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LAWRENCE WESCHLER

Must Read! This is the Olympic Spirit! American and Black Jesse Owens and Not-so-Nazi German Karl Luz Long Became Friends at the Berlin Olympics; An Olympics story, in honor of the thirty-third games of the modern era, opening this week in Paris


OLYMPIC ARTS 2024


How Contemporary Artists Have Embraced Athleticism; Upcoming Paris Olympic Games have triggered a renewed interest in practices that explore the highs and lows of sports

Ted Gioia: When the Olympics Gave Medals to Artists; They did it for 40 years—so why did they stop?

Video: American Artist Alison Saar's Olympic Sculpture

Guardian: It’s The Art Olympics! The 20 Greatest Ever Sporting Artworks; From ancient fist-fighters to futurists on bikes, from starchy archers to a naked runner frozen in time … as the Games kick off in Paris, our critic ranks the finest depictions of sport in art

Paris Olympics Force Galleries to Close, Leaving Dealers in a Tough Spot


Gagosian Paris: The Art of the Olympics: In association with the Olympic Museum

Olympic Art: The Exhibitions Around Europe Inspired By The Games

Video: Mathieu Forget Makes Photography an Olympic Art

Review: Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body Review, an Olympic Revelation From First To Last



Kim Fay in Detroit: Carl Wilson at Detroit Contemporary; My Autumn Bloom of Concrete Flowers


LEIKO IKEMURA

Lisson Gallery Announces Representation of Leiko Ikemura


Yau: Girls, Gods, and Rabbits; Leiko Ikemura is concerned with the meeting place of the spiritual and physical, the ineffable and material worlds


BOOKS + WORDS

Art Lovers, Here Are 7 New, Fascinating Non-Fiction Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List

Stein Hoisting: On the History of Marathon Readings of Gertrude Stein's 'The Making of Americans' at Earth, in New York

The Worst Date Ever: A Tale by Haruki Murakami

Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: A History of Mad Max, Barbie on Tour, Michael Mann, Baseball on the Big Screen & More

The Best Books of the 21st Century; Ted Gioia Assesses the NY Times list

New Short Fiction 'Opening Theory' By Sally Rooney

Sally Rooney on Characters Who Arrive Preëntangled and Her Forthcoming Novel; Author discusses her story “Opening Theory.”



New Yorker Cartoons for the Week!


COLLECTORS CIRCLE

How Serious Art Collectors Care for Their Collections; We asked experts to weigh in on the best way to care for paintings, sculpture, photographic prints and other fine artworks


Italian Collector Giuseppe Iannacone on the Perils of ‘Serial Accumulation’; "A masterpiece by a lesser-known artist is more valuable to me than a minor work by a historically celebrated artist," says the esteemed Italian collector

StudioTwentySeven Gallerists Nacho Polo and Robert Onuska; "Our collection is filled with pieces that bring us immense joy—animated, vibrant in color and often large in scale."



Hauser & Wirth’s Beautiful Italian Summer; Gallery may not have a formal location in Italy, but some of their best artists are taking over beautiful historical spaces and engaging with the country's cultural heritage



Wendy Red Star's Stunning Summer Display in "Bíikkua (The Hide Scraper)"


KAHLO KLATCH


Knight: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and a Revelation About A Rare LACMA Portrait


Frida’s Missing Masterpiece; Frida Kahlo’s painting The Wounded Table vanished in 1955. The hunt for it continues



Cosmic Energy (Jackie Tileston) and Coastal Birds (Zeke Williams): Two Exhibitions in Texas



Amedeo Polazzo 'The Hovering Life' at Bel Ami



Gagosian Beverly Hills: 'Art for a Safe and Healthy California' In partnership with Jane Fonda



Luc Tuymans On Painting The Walls Of The Louvre; With L’orphelin, The Belgian Artist Sparks Bewilderment Among The Masterpieces



