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BAWDY BASEL

Couple Caught Having ‘Loud Sex’ Atop A Huge Elephant Sculpture Ahead of Art Basel In Miami Beach

Miami Millionaires Fight For Their Right To Party In Court Over Crackdown On Bashes During Art Basel


Following the Market’s Banana Boost, Experts’ Outlook for Art Basel Miami Beach Is Bright; Textile artists, who continue their rise in the market, and institutionally linked artists of color will have strong showings at the fair

Art Basel Miami Beach Opens With Buoyant Mood, $30 Million Picasso; 'Collectors are taking their time,' Larry Gagosian said

Art Basel Miami Beach 2024: Biggest Parties, Events, Screenings and Shows


Gagosian Goes to Miami; See What He Unpacked!

Art Basel Miami Beach’s Director on the Fair’s ‘Centrifuge of Tech, Fashion, Art, Music;' Bridget Finn is hosting 286 exhibitors in Florida this week. In a wide-ranging interview, she reveals how she does it—and what to expect


Lucy Sparrow Opens a Felted Vegetable Stand—With Fatboy Slim Playing Greengrocer; Artist has a new selection of felt "paintings," as well as 20,000 of her beloved stuffed sculptures


Kenny Schachter Dishes on $68 Million Ruscha, $5.1 Million Koons, While Avoiding Gagosian’s Wrath; Plus, our columnist goes behind the scenes at Sotheby's—and offers some book recommendations


LAWRENCE WESCHLER: More on the Great Exiled Afrikaner Poet/Painter/Political Prisoner and Anti-Apartheid Activist Breyten Breytenbach


MORE BANANAS!

NYC Fruit Vendor, 74, Who Sold $0.35 Banana (San Duct Tape) Devastated After It Became Viral $6.2M Artwork: ‘I Am A Poor Man’; New Owner of Cattelan’s 'Comedian, 'Justin Sun Offers to Buy 100,000 Bananas

Can You Have Your Banana and Eat It Too? This Thanksgiving, cryptocurrency billionaire Justin Sun reminds us all not to waste by eating Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian,” his $6.2 million banana

Media Goes Bananas! Click Here for 77,528 Articles! (Not including video and news channels)

Maurizio Cattelan: 'Life is often tragic and comedic at the same time'; Artist behind 2019's viral banana installation talks to us about his newest pigeon sculptures at Miami, what he hopes his art communicates to audiences, and why it was important for him to create a 9/11 memorial


‘Most Of The Value Comes From The Internet’: Collector Justin Sun Discusses The Future Of Digital Art And His Newly Acquired Banana Work At Hong Kong Event

The Banana? The End of Art?

Sotheby’s David Galperin On the Market for Maurizio Cattelan; Artist’s 'Comedian' is being sold as an ephemeral installation, where its value resides in a certificate of authenticity and the right to recreate the work. The buyer will, however, receive one banana


Video: Sotheby's Auction: The World's Most Expensive Banana: Maurizio Cattelan's 'Comedian' Sells for $6.2 Million

Summary: How a Banana Becomes Worth $6 Million


The Surprisingly Sunny Origins of the Frankfurt School; When a group of German Marxists arrived in Naples in the nineteen-twenties, they found a way of life that made them rethink modernity


New Yorker: Why Is Gratitude So Difficult? When we feel grateful, we’re doing something that’s more complex than it seems


New Yorker, Listen to: Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art; To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence



How Cancel Culture Panics Ate the World; Set of peculiarly American anxieties has spread across continents



'Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West' Uncovers The Little-Known Stories of Professional and Creative Gains in The Region, and Especially in the Texas Panhandle


Van Gogh Was Not Fantasising When He Painted Mountain Landscapes With ‘The Two Holes’



Fast-Growing Market! Australian Gallery Sullivan+Strumpf on Supporting Asia-Pacific Artists; Incubator for underrecognized talent



Prices of Contemporary Indigenous American Art Have Risen More Than 1,000%; Long overdue boom in art by Native American artists is finally here



A Shameful US History Told Through Ledger Drawings; In the 19th century ledger drawings became a concentrated point of resistance for Indigenous people, an expression of individual and communal pride



