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Developing: Author Salman Rushdie Attacked on Lecture Stage In New York

Airlifted; Stabbed in Neck; Alive

'Stabbing' Shock Salman Rushdie updates — Author ‘stabbed’ at Chautauqua Institution 2022 as officials evacuate amphitheater

Podcast: Martha Stewart recently had a conversation with artist Ai Weiwei. The two have a lot in common: They love food (Ai has apparently cooked for her twice; she is hoping to return the favor), they love cats, and among other things, they have been incarcerated

Tom Knechtel: An Appreciation: The Cantankerous and the Lovable Carole Caroompas (1946–2022)

L.A. artist Carole Caroompas, performer and painter who bucked convention, dies at 76

Less Art: Artist Pierre Picot (from the Great Beyond) on Strategy

Kim Fay in Detroit: Ann Toebbe & Chris Bogia 'House & Garden' at Wasserman Projects

Architect Elizabeth Diller Has Built Museums From Scratch. Here’s How She Brought a Major Cartier Exhibition to Life

Historian David McCullough on Art

Casey Kauffmann & John de Leon Martin at Human Resources LA

Cornelia Parker 'Small Island Energy' at Tate Britain

Covid. A Coma. A Stroke. José Parlá Returns From the Edge. After a lengthy recovery, the artist comes back with the most vigorous work he’s made: “It took me a really long time to understand what had happened to me.”

Kim Fay in Detroit: José Parlá at Library Street Collective

GLYN PHILPOT, PORTRAITIST

Putting a Name To One of Glyn Philpot's (1884 – 1937) Most Mysterious Face

Cult Status: The Idiosyncratic Portraits of Glyn Philpot

Glyn Philpot's sensitive portraits of Black models bring renewed interest in the artist who fell out of fashion

Glyn Philpot: Portraiture and Desire

Black Portraits Get New Names, and a New Show; Glyn Philpot’s sensitive portraits of Black subjects, unusual for the early 20th century, were given updated titles — and consideration — for a recent exhibition in England

Doug Harvey: Summers of Our Discontent: Young Summers’ Collage Work

LAWRENCE WESCHLER

Brazilian Artist Cildo Mereiles at MOMA, 1990 and "A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers"; Convergence: Alejandro Iñárritu responds to Herz Frank

Rirkrit Tiravanija’s ‘Mezcal vs. Pulque’: Social Practice or Cultural Appropriation? For his show at kurimanzutto in Mexico City, the artist collaborates with Indigenous potters Cooperativa 1050° to rediscover age-old arts and crafts

'The Pioneering Feminists of French Art' at Paris’s Musée du Luxembourg

"Drawing Down the Moon" at the Hammer

ART AND CLIMATE

Your Carbon Footprint by The Krank

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, These Artists Transform Garbage Into Garb to Take a Stand

A Network of Artist-Devised Weather Stations Gathers Climate Change Data Across 28 Countries

Art Review on: Why Artists Are Returning to ‘Oceanic Thinking'; Artworld is taking a compelling, aquatic turn

Climate Change Is Threatening Archaeological Discoveries in Norway’s Icy Landscape, According to a New Report

Artist's Environments: Coral’s City

Ctrl [Alt] Self at Westobou Gallery, with Augusta Brittany M. Watkins, Lucia Riffel, and Elise Thompson

New Yorker Cartoons of the Week: See Them All!

FORMERLY KNOWN AS CINEMA

Our Lead Film Critic JUSTIN TANNER reviews "Bodies Bodies Bodies," Halina Reijn’s English directorial debut about a group of 20-something friends who get together in an isolated house and play their version of a “Murder In The Dark” game, in which a real killer brings a touch of throat-slashing authenticity, mixing big laughs with jump scares and mild gore. Tanner then ponders the flatline of Ron Howard's "Thirteen Lives," the rescue saga of the Thai teens trapped in an underwater cave.

'The Square's' Director Ruben Östlund’s Newest Trailer for the Profanely Witty 'Triangle of Sadness'; Puts the One Percent Through Maritime Hell

Actor Daniel Brühl Joins Warhol-Basquiat Film ‘The Collaboration’ Based on Anthony McCarten’s Play; Joins Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope

Brad Pitt's “Bullet Train” Movie Soundtrack Features Distinctive Music From Japan; Hear the Clips

New Doc 'We Are As Gods' a deep dive into the many sides of techno-visionary Stewart Brand

Ernst Lubitsch Made the Hollywood Comedy Sublime; His acolyte Billy Wilder is better remembered, but Lubitsch’s wit reigns supreme.

