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ARTIST PROFILE: GREGORY CREWDSON

Nate Freeman’s Wet Paint: Ivanka Trump Eyes Return to the New York Gallery Scene, Art-World Hub Indochine Reopens, & More Juicy Art-World Gossip

A Bad Sign for the Bay Area: Real estate savvy Gagosian Has Closed Its San Francisco Gallery, Once Seen as a Beacon of Promise for Silicon Valley’s Art Market

Celebs, wealthy moguls and Larry Gagosian flock to St. Barts for New Year’s

Enormous vulva sculpture in Brazil sparks conservative outrage; Juliana Notari's work was installed days after President Bolsonaro vowed to never legalise abortion

Goldman: Gigantic Vulva Sculpture By Brazilian Artist Juliana Notari Shakes The World

Stromberg: How ‘deaccession’ became the museum buzzword of 2020

Slideshow: What Did the Top 200 Collectors Buy This Past Year? Above, a Doug Aitken

Mystery monolith makes appearance in Toronto Canada

A rollercoaster year for Banksy as sales soar and activism increases

Celebrities From Brad Pitt to Seth Rogen Are Massively Into Pottery. Here’s a Primer on Bro-ramics (and Its Colorful, Fraught History)

Knight: Roland Reiss dies at 91, leaving a 60-year legacy as L.A. artist and educator

Black Comic Book Artists, Rediscovered

Volcano School paintings transport viewers to the currently erupting Kīlauea

Seeing Color: A Matter of Nature, or Culture? The sum of all lessons on hue.

YOUR FUTURE FORETOLD

PAUL NG, GEOMANCER, FENG SHUI MASTER
Chinese Astrology Predictions for 2021

GEORGIA NICHOL'S 2021 ANNUAL HOROSCOPE
Aries, Taurus, Gemini, and Cancer
Leo, Virgo, Libra, and Scorpio
Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces

Here Are 25 Inspiring Women in the Art World Who Overcame Obstacles to Accomplish Incredible Things in This Surreal Year; These museum directors, artists, curators, and dealers stepped up to the plate in 2020

‘My Practice Looks Very Different Today’: 15 Artist-Mothers on Balancing Work and Family After a Year Like No Other

Ulay, on his own terms; a Biography

BRAVING OPPRESSION

'The Real Ideological War Has Just Begun And Covid-19 Is Only The Starting Point': Ai Weiwei On China's Response To The Outbreak; March 2020

Interview with Joanne Leah, Founder of Artists Against Censorship

Artists: China Faked Celebrity Signatures on Anti-Hong Kong Petition

Vice Media CEO Slams Big Tech As ‘Great Threat To Journalism’ In Layoffs Memo

The New York Times Helped a Vindictive Teen Destroy a Classmate Who Uttered a Racial Slur When She Was 15

'Cancel Culture' Is a Dangerous, Totalitarian Trend

How Cancel Culture Violates Intellectual Freedom

The Vicious Cynicism of Installing Noguchi at the White House

Isn’t This How Artists Learn to Paint? The story behind a student who discovered Teenager Edward Hopper's earliest paintings were copies

Homer Gets Cancelled; School has banned ‘The Odyssey’

Seven groundbreaking female photographers – in pictures

'The Three Greats' of Mexican Modernism Fought Tyranny With Art

BARBARA ROSE

Critic and historian Barbara Rose, recently passed, speaks of her four marriages; Frank Stella was No. 2

Barbara Rose, Critic and Historian of Modern Art, Dies at 84; Wrote a celebrated college textbook

Barbara Rose, Artforum 1968: Problems of Criticism IV: The Politics of Art, Part I; “We have indeed come full circle from art in the service of the revolution to one of art instead of the revolution.”

Smith: Salman Toor, a Painter at Home in Two Worlds

A Tale of Two Los Angeles Art Dealers, Irving Blum and Everett Ellin

Shana Nys Dambrot and the LA Weekly present “Meet an Artist Monday” an intimate portrait. Here is their archive

Why Conspiracy Theories Have Become the Most Influential Art Form of Our Time

East, West 'Ohana Berlin and a Sense of Place with Janetta Napp

See Janetta Napp's New Drawing Show 'Ohana Berlin at the virtual Paddock Gallery

MUSIC

Back to Black: how the music industry reckoned with race this year

PHOTOGRAPHY

Swingin' Sixties Photographer David Bailey memoir: ‘Liz Taylor was a klepto, Mother Teresa a tough old bitch’

Colonialist Cosplay, Who Knew?

