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Strong Sales As France Restarts Live Auctions

Emma Amos, Figurative Painter Whose Work Confronted Racism, Has Died, Aged 83

Executed by the Nazis: The Story Of Vincent Van Gogh’s Brave Great-Nephew

The Busy Corona-Speakeasies

Nevada Museum of Art Acquires Judy Chicago’s Entire Fireworks Archive

Sarah Sze at Gagosian Paris

A Timely Tale Accompanies the Watch Belonging to the Surgeon General Who Guided U.S. Through 1918 Pandemic

From Maurizio Cattelan's Bedtime Stories to Neïl Beloufa's Post-Capitalist Fable Featuring Camels And Foxes, Three Virtual Readings To Check Out This Weekend

Gerhard Richter’s Slippery Mystique

JOHN STEPPLING

The Apparatus: “Americans have come to believe that science is capable of almost everything.” It is increasingly important to breakdown and examine the elements of delusion and irrationality that seem ubiquitous today in the West.

‘Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy’ Review: A Flavorful Character Study of a Culinary Sage

A 1665 HISTORICAL MUST READ: WITH FASCINATING PARALLELS TO TODAY

Art Report Today Proudly Presents
JOURNAL of the PLAGUE YEAR
by Daniel Defoe

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III. Public Measures + Policy

It remains to mention now what public measures were taken by the magistrates for the general safety, and to prevent the spreading of the distemper, when it first broke out. I shall have frequent occasion to speak of the prudence of the magistrates, their charity, their vigilance for the poor, and for preserving good order, furnishing provisions, and the like, when the plague was increased, as it afterwards was. But I am now upon the order and regulations they published for the government of infected families.

I mentioned above shutting of houses up; and it is needful to say something particularly to that, for this part of the history of the plague is very melancholy, but the most grievous story must be told.

About June the Lord Mayor of London and the Court of Aldermen, as I have said, began more particularly to concern themselves for the regulation of the city...

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Nine New and Notable Design Books

Party Fingers: China Bans Copycat Architecture and Restricts Supertall Skyscrapers

Q&A with Architect Clay Aurell

The Inspirations And Convictions Of A ‘Bloody Rebel’ – Gabriel Poole

Mabel O. Wilson is Updating the Narrative of American Architecture to Include Black Architects

Interview with architect Harriet Harriss as part of Virtual Design Festival

Explore Nyc's Exciting New Architecture By Big, Renzo Piano, And More Through Digital Tours

Robert Coles, Trailblazing Buffalo Architect, Dies At 90

Architecture Was Built On Copies – China Wants It Built On Nationalism

Art Report Today Podcast: Art Critic and Curator Paddy Johnson Discusses Art Spaces, Artist Statements and an Online Presence, Host Michael Delgado

THE PLAGUE

Why American Life Went On As Normal During The Hong Kong Flu Killer Pandemic Of 1969
“That generation approached viruses with calm, rationality and intelligence,” he said. “We left disease mitigation to medical professionals, individuals and families, rather than politics, politicians and government.”

COMMENTARY "AN ARTIST'S OPPORTUNITY IN OUR TRAGEDY"

Part 1: We Need a New Set of Celebrities

Part 2: Who Are Our Heroes Now? A True Portrait of the Artist

Part 3: Artists Arise! Our Fertile Landscape

INFINITE DRONE: Composers inspired by Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away at the Broad

Geneva Skeen, The Oval Window (2018)

Josiah Steinbrick, 4. (Vibraphone, Marimbaphone, Malleted Wood, Two Synthesizers)

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Curator Karen Kramer Picks Five Artists to Watch From American Indian Market

Donald Judd’s Work Measured In Time And Place

David Kordansky Gallery Opens An Online Solo Exhibition Of Recent Parabolic Lens Sculptures By Fred Eversley

PDNB Gallery Announces the Death of Western Photographer Bank Langmore

Billie Eilish, Barack Obama and Brad Pitt Portraits To Be Auctioned for COVID relief

Artist Susan Rothenberg [1945 – 2020]; Married to Artist Bruce Nauman

Susan Rothenberg, Acclaimed Figurative Painter, Dies at 75

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OUR CHANGING CIVILIZATION

Prisoner of the Hamptons: Art Giant on Life in the Covid Age

Watch this haunting ‘Empty L.A.’ video

Why Is Wall Street Greed so Entertaining?