Who is Takako Yamaguchi, the Under-Sung Painter Causing a Frenzy at Auction? After decades of quiet work, her evocative paintings breaking auction records and surpassing high estimates mark a sensational turn in the artist’s career



An Interview with Gagosian Artist Devin b. Johnson and the Influence of the Underground Museum


CERAMICS


American & European Art Pottery, at Auction

Asuke II Cruise Ship is a Floating Museum of Traditional Japanese Craftwork


Artist Manuel Mathieu has Recently Found Innovative Ways of Combining Painting and Ceramics



BOOKS + WORDS

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

Salman Rushdie’s Blasphemy Case, Shakespeare, Freud, and More; Blasphemy seems like an anachronistic offense. But Rushdie’s case is thoroughly modern

Paris Review: The Private Life: On James Baldwin

The Death of the Magazine; Or what happens when journalism forgets about quality writing

The 33 Best Plot Twists of the 21st Century, Ranked; Great plot twist doesn't just shock, it can make a movie truly unforgettable. Here are the best surprises, twists and turns we've seen since 2000, including "Us" and "The Visit"


Writing a Mystery? And Now, a Brief History of Poisoning

The Romantic Life of Robert Louis Stevenson; New Book “A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson” (Viking)

What I Learned About Loss And Joy From Joan Didion, My Mentor 60 Years My Senior: Cory Leadbeater

Is Blasphemy Illiberal? Salman Rushdie’s Thoroughly Modern Controversies



Interview with Pauline Curnier Jardin; Spends most of her time between Berlin and Rome; Multi-disciplinary practice:vfilm, installation, performance, drawing and sculpture



What is BLUM taking to Art Basel Miami Beach? See the Cornicopia Here!


GALLERIST PETER BLAKE GOES EXPERIENTIAL


Clever Blake creates a site-specific installation at The Hunt House in the 'Bu, designed by architect Craig Ellwood in 1957


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Julie Mehretu: A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory; At the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney


IT'S ALL BANANAS!


A Picture is Worth 1,000...! From Ben Jennings at the Guardian

Nate Freeman: The $6.2 Million Banana, Explained; Comedian, Maurizio Cattelan’s instant classic, sold for more than quadruple some estimates at Sotheby’s this week. How one work, and its worth, both satirizes and explains the meme-y days ahead


Wet Paint: A Tiny Art Fair Takes Over the Chelsea Hotel and More Juicy Art Gossip


Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Gratitude, Thanksgiving and Film Criticism: Not a Film Review: 'Parasite' by Bong Joon-ho


LAWRENCE WESCHLER


Must Read! Exiled South African Poet and Painter Breyten Breytenbach, in Memoriam



These Are the Women Who Founded Some of New York’s Greatest Art Museums; From the 19th Century to the 21st, women have been architects of the city's cultural landscape


Are You Too Old for the Artworld? Complaining that most art sucks is like saying that all new music is bad because you don’t like Spotify’s Top 50 playlist; Coagula; Dean Kissick



GOOD GIGS


Anna Weyant, Jeffrey Gibson, and 9 Other Art Stars Have Reimagined Dior’s Iconic Bag


With a New Audemars Piguet Collaboration, It’s Time For Some KAWS Drip; Venerable artist KAWS teamed up with the esteemed luxury timepiece house on a limited-edition watch



Matthew Brandt 'Rearview' at M+B
; See the Works!



Reinauguration of a Conceptual Classic in Marian Goodman’s New Space; Astute group exhibition, “Your Patience Is Appreciated,” is a thought-provoking celebration of the gallery’s roster



Yau: Danny Moynihan’s Landscapes Look Back at Us; His paintings are invitingly impenetrable, even as they stir up all sorts of associations, from mythological beginnings to rampant lust and greed


The Exploding Archival Inevitable; Paul Morrissey, Overseer of Andy Warhol’s Factory, Manager of the Velvet Underground, and Cult Film Director, Saved Everything



Review: Mind-boggling Banquet of Replica Japanese Food; Mouthwatering show celebrates Japan’s fine art of creating delectable duplicates



The Mail Art of Wallace Berman, Actress Teri Garr and Questions of a Father's Infidelities


