serra's Most Iconic Sculptures
Richard Serra Made Us Giddy and Afraid; Artist, Dead at 85, Offered a Strange – And Strangely Intimidating – New Way to Think of Sculpture
'Conversation with an Artist: Richard Serra'
The Richard Serra Sculpture That Was Just Too Much for Paris; How did the artist’s massive “Clara-Clara” (1983) end up in the backyard of a former water treatment facility on the city’s outskirts?
Richard Serra, Minimalist Sculptor Whose Steel Creations Awed Viewers, Dies at 85
Molten Magnificence: How Richard Serra’s Giant Steel Sculptures Bent Time and Space; American’s mighty masterpieces – straight, curved or set at thrilling angles – sucked everyone nearby into their mysterious gravity. Our critic pays tribute to art’s legendary man of steel
Seance? Celebration? Christeene and her Fukkn Band Presents a Risqué Tribute to Sinead O'Connor
BEST OF THE WEEK with JERRY GOGOSIAN
New Yorker Cartoons for the Week!
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