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Watching Over the Watchers; Beautifully Scribed Story by Sebastian Smee



All Change at the Venice Architecture Biennale?

Racism, Activism and Climate Crisis are on The Agenda at The Venice Architecture Biennale



Kim Fay in Detroit: Elizabeth Youngblood at M Contemporary; A Time for Notional Change



The California Locos Book Launch at Eastern Projects, Chinatown


LOOK WHAT I FOUND!


Two Jars Bought for $25 at a Thrift Store Turn Out to Be Qing Dynasty Treasures That Could Fetch $63,000 at Auction; Seller has pledged to donate a portion of the sale to the charity shop from which they bought the objects


British Couple Bought Two Vases for $10 at a Thrift Sale; Car boot sale finds turned out to be Art Nouveau treasures



Painter Doron Langberg’s Journey to Art-World Stardom Started With a Sex Tape; His explicit scenes in oil might shock some viewers, but Doron Langberg isn't interested in that. Rather, his fleshy, figurative paintings thrum with the dynamism and sensuality of queer passion



What Ought We to Do With Great Art Made by Monstrous People?


Is It OK To Love the Art of a Morally Repugnant Artist? 'Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma' By Claire Dederer Review



Frida Orupabo Reconfigures Black Female Sexuality


Australia’s Richest Art Prize, Ramsay Art Prize 2023: Ida Sophia Wins $100,000 For ‘Deeply Emotive’ Video Work



A Rear View of Art History; New exhibition offers a sensitive and probing critique of what it is like to both view and occupy a contemporary female body



Tate Britain’s Rehang: A Zombie Social Art History


Have We Reached the Endpoint of Revivalism? Art has long looked to the recent past for inspiration, but might the return of post-Internet art just be too much, too soon?


MAY MADNESS IN NEW YORK


The Best Booths at Frieze New York 2023, From a Jack Whitten Tribute to a Lament for Roe v. Wade’s Overturning

NADA New York Viewing Rooms; Moves to West Chelsea for 2023 Edition


Data Spotlight: Trending Artists to Watch at New York’s May 2023 Fairs

Christie’s Small But Mighty 21st-Century Sale Reached $100 Million, Aided by Larry Gagosian’s Covert Bids and a Strong Showing of Women Artists; Early Jean-Michel Basquiat painting was the top lot of the night


Phillips scores $69.5m in New York evening sale, led by Banksy’s take on Basquiat; Painting by Noah Davis reached more than nine times its low estimate after a 12-minute bidding war




Photographer Ryan McGinley’s Unfiltered Debut Show ‘The Kids Are Alright’ Defined a Generation. 20 Years Later, the Artist Takes a Look Back; Whitney Museum exhibition catapulted the New Jersey skate kid to art world fame


Podcast: An Oral History of Ryan McGinley’s ‘The Kids Are Alright,’ 20 Years Later; Artist Ryan McGinley looks back at his seminal photography exhibition and its lasting impact


Experiential Salon? Immersive Gallery? Inside Luxuny, New York’s ‘Most Bizarre’ Secret Penthouse



Shana Nys Dambrot: Michael Hilsman at Various Small Fires



This is How Willem de Kooning’s “Woman-Ochre” Was Stolen! ’The Thief Collector’ Official Trailer


VERNON FISHER


Texas Artist and Educator Vernon Fisher, 1943 – 2023

In Memoriam: A Personal Recollection of Vernon Fisher


ANIMATION EVOLUTION: THE NEW CUTTING EDGE


'Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse' (2023) Official Trailer


How "Spider-Verse" Forced Animation to Evolve


How Animators Created the Spider-Verse


How 'Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse' Was Animated


Short Film ‘Yona’ (2023) A Soldier Faces Death in this Impressive CG Animation; Made in France by filmmakers Gautier Alfirevic & Kevin "Teau" Rose



Julia Friedman: Nudity and Nonconsensual Viewing: The question of whether an artwork is offensive is now determined by the least generous interpretation of the most sensitive viewer.



Yau: New York Has Something to Learn From San Francisco; The city could use more political public murals like those of the artist known as Rigo 23



Artists Petrit Halilaj and Álvaro Urbano Have Filled a 9th-Century Venetian Church With a Fantastical Menagerie—Crowned by a Giant Floating Egg; San Lorenzo di Venezia, burial place of Marco Polo, is currently home to the installation "Lunar Ensemble for Uprising Seas."



Kang Seung Lee 'The Heart of A Hand' at the Vincent Price Art Museum


JOHN STEPPLING


Falling Out of Love

Polaroid photographs possess a very specific and haunting sense of their time. While the first Polaroid *instant* camera (Model 95) came out in 1947, it wasn’t until the sixties really that *Polaroids* became an integral part of American culture. It was popular, too, in Europe, and Asia but not quite like in the US. I remember my father talking about instant cameras when I was still very small. I remember our family having one and my father’s sense of pride in being a part of the currents of progress. But now, when looking back at old Polaroid instant photos, one feels, or at least *I* feel, a certain nostalgia and a sense of melancholy, too.


Say Congrats to the New 2023 Guggenheim Fellows!



Step Inside Gajin Fujita’s Echo Park Studio, Where the Artist Blends Edo-Era Japanese Imagery With L.A. Street Art



The Secret to Owen Wilson's Infinite Chill? Art. And Lots of It!



