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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

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

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

Q & A with Textile Artist Qualeasha Wood; She Wants to Get Crab Legs With Cardi B

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

Nery Gabriel Lemus 'In This Place' At Charlie James Gallery

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

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 the promising sophmore film by director Quinn Shephard, "Not Okay," about a young troubled woman whose epically bad decisions lead her into a sinkhole of cancel culture ostracism. “Not Okay,” after a rough start, manages to talk about this thorny subject with heart and humor. And if the ending doesn’t quite give us the kind of redemption we would like, it manages to give us exactly the redemption that we need.

Laura Poitras' Opioid Epidemic Doc “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” Selected as NYFF Centerpiece Film

‘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

The Highly Anticipated Martin McDonagh Film: 'The Banshees of Inisherin' Official Trailer

‘Emily the Criminal’: Aubrey Plaza Steals the Show in ‘70s-inspired Drug Thriller

Everything You Need to Know About ‘The White Lotus’ Season 2; Starring Aubrey Plaza, Michael Imperioli, and more A-listers in the HBO series

'Andor' Official Trailer

Matt Taibbi: How Crazy-Ass Tom Cruise and "Top Gun" Saved America; America needs to get back to meaningless fun!

Xavier Dolan’s ‘The Night Logan Woke Up’ to World Premiere at TIFF

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

Atlanta’ Final Season Trailer: Donald Glover’s Daring Series Comes to an Existential End

David Fincher’s ‘The Killer’ Still in Post-Production, DP ‘Hopeful’ For 2022; Michael Fassbender and Tilda Swinton

'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

Australian Director Peter Weir Retired From Filmmaking?

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

‘Dune: Part Two’ Guide: Everything to Know Right Now About Denis Villeneuve’s Sequel

Wes Anderson's 'Asteroid City' Follows Jason Schwartzman and Scarlett Johansson in 1955 Small Town America; Starring Tom Hanks, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Ed Norton, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Stephen Park, Rupert Friend, Maya Hawke, Steve Carell, Matt Dillon, Hong Chau, Willem Dafoe, Margot Robbie and More!

ART NOIR

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

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”

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

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

Her ‘Chagall’ Is Headed for the Trash!? How’s That for Caveat Emptor? Stephanie Clegg paid $90,000 for a Marc Chagall painting at a Sotheby’s auction in 1994. It was reappraised for $100,000 in 2008. Now an expert panel in France wants to destroy it as a fake

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 Bear: How A Show With No Sex Got The Internet So Horny

Recipe for success: How 'The Bear' captures the drama of a restaurant; New series on a struggling Chicago sandwich shop is one of the rare scripted shows to capture the frenetic, addictive chaos of the professional kitchen

The Making of 'The Bear’s' Showstopper Monologue: “It’s a Foodie Love Letter”

"The Bear" Trailer (2022) Upcoming Comedy Series; Restaurant Fiasco

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: Caramelized Shallot Pasta

PHOTOGRAPHY

‘I’ve taken a million pictures. 50 were good.’ Photographer Ferdinando Scianna

Fashion, Fighting and Feral Dogs: The Photography of Ferdinando Scianna

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

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

Dreaming of la Dolce Vita? Here Are 7 Sumptuous Private Art Collections You Can Visit Next Time You’re in Italy

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

Hong Kong Collector and Gallerist Queenie Rosita Law on Looking Out for Overlooked Artists, and Why She Doesn’t Race to Buy Art

Tour a Napa Valley Home of Art Collectors That Features Groovy Furniture and Gucci Wallpaper

Hotelier Lena Evstafieva on Why She Buys the Work of Emerging Female Artists—and Almost Never Sells; Co-founder of the Villa Lena Foundation has no regrets in her art collecting journey.

‘I Find Myself Attracted to Art With a Violent Component’: Art Adviser Sibylle Rochat on What She Collects and Why

GO, VAN GOGH!

The History of 'Starry Night'; Held by Russian government; Van Gogh drawing had been folded in half in 1945 to fit inside a suitcase

Ghostly self-portrait of Van Gogh discovered on the back of his painting of a peasant

The Writing of Great Artists: Delving into an Artist’s Mind

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Sir Anthony Gormley Offends Woke College Students Who Are ‘Hurt’ By Supposedly ‘Phallic’ Abstract Sculpture

Are the Kids Alright? What Is ‘Public Art’? (Other Than Most Probably Phallic)

Who will stand up for Antony Gormley’s art?

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

New Yorker: Is Selling Shares in Yourself the Way of the Future? Two tech-minded brothers are testing the market on themselves

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

Sex and the Disparity: 20 years on, are Art Girls really rising? Thirty-five years ago the Guerrilla Girls took to the streets to protest gender inequality—now memes are helping to remind us that there is much work still to do

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.”

With Sign Language and Sound, an Artist Upends Audience Perceptions; Christine Sun Kim’s poetic and political art pushes viewers to consider the limits, and misunderstandings, that come with communication in any language, whether spoken or signed

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

A BANG, NOT A WHIMPER

The Mad and Chaotic Gallery, O’Flaherty’s, Closes! Last show closed down by Cops within the first 30 minutes of its opening; Divine Excess on Avenue C; With the once-bold Downtown scene replaced by slickness, a democratic open call at a gallery welcomed hundreds of artists desperate for exposure and recognition

The Historical Present: Collective Solitude at Coenties Slip; Ellsworth Kelly, Jack Youngerman, Agnes Martin, Lenore Tawney, Robert Indiana and James Rosenquist

Video: Teresita Fernández’s Stacked Landscapes

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

FASHION

Oddly, Chinese Protesters Claim Christian Dior Ripped Off Ming Dynasty Skirt Design

Inside the fabulous Dior couture world of New Film ‘Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris’

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

‘It Was a Feat I Thought I Couldn’t Handle’: Artist Jacolby Satterwhite Dissects His New Video Collaboration With Musician Perfume Genius

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?

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

Meta Continues Its Push Into the A.I. Art Game, Allowing Users to Create Computer-Generated Images Based on Their Own Sketches; Program Has Been Tested By Artists Including Sofia Crespo, Scott Eaton, Alexander Reben, and Refik Anadol

Animation, Music, and Insider Info: Here’s What Makes Some NFT Drops More Successful Than Others, According to a New Study

Why are NFT platforms opening up physical gallery spaces? SuperRare, Superchief Gallery NFT, Bright Moments and Quantum Art have all opened galleries in the US over the past year

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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

FICTIVE ART: OUR NEW VIDEOS

Part One: Author Antoinette LaFarge Talks Fictive Art with Artist Lenore Malen

Part Two: Author Antoinette LaFarge Talks Fictive Art with Artist Lenore Malen

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

BRAVING OPPRESSION

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

‘Hope is essential’: Afghanistan’s silenced musicians find a new stage

Two Dissident Cuban Artists Have Been Slapped With Lengthy Prison Sentences for Speaking Out Against the State; Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Rapper Maykel Castillo will serve five and nine years in prison, respectively

Sensitivity Readers Are the New Literary Gatekeepers; Overzealous Gatekeeping On Race And Gender Is Killing Books Before They're Published—Or Even Written

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

STAGE STRUCK

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

To Prove A Villain: The Many Faces of Actors Playing Richard III – In Pictures

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

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

New Yorker: Words Matter. Why Storytelling Is Part of Being a Good Doctor

The 50 Greatest Fictional Deaths of All Time

16 Sizzling Books About Art to Read This Summer, From a Novel About the New York Art Scene to a Compendium of Startling Art Crimes

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'

Dear Papa: The Letters of Patrick and Ernest Hemingway

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