Carolina A. Miranda: Slouching Towards Uncertainty, On tyranny, "Pedro Páramo," Joseph Beuys and Stick Tok



Sci-fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation at the University of California (USC) Fisher Museum of Art



Björk Has Created a Haunting A.I. Sound Installation for the Centre Pompidou; "Nature Manifesto" includes the sounds of extinct and endangered animals


All the Erased de Kooning Drawings


I Ventured to Michael Heizer’s Remote Land Art Masterwork—And Left Transformed; Pioneering land artist and renegade visionary turned 80 this week. We celebrated by visiting his desert masterpiece 'City' and will never be the same



Yau: The Mind-Body Split in Kibong Rhee’s Paintings; Rhee’s paintings change from pictorial presentations of a lush, dreamy world to a tangled web of different viscosities when we approach the surface


THEOPHILE ALEXANDRE STEINLIN

The Surprising Story of Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859–1923) the Cat-Obsessed Artist Behind the Famed ‘Le Chat Noir’ Poster


War, Socialism, and Cats: Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen's Political Artistic Practice

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen on Artnet



Board Masters: Artists’ Palettes As Works Of Art; In Pictures



Painter Arielle Masson’s “Chaotic Nodes”




New Yorker Cartoons for the Week!



BACK TO TOP

NOTHING BUT A SMALL CONTRACTION

The L.A. Art Scene Was Booming. Why Are Galleries Suddenly Closing?

American Art Galleries Closing in Mexico City: ‘Nobody Likes a Tourist’; Over the course of just three months this year, three mid-sized US galleries have shuttered their outposts in Mexico City: Morán Morán (Los Angeles), Deli (formerly based in New York and now permanently shuttered), and Commonwealth and Council (Los Angeles)


KISSICK KONTRETEMPS

Zwirner Podcast: Has Contemporary Art Lost Its Edge? With Dean Kissick and Helen Molesworth

Make Art Great Again? A Response to the Nostalgia and Backlash in Dean Kissick’s Clickbait Manifesto; Artist and critic Ajay Kurian dissects the writer’s argument that identity politics are the enemy of artistic innovation

Read Dean Kissick's Essay, Click Here; 'The Painted Protest, How Politics Destroyed Contemporary Art'


Make Art, Not War! Trump’s Pick to Lead the Navy Has No Military Experience — But He Does Have a Great Art Collection!


THE DARK BOB SINGS OF ART AND ARTISTS


With his collected art works now ensconced in the Smithsonian Museum, The Dark Bob has just completed his ninth musical creation. The double album, "Ekphrasis Synesthesia, Songs For Artists," features 26 “genre-blurring” tribute songs celebrating, pondering and occasionally criticizing the visual artists that he loves. From Ed Ruscha to performance artists John Fleck and Barbara T. Smith; the list is rich. Click Here to hear the album, see videos and follow The Dark Bob on his tour of the art universe.


Maybe It's Not 'All About Me'? This Beloved Austrian Museum May Never Reveal Which Artist Is Doing Its Big Fall Show Next Year



Anselm Kiefer Unveils a Preview of His New 78-Foot Painting; Work will be part of Kiefer’s landmark exhibition in Amsterdam, the first-ever collaboration between two major Dutch institutions



Lauren Bon 'Concrete is Fluid' at Honor Fraser



Video: One Hour of David Lynch Listening To Rain, Smoking And Reflecting On Art



The 30 Best Art Books of 2024: This expansive genre includes any title with a bearing on the multifaceted art world — from Audrey Flack’s memoir to Caitlin Cass’s 'Suffrage Song'



Glenn Ligon, Gustav Metzger, and Jason Rhoades in Their Own Words in New Books From Hauser & Wirth Publishers




Tove Jansson (1914 - 2001) Found Refuge in Play; Finnish artist Tove Jansson’s childlike worlds are not pure escapism, but rather an expression of a state in which joy and fear are allowed to coexist



Rare U.S. Caravaggio Masterpiece Shows How A Murderer Painted Death; God Granted A Saint’s Wish: To Die as a Martyr. A Killer Painted The Moment



Christina's World: Christina Ramberg (1946-1995) was a Chicago Imagist, not so well known as some, with a truly amazing career


Artist Peter Doig on the Thrilling Show He’s Organized at Gagosian in New York; A Balthus borrowed from the Museum of Modern Art is at the heart of the exhibition, which unites canonical and obscure figures


Richard Serra Embossment and Gemini G.E.L.



