POP GOES THE EASEL: DEREK BOSHIER
Less Art: RIP Derek Boshier, a Brilliant Talent and a Career of Bad Timing
British Pop Art Pioneer Derek Boshier Dies Aged 87; Portsmouth-born, working-class artist was known for collaborations with David Bowie and the Clash
Must See Video: 'Pop Goes The Easel' In an early short film, famed filmmaker Ken Russell created a portrait of artists Peter Blake, Peter Phillips, Derek Boshier and Pauline Boty; Boshier says "(Re: American advertising infiltration) The Englishman starts with at the breakfast table, starting with the Corn Flake (boxes)"
Doug Harvey: Derek Boshier, Modern Painter
ARTILLERY: ADIOS TULSA!
Tulsa Kinney, founder and 18-year editor of L.A.'s Artillery magazine, passes the baton to new publisher Daniela Soberman. Kinney's final column has a great deal to say about a life in the arts and a life in the arts media. There is much to read between the lines.
What Happened to the Armory Show? Is this year’s fair a reflection of a tired, oversaturated, and complacent art market, or am I looking for excitement and discovery where they can no longer be found?
Nicole Eisenman At The Tipping Point; a Midcareer Renaissance, Demolishing the Past and Finding The Future
More than Skin Deep: Artists, Performance and Tattoos
Kim Fay in Detroit: Quinn Faylor at Playground Detroit
Yau: Eric Avery’s Healing Art; In a career that stretches across a catastrophic half-century of health crises and wars, Avery applies his activist and empathetic social conscience to all he does
Pulp Fiction Cover Art at the Martin Museum of Art, Waco
ARCHITECTURE
Zaha Hadid and the Messner Mountain Museum Corones
Here's the Latest Progress and Pics on the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
The House That Launched Frank Lloyd Wright’s Career Hits the Market; Winslow House was Wright's first commission as an independent architect
The Pink Guggenheim; Once a work of art is finished it is difficult to imagine that at some point in history it could have been different
VIVA LAS VEGAS!
This (Vegas) museum is a ridiculous idea and I would respect it all a lot more if it were built to resemble a fake Louvre. ~Carolina A. Miranda
Las Vegas Places a Bet on a New Art Museum, With Help From L.A.; City agreed to give land to a museum championed by the casino magnate Elaine Wynn, which will be a partnership with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Katsilometes: Vegas Museum Will Be True Work of Art
Las Vegas Museum Names Architect; Choice Out of Govan's Playbook, Diebedo Francis Kere, Pritzker-prize-winner; $200M Building
Christopher Knight: Why ‘Art & Science Collide’ is a Risky Theme For The Getty’s New PST Festival
Kim Fay in Detroit: Daniel Cascardo at Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center
The Seafaring Art-Lovin' One Percent: Want to Show Your Priceless Paintings on The High Seas? This Niche New Service Specializes in Art on Yachts
Cady Noland Tire Swing
220 people. 25 minutes. 4 gymnasts. And 1 doctor. Designer Rick Owens’s longtime casting director Angus Munro reveals what went into the designer’s behemoth Spring/Summer 2025 show—and other tales from 17 years in Owens’s universe
Richard Serra T Party; Serra For The Home
Invisible World of ‘Smell Artist’ Sissel Tolaas; Scientist and artist wants to change the world through art and smell. Her work can be sniffed at the Met's "Sleeping Beauties." Pompeii is next
Unboxing the Cheech: The Cheech's long-term health will depend on cultivating a broad donor base, and "Shifting Perspectives: : Cheech Collects" shows how that's already happening
Rainey Knudson: The God on a Train Story ... ... Download a PDF of Conversation with God here
New Yorker Cartoons for the Week!
BEST OF THE WEEK with JERRY GOGOSIAN
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Gordy Grundy: Introducing Our Fundraiser, Art Drop Editions; Artist Sandow Birk Honors Ed Ruscha in only the best way! Touche!
New Music Video! "The Museum's On Fire (for Ed Ruscha)" by The Dark Bob
What Did BLUM Take to Seoul '24?
