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Koon’s sculpture can now no longer be shown in France; Jeff Koons and Centre Pompidou lose appeal in Naf Naf copyright case—now other French museums could be in the firing line

C'mon Gavin! You Can Shop at LACMA, But You Can’t See the Art; Arts Lacking the financial muscle to change Gov. Newsom’s mind

The Swiss museums leading the European charge to reopen

If shops can reopen in April, why can’t museums?

Sotheby’s to Auction Art From Texas Heiress’s Estate; Works by Andy Warhol, Richard Diebenkorn and others collected by Fort Worth rancher and oil heiress Anne Marion

Treasures From the Blue-Chip Art Collection of Texas Oil Heiress Anne Marion Could Fetch $150 Million at Sotheby’s

What Makes Artist-Run Spaces Flourish; Brian Butler, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer and Diana Theater discuss why LA has been home to so many experimental venues over the last 40 years

GAGOSIAN CELEBRATES ADRIANA VAREJAO

Adriana Varejão at her studio in Rio de Janeiro; Video

Adriana Varejão: Interiors

Adriana Varejão: Azulejão

Adriana Varejão’s video installation Transbarroco

The Frank Frazetta Buck Rogers Comic Book Covers that Influenced Star Wars

Smoke sculptures, word gardens and a ‘jackrabbit homestead’: Desert X announces artist projects for third edition; Judy Chicago, Oscar Murillo, Nicholas Galanin and others

"We're Getting Out of L.A. and Going to Joshua Tree": Why the Desert Area Is Booming

Ed Moses Exhibition at London’s JD Malat Gallery

Simon de Pury: Art-World Insider and Gavalist Simon de Pury on Why Instagram Will Endure as the Art Industry’s Favorite Platform; Instagram has become an essential portal into contemporary culture

Robert Russell at Anat Ebgi

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Ambience Videos: The Soothing, Digital Rooms of YouTube

Griffith Park hikers, listen up: ‘Artist Ellen Reid Soundwalk’ is a GPS-enabled musical map;
Get the App and Start Hiking!

The Latest Public Art To Light Up South Florida

Stay in The World’s first Takashi Murakami-Designed Hotel Room at Grand Hyatt Tokyo

Immersive Van Gogh creates an innovative and Enchanting new digital art experience

Meow Wolf enters new world with “Omega Mart” in Sin City

Old Penn Station Comes Back to Life in Cinematic New Photo installation

OUR DIGITAL WORLD

Immerse yourself in V&A’s new digital platform of 1.2 million objects

Clubhouse Is the Anti-Twitter

NPR: Clubhouse May Be Social Media's Future. What's All The Hype About?

Facebook Is Said to Be Building a Product to Compete With Clubhouse

‘Same Energy’ is a New Visual Search Engine That Finds Related Images by Style and Mood

Fran Lebowitz Isn’t Buying What Jack Dorsey Is Selling

Experience Wassily Kandinsky’s Art Through Simulated Synesthesia

Christian Marclay Makes Collage and Sounds at Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Once Overlooked, Black Abstract Painters Are Finally Given Their Due; In the 1960s, abstract painting was a controversial style for Black artists, overshadowed by social realist works. Now, it’s claimed its place as a vital form of expression

ART AND RACE

How to Responsibly Collect the Work of Black Artists

A Premature Celebration of the Ascension of Black Artists; ”Black Art: In the Absence of Light", HBO's documentary on Black visual artists, unwittingly demonstrates what a community gives up when it strives toward the mainstream

Lucky Luke, the Euro comic book cowboy, discovers race, belatedly

‘Approach Every Black Artist as a World-Maker’: Art Historian Bridget Crooks on the Need for an Expansive Definition of Blackness

The Black Index and the Agency of Representation

Curator Naomi Beckwith on How the New Museum’s Show on Black Grief as a ‘State of Being’ Honors the Vision of Okwui Enwezor

Nate Freeman’s Wet Paint: Mega-Galleries Descend Upon Aspen, Artist Accuses Podcaster of Pulling Episode After Botched Sale, & More Art-World Gossip

BRAVING OPPRESSION

Atlantic Writer Conor Friedersdorf: Stand Against Left-Wing and Right-Wing P.C.

Americans' Lust To 'Cancel' One Another Should Spark Soul Searching

Rap hit rattles leaders of communist Cuba

The Artists Fighting for a Different Future in Myanmar

The Dangerous Lives of Cuban Surfers Fighting for Freedom

A Mural Jam and Censorship: Fighting for Freedom Of Expression In Barcelona

'Woke' American Ideas Are a Threat, French Leaders Say

After a Military Coup, Artists Across Myanmar Are Making Protest Art to Share Their Struggle for Democracy With the World—See Images Here

ART AND FILM

“Sin”, a Gritty and Sublime Biopic of Michelangelo; Andrei Konchalovsky’s film depicts an artist full of ambition, paranoia, loathing, and regret

‘Sin’ Review: Man of Marble; The second feature in recent months from the Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky is a grimy, austere Michelangelo biopic

DISCOVERY

In an Astounding Discovery, Archaeologists in Alaska Have Uncovered Italian Glass That Came to America Decades Before Columbus

Scientists Achieve Real-Time Communication With Lucid Dreamers in Breakthrough; International scientists have unlocked a new and exciting avenue to explore the world of dreams

A New Era of Black Holes Is Here; Astronomers have discovered a black-hole treasure trove that is changing our view of the cosmos

Is This Tiny Island Really the Lost Home of the Aztecs?

