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A Beautiful Deep Dive Into Our Worldwide Arts + Culture


SAY IT AIN'T SO! GALLERIST TIM BLUM
STEPS OFF THE TREADMILL


Jordan Wolfson’s New Virtual Reality 'Little Room' Is Peak Body Horror; I cannot unsee what I saw in “Little Room,” the artist’s ambitious new work at the Fondation Beyeler; Clever Use of VR



From Natural and Political Disaster, She Became One Of America’s Great Artists; Miyoko Ito Survived An Earthquake, Incarceration And Illness. Her transporting paintings defied ideas about abstract art


Justice! Two Men Jailed for Theft of Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.1 Million Gold Toilet; 18-karat gold loo, titled "America," was stolen from Blenheim Palace in September 2019



Ben Davis: Here’s My Personal Method for Seeing an Art Show, If You Want to Get the Most Out of It; Three-and-a-half step program


Frieze: The Rise of the Anonymous Critic; As secret voices on platforms such as 'spittle' and 'Hollywood Superstar Review' shake up cyberspace, Sam Moore examines the rewards and risks of masked critique



‘Sometimes He Cast Spells Over Them’: The Raging Beauty of Filmmaker Derek Jarman’s Black Paintings; From his unfinished film about a murdered director to a stunning series of doomy oil paintings, Derek Jarman’s work could be angry, dark and disturbing – not to mention highly relevant in these bleak times



Painter Grace Hartigan’s Artistic Kinship with Midcentury Poets



Verso: Campbell Kids From Ed Ruscha



ArtReview: Salman Toor’s Night Vision; 'Wish Maker' at Luhring Augustine Chelsea & Tribeca, New York


New Book: How a Street Peddler Fooled Some of Manhattan’s Biggest Art Collectors — And Killed Off The City’s Oldest Art Gallery, Knoedler & Co.
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Marley Freeman Is Making Abstraction Cool Again; Artist talks about how her experiences in the textile industry still shape her work and life


Donald Judd Historic District in Marfa, Texas, Added to National Register



Painter Heidi Hahn on Art, Insecurity, and the Unseen Body; Digging into the process behind "Not Your Woman," seen recently at Michael Kohn in L.A.


EXPERIENTIAL

Exploring the Sensory-Rich Colors of Mexico by Fantasy Lab

Blue Man Group Celebrates 25 Weird, Wild And Influential Years in Las Vegas


New Immersive Experience by Hermès Asks You to Crack an Equestrian Mystery; The French luxury house transforms a New York pier into a theatrical maze of secret passages, oversized carrots, and saddle-strewn rooms—inviting guests to play detective


ART NOIR

Works by Pissarro, Renoir, and Avercamp Vanished. Here’s How an Amateur Art Sleuth Cracked the Case; For 43 years, police were stumped—until the dashing, enigmatic Clifford Schorer III went searching for clues online

Inside Peter Paul Rubens’s Secret Life as a Spy; Baroque master earned himself major commissions by leveraging his political connections; Rubens’s illustrious side-job career as a Holy Roman Empire diplomat

Jim Morrison’s Stolen Graveside Bust Recovered After 37 Years; Sculpture went missing in 1988 under mysterious circumstances

Podcast: The French Lesbian Curator and Spy Who Saved Art From the Nazis; Author Michelle Young joins Hrag Vartanian to discuss her new book, which uncovers astonishing findings about the World War II hero


Close Look at Caravaggio’s Last Painting; Just two paintings are in The Last Caravaggio, both in perplexed mourning over their subject matter, and both emerging from dark places



Sculptor Elyn Zimmerman and Her Monumental 'Palisades,' 1981


BOOKS + WORDS

Stephen King Once Gave George R.R. Martin The Perfect Advice For His Writer's Block ... ... See the Video


It’s the Best of Times for Dickens Fans! A New Show Spotlights Rarities Linked to the Author; Rare portraits of a young Dickens, private letters, and personal effects will go on show in at the author's former residence

Here’s What Bothers Me About How ‘Paris in Ruins’ Rewrites Impressionist History; Review of Sebastian Smee’s 'Sebastian Smee, Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism'

Tosh Berman: 'Love, Joe: The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard', Prose writer, poet, and artist

17 SNL Writers Remember the First Sketch They Got on the Air; Live from New York, it’s an oral history featuring Colin Jost, Chevy Chase, Sarah Silverman, and more talking about their earliest days at 30 Rock


Jean-Patrick Manchette: Inside the Decades-Long Effort to Bring a Master of French Crime Fiction to American Readers


BUBBLY BASEL


The Best Large-Scale Works at Art Basel Unlimited 2025


Gagosian Presents Rick Lowe 'Cavafy Remains' at Art Basel Unlimited 2025; 12 × 28 feet


What is BLUM Taking to Basel?

