Another Progressive Failure, Pop Culture Takes Up Smoking Again; From movies and TV shows to music, the habit is no longer taboo. It’s even being celebrated...
Punk Preservation: Getty’s Glenn Phillips On Securing Raymond Pettibon’s Archive; 32 boxes and a surfboard!; Pettibon archive reflects the artist’s diverse influences, from music and surfing culture to economic theory and the global art world
What a Year in a Robotics Lab Taught Me About A.I. and Painting; Today’s A.I. discourse is misleading—and robotic painting reveals just how much gets lost between flashy demos and the messy reality of making art; Distinctions between virtual and physical objects
Wayne Thiebaud Curatorial Assassination
Who Was Hiroshige, the Artist Behind Japan’s Most Iconic Prints? Master of Japanese prints is admired for exquisite views of his homeland, but a new show at the British Museum reveals his lesser-known works
Artpace, San Antonio, Names Fall 2025 Artists-in-Residence: Ian Gerson, Elana Herzog, and Goldie Poblador
Book Review: Jewelry Deserves a Place in Art History; Beyond Adornment explores what the depiction of jewelry in art says about adornment, artists, and their subjects, from Charlemagne to Frida Kahlo
Be Catchy! Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral; New book, “Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading,” argues that notions get taken up not because of their virtue but because of their catchiness
How Cory Arcangel Recovered a Late Artist’s Digital Legacy: Michel Majerus died in a plane crash, but the contents of his laptop are providing a window into his process two decades later. Arcangel says, “It’s like he just stepped out of the room.”
An Appreciation on Instagram
Edouard Manet Ring Light; Shock of Modern Full Frontal Lighting
Interview: Takashi Murakami Talks Painting, Process, and UFOs as He Opens Two Major Exhibitions
The Line Goes on Forever: De Kooning at Gagosian; Curator Cecilia Alemani weighs in on the figuration in the artist's abstraction
BOOKS + WORDS
Stephen King Once Gave George R.R. Martin The Perfect Advice For His Writer's Block ... ... See the Video
Here’s What Bothers Me About How ‘Paris in Ruins’ Rewrites Impressionist History; Review of Sebastian Smee’s 'Sebastian Smee, Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism'
Tosh Berman: 'Love, Joe: The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard', Prose writer, poet, and artist
17 SNL Writers Remember the First Sketch They Got on the Air; Live from New York, it’s an oral history featuring Colin Jost, Chevy Chase, Sarah Silverman, and more talking about their earliest days at 30 Rock
‘Completely Unworkable’: Sculpture Experts Say Trump’s $34 Million Statue Garden Has Major Problems; "America doesn’t have enough quality sculptors or museum-caliber foundries to make this happen"
LUCAS: AS HE PLEASES.
Miranda: The Billionaire Museum: What is the Lucas Museum Good For?
Mary Cassatt to Fritz the Cat: Making Sense of the Lucas Collection; "How does a museum mix the good, the bad, and the popular? I guess we'll find out next year."