An Amateur Metal Detectorist Has Unearthed a Rare Stash of 1,000-Year-Old Viking Jewelry on the Isle of Man; The hoard may have been buried amid an invasion

Incredible new images shared by Perseverance rover after Mars landing

Islamic 12th-century bathhouse uncovered in Seville tapas bar; Dazzling geometric motifs dating from Almohad caliphate discovered during renovation of city’s bar

Archaeologists Have Discovered a Pristine 45,000-Year-Old Cave Painting of a Pig That May Be the Oldest Artwork in the World

JOHN STEPPLING

Infinite Spiders
I feel something significant has gone out of daily life. I am speaking of western societies, but only because I know them best. And it’s enormously difficult to articulate that which I feel has gone missing. But I shall at least try to compose some signposts pointing toward this elusive quality.

Opinion: It’s Time to Shift the Power Inequities Among Arts Nonprofits

“Judas and the Black Messiah” Will Berson, co-screenwriter asks: Does art have a place in the face of social injustice?

Sex toys on the beach? Antony Gormley seaside sculptures—likened to 'vibrators'—fall foul of planning laws

AMAZING MOTHER NATURE

Balloon test flight plan under fire over solar geoengineering fears

We’re Not Done Yet; Here’s How Humans Are Still Evolving

Mystery Lifeforms Have Been Found in The Hostile Darkness Beneath Antarctica

The Horsetail Firefall of Yosemite

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NFT WTF?

Non-Fungible Tokens: a new disruptor in the art market?

In the Latest NFT Auction Frenzy, Andrés Reisinger an Artist Just Sold a Collection of Digital Furniture for $450,000—See Images of the Otherworldly Designs Here

NFT Art Goes Viral and Heads to Auction — But What Is It?

Is Blockchain the Future of Art Collecting?

Speculative crypto art market takes off

Christie’s to accept cryptocurrency for first time; Buyers of Beeple's NFT work will be able to pay with ETH later this month

Why an Animated Flying Cat With a Pop-Tart Body Sold for Almost $600,000; A fast-growing market for digital art, ephemera and media is marrying the world’s taste for collectibles with cutting-edge technology

Is This the Next Art-Market Bubble? A Unique NFT for the Popular ‘Nyan Cat’ GIF Just Sold for a Whopping $560,000

Mark Cuban Likes NFT (Non-Fungible Tokens)

Kenny Schachter Gets Sucked Into the Surreal NFT Vortex… and Makes a Fortune Overnight in the New Virtual Art Market

The Defiant guide to Digital Art and NFTs

ART BUSINESS

Art Dealers Are Shocked to Realize That 2020 Was Actually a Historically Good Year for Business + Other Stories

Banksy-style NFTs have sold for $900,000—but are they the real deal and does it even matter?

How Facebook Curator Jessica Shaefer Uses Art to Bring Empathy Into the Social Network’s Tech-Driven Universe; Learn what it's like to run an art program at one of the world's top tech companies

The wealthy are borrowing billions against their art collections and lenders are reselling the debt

Bloomberg: Art Galleries Discover That Their Business Model Is Covid-Proof Museums? Not so much

How art lending become big business for private banks

‘Brexit costs won’t make much difference’: what the future holds for London’s art market

Bold Colors and Surreal Compositions Upend the Monotony of Commercial Billboards

'It’s so important for women to have their own business right now': Ivy Crewdson, daughter of sculptor Joel Shapiro, on starting her art advisory

Isaac Pelayo, a 24-year-old who got laid off from Disney turned his art side hustle into a 6-figure income and is doing business almost entirely on Instagram

Christie’s Hopes to Open a New Frontier of the Art Market With the First-Ever Major Auction of a Wholly Digital Blockchain Artwork; Non-fungible tokens (or NFTs)

As Dealers Look to Reinvent Their Businesses, German Gallerist Johann König Is Hiring Lena Winter an Auctions Expert to Steer His In-House Fair Model

Art Dealer Chantal Crousel on the Inside Story of Paris’s Art Market, and Why She’s Now Passing the Reins to the Next Generation

With his cryptic clusters of images, Aby Warburg remapped the art of the past

MUSEUM BLUES

Flying Sunflowers: the logistical secrets of the NGA's Botticelli to Van Gogh blockbuster

Are museums as Covid-risky as saunas? Culture leaders outraged over late reopening of English art spaces

