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A Beautiful Deep Dive Into Our Worldwide Arts + Culture

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Bob Dylan Rolls Out a Show of Nearly 100 New Paintings in London; "Point Blank" presents the musical icon's most intimate series of paintings yet


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



New York’s Oldest Alternative Art Space, White Columns 2025 Fundraiser Print Portfolio Just Dropped; $1,000, Edition: 100


To See the Humble Work of Ruth Asawa, the Ticket Price is Extravagant; SFMOMA leads U.S. in art museum ticket prices


From Southwest Contemporary .com
Artist's Essay: A Familial Origin Story 'The Neon Guardian of Ogden'


FILM DIRECTORS WITH PHOTO SHOWS


Yorgos Lanthimos: Photographs, at Mack and Webber; First Show for the Filmmaker

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


Book Review: “Camille Pissarro: The Audacity of Impressionism” by by Anka Muhlstein; Pioneering artists like Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Frédéric Bazille, and Berthe Morisot, and later by younger colleagues like Paul Gauguin and Georges Seurat; The unlikely story behind Impressionism’s difficult origins is especially heartening for artists reading today, who are reminded that the artist’s struggle is a universal experience

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


Tosh Berman: Calling Dr. Mabuse; The Seductive Appeal of Fantomas and Dr. Mabuse


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



Yves Klein’s Estate Sued Stuart Semple Over His Blue Paint—And Won; Semple didn't realize the color wars had led him to court—and that a judge had found him guilty of infringement


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!


Tender Specificity of John Singer Sargent; What comes through most strongly in the Met Museum exhibition is his humanistic bent: Sargent loved people, and it shows


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


Why Robbie Williams Says Being Portrayed As a Chimp in the Recent Feature Film 'Better Man' Is 'Genius'



How to Look at Jack Whitten’s Unforgettable Painting ‘9.11.01’; It's one of the most powerful paintings of recent times. Yet it still contains much to unpack


DIGITAL ART WORLD


The Lacanian Sex-Wish of ‘Clickolding’; new viral game traps its users in a room with a mysterious figure goading them to keep clicking. Do we expect anything else from our perennially online, sexless and transactional times?

‘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


A.I. Art Generated With Text Prompts Cannot Be Copyrighted, U.S. Rules


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."



We Love Dog Lovers! Turns Out, Light Artist Dan Flavin Was Also a Dog Show Dad; Flavin dedicated not one but two of his huge installations to his golden retriever



On Willem de Kooning: A Conversation with Artist Albert Oehlen and Writer-Curator John Corbett


ART NOIR

Forgers and Fraudsters Trusted Him For Decades — But He Was An Undercover FBI Art Detective!


An Art Fraud Case That Is Bonkers Even by Florida Standards; Coconut Grove dealer is facing up to 30 years in prison for allegedly selling fake Warhols. And he’s been pulling these stunts for decades. Why does this stuff always go down in the Sunshine State?


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.



Ai Weiwei Designs Large-Scale Camouflage Installation For New York on Roosevelt Island



ArtReview: Takashi Murakami: Something Like a Phenomenon; From 2007, J.J. Charlesworth probes Murakami’s attitude to making culture, both inside and outside the artworld


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


Pioneering Textile Artist Tina Girouard Is Finally Getting Her Due


Tyrell Tapaha’s Transgressive Navajo Weaving


Dodgers Collaborate With Japanese Artist Takashi Murakami On Merchandise Again. Here's How To Get It!



Broad Expands, Backed by Billion-Dollar Endowment; Increase gallery space about 70 percent; Expected to open in time for the 2028 Olympics

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)


Jack Goldstein and the Art of Spectacle

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?


Video: Jack Goldstein's "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer" (1975), Recreated in HD


Selection of Jack Goldstein's Artworks on Artnet

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!



New Criterion: Paintings About Painting; On “Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Post-War France, 1946–62,” at the Grey Art Museum, New York


BRAVING OPPRESSION


Video, Doc: A History of Entertainment Made By North Korea

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


What a Long-Banned Film Reveals About Thailand’s Political Agenda; There’s more than meets the eye in 'Shakespeare Must Die.' Saga of the Thai film in light of a longstanding ban being overturned this year


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..."



