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ARTIST PROFILE: NICOLE EISENMAN

Ai Weiwei Op-Ed: The Organizers of a Major U.K. Exhibition Used My Name to Promote Their Show. But They Were Too Afraid to Embrace My Ideas

Angelenos are talking about the four solo shows at PRJCTLA! Keith Walsh, Kent Young, Agapito Miniucchi and HK Zamani

OUR SPOTLIGHT SERIES ON ARTS MEDIA

Art Report Today turns the Spotlight on Artillery Magazine: Editor Tulsa Kinney, Columnist Zak Smith and Arts Writer Julie Schulte; Host Gordy Grundy; Parts I and II

ARTISTE JR, LE SENSATION FRANCAIS INSTAGRAM

The World’s Hottest Instagram Backdrop Is the Optical Illusion Artist JR Created Underneath the Eiffel Tower—See Images Here

First the Louvre's pyramid, now the actual Pyramids—JR to create show-stopping project in Egypt

Gaping hole opens up under Eiffel Tower in French artist JR’s new optical illusion; Upcoming Mid-Career Survey at Saatchi London

Brooklyn Rail, In Conversation: Julie Mehretu

Scarlet Cheng: USC Pacific Asia in Pasadena reopens with a new goal: Decolonize our own museum

Rainey Knudson: Do Art Critics Need to Know How the Sausage is Made? “She said I couldn’t take painting until I took drawing.”

ILLOS? IT'S ALL JUST A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY REPEATING

Is the Newsstand the New Art Gallery? Magazines Are Swapping Out Celebrity Covers for Artworks by Famous Artists in a Bid to Stay Relevant

To Celebrate Albrecht Dürer’s 550th Birthday, Here Are 3 Fascinating Facts to Change the Way You See His Legendary Self-Portrait; One of the most famous self-portraits of all time is, not surprisingly, full of intrigue

A Craze for Landscape: “Perpetual Bloom” at Rienzi, Houston

Museum protesters denounce Picasso's treatment of women

What did Picasso think of women? You decide. See Art Report Today's WORKER exhibition, Click Here

An Intimate Look at James Baldwin and His Rarely Discussed Suicide Attempts; Harmony Holiday had been preparing to stage a one-person play as her contribution to Made in LA

James Baldwin and America’s Third Moral Reckoning; Cyclical nature of its racial conflicts

ART vs. COMMERCE

Is The Era of Corporate Art Sponsorship Drawing to a Close?

The Mystery of the $113 Millıon Deli

In Its Ongoing Quest for Soft Power, Saudi Arabia Has Embarked on a Multibillion-Dollar Cultural Partnership With Greece

Stylish Toga-clad Activists Crashed British Museum’s Reopening to Protest Oil Sponsorship

STAGE STRUCK WITH KYLE CLARK

Hadestown Confirms (the Earliest Yet) Broadway Return

‘This American Wife’ views ‘Real Housewives’ through a queer looking glass

Behind the scenes of 'The Smartest Giant in Town' – in pictures

Moulin Rouge at 20: the dazzling musical that continues to shine

"Moulin Rouge" Throwback Trailer; 20th Century Fox

‘Ballerina Boys’ Review: The Comedy Kings Who Have Played Swan Queens

38 Musicals That Brought LGBTQIA+ Experiences to the Stage

Ivo Van Hove’s Dreadful “West Side Story” May Be Returning Despite a Panning by the Times And Picket Lines Out Front Protesting a MeToo’d Actor

Longtime flyman Pete Wright died in a "Music Man" fall at the Winter Garden Theatre in November; Safety Violations

Watch Anthony Ramos, Daphne Rubin-Vega, More Go Behind-the-Scenes of the In the Heights Movie

The Play That Goes Wrong Will Reopen Off-Broadway

BRAVING OPPRESSION

Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Has Been Released After a Hunger Strike and Four Weeks in Custody

Tennessee Hat Shop Blasted for Selling Nazi-Style Jewish Stars Proclaiming 'Not Vaccinated'

China Just Shut Down an Annual Hong Kong Exhibition Commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square Crackdown

Sullivan: Our Politics And The English Language; What would Orwell say about our debased discourse?