Kenny Schachter: Schachter Can’t Paint, But He Can Reveal High-Level Hijinks in the Art World. (Just Don’t Call Him a Gossip!) Jeff Koons and Pace have parted ways, a major Magritte has been backed by a major guarantee, and our columnist has opened a new show in Cologne
Thomas Houseago Went to Hell and Back, Ending Up in Malibu. His first NYC gallery show in a decade exorcises many demons
Parade of 100 Elephant Sculptures Makes a Jumbo Entrance in New York; Life-sized sculptures were made by indigenous artisans—and you can buy one to support wildlife conservation
ART BUSINESS
Artnet's Intelligence Report: Mid-Year Review 2024; Latest biannual report delves into the art market reset, as the industry rides the waves of change; Read your future, Click Here
Choppy Waters Ahead For The Art Market
Seattle's Bellevue Arts Museum Closes, Citing ‘Significant Financial Challenges’
Alexandre Lenoir’s Paintings Are More Elaborate Than You Can Imagine; Artist has created an artistic language of his own making — a “grammar in the studio,” as he puts it
Cuban Artist Julio Larraz’s 80-Year ‘Artistic Odyssey’ Is Highlighted in Traveling Exhibition
Stromberg: The Craziest Art in Los Angeles May Be Underground; Exhibition at Superchief Gallery explores the work of Operation Under, a collective of artists using subterranean tunnels as their canvas
The Telegraph: We’re Trapped In A Neverending Cycle of Nostalgia – And It’s Terrible For The Arts
Yoshitomo Nara And The Dark Side Of Japanese 'Cuteness'
Hammer Launches Collection Website ... ... See the New Site!
The Genius of Banksy’s London Animal Murals
Chinese Artist Detained For 'Insulting' Mao Sculptures; Arrested Visiting Relatives in China
The Little-Known Business of Traveling Exhibitions Is Booming: L.A.'s Curatorial Takes the Lead
A Truck Exhibition On Bodily Autonomy Is Traveling Cross-Country; Body Freedom For Every(Body), a rotating art show, will make stops in 12 cities this fall
The Roth Bar Is Transforming the Gallery Experience at Hauser & Wirth Somerset; Decade after it was first exhibited at the gallery's Somerset location, artist Oddur Roth brings back the sybaritic installation for visitors to enjoy on tap
One Fine Show: ‘Patterns in Abstraction’ at the High Museum of Art
In a New Show at Gladstone, Alissa Bennett Unpacks the Mystery Novel ‘The Secret History’; Gallery director walks us through the group exhibition she organized based on the 1992 Donna Tartt novel
'Richard Serra Early Work'
See What Vielmetter Packed for the Armory Show, 2024: Math Bass, Whitney Bedford, Liz Glynn, Sadie Benning, Kwesi Botchway, Nicole Eisenman, Edgar Arceneaux, Deborah Roberts, Karl Haendel, Sara Berman, Lavaughan Jenkins, Mario Joyce, Pope.L, Nate Lewis, Carlos Rolòn, Yashua Klos, April Bey, Amy Myers, Raffi Kalenderian, and Tam Van Tran
Kim Fay in Detroit: Andre Barker at M Contemporary Art
Eight Essential Books About Surrealism
Interview: The Moment That Ended Nick Cave's 'Disgraceful Self-Indulgence'
Brazilian Conceptual Artist Steals Historic Coin From the British Museum; Ilê Sartuzi replaced a silver coin with a replica and deposited the original in a museum donation box in a commentary on cultural theft
Art Diverts Revolution: Excerpts from Philip Leider’s account of traveling with Joan Jonas and Richard Serra from Berkeley to see Michael Heizer’s Double Negative
Michael Heizer’s 'Double Negative'
How The Middle East Became The Biggest Players In Western Art
Netflix’s Co-Founder Will Redevelop Utah Resort Into A ‘Skiable Outdoor Art Museum’; Large-Scale Installations By James Turrell, Jenny Holzer, Paul Mccarthy And Others Will Be Fully Unveiled In 2026
Matt Stromberg: How Five Women Artists Made It Happen in 1970s LA; Two-part, bicoastal exhibition centers a group of artists united by their commitment to feminism, subversive humor, and distinctively DIY spirit
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The Geometry in Motion of Nancy Holt; Survey at Gropius Bau frames Holt as an artist committed to the human body’s actions and dimensions, and its perceptual and cognitive boundaries
MONSIEUR NOUAR: LE FRANCAIS BUSTER KEATON
Sur le Podium pour la Fashion Week ; Partie 2
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VIVA LOS ANGELES!
