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MONOLITH MANIA: COMPLETE COVERAGE

Second monolith mysteriously appears in Romania—one day after another vanishes from the Utah desert

Earthlings, It Seems, Not Aliens, Removed the Utah Monolith

Alien Art (?) Object Disappeared From Utah Desert

McCracken-esque Monolith Discovered in Utah Desert Has Everyone Buzzing Over ‘2001: A Space Odyssey

Reason Magazine: Giant Metal Monolith Discovered In Utah Desert Possibly Extraterrestrial, Definitely a Zoning Code Violation

Myriad Theories: A Mysterious Steel Monolith, Reminiscent of Minimalist Sculpture, Discovered in Utah Canyons

Internet Sleuths Locate Mysterious Monolith in Utah

We Found The Alien Monolith In The Utah Desert! Strange Coordinates

Birthday Boy Wayne Thiebaud at 100

Hallucinogenic flower inspired Native Californian rock art, archaeologists say

Study suggests that "Native Americans, likely of the Chumash tribe, consumed the hallucinogenic plant Datura wrightii hundreds of years ago at a rock art site in Pinwheel Cave in California—and that the art they painted is likely a representation of that plant"

Politics and pestilence occupy minds at Bangkok Art Biennale; Exhibition, one of few to go ahead thanks to COVID-19, explores idea of ‘escape’ in a world riven by trouble

ART IN FILM

Not Just for Art Lovers, All Will Appreciate 'The Last Vermeer'

"The Last Vermeer" Trailer

Museum Acquisitions of the Month: October 2020

Ruby City, the San Antonio contemporary art center, Announces Final Phase of Expansion to Complete Campus

Milano Chow at Bel Ami

Chopin's interest in men airbrushed from history, programme claims; Journalist says he has found overt homoeroticism in Polish composer’s letters

Gus Van Sant: 'We are living in a wilder time than anything we could imagine'

The Lighthouse: Drinking the Fuel / On the Rocks illo golden

Catalogue: 25 Women Artists

Yau: Theaster Gates and the Shapes of Black History; Gates reminds us of the many hidden, unacknowledged, and under-recognized histories of Black culture in America

Artists or Decorators? ‘They show where the bodies are buried’ – Langlands & Bell at the Soane, reviewed

A Fresh Vision of Minimalism Foregrounds Female Artists

Scarlet Cheng: Alex Anderson, Just Like Gold

The Little-known, Refreshingly Vulnerable Works of Clyfford Still’s Final Years

Todd Gray; Diary in Fragments

MUSEUM BLUES

One-Third of US Museums Are At Risk Of Permanent Closure, Survey Finds


As COVID cases surge to new highs, museums across America close again

Nearly a Third of U.S. Museums Remain Closed by Pandemic, Survey Shows; An industry group says that the financial state of the country’s museums “is moving from bad to worse.”

These U.S. Museums Are Closed, But Here Are Some Terrific Ways to Experience Them From Home

Museums must rethink how they use their endowments – or they’ll struggle to rebuild after this crisis

Editorial: If shopping malls across California can reopen, museums should be able to do so too

New Supersonic Travel Options Emerge On Earth And Mars

BMW Made the World’s First Electrified Wingsuit

Incredible 1,000-year-old Viking burial site found in Norway belonged to 'Iron Age elite'

Don’t Mess with Mother Nature! As Climate Disasters Pile Up, a Radical Proposal Gains Traction

Earth Keeps Pulsating Every 26 Seconds. No One Knows Why. Maybe you can solve this strange seismic mystery

ARCHITECTURE

26 World-Class Architects and Designers Imagine New Blueprints for Post-Pandemic Living; This portfolio showcases their unpredictable and varied answers

View the Beautiful Drawings of Architecture and Design Talents Who Still Work By Hand

Thirty kitchens designed by architects

LA issues challenge to design more affordable, small-scale, middle-class housing


The mysterious origins of Moscow's multicolored landmark

Amazing Architecture on Instagram

Young architect Benni Allan’s practice merges art, wellbeing and space

More to Chicago architecture than Wright and Mies

The Pantheon: The ancient building still being used after 2,000 years

Step Inside This Meticulously Restored Midcentury Modern Masterpiece; Artist Mary Weatherford safeguards the future

Mary Weatherford at Gagosian

Take a Spin Through a Century of Iconic American Houses

James Hayward "Not the Response They Had Expected

Exclusive video: Marina Abramovic advises public to complain to a tree to help heal from 2020

