Inside the Dash To Save The Getty Villa From The Palisades Fire: A Timeline
Jerry Gogosian, the artist and witty IG sensation with an effervescence as bubbly as champagne, announces a break from the insincerities, avarice and jealousies of the fine art world. The hard toll of faith, against the dark forces of art fairs, failed promises and acid hearts, provided an existential crisis for Jerry, one in which she is turning into a lifesaving 180 degree course change. Jerry is on an artist's journey
Interview: The Inside Story of The Biggest Art Fraud In American History; Orlando Whitfield was a student when he became best friends with Inigo Philbrick, ‘the art world’s Bernie Madoff’. He talks about how their decade of hustling would lead one to a breakdown – and the other to jail
Andrew Alba’s New Works at Material Expose the Pain We Inherit
The Artful Magic of Tony DeLap on Display at The Honarkar Foundation in Laguna Beach
CONTRETEMPS IN THE AMERICAN RIVIERA
Julia Friedman: On Amada Cruz’s Cancellation of “Three American Painters: Then and Now” Art history got cancelled at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Artists Protest Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Cancellation of Michael Fried-Inspired Show; In a letter to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s board, eight artists included in the nixed exhibition denounce the “outrageous” termination of the show’s curator, Eik Kahng
What Will Meghan Markle's New Brand 'American Riviera Orchard' Sell? (Or Can We Forget About It Already?)
'Inside Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz’s Art Empire'; With their envy-inducing holdings, the Dean Collection, the music-industry power couple have helped lead the way for a generation of collectors of Black art. The rest of the world is finally catching up
Chris Burden, The TV Commercials, 1973-77
Matt Stromberg: Major Collection of California Narrative Art Reopens in Orange County; New Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University holds over 5,000 works that plumb the rich history of the Golden State
HIRST CAUGHT BACKDATING
Damien Hirst Formaldehyde Animal Works Dated To 1990s Were Made In 2017; Three sculptures exhibited in galleries around world were artificially aged, sources claim
Damien Hirst’s Shark Changed My Life. Now He Has Taken A Chainsaw To His Glorious Past; In creating sculptures backdated to the days when his art electrified the world, the former YBA has cast doubt on his youthful legacy and destroyed our belief in his creative future
The Aquatic Meets the Galactic in Artist Josèfa Ntjam’s Captivating Mythologies; Artist's stunningly psychedelic take on science and science fiction debuts at the Venice Biennale
Carolyn Castaño “Otros Seres” at Walter Maciel Gallery
Here Are Three Facts About Richard Serra’s ‘Tilted Arc’, Sculpture So Controversial It Was Put on Trial; The monumental sculpture, which was installed in Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan from 1981 to 1989, posited free speech considerations against the role of public opinion
Teruko Yokoi, a Retrospective at Marlborough Gallery
N. Dash: Down to Earth; Artist’s Own Brand of Conceptual Naturalism Draws a Line Between the Natural World and Human Ideals
Who Was Marcel Duchamp’s Female Alter-Ego? The Daddy of Dada Had a Feminine Side
PAULINE BOTY, BRIT IT GIRL
‘Bold, Outrageous’: Forgotten Star of Swinging 60's Pop Art Finally Gets Solo Show; Before she died, aged 28, Pauline Boty’s work brought a female gaze to the London art scene. Now she is set to reach a new generation
Mystery of Missing Art of Pauline Boty; Boty was a central figure in Swinging London in the 1960s. As a new show aims to restore her forgotten reputation, the hunt for her lost paintings goes on; The Profumo Affair
Brit It Girl! 'Pauline Boty I am The 60s' Teaser Trailer; (1938 - 1966)
The Art World’s Enfant Terrible Runs for Senate; Stefan Simchowitz is a provocateur. ‘Why am I running as a Republican? Because I’ve seen up close the hypocrisy of the left and it’s unfathomable’
Art Dealer Stefan Simchowitz Scores 0.24 Percent of Votes in U.S. Senate Bid; It was not a performance, he insisted, but an honest-to-goodness candidacy
Art Report Today Michael Delgado: Jason Rhoades at Hauser and Wirth; Cars: Scene and Be Seen; Someone said that People in LA Wear their Cars like People in NY Wear Coats
Artist Erin Trefry 'Happy Phantom' at Lowell Ryan Projects
American Painter 'Dorothy Fratt: Color Mirage' at SMoCA, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Chumash Curator Deana Dartt on Decolonizing Museums and the Autry’s ‘Reclaiming El Camino’ Exhibition
"Art for the People" at the Huntington
LA, IN ONE WORK OF ART
