Tim Schneider: The Art Business Has a Gen Z Blindspot; It's time to face up to the cultural rift dividing the under-30 crowd
Artists Brace for High Production Costs Amid Tariffs Chaos; From glass to steel to plywood, popular materials for sculptures and installations may be less accessible as Trump’s policies change day by day
To See the Humble Work of Ruth Asawa, the Ticket Price is Extravagant; SFMOMA leads U.S. in art museum ticket prices
FILM DIRECTORS WITH PHOTO SHOWS
How Wim Wenders Sees The World Through The Lens; Talks about his new Berlin photography exhibition, his constant travels, and future plans
Letter From Georgia O’Keeffe That Changed Yayoi Kusama’s Life; Artists maintained a years-long correspondence, one that altered the young artist's career trajectory
BOOKS + WORDS
New Yorker Fiction:'The Trouble with Mrs. Blynn, the Trouble with the World' by Patricia Highsmith
Think Shakespeare Left His Wife? This Newly Discovered Letter Tells a Different Story; Document suggests that Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway had more of a shared life than previously thought
New Criterion: Life Sentences: The Art Of Joseph Conrad; On Joseph Conrad’s Achievements
Nate Freeman: I Asked the State Department What Was Up With the Venice Biennale. Then Things Got Interesting; Confusion has swirled around whether the Trump government would put forth an artist at next year’s edition of the art world Olympics. Now it looks to be happening, with some MAGA-fied criteria
Less Art, Doug Harvey: A Bus Ride Tour To The Center Of The Earth
SALUTING SARGENT
How John Singer Sargent’s ‘Madame X’ Turned Paris High Society Upside Down; Wanton! Haughty! Sexual!
Julia Friedman: 'Exhibition Note' On "Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men," at the Getty Center, Los Angeles
WHO IS ROBBIE WILLIAMS?
Hanging Up His Anxiety; Brit Pop Star Robbie Williams Is ‘Embracing the Chaos’ in His Candid New London Art Show
DIGITAL ART WORLD
‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled; Letter says many of works being sold by Christie’s are made by AI models trained on pieces by human artists, without a licence
To Gaze: "I need to remind myself every day to stop, for a second, and look at the world I’m trying to build in. That’s why I love this poem."
ART NOIR
Forgers and Fraudsters Trusted Him For Decades — But He Was An Undercover FBI Art Detective!
Excerpt from New Book,'Warhol’s Muses': Park Avenue Princess Jane Holzer Thought Andy Warhol Could Make Her a Star. Instead, She Helped Him Reach a New Level of Fame; Winning Friends and Influencing People
Review: Collective of Lesbian Activists Is a Fierce Family; Show highlighting work by members of the collective fierce pussy presents them not out on the streets, but communing with one another, like family
BOOKS + WORDS
Review: 'A Year of Last Things' By Michael Ondaatje, A Connoisseur of Atmospheres; Author of 'The English Patient' returns to poetry with a valedictory collection that is at home with the unknown and the romance of the incomplete
Past Tense: Our Historical Fiction Hang-Ups; On the popularity of historical novels
John Patrick Shanley Wrestles with God and Destiny; Playwright stages boxerly confrontations in a revival of “Doubt,” starring Liev Schreiber and Amy Ryan, and in the new show “Brooklyn Laundry,” with Cecily Strong
How Quinta Brunson Hacked the Sitcom; With “Abbott Elementary,” the comedian and writer found fresh humor and mass appeal in a world she knew well.
THREADS
Kerri Dick, Chilkat Weaver of Wonders, Dies at 41; Her artistry fused traditional carving, weaving, and beading techniques that she learned from family members and ancestors
Dodgers Collaborate With Japanese Artist Takashi Murakami On Merchandise Again. Here's How To Get It !
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)
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?
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 !
BRAVING OPPRESSION
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
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..."
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 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
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
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
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.”