Gender-critical feminist charged over allegedly transphobic tweets...

This Is Why I HATE Critical Race Theory

The New Criterion: Waking up from Wokeness: On America’s “First Great Awokening”

1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones loses UNC tenure offer amid backlash over her 'un-factual and biased' work

How disgruntled Chinese people talk about you-know-who (Xi who must not be named); Are they quoting ancient poems or complaining about a modern emperor?

How Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Took 19th-Century Paris by Storm—and Went Down in History

See More of Toulouse-Lautrec's Work in the Art Report Today Virtual Exhibition WORKER: Click Here

MATERIALS

How Does Plastic Age? Conservators Are Taking a Closer Look; A new project is researching how Soviet-era plastics were made and used

Exclusive: For sale, painting Winston Churchill gave to the man who supplied his trademark cigars

New Deal For Artists: An Unearthed Film on How Arts Funding Should Work; Narrated by Orson Welles

Angelenos! Line-Up Announced! See the very Hollywood Glam Gallery Roster Around the Pool at the Felix Art Fair 2021, Click Here!

"Sex and the Single Feminist" Candid and Brave, Barbara T. Smith on Her First Podcast Ever; Another Art Report Today Exclusive!

From the Brothel to Beaux-Arts: Pan Yu Liang Should Have been China’s Own Matisse

See Pan Yu Liang in the virtual WORKER show!

Artist Meriem Bennani’s Year of Cultural Vertigo; Bennani’s response to lockdown has been to expand her exploration of ‘the CAPS’, a speculative island space located somewhere in the Atlantic…

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

ART NOIR

Notorious B.I.G. was executed by a Nation of Islam convert in a hit arranged by Suge Knight and covered up by crooked LAPD cops, ex-FBI agent says

Ex-FBI agent, Biggie filmmakers: Sealed court docs reveal killer, cover-up

The Untold Story of Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard’s Secret Pact With Nazi Propagandist Leni Riefenstahl

Leni Riefenstahl - Das Blaue Licht (The Blue Light) 1932 Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

In California wine country, a newspaper war brings down a mayoral 'prince' accused of sex abuse

Art Collector, Gallerist, Spy, The French Résistance Hero

‘I Have No Other Choice’: Holocaust Survivor Relinquishes Her Claim to a Looted Camille Pissarro Painting; The painting was stolen by the Nazis in 1941

A painting by Flemish painter Otto Venius (1556-1629) was stolen from one of the richest museums in France, the Museum of Fine Arts in Rouen

Vandals Used White Paint to Deface New York’s Black Wall Street Gallery on the 100th Anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre

From Russia Without Love! Stolen passports, armor-plated cars, art worth millions and a possible $8 billion payout. Haven’t these oligarchs ever heard of a pre-nup?

Thieves steal rosary beads carried by Mary Queen of Scots to her execution

Did Paying a Ransom for a Stolen Magritte Painting Inadvertently Fund Terrorism?

MUSIC

With the Help of Scientists, Artist Tomás Saraceno Makes Music Out of Spider Webs; Listen to the spooky cacophony of spider web sounds

Vibrations: Spider and Prey

‘Girl from Ipanema:’ Re-imagining a classic for today’s Rio

Anitta "Girl From Rio"

Podcast: Musician and filmmaker Flying Lotus on ‘Yasuke’, Soundtracks and Weed

PHOTOGRAPHY

Dearth from above: aerial images of a vanishing America

Collector and Photographer Jean Pigozzi Reflects on a Lifetime Spent Photographing the Most Famous Men on Earth; “The 213 Most Important Men in My Life” from Andy Warhol to Elon Musk

Instagram Is Broken for Photographers and Needs Fixing

Rankin’s Great British Photography Challenge is too polite for its own good; TV competition series