PBS Video: 'The Cheech' Film tells Cheech Marin's Journey From Comedy Icon To Chicano Art Advocate; With gallerist Charlie James, LACMA's Michael Govan, Artist Patssi Valdez and many more



ILLUSTRATION


French Illustrator Paul Colin Posters: Masterworks from the Rennert Collection


Illustrations for 'Carmen' by Baron Hans Henning Voigt


Inspirational Video: Finding Artist, Illustrator and Muralist Wes Cook; A Touching and Meaningful Search for an Unknown Artist; Appreciate Everything Endlessly
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There’s Something Toxic About Megan Bickel’s Landscapes; Knowledge, visual perception, and the disruption of both by new technologies are at the heart of artist’s multimedia paintings



Emerging Artist Li Hei Di Calls Her London Studio a ‘Parallel Universe,’ Where Hong Kong’s Cinematic Heroines and Mystical Abstraction Meet; First solo exhibition with Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles in November



Death by Art: The Untimely Death of Luis Jimenez; His Demonic 'Blue Mustang' Sculpture Crushed Him


Sebastian Smee: When Weegee worked for Stanley Kubrick, things got a little crazy; Notorious photographer’s career was cratering when he took a gig on the set of ‘Dr. Strangelove’


LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: RELEVANCE

Dear Art Lovers, Today we begin our latest Art Drop print, a fundraiser made possible by the artist Lisa Adams. Her print is relevant to our time; something we will look back on! $160 includes shipping. Help us keep our newsroom running and our subscriptions free! Click Here! ~ Gordy Grundy, Editor-in-Chief



INTERVIEW: LISA ADAMS and ICONIC L.A.

"As more and more tents began to appear across the city, usually in small or large clusters, I could see various through lines of what could be thought of as organizing principles..."

MUST READ! EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT!

Lisa Adams, Craig Kauffman, New York and Transitions; An Excerpt From 'Sensual Mechanical: The Art of Craig Kauffman' by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp... "Kauffman was undeniably a “serial romantic,” as one close friend said. He did not like living alone..."



Matthew Porter 'Bright Sun Sours' at M+B; See the Work!



Red Flags in Hong Kong; As Hong Kong gets swept up in anniversary celebrations for the People’s Republic of China, recent museum and gallery programming reveals the battle for the city’s identity



L.L. Bean Heiress Is Selling Her Collection of Artworks by the Wyeth Dynasty; Full lineage of Wyeth artists will hit the block with Bonhams this month


IS ART HISTORY?

Knight: Is Art History? Getty and LACMA Answer, But Only One Is Right

American Art Historian Svetlana Alpers’s New
Book Asks: Is Art History?



How British-American Rapper MF DOOM Redefined Hip-Hop Album Art Forever; Jason Jägel’s intricate painting for the iconic album is reimagined for its 20th anniversary




Dean Kissick: 'The Painted Protest, How Politics Destroyed Contemporary Art'... "My mother lost both of her legs on the way to the Barbican Art Gallery. It was her day off, and she was going there to see an exhibition called 'Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art'...



What is Vielmetter Taking to Art Basel Miami Beach? It's All Amazing! See it here!


Lessons from a Robot Auction Darling; Processing The Meaning of Ai-Da's $1.1m Sotheby's Sale


See Ai-Da on YouTube


The Artist, the Gallerist and Their Liver; Far from the dizzying auctions, splashy galas and angling dealers, a precious gift sheds light on a gentler way the art world works; Artist Derrick Velasquez gave a chunk of his liver to his dealer Jennifer Doran, of Robischon Gallery


Up in Smoke; Every Artist's Nightmare! Interview: The Artist Who Lost 1000 Paintings In A House Fire


‘There Was a Wildness to It’: Dealer Javier Peres Reflects on His Raucous Rise in the 2000s; International dealer relives the raves and risks that were part of his formative years in what was then a very different moment in the art market



Behind the Noir Stylings of Tyler, the Creator’s ‘Chromakopia’ Album Art; Director of photography Luis Perez opens up about bringing the record's visual aesthetic to life


Ellsworth Kelly Black Face; The jankiness of this 1964 Ellsworth Kelly collage is surpassed only by its intricacy. And its problematics lapped them both



Getty Reverse-Engineers a Van Gogh; Colors of Paintings Shift Over Time, What Did the Artist Intend?