Art Daddy: The Basel Blur: Art World Sightings, Absences, and Dispatches from Bard. More meltdown with Jerry Gogosian, the meme. Lisa Schiff’s Countdown to Club Fed. All the Art Daddy news that is fit to print



Artist Rosa Barba Reimagines Cinematic Space With Light, Sound and Time at MoMA; In her first major U.S. institutional show, “The Ocean of One’s Pause,” the artist transforms the museum’s Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio into a cinematic laboratory



Matthew Brandt 'January Skies' at M+B



Daniela García Hamilton at Charlie James; Coloring with Paint and Hand Embroidery



DESIGN


The Bestiary of Cartier: A Wild History in Jewels; From the original Panthère to the new High Jewelry collection Nature Sauvage, Cartier’s animal-inspired creations have shaped a century of style, symbolism, and design


Indulge in the Underrated Influence of Erté


Famed Disney Imagineer Bob Gurr Worked With Walt Disney To Shape Disneyland. Now At 93, Boy, Does He Have Stories!


Fresh Look at 1940s Art and Design Offers Plenty of Surprises; Philadelphia Museum of Art's survey of the decade proves that creativity flourishes even in the face of political turbulence


STREETWISE


Brooklyn Street Art Images of the Week


Osgemeos Bring Their Joyous, Playful Street Art to a Sprawling New Show; Hirshhorn Museum is delving into the brothers' working process and vivid oeuvre

Podcast with Alison Stewart: '100 Pieces of (Street) Art' With Jaime Rojo and Steven P. Harrington, co-founders of Brooklyn Street Art


Podcast: Lady Pink, the Queen of New York City Graffiti; From the rainforest in Ecuador to the trainyards of the MTA and galleries across continents, this street writing legend’s story is a testament to the power of strong women in art


Another Progressive Failure, Pop Culture Takes Up Smoking Again; From movies and TV shows to music, the habit is no longer taboo. It’s even being celebrated...


Punk Preservation: Getty’s Glenn Phillips On Securing Raymond Pettibon’s Archive; 32 boxes and a surfboard!; Pettibon archive reflects the artist’s diverse influences, from music and surfing culture to economic theory and the global art world



Emilio González Sainz 'Tierras Altas' at Casa MB, Milan


What a Year in a Robotics Lab Taught Me About A.I. and Painting; Today’s A.I. discourse is misleading—and robotic painting reveals just how much gets lost between flashy demos and the messy reality of making art; Distinctions between virtual and physical objects


Wayne Thiebaud Curatorial Assassination


Who Was Hiroshige, the Artist Behind Japan’s Most Iconic Prints? Master of Japanese prints is admired for exquisite views of his homeland, but a new show at the British Museum reveals his lesser-known works
Artpace, San Antonio, Names Fall 2025 Artists-in-Residence: Ian Gerson, Elana Herzog, and Goldie Poblador
Book Review: Jewelry Deserves a Place in Art History; Beyond Adornment explores what the depiction of jewelry in art says about adornment, artists, and their subjects, from Charlemagne to Frida Kahlo

Be Catchy! Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral; New book, “Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading,” argues that notions get taken up not because of their virtue but because of their catchiness



Photographer Hugh Holland at M+B Art


How Cory Arcangel Recovered a Late Artist’s Digital Legacy: Michel Majerus died in a plane crash, but the contents of his laptop are providing a window into his process two decades later. Arcangel says, “It’s like he just stepped out of the room.”

An Appreciation on Instagram


Edouard Manet Ring Light; Shock of Modern Full Frontal Lighting


Interview: Takashi Murakami Talks Painting, Process, and UFOs as He Opens Two Major Exhibitions



Kim Fay in Detroit: Graem Whyte 'A Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe' at Spaysky Fine Art Gallery


The Line Goes on Forever: De Kooning at Gagosian; Curator Cecilia Alemani weighs in on the figuration in the artist's abstraction


BOOKS + WORDS

Stephen King Once Gave George R.R. Martin The Perfect Advice For His Writer's Block ... ... See the Video


It’s the Best of Times for Dickens Fans! A New Show Spotlights Rarities Linked to the Author; Rare portraits of a young Dickens, private letters, and personal effects will go on show in at the author's former residence