The Dark Bob 'Songs for Artists' Trucker's Cap with Mesh Air Conditioning
PHOTOGRAPHY
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
HEALTH + BEAUTY
'Appreciate Everything Endlessly' CircleArt Embroidered Apron Free Shipping!
GOSSIP GETS GOOD AGAIN! ROSTER REELS! SPECULATION RAMPANT! SPLITTING HEIRS?
Is the Octogenarian Ready for Reading and Napping? Global Empire Sale Rumors? Career Change? Retirement? Larry Gagosian Buys Quaint East Hampton Bookshop Bookhampton
KOYO KOUOH (1967-2025)
Koyo Kouoh: ‘Ensuring The Door Remains Wide Open For Those Who Come Next’; First African woman to curate the Venice art biennale has died. Here we publish a piece she wrote for the Guardian after taking up the role...
The Art World: What If…?!, Interview with Koyo Kouoh, Part 2; "I think that there is this kind of disconnect that a lot of visual arts spaces globally have with the audience or with the public that a lot of people say, “I don't understand it. I don't get it."
Did Andy Warhol Exploit His Superstars? A New Book Says Yes.; Laurence Leamer, the author of “Capote’s Women” and “Hitchcock’s Blondes,” takes the measure of another powerful man and his female muses
War Correspondent, Action Photographer and Fashion Model Lee Miller ‘Buried’ Frontline War Experiences; WWII PTSD: ‘Put up and shut up’; “The left-hand smoke plume on the mountain behind them is [Adolf] Hitler’s house burning; the right-hand smoke plume is a forest fire or something,” Miller wrote, “At the time the SS were still about.”
Art Keeps the Memory of Protest Movements Alive; Juliet Jacques revisits books, film and art which commemorate the 40th anniversary of the British miners’ strike and working class politics
Leonardo da Vinci Loved Birds; Not only did he try to unlock their secrets of flight, he also advocated for their humane treatment
SIMPLY SIDDHARTHA
Piprahwa Gems Auction On Hold At Sotheby’s After India Legal Threat; Government Says It Will Discuss Repatriating Gems Linked To Buddha’s Remains To India With Sotheby’s And The Sellers
WEST COAST
NYT on Geffen Installation Plans
Los Angeles as Site for Diasporic Ghosts; In paintings, ceramics, and installations, Rachel Hakimian Emenaker depicts scenes of gentrification, religion, and homeland; At Grand Central Art Center, Fullerton
ART + COMMERCE
Artists and Their Estates Find Opportunities —and Challenges— in Licensing Deals; From Kehinde Wiley to Kara Walker, more fine artists are licensing their work to brands, navigating new opportunities and new controversies
Luxury Brands are Quietly Quitting the Art World Again; Ad buys and collabs in the arts dry up whenever high-end retailers face cash crunches
CalArts and Chanel (Fashion House) Culture Fund Launch Center for Artists and Tech With AI Focus
End of Investment Art? Why The Bottom Of The Market Is Flourishing
ARCHITECTURE
See it! Paul Williams Designed; LA Property With Hollywood History Poised To Sell For The First Time In Decades: ‘A truly magnificent, almost fossilized home’
Hagia Sophia: Secrets of the 1,600-Year-Old Megastructure That Has Survived The Collapse of Empires
PERFORMANCE
Lana Del Rey Goes Country with Song About Kissing Morgan Wallen and Having 57.5 Mil Spotify Listeners at Stunning Stagecoach Show
Rolling Stone: Lana Del Rey Transforms Stagecoach Into a Romantic, Bayou Fairytale
Historic and Iconic Wayne Thiebaud Painting Heads to Auction for the First Time in 60 Years; "Pie a la Mode" featured in the first exhibition of Pop art in 1962
The Story of The Met's 'Missing' Banksy; Illicitly hung on the wall in 2005; New York Museum's Former Security Head Admits To Taking The Street Artist's Work
LAWRENCE WESCHLER
DISNEY'S BEAUTIFUL BRAIN
EILEEN GRAY, INFLUENTIAL DESIGNER
MoMA’s Feminist Future: A Picture Of Eileen Gray
KINKADE'S KLOSET
Less Art: Thomas Kinkade “Art for Everybody” Documentary Review by Doug Harvey; “I want to paint the truth”
The Darkness of Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light; One of a new documentary’s most intriguing strands is the way that brand seemed to eclipse the man, according to his own family
MUSIC IN ART
ARCHITECTURE
The Hidden Histories Lost in the Los Angeles Fires; Many great modernist houses were burned, but a monument of German culture in exile survived
See the Historic Frank Lloyd Wright Home, Gifted to Chicago University; The Emil Bach Home is Chicago's last remaining example of Wright's prairie-style designs
More Nick Taggart on IG
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
ARCHITECTURE: IT'S BRUTAL!