Doc Review: 'A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things' Effusive Ode to Scottish Modernist Painter Willie Barns-Graham


(As NYC Galleries Close...) After a Surge in Los Angeles Galleries, Competition For Staff Heats Up; From assistants to senior directors, the city is ripe with opportunity as the local art market continues to mature


SARAH CUNNINGHAM (1993-2024)

Body of Missing Artist Sarah Cunningham Found; Represented by Lisson Gallery

Cunningham's Work on Instagram

Tragic Final Hours of Artist Sarah Cunningham


Mega-Collector Larry Warsh Peeled Art Off Subway Walls In The 1980s. Now It’s Going Up For Sale at Sotheby’s; Lived at Artistic Mecca of Astor Place; Coveted Haring’s Now-Iconic Angels, Spaceships And Babies


David Salle's Ghost in the A.I. Machine; At Gladstone Gallery, the painter's experiments with artificial intelligence yield compelling results and big questions


The ‘Skullduggery’ Behind Robert Rauschenberg’s Venice Biennale Win Is Unpacked in a New Documentary; Unpacks what went into landing Robert Rauschenberg the top prize at the 1964 Biennale



'The Funeral' (of Charles Baudelaire) Is American Novelist, Essayist and Critic Kate Zambreno’s Go-to Edouard Manet



Rethink Your Estate Plans: A Dying Artist Left His Legacy to MoMA. Today He’s Almost Forgotten. Scott Burton, one of America’s leading sculptors, entrusted his estate to the museum in 1989, when he was sick with AIDS, to ensure his place in art history. It turned out to be a bad idea



Video: Glass Bead Lovin' Artist Liza Lou and Conservators Discuss “Trailer,” a 35-foot-long Immersive Sculpture



Larry Madrigal at Nicodim


ARCHITECTURE


Unbuilt Masterpiece: Frank Lloyd Wright's The Call Building illo call-building

The Distinction Between Theme Parks And Urban Venues Is Rapidly Dissolving; Every City with a Tourism Economy


Inside a Roman Palazzo Hotel Designed by Film Director Luca Guadagnino; Remarkable Palazzo Talìa, by the filmmaker’s interiors practice, occupies a 16th-century school


MONSIEUR NOUAR: LE FRANCAIS BUSTER KEATON


Dans la Cuisine



 



The Hort Legacy: How New York’s Boldest Art Collectors Are Preserving Their Vision; Susan and Michael Hort have transformed personal loss and a keen eye for emerging talent into a collection of over 5,000 works. Now, they’re cementing their legacy with a private museum at Art Omi Pavilions


The Pact of 'Oscar de la Rent Boy'; "I, Oscar Orlis de la Renta Fiallo, will give you, at all times and during all my life, and by will and testament after my death, one half of all my possessions, incomes and earnings..."



Q&A with Artist Hills Snyder, Part II: The artist answers big questions on art, road trips, life, love and the American West from artists, curators, art writers, critics and gallerists



Jasper Johns Doing Numbers



Jean-Léon Gérôme’s Art Epitomized Orientalism. A Major Show in Doha Reconsiders His Legacy; 400-work exhibition "Seeing Is Believing: The Art and Influence of Gérôme" present broader and more diverse perspectives on the artist, without overlooking the critical scrutiny


Fascinating Read! How Food, Art, and Life Intersected in Swiss Artist Daniel Spoerri’s Uncanny Assemblages



Kim Fay in Detroit: Heloisa Pomfret at N’namdi Center; ”The Brain” A genius in our midst


DOUG AITKEN


Matt Stromberg: Doug Aitken’s Poetic Tableau of Southern California; “I wanted to make something aggressively non-linear, using sound and music to express things that hard language couldn’t,” the artist said of his latest work