Here’s What Bothers Me About How ‘Paris in Ruins’ Rewrites Impressionist History; Review of Sebastian Smee’s 'Sebastian Smee, Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism'

Tosh Berman: 'Love, Joe: The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard', Prose writer, poet, and artist

17 SNL Writers Remember the First Sketch They Got on the Air; Live from New York, it’s an oral history featuring Colin Jost, Chevy Chase, Sarah Silverman, and more talking about their earliest days at 30 Rock


Jean-Patrick Manchette: Inside the Decades-Long Effort to Bring a Master of French Crime Fiction to American Readers


‘Completely Unworkable’: Sculpture Experts Say Trump’s $34 Million Statue Garden Has Major Problems; "America doesn’t have enough quality sculptors or museum-caliber foundries to make this happen"


LUCAS: AS HE PLEASES.

Miranda: The Billionaire Museum: What is the Lucas Museum Good For?

Mary Cassatt to Fritz the Cat: Making Sense of the Lucas Collection; "How does a museum mix the good, the bad, and the popular? I guess we'll find out next year."



This Frank Lloyd Wright Lamp Just Made Auction History; Object has become the most expensive Wright work ever offered at auction


Researchers Replicate Ancient Egyptian Blue Pigment



A Spate of Sad Girl Art Is On View In La This Spring—But Is Our Interest In Sad Girls Subversive Or Exploitative?


1935 Neutra Hollywood Hills Home Will Open To Public As Artist Residence


Which Artists Are Headed to the Venice Biennale in 2026? Henrike Naumann and Sung Tieu have been announced as the artists for the German Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale



At Least Italian American Painter Luigi Lucioni Got His Copy of Ulysses Back



Two Views From the Easel: “When the spirit moves me and the work goes well, I dance.” Dai Ban, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts and Eleni Mylonas, Soho, Manhattan


GOLIGHTLY GAUGUIN

Book Review: Do We Need to Vindicate Paul Gauguin? Sue Prideaux’s new biography of the artist reveals both a discomfort with his complex legacy and that, in 2025, redemption arcs sell

‘The Polynesians Loved Him’: The Astonishing Revelations That Cast Paul Gauguin In A New Light; He has been tarred as a French colonialist who spread syphilis to underage girls in the South Seas. But, writes the author of an acclaimed new book, fresh discoveries challenge this view of the artist – and even show him as a her

X-Ray Analysis of Gauguin Painting Reveals Hidden Details... and a Dead Beetle; Artist's feline still life harbors more than one critter



"Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me" at the Broad




MALT 'Pictorial Language' at M Contemporary Art


BOOKS + WORDS

Is Dua Lipa The Best Literary Interviewer? The Houdini singer’s online book club is already a hit. Now her interviews with Pulitzer prize-winning authors are gaining new fans


Video: Dua Lipa Versus the Literary Landscape; "Dua Lipa is good at interviewing novelists"

Gloria Steinem’s “The Beach Book”; “What a tan will do is make you look good, and that justifies anything”

Book Review: The Preposterous History of Propaganda Art; 'Propagandopolis,' a Globe-Spanning Selection Of Visual Persuasions From The Early 20Th Century To Now, Is A Travelogue To Disinformation’s Past

Want to Earn Six Figures as a Writer? Try Ghostwriting. Shifts in the book industry have been a boon to writers who work quietly behind the scenes


Why Don’t We Talk About Race in Fairy Tales? Characters in fairy tales “are white not by chance, but by design,” Kimberly J. Lau writes in a new book



What Is Vielmetter Packing for Art Basel? Anchoring the booth is a suite of hard edge abstract paintings by Patrick Wilson. Including Whitney Bedford, April Bey, Nate Lewis, Kim DeJesus and a stable of art stars.



"Realms of the Dharma" at LACMA; Diversity of Buddhist art is a running theme of LACMA's "Realms of the Dharma: Buddhist Art Across Asia"


The World According to Cattelan? Jokester Maurizio Cattelan has apparently thrown some light on his most famous works in an updated version of his “autobiography”

Flush Crime Down the Drain! Man Sentenced in Plot to Steal Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.1 Million Gold Toilet; 18-karat gold loo, titled 'America,' was stolen from Blenheim Palace in September 2019



Ilana Savdie Collapses Form, Flesh and Meaning in Her White Cube Debut; "I’m using the body as an entry point to speak to something absurd that can only be materialized through the visceral”