Emily Colucci Broke the Story: ’I Started a Sh*tstorm or Contemporary Art Journalism Is Embarrassing'; On the Tom Sachs Scandal and Lazy Journalists



Kim Fay in Detroit: Group Show Dedicated to the Creative Life of Detroit; 'Get Together' at Reyes | Finn


OUR DIGITAL WORLD

When Life Imitates a Wes Anderson Movie; Photographer Ava Williams’s TikTok video of an Anderson-style train ride unleashed a new cinematic subgenre on the platform

Call John Waters! VR ‘Smell-O-Vision’ May Enable Users to Detect Dozens of Odors


Quilters of Gee’s Bend Head to the Blockchain, Collaborating With a Young Generative Artist on a Series of NFTs

The Digital: Consumer vs. Appreciator

Emily Dickinson’s Apple Computer House; The 19th-century poet, whose verse still resonates with its open-ended sense of how language produces meaning, is a model for a group of Brooklyn coders inventing a more humane computer


Is Crafting ‘Super Prompts’ for A.I. Generators the Art of the Future? Probably Not; A.I. Clement Greenberg would like to have a word


Harry Potter by Balenciaga Via AI


Star Wars by Balenciaga Via AI


The Office by Balenciaga Via AI


Molly Crabapple Has Posted an Open Letter by 1,000 Cultural Luminaries Urging Publishers to Restrict the Use of ‘Vampirical’ A.I.-Generated Images; Letter pulls no punches, saying generative A.I. 'sucks the lifeblood' from living artists’


‘Cool Time To Be Making Sh*t’: Why Artist Illma Gore Is Optimistic About The Rise of AI

The Andy Warhol Copyright Case That Could Transform Generative AI; US Supreme Court’s upcoming decision could shift the interpretation of fair use law—and all the people, and tools, that turn to it for protection

Bari Weiss: Is AI the End of the World? Or the Dawn of a New One? Bari Weiss converses with Sam Altman, the man behind ChatGPT, about the risks and responsibilities of the artificial intelligence revolution



Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation Presents The Feminine in Abstract Painting


ART REPORT TODAY in the NEWS


Kim Fay: Putting Detroit Art in The Spotlight; Real Art Detroit, an arts journal, Finds an Unexpected Champion in Art Report Today





ART NOIR


Prominent Art Advisor Lisa Schiff Has Been Hit With a Second Lawsuit, Alleging She Embezzled Nearly $3 Million; Suit spells out details of alleged art fraud on more than a dozen transactions


Blucifer, a Towering, Terrifying Demon Horse Isn't Even The Weirdest Part of the Denver International Airport; Flat-Earth Conspiracy Theory? Illuminati Headquarters? Roswell? Gargoyle Breeding Grounds?

Billionaire Hubert Neumann arrested during bitter family feud over ‘world-class’ art collection reminiscent of HBO hit ‘Succession’


Woman Who Wrote A Book on Grief After Her Husband’s Death Is Charged With His Murder

In August 1911, the Shocking Theft of the Mona Lisa Appeared to Have Been Solved 28 Months Later, When the Painting Was Recovered. In an Excerpt From Their New Book, the Authors Suggest that the Audacious Heist Concealed a Perfect, and Far More Lucrative, Crime!

"Master!" Is a Brazilian Art School Actually a Cult? Former students of the Atelier do Centro have come forward with horrific allegations of abuse by Rubens Espirito Santo, the man they once called “Master”


Spanish Police Have Seized Five Fake Goya and Velázquez Paintings Supposedly Worth a Collective $84 Million; Works will go on view in an exhibition of seized forgeries curated in conjunction with Spanish police

Ghosted by East Village Gallery, Artists Demand Answers; Several artists say the curator of the East Village Art Collection disappeared after charging them participation fees for an exhibition that never happened

Angela Catherine Hamblin the Dealer Who Fled the U.S. After Being Convicted of Selling Fake Art by Franz Kline and Milton Avery Has Just Been Extradited After Hiding in Scotland; Sold $400K of Paintings


Confession of Rape! Backlash Mounts Against David Choe, the Muralist Who Painted Facebook’s Headquarters, After an Interview Clip of Him Describing a Rape Resurfaced Online


Stories of Art History’s Detectives; Provenance researcher must be a detective, figuring out alternative ways to get at information that major participants in the trade are often unwilling to disclose


ART, BRAIN, BRUSH AND BODY


‘You’re Present for All of It’: Artists Open Up About Centering Sobriety in Their Creative Practices and How It Changed Their Lives


How Art, Music and Dance Affect Your Brain and Body


Our New PSA Video: 'You're Present for All of It"



New Yorker Cartoons of the Week: See Them All!


FORMERLY KNOWN AS CINEMA


Introducing our new sister site devoted to cinema, film and movies! Click Here!


Our lead film critic Justin Tanner reviews "You Hurt My Feelings", starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, playing against type. He writes, "Louis-Dreyfus has been cast as a drab, insecure and somewhat mopey writer with apparently no sense of humor and a marked inability to express her emotions." Sounds murky!


