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BASEL RECAP

10 of the Best Artworks at Art Basel 2023, From New Provocations by Anne Imhof to a Bravura $22 Million de Kooning

Art Basel’s Day-One Sales Show Demand for Fresh Work Is Undented, While Secondary Material Receives More Price Scrutiny; Economic jitters did not spell doom, but a market recalibration could be at hand

Light Up! The Best Of Photo Basel 2023 – In Pictures

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In Pictures: A Series of Paintings Basquiat Made During an Italian Residency He Loathed Have Been Reunited at Switzerland’s Beyeler Foundation; Basquiat later described the arrangement in Italy as "a sick factory," and it ended after his gallerists had a dispute

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Julia Friedman: The Art of Ignorance; On “It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby” at the Brooklyn Museum & MOMA’s recent social-media postings

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New Yorker Cartoons of the Week: See Them All!

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CERAMICS

Designer Brian Peters and a Custom 3D Printer Weaves Two Colors of Clay into Elaborately Textured Sculptures

Exquisite Porcelain Figures by Vipoo Srivilasa Express the Ineffable Nature of Beauty and Connection

Artist Virgil Ortiz’s sci-fi retelling of the historic Pueblo Revolt of 1680 blends fact with the fantastic; Show is a departure for History Colorado, which prides itself on sticking to research and rigor

Lisa Stevens’ Ceramic Sculptures Capture Coral-Inspired Motifs in Vibrant Color

Eriko Inazaki wins the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize

Resistance Pottery: Two recent exhibitions of the work of Black potters find political acts in the placid history of nineteenth-century American stoneware

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WE LOVE MSCHF!

MSCHF’s Microscopic Louis Vuitton Handbag Is Smaller Than A Grain Of Salt

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FORMERLY KNOWN AS CINEMA

Once again, our lead film critic Justin Tanner brings us something special, the 2022 film "Godland", director and writer Hlynur Pálmason’s awe-inspiring new film. “Godland” recounts a perilous trek through the frozen, mountainous landscape of 19th century Iceland where a Lutheran priest from Denmark has been sent to oversee the building of a new church. "With its gorgeous vistas of snow and mountains, lush verdant cliffs and blazing orange lava flows — all lit by Iceland’s midnight sun which bathes everything in the eldritch glow of “magic hour” — “Godland” is easily the most beautiful film of the year."

Directed by Luca Guadagnino, 'Challengers' Official Trailer, Starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist

Christopher Nolan Says Some ‘Oppenheimer’ Viewers Walk Out ‘Devastated’ and ‘They Can’t Speak’: ‘It’s Kind of a Horror Movie’

Directed by Ethan Coen, 'Drive-Away Dolls'

What? Edgy Ryan Murphy Set to Leave Netflix for Disney; Megaproducer is expected to reunite with Dana Walden at the Mouse House when his nine-figure pact at the streaming service expires

'Dumb Money' The Insane GameStop True Story

Filmmaker William Friedkin once called it the “holy grail of cinema.” Will The Original Cut of Welles’ ‘Magnificent Ambersons’ Ever Be Found?

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COLLECTORS

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 opened April 20 in New York City

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Shunned, Boycotted, Exiled: Has France Treated Françoise Gilot Worse Than Picasso Did? When She Walked Out On Picasso, He Destroyed Her Art And Waged War On Her Career – While France Cast Her Out. Now that this great painter has died, says the woman writing her biography, it is time for this shameful treatment to cease

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Anthony Haden-Guest on the Watch World in the Art World

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BOOKS + WORDS

Surfing is Art: Mindy Eun Soo Pennybacker’s “Surfing Sisterhood Hawai‘i” Is a Literary Tidal Wave; A blend of interviews, history, Hawaiian legends and memoir, the book offers insight into women surfers while inspiring a new generation

Heidi Gustafson’s ‘Book of Earth’ Embarks on a Visual Voyage Through the World of Natural Pigments

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ART BUSINESS

An IPO for a Painting? This $55 Million Masterpiece Is Going Public; Portrait by British painter Francis Bacon will be publicly listed this summer, even as rising interest rates blur the case for investing in art

The Freshman Class of Art Basel: Meet 7 Dealers Making Their Debut at the 2023 Swiss Fair; Dealers are poised to hit one of the art world’s biggest stages. Here’s how they’re preparing

Video: Let's put on an art show! "Close to Vermeer" Official U.S. Trailer

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DIGITAL ART 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

Self-Adjusting Netflix Shows? A.I. Prompts as Artworks? Three Artists Debate What Technology Has in Store for Creative Work; Sebastian Errazuriz, Khyati Trehan, and Trevor Paglen joined Artnet's Sonia Manalili talk, in partnership with Mortlach

Real child murder victims recreated by AI in sick true-crime TikTok trend

Louis Vuitton Is Selling Its Iconic Trunk as a $39k NFT; Digital trunks will leverage LVMH (LVMHF)'s Aura blockchain, which was created to crack down on counterfeits in the luxury world

See More Digital Art!

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Mystery Man: The Many Guises of Juan Pablo Echeverri – In Pictures

Chimp Cuddles And Clever Coyotes: The 10Th Bigpicture Natural World Photography Competition – In Pictures

At last, photography starts to make inroads into Art Basel; Collectors show greater interest in photographers but larger galleries still favour mid-career and older artists

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The Life of Artist Adolf Wölfli is a Veritable Pandora’s Box; Orphaned, Abused, Institutionalized, Jailed

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ARCHITECTURE

Vkhutemas: Laboratory of Modernism, 1920–1930 recreated the work of the school to position its importance in 20th century architectural pedagogy

Celebrating “America’s First Lady of the Loom” Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes is the first monographic exhibition of American textile designer Dorothy Liebes in over 50 years

Refuse//Repose, an exhibition at Kent State University, showcases architectural waste

The Castlecrag Walking Tour; 16 Homes; Marion Mahony Griffin and Walter Burley Griffin were preeminent architects in Australia’s early 20th century development, most notably the planning of Canberra

“Norman Foster” Show in Paris Celebrates Architecture for the Powerful; The Norman Foster retrospective at the Centre Pompidou tracks his journey to being the architect of choice for wealthy philanthropists and Silicon Valley moguls

After years of work, Herzog & de Meuron’s Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn is now finished

Architects Alphabet: ’E’ is for egg and dart, a decorative pattern of ovals and arrows

Did This $72M ‘Wave House’ Inspire Sydney Opera House? Whether Harry Gesner the self-taught architect’s Malibu masterpiece influenced Jørn Utzon’s iconic Australian design remains the subject of debate

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MUSIC + SOUND

The Architect Behind This Year’s Serpentine Pavilion Shares Her Studio Playlist; Lina Ghotmeh's Serpentine Pavilion, "À table," opens today in London. The Paris-based, Beirut-born architect shares the intentions behind her commission and the symphonies and old records that keep her inspired

Art-World Provocateur Jordan Wolfson Wants This Musician to Write the Soundtrack to His Life; As Jordan Wolfson's "Drawings" exhibition opens at Gagosian in Basel, the artist invites us to eavesdrop on his studio playlist

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Artist and Pornstar Lexi Luna Enjoys Building — And Smashing — Dollhouses

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Hilbert Museum of California Art Collection Now Online; Some 1242 objects, centering on works on paper by American Scene painters active in California


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