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Betye Saar Reflects on Aunt Jemima

“She’s Liberated!“: Betye Saar Responds to Retirement of Aunt Jemima Brand

Folded Fists: Origami Artist Joins the Black Lives Matter Movement

Saudi Arabia’s Secret Plans to Unveil Its Hidden Da Vinci—and Become an Art-World Heavyweight

The Most Mysterious Book in the World! Has Yale’s Early 15th Century Voynich Manuscript Finally Been Deciphered?

Company Plans Space Tourism Flights In High-Altitude Balloon

AD100 Designer Paul Fortune Has Died

A House Tour of the Designer Paul Fortune’s Laurel Canyon Masterpiece

When LA Was Young: The Secret History of Hollywood’s Wildest Club in the 1980s and Paul Fortune

ART NOIR

Improbable Imposter: The Art World Loves a Fake: An Invisible Crown: How to Be an Heiress

Between $4 Billion And $6 Billion Dollars Worth of Art Is Stolen Every Year

German Art Dealer And Socialite Angela Gulbenkian Arrested In Lisbon on Kusama and Warhol Theft Charges

New Clue! Stolen Van Gogh: Art Detective Receives Photos Of 'Stolen Work Spring Garden'

Images Of A Stolen Van Gogh Give Experts Hope It Can Be Recovered

Boone Busts Out! Art Dealer Mary Boone Released From Prison Thanks To Coronavirus Pandemic

WORLDWIDE MANHUNT ENDS! AFTER EIGHT MONTHS, GALLERIST ON THE LAM, INIGO PHILBRICK FOUND ON VANUATU

Fugitive Art Dealer Inigo Philbrick Found on Pacific Island, Charged With $20M Fraud Scheme

Charged With Orchestrating a $20 Million Fraud Scheme, 33 Year Old Arrested

What Did Inigo Philbrick Do? How One Precocious Dealer Allegedly Swindled the Art Market’s Savviest Players Out of Millions

Fugitive Art Dealer Arrested on Pacific Island in Fraud Case

Inigo Philbrick And The Scam That Shook The Art World

GQ: In Search of Inigo Philbrick, the Disappearing Art Dealer

JUST A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY REPEATING

Man Shot and Wounded During Demonstration Against Colonial Statue

Oxford College Backs Removal of Cecil Rhodes Statue

Group Topples George Washington Statue in NE Portland

What To Do About Problematic Statues?

National Trust for Historic Preservation: Confederate monuments 'Should Be Removed From Our Public Space'

Monumental Folly – What Colston’s Statue Says About Victorian Bristol

Portraits of Former Confederate House Speakers to Be Removed From Capitol

Toppled and Defaced Racist Monuments in 15 Cities, From Richmond to Bristol

“You should have (statues) of anybody that changes history. That’s why we have carvings of Nero. That’s why we know what Hitler looks like. Don’t forget these assholes!” —Stanislav Szukalski, Sculptor (1893-1987)

Salvador Dalí Nearly Created a Confederate Monument in Virginia

Museum World Rallies Behind Curator Investigated For Tweets On How To Damage Bronze Statues

OPPRESSION

Fearing A Reign Of Terror, Hong Kong Families Are Preparing To Flee

Documentary: The People’s Account of State Violence in Britain

Australia Under Cyberattacks From State Actor

Hong Kong Artists Risk Exile by Launching Pro-Democracy Platform

The Fight for Hong Kong Is Not Over

Hong Kong Artists Abroad Launch Pro-Democracy Platform As China's Security Law Looms

Daniel Hernandez: Nonracist to Antiracist: Seven Rapid Culture Shifts Since The Killing Of George Floyd

From Brooklyn Street Art: No Satire, No Sanity: Editorial Cartoons – A Compilation

Goldman: Art World Halfway Back To Normal?

Art Report Today Podcast: James Hayward Discusses Painting, Life in the Arts and His Many Indiscretions; Host Michael Delgado

A 1665 HISTORICAL MUST READ: WITH FASCINATING PARALLELS TO TODAY

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

Part I: Click Here

VII. IGNORING SOCIAL DISTANCING

"...And here I cannot but take notice that the strange temper of the people of London at that time contributed extremely to their own destruction...."

Click Here to Continue Reading

COMMENTARY "AN ARTIST'S OPPORTUNITY IN OUR PANDEMIC 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

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Netflix Must-See: Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski

“You should have (statues) of anybody that changes history. That’s why we have carvings of Nero. That’s why we know what Hitler looks like. Don’t forget these assholes!” —Stanislav Szukalski, Sculptor (1893-1987)

Bookseller’s Holiday: Recommendations for Father’s Day

Three Art Projects Celebrating Juneteenth, The Holiday Marking The End Of Slavery in the US

GALLERY PLATFORM LA

Aria Dean, Jonny Negron and Jean Baudrillard at Chateau Shatto

Lauren Halsey at David Kordansky

Don Suggs: Face-Off at L.A. Louver

Kenneth Anger at Spruth Magers

OUR NEW FEATURE: THE INSTAGRAM LAUGH SENSATION!
BEST OF THE WEEK with JERRY GOGOSIAN

MUSEUM BLUES

Photographer Nicolas Krief Records the Labor Behind the Glamour of Museum Displays in Paris

What Should Happen To The George Floyd Protest Art, And Who Should Decide?