Cannes 2023: Hypocrisy Hidden in a Glittery Image


This is One of The Most Important Scenes In 'Killers Of The Flower Moon', According To Martin Scorsese


Review: Brilliantly Animated ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’: This May Be the Greatest Superhero Movie Series Yet

Everything You Need To Remember To Watch Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse


‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Directors Talk Film’s Insane Process, Animation and Easter Eggs


'Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse' Official Trailer

David O. Russell to Direct Biopic of Football Coach and Sports Commentator John Madden with Will Ferrell in the lead

Criterion Channel: Director Justine Triet and Her 'Anatomy of a Fall', Todd Haynes and His 'May December', and Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Her 'About Dry Grasses'


'The Hill' Official Trailer; Sports Tale Overcomes Great Odds!

‘The Book Of Solutions’ Review: Michel Gondry’s Hilarious & Meta Film About Unbridled Creation Is A Shot Of Happiness & Warmth [Cannes]


New Doc: 'The Last Rider' Official Trailer; The heroic true story of American cyclist Greg LeMond

‘Anatomy of a Fall’ wins Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or; 3rd time female director wins top honor


A Cinematography Video Essay: Why 'The Batman' is So Beautiful


‘La Chimera’ is Another Enchanting Modern Myth From Alice Rohrwacher [Cannes]


'I'm A Virgo' Official Trailer, Prime Video

Mark Duplass and Sterling K. Brown Find Hope Together in 'Biosphere' Trailer; Emmy-winning actors' post-apocalyptic dramedy; Feature directorial debut of veteran producer Mel Eslyn; Trailer


'Sisu' Director Already Has a Sequel Idea in Mind; Jalmari Helander is coming up with ideas about where to go next with main character Aatami after fighting off hordes of Nazis

Remembering the Late Experimental Filmmaker Kenneth Anger Through 6 of His Most Fantastically Transgressive Works

Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, Transcendence, Eternity

Director and Actor Bill Hader Breaks Down What He’s Learned from Directing ‘Barry’; "I used to have that thing in my 20s with Kubrick, thinking shooting all those takes was really romantic and cool. But then once you actually start doing this stuff, you're like, 'That's insane.'"


Phil Lord & Chris Miller Confirm That Their ‘Spider-Noir’ Live-Action Series At Amazon Is Still Happening

‘I’m Not Used To Seeing Sex That Kinky’: Is 'The Idol' The Most Shocking TV Of The Year?

Quentin Tarantino Says He Didn’t Get Far Developing His Take On ‘Casino Royale,’ Thinks The Next Bond Should Resemble Fleming’s Novels


Indigenous Anthology Film from Australia - 'We Are Still Here' Trailer

'Bone-chilling' powerful Auschwitz-set psychological horror film, "The Zone of Interest" was Cannes favourite


'The Adults' (Official US Trailer); Starring Michael Cera, Sophia Lillis, and Hannah Gross


The Ship-To-Ship Battle in 'Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World' Is The Best Action Scene Ever


'The Creator' Teaser Trailer 20th Century Studios; Starring John David Washington; Director Gareth Edwards


'The New Boy' Review; Cate Blanchett’s Boozy Nun Indulges Possible Second Coming in Woozy Wartime Saga


DISCOVERY


Cool Visuals! "Mars and Beyond"; History and the Stars; Episode of Disneyland which aired on December 4, 1957; Directed by Ward Kimball


A German Man Just Learning How to Use a Metal Detector Uncovered a Hoard of Buried Byzantine Jewelry and Silver Coins; Discovery was made in what once was a Viking Age trade settlement


GO, VAN GOGH!


Van Gogh’s Cypresses Get the Blockbuster Treatment with a Treasure-Filled Met Show


Van Gogh’s last paintings go on show in Amsterdam and Paris; Two exhibitions are the first to highlight the artist’s productive final months in Auvers

Van Gogh's Suicide: Ten Reasons Why The Murder Story Is A Myth; All The Evidence Suggests It Was The Artist Who Fired The Fatal Shot


Half of Van Gogh’s most expensive paintings have sold to Chinese collectors; Burgeoning growth of the East Asian market pushes up prices for the artist’s work




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PJ Harper Turned His Early Fascination with Dolls into Sculptures That Celebrate Blackness



Eric Nash “Night Drawings" at KP Projects



William Poundstone: Piet and the Chocolate Factory


What the Art World Doesn’t Want You to Know About Yayoi Kusama; New publication tries hard to reinvent Kusama as a champion of racial equity despite her troubling record of anti-Black statements


DANCE

Five, Six, Seven, Eight: The Steps To Becoming A Film and TV Choreographer


‘Then Comes The Body’ Follows the Nigerian Ballet Academy That Stepped into the Global Spotlight

Actor Paul Walker's 'Brick Mansions' Training Included Learning From The 'Father of Parkour'


How a Bulgarian Village Dances Evil Spirits Away

Denishawn Dance Film (ca. 1916); The Story of the Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts, Los Angeles; Between 1915 and 1917



Unknown Landscapes Jessica Taylor Bellamy Explores the Wetlands


Theology is making a comeback as an important tool for interpreting art; The Visual Commentary on Scripture, an online resource bringing theology and art together, is collaborating with two major museums on “Unlocking Christian Art” and “Interfaith Discussions” projects



George Pocari “Things: A Story” at as-is.la


LAWRENCE WESCHLER

'A Bad Day for the Young Composer' and 'Work Begins on a Slave Ship'



In Pictures: Tate Modern Pairs Abstract Art Pioneers Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian—Who Never Met in Life But Shared a Love of Nature; Show includes more than 250 paintings, drawings and archival objects