All the Details on ‘Joker 2’ Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga

‘Emily the Criminal’ Review: Aubrey Plaza Is Riveting in a Pitch-Black Heist Thriller; Her ascension to formidable leading lady

'Don’t Worry Darling' Is Like a Slim Aarons Photo Come to Life

Documentary 'The High Life: Slim Aarons' Trailer

A Legal Battle With Francis Ford Coppola Could Have Been The End of 'Contact'

‘Nope’: How They Shot Those Spectacular Night Scenes; Director Jordan Peele on cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema's unique approach to shooting the night sky in "Nope": "What Hoyte was able to pull off here is illusion that is truly remarkable and complete."

RIP: Bob Rafelson Mattered A Great Deal

‘Megalopolis’: Shia Laboeuf Joins Cast of Francis Ford Coppola’s Epic; Joins Adam Driver, Forest Whittaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, and Laurence Fishburne; November 2022 production start

'Andor' Official Trailer

Based on a James Lee Burke Short Story, 'God's Country' Official Trailer

'Stay on Board: The Leo Baker Story' New Trans Skater Doc

Trans Actress Hari Nef To Portray Warhol's Superstar Candy Darling in Biopic From ‘Transparent’ Writer Stephanie Kornick

First Trailer: From writer/director Todd Field, starring Cate Blanchett, TÁR, set in the international world of classical music, centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra

Based on Salvatore Ferragamo; Luca Guadagnino's New Doc "Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams" Official Trailer

ART NOIR

Heiress Used Fake Psychics to Scam Mom Out of $140 Million in Art, Say Police

A Curator Has Been Charged With Giving False Provenance Information Amid a Major Probe Into Louvre Abu Dhabi Antiquities Trafficking

How Much is a Fair Profit? The Never-Ending Art Fraud Battle Between Billionaires Yves Bouvier and Gallerist Dmitry Rybolovlev Will, of Course, Continue

Two Sleuths From a Small-Town Historical Society Tracked Down Two Paintings Stolen 50 Years Ago. Now, They’re Going Back on View; Sleuth whose relative was enslaved by the man in one of the missing portraits

White Artist Slammed Online for Copying the Work of a Black Photographer; Controversy erupted on social media when users noticed that Gala Knörr’s paintings referenced images from a film by dayday, a self-described Black and queer multidisciplinary artist

Rare-Book Dealer Charged After Pilfered Eagles Lyrics Come to Light; Glenn Horowitz and two other men are accused of conspiring to sell Don Henley’s notes, including the words to “Hotel California”

During World War II, Sir Hardy Amies, dressmaker to the Queen and one of London’s most prominent fashion designers led a secret life as head of an espionage unit operating behind German lines

SURF

Giant Waves At Nazare

Read the Award Winning Article by Don Wallace: Carissa’s World: How a Self-Effacing Girl from Kaimuki, In Honolulu, Surfed Her Way to Olympic Gold

Must See! Absolute Poetry: Mitch Parkinson Steals Joel Parkinson's Board After Drop In

PALATE PALETTE

Nancy Rommelmann: The Restaurant Kitchen is a Magnet for All the Broken People; Cooking is Healing

The Most Famous and Provocative Works of Art About Food

The 12 Most Unforgettable Descriptions of Food in Literature' Haruki Murakami’s stir fry, Maurice Sendak’s chicken soup and More!

Alison Roman: Dilly Bean Stew

PHOTOGRAPHY

What Is a Feminist Image? A Century of Female Photographers – In Pictures

What Keeps Acclaimed Photographer Carrie Mae Weems Up at Night?

Did This Famously Beautiful 19th-Century Countess’s Artfully Posed Self-Portraits Pave the Way for the Contemporary Selfie?

Photographer Drew Doggett: 'I select subjects that are extraordinary to share the world’s beauty'

How Sibylle Bergemann, One of Germany’s Most Famous Photographers, Captured the Beauty of Everyday Life Behind the Iron Curtain

Getty Commits $30 Million to Digitize Ebony/Jet Archive; 983,000 photos, 3 million negatives and slides, and 9000 audio and visual recordings

My Fares: People Joseph Rodriguez Saw Through the Windshield

Goldman: Photos To Intrigue, Amuse and Even Seduce You

COLLECTORS CIRCLE

Actress CCH Pounder on Building a Collection of More Than 500 Works by Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists.