DE PURY

5 Bold Predictions From Art-Industry Veteran Simon de Pury for How the Auction Business Will Change in the Post-COVID Era

Auction Veteran Simon de Pury on His Whirlwind Adventures Behind the Scenes on the Hit Netflix Show ‘Emily in Paris’

Adam Gopnik on De Chirico and Man Ray’s Premonitions of Modernity

Inspired by Hockney’s “Nichols Canyon”, Miranda July Made a Sexy, Short Film; See it here!

There Is an Alien Power Driving the Frenzy Over the Utah Monolith. It’s Just Not From Outer Space; Land Art history offers some clues

The Visceral Intimacy of Amy Sillman’s Drawings

DISCOVERY

A Monster Wind Turbine Is Upending an Industry; Blade diameter is two football fields

The Riddles on a Mysterious Viking Rune Monument Long Proved Baffling. Now Scholars Say They May Be Dire Warnings of Climate Change

Dig of Pompeii fast-food place reveals tastes

Extremely rare, one-of-a-kind flower found in Maui’s rugged mountains. Take a look!

Japan’s Asteroid Odyssey: 3 Billion Miles for a Pinch of Dust

How to Read a Self-Portrait by Christian Schad (1927); A vivid, troubling double-portrait that captures the dialogue between self-assertion and self-doubt

ART AND RACE

Speculation on Black Artists Has Gotten So Intense That for Christie’s Latest Sale, Its Curator Is Asking Buyers to Sign a Special Contract; Thwart flippers

Theaster Gates Wants You to Browse This Archive of Black Excellence

‘It’s Obviously a Really Exciting Thing’: How Native American Art Has Become a Sleeper Sensation in Museums and the Art Market Alike; "maverick" dealers who spotlight marginalized communities

Vivid Posters Chart a “People’s History” of the Struggle for Social Justice

In Praise of the Working Texas Artist

The Artistic World of the Taíno People

CARLA: Days of Take; A Look at KAWS

Mob Loots Gallery For a Good KAWS

Art Report Today: Q & A with Hills Snyder

ARCHITECTURE

The Transformative Buildings Set To Shape The World in 2021

Architectural Digest: You Can Visit This Network of Inimitable 20th-Century Residential Architecture

Photographer Chronicles the Alluring Abstract Beauty of the National Museum of Qatar

Temple Church: Plans to revive building bombed in Bristol Blitz

Destruction of brutalist architecture in north of England prompts outcry

‘Box’ or Gem? A Scramble to Save Asia’s Modernist Buildings; Photos

9 of the Boldest Museum Designs of 2020, From a Curved Canopy in Portugal to a Kiln-Like Ceramics Museum in China

From Trump Curatorial: What is art deco and why is it trending?

Threat to Landmark Italian Stadium Enrages Heritage Advocates

Finding a new path in a pandemic: How one Seattle architect went from mansions to tiny homes

ARCHITECT PROFILE: STEPHANIE GOTO

Stephanie Goto, Art-World-Beloved Architect, Shares Her Favorite Things

Goto Featured Projects

Architectural Digest Visits Stephanie Goto's Rooftop Jewel-Box Workspace

Stephanie Goto’s Food for Thought

Go To Goto’s Instagram

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ART BUSINESS

With the Launch of Two More Online Sales Initiatives, Mega-Gallerist David Zwirner Says He Is Already Envisioning Less Need for Art Fairs

Kenny Schachter predicts Instagram's future in 2021

The Gray Market: 10 Fascinating, Daring and Highly Specific Predictions for the Art Industry in 2021 (and Other Insights)

Auction houses have finally entered the Amazon age—and I’m addicted

Are People Actually Buying Art in the Coronavirus Era? Yes—as Long as It’s by a Freshly Minted Art Star (or Being Sold at a Discount); Some say worst is yet to come

Art fairs in 2021—expect spring jitters, a summer crush and maybe even a return to some normality; Frieze Los Angeles to be “nomadic" as Paramount is booked out with production backlog

5 Other Takeaways From a New Art Basel Report on the State of the Market

Fascinating Podcast: Futurist Doug Stephens on What Art Dealers Can Learn From the Retail Revolution

The Bankerization of the Art Market: How Wall Street’s Masters of the Universe Infiltrated the Art World

How to organize an art fair in 2021 - and beyond?

‘It’s Liberating’: 3 Ways Various Small Fires, a Tech-Savvy Los Angeles Gallery, Is Using the Lockdown Era to Leapfrog Into Future of the Global Art Market

Patti Smith: 'As a writer, you can be a pacifist or a murderer’; ‘I feel like I’m part-wolf’

OUR 2nd ANNUAL BEST OF THE ‘BEST OF’s’

Ezrha Jean Black: My Favorite Things of 2020: Birds to Kim Dingle to Marianne Williamson to Gunda and Much More!