Farago: The Myth of North America, in One Painting

Art Report Today Podcast: Alexandra Terry, Chief Curator of MCASB on the Work of Genevieve Gaignard; Host Michael Delgado

Artist Cole Sternberg Conjures Up The Free Republic of California

The Free Republic of California

How Mexico City became a global center for contemporary art

Sets appeal: staggering designs for theatre and dance – in pictures


High-Wire Artist Ruth Asawa Edges Into the Mainstream; The sculptor spent her life at the margins of the American art world, but now her work is winning new acclaim

Sculpture In Los Angeles: Saar, Ouwerkerk, Prager, Nara and Spielberg

APOLLO MAGAZINE AWARDS 2020

Arts Personality of the Year: Matthew Burrows

Artist of the Year: Toyin Ojih Odutola

Museum Opening of the Year: Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art, Ibeju-Lekki

Exhibition of the Year:‘Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution’ Museum of Fine Arts (MSK), Ghent

Acquisition of the Year: Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, Kent

New Doc: ‘Maverick Modigliani’ To challenge the art world with his genuineness

SURF

Tavarua Island and the Development of the First Surf Resort

Worth A Look! Freddy Rodríguez: Hard Edge Early Paintings 1970-1990 at Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary

BOOKS

Democracy's Medici explores the creation of the Fine Arts Program of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

The Best Books of 2020, According to the New York Public Library

NYT: Best art books of 2020: Roberta Smith, Holland Carter, Jason Farago, Siddhartha Mitter

A New Book Traces the Global Origins of Abstract Art

Art book publisher Taschen turns 40: Marlene Taschen on how it stays relevant

MUSIC

Riz Ahmed Finds the Beat Between Qawwali and House Music

‘Sound of Metal’ Review: Riz Ahmed Is Brilliant as a Heavy Metal Drummer Who Goes Deaf

Are You A Turner Man Or A Constable Man? David Hockney Weighs Into The Debate

LOSING AND CHOOSING MY RELIGION

"Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing," wrote philosopher Baruch Spinoza. "Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure."

Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan has a lot to say about our spiritual ’dystopia'

An Introduction To The 4 Stoic Virtues

Yoko Ono- "I'm Not Getting Enough"

Kandinsky, from the holdings of the Guggenheim foundation, at Guggenheim, Bilboa

FORMERLY KNOWN AS CINEMA

Soderbergh’s “Let Them All Talk”, New Trailer for HBO Max; Streep , Bergen and Weist

David Fincher’s Favorite Movies: Where to Watch 26 Films the Director Wants You to See

Terry Gilliam Just Wanted Some Magic Mushrooms for His 80th Birthday

Bueno! Gus Van Sant on Returning to the Filmmaking Style of ‘Elephant’ for His New Shorts

Errol Morris On the Idea of Truth, LSD, and Finding the Right Subjects; "My Psychedelic Love Story", the war on drugs, and whether I'm being manipulated by the government



The Much Discussed and Desired "Justice League: Snyder Director’s Cut"

Read First Reactions to a Movie from 1906 and Other Gems from Rotten Tomatoes’ New Classic Film Archive; Assets include the writings of Pauline Kael, first reactions to one of the earliest features ever made

Director Spike Lee changes direction with musical about Viagra

Quentin Tarantino has deal for 2 books on films, including 1 of his own and Old-School Novelization of “Once Upon… Hollywood”

"Mank" Fincher Laments Welles Tragedy; The mix between monumental talent and filthy immaturity

When Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke walk into a bar. Trailer: “One Night in Miami…”

Stanley Kubrick Letter Discovered After 60 Years Reveals His Own Plan for ‘Doctor Zhivago’ Epic with Kirk Douglas

'My mother, the real Audrey Hepburn, was like a steel fist in a velvet glove'

How a Drunken Golf Argument Got Matthew McConaughey Into Dazed and Confused

Penguin Random House Staff Confront Publisher About New Not-Woke Jordan Peterson Book

Is Philip Guston Right for Now?