The Affidavit, a Quarterly Publication, Asks Theodora Allen, Sebastian Gladstone, Glenn Kaino, Patrick Martinez, BJ Panda Bear and Tif Sigfrids to Select a Work of Art that Epitomizes Los Angeles; See Their Choices
Art Report Today, Without Any Doubt, Selects Artist Sandow Birk's 'Los Angeles County Museum on Fire (after Ed Ruscha)' from His Track 16 Show 'Los Angeles and Her Surroundings' [See the Show Here] This seminal work reflects the past and the future of the great city, as well as the sense of humor and social-mindedness of the artist
"Loops" An Essay on Los Angeles by Eliza Barry Callahan; ‘Los Angeles gives me this feeling that I am perpetually on the edge of town. Never arriving’
That Time Carl Andre Wrote Me a Letter; He copyrighted the letter and ended it with “for your eyes only,” as if to say, don’t even think of showing this to anybody; Whatever happened on that terrible night, Andre felt guilty and lived with that guilt for the rest of his life
Carl Andre Mail Art
Artist Jennifer West Weaves 'Quilts' Made From Sewn-Together Strips of Film Stock; 'Space Webs' at Gattopardo Gallery
LAWRENCE WESCHLER
A Special Issue Devoted To James Baldwin at The Centennial Year of His Birth; Discussing James Baldwin With Scholar and Author Rich Blint
Video: Baldwin Readings: Jimmy at High Noon, Part 1
MIAMI BASEL
Best of Design Miami: 7 Standouts from the 2024 Edition
The Year in Art & Fashion Collaborations; Taking stock of this year's looks
At 74, Bonnie Lucas, Artist of Feminine Macabre, Got Her Big Break' Portland Gallery ILY2 is presenting a solo booth of work by the artist at Art Basel Miami Beach
Observer’s Top Five Pieces Not to Miss at Art Basel Miami Beach 2024
Band of Vices Gallery Presents Al-Baseer Holly and Jacqueline Valenzuela in Miami
Why Art Basel Miami Beach Was Ready and Waiting for the Trump Bump; Long-running fair’s host city is America’s current de facto crypto capital
TOO EXPERIENTIAL: Meow Wolf: More layoffs for Christmas; With 6 locations in 6 states, the experiential, immersive arts juggernaut announces a second round of 2024 cuts
Piper Bangs Just Graduated From College. Now Her Fantastical Fruit Paintings Are Captivating the Art World; We spoke with the 21-year-old painter about her debut show at the just-opened Megan Mulrooney gallery in Los Angeles
Yau: Kyle Larson’s Anxious Dreamscapes; His paintings invite us into a layered world we can move around and get lost in, without a destination
Worth a Read! Who Was Dora Carrington? Pedro Almodóvar’s New Movie Shines Light on the Forgotten Artist
Words That Leave a Ragged Edge; While ‘Scrawlspace,’ at the 8th Floor gallery, is a deeply inquisitive and well-researched exhibition, the premises are in some instances cliché and a bit contradictory
Free Press Podcast: What We Can Learn From the Stoics! With Ryan Holiday, advocate of the ancient philosophy of stoicism; Why power corrupts, how ego can destroy you, whether we should remain loyal to people even when they do abhorrent things, the limits of free speech, and how to treat people in our everyday lives
New Doc Review: A Dazzling Light in Dance History; When dancer Loïe Fuller’s spinning garment reflected the stage lights, it took on a life of its own, beguiling those in New York, Berlin, and Paris
THE ANSWERS ARE ALL IN YOUR HEAD
The Free Press: Life’s Short. So Stop Trying to Perfect It.‘The world opens up once you realize you’re never going to sort your life out,’ writes recovering productivity geek Oliver Burkeman, author of 'Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals'
What Happens When Artists Start Going to Therapy? In a number of exhibitions on view this year, people are pushing back on the cliché of suffering being essential to art, embracing recovery and wellness instead
Daniel Jones, Author of the NYT Column 'Modern Love' Offers 'Seven Ways to Love Better': "Reading some 200,000 love stories has taught me a few lessons about love and life. Here are the ones that help me most"
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
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
Painter Arielle Masson’s “Chaotic Nodes”
New Yorker Cartoons for the Week!
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Architect Who Lost His Malibu Masterpiece In The 2018 Woolsey Fire Wants Los Angeles To Rebuild, But In A Radically New Way
Artist Gisela Colón Brings Her 'Monoliths' to Havana; Photos
‘I am not a Satanist!’: Meet the Great Blasphemer of Contemporary Art; The mischief-making Maurizio Cattelan on shaking up this year’s Venice Biennale, kneeling Hitler and that notorious solid-gold lavatory
All In It Together? A Guide to Artworld Friendships; Contemporary Art Runs On A Cocktail Of Fuels: Alcohol, Bullshit and Bonhomie
Did Pollock Really Pee in Peggy Guggenheim’s Fireplace? Considering all that Guggenheim had been through, what's a little urine between friends?