Researchers Replicate Ancient Egyptian Blue Pigment
1935 Neutra Hollywood Hills Home Will Open To Public As Artist Residence
Which Artists Are Headed to the Venice Biennale in 2026? Henrike Naumann and Sung Tieu have been announced as the artists for the German Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale
GOLIGHTLY GAUGUIN Book Review: Do We Need to Vindicate Paul Gauguin? Sue Prideaux’s new biography of the artist reveals both a discomfort with his complex legacy and that, in 2025, redemption arcs sell
‘The Polynesians Loved Him’: The Astonishing Revelations That Cast Paul Gauguin In A New Light; He has been tarred as a French colonialist who spread syphilis to underage girls in the South Seas. But, writes the author of an acclaimed new book, fresh discoveries challenge this view of the artist – and even show him as a her
X-Ray Analysis of Gauguin Painting Reveals Hidden Details... and a Dead Beetle; Artist's feline still life harbors more than one critter
BOOKS + WORDS
Is Dua Lipa The Best Literary Interviewer? The Houdini singer’s online book club is already a hit. Now her interviews with Pulitzer prize-winning authors are gaining new fans
Gloria Steinem’s “The Beach Book”; “What a tan will do is make you look good, and that justifies anything”
Book Review: The Preposterous History of Propaganda Art; 'Propagandopolis,' a Globe-Spanning Selection Of Visual Persuasions From The Early 20Th Century To Now, Is A Travelogue To Disinformation’s Past
Want to Earn Six Figures as a Writer? Try Ghostwriting. Shifts in the book industry have been a boon to writers who work quietly behind the scenes
The World According to Cattelan? Jokester Maurizio Cattelan has apparently thrown some light on his most famous works in an updated version of his “autobiography”
Flush Crime Down the Drain! Man Sentenced in Plot to Steal Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.1 Million Gold Toilet; 18-karat gold loo, titled 'America,' was stolen from Blenheim Palace in September 2019
ECON ART
Museums Cautiously Optimistic as Some Federal Grants Reinstated; Judge blocked the Institute of Museum and Library Services from carrying out Trump’s mandate to gut the agency, but the future of funding remains uncertain
Amid Breathtaking NEA Cuts, Southwest Arts Organizations are Reeling—and Rallying Support; The Trump administration’s shadowy National Endowment for the Arts grant retractions have Southwest arts organizations banding together to track the cuts and gather supporters
City and State Cultural Programs and Institutions Struggle After Trump Slashed Funding
BOOKS + WORDS
David Sedaris: A Long Way Home; Had I proposed earlier that we invite someone stranded to come with us to New York, Hugh would have said no. But now there was really no way for him to back out
One Thing Ledes to Another; Longtime New Yorker Writer Calvin Trillin Discusses His Early Years In Journalism, Humor In The Internet Era, And His New Essay Collection, The Lede
Author Coleman Hughes Offers A New Way To Reconsider Race
We Deserve More Than Novelty from the Publishing Industry
Why Are Huge Tech Companies Getting Into the Book Business? Do they want to help writers or destroy them?
How Alessandro Giardino Found His First Novel in Caravaggio’s ‘The Seven Acts of Mercy’; "The Caravaggio Syndrome," he says, combines in content and style the artist's oscillations between the sublime and the sordid
GOOD GIGS
KAWS Designs the Album Cover for 'Let God Sort 'Em Out'; Produced by Pharrell; Recorded at Louis Vuitton Headquarters
Turkish Airlines and Refik Anadol's Doc 'Inner Portrait' Trailer - About First Time Travelers
Mexico’s Legendary Artist Francisco Toledo Crafted a Design-Driven Tequila Vessel Like No Other; In one of his final creative acts, Francisco Toledo partnered with Maestro Dobel® Tequila to create a sculptural ode to Oaxaca’s craft and spirit—now available as a rare collectible
Julia Friedman: The Art of Social Engineering; When British sculptor Thomas J. Price explains that his “strategy of inclusion” will counter the “endless stream of limiting tropes and identities for Black people,” he is inadvertently mimicking totalitarian injunctions
Picasso Would Not Have Blogged Dali’s Sea Urchin Photos; "...makes me hate Salvador Dalí’s attention-grabbing, money-craving, absurdist bullshit even more... I can only think of how it distracts from the news that he’d just had another audience with Franco "
Anselm Kiefer’s Amsterdam Blockbuster Pits Art Against Despair; “The Work of Art in the Age of All This Bullshit”
Flips Flop! Kenny Schachter on Auction Failures and One Collector’s Freak-Out; Plus, a blow-by-blow recap of recent market mayhem
DESIGN
The Push Pin Attitude; How the scrappy, ingenious founders of New York City’s Push Pin Studios revolutionized 20th-century graphic design—and left a lasting mark on the culture
Perhaps Artists Do Have Only ‘Ten Good Years’; Can happen at any time in their career
Diva Corp: Less Than Zero, On Risk and Art in Los Angeles, "That spirit, however, has faded. LA art is staid now. Maybe all art is."
