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Ai Wei Wei: As They Hasten to Cozy Up to China, M+ Museum and Credit Suisse Have Let Freedom of Speech Fall By the Wayside

Hong Kong’s M+ Museum Has Removed Ai Weiwei’s Famous Tiananmen Square Photo From Its Website While It Awaits Government Review

Chinese Dissident Ai Weiwei Says Credit Suisse Is Closing Foundation’s Account

THE DAY THAT CHANGED SO MUCH

Farago: Why Art Struggled to Address the Horrors of 9/11; After the attacks, American culture became one of prohibitions. Then the Iraq War made it difficult to address Sept. 11 on its own terms

"American Hero: The 9/11 Movie" An Art Show by Wayne Coe

'A thunderstorm of ash and cloud': Artists remember 11 September

Photos That Defined 9/11, and the People in Them—20 Years Later

How To Remember Minoru Yamasaki’s Twin Towers; Perceived as symbols of strength after their destruction on 9/11, the Twin Towers and their Japanese American architect were once criticized in racist and sexist terms

Interview with Dr. Sozita Goudouna, founder of Greece in USA ... Greece in USA, the Website

When the present does not add up, artists look to the future; Artists' forward-looking visions are at the centre of this year’s Armory Focus section

Art Destined for Space Has an Earthly Impact; All-female artist collective is sending artworks into the stratosphere

Pace Gave Its New Digital Director Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle the Keys to Its Brick and Mortar Gallery. The Results Are Refreshing

Painter Lois Dodd (b. 1927) at Alexandre Gallery, NYC

A Short, Shiny History of Gold in Art, From the Glittering Tombs of Ancient Egypt to Gustav Klimt’s Scandalously Gilded Surfaces

Houseago and Rodin at Gagosian, Davies Street, London

Wonder Women: Smithsonian appoints advisory council for budding women’s history museum in Washington, DC

Is Disneyland the great American artwork?

BRAVING OPPRESSION

UK’s controversial new police bill poses major threat to the art world; Proposed legislation aimed at cracking down on unruly protests may criminalise protest art

See It Again! Timeless and Very Relevant Message from Artist Oliver Stone: 'JFK'

Male-centric and whitewashed: major photography brands Fuji, Canon and Kodak scramble to diversify following criticism; pledge to promote more women, LGBTQ and photographers of colour in response to online pro-diversity campaigns; All it took was one Tweet!

Coping Is Relative: The World’s Best Superyachts of 2021 Revealed

Mark Crispin Miller: A Propaganda Masterpiece, Perspectives on the Pandemic

Atlantic: The New Puritans; Behavior doesn't adapt fast enough to the new norms, judgment can be swift—and merciless

An ancient Buddhist city is perched on top of an Afghan copper reserve worth $50 billion—what will happen to it under Taliban/Chinese control? Cultural heritage workers estimate they have five years to secure the heritage site’s contents before it is destroyed to extract the ore

Artists and cultural workers face life under Taliban 2.0

Artist Khadim Ali's Invisible Border; Painting murals of Iran’s Revolutionary leaders; Trained in Persian miniatures; Migrating to Australia

Podcast: What two Hazara artists feel about Afghanistan, and a new art movement is forged in metal

Cuba on the brink: artistic voices refuse to be silenced

Riot police, body scanners and social breakdown in toy town; An array of childhood playthings are normalizing the concepts of surveillance and state control for the youngest of minds

Covid Corruption: ‘In the Same Breath': Infuriating Doc Tackles China's COVID-19 Coverup [Review]; Nanfu Wang follow-up to her 'One Child Nation'

NEW DISCOVERIES & REVELATIONS

First Cupid, now a wine glass? More revelations emerge from restored Vermeer painting in Dresden

The Restored Version of this Famous Vermeer Painting Is Hugely Different

‘The spectator should disappear into the works’ – an interview with cinematographer Peter Suschitzky; Challengers of lighting Rembrandt at the Dulwich Picture Gallery

FORMERLY KNOWN AS CINEMA

New film "Official Competition": Antonio Banderas, Penelope Cruz poke fun at film biz excesses; Venice audience "in stitches."