Kim Fay in Detroit: Tom Livo at Black Box
Yau: San Francisco Art Pioneer’s Collaged Dream Worlds; With the layers of his collaged “paste-ups,” Jess pulls us into an oneiric world, at once delightful and perplexing, magical and sublime
AMERICAN ART AS WEAPON
Was Robert Rauschenberg’s Venice Biennale Victory Rigged? New documentary explores the scandals surrounding the 1964 show, illuminating the US government’s obsession with its international image
Modern Art was CIA 'Weapon'; Revealed: How The Spy Agency Used Unwitting Artists Such As Pollock and De Kooning In A Cultural Cold War
See the Trailer: Doc 'Taking Venice' SIFF 2024; Cultural Weaponization; Rauschenberg and the First American to Win the Golden Lion International Grand Prize for Painting
NYT Review: America's Secret Weapon; A study of how the C.I.A. sponsored modern art exhibitions and literary journals during the cold war; "The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters" (2000)
Excerpt: Chapter One: Exquisite Corpse "The Cultural Cold War; The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters" By Frances Stonor Saunders
THE ELUSIVE CADY NOLAND
Cady Noland’s Ultra-Mysterious L.A. Show; Rumor and Innuendo ... ... Update: Artist was not contacted about the show in advance, did not give consent for it, and did not travel to Los Angeles to install it or see it
Absolutely Would Tanya; Artist Cady Noland, Patty Hearst as Bandit
THREADS
Meet Basil Kincaid, the Artist-Quilter Making a Splash in Miami Beach; For the residency's twelfth year, the Rubell Museum leans into textile art
Aerial Embroidery by Victoria Rose Richards
Priscilla Edwards: Hoarder, Stitcher and Sculptor
STREETWISE
Brooklyn Street Art Images Of The Week!
Olafur Eliasson’s Art —and Dance Moves— Feature on Musician Peggy Gou’s New Album; Gou dons one of Eliasson's sculptures on the cover of her new album, "I Hear You"; Have a Listen!
Why More Artists Are Forming Limited Liability Corporations?; More artists are incorporating their practices, and Observer dug into what prompts creatives to become corporations
Sharing The Burden; Selling Chris Burden
Yau: The Maverick Art of Richard Artschwager; Although the artist’s work had affinities with Pop Art, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art, it did not fit into these categories or any others
Betye Saar’s Stellar Installation; A look back on the evolution of the artist’s shapeshifting Celestial Universe
Influences: Betye Saar; The US artist reflects on the art and events that have shaped a career spanning almost seven decades
Revisiting Jean-Michel Basquiat's Los Angeles Breakthroughs; New show, co-curated by Larry Gagosian, includes works Basquiat made with dismantled fenceposts from the property in Venice that he used as a studio
Taylor Swift's Boyfriend (Travis Kelce) Is Producing the Jean-Michel Basquiat documentary ‘King Pleasure’
Gary Simmons and The Art of Unearthing Ugly American Truths; ‘My hope is to put work out there that ignites a healthy intellectual back-and-forth,’ the artist says ahead of his survey at Pérez Art Museum Miami
Jim Shrosbree’s “Out West” at Spellerberg Projects, Lockhart, Texas
Big Trouble, Two Ways: Jamian Juliano-Villani and Jordan Wolfson Interview Each Other
Jordan Wolfson’s Top 18, UBU, June 2011
Kim Fay in Detroit: Brach Tiller at Louis Buhl & Co.
Carris Adams and the Language of Poverty at Art League Houston
Is Matthew Wong the 21st Century’s van Gogh? MFA Boston's Matthew Wong retrospective, “The Realm of Appearances,” is closing soon and well worth a visit
Palestinian Artists Create Nativity Scene for the Vatican; Pope Francis unveiled the work, which features traditional olive wood carving and a Palestinian keffiyeh
ART AND SEX
Pornhub Reveals Top Searches For 2024. And the Winner is 'Hentai,' a type of Japanese anime characterized by explicit characters, plots and porn
How Middle Class Women Became Obsessed With ‘Fairy Porn’; Top audiobook of 2024 was a racy ‘romantasy’ novel about ‘sexy fairies’. How did this niche genre take over publishing?