STAGE STRUCK
‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ Review: Netflix’s Broadway Play Is An Assault On The Senses
STREETWISE
Lakers Star Luka Doncic Pays Entire Cost To Restore Vandalized Kobe Bryant Mural
Tim Schneider: The Art Business Has a Gen Z Blindspot; It's time to face up to the cultural rift dividing the under-30 crowd
Artists Brace for High Production Costs Amid Tariffs Chaos; From glass to steel to plywood, popular materials for sculptures and installations may be less accessible as Trump’s policies change day by day
To See the Humble Work of Ruth Asawa, the Ticket Price is Extravagant; SFMOMA leads U.S. in art museum ticket prices
FILM DIRECTORS WITH PHOTO SHOWS
How Wim Wenders Sees The World Through The Lens; Talks about his new Berlin photography exhibition, his constant travels, and future plans
Letter From Georgia O’Keeffe That Changed Yayoi Kusama’s Life; Artists maintained a years-long correspondence, one that altered the young artist's career trajectory
BOOKS + WORDS
New Yorker Fiction:'The Trouble with Mrs. Blynn, the Trouble with the World' by Patricia Highsmith
Think Shakespeare Left His Wife? This Newly Discovered Letter Tells a Different Story; Document suggests that Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway had more of a shared life than previously thought
New Criterion: Life Sentences: The Art Of Joseph Conrad; On Joseph Conrad’s Achievements
Nate Freeman: I Asked the State Department What Was Up With the Venice Biennale. Then Things Got Interesting; Confusion has swirled around whether the Trump government would put forth an artist at next year’s edition of the art world Olympics. Now it looks to be happening, with some MAGA-fied criteria
Less Art, Doug Harvey: A Bus Ride Tour To The Center Of The Earth
SALUTING SARGENT
How John Singer Sargent’s ‘Madame X’ Turned Paris High Society Upside Down; Wanton! Haughty! Sexual!
Julia Friedman: 'Exhibition Note' On "Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men," at the Getty Center, Los Angeles
WHO IS ROBBIE WILLIAMS?
Hanging Up His Anxiety; Brit Pop Star Robbie Williams Is ‘Embracing the Chaos’ in His Candid New London Art Show
DIGITAL ART WORLD
‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled; Letter says many of works being sold by Christie’s are made by AI models trained on pieces by human artists, without a licence
To Gaze: "I need to remind myself every day to stop, for a second, and look at the world I’m trying to build in. That’s why I love this poem."
ART NOIR
Forgers and Fraudsters Trusted Him For Decades — But He Was An Undercover FBI Art Detective!
Excerpt from New Book,'Warhol’s Muses': Park Avenue Princess Jane Holzer Thought Andy Warhol Could Make Her a Star. Instead, She Helped Him Reach a New Level of Fame; Winning Friends and Influencing People
Review: Collective of Lesbian Activists Is a Fierce Family; Show highlighting work by members of the collective fierce pussy presents them not out on the streets, but communing with one another, like family
CERAMICS
The Dark Bob 'Songs for Artists' Trucker's Cap with Mesh Air Conditioning
'Appreciate Everything Endlessly' CircleArt Embroidered Apron Free Shipping!