Still Life Painting That Is Anything But Still; Judith Linhares’s works comprise just a few elements, yet they are bodied forth in endless permutations that convey both whimsy and menace



Diana Horowitz 'Light is a Place' at Bookstein Projects

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 War and Contemporary Ceramics at Auction


Must See! This Turkish Artist Duo Mines History to Create Ceramics That Probe the Present Condition; Ertuğrul Güngör and Faruk Ertekin are the subject of their first European solo show with Anna Laudel gallery in Düsseldorf



Zooming Trippy Infinity! How Much Detail Do Your Paintings Hold? Click Here to Go Down the Rabbit Hole!


'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



Book Review: Reading Georgia O’Keeffe Along Lines of Class and Race; New book "Georgia O’Keeffe: The Late Work" by Randall C. Griffin sets its sights on the artist’s lesser-known post-war career and her negotiations of identity



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


Podcast, Sponsored by the Menil Collection: 'The Rise of Immersive Spaces' with Glasstire's Jessica Fuentes, Gabriel Martinez, and Brandon Zech

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


Monika Kinner: Prairie Land Thread Paintings


Yvonne Wells Started Quilting at 40. Now, at 85, the Art World Is Finally Taking Notice


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, parts


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.”



Nancy Baker Cahill 'Seismic' at Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles


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What is Bel Ami in Los Angeles Putting in Their Saddlebag for the Dallas Invitational?


PHOTOGRAPHY


A Mother and Daughter’s Joint Becoming; Magdalena Wywrot’s moody series “Pestka” captures eleven years in the life that she made with her only child, Barbara


The Surreal, and Sometimes Terrifying, Costumes of Mardi Gras; Photographer Jason Gardner Spent 15 Years Traveling The World To Document Spectacular Holiday Outfits

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


Photographer Kelli Connell’s Queer Americana; She does not refuse the romanticized American landscape that Edward Weston and Charis Wilson helped visualize, but her photographs filter it through a lens of lesbian desire


America’s Greatest Portrait Photographer, Richard Avedon, Had A Knack For Revealing The Humanity of Larger-Than-Life Celebrities at the Phoenix Art Museum


Chasing the Mafia: The Wild, Vespa-Riding Life of Photographer Letizia Battaglia; In pictures


HEALTH + BEAUTY


Is Marina Abramovic’s “Longevity Method” for Profit or a Performance?


Want a Limited Edition Artwork Tattooed On Your Skin? Berlin is the place to go; City’s tattoo studios are booming while the art world flounders. Under a new initiative, buyers receive exclusive rights to an artist’s new design, and the artist receives 50% of the profit; Certificate of Authenticity


The Art of Sutherland Macdonald, Victorian England’s “Michelangelo of Tattooing” (ca. 1905)



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New Yorker Cartoons for the Week!



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



Doug Harvey's Less Art: Guest Columnist Steve Hurd: Field Trip Report From The Desert Lighthouse

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 1; "Because I strongly believe that art is something that we only know we don't have when we don't have it. It's like health, so to speak."

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



Tony Smith's 1967 Sculpture "Smoke" Installed at Geffen Galleries


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.”



Olafur Eliasson Pattern Detection; "Looking at Olafur Eliasson’s 2024 stained glass project, 'Window for Moving Light' led to a realization..."



‘A Year of Rest and Relaxation’ Embraces Uneasy Intimacies; At Croy Nielsen, Vienna, a group show uses desire, memory and tedium to inspect the hidden realities behind everyday life


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



Interview: Isaac Julien Returns to the Cutting Room Floor of History; “I want to call attention to how you look,” the artist known for his multi-channel film installations says of I Dream a World, his first US museum survey to date



Leonardo da Vinci Loved Birds; Not only did he try to unlock their secrets of flight, he also advocated for their humane treatment



Artist Ian Mwesiga Crafts Seductive, Eerie Paintings That Challenge Reality; We spoke with the Ugandan artist about his blue-hued, metaphysical paintings



Painter Gentileschi (1593-1653) and Scientist Galileo (1564-1642) Were Pen Pals; Artist's relationship with the scientist may have informed her depiction of blood



Black Holes, Luna Moths, Marfa Lights, and Dreaming: An Interview with Virginia L. Montgomery


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


Whither The Gem Relics of Piprahwa? "I’m trying to modulate the moral, ethical, and spiritual effrontery"


WEST COAST

NYT on Geffen Installation Plans


LACMA Collectors Pick $2.5 Million Worth of Art; See What's In Their Shopping Cart!