Philadelphia Museum Leaders Sharply Criticized After Telling Employees ‘Every Individual Life Matters’

MOCA Cleveland Apologises To Black Artist Whose Show It Cancelled

Museums Are About To Reopen—But Should They?

Why Your Museum’s BLM Statement Isn’t Enough

Museums Collect Protest Signs to Preserve History in Real Time

JOHN STEPPLING

The Magic Kingdom: The coronavirus event, whatever the actual dangers associated with this virus, has served to reveal in stark relief both the authoritarian plans of world economic leaders and the ruling class they represent, and the final stage of a new irrationality (under cover of hyper rationality) in contemporary society.

Hedge Fund Billionaire Buys Jean-Michel Basquiat Painting For More Than $100 Million

How Gagosian Grew Digital Sales 350% With One Great Idea

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A Comics Series Offers an Exercise in Optimism

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‘Psycho’ Turns 60 This Week: How the 1960 Release Created an Iconic Film

The Long Battle Over ‘Gone With the Wind’

Opinion: Hey, HBO, ‘Gone With the Wind’ Romanticizes The Horrors Of Slavery. Take It Off Your Platform For Now

Don’t Get Too Comfy: Racial Reconciliation Fables Start, But Can’t End, The Journey: “Gone With the Wind”, “The Help” and “The Green Book”

Ready, Set … Go Back To The Movies!

‘The Card Counter’ First Look: Oscar Isaac Is Out for Revenge in Paul Schrader’s New Film

Attention, Screenwriters: Brian Grazer and Ron Howard are Giving You a Chance to Get Your Script Made Into a Netflix Film

Amanda Seyfried Estimates David Fincher Shot 200 Takes of ‘Mank’ Scene Over One Week

Director of “Jackie” Pablo Larraín and Kristen Stewart to Give Princess Diana the ‘Jackie’ Treatment in New Film

Oscar Winning Screenwriter John Ridley Rips Quentin Tarantino Over Movie’s Use of N-Word; “…luxuriates in the word…”

ARCHITECTURE REPORT TODAY

Marjorie Merriweather Post Built Mar-a-Lago, but Her Other Homes Were Presidential, Too

Michael Kimmelman Lobbies AIA To Bar Architects From Working on Solitary Confinement Facilities

There’s No Reason for an Architect to Design a Death Chamber

"Stop Working On Spaces Which Disproportionately Impact African Americans" Says Architectural Designer Michael Ford

Carceral Aesthetics: The Conditions of Making Art in Prison

10 Black Architects Who Shaped American Cities

New Yorker: How the Coronavirus Will Reshape Architecture

THE PLAGUE

A Contemporary Performance of A Dance For Healing And Hope Created By The American Indian Ojibwe In Response To The 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic

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Andrew Berardini
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Eli Anapur
Maurice Berger
Ezrha Jean Black
Kate Brown
Alan Bamberger
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Betty Ann Brown
Andrianna Campbell
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Pace London Opens An Exhibition of New Works By Light And Space Master James Turrell

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp: Peter Alexander and his Black Velvet Bonanza

Gagosian Goes to Basel

Chen Ronghui’s Photographs Depict Home As Both Confining and Comforting

Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Unfinished Works Propose Radical Alternatives to Traditional Monuments

Diedrick Brackens Weaves 21st-Century Concerns into Moving Tapestries

Artist Hank Pitcher’s New Book Paints Santa Barbara in a Bold Light

ART AND SCIENCE

Scientists Made One Small Edit To Human Embryos. It Had A Lot Of Unintended Consequences.

Quantum 'Fifth State Of Matter' Observed In Space For First Time

'Ring Of Fire' Eclipse Could Be Sign Of Apocalypse Sending 'Darkness Over The Holy Land'

Glenn Ligon Collects Museum Mea Culpas For Unauthorized Use Of Works in Newsletters

SFMOMA Faces Censorship, Racism Accusations Over George Floyd Response

ARTIST’S HEALTH

How Loneliness Could Be Changing Your Brain And Body

Study: Lonely People Have ‘Disconnected’ Patterns of Brain Activity

The New Realists - Radical Rebellion in 1960s Europe

COLLECTOR'S CIRCLE

Billionaire Quietly Selling Montauk Estate Once Owned By Andy Warhol For About $65M

Kent Belden’s Collection of Portraiture Highlights Vibrant, Historically Marginalized Figures illo

Alex Katz’s Seven-Decade Career Has Produced Masterpieces and Little Hype—Until Now

How Arthur Lewis Built a Dynamic Collection of Black Art

Those Boys! Lewd Van Gogh, Gauguin Brothel Letter Sells For 210,000 Euros

Galleries and Gondoliers: The Life And Times ff Collector Arthur Jeffress

Collecting Money: Stefan Haupt

OUR NEW FEATURE!
Liljestrand House DESIGN CONVERSATION SERIES
Architects Anne Fairfax & Richard Sammons led a conversation about their design philosophy and how the considerations of place, climate, history, building materials and precedents of building culture inform their design process.

Based in Palm Beach and New York, Fairfax & Sammons Architects is an internationally recognized firm of classical architects specializing in residential architectural design and urban design.