‘The Matrix: Resurrections’ Guide: 21 Details to Know About the Return of the Iconic Action Franchise

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'Rocketeer' sequel headed to Disney+; David Oyelowo producing and potentially starring in revival; a retired Tuskegee airman takes up the Rocketeer mantle

Review: Dune’s Day: New $165 Mil Take on Sci-Fi Classic with Timothee Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac is Stunning, Granular, Moody, Artful

Visually Astounding and Never Made! 'Jodorowsky's Dune' 2014 Doc Trailer; To Star Salvadore Dali and Orson Welles

'The Card Counter' Paul Schrader Got ‘So Blatant’ in His Critiques of Tiffany Haddish, and She Loved It: ‘Yes, Give Me More’

‘The Card Counter’ Review: Oscar Isaac Bets It All in Paul Schrader’s Transcendent Poker Drama; Oscar Isaac plays a cold-eyed card shark with a bloody ace up his sleeve in the latest of Schrader's films about men at work

The ultimate film lovers’ guide to the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Telluride Recap: Feinberg and Keegan on Hollywood’s Return to the Rockies

'King Richard' Trailer

“Downton Abbey” Movie Sequel (And Perhaps Finale) Gets a Subtitle: “A New Era”

Much Loved Actor Michael K. Williams, in 2011 Interview, Got Real About His Scar, Struggles and Salvation: “There’s No Words to Say How Fortunate I Am”

How did director Lorenzo Vigas and his 'The Box' gets inside Mexican sweatshops?, At Venice Film Festival

Review: Sting Puts the Swing in Hulu’s “Only Murders in the House” But Martin Short Dances Away With Hit Mystery Comedy: Woody Allen-esque

‘The Batman’ Reaction No. 3: ‘2 Hour and 54 Minute Horror-Noir’

‘The Batman’: Another Test-Screening Reaction With Detailed Plot Points

'Don't Look Up' Trailer Is Here, With The Best Cast For A Film This Year; Director/Writer Adam McKay; Climate Change Satire

'Don’t Look Up'; Official Teaser Trailer; Netflix

‘Last Night in Soho’ Trailer: The Plot of Edgar Wright’s 1960s Murder Mystery Comes Into Focus; Wright's follow-up to "Baby Driver" sees the filmmaker moving into psychological horror

‘Untold’ Directors on Making Five Netflix Sports Docs Fit Together, Find Their Moment, and What’s Next

Francis Ford Coppola Willing to Spend $100M of His Own Money to Get Dream Project ‘Megalopolis’ Made

Francis Coppola, A Gambling Maverick Moviemaker Who Won Big, Betting On Star Cast For Epic ‘Megalopolis’

'No Time To Die', Final International Trailer

Why Venice Is the Model for Pandemic-Era Film Fests

Inside the Making of 'The Many Saints of Newark', the Soprano's Prequel

A History of the First Gay Film: "Different from the Others", Germany, 1919

EXCLUSIVE: Balmy Nights, Gentle Trades and a History of the Open-Air Movie Theaters That Were Once Found All Over the Hawaiian Islands

ART AND RACE

The Smithsonian Institution Is Using a $25 Million Grant to Get Americans Around the Country to Talk About Race

Exhibition of Asian and Asian American art debuts at Palmer Museum of Art, PA.