ECON ART

Museums Cautiously Optimistic as Some Federal Grants Reinstated; Judge blocked the Institute of Museum and Library Services from carrying out Trump’s mandate to gut the agency, but the future of funding remains uncertain

Amid Breathtaking NEA Cuts, Southwest Arts Organizations are Reeling—and Rallying Support; The Trump administration’s shadowy National Endowment for the Arts grant retractions have Southwest arts organizations banding together to track the cuts and gather supporters

City and State Cultural Programs and Institutions Struggle After Trump Slashed Funding


BOOKS + WORDS

David Sedaris: A Long Way Home; Had I proposed earlier that we invite someone stranded to come with us to New York, Hugh would have said no. But now there was really no way for him to back out

One Thing Ledes to Another; Longtime New Yorker Writer Calvin Trillin Discusses His Early Years In Journalism, Humor In The Internet Era, And His New Essay Collection, The Lede

Author Coleman Hughes Offers A New Way To Reconsider Race

We Deserve More Than Novelty from the Publishing Industry

Why Are Huge Tech Companies Getting Into the Book Business? Do they want to help writers or destroy them?

How Alessandro Giardino Found His First Novel in Caravaggio’s ‘The Seven Acts of Mercy’; "The Caravaggio Syndrome," he says, combines in content and style the artist's oscillations between the sublime and the sordid



Matt Copson: Never Grow Up; “What’s living with no hope?” asks the artist’s big animated baby at KW, Berlin. One thing is certain: we can’t stop watching


GOOD GIGS

KAWS Designs the Album Cover for 'Let God Sort 'Em Out'; Produced by Pharrell; Recorded at Louis Vuitton Headquarters

Turkish Airlines and Refik Anadol's Doc 'Inner Portrait' Trailer - About First Time Travelers

Mexico’s Legendary Artist Francisco Toledo Crafted a Design-Driven Tequila Vessel Like No Other; In one of his final creative acts, Francisco Toledo partnered with Maestro Dobel® Tequila to create a sculptural ode to Oaxaca’s craft and spirit—now available as a rare collectible


Julia Friedman: The Art of Social Engineering; When British sculptor Thomas J. Price explains that his “strategy of inclusion” will counter the “endless stream of limiting tropes and identities for Black people,” he is inadvertently mimicking totalitarian injunctions


Picasso Would Not Have Blogged Dali’s Sea Urchin Photos; "...makes me hate Salvador Dalí’s attention-grabbing, money-craving, absurdist bullshit even more... I can only think of how it distracts from the news that he’d just had another audience with Franco"


Flips Flop! Kenny Schachter on Auction Failures and One Collector’s Freak-Out; Plus, a blow-by-blow recap of recent market mayhem


DESIGN


She Spent her Life Hunting for Lost Vintage Wallpaper

The Push Pin Attitude; How the scrappy, ingenious founders of New York City’s Push Pin Studios revolutionized 20th-century graphic design—and left a lasting mark on the culture


How Faye Toogood Is Pushing Forward Modern Design Using Ancient Inspiration; In her striking New York exhibition, the British designer delves into timeless themes, blending historical echoes with contemporary design


Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (ca. 425–1100); Andean peoples had been perfecting a range of techniques for creating, coloring, and otherwise ornamenting textiles; Unlike anything the Europeans had seen!


Perhaps Artists Do Have Only ‘Ten Good Years’; Can happen at any time in their career


CERAMICS


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



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



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



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New Yorker Cartoons for the Week!



After 30 Years in Business, Tim Blum Is ‘Sunsetting’ His Gallery, Pursuing New (Business) Model



Lynn Hershman Leeson’s ‘Of Humans, Cyborgs and AI’ at the Nevada Museum of Art; With her usual characteristic foresight, the artist addresses the ways in which technology and bureaucracy hollow out our humanity



Review; Jim Shaw Peels Back American Pop Culture’s Facade; More you connect the dots in his work, the more the insidious and catastrophic work of the US government, law enforcement, and military come to the fore



Bold New Museum Enters the New York Landscape in 2026, Promising ‘Good Art, Good Food, and Good Drinks’; Opening in 2026 in New York, Canyon will be purpose-built to showcase video, sound, performance, and other time-based art



The Art Daddy's Weekly Gossip Wrap-Up: Basel, Ghostings, and the Great Summer Migration; Anna Weyant’s Disney Detour; Jerry Gogosian Signs Off: When Meme Critique Meets Burnout; Frieze House Seoul Sounds Like Fyre Festival; Ana Mendieta’s Estate Just Leveled Up with Marian Goodman