The Most Underappreciated Pop Culture Gems of 2020, from a Pop Princess to Nicolas Cage Rage

These Are the 22 Art Projects That Social Media Went Bananas Over in 2020

The Most In-Demand Artists on Artsy in 2020

From Paul Thomas Anderson To Park Chan-Wook, 46 Movies (And A TV Series) That Could Light Up Film Festivals In 2021

The Most Controversial and Ambitious Art Heists of 2020

The Best Performances of 2020, from Riz Ahmed in ‘Sound of Metal’ to the ‘PEN15’ Ladies and Beyond

The Art Newspaper Podcast: 2020: the Year in Review

The 10 Best Art Documentaries of 2020

New Yorker: The Best Art of 2020

The 10 Most Astonishing Archaeological Discoveries of 2020, From an Ancient Cat Carving to the Amazon Rock Paintings

The 20 Overlooked Indie Movies from 2020 You Need to See

The 10 Best Movie and TV Trailers of 2020

Death! Dancing! Drinking! The best movie moments of 2020

The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2020 Edition

Elon Musk’s Totally Awful, Batshit-Crazy, Completely Bonkers, Most Excellent Year

The Most Influential Artists of 2020

Here Are the 10 Most Expensive Works of Art Sold at Auction in 2020—and Why They Fetched the Prices They Did; Plus, who bought and sold them

These 7 Artists Emerged as Market Sensations During This Year’s Star-Making Auction Day Sales

The top five YouTube channels for an art fix this Christmas season

What was the best art book you read in 2020? The Art Newspaper team reveals its favourite publications

Can You Believe Your Eyes That All This Happened in 2020?

The artists we lost in 2020, in their words

The 50 Best Movies of 2020, According to Over 230 Film Critics

Glasstire’s Best of 2020

In Memoriam: 2020 Artist Obituaries in Glasstire

2020 Critics Poll: The Best Films and Performances According to Over 200 Critics From Around the World

We Don’t Know What a Post-Coronavirus Art World Will Look Like. Here Are 6 Ways We Can Come Together to Build the One We Want

Ai Weiwei Doc: “Yours Truly”

Podcast: Yuge Zhou, Video + Installation Artist

The Evolution of Instagram Activism; Many activist graphics on Instagram are deeply indebted to the visual language developed by W.E.B. Du Bois

Social Media Art seizes upon the Utopia of Net Art in new book

After honing his painting skills as an Iraqi soldier painting Saddam portraits, an artist finds his voice In Oregon

ARTIST’S HEALTH

H20 = Happiness: People who drink 6 glasses of water daily are more optimistic, successful, energetic

How Learning To Curate My Art At Home Helped Me Unpack My Grief

Why You Should Talk to Yourself in the Third Person

Inside Home: the new London art space championing diversity; One of the few Black-owned art spaces in London, Home is part art gallery, part community events space supporting Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic artist

This Legendary Georgia O’Keeffe Skull Painting Has an Uplifting Backstory—Here Are 3 Things You Might Not Know About It

STAGE

Broadway Diary: A ‘Frankenstein’ That Never Lived; On Jan. 4, 1981, the effects-heavy production opened and closed on the same night. Forty years later, the creators revisit a very expensive Broadway flop.

Wonder Boys: Collaborators Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins

Roger Berlind, 90, dies; Broadway impresario who amassed 25 Tonys

The Lost Art of Greek bronzes

‘We’re Burdened by So Many Things’: Watch Artist Mary Mattingly Literally Drag Everything She Owns Around New York

Karen Russo’s Films Explore the Manipulative Power of Nazi Imagery; Depraved poetry

The True Story Of Survival, Theft, And Justice Behind Klimt’s Golden Queen

Marcel Duchamp and Gang in Las Vegas

What colour is the road? David Hockney tells us to take a closer look

Yau: Michael Berryhill sees painting as an “amazing place” where the miraculous can still occur

Technology, spiritualism linked in Art Institute sound exhibit at Albany Museum of History and Art

From Kehinde Wiley’s Afghan Hounds to Jordan Nassar’s Bulldog, Meet the Most Illustrious Art Dogs of Instagram

The Incredible Native American Woman Who Fought Bigotry, Wrote Extensively and Penned “The Sun Dance Opera” at the Turn of the Last Century

Yau: Robert Mangold’s Emotional Optics; With his recent works, Mangold underscores a consciousness of mortality that he meets with a gracefulness that is breathtaking

‘The roll call of artists who donned a uniform in 1870 is remarkable'; The visual record of the Franco-Prussian War