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


Fascinating Bio: John Humble, Photographer Who Captured LA’s Contradictions, Dies at 81; For five decades, Humble focused his lens on areas of the city often overlooked or dismissed, from its industrial infrastructure to its mom-and-pop storefronts


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




Kenny Schachter’s Uptown World; The Packed Townhouse of a Downtown Art-Scene Refugee



Performance Art Star Anne Imhof’s New Passion Is Sculpting in Bronze; Countless art historical precedents



Why Joseph Beuys Spent Three Days Locked Up With a Coyote; The small animal plays an outsize role in various Native American cosmologies


Why Are Hiroshige’s Woodblock Prints Still So Moving? Artist subverts the status system of 19th-century Japan, foreshadowing the impact of modernization and industrialization


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’


Founder’s Church of Religious Science Drawing on the church’s philosophy of wholeness and positivity, the architect Paul Williams designed a Modern-style, elliptically-shaped building meant to enhance feelings of inclusion


Las Vegas’ Modernist Guardian Angel Cathedral (1963) and the Legacy of Architect Paul R. Williams


Dug By Hand In Complete Secrecy; Under The Direction Of Oberto Airaudi, A Philospher And Artist; The Temples Of Humankind; In The Foothills of the Italian Alps

Hagia Sophia: Secrets of the 1,600-Year-Old Megastructure That Has Survived The Collapse of Empires


‘Cathedral of Crap’: Is This The World’s Most Beautiful Sewage Treatment Plant? "Minty green pagodas on the edge of the Irish Sea"


PERFORMANCE

Lana Del Rey Goes Country with Song About Kissing Morgan Wallen and Having 57.5 Mil Spotify Listeners at Stunning Stagecoach Show


Video: Lana Del Rey at Stagecoach 2025, in Indio, CA

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



"Don Bachardy: A Life in Portraits" at the Huntington; What a Life!; Through Aug. 4, 2025


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



Just Eat: The Artworld’s Strange Relationship With Food; Culinary experiences in the artworld are on the rise, but why does food need to be framed as ‘art’ in order to be considered something special?



Interview: How Kent Monkman Is Reclaiming History: ‘We’ve Always Been Here, and We Will Always Be Here’; Fisher River Cree Nation artist prompts museums and audiences to confront colonial legacies they’d rather forget



Inside teamLab’s Mind-Bending Immersive Wonderland in Abu Dhabi; Tokyo-based collective is unveiling its first purpose-built museum on Saadiyat Island, housing its most ambitious installations yet; Forest glows with vibrant projected butterflies and lights, transforming the scene into surreal bioluminescence


LAWRENCE WESCHLER


Deep dive into Giorgio Morandi by way of Robert Irwin, followed by a corridor full of bumbling New Yorker writers



Kim Fay in Detroit: Don Kilpatrick, III "Beneath The Frozen Suns" at M Contemporary


Yes, Artists Are Competitive! Why Did Leonardo and Michelangelo Have Beef? Each is an art historical legend in their own right, but what was the source of their rivalry?


DISNEY'S BEAUTIFUL BRAIN


Golden Age! Disney’s True Legacy Is The Innovation of The Charter City; America’s path to the golden age begins with the resurrection of his vision


Video: Walt Disney's E.P.C.O.T (1966); The great Disney explains his plan!


EILEEN GRAY, INFLUENTIAL DESIGNER


Eileen Gray’s Very Important Hermès Mailbox


Eileen Gray’s Eileen Gray Table


Eileen Gray’s Important Bedroom Furniture


Lights and Mirrors at Eileen Gray’s E-1027


Photo Tour Through E1027 By The Architects Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici With Murals By Le Corbusier

MoMA’s Feminist Future: A Picture Of Eileen Gray


Video: Beatriz Colomina "Battle lines: E. 1027" at SCI-Arc


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


Painting Jazz! Author John Szwed Identifies The Cross-Rhythms Between Painters and Jazz Musicians Throughout The Twentieth Century


Video: The Met Roof Garden Commission: Jennie C. Jones, Ensemble; Sculptures That Make wind-driven Music


Review: At the Hammer, Los Angeles Pays Homage to the Cool Trance of Alice Coltrane; Exhibition of the late musician and devoted spiritual leader effectively incorporates music, performance, and visual 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


This Amazing Technicolor Castle, Castello di Sammezzano; Hidden away in the Tuscan hills


Los Angeles County Approves Tar Pit Makeover; Renovate the aging Page Museum, add a second, two-story museum building and a new cafe

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



AI and Gunpowder! "Cai Guo-Qiang: A Material Odyssey" at USC Pacific Asia Museum



Less Art: Artist Steve Hurd on Nick Taggart, a Brit by Birth and an Angeleno at Heart

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Gordy Grundy: The Art of Elaine Wynn (1942 - 2025) A Life Well-Lived! An Artful Legacy!