The Tribe That Inspired Frida Kalho




An L.A., Watchmaker Joshua Shapiro, crafted a $70,000 timepiece. It could revolutionize the U.S. watch industry; American resurgence; 'Doing things differently'


'Anselm' Review: Wim Wenders’ Reverent 3D Portrait of Artist Anselm Kiefer


[Editor's Note: This warehouse is aspirational. Imagine!] 'Anselm' New Clip Official, Cannes Film Festival 2023



Alex Garner: Thornton Dial at Blum & Poe


HOLLYWOOD ARTS: SoCAL JAZZ SERIES


Drummer and heavyweight boxer Stan Levey played with the best. According to the LA Times, he influenced the 'Cool School of Modern Jazz'


Drummer Stan Levey and Lighthouse All-Stars


Acting as Curator, David Salle Teaches Us How to See Anew, This Time Using a Private Collection Rich with Centuries’ Worth of Treasures



Butler Busts Out! Hammer Museum Chief Curator Connie Butler Chosen to Lead MoMA PS1



Kim Fay in Detroit: Zoe Mcguire at Library Street Collective


Did Claude Monet Learn His Extraordinary Use of Color From His Brother, a Pigment Chemist? A New Show Looks at the Influence of Léon Monet; Show includes never before seen paintings by Monet, as well as his adolescent sketchbooks


ART IN CINERAMA


William Poundstone: Panoramas and Sara Velas

Doug Harvey's Less Art: Panoramarama


ART CAR


Gaudy Cartoon Cars Craze Turn Heads in Japan


Low-Key Collector Kept 230 Classic Cars Hidden Away in a Dusty Old Church. The Astonishing Trove Could Fetch Millions at Auction; Previously unknown collector amassed the stunning automotive collection over four decades



Stromberg: 10 Art Shows to See in LA This May: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Vaginal Davis, Carlos Rosales-Silva, collaborations with AI, and more



Kim Fay in Detroit: Brenda Goodman 'Back on Willis Street' at Simone Desousa Gallery



Yau: Matt Bollinger, Painter of the Forgotten; By dealing with class in his art, Bollinger touches on the strain infecting the current “us and them” situation in the United States



Essay: The Ether Dreams of Fin-de-Siècle Paris; Sipped or Sniffed Ether and Chloroform in the 19th Century


OUR NEW SPECIAL REPORT: HOLLYWOOD ARTS: THE SoCAL JAZZ SERIES

This Week: Jazz Trumpeter (and Comedian) Jack Sheldon, Click Here!


Jack Sheldon on Cocaine! Pharma-Pure Laughs!


Let’s Use Jazz To Push Back Against Russia — It Once Worked Before! “Psychological Warfare.”



Hammer Announces "Made in L.A. 2023" Artists



Rare, Beautiful Gustav Klimt Lake Landscape To Make Auction Debut; Around $45M



LACMA Collectors Buy 10 Works: Max Ernst, Theaster Gates and More!


BATTLE OF THE ART MEMES! This Week:

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Review: Depravity and Delights in Nicole Eisenman’s Prints; If God (and the Devil) are in the details, the craft of printmaking proves a powerful outlet for exploring Eisenman’s most enduring themes



Augustina Wang at Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles



Explore Hundreds of Thousands of Japanese Woodblock Prints in a Ukiyo-e Archive


What is Sfumato in Art? (Italian for ‘gone up in smoke’, or ‘faded away’); 4 Key Examples



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SCENT


The Healing Power of the World’s Most Valuable Scent; Attending the artist CHOKRA’s performance introduced me to oud’s original purpose as a sacred healing tool that helps one recover from illness, mentally and physically

Exploring the Ephemeral Appeal of Scent as Art; Scope of olfaction in art


FASHION


First-Ever AI Fashion Week Debuts In NYC: ‘A New Realm Of Creation’

Theory of Style: What is style? It’s not fashion, exactly; Captured only beyond or around the rules


Artful Hats by Bes-Ben (American, 1898-1988)


The Button-Pushing Impresario of Balenciaga; How Demna engineered the rise—and near-fall—of the luxury fashion house



Evan Holloway in conversation with Julia Friedman


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



BRAVING OPPRESSION


Can You Buy the Time of a Political Prisoner? Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who remains behind bars at the Guanajay maximum security prison, talks to Claudia Genlui Hidalgo about his latest — and unconventional — project

Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity; Director has criticised the practice of re-editing older films while expressing remorse over removing guns in a later edition of ET

The Long Invisible Arm: Hong Kong Arts Funding Body Pulls Grants For Two Projects Over Concerns They May Have Violated National Security Law


How Fascism (Right or Left) Steals Our Lives and Souls: The Ten Most Disturbing Details in the Pop Film 'Starship Troopers': State Media, Perpetual War, Propaganda Aimed at Children... And More!