Wild Genius of Joe Coleman Comes Alive in a Double Spotlight; Artist is enjoying outings at Jeffrey Deitch and in the film "How Dark My Love," screening at the Tribeca Film Festival



FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES


All In A Day’s Work: Hauser & Wirth Showing Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ “Untitled” (Go-Go Dancing Platform) at Art Basel 2025


Felix Navidad Post Office; Snapshot Christmas card Felix Gonzalez-Torres sent to MoMA curator Anne Umland


All The Gonzalez-Torreses In San Francisco


Video: Conversation with Artist Tom Burr on Felix Gonzalez-Torres and the Aesthetic, Political, and Social Intersections They Charted


DIGITAL ART WORLD


Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt: AI Companies Want To Legalize Theft; Big Tech’s newest products would be worth $0 without everyone’s data, but they don’t want to pay for it

Who Was Joan Shogren, the Secretary Who Pioneered Computer Art? Her nephew has been working to get his aunt suitably recognized with her own Wikipedia page

Major Newspaper Publishes a Summer Reading List—But the Books Don't Exist; AI disaster is getting worse—and a new survey of 48,000 people in 47 countries makes clear that the public is fed up' "It’s a shame that Isabel Allende never wrote this book. Nor did anyone else—the book simply doesn’t exist"


GOOD GIGS

KAWS Designs the Album Cover for 'Let God Sort 'Em Out'; Produced by Pharrell; Recorded at Louis Vuitton Headquarters

Turkish Airlines and Refik Anadol's Doc 'Inner Portrait' Trailer - About First Time Travelers

Mexico’s Legendary Artist Francisco Toledo Crafted a Design-Driven Tequila Vessel Like No Other; In one of his final creative acts, Francisco Toledo partnered with Maestro Dobel® Tequila to create a sculptural ode to Oaxaca’s craft and spirit—now available as a rare collectible


ARCHITECTURE


Book Excerpt: Hitler’s Three-Hour Architectural Tour of Paris; His first and last trip to the city in 1940 was not for military purposes — he left that to his generals — but for his one true love: Art

Bizarre Plan For World’s First Spacescraper That Will Be Built Upside Down and Dangle From Asteroid Over Dubai; Residents of this futuristic skyscraper will even get an extra 45 minutes of sunlight


First Images of 2025 Serpentine Pavilion Revealed


Video: Serpentine Pavilion Reflects the "Ephemerality and Temporality" of Bangladesh



Master of Light James Turrell Reflects on His Medium in Zürich; In a radiant solo show at Häusler Contemporary, work by James Turrell from across his career makes malleable the act of seeing


Video: A Look into James Turrell's House of Light in Japan


PHOTOGRAPHY


Aline Manoukian and the Specter of War Photography; Lebanese photojournalist who famously portrayed a Palestinian militiaman holding a kitten discusses her transition into photo editing and the image that changed her life


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

‘I Photographed The World’: The Career Of Sebastião Salgado – In Pictures; Brazilian photographer has died at 81, leaving behind a career filled with striking images taken around the world. ‘Through the lens of his camera, Sebastião tirelessly fought for a more just, humane and ecological world,’ a statement from his family read


Review: Barbara Mensch Tells the Epic Story of the Brooklyn Bridge; Photographer’s vision of New York appears romantic, but she knows that the people who built it are under constant threat of being swept aside by change

Secrets of Physique Magazines; Mid-century publications didn’t need to announce themselves as gay, even if they had been able to. Their readers understood the necessity of balancing discretion and seduction


BOOKS + WORDS


The Artist Who Taught James Baldwin to Write Like a Painter; Essays in Speculative Light explore the many ways in which Beauford Delaney, another queer Black man, revolutionized Baldwin’s cultural perspective and imagination

Michael Schulman on Lillian Ross’s “The Shit-Kickers of Madison Avenue”, The rituals of private-school teens on the Upper East Side (1995); The piece runs sixteen hundred words—long for Talk of the Town, short for an instant classic

An Ode to the Humble Paperback; From 'Lady Chatterley’s Lover' to 'Bright Lights, Big City' to 'A Little Life,' books that were better the next time around


Breakthrough Scientific Study Reveals Alfred Tennyson’s Hidden Writings; High-tech analysis of the poet's manuscripts have turned up text and marks that cannot be seen by the human eye


New York’s Chrysler Building, a Crumbling Art Deco Masterpiece, Is Up For Sale; Abu Dhabi paid $800 million for the storied building in 2008. In 2019, it sold for $150 million