New York’s Chrysler Building, a Crumbling Art Deco Masterpiece, Is Up For Sale; Abu Dhabi paid $800 million for the storied building in 2008. In 2019, it sold for $150 million
How Art Deco Shaped 100 Years of Forward-Thinking Design; To mark its 100th anniversary, these major exhibitions around the world are diving into the movement's lasting impact
ARTISTS COLLABORATING
"The Reminiscences of Robert Petersen" from the Robert Rauschenberg Oral History Project
Why Pace Gallery is Betting Big on Berlin
A GALA FOR GALA
More Than a Muse, Gala Dalí Was a Starmaker and Star in Her Own Right
Book Review: Story of Surrealism Isn’t Whole Without Gala Dalí; In Surreal: The Extraordinary Life of Gala Dalí" (2025) Michèle Gerber Klein asks us to confront the unjust eclipse of Gala’s legacy by that of her husband, Salvador, whose career she brought to fruition
The Pineapple of Versailles; Art, Science and History
Final Wishes Before His 2022 Death; Occidental Petroleum Heir Michael Hammer Wanted His Son Armie To Play Him In a Feature Film About His Art Gallery Scandal; Owned the infamous Knoedler Gallery, Manhattan’s oldest — but it closed after being accused of selling $80 million in fake art
The Billionaire Behind Japan’s Art Islands Has One Final Jewel in His Crown; Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a sprawling art constellation on three islands, adds a 10th museum by the star architect Tadao Ando that caps the cultural quest of Soichiro Fukutake
How Did William Blake, an Ancient Poet and Painter Who Died In Obscurity Come To Obsess Everyone From Oscar Wilde To David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Derek Jarman and David Bowie? The Writer Of A New Book Explains His Glorious Allure
Knight: Are Plans For The Joshua Tree Art Museum A Desert Mirage? Organizers of a new art museum in Joshua Tree announced their plans to build near the national park — but there's a hitch
Peter Zumthor's David Geffen Galleries From Above; "Like the cartoon antlers of Bullwinkle J. Moose"
Justin Sun Gives $6.2 Million Banana to Notorious Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht; Maurizio Cattelan’s onceptual artwork passes into the hands of another crypto hero, fresh out of prison, with ties to president Donald Trump
Review: Tony Tasset Exposes the World’s Frayed Canvas; "I wanted to hate these artworks, then I wished to poke my finger through their holes, and finally they became a perfect aestheticization of the contemporary moment."
These Are the US Art Schools Most Dependent on International Students
PHOTOGRAPHY
John Singer Sargent and the American ‘Dollar Princesses’ Who Rewrote the Rules of Power; Formidable American heiresses who married into British aristocracy weren’t just symbols of wealth—they shaped politics, society, and the arts on their own terms
Always Astounding, Artemisia Gentileschi Emerges Anew in Rediscovered Paintings; Paris exhibition shows there are always new discoveries to be made about the celebrated Italian Baroque painter
Critiquing Modernism & Capitalism, One Hauser & Wirth Show At A Time
David Hammons H&W DTLA: The Making Of; "Because a show for David is not just object-driven. He’s thinking about the space, he’s thinking about how new and existing works will interact"
Jason Farago: Tate Modern Is the Museum of the Century (Like It or Not); The London institution, which turns 25 this week, encouraged its peers to look beyond the West. But its greatest impact was to remake the art museum into a kind of theme park
Fictive Art: Colonial Dreamscapes; An early photographer's profitable creation of an imaginary past; Precursor to Martha Stewart; Idealized domestic vision
SAGA FIT FOR A PRINCE
Richard Prince and Photographers Settle Copyright Infringement Lawsuits Over Instagram Images (January 2024); Settlement brings the nearly decade-long dispute over Prince's "New Portraits" series to a close
Richard Prince Must Pay $650K+ to Artists for Using Their Work; Last-meeting agreement put a price on the artist’s appropriation of the works of two photographers
How an Eight-Year Copyright Suit Against Richard Prince Finally Came to an End; Artist will pay two photographers $650,000, an outcome that both sides are spinning in the press
OWNING OWENS
“What’s Your Side Hustle?”: Hard-Earned Lessons on Artistic Survival from a Southwest Highway Town
PHOTOGRAPHY
What's Going On at the Lucas? Personnel Changes, Department Staff Reductions, Alarming Behavior, Needless Scrutiny or Simply Finding the Best Foot Forward?
Attention Spans Are Dropping, Research Shows: Here’s How To Help Keep Focused
Billionaires’ Battle Over a Sculpture Exposes a Mysterious Art Market; David Geffen and Justin Sun’s unusually public dispute over ownership of a Giacometti sculpture valued at tens of millions of dollars gives a glimpse into a shrouded world
MUSIC + SOUND
The Politics of Ghazal Music in India; In a caste-based society, the defiant performance of songs about forbidden love challenges the dominant status of a Brahmin artform
Secret Trove of Rare Guitars Heads to the Met; For decades, an obsessive duo of guitar guys has been amassing a definitive collection. The art these objects created changed the world.