Magnum Photos announces major new Paris gallery space

Vanity Fair Portraits: A gallery of all-stars by the best

How Lee Miller Cast Her Surrealist Eye on British Vogue; Miller didn’t plan to photograph gowns and handbags as bombs rained from London’s skies

Peter Lindbergh and Azzedine Alaïa, a Friendship in Black and White; New Taschen monograph

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The Fourth Plinth Proposals: Powerful acts of defiance including a skull rack that will disappear in the London weather; Nicole Eisenmann, Samson Kambalu, Goshka Macuga, Ibrahim Mahama, Teresa Margolles and Paloma Varga Weisz are presenting their plans; See the Proposals

See the Models for the Next Fourth Plinth Commission, From Nicole Eisenman’s ‘Jewelry Tree’ to a Statue of a Malawian Revolutionary; Two of the six proposals will be selected for the next two commissions

Italian Artist Salvatore Garau Has Just Sold an Invisible Sculpture for $18,000 USD; Made from “air and spirit"

NFT: AFTER MONTHS, THE DELUGE OF NFT NEWS SLOWS TO A SMALL DRIZZLE

Julia Friedman David Hawkes: NFTs: The Afterlife of the Aura

Authentic Banksy Art Burning Ceremony (NFT)

Podcast: Collector Tim Kang Talks About His Love of NFTs

A First! NFT Traded for Nightclub Table Service!

The best place to analyze, track and discover NFTs

Graphs Galore! The NFT market bubble has popped and we’ve got the charts to prove it

Bruce LaBruce Drops NFT on Open Sea for Cultural Traffic Arts; “Dash (Snow) asked me to take some photos of him licking his wife's p***y, so I did."

Internationally known curator of the 50th Venice Biennale Francesco Bonami joins NFT and cryptocurrency craze by minting a new series of digital art pieces

How ThankYouX Reimagined Fine Art For The Digital Age

Andy Warhol: Machine Made, created in 1985: Sale of 5 unique NFTs totals $3.38M

More in our comprehensive NFT Guide

How Rothko Poisoned the Power Lunch – The Slow Decline of The Four Seasons

The Turner Prize’s Radical Chic, Emphatic endorsement from a mega-institution reveals how thin those radical postures really are

Ten Artists Presenting Hertopia, Female-Centered Visions

‘I Needed to Find My Community’: Solange Knowles on Why She’s Beginning a New Chapter as a Cultural Mogul; Solange, sister to Beyoncé, has big plans to expand her creative company Saint Heron

Dealer Rachel Lehmann Is Showing Ashley Bickerton Works and Daydreaming About an Extra Day in the Week

Angela Davis, Fred Moten, and 250+ Artists Sign Letter Condemning MoMA’s Ties to Violence Against Palestinians

Pride Month: Queer Artists and Thinkers We Should Be Celebrating Year-Round

After playing Turner and Lowry, now actor Timothy Spall has taken up painting for real

Dream Monuments: Drawing in the 1960s and 1970s at the Menil

Friendships from The School of Paris

Yau: Garth Weiser Explores the Limits of Technical Wizardry

Cristian Castro, Robotix: Intersections of Art and Technology,” at Building Bridges Art Exchange

Video: How metalworkers in India are keeping the 600-year-old craft of Bidri art alive

Alessia Babrow, a Street Artist Is Suing the Vatican—and Turned Down a Meeting With the Pope—After She Says It Used Her Art Without Permission

DISCOVERY

‘Last Supper in Pompeii: From the Table to the Grave’ Review: Rediscovering Roman Revelry; From the mundane to the downright naughty

'Tripitaka Koreana' to be open to public for first time; Known as the world's most comprehensive and oldest surviving version of Buddhist canon

Man-monkey hybrid sparks fears of 'Frankenstein' creatures

The World-Famous ‘Darwin’s Arch’ in the Galapagos Islands Has Collapsed

Pupil Size Is a Marker of Intelligence

Sky’s the limit: How Bronze Age people travelled and traded much further afield than commonly thought