How Art Deco Shaped 100 Years of Forward-Thinking Design; To mark its 100th anniversary, these major exhibitions around the world are diving into the movement's lasting impact



Trove of 100 Napoleon Treasures Hits the Auction Block; Up for grabs are some 100 objects including garments, paintings, and of course, a bicorne hat


ARTISTS COLLABORATING


This Robert Rauschenberg Post Is Actually Mostly About Printer Bob Petersen

"The Reminiscences of Robert Petersen" from the Robert Rauschenberg Oral History Project


Why Pace Gallery is Betting Big on Berlin


A GALA FOR GALA

More Than a Muse, Gala Dalí Was a Starmaker and Star in Her Own Right


Classic Video: "The Dizzy Dali Dinner: A Surrealistic Night in an Enchanted Forest," Held in 1941 at The Hotel Del Monte in Monterey, CA

Book Review: Story of Surrealism Isn’t Whole Without Gala Dalí; In Surreal: The Extraordinary Life of Gala Dalí" (2025) Michèle Gerber Klein asks us to confront the unjust eclipse of Gala’s legacy by that of her husband, Salvador, whose career she brought to fruition


The Pineapple of Versailles; Art, Science and History



Dorothy Hood’s Landscapes of the Psyche; Labels such as “Modernism,” “Surrealism,” or “Color Field” fall away in the abstract painter’s first New York show in half a century



Once Every 36 Years, a New Gerhard Richter Squeegee Painting Comes Along That Changes Everything


Final Wishes Before His 2022 Death; Occidental Petroleum Heir Michael Hammer Wanted His Son Armie To Play Him In a Feature Film About His Art Gallery Scandal; Owned the infamous Knoedler Gallery, Manhattan’s oldest — but it closed after being accused of selling $80 million in fake art


The Billionaire Behind Japan’s Art Islands Has One Final Jewel in His Crown; Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a sprawling art constellation on three islands, adds a 10th museum by the star architect Tadao Ando that caps the cultural quest of Soichiro Fukutake


How Did William Blake, an Ancient Poet and Painter Who Died In Obscurity Come To Obsess Everyone From Oscar Wilde To David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Derek Jarman and David Bowie? The Writer Of A New Book Explains His Glorious Allure


Knight: Are Plans For The Joshua Tree Art Museum A Desert Mirage? Organizers of a new art museum in Joshua Tree announced their plans to build near the national park — but there's a hitch


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Kim Fay in Detroit: Joe Davis 'Rewired Redoux' at Annex Gallery


Peter Zumthor's David Geffen Galleries From Above; "Like the cartoon antlers of Bullwinkle J. Moose"



Internationally-famed Mosaic Artist; How the Nazis' Top Interrogator Was Hired To Work On Disney Theme Parks


Justin Sun Gives $6.2 Million Banana to Notorious Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht; Maurizio Cattelan’s onceptual artwork passes into the hands of another crypto hero, fresh out of prison, with ties to president Donald Trump



Forest Lawn Rescues Modern Glass


Review: Tony Tasset Exposes the World’s Frayed Canvas; "I wanted to hate these artworks, then I wished to poke my finger through their holes, and finally they became a perfect aestheticization of the contemporary moment."


These Are the US Art Schools Most Dependent on International Students


PHOTOGRAPHY


Century of Urban Change: Photography Exhibition Explores Cities From Berlin To Kyoto


Petit Monstre tells arresting visual stories in ‘Oh Those Feels’ at Whitney Library, Las Vegas


Let It Glow: Photographer Kazuaki Koseki and the Fireflies Illuminating Japanese Woodlands; In Pictures


John Singer Sargent and the American ‘Dollar Princesses’ Who Rewrote the Rules of Power; Formidable American heiresses who married into British aristocracy weren’t just symbols of wealth—they shaped politics, society, and the arts on their own terms



Discover a Fascinating Career: 90-Year-Old Korean Artist Kim Yun Shin Is Finally Going Global; Following her debut at the Venice Biennale, she is showing in London and New York for the first time


Always Astounding, Artemisia Gentileschi Emerges Anew in Rediscovered Paintings; Paris exhibition shows there are always new discoveries to be made about the celebrated Italian Baroque painter



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Kim Fay in Detroit: The House Of Tarot at The Herman Kiefer Complex


Critiquing Modernism & Capitalism, One Hauser & Wirth Show At A Time

David Hammons H&W DTLA: The Making Of; "Because a show for David is not just object-driven. He’s thinking about the space, he’s thinking about how new and existing works will interact"