PHOTOGRAPHY
LOVE SONGS FOR ARTISTS
GOSSIP GETS GOOD AGAIN! ROSTER REELS! SPECULATION RAMPANT! SPLITTING HEIRS?
Is the Octogenarian Ready for Reading and Napping? Global Empire Sale Rumors? Career Change? Retirement? Larry Gagosian Buys Quaint East Hampton Bookshop Bookhampton
KOYO KOUOH (1967-2025)
Koyo Kouoh: ‘Ensuring The Door Remains Wide Open For Those Who Come Next’; First African woman to curate the Venice art biennale has died. Here we publish a piece she wrote for the Guardian after taking up the role...
The Art World: What If…?!, Interview with Koyo Kouoh, Part 2; "I think that there is this kind of disconnect that a lot of visual arts spaces globally have with the audience or with the public that a lot of people say, “I don't understand it. I don't get it."
Did Andy Warhol Exploit His Superstars? A New Book Says Yes.; Laurence Leamer, the author of “Capote’s Women” and “Hitchcock’s Blondes,” takes the measure of another powerful man and his female muses
War Correspondent, Action Photographer and Fashion Model Lee Miller ‘Buried’ Frontline War Experiences; WWII PTSD: ‘Put up and shut up’; “The left-hand smoke plume on the mountain behind them is [Adolf] Hitler’s house burning; the right-hand smoke plume is a forest fire or something,” Miller wrote, “At the time the SS were still about.”
Art Keeps the Memory of Protest Movements Alive; Juliet Jacques revisits books, film and art which commemorate the 40th anniversary of the British miners’ strike and working class politics
Leonardo da Vinci Loved Birds; Not only did he try to unlock their secrets of flight, he also advocated for their humane treatment
SIMPLY SIDDHARTHA
Piprahwa Gems Auction On Hold At Sotheby’s After India Legal Threat; Government Says It Will Discuss Repatriating Gems Linked To Buddha’s Remains To India With Sotheby’s And The Sellers
WEST COAST
NYT on Geffen Installation Plans
Los Angeles as Site for Diasporic Ghosts; In paintings, ceramics, and installations, Rachel Hakimian Emenaker depicts scenes of gentrification, religion, and homeland; At Grand Central Art Center, Fullerton
ART + COMMERCE
Artists and Their Estates Find Opportunities —and Challenges— in Licensing Deals; From Kehinde Wiley to Kara Walker, more fine artists are licensing their work to brands, navigating new opportunities and new controversies
Luxury Brands are Quietly Quitting the Art World Again; Ad buys and collabs in the arts dry up whenever high-end retailers face cash crunches
CalArts and Chanel (Fashion House) Culture Fund Launch Center for Artists and Tech With AI Focus
End of Investment Art? Why The Bottom Of The Market Is Flourishing
ARCHITECTURE
See it! Paul Williams Designed; LA Property With Hollywood History Poised To Sell For The First Time In Decades: ‘A truly magnificent, almost fossilized home’
Hagia Sophia: Secrets of the 1,600-Year-Old Megastructure That Has Survived The Collapse of Empires
PERFORMANCE
Lana Del Rey Goes Country with Song About Kissing Morgan Wallen and Having 57.5 Mil Spotify Listeners at Stunning Stagecoach Show
Rolling Stone: Lana Del Rey Transforms Stagecoach Into a Romantic, Bayou Fairytale
Historic and Iconic Wayne Thiebaud Painting Heads to Auction for the First Time in 60 Years; "Pie a la Mode" featured in the first exhibition of Pop art in 1962
The Story of The Met's 'Missing' Banksy; Illicitly hung on the wall in 2005; New York Museum's Former Security Head Admits To Taking The Street Artist's Work
MONSIEUR NOUAR: LE FRANCAIS BUSTER KEATON
BACK TO TOP
PHOTOGRAPHY
BANKSY IN MARSEILLE
"It's A National Sport To Fight The Tags Here": The Banksy In Marseille Briefly Degraded And Then Rehabilitated
Origins of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Tattoo
Interview: Unstoppable Film-Maker Skewering Bezos and Musk’s Macho Fantasies;‘Space travel is queer’
Landslides Leave Big Sur’s Beloved Landmarks Fighting for Survival; As California’s most majestic highway remains closed after three years, this roadside community tries to hold on. ‘It’s weird, dude’; Great photographs
Hope for Humanity! Salman Rushdie says AI won’t threaten authors until it can make people laugh; Author tells Hay festival AI has no sense of humour, but when it writes a funny book ‘we’re screwed’
STREETWISE
Photographer Isaac Wright on Being Busted by the NYPD During the Opening of His Show in Chelsea; Author profile picture; "They told Wright they delayed arresting him for a couple of hours at the opening last week because “(The police) liked my art so much that they waited a couple of hours so I could enjoy the (gallery opening) occasion.”