BOOKS

Always On My Mind: Joan Didion

It’s Time to Take California Back from Joan Didion

Why Jeff Koons Is So Difficult To Please, The Strange Venice Biennale Selection Process And Which Collector Is A Game Changer: New Art World Insider Book By Matthew Israel

Let these artsy books transport you to another place this holiday season

New Book: “The Monet Cookbook, Recipes from Giverny”

What was the best art book you read in 2020? The art world’s biggest names give us their top tips

Vanity Fair: The 15 Best Books of 2020

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

FORMERLY KNOWN AS CINEMA

Possibly a Masterpiece, Kenneth Lonergan’s ‘Margaret’ (2011) has a troubled history. Extended Cut Now Streaming on HBO Max

Gaspar Noé Directs Charlotte Rampling in a Darkly Chic Short for Saint Laurent

Films To Look Out For In 2021

What the Year in Blockbuster Cinema (Should Have) Looked Like

How Bob Dylan and David Lynch Helped the Creators of ‘Billions’ Capture the Cutthroat World of High-Stakes Art Collecting

Steven Soderbergh Almost Directed a James Bond Movie

Robert Pattinson & director Matt Reeves are beefing over ‘grueling’ Batman production; Covid; Restarts and shutdowns; 50 takes; perfectionist director

Steven Soderbergh Working on ‘Philosophical’ Sequel to ‘Contagion’

Vanity Fair: Steven Soderbergh Defends Warner Bros. for HBO Max Move

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Martin Scorsese Presents “Pretend It’s A City”, New Doc on our national treasure Fran Lebowitz

‘Shadow in the Cloud’: Roseanne Liang Turned a Max Landis Script Into Her Own Feminist Monster Movie

‘Shadow in the Cloud’ Trailer #1; WWII female pilot fights misogyny and monsters; with Chloë Grace Moretz; Fun wild ride

Tom Hanks Thinks Marvel Studios Can Save The Movie Theaters

Small Theaters Get Billions in Stimulus Relief; Big Chains Get Nothing

A new Italian Pinocchio film returns to the tale's dark origins; Director Matteo Garrone is best known for his starkly unsentimental 2008 crime film “Gomorrah”

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies on Hulu

LA Weekly Film Pick: New Art world melodrama: PAINT

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Once Again, Hollywood Takes a Cheap Shot at the Fine Arts; Boycott “Wonder Woman 1984”!

ART REPORT TODAY GALLERIES: Now Exhibiting

In Honor of Her Passing, Vanity Fair's "HIGH ROLLER: The Phyllis McGuire Story"; Words by Dominick Dunne and Photos by Helmut Newton

Some Believe Marina Abramovic Is the Satanic Ringleader of a Global Political Conspiracy. That’s Ludicrous. But Here’s What They Get Right

Smee: A tour de force by Kerry James Marshall, a painter at the top of his game; Plays plays masterly havoc with the conventions of Western art history

Book Review: Warhol: A Life As Art by Blake Gopnik

The Life of a Working Arts Writer: Shana Nys Dambrot

Damien Hirst Really Wants to Work With Plutonium and 11 Other Revelations From His Epic Instagram Interview With Himself; Artist answered 98 questions from the public on Instagram

‘David Hockney: Drawing From Life’ Review: A Lesson in Aging Gracefully

Édouard Manet: Cut and Paste; John Elderfield tracks the oscillating states of unification and separation that Édouard Manet’s The Execution of Maximilian has endured since its creation, in 1868; Part I and Part II

How Rising Art Star Alvaro Barrington Charmed London’s Top Galleries Into Breaking Their Own Rules for the Chance to Work With Him; The prolific artist is crafting his career with so much charisma, all six of his galleries have fallen into step

HILARIOUS! MUST SEE: How do you get people to stop believing the lies? Ask artist Alison Jackson about her hilarious photography show “Truth Is Dead”

ART NOIR

Nothing pretty about art heists, warn police

A Man Brought a Banksy Stencil Onto the ‘Antiques Roadshow’ Hoping for a Big Payday. Instead, He Got Scolded

Town and Country: Where the Superrich Store Their Art to Avoid Taxes

The biggest art con in NYC history: How a brazen $80M scam that fooled collectors with fake Pollock and Rothko masterpieces shook the art world and brought down Manhattan's oldest gallery

New Doc: “Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art”

5 of the Most Notorious Art Thieves, Swindlers, and Forgers of the 21st Century—and How They Were Finally Caught; These scammers of the art world concocted elaborate ruses that read like fiction, but all are true