Months of Unrest in Iran Have Made It Even Harder for Artists and Galleries to Thrive. Here’s How They Are Still Fighting for Ideas


Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy Defines "Woke"

Uh-Oh! Beware the Rise of Anti-Anti-Colonialism

J.K. Rowling Addresses Her Critics; As more people burned her books over the weekend, the author confronts the idea that she is ‘dangerous’ and ‘transphobic’

Agatha Christie Books Get Woke Makeover, Join Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming


ART, NATURE AND CLIMATE

Stars could be invisible within 20 years as light pollution brightens night skies; Increased use of light-emitting diodes is obscuring our view of the Milky Way as well as taking a toll on human and wildlife health


Fluorescent Photographs by Tom Leighton Highlight the Remarkable Complexities of Plants After Dark

Radical Examination of Monument Valley's Representation; Navajo Land, White Ideals; Alexandre O. Philippe's 'The Taking' Doc Trailer


Reel-to-Reel Recorder Animates Wildlife Automata Using Carl Sagan’s Warning of Climate Disasters


Director Oliver Stone as he reveals the true history of nuclear energy and its potential to solve climate change; Trailer for 'Nuclear Now', a Documentary


‘I’m After Something More Sublime’: Artist Sam Falls on Making Art Out of Nature to Capture the Nature of Time

‘Bonsai Is One of the Few Art Forms That Is Really About Time’


GOOD GIGS


Don’t Miss These 7 Artist x Sneakers Collabs; From Keith Haring to KAWS; Available on Stock X


Artist Daniel Arsham, Hublot’s New Brand Ambassador, Just Installed a Giant Crystal Sundial High in the Swiss Alps


Ruinart Champagne Has Tapped French Artist Eva Jospin to Create Her Signature Large-Scale Baroque Cardboard Sculptural Environments



Video: "Cénotaphe" with Eva Jospin


CERAMICS


Contemporary Showcases the International Impact of a Mexican Ceramics Factory; Pair of exhibitions brings Mexican ceramics to the Dallas Contemporary

Simon de Pury on How Technological Innovations Have Led to the Art World’s New Craze for Ceramics; How technologies from photography to blockchain have broadened collecting appetites


Traditional Design Meets Modern Function in Natura Ceramica’s Elemental Earthenware Vessels


MUSIC + SOUND

Could the man jailed for John Lennon's murder be INNOCENT? New documentary says a SECOND gunman could have fired fatal shots and questions whether killer Mark Chapman was brainwashed by CIA


Review: The Doc 'Little Richard: I Am Everything'

The Doleful Minimalism of Max Richter; The composer is everywhere on film and television soundtracks, promising that we will dissolve in mist before the apocalypse arrives


Dorothy Ashby Was The Pioneer Harpist Who Opened Up The Instrument To Black Musicians Like Me


John Lennon’s Lover May Pang Recalls Being Set Up By Yoko Ono


Intro EDM! Einmusik b2b Jonas Saalbach live at Preikestolen in Norway for Cercle


BOOKS + WORDS

Douglas Murray: Lord Byron’s Zest for Life; Great Romantic poet lived fast, died young, and scorched it all onto the page

The Time Billionaires: A concept that changed my life; Central point: time is our most precious asset.

The Extraordinary Courage of Tatiana Gnedich; Condemned to ten years in the gulag, the scholar sat in her cell and translated an epic poem—all 16,000 lines—from memory

The Trials and Triumphs of Writing While Woman: From Mary Wollstonecraft to Toni Morrison, getting a start meant starting over

Edison’s Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses

Salman Rushdie Makes First Public Appearance Since Attack, Praising ‘Heroes’ Who Saved Him; Surprise Speaker At The Pen America Gala, The Author Said ‘If It Had Not Been For These People, I Most Certainly Would Not Be Standing Here’


British Writer Martin Amis Dies Aged 73; His death announced as the Cannes festival showing of a film based on his 2014 book "The Zone of Interest"

Notes from Prince Harry’s Ghostwriter; Collaborating on his memoir, “Spare,” meant spending hours together on Zoom, meeting his inner circle, and gaining a new perspective on the tabloids


Paris Review: Distinctly Emasculated; Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Sexual Anxiety


'Loving Highsmith' Trailer

Douglas Murray: Shakespeare’s Lesser Known Masterpiece; The Song From The Poet’s Play ‘Cymbeline’ Inspires Both Joy—And Sorrow

How The Poet Jorie Graham — Living With Cancer, Reeling From Her Mother’s Death — Wrote The Best Book Of Her Long Career


The Oddballs and Odysseys of Charles Portis; In “True Grit,” and other novels, Portis displayed a genius that went beyond character in the strictly literary sense


PHOTOGRAPHY


Amnesty International Faces an Outcry From Photographers Over Creating A.I.-Generated Images of Protestors; Human rights organization removed A.I.-generated images after photojournalists criticized their use in an era of fake news

Antoine Verglas On His Journey Of Being A Fashion Photographer


“Chronorama”: Photography as a Work of Art, From the Conde Nast Archives


Bonjour Cowboy! America Through The Eyes of a Frenchman, Bernard Plossu

Photographer Aaron Jenkin Travels to Darkest Place on Earth for Stunning Milky Way Shoot; See the Videos!


Contemporary photography at FORMAT


Filmmaker Joel Coen Puts His Spin on the Photos of Lee Friedlander; Working in his California home 3,000 miles away during Covid, the director struck a sympathetic chord with the venerated photographer. A book and two gallery shows resulted


Fifteen Seconds of Fame: Hollywood Extras


Eadweard Muybridge: Remember that time the Motion Picture was Invented (and Everyone was Naked)?


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‘You’re Present For All Of It’


PALATE PALETTE


New Film! 'Lessons in Chemistry' First Look; Based on the best-selling novel; Early 1960's, early feminist and reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show 'Supper at Six'


What Is Coronation Chicken? The History Behind the Dish. This curried chicken salad recipe with a regal history is well worth making for coronation watching and beyond


All Consuming: Art and the Essence of Food

Artist Georgia O'Keeffe's Personal Recipe for "Indian Pudding"; She adds, "Serve hot! If barbaric, top with vanilla ice cream!!"