The Hype at Coachella This Year? Billboards! Some of the hottest advertising space is deep in the California desert, where Lady Gaga, Charli XCX, Djo, Post Malone and more generate buzz for their festival sets



7 Standouts from Art Dubai 2025; Picturesque Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai hosts to the 18th edition of the fair house in multiple buildings alongside public art installations speckled across the property


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


Mercedes Grand Prix Car Raced By Stirling Moss Fetches Record £42.7M; Silver W196 R Stromlinienwagen Sold At Stuttgart Auction For Highest Amount Ever Made By A Grand Prix Car



ARCHITECTURE: IT'S BRUTAL!


Art Brut; Will Brutalism’s Greatest Legacy Be Its Influence On Artists?


Radical Statement or Eyesore? Japan’s Divisive Brutalist Buildings, In Pictures; Country is known for wooden and ceramic creations – yet many argue these concrete behemoths fit with Japan’s traditional aesthetics too


Women Who Build: As London's Architectural Association Celebrates 100 Years Of Female Students, Rediscovering The City Designed By Women


Backlash Builds: Why The Architecture World Hates 'The Brutalist'; Brady Corbet’s Oscar-tipped film is clearly based on real-life modernist master Marcel Breuer but brazenly misrepresents him and his revered modernism


LOVE SONGS FOR ARTISTS


The Dark Bob Sings Love Songs For Artists; Interview by Gordy Grundy: His New Double Album "Ekphrasis Synesthesia - Songs for Artists" Tells Tales of a Life in the Arts, Devoted Inspirations, the Birth of Performance Art and What Motivates the Courageous Few



Artist Jack Whitten: The Messenger



Through His Paintings, Gustavo Nazareno Brings His Afro-Brazilian Faith to the Global Stage



Wow! Northern Lights: How the Boreal Forest Inspired Artists of Canada and Scandinavia
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Gordy Grundy: How Does an Artist Say Goodbye To Lost Art Works?


JOHN WATERS


Tulsa Kinney: "John Waters’ Birthday Celebration: The Naked Truth" at The Wallis Theater; Generational Divide; 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


Ai Weiwei Designs Large-Scale Camouflage Installation For New York on Roosevelt Island

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



Our Fave Art Correspondent from Texas Rainey Knudson Has Been Counting Down Her 'Music 100,' a Love Letter to Song; While Listening to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, "Frogs," Her Short Prayer is Worth a Read
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One Gallery Represents Four Artists with New York Museum Surveys This Season. Is That a Problem?



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BRAVING OPPRESSION


Texas Schools Ban Lesson Over Exposed Nipple on Virginia Flag; “Nudity on a state flag is an absurd justification to censor a history lesson,” ACLU Staff Attorney Chloe Kempf


Historic Act of Diplomacy Freed This Russian Artist. Here’s the Subtle Protest That Got Her Locked Up; Sasha Skochilenko became an international symbol of Russia's crackdown on anti-war speech


Artwork Featuring Christ Overlaid With Looney Tunes Characters Removed By Sydney Council After Threats of Violence; Online protest claimed the work mocked the Christian religion and Liverpool mayor Ned Mannoun called for it to be taken down

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



Anna Weyant’s Jewelry-Inspired Paintings Set to Shine at TEFAF New York; Gagosian is debuting the painter's new body of work in a jewel box of a booth


WOMEN'S WORK


The Giant Women Who Stomped on Art World Invisibility; One lesson of this compact, extraordinary exhibition of feminist art is that if you’re being ignored, you can do whatever you want — so take up space!