England’s Museums Must Stay Closed for Another Three Months Under Boris Johnson’s New Roadmap to Reopening

Peabody Essex Museum and Their The Art of Virtual Transformation; Covid: Pivoted to online experience; Streamlining digital business operations

Radical plan could move UK's national art collections into former IKEA store in Coventry

I Led the Indianapolis Museum of Art for Five Years. Here’s How Charles Venable, Its Recently Ousted President, Failed the Institution

Lorraine Tady and the Saturation of Vectors

A Banksy Mega-Collector Just Bought the Mural of a Girl With a Hula Hoop That Appeared in Nottingham Last Year: Bicycle Sculpture

Ed Ruscha Exhibit Examines the Artist’s Oklahoma Roots; Major homecoming show at new $30 million Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center chronicles the rise of a pioneering conceptual artist

The (Art) Studio at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

GOOD GIGS

Conceptual artists Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari Photograph Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue; The Portfolio

Judy Chicago on her Desert X smoke sculpture and feminizing land art

How Artist Lu Yang Teamed Up with BMW and Acute Art to Create a Futuristic Project About Robots and Technology

Welcome to the Mid-Century Modern World of Marcel Ceuppens

Bieber, pimples, Lassie with a facelift: John Waters on his L.A. art exhibition at Sprüth Magers

Tottenham: Life After Art and John Waters

Hauser and Wirth's New Mediterranean Menorcan Isla del Rey will open in July with Mark Bradford show

More on Hauser & Wirth’s New Playground

An Artist Exposing Fascism Through Provocation; Paul McCarthy has spent his career cultivating a visual language of depravity and scathing critique. After half a century, we still can’t turn away

The United States vs. Billie Holiday - Trailer; Director Lee Daniels; on Hulu

Good Morning Heartache: The Life and Blues of Billie Holiday

Vanity Fair: Strange Fruit

‘The United States Vs. Billie Holiday’ Review: Andra Day Soars In Lee Daniels’ Compelling True Story Of Feds Targeting Of Great Singer

The United States vs Billie Holiday review – Lee Daniels' misguided biopic

Billie Holiday’s Story Depends on Who’s Telling It

PHOTOGRAPHY

The True Polymath: A Conversation With Ansen Seale

Some people are on the pitch! Sports photos with a twist – in pictures by Pelle Cass

2021 Underwater Photographer of the Year

Hollywood Has the ‘Black List’ for Undiscovered Screenplays. Now, Photography Has a ‘Silver List’ for Up-and-Coming Photographers

Whole of the moon: Tim Easley's lunar photography - in pictures

Eternally 3am: Baltimore after dark – in pictures

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‘Fortnite’ Is the First Video Game to Host a Film Festival, with a Potential Audience of 350 Million

Podcasting Is Booming. Will Hollywood Help or Hurt Its Future?

Magnum photographer Khalik Allah releases epic film portrayal of social and racial injustice on the streets of Harlem

Legendary Lynn Stalmaster, Hollywood’s ‘Master Caster,’ Dies at 93

‘The Great Gatsby’ to Be Adapted as Animated Feature From DNEG Animation

David Fincher to Direct Netflix Assassin Drama ‘The Killer’; Michael Fassbender in Talks to Star

Are streaming algorithms really damaging film?

Inside Hollywood’s Rush to Make the First GameStop Movie

Producer Jenny Lumet on 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Telling (her grandmother) Lena Horne's Story and Why She Hates Directing

Awards Spotlight on Vanessa Kirby, the Rising Star of ‘Pieces of a Woman’ and ‘The World to Come’ — Watch

Judd Apatow to Produce Identical-Twins Comedy From the Lucas Brothers

Catherine Deneuve Drama ‘Peaceful’ from Emmanuelle Bercot Heads Studiocanal Berlin Slate

The Human Voice” Trailer; Pedro Almodovar Directs Tilda Swinton

How ‘The Artist’s Wife’ Used Inspiration From ’70s Movies to Show a Nightmare Realized

What Frances McDormand Would (and Wouldn’t) Give to ‘Nomadland’; To draw from a life she prefers to keep private

How the Year’s Most Beautiful Movie Costumes Were Made

Justice League: The Shocking, Exhilarating, Heartbreaking True Story of #TheSnyderCut

“Jonathan, Are You Crazy?”: The Making and Meaning of The Silence of the Lambs

How ‘Gunda’ Captured the Hypnotic Images and Vivid Sounds of a Pig’s Life

'Silk Road' Director Tiller Russell on the Film's Moral Complexity and the Website's Bitcoin Legacy

Jesse Plemons Takes Over DiCaprio’s Original Role in Scorsese’s ‘Flower Moon’ After Script Changes; DiCaprio now plays nephew of the film’s antagonist (De Niro)

Disney's Curious “Cruella” Official Trailer; Emma Stone

The Movie Title Stills Collection is an Online Treasure Trove for Designers, Artists and Filmmakers

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