France Promised Mona Lisa To Mussolini To Avert War: The Untold Story of Leonardo's 1939 Milan Retrospective

The Long Silence of The Last Remaining Auschwitz Cellist

The Mystery Of The Disappearing Manuscripts; Mysterious international phishing scam that has been tricking writers, editors, agents and anyone in their orbit into sharing unpublished book manuscripts

ANNA SORKIN: COMPLETE CRIME UPDATE

Fake heiress and art collector Anna Sorokin finally says sorry: ‘A lot of people suffered’

Fake heiress Anna Sorokin finds love in prison

Somebody had to foot the bill for Anna “Delvey” Sorkin’s fabulous new life. The city was full of marks; Tipping gets you everywhere

Convicted Fraudster AKA Anna Delvey Conned Collector Michael Xufu Huang, co-founder of X Museum; That Didn’t Stop This Classy Gentleman From Hanging Her Portrait in His New Museum

The Convict’s Instagram Feed; Populated with doodles depicting her life in prison

The Convict’s Diary

Inventing Anna: What to Know About Netflix's Anna Delvey Show Starring Julia Garner (Ozark); The highly-anticipated, Shonda Rhimes-produced limited series has begun shooting (10-2020)

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

LOSING AND CHOOSING MY RELIGION

Leap of faith – how Mark Rothko reimagined religious art for the modern age

Picturing Wittgenstein’s Children’s Dictionary; Artist Paul Chan revisits the philosopher’s important text, illustrating its terms with childlike receptiveness

"Acccentuate the Positive" Johnny Mercer

Editor's Note: We do not advocate any particular viewpoint, but we find Stocism to be a valuable and historical study in times of pandemic, war or poverty. Just like today! The tried and true advice of Stocism is akin to a thoughtful sports coach or a wise, entreprenurial uncle.

You Have to Be Willing to Change

This Is What You Have Been Working For

The Stoic Way: Self-Improvement, and How to Take On a Challenge

In our Strange and Difficult Times, These Are the Habits to Avoid

Each of Us Has a Job to Do: We Must Pull Together

COLLECTORS CIRCLE

Collector Joy Simmons on Where She Hunts for Exciting New Art and What It Has in Common With Radiology

The Patron of Art Collecting Dubai-based art collector and Iranian-born entrepreneur Ramin Salsali

Inside My Collection: Chris Lee and Nyssa Fajardo Lee

From Naples to Utopia: Why Togetherness Is Not Only a Theory: Théo-Mario Coppola & Francesco Taurisano

How Jean Brown Amassed One of the Biggest Collections of Fluxus Art

Arthur de Villepin on Starting a Gallery ‘by Collectors, for Collectors’ and Why Some Art Is Love at First Sight

L.A.’s biggest museum fan, Ben Barcelona, 81,visited a different art museum or gallery, on a set schedule, every day of the week, never taking a sick day in eight years

Doris Duke's home, now a museum of Islamic art

Did You Expect These Artworks in the Thai Star Kong Karoon Sosothikul’s Private Playground

The Remarkable Success Story of Rosalba Carriera, the Original “Queen of Pastel”

Artist Gabriel Orozco talks about his work

ARTIST PROFILE: GREGORY CREWDSON

Gregory Crewdson at Gagosian

NYT: For Gregory Crewdson, Truth Lurks in the Landscape by Arthur Lubow, 2020

Gregory Crewdson on Artsy; Much to See

Gregory Crewdson on Artnet

Can art capture what happens when we dream? - Afterthoughts on Gregory Crewdson at SCI-Arc

Interview with Photographer Gregory Crewdson

Photographer Gregory Crewdson and his eerie rooms of gloom; Carefully staged, the American photographer’s film-like scenarios in Cathedral of the Pines depict pensive women in banal yet strangely uncanny scenarios

Paris Review: Submerged and Interior: An Interview with Gregory Crewdson, 2016

Smithsonian Magazine: Gregory Crewdson’s Epic Effects

Bomb Magazine: Gregory Crewdson by Bradford Morrow

The Gregory Crewdson at The Broad

Vanity Fair: The Photography of Gregory Crewdson—And Why Cate Blanchett Is Here for It

Gregory Crewdson on Instagram

Gregory Crewdson at the Whitney

JOHN STEPPLING

I Want to be a Real Boy (Part One)
There is an enormous swell of enthusiastic interest in, and belief in, Artificial Intelligence (AI). Now I wrote before about transhumanism and game theory and the political opportunism behind these movements (if that’s what they are) but I wanted to delve more deeply into what the attraction is, not just the marketing of this junk, but the deeper and perhaps previously latent pull such topics have on people.