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
"Survey Finds: Majority of Artists Only Read Reviews of Their Own Work; Some respondents added that they will occasionally hate-read a negative review of an artist they vehemently dislike” [Editor's Note: While this may be an April Fool's prank from our friends at Hyperallergic, we have found this to be actually true.]
LAWRENCE WESCHLER
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
GRAND DAME
Vintage Headline: "LACMA Opens New Campus on Wilshire, 1965; $11.5 Million Project"
How To See The New LACMA Up Close: Museum Sets Opening For Plaza Around New Building
LAWRENCE WESCHLER
Decades After the Creative Class Arrived, Winslow, a Small Arizona Town Confronts Dual Realities; “I don’t want it to be Marfa"
HEALTH + BEAUTY
Could Hilma af Klint’s Works Be Removed From Public View? Artist’s great-grandnephew and foundation board chair stressed in an interview with Hyperallergic that the works should only be seen by “spiritual seekers”
Will They Sell the Frieze Empire? Ari Emanuel of Endeavor Changes Roles as Endeavor, a Global Sports and Entertainment holding company, Goes Private
'Appreciate Everything Endlessly' CircleArt Embroidered Apron Free Shipping!
LIQUOR, LIPS & ART CRITICISM
Another Critic Bites The Dust !
Inside Ousted New Yorker Critic’s Canoodle Catastrophe
When Bob Dylan Became An Art Critic
ARTIST JO BAER (1929- 2025)
Fascinating! Jo Baer: Notes on 5 Recent Paintings (ArtForum May 1972)
GO, VAN GOGH
Climate Activists Who Threw Soup at Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ Found Guilty
BACK TO TOP
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!
LAWRENCE WESCHLER
On the Influence of Marcel Proust; Chapter One from 'Marcel Proust' by Edmund White
THE ART OF ECONOMICS
Art Auction Sales Dropped by 25% in 2024 Amid Global Volatility; Private sales rose, as did sales of works priced under $5,000, among other findings in the latest Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report
New Rubens Attribution Reignites Debate Over A.I. Authentication; When it comes to A.I. authentication, the importance of good data means cases are rarely cut and dry
Big Galleries Take Big Sales Hit
ARCHITECTURE
Sainthood for Antoni Gaudi? The Angels Say, "Si!" “God’s Architect” Antoni Gaudí Could Be Made a Saint; Pope Francis declared venerable the giant of Catalan Modernisme, who infused motifs from nature and Christianity into his Sagrada Família and other landmarks
Why Is TikTok So Hot for Cologne Cathedral? Gaping at Gothic architecture is in! One of Europe’s top tourist attractions; 30 million likes and 178 million views
James McNeill Whistler’s ‘The Peacock Room’ Is a Glittering Masterpiece With a Dark History; The Peacock Room, now in the collection of the National Museum of Asian Art, has a surprisingly fractious history; American painter James McNeill Whistler and English architect Thomas Jeckyll created the room
LOVE SONGS FOR ARTISTS
The Dark Bob 'Songs for Artists' Unisex Fashion T-Shirt; $38.88 USD Free Shipping!
ARCHITECTURE: WRIGHT NEWS
Blueprint: How Frank Lloyd Wright Landed a Building Over a Waterfall; Architect defied engineering odds when he built Fallingwater
How Fallingwater Became Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architectural Comeback; Wright designed the iconic home perched over a waterfall in 1934 as a full realization of what he called "organic architecture"
The Story of a Country House: The Failure of Fallingwater
Price Tower in Bartlesville to Be Auctioned Through Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Sale
Marc Jacobs Unveils His Restored Frank Lloyd Wright House; Photographer Gregory Crewdson captured a series of moody portraits of the designer at home for the December issue of 'Vogue'
THREADS
Knight: Appreciation: Joe Goode Beautifully Blurred The Lines of the Art World
Shanghai Museum Plans Orange County, CA Outpost; First overseas branch at Bowers Museum; Motive unclear
Neverending Handwringing! Paris Metro Bans David Hockney Exhibition Poster Because Artist Is Holding Cigarette ; Exclusive: David Hockney condemns ‘dismal’ decision taken by Paris Metro over poster for biggest ever Hockney exhibition
Une Historie de Niki de Saint Phalle (In English)
Sculptures of Music or Experience; In Early 2000s Artist Erik Hanson Was Making Sculptures of Music
JOE GOODE (1937 - 2025)
Joe Goode, Californian Painter Known for His ‘Milk Bottle’ Series, Dies at 88
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp: Abstraction Is in His Nature; Onetime Pop artist Joe Goode reveals another side in a survey
Gordy Grundy: Joe Goode, You Blew My Mind
GALLERY HYPERREALITY
Jessica Chastain Will Play a Gallerist Opposite Adam Driver’s Artist in Upcoming Series ‘The Dealer’; Apple TV+ production comes from the company behind ‘The Morning Show’ and ‘Pachinko.’
Why Apple TV+ Is Worth Losing $1 Billion a Year
The Gallerist Lisa Schiff Question: Does 2.5 Years in Jail Balance $6.5 Million in Fraud U
.S. Museums Could Benefit Financially From Offering Free Admission: Report; New report by Remuseum finds that museums spend on average $101 per visitor each year
The Humour in Michael Asher’s Institutional Critique; It may be a fool’s errand to mount an exhibition devoted to this conceptual artist – but New York’s Artists Space (mostly) pulls it off
"Writers Sit In Rooms Imagining, Photographers Are Out and About Beholding;" The Camera and the Pen; Tracking the History Of Novelists’ Engagements With Photography; Speaks with three contemporary writers, William Boyd, Teju Cole, and Orhan Pamuk—about their own approaches to the medium
People Are Getting Anne Imhof’s ‘DOOM’ All Wrong; There's a lot to love and a lot to think about in the German artist's weird and wooly spectacle
MONSIEUR NOUAR: LE FRANCAIS BUSTER KEATON
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
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"
Kenny Schachter: Biker-Gang Art Forgers! Hauser Hoovers Up Another Hotel! Kenny Schachter Files from the Swiss Alps; Readying a New York show in the Engadine, our columnist still finds time to meet up with a revered dealer, visit the local pool, and much more
JAKE GREWAL
Baz Luhrmann and an Art Collector Open a Secret Bar in the East Village; The director tells Vanity Fair he’s treating his latest project “like a movie.” His muse? A fictitious dandy called Monsieur
We’re Being Frozen Out of British Cultural Life, Say Jewish Artists; Artists, writers and performers claim they are being excluded because they refuse to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocidal
SALLY MANN IN FORT WORTH Sally Mann Photos Seized From Texas Museum Following Official Complaint
National Organizations Weigh in on Controversy at the Modern in Fort Worth NYT: The Disturbing Photography of Sally Mann
The Free Press: How to Like Things More; Get Lost In A Tiny Detail. Memorize. Find The One Flaw. Here’s How To Truly Enjoy Every Experience
BEST OF THE WEEK with JERRY GOGOSIAN