Smithsonian Acquires Rare Photographs From the First African American Studios; Daguerreotypes by James P. Ball, Glenalvin Goodridge and Augustus Washington are the centerpiece of a collection that could rewrite the early history of American photography

Assemblage as Medium and Method: “You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: The Sapphire Show” at Ortuzar Projects; as a reaction to a lack of representation of Black women in the local art scene

How Black Artists Are Shaping a Distinctly Black Gaze; Gaze forces viewers to engage Blackness from a different and discomforting vantage point

$25,000 Art Prize to Focus on AAPI and Asian Diaspora Artists: ‘We Won’t Be Overlooked Again’

STAGE STRUCK

‘Hadestown’ returns to Broadway with balcony performance and flowers

Off-broadway play asks its audience to vote on Nixon’s complicity in Watergate

Review: In ‘Return the Moon,’ Theater Between Phases; While insubstantial, this immersive online performance gathers people virtually until they can get together more safely in person

With a mess of fabrics, Broadway's costume shops return to work

How playwright Luis Alfaro aims to make L.A. the center of the theatrical universe

In Katie Brook and Liza Birkenmeier’s 'Islander" a Toxic Man Faces Off with Himself

'Ni Mi Madre' Is a Stellar One-Man, One-Mom Show

A Troubled and Fascinating History: Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark – Broadway's Underrated Musical Gem

The Bright Side of Life; A swarm of musicals open in London’s West End, proving that both the fun and the show must go on

Pasadena Playhouse to reopen with reimagined Go-Go’s musical ‘Head Over Heels’

A Las Vegas theater company knows the value of having an interior architect on board (and they're hiring one right now)

New Doc, 'On Broadway', Official Documentary Trailer <p> </p>

AMAZING MOTHER NATURE

The Horsetail Firefall of Yosemite

Animal Attraction: Joachim Schmeisser’s African-wildlife photographs pay homage to the magical creatures of Kenya’s Amboseli National Park

Artist Joan Jonas: On the Ocean and Nature

Take a peak: the mountains and mysticism of Nepal – in pictures

The Epic Love Story Between a Man and an Octopus

ART NOIR

'Immensely talented' multimedia artist Jeremy Gordaneer's death in B.C. being treated as homicide, leaving family, friends, art community in shock

Regulate the Restorer? Secrets and lies: the role of restorers in art crime; Regulation of the conservation profession may be a start, but can it quash the “ego” that often motivates restorers-turned-forgers?

L’Affaire des Poisons: The Parisian Poison Panic and Versailles’ Secret Witch Hunt

Judge Rejects Turkey’s Claim That Ancient Sculpture Was Looted; The marble figure had been displayed publicly for decades in New York before the Turkish government sued for its return; 4800 and 4100 BC

Museum says art collector’s van Gogh piece is a fake: $300 million lawsuit

The Great James Bond Aston Martin DB5 Car Robbery Podcast with actress Elizabeth Hurley

Amsterdam to return Kandinsky sold under Nazi occupation to heirs

A Schoolteacher in Germany Hit Upon a Trove of Lost Nazi Artifacts Hidden in a Wall More Than 75 Years Ago; Artifacts were probably hidden as U.S. troops took the city of Hagen in April 1945

How do you spot a looted antique? Germany brings in team of experts to help; Government has established €600,000 three-year pilot project called NEXUD to combat illegal trade in antiquities which is "six times" higher than thought

Jason Harrington Admits to Selling Over $1 Million of Forged Art; Purportedly created by Richard Hambleton

The Spine Collector: For years, a mysterious figure has been stealing books before their release. Is it espionage? Revenge? Or a complete waste of time?

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Gladstone Director Cooke Maroney Impregnates Actress

LOCA MOCA

Klaus Biesenbach named director of Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie

Knight: Why this bizarre email represents larger problems at MOCA

Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles names Johanna Burton of the Wexner as its first executive director; Burton will run the museum with Klaus Biesenbach, who has been reassigned as artistic director in a restructuring

YOLANDA LOPEZ

Yolanda López, artist who painted the iconic Virgen de Guadalupe series, dies at 79

LA Times: Yolanda López, Chicana artist known for la Virgen de Guadalupe series, dies at 79

PLEIN-AIR WITH SALVADOR

Art Historian Julia Friedman reflects on her participation in the Netflix documentary "Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed" with her New Criterion article "“Happy Trees” and Culture-Death"

Artist Ron Cooper Racing at Bonneville Speed Week 2021

"Hunter's career is "insulting to the art ecosystem," said Representative James Comer, quoting art advisor Lisa Schiff. Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee Is Demanding Hunter Biden’s Art Dealer Make the Artist’s Sales Public