When Mickalene Met Monet; The Broad's "Mickalene Thomas: All About Love"




Classic Title Sequence; Visuals by Saul Bass; Music by Elmer Bernstein; 'Walk On The Wild Side' (1962)



‘The More Repellent You Are, the More Attractive You Become’: George Condo on Contemporary Mythmaking; Artist opens up about his minimalist turn at the Deste Foundation, and distancing himself from Kanye West


Rainey Knudson: Hurricane Beryl Frogsong




Of Monkeys and Men; Michaël Borremans’s paintings seem to display a pitiless, if not forbidding, irony, almost studiedly cruel in their level of dispassion


20 Years After Michel Majerus’s Tragic Death, the Pioneering Artist’s Laptop Has Been Restored. Surprises Abound; 'It’s a true virtual studio,' said Cory Arcangel, who's exploring its hard drive in a YouTube series



Kirie Artist Lito Celebrates Tanabata, a Japanese festival celebrating the meeting of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi, with Handcut Leaves


ASHLEY LONGSHORE

Swanky NYC-based Artist Ashley Longshore Has Emotional Meltdown On United Plane, Claims Crew Was ‘Abusive’: Social Media


Financial Times: Ashley Longshore: ‘All the Real Magic Happens After Midnight’

Artist's Website


'Tulips' Group Show at Kapp Kapp Gallery


Adam Gopnik: The Knotty Death of the Necktie; andemic may have brought an end to a flourishing history



BEST OF THE WEEK with JERRY GOGOSIAN




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BLUM Adds Sam Moyer to the Roster


Rainy Knudson: On Stealing a Teddy Bear and the Devil



Matthew Barney's Cremaster Custom Commissioned Cowboy Belt Buckle


Michelangelo’s ‘David’ Was Carved Out of a Flawed Marble Slab; Two sculptors had tried and failed to chisel something out of the block — until Michelangelo stepped up



Marisol (1930–2016) Reclaims Her Spot in the Pop Art Canon at a Vast New Show; Put her back in the spotlight; In 1968 she was in both the Venice Biennale and Documenta in Kassel; More press than Andy Warhol in the 1960s



University Settles With Professor Who Was Sacked Over Slideshow of Prophet Muhammad Artworks



Michael Delgado: The Light Relief of Anthony McCall


ENO DOC IS LIKE NO OTHER


This Documentary About Brian Eno Is Never Viewed The Same Twice! 52 quintillion variations.



Trailer 'Eno' Directed by Gary Hustwit


STREETWISE

Beyond Outlaw: New Paths For Aging Taggers; McGee and Osgemeos at the Lehmann Maupin gallery in Manhattan


Brooklyn Street Art: Images of the Week


Matt Stromberg: With the Help of Students, Street Artists Transform an LA High School; Well-known names and veteran muralists with deep ties to local communities were tapped for the project at César E. Chávez Learning Academies in San Fernando


Brooklyn Street Art: Images of the Week


The 2024 Efímurs Festival in L’Ametlla de Mar


DIGITAL ART WORLD

Defeated by Artificial Intelligence, a Legend In The Board Game Go Warns: Get Ready For What's Next

Stream Media Art From Latin America, the Caribbean, and the African Diaspora on PAMMTV; Pérez Art Museum Miami’s new free streaming platform for video art fills gaps in moving image scholarship from the global majority

What Next For Nfts As The Crypto Market Rallies? As The Value Of Cryptocurrencies Such As Ethereum Regain Ground, Art-Related Nfts Are Undergoing A Quiet Transformation

Christie’s is all in on holograms ahead of its annual Art & Tech Summit


MUSIC + SOUND

How Lawrence Abu Hamdan Hears the World; The artist and audio investigator, who calls himself a “private ear,” investigates crimes that are heard but not seen