RAPT. TOGETHER. IN THE DARK.
Gordy Grundy: Today, we announce a new action, to bring attention to the beleaguered cinema art form. We believe our expression, "Rapt. Together. In The Dark." condenses a complex medium into a simple definition. Let's start the conversation...
EXPERIENTIAL
Experiential Spaces Are Getting Even Bigger; Those fake museums and gym-restaurant-spas are multiplying — and taking over even more square feet
JOHN WATERS
The Comedian!?
"When I was young, there were beatniks. Hippies. Punks. Gangsters. Now you've got hacktivist. Which I would probably be if I was 20. Shuttin' down MasterCard. But there's no look to that lifestyle! Besides just wearing a bad outfit with bad posture. Has WikiLeaks caused a look? No! I'm mad about that. If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, it seems to me he should at least have an outfit for that." ~ John Waters, on the sorry style of today's rebels
From the Archives: John Waters: Subversive Success; The enigmatic auteur on his weird childhood, the sorry style of today's rebels and the social importance of bad taste
John Waters and the Relativity of Shock Value
At the Baltimore Museum of Art, the John Waters Collection Doesn’t Hate You, but Contemporary Art Still Might
ARCHITECTURE
The Lost Gardens of New York City
What to See at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025: This year’s must-see shows range from a Nordic Pavilion exploring transgender spaces to a compelling Lebanese project confronting the realities of ecocide
Podcast: The 15 Minute City, the New Urban Planning Concept
Art Report Today 's In-House DJ Valihi Recommends This New 53-Minute Mix Featuring Jan Blomqvist with a Live Set from the Mojave Desert
BRAVING OPPRESSION
How the Regime Captured Wikipedia; Inside the cultural revolution at wikipedia, which pivoted it from a decentralized database of all the world's knowledge to a top-down social activism and advocacy machine
WOMEN'S WORK
Everyday Lives of Women’s Clothing; Real Clothes, Real Lives shows that women have adapted their attire to accommodate their daily activities with resourcefulness and panache
Pocket Guide to Women Artists Overlooked by History; Concise, pithy, and accessible, Susie Hodge’s "The Short Story of Women Artists: A Pocket Guide to Movements, Works, Breakthroughs & Themes" introduces readers to artists forgotten and obscured, many of whom are now rightly being reassessed
Older Women Artists Go It Alone As New Report Reveals How The Traditional Art World Is Failing Them; More than half of artists (55%) say they are selling work independently of galleries and advisers, with women over 65 leading the way; Meanwhile their younger counterparts struggle more acutely with living costs
Podcast: Art Dirt: Reporting on the Recent Dallas Art Fairs 2025
BEWARE THE ART GURUS Art Review: Don’t Listen to the Art Gurus; Ways of Not Seeing; Celebrity authors are rebranding themselves as philosophers of art; Extraordinary dumbing down of culture has occurred
Hard Choices With Laughs: Chen & Lampert Ask "Should You Try Guru Marina Abramović’s Longevity Method?"