Big Data’s Deal with the Devil

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Urges the West to Counter China’s ‘Dangerous’ Internet Regulation

The Pandemic’s Geopolitical Aftershocks Are Coming

Satellites and Spacecraft Malfunction As Earth's Magnetic Field Mysteriously Weakens

Webinar Convenes Arts Leaders to Envision the Future

Lord of The Butter-Flies: What really Happened When Six Boys Were Shipwrecked For 15 Months?

Searching for Arty Face Masks, Hand Sanitizer, Sweatpants and Fine Chocolate? Museum Shops Have Got You Covered

What Does It Mean To Regard Video Games As Works Of Art?

Artificial Intelligence Outperforms Human Judgement

What Day is It? One Minute of Inspiration

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The Film That Lit My Fuse: Francis Ford Coppola

Apocalypse Then: A New Look at Peter Weir‘s The Last Wave (’77)

Duncan Jones Debuts ‘Madi,’ the Graphic Novel Ending to the ‘Moon’ and ‘Mute’ Universe

Netflix Will Reign Supreme at Oscars

Summer Movie Season ForYour Living Room

Finally, Here Are Some Real VOD Box Office Numbers — and They Show Promise

Red Harvest and the Evolution of an Archetype: A Fistful of Bullets

THEATER: AHEAD OF THE CURVE

Geffen Playhouse has a hit Zoom magic show. How its star makes social distance vanish

Is the Magician’s Hand Quicker Than Zoom?

Magician Helder Guimarães Turns Zoom into Theater in ‘The Present’

Theaters May Be Dark, But Theater-Makers Are Still Finding Ways To Dazzle You

The First Great Original Play of Quarantine

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Dorothea Lange and Félix Fénéon at MOMA, and Online

A Conversation with Cassie Normandy at Rockport Center for the Arts

Solange Pessoa at Ballroom Marfa

Sol LeWitt at UT Austin Landmarks

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The Medications That Change Who We Are

Lana Del Rey Criticises Female Singers For Claiming She ‘Glamourises Abuse’ As She Reveals Album Release Date

Juliette Binoche, Joaquin Phoenix, Cate Blanchett and 200 Artists and Scientists Urge Society to Reconsider Its Value Systems and Look Beyond Consumerism‘

Santa Cruz Surfin' During Lockdown from Kyle Buthman

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Art Report Today Podcast: Light and Space Artist Peter Lodato shares intimate details of his painting technique; Host Michael Delgado

Gagosian: Alternate Meanings in Film and Video: Chapter One

Pagel: I’m Teaching On Zoom, And I’ve Got To Admit, My Students Are Missing Out

Clay, Staged To Decay — A Memento Mori — In Phoebe Cummings’ ‘Cut’ At A-B Projects

NY Times: Five Artists to Follow on Instagram Now

White House Portrait Ceremony May Be The Latest Casualty Of The Political Divide

"Black is the Queen of Color" at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art

Gallery Platform LA Launches

No One Wanted to Buy Our Pies: A History of The Copley Galleries, Beverly Hills, 1948–49

Gallery Platform LA Visits with LA Artists, Collectors, Gallerists

80 LA Galleries Band Together To Stay Afloat

A History of Supreme's Artist Collaborations: Larry Clark, Rammellzee, Dondi White, Martha Cooper, Peter Saville, Roy Lichtenstein and More

MUSEUM BLUES

Happy International Museum Day! Why Today's Digital Event Matters Now More Than Ever

Metropolitan Museum Will Not Reopen Until Mid-August or Later

Harvard Art Museums Announce New Tours of "Painting Edo" Exhibition on Google Arts & Culture

Director of Akron Art Museum Resigns After Negative Reports On Management

Covid-19 Impact Reports Say 13 Percent of Museums May Never Reopen

When The Virus Came, Some Museum Curators Lost Years Of Work

Cleveland Museum Of Art Plans To Reopen In June With Limited Admission, Mandatory Coronavirus Protocols

At This Museum, Education Staff Prove More Vital Than Ever During Pandemic

Europe's Museums Begin Reopening, Cautiously, With New Rules

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Liljestrand House DESIGN CONVERSATION SERIES
Exploring questions such as “Who is American?”, “What does citizenship mean?” and “How long do you have to be here to be considered a bona fide member of this mongrel group?” Setsuko Winchester hand-pinched 120 yellow tea bowls in various sizes and shades of yellow.

Setsuko Winchester and her author husband Simon Winchester Explore Design and Meaning