Review: Jovial, Randy and Anything But Dark: Johnny Cash’s Surprise Return Single Well Alright Reviewed; Rescued from Cash’s low ebb in the early 1990s, this fun, lightweight song is a long way from the moody recordings with Rick Rubin he soon turned towards

Sex and Computers: Post-War Germany’s Strange Affair With Krautrock; Tangerine Dream, Can, Faust and Kraftwerk

Make Buddhism Cool Again: South Korea's Controversial Dj 'Monk'; Chants Traditional Buddhist Scripture Mixed With Gen-Z Life Advice Over A Thumping EDM Beat


LETTERS FROM THE EDITOR, No. 10

Gordy Grundy: Another New Shiny Object; A Hail Mary Pass; No Trope; An Artful Lens


Artist JR Carries the Olympic Torch Through the Louvre; Bastille Day relay festivities also included a stop at the Center Pompidou


Is It Dangerous to Celebrate the Artistic Merits of Trump’s Photo?


Dorothy Lichtenstein, philanthropist and a rare 'artist's widow,' dies at 84; Married Roy in 1968


BILL VIOLA

Knight: Bill Viola, Pioneer Video Artist Who Explored Nature Of Human Consciousness, Dies at 73

Bill Viola, Who Helped Make Video an Art Form; Artist helped cement new media technology as a means of expression in works that explored life’s universal questions


Video: 'Bill Viola Interview: Cameras are Keepers of the Souls'



Michael Stipe Writes About Art He Loves: Bruce Nauman’s Living and Breathing Sculpture; On 'A Cast of the Space Under my Chair'


This Documentary About Brian Eno Is Never Viewed The Same Twice! 52 quintillion variations.


Trailer 'Eno' Directed by Gary Hustwit



Vincent Valdez 'Undercurrents' at Artpace, San Antonio



How Did Surrealism Change the Art World? These 5 Exhibitions Reconsider Its Legacy; From a Belgian blockbuster to a Pittsburgh presentation of Gertrude Abercrombie, these exhibitions mark the 100th anniversary of Surrealism


PHOTOGRAPHY


Holden Luntz Gallery’s ‘Summer Snapshots’ Is a Celebration of Perfect Golden Summers; These are blissfully unedited triumphs of light and composition, each image its own masterclass in photographing mood


Roadside Retro: Steve Fitch’s American Motel Signs

A Day in the Life of “the King of Paparazzi” Rino Barillari; Ava Gardner kicked him in the groin, Peter O’Toole socked him in the ear, and this month Gérard Depardieu pounded him to a pulp


Time Traveller: One Senegalese Man’s Journey To The Past; Whether It’s In Segregated America Or The Glory Days Of Postwar France, Omar Victor Diop Inserts Himself In Vintage Photographs Of Worlds He Was Previously Shut Out From



Artist Camilla Engstrom Wanted to Be the Next Georgia O’Keeffe. Now She’s Found Her Own Story; Swedish-born artist is currently preparing for her London solo-show with Carl Kostyal in September


LETTERS FROM the EDITOR, No. 9

Gordy Grundy: An Incredible Innovation! A Scoop on Our New Loot! Art Drops Superstar Named!



New BLUM Artist: Hiroka Yamashita; Check Her Out



Book Reviews: Where Funhouse Erotics Meet Art History; New volume of Hilary Harkness’s paintings enfolds us into surreal worlds of gender-bending militaries, feminine revenge, and alternative histories



Tasmanian Museum’s Infamous ‘Ladies Lounge’ Has Been Displaying Fake Picassos All Along; Kirsha Kaechele’s installation was meant to ask questions about sexism. Now it poses different questions



Artist Hugh Hayden Should Cut the Crap; Artist’s latest show belongs in the toilet — and that’s exactly where he put it



Lynda Benglis: Knots & Videotapes 1972–1976



MONSIEUR NOUAR


Semaine de la Mode, Partie 5



 

FOLIE A DEUX


Operatic! First Trailer 'Joker: Folie A Deux'