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


“I Am Making the World My Confessor” Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman Writer from Butte

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


Danish Women Who Made Modernism Radical; New book invites us into the tight-knit circle of women modernists in late-19th-century Denmark through quietly subversive gestures; you’ll never look at a glove the same way again



Yau: Anything Can Happen in Geoffrey Todd Smith’s Paintings; Fresh and challenging, Smith’s art sits on the cusp between eccentric abstraction and automated sci-fi figures, and contributes to Chicago’s dense art history


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



Tosh Berman Discovers That Lucifer Is Very Much A Happy-Go-Lucky Guy; Kenneth Anger's Approach in "Lucifer Rising"



Kim Fay in Detroit: Detroit Artists Market at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit



Kent Monkman Meets Albert Bierstadt at the Timken



The Eighth Wonder of the World! Watch 'The Sphere,' 24 Hour Live Stream


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


Tulsa Kinney: Mike Kelley: Part Two



What is Vielmetter Taking to the Dallas Art Fair This Weekend?



A li'l ray of sunshine from David Shrigley!



“Forerunner to the Work of Kerry James Marshall and Barkley L. Hendricks” Marcia Marcus, Painter Who Gained Late-Career Raves for Her Portraits, Dies at 97; Made off-kilter portraits of herself and others in relative obscurity


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



Last Weekend to Get a Beuys at Track 16! Joseph Beuys 'Potential Goods'



SIZE MATTERS


Ellsworth Kelly Extra Long; Hard to Fit on a Wall


Ellsworth Kelly Extra Small



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?


“I Don’t Smell Fear”: The Hong Kong Art Scene Endures; Despite recent changes to the National Security Law and a troubling political climate, the city’s artworld continues to grow in new directions

In Austerity, Big Euro Luxury Brands Bet on Exhibitions to Reach China’s ‘Forgotten’ Middle Class


Michele Chu: “In Hong Kong There’s an Undercurrent of Loss”; Artist’s immersive installation facilitates moments of human connection, while ruminating on an anticipatory sense of grief


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



Nate Lewis 'Tuning The Signals' at Vielmetter Los Angeles


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



On the Road with Ed Ruscha


‘The Art Institution of Tomorrow’ by Fatoş Üstek, Reviewed; "There’s no doubt that today’s art institutions are f**ked"



Joy in Transformation: An Interview With Artist Tadáskía; For this Brazilian rising star, color is life and freedom is hers to share


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


Gerhard Richter, Viral Artist

There Are At Least 906 Blattecke


The Story of a Long Lost Jasper Johns; 'Gastro' Made in Tokyo 1964



Loie Hollowell Reflects on a Decade of Work at The Aldrich


Art History Majors Face Highest Unemployment Rates, Report Shows; But other data shows that art history and art degrees are still popular



See the Show! Band of Vices Presents 'In the Paint' Featuring some of the city’s finest emerging artists! Honored by the Los Angeles Lakers! The 2024-25 Lakers In the Paint selected artists are: Abby Aceves, Estefania Ajcip, Jessica Taylor Bellamy, Daryll Cumbie, Derick Edwards, Megan Gabrielle Harris, Marlon Ivory, Larry Li, Ann Phong and Michael the Khoi Tran



Sweet Story! Book Revew: A Garden of Ideas in John Berger’s Letters to His Son; 'Over to You' is an ever-evolving meditation on images by the art critic and his youngest son, two men linked by blood and art


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.



How Christo and Jean-Claude Wove Magic Through Central Park; Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of their installation "The Gates" is a dedicated exhibition and augmented reality experience at the Shed



More Than Real: On the art of Robert Longo; "The Image Is Epic, Iconic, Alien..."


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


Charlie James Gallery Remembers Walter Robinson: "Light gleamed on the spear’s point as she thrust it at me in a lightning move..."



Georgia O’Keeffe: She Lived Deliciously Alone in the Wild, Wild West



*cough* How 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



Kim Fay in Detroit: ’Nightshade': The World In The Evening at Oakland University Art Gallery


MEXICO CITY ART WEEK

Observer’s Guide to the Gallery Shows Not to Miss During Mexico City Art Week; If you're headed to ZONAMACO, put these exhibitions on your itinerary

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



Look Inside the Whitney's Annual Art-World Bash; Young creatives and patrons alike gathered for a glittering, disco-themed evening in support of the Whitney’s Independent Study Program, a postgraduate initiative that supports living artists throughout their careers


DESIGN


Crafted in Wood: Including Works from the Collection of Ken Spitzbard


A Modern History of Commercialised Fetishism

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


How the Gleeful Aesthetic of L.A.’s 1984 Olympics Unified a Sprawling City



Maya Fuji 'Igokochi' at Charlie James Gallery


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"



First Museum Survey Of Works By Vincent Valdez On View at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston


BEST OF THE WEEK with JERRY GOGOSIAN



 

 

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