Playful Pop Surrealist Kenny Scharf Gets Serious; Think you know Kenny Scharf? A show at the Brant Foundation may make you think again
Shana Nys Dambrot Interviews Olafur Eliasson’s Phenomenological Prismatics Shimmer on Both Coasts; Danish-Icelandic artist opens up about his relationship to time and place
New Yorker: The Painful Pleasures of a Tattoo Convention; The Art Endures Partly Because It’s Rooted In The Moment—The Surrender of One Person To Another
Chiffon Thomas “Progeny” at Michael Kohn Gallery
Podcast: Lucy Lippard’s Life on the Frontlines of Art; In a rare recorded interview, the feminist writer, critic, and activist tells us what took her from seeing 30 shows a week in New York City to small-town New Mexico
Review: Vanessa Bell: Sidelined Bloomsbury Figure Reveals Main Character Energy; Usually relegated to the roles of hostess, lover or muse, the painter’s independent spirit shines through in the power of the patterns and colours in this, the largest solo show ever devoted to her work
Artist Clotilde Jiménez: 'The Grotto' An Opera In Two Acts at Fundacion Jumex, Mexico City
The Ayatollah and the de Kooning; The 'Argo'-like Story of The Top-Secret, High-Stakes Trade of a Priceless Illustrated Manuscript For A Modern Masterwork
‘I’m Truly Inside the Flower’: Why Rising Artist Kate Bickmore Is Reimagining Victorian Floral Painting; In the artist’s New York gallery debut at Chart, her carnivorous plants upend the agendas of their 19th-century inspirations
With a New Show at Musée d’Orsay, Elmgreen and Dragset Are Writing Fragile Masculinities Back Into Art History; Cast of soft and solitary characters permeates the august hall of the French museum
Jane Dickson at Karma; New Paintings on Astroturf
Overlooked Modernists Took Center Stage at the Venice Biennale. Here Are 5 You Should Know; Challenging our Western-centric lens, Adriano Pedrosa celebrates lesser known modernist movements from around the globe
Video: George Gershwin’s First Musical Rediscovered After Nearly a Century; First Available Recordings of Previously Lost Songs From 'La, La, Lucille
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.
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
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: RELEVANCE
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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..."
Matthew Porter 'Bright Sun Sours' at M+B; See the Work!
What is Vielmetter Taking to Art Basel Miami Beach? It's All Amazing! See it here!
MONSIEUR NOUAR: LE FRANCAIS BUSTER KEATON
Dans la Cuisine
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SAMO BY THE SEA
Backstory: How Gagosian’s Blockbuster LA Basquiat Show Happened; Stars and billionaire lenders had to align for the mega-gallery’s museum-quality show of the late artist’s work, currently on display in Los Angeles
Hear What Happens When Basquiat’s Sisters Met with Filmmaker Tamra Davis, Art Dealer Larry Gagosian, and Author and Curator Fred Hoffman
When MOCA Said "No Thanks!" to This Basquiat; Curator Paul Schimmel Turned it Down
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s LA-made Work Goes on Show at Gagosian
Access To Abstraction; Anne Libby and Anna Rosen Find Freedom in Collaboration
Kim Fay in Detroit: Inaugural Exhibition at Art We Love
When Feminism Ruled CalArts
The Annual ArtReview Power 100
The ArtReview Arty Types Who Shaped 2024
ArtReview Spotlights Gulf Leaders in This Year’s ‘Power 100’ List; Sharjah Art Foundation's founding director Hoor Al Qasimi has taken the top spot
Artist Kami Mierzvvinsk Sees Art as a Tool in “From Nature” in Paris; Stirring paintings of Kami Mierzvvinsk are on view in Paris this week in Whitewall Projects' first exhibition, "From Nature"
The Last Moments of ‘Queer’ Tell a Murderous True Story About William S. Burroughs’ Haunted, Tragic Life; Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino and screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes tell IndieWire how they wove Burroughs' accidental and morbidly slapstick murder of his wife, Joan Vollmer, into their film
Walead Beshty 'Profit & Loss' at Regen Projects
Tennis Star and Art Collector Venus Williams and Artist Titus Kaphar Rectify a Missed Connection In This Candid Conversation
The Visceral Humanity of Ralph Lemon’s Art; Blending and blurring his roles as an artist, choreographer, and writer, a survey of Lemon’s art centers his luminous legacy of storytelling, memory, and transformation
Great Little Story! Manet Made a Delightful Artistic Joke With a Single Asparagus Spear; Impressionist responded to a collector’s generous gesture with one of his own
Artist Ishi Glinsky on Artist Kristopher Raos
A Neo-Rococo Movement Is On the Rise; This sumptuous style, which is being revived by a growing cohort of artists, is like a cornucopia for complex meanings
How One Man’s Handmade Architectural Marvel Altered the L.A. Skyline; The Watts Towers, were constructed from scrap metal and found objects. The spires are architectural marvels and monumental testaments of human ingenuity, outsider art, and vision
Australian Artist, Lindy Lee, Commissioned To Make Work Using Pure Gold Worth $6.7M; Gold saved her family in escape from Communist China
How Women Surrealists Shaped the Movement’s Past—And Its Present; At the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; Over the past century, Surrealism has continually evolved—see how these women artists made it their own
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'
BEST OF THE WEEK with JERRY GOGOSIAN
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