Venice Festival Chief Alberto Barbera Says ‘Joker 2’ Is “One Of The Most Daring Films In Recent American Cinema”; Confirms Todd Phillips as one of the most creative directors working at the moment


THREADS


Interview with Natalya Khorover: Could It Be Plastic? A Sense Of Determination, Intensity And A Fiery Spirit

A Millennial Weaver Carries A Centuries-Old Craft Forward: Navajo Artist Melissa Cody

Jordan Nassar “Surge” at Anat Ebgi


How a Father-Daughter Duo Changed the Course of Textile Art; May and William Morris’s fascinating and complicated relationship deserves to be studied in its own right


Weaver Roy Kady Is a Shepherd First; “That’s what traditional Navajo weaving is: an interpretation of your environment,” the Diné artist told Hyperallergic in an interview


Erick Medel 'Vidas' at Charlie James Gallery


PHOTOGRAPHY


New Show Celebrates Surrealist Photographer Dora Maar on Her Own Terms; Exhibition of Maar's photographs and photograms brings her out from Picasso's shadow


Fetish: Photographs by Jorge Alberto Cadi, Le Fétichiste, and Miroslav Tichý


The Art of Biography: Mary Gabriel and Carol Kino and their biography of Frances McLaughlin-Gill and Kathryn Abbe, the identical twin sisters who blazed new trails in the world of photography in the early Twentieth Century

Julia Margaret Cameron Was a Victorian Rockstar Photographer


New Queer Photography


DESIGN


Why Native Artists Are Reclaiming the Whirling Log; The Diné symbol was suppressed for decades by a settler-dominated art market that conflated it with the Nazi insignia


Hand-Blown Glass Swells Around Steel Armature in Katie Stout’s Bubbly Lamps


Abbi Jacobson and Jodi Balfour’s Wedding Was an Ode to Total, Unscripted Togetherness. Look Inside Their Raucous Brooklyn Festivities; When the pair first met, the world was in a pandemic chokehold, and the two actors pined for the return of jubilant, sweaty revelry. Three years later, they tied the knot with a ceremony dedicated to that very feeling


Forget Louboutin, Step into the World of André Perugia, the True Icon behind Modern Shoe Design


LAWRENCE WESCHLER

A Trip Down Memory Lane To The Fraught High Anxiety of Ronald Reagan's Assassination Attempt in April 1981; Before that, Mel Brooks at Christmastide 1979


Eureka: What Was Helen Frankenthaler’s Soak-Stain Technique? Frankenthaler’s method of thinning and pouring paint was an expansion of Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings



Pro Skateboarder Beatrice Domond Melds Skateboarding and Fine Art in “American Tourist” at Strada Gallery, NYC


EXPERIENTIAL


Step Into Recreations of Edward Hopper’s Masterpieces at a Birthday Extravaganza; Neighborhood will stage its own kind of immersive experience, with a live clown, no less; Without massive projections but rather with large-scale, interactive installations


Monumental Site-Specific Installations by Morag Myerscough Stoke Community and a Sense of Belonging


When Paris Built the Greatest Show on Earth



Experimenting with AI and Film; Trailer 'Gog And Magog'



New Music Video: David Lynch Theater Presents: The Answers to the Questions (Official Video)


SURF


The Indomitable Duke Kahanamoku: A Little-Remembered Vendetta By Honolulu’s Business Elite Lasted For Years And Crippled Him Economically
; Duke in Hollywood!