Artist’s Palate: Mexican Architect-turned-Artist Jose Dávila’s Chocolate Fudge with Pecans

Artist Helen Pashgian’s Recipe For Summer Corn


DESIGN


NYC Exhibition Extols the Charm of Restaurant Menus; Henry Voigt, a member of New York City’s Grolier Club, curated A Century of Dining Out from his personal collection of over 10,000 historical menus


Essential Design at Auction: Newson, Noguchi, Pearson, Eames and More!


Discarded Tatami Mats are Reborn as Contemporary Furniture


From Brooklyn to Chris Stapleton: Moch Hahn’s Roadtrip to Design


Gorgeous 20th Century Carpets at Auction


SURF


Review: Indigenous Artists Tell the Story of Hawaiian Surfing at the Heard Museum, Phoenix



First Time in Seven Years; The Glory and Chaos of the Eddie Aikau Invitational in Photos

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





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New Style of Portrait; Damien Hirst’s Colorful Spin Painting of Leonardo DiCaprio Just Raised $1.3 Million for Charity



Dean Kissick on Painter Alex Carver



Mohammed Sami, a Former Propaganda Painter, Creates Haunting Interiors That Hover Between Abstraction and Figuration



The Supreme Court’s Warhol Decision Just Changed the Future of Art



Artillery's Alex Garner: Tania Franco Klein "Break In Case Of Emergency" at Rosegallery



A Clear-Cut Win for Artists or a Stifling Effect on Artistic Creation? How Copyright Law Experts View the Supreme Court’s Warhol Decision

Supreme Court’s Warhol Decision Transforms Law of Fair Use by Emphasizing Importance of the “Purpose” of the Works at Issue

Andy Warhol estate loses US supreme court copyright fight over Prince paintings; Late artist’s estate has lost a court battle against photographer Lynn Goldsmith over his Orange Prince series; Justice Kagan vs. Justice Sotomayor


Couple pays over $240K to have Banksy mural removed: ‘Living nightmare’



Tiffany Heng-Hui Lee at Heidi Vaughan Fine Art, Houston



The Work of Painter Shannon Cartier Lucy (b. 1977, Nashville, TN) Makes Us Laugh, Giggle or Groan, Only in a Good Way



"It's a Beaut!" A Hockney For the Huntington


A hot pink tree sculpture sprouts amid New York's leafy High Line



‘One Hundred Famous Views of Edo’: Hiroshige’s Seminal Series of Woodblock Prints Gets a Vibrant New Reprint


LETTERS FROM THE EDITOR


THE CHILDREN'S CORNER

Concertgoer lets out a 'loud full body orgasm' while L.A. Phil plays Tchaikovsky's 5th


Climate protestors attack Degas sculpture at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C

Aussie Climate Protester who Defaced Frederick McCubbin Painting Fights Counter-Terrorism Charge

Milan authorities must hire conservationist after struggling to clean statue damaged by climate activists; Italian officials have approved draft bill to bring in tougher sanctions for protestors who target heritage


South Korean Art Student Eats £96,000 Artist Maurizio Cattelan's Banana Duct Taped To Wall 'Because He Was Hungry'


Italy’s New Bill Will Impose Five-Figure Fines on Climate Activists and Others Who Deface Cultural Heritage Sites



Asian-American Acquisitions at the Huntington


TikTok Madness! Mysterious ‘Fairy Doors’ Popping Up All Over City Has Residents Baffled in Brisbane; In the US We Call It Street Art!



Vaginal Davis at Marc Selwyn Fine Art



See Inside Mike Nelson’s Eerie and Remarkably Ambitious Takeover of London’s Hayward Gallery; One of the most technically demanding exhibitions the institution has ever staged



Carolina Miranda: The Long and Winding Road of a Sculpture Shown at LACMA That Ended Up on Craigslist. Then a DJ Turned It Into A Sound Studio



See the Exhibition Catalogue for Trey Hurt's Solo Show "Foundation" at Band of Vices



"You Are The Subject: Richard Serra at Glenstone", New Short Film


LETTERS FROM THE EDITOR


Gordy Grundy: CALL ME CUSTER!


FINDING PURPOSE... IN THE ARTS

The Problem of Abundance; Solution to Our Nation’s Great Depression Isn’t More Stuff. It’s Adventure!



Kim Fay in Detroit: New Works by Matthew Hawtin, Sylvain Malfroy-Camine and Benjamin Pritchard At David Klein Birmingham



Sotheby’s Glitch Art Sale, Which Was Paused Due to Online Backlash, Has Relaunched With a Newly Diverse Lineup of Artists


BELIEVE IN... ART


Get Serious About Purpose; We have become a treatment-resistant Prozac Nation. But the practice of believing in something — anything — can pull us out


ART AND RACE

Egypt Might Sue Netflix Over ‘Black Cleopatra’; “Race-Swapping”

Internet Perplexed by Netflix’s Black Cleopatra; Critics say producer Jada Pinkett Smith and the streaming platform should center the stories of historical Black women instead of rewriting history

Aboriginal Artist Seeks Body of British Person to ‘Sacrifice For Past Sins’