WHERE ARTISTS GO, REALTORS FOLLOW

Joshua Tree oasis hailed by U2, Jay-Z and Beyoncé on sale for $1.75M

Jeff Koons reveals he is making NFTs, details plans for his Pace Gallery shows and remembers his hotel rendezvous with Salvador Dalí

HK Zamani at PRJCTLA

'America is both a shining beacon and the Death Star': Glenn Ligon on Andy Warhol, ambivalence and his Stevie Wonder obsession; podcast

Yau: The Trouble with Capitalist Utopias; Maybe a sense of belonging is a thing of the past, a sign of privilege

THE SPIRIT IS BACK!

‘I Haven’t Seen Anything Cool in So Long’: Painter Jamian Juliano-Villani Is Opening a Gallery to Show Whatever She Wants (and Throw Parties); The artist says the gallery, called O’Flaherty’s, will be a performance in disguise

Artist Kim Dingle christens venture with the debut show

Guggenheim Bilbao Just Dropped a Rap Video to Raise Funds to Repair Its Jeff Koons Puppy Sculpture!

What do Artist Sam Mckinniss, Curator Viet-Nu Nguyen and Collector Michael Ovitz Have in Common?

ARTIST’S HEALTH

Why has the Amish community doubled in size over the last 20 years? Similarities to the Artist's Life?

Your mental health may depend on what’s in your diet

Doctors in Brussels to prescribe museum visits in new trial; to counteract pandemic-related mental health issues

VR POTENTIAL

Art, terror and erections show VR potential at Venice; "Can you tell the difference between what is and isn't real?" intones Tilda Swinton

VR Burning Man lets revellers experience festival's infamous 'Orgy Dome' at home

GOOD GIGS

Jeff Koons and BMW: First Look of The Artist's Special Edition 8 Series Gran Coupe Revealed

A Beautiful Marriage of Art and Commerce: Swedish artist Mamma Andersson on Her Collaboration With Svenskt Tenn

What is Svenskt Tenn?

Inside the Pentagon’s Secret Post-9/11 Summit With Hollywood A-Listers

Vacheron Constantin’s New York Flagship Store Opens With a Surprising Collaboration With the Chris Burden Estate

Art as a Springboard! Director of Estonia’s National Museum Has Been Promoted to President of the Entire Country

Opportunities in September 2021; From collaborative grants to open calls and experimental residencies, a list of opportunities that artists, writers, and art workers can apply for this month

Envious? You will be! Tracey Emin's New Studio Tour: Video

NEW MEDIA: INTRODUCING PUCK

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PALATE PALETTE

Alison Roman: The Best Braised Short Ribs

Chef Tara Gets Peachy: Peach Tarts with Honey and Black Pepper

Chef Corey Lee's Michelin-starred San Francisco restaurant In Situ at SFMOMA has closed ... Their History on Instagram

Ania Hobson “I See You” at SETARAH X, Düsseldorf

Images! Upstate (New York) Art Weekend 2021, Bigger and Better

Larry Rivers' Giant ‘Legs’ sculpture walks off for $100K at Hamptons Fine Art Fair

Artist Pipilotti Rist is about to open a survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; Carolina A. Miranda interviews

VIDEO

Video Artist Richard Fung Reveals the Hidden Histories of Queer Sexuality and the Asian Diaspora

Dreams change. Friends are forever. Burnaway editor Jasmine Amussen takes a road trip across the South with Britney Spears' Crossroads, and the infamous internet story @Zola

Light Fantastic – A Short History Of Neon As An Artistic Influence

'Get Lifted!' organized by Hilton Als at Karma, New York

Robert Longo Discusses ‘Moral Imperative’ That Drives His Latest Work

Joan Mitchell’s Resplendent Paintings: How the Abstract Expressionist Resolved the Unresolvable

Artists Chronicling Illness

British Art Duo Gilbert and George Answer Questions While Drinking Champagne in the Studio and Signing Posters for Their Next Gallery Show at Lehmann Maupin

In the studio with… Gilbert & George

ILLUSTRATION

Revolutionary type: Meet the designer decolonizing Chinese fonts; Julius Hui and his journey to radically rethink Chinese fonts

What Did Best-Selling Illustrators Doodle While Daydreaming in School?