“Lightscape,” Artist Doug Aitken’s Latest Work, Takes on the American West, With a Little Help From Hollywood; Artist's latest work required five years, one mountain lion, and countless friends to realize. Its first iteration—presented in collaboration with the Los Angeles Philharmonic — blends film and live music to conjure a vision of our collective future


How the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul Fight Explains Today’s Art Market; Industry veterans are competing against powerful newcomers, prices have been falling, and we may not be anywhere near a bottom


The Riddle of the Rich-Poor Artist; Data on visual artists' socioeconomic backgrounds shows why it's so hard to win public support for a cultural sector defined by day-to-day hardship; Privilege versus policy; AI as punisher



Monumental Arte Povera Survey in a Parisian Palace of Wealth Sidesteps Anti-Capitalist Critiques



The Trouble with Photographer Tina Barney’s Evocation of Old Money



Sex Sells! Art Deco Star Tamara de Lempicka Has Never Been More Popular. Here’s Why



Las Vegas Gallery Is Selling a Bronze Cast of a Leonardo Wax Sculpture for $100 Million; Da Vinci created 'Horse and Rider' in the 1500s



Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth


BOOKS + WORDS

Author Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century: “I Loved Him. He Was My Safety.” When he was 42, Cormac McCarthy fell in love with a 16-year-old girl he met by a motel pool. Augusta Britt would go on to become one of the most significant—and secret—inspirations in literary history, giving life to many of McCarthy’s most iconic characters across his celebrated novels and Hollywood films. For 47 years, Britt closely guarded her identity and her story. Until now. Listen to the Story...

Review: James Retells Huckleberry Finn From Jim's Perspective; Author Percival Everett reimagines Mark Twain's novel from the enslaved character's point of view

Blank Ruled Pages in the Getty Museum Collection

The Hunt: The Search for Sappho’s Lost Poetry Awaits a New Chapter; Greek poet frequently pined for women in tender yet charged lines about love’s ravages

‘The Book of Elsewhere’ by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville, Reviewed; Acclaimed British ‘weird fiction’ author Miéville has stepped in to spin off his take on Reeves’s unstoppable (but inevitably sensitive, world-weary and introspective) brand of killing machine; Netflix Anime is coming


ARCHITECTURE


GU Could’ve Been Home By Now; Architectural masterpiece and landmark may reconfigure the building’s signature spaces


‘Bringing People to Art Is Important’: Star Architect Annabelle Selldorf on Her Vital Mission; Since its inception in 1988, the foundation of Selldorf Architects is art. Multiple major museum projects are on the horizon

Rising Architect Zeina Koreitem Had a Nomadic Upbringing. Now, She Builds Spaces That Feel Like Home; MILLIØNS, the studio founded by Koreitem and her partner John May, just opened a major renovation of the Everson Museum of Art


Video: Architect Liz Diller: “You have to be a mind reader"


PUBLIC INSTITUTION

Curtains for LACMA!

Vanity Fair: Inside the LACMA Gala, Hollywood’s Starriest Museum Moment; Long-running fundraiser might be the only place where the two worlds truly do intertwine in a way that seems seamless. This year’s edition, honoring Baz Luhrmann and Simone Leigh, brought out Charli XCX, Leo, Kim, Blake, and more

MoMA's Thematic Installation Works. Can LACMA Match It?



Before AI, Two Japanese Artists, Kazuo Shiraga and Akira Kanayama, Took the Human Hand out of Gestural Brushstrokes



Ben Davis: Why Only Some Artworks Give You Chills — And Most Just Don’t; 'Aesthetic Chills,' Part 2 of a 2-part series



David Lynch is Illustrating Film Director Justine Triet’s ‘Anatomy of a Fall' Book, an Annotated Edition of the Film’s Screenplay



Interview: Former Interview Magazine Editor Joan Agajanian Quinn Shows Us Her Treasured Art Collection



Artist Mel Chin's Unsolved Mysteries


THE SENSIBLE RICH

Yacht Owners are Commissioning Copies of Original Art to Bring to Sea



Curator Genevieve Williams and Her “Luminaries of Light: Pioneers of the California Light and Space Movement” at the Honarkar Foundation



The Last Relic: Chris Burden's 'Coals to Newcastle' (1987); Smuggling joints into Mexico


Now You Can Shop for Art at Saks Fifth Avenue; The fashion brand will offer prints by artists like Sol LeWitt and Christo and Jeanne-Claude


Artists are Being Outsourced! Sotheby’s to Auction Painting by Humanoid Robot, known as Ai-Da, in a Futuristic First— And It’s Expected To Fetch Up To $180K; She’s a real Vincent van Go-bot. Oh, good God, Ai-Da is also a poet!