Digital Art Star Trevor Jones on the ‘Trad’ Artists He Collects, and How He Uses the Latest Tech to Display NFTs

For Collectors Anthony and JJ Curis, Art Is Integral to Family Life

The Patrons Who Sustained Sophie Taeuber-Arp; Letters between Taeuber-Arp and her patroness, Annie Müller-Widmann, show the usually invisible tending that goes into an artist-patron relationship

What Collectors Need to Know about Buying Works on Paper

How a chance purchase of a print in a Liverpool junk shop sparked an extensive collection; My Japanese woodblock wonders

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Op-Ed: The Anna Weyant Media Circus Is a Window Into Art World Sexism and Power

Scoop: Here Is the (Kennedy and Getty) Money Behind the Climate Activists Gluing Themselves to Artwork

Winold Reiss, the German immigrant artist who immortalised marginalised Americans

Return to Community Arts: How Local Arts Organizations Resist Hierarchy

Matt Stromberg on how the Huntington is reckoning with its past and looking to the future

Irving Penn 'Burning Off the Page' at Pace Gallery, Los Angeles

Hans Ulrich Obrist and Other Art Luminaries Have Created Their Own Spins on Louis Vuitton’s Classic Trunk for a New Show in Los Angeles; Traveling exhibition "200 Trunks, 200 Visionaries" celebrates the brand's founder and its artistic core

JEWELRY

A Woman Bought a Pile of Cheap Costume Jewelry Online. Turns Out It Contained a Rare Viking-Era Gold Ring

Cartier Renovates a Brutalist Landmark in Madrid to Launch Its New High Jewelry Collection Inspired by Nature

Every Stone Tells a Story in Van Cleef & Arpels’s Newest High Jewelry Collection, ‘Legend of Diamonds’

NATURE

Nature Can Affect Human Well-Being In Many More Ways Than You Think

Darwin’s theory upended? Natural selection may be making society more unequal; Single, more sex partners, less educated and low income are adapting better

Yau: Norman Bluhm’s Second Act

LITERARY HILARITY, PARTS I and II

John Tottenham: Publication In The Age of Negation, Part II; Pillorying the Pillars

New Essay Part I by John Tottenham: Humility and Humiliation, 'Publication in the Age of Negation'

Podcast: Ed Ruscha’s Los Angeles: Reflections by the multidisciplinary artist on his life and his city

Kim Fay in Detroit: The Soul of LeRoy Foster (1925–1993) at Ellen Kayrod Gallery, Detroit

PERFORMANCE

A Wide-Ranging Interview with Alan Cumming: ‘You’d be shocked by the messages Miriam Margolyes and I leave each other!’

Romy Schneider, Reclaimed and Reframed; How “Germany’s best-known virgin” grew into an actress of skill and intensity

THE LAST COMMISSION

Christopher Knight Review: Come for the Warhols, Stay For The Cars At The Late Artist’s Petersen Automotive Show; The Mercedes Benz Commission Cut Short by Death

'Andy Warhol: Cars' Works From The Mercedes-Benz Art Collection at the Petersen Automotive Museum

Collage as a Strategy of Cultural Collision; Troy Montes-Michie cites the US/Mexico border as his “first experience with the language of collage,” describing it as an amalgamation of “two very separate cultures colliding on every level.”

It's Always Sunny in the Studio of Mitch Henson

CERAMICS

Hundreds of Oblongs and Discs Undulate Across Marianne Huotari’s Ceramic Sculptures

Fierce and Fantastical Experiments in Ceramics; "Earth Oracles" in Toronto

Let Us Now Praise William Kentridge; The Warehouse presents a memorable show devoted to Kentridge, one of the world’s greatest artists

Sculptor Charles Ray Scoops Up Marvelous Midcentury Modern in Brentwood, CA

Biggest Lie About Abstract Expressionism; We were told that women were on the peripheries of the artistic movement, while in fact they were driving it forward, energetically engaging in this radical pictorial language

Tulsa Kinney: Ways of Reading; On the Road with Tim Youd's 100 Novels Project

GOOD GIGS

Legendary Graffiti Artist Futura Has Teamed Up With Beats by Dre to Design Special-Edition Atomic Earbuds

Maya Lin to create sculptural fountain for the Obama Presidential Center

Famed African American Quilters From Gee’s Bend Are Reproducing Their Colorful Masterpieces for Macy’s

Exclusive First Look: New Raymond Pettibon Work to Grace the First Cover of a Rebooted Creem; Trailblazing rock magazine is returning as a quarterly print publication and website

Alexander McQueen Creative Director Sarah Burton Asked 12 Female Artists to Interpret Her Pre-Fall Collection, With Intriguing Results

NFT: WHAT'S IT GOOD FOR?