Dust jackets and dinner jackets – the man who illustrated Bond

THE CLIMATE IS ALWAYS CHANGING

Zaria Forman: Fear and Awe; Showcasing Beauty and Fragility with Drawings

Who Owns the Earth? Group show proposes fresh paradigms of land ownership and art making in contrast to the rugged individualism of much early Land Art

What Does It Mean to Exhibit Nature? Like a creeping scent, Sean Raspet’s exhibition at Various Small Fires works its way through the viewer’s psyche almost imperceptibly

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CULTURE

New Criterion: Culture As Counterculture; On Changes In Our Cultural Climate

This Tea Master Is Preserving an Ancient Art for Future Generations

Five Years Ago, Dominique Fung Was Painting in a Basement Below a Toronto Nail Salon. Now, She’s the Toast of the Art World; Curators, collectors, and dealers are flocking to the New York-based artist's work

NFT THIS WEEK: THE BRANDING AND CORPORATE MARKETERS'S BEST FRIEND

Can the Corporations Stop the Flood of Undesired Penis NFTs?

Sotheby’s Brings in $26 Million with Bored Ape NFT Bundle

Contract Killers: artist Nancy Baker Cahill challenges the efficacy of the 'smart contracts' behind NFTs with an augmented reality project

Proof of Art. "A Brief History Of Nfts, From The Beginnings Of Digital Art To The Metaverse"

Teen Artists Are Making Millions on NFTs. How Are They Doing It?

Wong Kar-Wai to auction unseen ‘In The Mood For Love’ footage as NFTs

Surprisingly Late, Jeff Koons Steps into the NFT

The Not-So-Nifty Gateway: After years of post-Facebook conniving, the Winklevosses were finally on the road to redemption. Then they met another set of troublemaking twins

Fake Banksy NFT sells for $340K — then returned for full refund

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BOOKS AND WORDS

New Yorker: How Wes Anderson Turned The New Yorker Into “The French Dispatch”

Two Books Rethink Publishing as a Radical Practice

Rob Kay: A Book Review from a Family Perspective: 'Mike Nichols, A Life', by Mark Harris

‘Caravaggio was a major-league asshole’: the long tradition of scandal in art; According to Noah Charney’s new book, infamy in the art world—be it contrived drama to drum up publicity or genuine artistic rivalry—is as old as art itself

Fifty years on, Frederick Forsyth's 'The Day of the Jackal' still thrills

How a French Novelist Turns the Tables on History; Laurent Binet’s latest book, “Civilizations,” imagines what might have been if the Incas invaded Europe in the 16th century

Why We Need Terrifying Stories; Karen Brown on how reading puts us in control

The Atlantic presents "Needs" A short story by Karen Brown

'Sting in the Tale: Art, Hoax and Provocation' by Antoinette LaFarge; Read the Introduction

Richard Porter Wants to Make ‘Queer’ Weird Again; Pilot Press’s hit ‘Queer Anthology’ series is coming to an end after four years – what’s next for the indie publisher?

Sense and Sensuality: As a new biography by Chris Kraus of the author is published, revisiting Kathy Acker's writing on literature, logic and the libido

OUR SPOTLIGHT SERIES ON ARTS MEDIA

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ARCHITECTURE

Plans for $400-billion new city in the American desert unveiled; Planned by Billionaire Marc Lore

Planning for the Worst After 9/11, we had a chance to build the downtown that New York deserves. But timidity and fear have us hemmed in at every turn

The Silver Lake Reservoir Complex, Los Angeles

Design: Machine Age Modern: An Auction from a Private Collection

An Essential Approach to Architecture: David Chipperfield on the Neue Nationalgalerie; Six-year renovation of the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-designed building