‘It’s Heartbreaking Work’: How Kehinde Wiley Recreated the Light of Renaissance Art to Reflect on America’s Dark Legacy of Racism


How Kehinde Wiley Is Reshaping the Monumental

See Highlights From the Smithsonian’s Epic ‘Afrofuturism’ Show, From Octavia Butler’s Typewriter to Parliament-Funkadelic Costumes


Suffering From Anxiety? Try Visiting a Museum; New study discovered that going to museums can have myriad health benefits, such as improving feelings of depression, easing chronic pain, and decreasing the likelihood of being diagnosed with dementia



Wynnie Mynerva’s Bloodbath Art at Gathering, London


Finding Awe Amid Everyday Splendor; New Field of Psychology Has Begun To Quantify An Age-Old Intuition: Feeling Awe Is Good For Us


EXPERIENTIAL


The Unfortunate Spectacle of the David Hockney Immersive Experience

New Jersey’s Liberty Science Center Launches Its ‘Big Art’ Initiative With an Interactive Installation That Seems to Defy Gravity and Physics


Horses and Handbags: An Immersive Exhibition Exploring Gucci’s 102-Year History Kicks Off a World Tour in Shanghai; Brand has tapped artist Es Devlin to delve into its history in the cleverly curated traveling show


Google’s New Immersive Show, Created With Artist Lachlan Turczan, Uses Sound and Light to Reflect on Our Connection With Water; 'Shaped by Water' marks Google's third exhibition at Salone del Mobile Milano

Björk Teamed Up With DRIFT, the Experiential Artists, for Coachella Set

Give Me the Full Immersive! Submitting to the Maximalist Spectacles That Are Encroaching on Real Museums’ Turf


Illuminating Remote Landscapes, Rune Guneriussen Tells a Story of Nature and Transformation

Tom Brady Enjoys Miami Art Gallery Outing at Superblue with Son Ben and Daughter Vivian


The Not-So-Lost Experiential World of the Parisian Salon; A History and Stunning Architectural Examples


ILLUSTRATION

Trans Designer Dumped By Target Explains How He Got Smeared as Satanist


Bruce McCall, Noted Humorist and Former Car and Driver Columnist, Has Died; His acerbic view of cars and the world entertained readers of the New Yorker, Car and Driver, and other magazines


See the Works of Bruce McCall!


The Fantastic City: Bruce McCall’s New York


Max Naylor’s Ethereal Landscapes in Ink and Oil Paint Defy Nature’s Rules


20th Century Japanese Poster Art; In Pictures


Remembered for bringing levity to Transcendentalism, C. P. Cranch’s Very Literal Illustrations of Emerson’s Nature (ca. 1837–39)


'Sign Painters' Official Trailer (2014)


Kongkee Resurrects an Ancient Chinese Poet in an Energetic Cyberpunk Vision of Asian Futurism


ART BUSINESS


Venice Biennale: Lesley Lokko, the Woman Behind The Whirlwind Festival


Behind the Business: Why Robert Baumann is re-branding his architecture firm; As he reaches his 20th year, the architect looks back on his career and ahead to what’s coming next


A History: Janne Sirén is the director of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, a 161-year-old institution with one of the most important collections of American Abstract Expressionism

Video: 'Every day a Revolution': the first Black woman to open a Chelsea gallery shakes up the art world


What’s the Secret to Dealer Charles Moffett’s Success? For Starters, He Pays On Time; As the gallery celebrates 5 years in business and expands, artists tell us what sets him apart

KAWS wins nearly $1m in damages in counterfeit lawsuit; Artist Brian Donnelly first filed the lawsuit against Dylan Joy An Leong Yi Zhi in 2021

On Balance: Art Basel Hong Kong and Singapore’s ART SG; Kusama's Foot Traffic; Industry Moves: Sophia Penske, Artist Rebecca Morris and More!

An Argument: Rob Art Blockbuster Peter to Pay Alternative Artist Paul; Balancing the art that sells with the art one wants to do

Vermeer Fever: Documentary On Blockbuster Rijksmuseum Show Reaches Record Number Of Uk Screenings; Film, 'Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition', Will Be Shown In Over 300 Cinemas Across The Country


Data Spotlight: Trending Artists to Watch at New York’s May 2023 Fairs

All Cats, All the Time! Vienna’s Tourism Board Is Using Cat-Themed A.I. Spin-Offs of Famous Artworks to Urge People to Go See the Real Thing; These new A.I. versions of Austria's most iconic artworks all feature cats


See the Cat Art that Made AI Art Possible

Arts Grantmakers Must Change Their Ways; Nonprofit industrial complex in the US has failed artists


Philanthropy in Almost Every Sector Is Moving Toward Unrestricted Funding—Except in the Arts. Why Is It So Hard to Trust Artists? Arts strategy director of the Kenneth Rainin Foundation argues why we must move toward trust-based philanthropy

Masterworks’ fractional art sales getting the brush off; Scrapped a funding round; Regulatory scrutiny concerns

Art Market and Beyond: Industry Moves; Auction Consignor Bonanza: Who’s Selling What This Month

Art Market Eye: New York’s art splurge; Gagosian's ChatGPT press release "It was 9the artist's) idea"; Chinese auction house Poly Auction expands across the globe; And more...