Iconic or Sexist? Palm Springs Mulls a Marilyn Monroe Statue

JOHN STEPPLING

A Barking Where There Are No Dogs: It feels impossible to write about anything other than the massive Corona virus story, the massive repression of democracy and the massive usurpation of power by both state and federal agencies, both in the U.S. and across the world. The fact that every country on earth save Belarus, apparently, bought into this narrative suggests the globalization of propaganda and of paranoia

COLLECTORS CIRCLE

Ailing Art Collector Faces a Very Modern Problem: Mountains of Debt

Collector and Retail Visionary Brian Bolke's Favorites From Untitled, Art Miami Beach 2019

Will Global Jitters Dull the Glitter of New York’s Art Gigaweek? Slim Pickin’s. A Rediscovered David Hockney And A Welded Hippo Are Among Some 2,000 Works Coming To Auction.

How Mega-Collectors Don and Mera Rubell Keep Finding New Artists to Support

Actor Paul Giamatti and Artist Pamela Talese are Honored by the Denali Foundation for the Arts at the Yale Club in NYC

Bamberger For Collectors: Facts About Art Appraisals and Prices

Collector Jayne Wrightsman Leaves Over 375 Works Of Art And $80M To The Met

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Art market 2020: the year of cancel culture and bricks-and-clicks; A year marked by wholesale event cancellations and job losses has also seen the art market innovate to keep businesses going

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OPPRESSION

Surveillance in China: artist who hides from security cameras in Beijing wants to highlight invasions of privacy

How to Stand Up to Cancel Culture Without Getting Canceled; And Why You Should

Cuban Artists Ask Hollywood for Support, Urge Biden to Abandon Obama Policies

Cuban police quell protest and detains young artists and academics on hunger strike

Exiled Kurdish artist—who smuggled paintings from her Turkish jail cell—wins inaugural Carol Rama Award; Zehra Doğan was imprisoned for nearly three years under terrorism charges for work of art shared on Twitter

April Street at Vielmetter Los Angeles

From street parties to state visits – around the world with Photographer Ed van der Elsken

15 African Artists on the Rise

The Ascent of Young Ghanaian Artist Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe; Roberts Projects

David Zwirner opens a survey exhibition devoted to Donald Judd

Ferago: Seeing Our Own Reflection in the Birth of the Self-Portrait

ART NOIR

Dozens asked to participate in Documenta 15—only to realise invitations are fake

Two Darwin notebooks, missing for decades, were most likely stolen

Art Noir Classic! Wim Wenders‘ “The American Friend” Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper and Art Forgery

Bike disappearance mars Banksy artwork in Nottingham; City angered by apparent theft of bike chained to post near stencil of hula-hooping girl

Constable oil sketch—previously dismissed as fake—goes on sale for £150,000

Unesco, stop citing 'bogus' $10bn figure, art trade pleads ; The international organisation is under fire for apparently exaggerating the scale of the illicit trade in cultural goods

Seller contests having to repay Sotheby’s for allegedly forged Frans Hals

Did alcohol withdrawal really cause Van Gogh’s mental crises?

Inside Rome’s Secure Vault for Stolen Art

ART IN FILM

“Canvas” Trailer: Coming to Netflix, an old painter decides to revisit the easel, and pick up the paint brush… but he can't do it alone

‘The Last Vermeer’ Film Review: Guy Pearce & Claes Bang In Real-Life WWII Art Forgery Drama With Truth On Its Side

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

ARTIST PROFILE: LARRY BELL

Larry Bell: Seeing Through Glass

Larry Bell’s Website

Art Report Today Podcast: Artist Larry Bell Discusses His Work, Career and Jack Brogan, by Michael Delgado

Larry Bell at Hauser & Wirth

Larry Bell, Bill and Coo, at MOCA’s Nest

Brooklyn Rail: Larry Bell: Still Standing

Larry Bell: Still Standing

Jagged, Glacier-Inspired Glass By California Icon Larry Bell

LA Icons Larry Bell and Billy Al Bengston Look Back

What Are Those Glowing Red Cubes Outside MOCA? Meet Larry Bell’s Latest Work

Tech Meets Fine Art in Larry Bell’s Glass Cubes

Larry Bell: Artist; Narrated by John McEnroe

Two American Art Icons, Larry Bell and Mary Heilmann, Discuss the Old Days and Their New Shows

Larry Bell Venice Fog: Recent Investigations

Larry Bell Takes us from 1950s Venice to Today in Taos

Larry Bell: A Studio Visit; A film by Eric Minh Swenson

AMAZING MOTHER NATURE

Tiny owl found inside Rockefeller Christmas tree after 3 days with no food or water

‘Most remote island’ creates massive marine protection zone

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