What AI Could Mean for Surfboard Shaping


ARCHITECTURE


Architectural Drawings at the Edge of Reality; At the Norwegian National Museum, architects employ the foundational skill of their craft to push against the limitations of contemporary construction

‘Crazed Egomaniacs Who Want to Subjugate Us’; A Brief History of Architects in Film


These 9 Symmetrical Buildings Are (Very) Satisfying; Old or new, these congruent constructions are perfect backdrops for Wes Anderson’s next film


A Brief Compendium of Historical Maximalism


Eight Notable Projects by Late Architect Fumihiko Maki


Live Out Your Desert-Island Fantasies in Sweden



Lowriders at the Petersen Museum


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New Yorker: Kanye West Bought an Architectural Treasure, Then Gave It a Violent Remix; How the hip-hop star’s beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy turned a beach house in Malibu, designed by the Japanese master Tadao Ando, into a ruin


Exploring 6 Iconic Works of Rem Koolhaas

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Click to Find Books + Authors

Douglas Murray: The Fight to Recover What Has Been Lost; Between two world wars and a mental breakdown, T.S. Eliot still believed in the possibility of restoration


‘Bitter Crop’ Review: Billie Holiday’s Swan Song; In final year of her life, Holiday continued to perform in spite of fast-declining health; Turned to friends such as Elizabeth Hardwick, Sonny Rollins and Frank Sinatra; Spoke with them about her pride in her career—and her premonition of her own death

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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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A Collection of Record Label Logos


Two Drawing Shows Dazzle at the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College

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More Fabric and Textile Arts, Click Here


Meet Basil Kincaid, the Artist-Quilter Making a Splash in Miami Beach; For the residency's twelfth year, the Rubell Museum leans into textile art


Aerial Embroidery by Victoria Rose Richards

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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

I Speak for the Rainmaker; Performing the Fundraiser Role In The Nonprofit Art World

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Click for Ceramic Works and Shows


Politics On a Plate: How Ceramics Became A Tool For Satire And Protest; New Exhibition Celebrates The ‘Trojan Horse’ Of The Decorative Arts


Ceramic Artist Toshiko Takaezu Is Getting A Posthumous Reappraisal, Thanks To Her Devoted Acolytes — And Major Shows Highlighting Her Poetic Forms

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Click Here: New Works of Distinction


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


Crafted in Wood

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Click Here for this Week's Innovations

The Gallery of the Future: Navigating the Evolving World of Digital Art; People will always crave a personal connection to art, and the value of in-person experiences will likely rise, not diminish, with digital access

The Prophets: Marshall McLuhan

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Click for Works Devoted to Experience

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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Click on New Works + Music Makers


10 More Songs Inspired by Artists That You Need to Know; Max Ernst, Picasso, Debussy, Lou Reed, John Cale, Del Rey and More

Interview: Deep listening; The Haunting Sonic World of Cassandra Miller; Her intimate compositions take existing melodies that she refracts, rethinks and expands into compelling new pieces. Ahead of the premiere of a new work for guitarist Sean Shibe, Cassandra Millers talks about process, pleasures and sleep chanting

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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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Speak, 'Muse;' Tell Us the History of the Brancusi; An Angry Widow, Unscrupulous Dealer, Rape and Murder

Andrew Crispo, Disgraced Manhattan Gallery Owner, Dies At 78; Long series of tabloid-worthy scandal; “It was a horror show”

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New Trailers, Film Reviews, News!


Trailer, New Max Series: 'City of God: The Fight Rages On' Based on the acclaimed crime thriller "City of God" (2002)


Official Teaser 'A Complete Unknown' Actor Timothée Chalamet is Bob Dylan; Film By James Mangold; Co-starring Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook and Scoot McNairy

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We Celebrate the Engines of the Art World


Video: Meet the Collectors: Eugenio López Alonso and His Museo Jumex, a Cultural Landmark in Mexico City


10 Well Heeled New York Collectors to Know

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Water Rises Around Vibrant Architectural Models in James Casebere’s Haunting Photos; At Sean Kelly, New York/Los Angeles


Photographer Rahim Fortune Examines Heritage, Ritual, and Black Culture’s Enduring Traditions in the American South

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Amazing Mother Nature, Click Here

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


Mando Marie “Take Me Down” at Straat Gallery, Amsterdam

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