After More Than a Year of Keeping Their Faces Hidden, the Bored Ape Yacht Club Founders Appear on Camera for the First Time; Feverish speculation has swirled around the identities of the men behind the hit NFT collection

Cryptoverse: The bonfire of the NFTs

Italy Instructs Museums to Halt Contracts With NFT Companies, Citing ‘Unregulated’ Terms That Could Affect the Country’s Cultural Heritage

Tiffany and Co.’s News That It Will Produce Customized CryptoPunks Pendants Sets Off 2,200 Percent Leap in the NFT’s Trading Volume; Punk owners will be able to get a wearable, diamond-encrusted likeness for $50,000

Damien Hirst’s ‘The Currency’ Was a Referendum on NFTs Vs. Traditional Art. The Result? A Resounding Preference for Traditional Art

Damien Hirst confesses he's been ‘all over the fucking shop’ about NFTs as he plans to burn 4,851 physical works

Crypto crash or burn? Damien Hirst to set his paintings on fire for NFT project; Artist will destroy thousands of his works at Newport Street Gallery in London this autumn

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LOSING AND CHOOSING MY RELIGION: STOICISM IS TIMELY

In our Strange and Difficult Times, These Are the Habits to Avoid

Each of Us Has a Job to Do: We Must Pull Together

What Did The Stoics Think About Fame?

DESIGN

A Dazzling London Exhibition Traces Tiffany & Co.’s History of Innovation, From Covetable Designs to Canny Marketing

David Plunkert, Graphic Designer for Criterion the Art Film Collection, Shares His Passion for Color and Shape

In Pictures: See the Eclectic Personal Collection of Designer Hubert de Givenchy, Sold For a Whopping $86 Million at Christie’s France

Worldwide 20th Century Carpet Design, at Auction

Dive into the Psychedelic World of Danish Designer Verner Panton

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

BRAVING OPPRESSION

60 Minutes Video: Chinese artist Badiucao: Drawing Truth to Power

Venue Cancels Dave Chappelle Performance, Vows To Become 'the Safest Space' "We hear you and we are sorry."

Kremlin Wants People To Call Putin ‘Our Ruler’ Instead of President

Hollywood's New McCarthy Era: The "Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em" Podcast with Nancy Rommelmann and Sarah Hepola

STAGE STRUCK

Frida Kahlo Bio-Musical In Development For Broadway; “a full-throated celebration of Kahlo’s joyous spirit of creativity”

Mark Cromer: Death of a Theatre; In June 2020, one of the best Equity-caliber theatres in America committed creative suicide in the name of ‘racial equity’

‘Richard III’ review: A woke misfire for Shakespeare in the Park

SAUDI ARABIA'S WORLD-BUILDING NEOM

Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Maps Out Neom Project to House Nine Million People

Inside the stunning $1 trillion mirrored ‘landscraper’ of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia's 'insane' $1trillion jungle skyscraper will be 'better than Pyramids'; A 75-mile long city

Inside Saudi Arabia's 75-mile-long mirror-encased Line skyscraper: $1 Trillion Dollar project mixes futuristic city with tropical rainforest

BOOKS AND WORDS

New Doc: The Book Club That’s Been Discussing the Same Proust Novel for 20 Years; At first, simply watching people read 'In Search of Lost Time' might seem dull; by the end, you’ll be itching to read or reread it yourself

The Poisonous Solicitor: The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery That Inspired Agatha Christie

For the Art of Love and the Love of Art; In “Bonsai,” Alejandro Zambra tells the story of two young lovers whose lives, relationship and heartbreak intertwine with art and literature

Ten years after Gore Vidal’s death, the one biographer to remain friendly with the prickly master reveals poignant details of his final years; Part II

Secrets of the Voynich Manuscript, the World's Most Mysterious Book

Book Review: Dystopia Redux with 'Brave New World: A Graphic Novel' by Fred Fordham

The 50 Greatest Fictional Deaths of All Time

Podcast with Alec Baldwin: David Sedaris: Me Write Funny One Day

Book Review: A Burden of Dreams in 'Poetic Practical: The Unrealized Work of Chris Burden'

What to Read, Watch, and Stream if You're Obsessed with Female Con Artists

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