Looking Back at 25 Years of Tate Turbine Hall Commissions; As London’s Tate Modern celebrates its silver jubilee, we revisit some of the most compelling works installed in its Turbine Hall

Jason Farago: Tate Modern Is the Museum of the Century (Like It or Not); The London institution, which turns 25 this week, encouraged its peers to look beyond the West. But its greatest impact was to remake the art museum into a kind of theme park


Fictive Art: Colonial Dreamscapes; An early photographer's profitable creation of an imaginary past; Precursor to Martha Stewart; Idealized domestic vision



SAGA FIT FOR A PRINCE


Richard Prince Posters in Marfa; Max Hetzler is opening a whole show' "For all their media, appropriation, and cultural content, they also show a lot of interest in scale"

Richard Prince and Photographers Settle Copyright Infringement Lawsuits Over Instagram Images (January 2024); Settlement brings the nearly decade-long dispute over Prince's "New Portraits" series to a close

Richard Prince Must Pay $650K+ to Artists for Using Their Work; Last-meeting agreement put a price on the artist’s appropriation of the works of two photographers

How an Eight-Year Copyright Suit Against Richard Prince Finally Came to an End; Artist will pay two photographers $650,000, an outcome that both sides are spinning in the press


OWNING OWENS


The Elegant Chaos of Laura Owens; Artist’s latest exhibition at Matthew Marks in New York fills bespoke rooms with a visual overload of pattern, colour and trompe-l’oeil gags


Design: Gilded Cocoons: A Laura Owens Blowout at Matthew Marks, and Printemps a Luxe New Emporium Mark a Heady Shift in Culture; The Frick Collection Renovation


“What’s Your Side Hustle?”: Hard-Earned Lessons on Artistic Survival from a Southwest Highway Town


PHOTOGRAPHY


Why Has the Getty Museum Acquired an A.I. Photograph? Work by Matias Sauter Morera will be included in the museum's upcoming show, "The Queer Lens"


The Man Who Captured the Unique Beauty of Snowflakes; Microphotographic innovator Wilson Bentley (1865–1931) believed that “every crystal was a masterpiece of design”


Photographer Dawoud Bey Asks, Can Landscapes Hold Traumas? Current exhibition at Sean Kelly Gallery


What's Going On at the Lucas? Personnel Changes, Department Staff Reductions, Alarming Behavior, Needless Scrutiny or Simply Finding the Best Foot Forward?


Attention Spans Are Dropping, Research Shows: Here’s How To Help Keep Focused



Lang’s Burdensome Bodies; Helmut Lang “What Remains Behind” at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Schindler House, Los Angeles
Billionaires’ Battle Over a Sculpture Exposes a Mysterious Art Market; David Geffen and Justin Sun’s unusually public dispute over ownership of a Giacometti sculpture valued at tens of millions of dollars gives a glimpse into a shrouded world


MUSIC + SOUND

The Politics of Ghazal Music in India; In a caste-based society, the defiant performance of songs about forbidden love challenges the dominant status of a Brahmin artform


Turn up the Volume on Hazel Scott, a Forgotten American Jazz Queen of Mid-Century Paris; Marriage to Black Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Traveling the world and becoming one of the highest-paid Black performers of her day; Pals with Billie Holiday

Secret Trove of Rare Guitars Heads to the Met; For decades, an obsessive duo of guitar guys has been amassing a definitive collection. The art these objects created changed the world.


PHOTOGRAPHY


Lemons, Cabbages and The Sea: Cy Twombly’s marvellous Polaroids (‘Le temps retrouvé, Avignon)


Review: Marilyn Monroe by Photographer Eve Arnold; Intimate, tender and witty photographs; In front of the camera Monroe was luminous, but in this reissued and sumptuous collection of pictures Arnold also captured the insecurity and pain


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


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



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



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



Wow! Northern Lights: How the Boreal Forest Inspired Artists of Canada and Scandinavia
MONSIEUR NOUAR: LE FRANCAIS BUSTER KEATON


Stop Spending Your Money on Stupid Sh*t!