Why the Mbari Houses in Nigeria Became Extinct

In Rural Rwanda, Architecture as an Impetus for Change

In Defense of Airports: Airport Architect Norman Foster Maps Out The Carbon Footprint Of Air Travel; "the carbon footprint of air travel is relatively small"

Life on Mars: Architect maps out the ‘flying homes’ of the future

“Chasing Architect Vladimir Ossipoff” presented by Greg Warner: Video Lecture

China Gets Its First Zaha Hadid Retrospective With a Blowout at the Modern Art Museum Shanghai—See Highlights Here

Bloomberg: The Struggle to Prevent Suicides From Hudson Yards Sculpture

Ten impressive architectural viewpoints designed to stand out

The Serbian Pavilion at the Venice Biannale

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Lawrence Weschler: The Alchemist: A Profile of Jack Brogan, “He is thoroughly sure of his expertise and his value. He is very much his own man.”

ART REPORT TODAY GALLERIES: Now Exhibiting

TO END OUR 'GHOST RIDER' SERIES, WE PRESENT THE MOST EVOCATIVE OF ALL...

Burl Ives Sings the first cover of 'Ghost Riders In The Sky', recorded in 1949 and it is the Most Haunting

It’s all about promoting your product and promoting you; The Post-Covid Celebrity

The Mysterious Mr. Guston

Hollywood’s Kitchen Table; At Dan Tana’s, it isn’t the food

Light Years Ahead: Interview with Robert Irwin

MONUMENTAL MOVES

Destroying public symbols of the past will not lead to a juster society. We must keep our mistakes visible

In Pictures: The Last Days of Virginia’s Embattled Monument to Robert E. Lee, From Its Role as a Site of Protest to Its Dramatic Removal; Statue had been standing since 1890

Pedro Reyes Is Designing a Monument to Indigenous Women in Mexico City That Will Replace a 150-Year-Old Christopher Columbus Statue

CRENSHAW

Crenshaw's Outdoor Museum Sounds Like the Real Deal

Sculptures by Kehinde Wiley, Alison Saar, and Others Will Go Up Along L.A.’s Crenshaw Boulevard as Part of a $100 Million Public Art Initiative; The artworks belong to Destination Crenshaw, which is commissioning 100 works of art over the next six years

10 Art Spaces Contributing to Atlanta’s Progressive Creativity

EXPERIENTIAL

Experiential Art Venture Superblue Launches in London with A.A. Murakami

Doug Harvey: Immerse This! Notes on the Van Gogh Experience

Considering Immersive Art Rooms and Why We Love to Escape

Olafur Eliasson's 'Room for one colour'

Team Lab's 'Floating Flower Garden'

5 Questions With Experiential Artist Ryoji Ikeda

Making Waves: Production brings Hokusai's works to life; Through dance, Japanese instruments and projections

Reference: Contemporary Art Movements

7 Unbelievable and Contentious Takeaways From a New Documentary About ‘Salvator Mundi,’ the $450 Million ‘Lost Leonardo’

'Lost Leonardo' Trailer

MUSIC AND SOUND

Just Released! Lana Del Rey, 'Arcadia' (Official Video)

Her 'Body is a Map of LA' 'And my lips like the fire licks the bay'; the Lyrics to "Arcadia"

When Europe offered Black composers an ear

New Collab! Danny Elfman & Trent Reznor - "True"

What do the bells of Notre Dame 'hear'? Artist Bill Fontana listens to the soul of Paris

Listen to the Soul of the Bell!

WES LANG

Shana Nys Dambrot: Meet Post-Pop Painter Wes Lang

Damien Hirst Chats With Friend and Fellow Artist Wes Lang About Life, Death, and His New Show in Aspen; The pair got together to talk on the occasion of Lang's solo show at Almine Rech

Cudra Clover, 'Hysteria' at MOAH

Brooklyn Rail: In Conversation with John Currin “Once I discovered my love of looking at paintings, I found myself falling in love with different painters.”