Art Guru: Free Online AI Art Generator
Some Things John Waters Collected; At the Baltimore Museum of Art; Curated by Catherine Opie and Jack Pierson
VIDEO
MIKE KELLEY's FINAL INTERVIEW
[Editor's Note: With The Dark Bob's commentary on his friend Mike Kelley, we thought it valuable to share the insights of Artillery magazine's interviews with the artist.]
Tulsa Kinney: Mike Kelley: Part One, Straight Outta Detroit
Choose Your Commisions Wisely! Artist Sarah Boardman, Who Painted ‘Worst’ Trump Portrait For Colorado Capitol, Says 41-Year Career May Be Doomed After Presiden Trump’s Criticism
SIZE MATTERS
Artists David Cooper and Korey Replogle Celebrate Las Vegas’ Iconic Defunct Motels in ‘Vacancy: The Dead Motels of Las Vegas’ Exhibit; New Works on Paper and New Works in Wood, with Custom Frames
ART and HONG KONG
‘Not a First-Day Fair’: Sales Trickle In at Art Basel Hong Kong as Dealers Wait for Tentative, ‘Deliberate’ Collectors
What Will the Northern Metropolis Mean for Hong Kong’s Future?
In Austerity, Big Euro Luxury Brands Bet on Exhibitions to Reach China’s ‘Forgotten’ Middle Class
Forge’ Review: Game of Cat-and-Mouse in the Miami Art World Makes for a Thrilling Directorial Debut; SXSW: A portrait of an underground forgery artist whose desire for recognition brings her too close to the sun, this Florida-set thriller should establish Jing Ai Ng as a director to watch
See Vija Celmins Collage'd Postcard to Wallace Berman
The Building Blocks: Artists Amanda Williams and Alteronce Gumby; Jordan Carter, curator at Dia Art Foundation, sits down with artists Alteronce Gumby and Amanda Williams to speak about the profound significance of color in their work, as well as the intersections between art and architecture
Steve McQueen Is an Art Doer; On the virtues of doing stuff instead of thinking about doing stuffSteve McQueen Is an Art Doer; On the virtues of doing stuff instead of thinking about doing stuff
‘The Art Institution of Tomorrow’ by Fatoş Üstek, Reviewed; "There’s no doubt that today’s art institutions are f**ked"
From Studio Secrets to Art World Scandals: A Roundup of the Best Art Podcasts; Shows offer listeners drama, insider insights and plenty of fun
New Yorker Documentary: “The Last of the Nightingales” Tells the Story of How Soundscapes Change After a Fire; Masha Karpoukhina’s documentary follows a soundscape ecologist who lost everything in a California wildfire
GERHARD RICHTER'S CRITIQUE OF THE ART MARKET
There Are At Least 906 Blattecke
The Story of a Long Lost Jasper Johns; 'Gastro' Made in Tokyo 1964
Art History Majors Face Highest Unemployment Rates, Report Shows; But other data shows that art history and art degrees are still popular
STAGE STRUCK
Director Sam Mendes on Bringing ‘The Hills of California’ To Broadway; “This is one of the hardest plays that I have ever directed," says Mendes. "It’s big in scale, but it’s also delicate and needs precision and a gentle hand."
‘Sunset Boulevard’ Review: Nicole Scherzinger, Former Pussycat Doll, Debuts and Stuns In Scorching, Brilliant Broadway Revival Review 'Romeo + Juliet' Maximalist Broadway Reinvention Goes Too Far; 'West Side Story'’s Rachel Zegler and 'Heartstopper'’s Kit Connor lift an aggressively poppy new youth take
on the tragic romance
MUCH LOVED WALTER ROBINSON (1950 - 2025) FIND OUT WHY! Saltz Sez: Walter Robinson, Rogue Pirate of the Art World by Jerry Saltz
Maverick Painter and Critic Walter Robinson, Who Helmed Artnet Magazine, Is Dead at 74; Edited influential outlets, made alluring appropriation art, and with a rare, wry sensibility, helped define his era
This A.I. Image Became the First to Snag Copyright Protection; U.S. Copyright Office ruled generally last month that work created from A.I. text prompts could not be copyrighted
BEST OF THE WEEK with JERRY GOGOSIAN