 

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Must See! Yau: Tim Hawkinson Makes the Ordinary Otherworldly; Recent paintings of everyday life transcend the literal without becoming overtly symbolic; This is the tight rope he walks; 'Tim Hawkinson: Cabinet Pictures' at Miles McEnery Gallery


Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh's Dark Comedy ‘The Christophers' to World Premiere at TIFF; About "the estranged children of an artist who hire a forger to complete his unfinished works"



Noah Davis at the Hammer



Beuys Collector Collection Shelf


George Lucas’ Spaceship of a Museum Lands In L.A. With a Wonderful Surprise; Foothills, groves, canyons and mesas



Maura Brewer Turns Money Laundering into Art


She Brought Surrealism to America and Painted Her Own Myth. How Was She Forgotten by History? Lucia Wilcox rubbed shoulders with Surrealists in Paris, reinvented herself in New York, and created fantastical scenes of jubilant women. A new show brings her visionary work back into view



The Marciano Is Back !


OCMA and UC Irvine Consider a Merger


Cindy Sherman Will Destroy And Replace Aging Prints In New Legacy Project; Damaged Works to Be Reprinted; "Integrity of my work is protected in perpetuity"



Publisher and Printer Maurice Darantiere and the Distinct Color of Blue of the James Joyce 'Ulysses' Cover Proof



Jerry Gogosian Logs Off (Again), But This Time, It Might Be for Keeps; Jerry Gogosian’s art world saga: memes, meltdowns, and what comes next



Matthew Rosenquist and Rob Thom 'Somewhere Else, Right Here' at M+B, Beverly Hills; Parallel visions of Los Angeles personhood


PHOTOGRAPHY


Review: Neal Slavin’s Photographic Series “When Two or More are Gathered Together” at Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas


What Comes After The End? John Divola Asks Us: What Am I Looking At? Is It Real? Where Does That Distinction Now Lie, Given The Technology Required To Make A Photograph Now?


Perfumery and Photography Together; Chris Rusak and Amelia Konow are exploring what a photograph of a fragrance could be



15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Summer; Jeffrey Gibson’s ebullient beadwork, Luchita Hurtado’s restitched canvases, Black cowboy history, Barbara T. Smith’s photocopy experimentation, and more to see this season


BANKSY IN MARSEILLE


New Banksy Mural Is a Beacon of Nope; Anonymous artist’s latest may have a personal touch, but it’s still another installment in what feels like a series of works stifled by surveillance and media fatigue; in Marseille, France

"It's A National Sport To Fight The Tags Here": The Banksy In Marseille Briefly Degraded And Then Rehabilitated


Origins of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Tattoo


Interview: Unstoppable Film-Maker Skewering Bezos and Musk’s Macho Fantasies;‘Space travel is queer’


Landslides Leave Big Sur’s Beloved Landmarks Fighting for Survival; As California’s most majestic highway remains closed after three years, this roadside community tries to hold on. ‘It’s weird, dude’; Great photographs


Hope for Humanity! Salman Rushdie says AI won’t threaten authors until it can make people laugh; Author tells Hay festival AI has no sense of humour, but when it writes a funny book ‘we’re screwed’


STREETWISE


Artist Known for Scaling Buildings Was Arrested at His Show’s Opening; Isaac Wright took a vertiginous photograph of the Empire State Building after he climbed to the top of its spire — evidence the police used to arrest him

Photographer Isaac Wright on Being Busted by the NYPD During the Opening of His Show in Chelsea; Author profile picture; "They told Wright they delayed arresting him for a couple of hours at the opening last week because “(The police) liked my art so much that they waited a couple of hours so I could enjoy the (gallery opening) occasion.”


Lapiz Paints “Rainbow Nation” in Paderborn, Germany


Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen In “Place”


Video: Tagging a Train Yard with Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen



Kenny Nguyen’s Beautiful Refusal; People of Color Are Often Called Upon To Perform Their Identities, But Nguyen’s Lush Tapestries Largely Avoid That Trap


RAPT. TOGETHER. IN THE DARK.

Gordy Grundy: Today, we announce a new action, to bring attention to the beleaguered cinema art form. We believe our expression, "Rapt. Together. In The Dark." condenses a complex medium into a simple definition. Let's start the conversation...


EXPERIENTIAL


Devoid Magazine: How The Sphere in Las Vegas is Going to Ruin Entertainment As We Know It and Liberate the Experience

Experiential Spaces Are Getting Even Bigger; Those fake museums and gym-restaurant-spas are multiplying — and taking over even more square feet


Architect's Newspaper: Taking a Trip Through Meow Wolf’s Latest “Portal,” A Music-Themed Experiential Art Hub In Houston Called Radio Tave


The World’s Top Immersive Art Experiences; Paris, Miami, DC, Las Vegas, Denver, London, Jeddah, Tokyo, Bristol... Worldwide.



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?



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
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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


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



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



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



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


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