Body Image: New Sculpture at Various Small Fires

Ron Athey, Transgressive Performance Artist; Los Angeles-based artist gets his first major US museum show after working on the cultural fringes for decades

AMERICAN WEST IN FLAMES

Why it can take months to subdue some wildfires...

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From Da Vinci to Churchill: What your doodles can mean

Essay by John Tottenham: Gone To The Dogs

ART BUSINESS

Sunny Skies Forecast! Art Basel and UBS Art Market Mid-Year Review 2021; ‘Resilience in the Dealer Sector’: Download the Full Report ... Discover Key Findings

Choose your unicorn: why angel investors are ploughing millions into art startups; What's a unicorn?

Toledo museum receives $2.5 million for staff professional development; Benefactor says, "Early in my career the Toledo Museum of Art helped to pay for my MBA."

Among Works Most in Demand at Auction, Women Artists Were Well-Represented but Still Lag in Market Share: Analysis

Sotheby’s Will Sell the $600 Million Collection of Divorcing Couple Harry and Linda Macklowe, the Market’s Most Coveted Consignment in Years

Silicon Valley Investors Are Backing a New San Francisco Contemporary Art Institution That Promises to Look Beyond White Men; New, non-collecting institution is helmed by Alison Gass

High Net Worth Millennial Women Are Powering a Gallery Recovery and 7 Other Takeaways From Art Basel’s Latest Market Report

Consolidating Art-Market Power, Dealers Lévy Gorvy, Salon 94, and Amalia Dayan Merge to Form an Upper East Side Empire; Joint venture, which came as a surprise to many of the galleries' artists, is called LGDR

Instagram Sensation Jerry Gogosian Explains:

COLLECTORS CIRCLE

I Thought I Knew the Art World—Then I Went to My First Auction

CARLA: Generous Collectors: How the Grinsteins Supported Artists

Collector Venezuelan Tanya Capriles Brillembourg: I Don’t Believe In Creating My Own Museum

Shanghai Night Club Owner Qiao Zhibing Commissions Works by 12 Artists for New Space

Why Jerzy Starak Opens His Collection to the Public

Richard Ekstract Made the Underground Party Introducing Warhol’s First Video; Eileen and Richard Ekstract Collect Art

Esker Foundation: Leader and New Model in the Calgary Arts Community

Shnayerson: Remembering Donald Marron: The Art Collector in His Own Words

BEST OF THE WEEK with JERRY GOGOSIAN, THE INSTAGRAM LAUGH SENSATION!

THE GAME CHANGER

Kimberly Brooks: Interview with the artist and author of the new artworld-changing book The New Oil Painting: Your Essential Guide to Materials and Safe Practices

PHOTOGRAPHY

Journey to the Most Inhospitable Place on Earth: The Skeleton Coast

Georgia Museum of Art receives major photography gift; 3,000 photographs with a current appraised value of nearly $8 million

Shana Nys Dambrot: The Jules Bates “Artrouble” Center Sorts Out a Legacy

Photo London returns as 'an act of resistance'

Mulholland Drive, Lushly Captured in Panorama; Photographer Karen Halverson captures the historic highway in slow, dense detail

Here are the finalists for the 2021 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

Dambrot: Norman Seeff: Photographing the Invisible

A Short Film Dives into the 15-Year Photographic Process Behind the Documentary ‘Fantastic Fungi’

Dasha Pears and Her Surreal Photos Convey Psychological States Through Minimal Color-Centric Scenes

A Pioneering Photographer’s Legacy In Algae; In 1843, Anna Atkins created the first book illustrated with photography. It took over a century for her pioneering work to be recognized

JOHN STEPPLING

I Want to be a Real Boy (Part One)
There is an enormous swell of enthusiastic interest in, and belief in, Artificial Intelligence (AI). Now I wrote before about transhumanism and game theory and the political opportunism behind these movements (if that’s what they are) but I wanted to delve more deeply into what the attraction is, not just the marketing of this junk, but the deeper and perhaps previously latent pull such topics have on people.