LOVE SONGS FOR ARTISTS
MONSIEUR NOUAR: LE FRANCAIS BUSTER KEATON
JOHN WATERS
The Comedian!?
"When I was young, there were beatniks. Hippies. Punks. Gangsters. Now you've got hacktivist. Which I would probably be if I was 20. Shuttin' down MasterCard. But there's no look to that lifestyle! Besides just wearing a bad outfit with bad posture. Has WikiLeaks caused a look? No! I'm mad about that. If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, it seems to me he should at least have an outfit for that." ~ John Waters, on the sorry style of today's rebels
From the Archives: John Waters: Subversive Success; The enigmatic auteur on his weird childhood, the sorry style of today's rebels and the social importance of bad taste
John Waters and the Relativity of Shock Value
At the Baltimore Museum of Art, the John Waters Collection Doesn’t Hate You, but Contemporary Art Still Might
ARCHITECTURE
The Lost Gardens of New York City
What to See at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025: This year’s must-see shows range from a Nordic Pavilion exploring transgender spaces to a compelling Lebanese project confronting the realities of ecocide
Podcast: The 15 Minute City, the New Urban Planning Concept
Art Report Today 's In-House DJ Valihi Recommends This New 53-Minute Mix Featuring Jan Blomqvist with a Live Set from the Mojave Desert
BRAVING OPPRESSION
How the Regime Captured Wikipedia; Inside the cultural revolution at wikipedia, which pivoted it from a decentralized database of all the world's knowledge to a top-down social activism and advocacy machine
WOMEN'S WORK
Everyday Lives of Women’s Clothing; Real Clothes, Real Lives shows that women have adapted their attire to accommodate their daily activities with resourcefulness and panache
Pocket Guide to Women Artists Overlooked by History; Concise, pithy, and accessible, Susie Hodge’s "The Short Story of Women Artists: A Pocket Guide to Movements, Works, Breakthroughs & Themes" introduces readers to artists forgotten and obscured, many of whom are now rightly being reassessed
Older Women Artists Go It Alone As New Report Reveals How The Traditional Art World Is Failing Them; More than half of artists (55%) say they are selling work independently of galleries and advisers, with women over 65 leading the way; Meanwhile their younger counterparts struggle more acutely with living costs
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
VIDEO
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
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
SIZE MATTERS
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?
In Austerity, Big Euro Luxury Brands Bet on Exhibitions to Reach China’s ‘Forgotten’ Middle Class
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
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
‘The Art Institution of Tomorrow’ by Fatoş Üstek, Reviewed; "There’s no doubt that today’s art institutions are f**ked"
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
There Are At Least 906 Blattecke
The Story of a Long Lost Jasper Johns; 'Gastro' Made in Tokyo 1964
Art History Majors Face Highest Unemployment Rates, Report Shows; But other data shows that art history and art degrees are still popular
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.
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
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
MEXICO CITY ART WEEK
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
DESIGN
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
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"
BEST OF THE WEEK with JERRY GOGOSIAN
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