Updates and News on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square; One of the world’s most famous public art commissions

Who Will Clinch the U.K.’s Top Art Honor? Inside the Turner Prize Exhibition


Video: The Unveiling of the The Fourth Plinth Sculpture: Antelope by Samson Kambalu


CADY DID


“Beginning October 17, and spanning three rooms of the Pavilions, Glenstone will share a presentation of works by Cady Noland. Developed in collaboration with the artist, this presentation will mark the first major survey by a U.S. museum of her decades-long career.”

Just How Much Control Can an Artist Have Over Their Work? Cady Noland, who became the darling of the art world, has tested the limits



Podcast: Trompe L'Oeil: 3 Stories of Design Meant to Fool You: 1) Dazzle Ships, 2) Highway Design and 3) Guerrilla Freeway Signs in L.A.



Shizu Saldamando 'Selected Works' at Charlie James; See the Exhibition


What Was the Chicano Art Movement? A Long Historical Look!



Wow! New Works! Yayoi Kusama Prays for Love at Her New London Show; Exhibition features new works by the 95-year-old Japanese artist, including the debut of the new 'Infinity Mirrored Room'


BUSY SIR STEVE McQUEEN


Steve McQueen Shines a Powerful Light on the Invisible; In two concurrent New York exhibitions at Dia Beacon and Dia Chelsea, the filmmaker and artist explores visibility in a racialized world


See the Official Trailer 'Blitz'; Directed by Steve
McQueen; Starring Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson and Elliot Heffernan


EXPERIENTIAL


Opera Featuring Lesbian Sex Scenes, Crucifixions and Bloody Gore in Graphic 3-Hour Show; Original 1921 Premiere of “Sancta Susanna” Was Canceled Due To Outrage Over Its Content; See the Trailer!


The Definitive List of Free Man-Made River Surfing Waves

Getty PST Art Fireworks Show Caused Injuries, So What Went Wrong? Artist Cai Guo-Qiang Answers


M.F. Husain Gets the Immersive Treatment; One of the more unusual collateral exhibitions at this year’s Venice Biennale, The Rooted Nomad: M.F. Husain, might be a test case for what immersive art can and can’t do





At Her First Major Solo Exhibition, Bobbi Essers Explores Human Connection in Kaleidoscopic Vignettes; at Unit, London, set to present "The World at Our Command" later this month



A Mysterious Mansion, a Family Feud and a Locked-Away Klimt Masterpiece; Palais Stoclet in Brussels is a century-old ‘total work of art’ that closed its gates to visitors years ago. A new law aims to allow access, and a digital re-creation reveals the sumptuous interior


GOOD GIGS


On October 6, 2011, Munich newspaper Die Welt replaced all the pictures in their daily edition with Ellsworth Kellys


Genzken Die Welt Passed Me By; This special issue of Die Welt edited by an artist was on 24 November 2016, and the artist was Isa Genzken; Gerhard Richter's guest edit in October 2012



Gordy Grundy: Who is Ed Emshwiller? CalArts Legend? Video Pioneer? And How is He Related to ‘Megalopolis’?


AI: BOON OR BANE?

Provoke? Or Saving On Labor? Relaunched Newspaper London Standard to Feature AI-Written Review ‘By’ Dead Art Critic Brian Sewell; ‘Experimental review’ ‘to provoke discussion’ about AI and journalism


Artificial intelligence helps uncover 303 new geoglyphs in Nazca desert; Lrge number of new shapes, almost as many as those found during the entire last century, allows researchers to offer an explanation about their function



The Radical Luminescence of ‘Light and Space’ Pioneer Larry Bell; Titan of the Light and Space movement is refreshingly down to earth and continues to be inspired. A new survey at the Phoenix Art Museum solidifies his legacy


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