Interview: Anarchy, Artist Sandow Birk, and His Wild "Los Angeles County Museum On Fire (After Ed Ruscha)"; Print drops Sept. 17, 18, 19
GEORGIA ON MY MIND
Magnificent! First Exhibition of Georgia O’Keeffe’s New York Paintings Now on View in Chicago; Overlooked by NY institutions and the male art world, the artist’s experimental depictions of skyscrapers get their own exhibition a century later
One Fine Show: ‘Georgia O’Keeffe, My New Yorks’ at the Art Institute of Chicago; O’Keeffe's images of the city draw our attention to a subject many might find spiritually barren but is, in fact, teeming with mystery
Paul McCarthy Throwing Out Vast Installation No Institution Or Collector Stepped In To Preserve; Last year, the artist put his 2013 installation “WS White Snow” on show in a Los Angeles warehouse in hopes of finding a long-term custodian
Prepare For BravinLee Editions Artist Rugs and Willie Cole
Helen Pashgian, a Pioneer of California’s Light and Space Movement, Continues to Produce Work that Astounds
BRAVO MOHN!
Jarl and Pamela Mohn Gift 260 Works to 3 Museums, Joint Ownership by the Hammer, LACMA, and MOCA
Rainey Knudson: The Fascinating Benjamin Franklin Miniature at MFAH and a Life Well-Lived
PAGEANT OF THE MASTERS
Pageant of the Masters Was Even Weirder Than I Thought, and Also Insanely Cool
Video Clip from the Comedy Classic 'Arrested Development' Goes to the Pageant
Here Are Some of Our Favorite ‘Childless Cat Ladies’ of Art History; Cats and women have been linked in visual culture since Ancient Egypt
EXPERIENTIAL
Inside Brooklyn’s Very Own Immersive “Clown Cult”; Bi-monthly variety show gathers both newcomers and veterans of the craft to help participants discover “the power in cringe”
Kansas Is Getting an Immersive Museum, Complete With a Digital Art Wing; Museum anticipates up to 175,000 visitors per year
The Year Brancusi Spent Walking From Bucharest to Paris; “My life,” Brancusi once said, “has been a succession of marvelous events.”
Kenny Schachter on the Art Economy
‘It’s a Profound Legacy’: Wendy Red Star on Carrying the Mantle of Her Ancestors; Wendy Red Star opened her most recent exhibition "Bíikkua" at Roberts Projects in Los Angeles earlier this summer
Wendy Red Star's Stunning Summer Display in "Bíikkua (The Hide Scraper)"
Olafur Eliasson’s Show in Istanbul Questions Our Perception of Environments; "Your unexpected encounter" bridges the gap between art, science and activism, fostering a holistic understanding of the climate crisis
ART BUSINESS
Global Art Market Braces For Stormy Weather
Heat Waves and Mega Storms Are Creating New Challenges for Art Storage and Logistics
Here’s What it Costs to Run a Gallery in the Las Vegas Arts District
How Art Mogul and Publisher Louise Blouin Lost Her Fabled Hamptons Estate
Summering with the Surrealists: Sea, Sex and Sun
ARCHITECTURE
"I visited the Sphere, Las Vegas’ newest venue. It’s a bucket-list item"
Architects: Unsuitable Cases for Stardom? New biography of Philip Johnson reveals the contradictions and ambiguities of the world’s first ‘starchitect’
Why Do We Obsess Over Unpopulated Architecture? Minoru Nomata’s paintings of fictional structures lament the buildings that embodied political movements striving for greater equality
Video: 'I've Been To The Year 3000' From Underwater Towers To A ‘Self-Replicating’ Cocoon Hotel; Incredible Pics Reveal Skyscrapers Of The Future
Choi + Shine Architects Collaborate with Communities Around the Globe to Crochet Monumental Lace Works
BLUM Adds Sam Moyer to the Roster
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