Damien Hirst’s New A.I. Project, Which Asked Collectors to Generate Their Own Paintings, Earned Him $20 Million in Nine Days; More than 5,000 'Beautiful Paintings' were sold


Art Industry Trends 2023; Increasingly hybrid art world; Abstract paintings lead; Online sales are a key revenue driver; Inflation = Prices up


STREETWISE


Joan Agajanian Quinn speaks with leading West Coast Graffiti artist Jose “Prime” Reza

New Book: It’s All About The Writers: “City Of Kings: A History of New York City Graffiti” Educates


Brooklyn Street Art Images of the Week


'Revenge Of Nature' Orakle and Atmo Paint a Dam in this Haunting Video


Fabio Petani Battles Climate Change with “Ozone & Carnegiea Gigantea” in Rome


ARCHITECTURE


Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s New $200 Million Home by Famed Architect Tadao Ando Is the Most Expensive in California—Maybe Even America; Couple reportedly paid cash for the 40,000-square-foot concrete mansion by the Japanese architect

How Homes Will Look Like By 2050, According to Experts (and Imagined by AI)


Video: New Orleans Architectural History: Explored & Explained


Baroque Architecture: Everything You Need to Know


Are These The Most Sustainable Architectural Projects in the World?

New York’s Long Lost Incredible Rooftop Theatres


America's Last Top Model; Army Corps of Engineers Regulating the Mississippi River in 1928


Japanese Fine Line Between Indoors And Outdoors; City And Forest Living In A Unique Concrete Log House


Bugatti to Build Dubai Residences With Drive-In Penthouses


Celebrities Like Beyoncé and Jay-Z Have a New Obsession: Tadao Ando, an 81-Year-Old Japanese Architect


Who Is Using Who? The Architect-Patron Fame Game; Kim Kardashian has hired legendary architect Tadao Ando


Architect’s Alphabet: ’D’ Is For Diapering, A Repeating Decorative Brick Pattern

50 Norman, designed by Schemata Architects to showcase three Japanese brands, opens in Greenpoint, Brooklyn


Buried in Sand for a Millennium: Africa’s Roman Ghost City


The Mexican Architect Making Sublime Modern Buildings Out of Clay and Pine Needles


Dubai’s next big thing? Perhaps a $5 billion man-made ‘moon’ as the city’s real estate market booms

"The hollowness of 'Architects Declare' should serve as a warning to the industry"; Has failed to live up to its ambitions and now represents a cautionary tale about setting sustainability commitments


Vanished Murals From The Empire State Building Rediscovered


Designed by Architect Shigeru Ban, the New Simose Art Garden Villa: Where Art & Hospitality Meet at the Sea in Hiroshima


Mike Davis’s ‘Ecology of Fear’ Is Still a Ticking Bomb; Twenty-five years since its publication, the correlations between power, wealth and ecology depicted in Davis's book remain utterly relevant


Inside an Iconic $21,000,000 Mansion in the Hollywood Hills Once Owned By Madonna


Highly Talented Charlotte Perriand's Apprenticeship with Le Corbusier Didn’t Go Quite as the Great Architect Expected


COLLECTORS CIRCLE


The House That ‘Rolling Stone’ Built: ‘Rolling Stone’ co-founder Jann Wenner has forgone his maximalist past, building a casually minimalist family retreat in Montauk, New York


An Art Patron’s Mission to Share Her Collection With the World; Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s formula for acquiring, funding and showing work has made her a key player in the art world and a benevolent favorite among artists.


Creative Director Dennis Freedman on His Never-Ending Quest for Avant-Garde Italian Design; Exhibition highlighting more than 50 pieces from his collection will open April 20 in New York City


Danish Dealer-to-Curator Jens Faurschou on the Most Impractical Artwork He Owns; Involves Traditional Japanese Morning Exercises


Engineer Howard Tam on the Painting That Turned Him Into a Collector, and What He’s Looking for Next


Miami’s Michou Mahtani and Thomas Fuchs on Their Artist-Featured Dinner Parties and Their Wall of Dog Paintings


Inside Collector Takeo Obayashi’s Sanctuary for Art in Tokyo

New Criterion: On Some of The Great Collectors of The Twentieth Century


What I Buy and Why: New York Collector Larry Warsh on His Early Eye for Basquiat, and the Octogenarian Artist He’s Coveting Now



STAGE STRUCK

Review: Star Studded Audience Turns Out for Sean Hayes’s Sensational Broadway Play, “Good Night Oscar”; Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall are Producing; Based on Oscar Levant, a 1940s and '50s Bon Vivant Troubador


Rex Reed Review: Sean Hayes Is a Miracle In ‘Good Night, Oscar’

'New York, New York' Forgotten Scorsese Film Flop Gets A Second Chance, On Stage, On Broadway and Flops!; See the Trailer

‘Summer, 1976’ Review: Laura Linney, Jessica Hecht a Perfect Pair on Broadway


Jessica Chastain, Daniel Radcliffe, and More Welcome Us Back to Broadway


Silent Opera, Anyone? ‘Vixen’ Breaks Barriers And Puts A Modern Hong Kong Spin On A 1920s Czech Tale

'Smash' Musical Adaptation Headed to Broadway With Steven Spielberg Producing; The short-lived Hit series is finally heading to Broadway; See the Teaser Trailer

A New Immersive Production of Guys And Dolls in London Is An All-Around Delight


‘Life of Pi’ review: Eye-popping Effects Make A Splash on Broadway






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