Better brush Work? ‘Third thumb’ prosthetic could make performing tasks far easier in the future

A 1960 Corvette that vanished for 40 years after Le Mans is auctioned off

Sarah Sze at Gagosian

ART COMICS

Comics by Butcher and Wood: Art-Musement Park

Conflicting Accounts of Violence: A March Against Toxic Philanthropy Inside MoMA

STREETWISE

Graffiti a growing problem for SoHo store owners; Video

Street artist Futura unveils his biggest-ever work in Hong Kong shopping mall; Sneaker crowd turns out in force to see the New York-based artist's six-metre tall rocket surrounded by alien figures

Concreate Urban Art Festival 2021 Launches in Finland

Brooklyn Street Art Images of the Week

Paris-Born Zeky Shatters, Scatters, and Pumps the Color Palette in Paris

Street Artist Kaves Slaps the NYPD With a Lawsuit, Saying It Illegally Whitewashed a New York Mural He Painted With Full Permission

BOOKS AND WORDS

A comedy of errors; On W. W. Jacobs, the British short story writer of humor & horror

Book: Floral Tribute: The pioneering photographer Anna Atkins

Book Review: Gentile Bellini’s Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II

Book: The Real Deal: As cultural workers have had their livelihoods crushed by the pandemic, the New Deal’s arts projects are suddenly relevant again

Book Review: John Craxton was a great artist – but his real talent was for living life to the full

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No Reserve : Episode 2

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78-Year-Old Harrison Ford Set to Start Shooting ‘Indiana Jones 5’ Next Week; director James Mangold; Actors Mads Mikkelsen, Phoebe Waller Bridge, Boyd Holbrook

Cannes readies glitzy return with lockdown films in the mix; Sean Penn and Wes Anderson

Sex Scenes in the Time of COVID-19; Intimacy coordinators? Really?

Fauerso: What is a Movie?

Scorcese Produces; 'Port Authority' Trailer

Martin Scorsese Essay: Il Maestro: Federico Fellini and the lost magic of cinema; seeing art-house movies in New York as a teenager in the late 1950s

Revolt Against The Swells: "New Order"

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Brooklyn Rail, In Conversation: Michael Snow, Filmmalker and Artist

How Will Amazon Uncage Its New Lion as the Tech Giant Goes Hollywood?

‘Skyfall’ Writer Worries Amazon Will Destroy 007 Franchise After MGM Buy: ‘Bond Is Not Content’

EU-Romance Starring Ciarán Hinds “The Man in the Hat” Trailer

Quentin Tarantino Jokes About Quitting While He’s Ahead: ‘Most Directors Have Horrible Last Movies’

So Many Platforms, No Enough Content, So Apple TV is Renewing Poorly Reviewed “Mosquito Coast” for a Second Season

Clint Eastwood Turns 91

One of Best Fan-Made Trailers Ever

The (Art) Studio at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Their Travel Poster of the Week:

From da Vinci to Bosch, the 10 Most Googled Paintings of 2020

ARCHITECTURE

How Designers Are Rethinking Spaces for Healing

I Want One! You Can Now Build Your Own Frank Lloyd Wright Building—Right Inside Your Home

Brazilian architect da Rocha, who won the Pritzker, dies aged 92

Winners revealed: 2021 Canterbury (New Zealand) Architecture Awards

Arthur Hills, architect of 200-plus new courses, dies at age 91

Head of architecture at Common, the architect Jenn Chang Sees the Future of Architecture in Communal Living

After Architecture Believes Natural Waste Is The Future of Construction

Rudolf Steiner, First Goetheanum, (1920), Photos

Leonardo da Vinci Designs the Ideal City: See 3D Models of His Radical Design

Architecture Biennale 2016 exhibit: Leonardo da Vinci – Water City

Leonardo da Vinci and the Ideal City (documentary); Museoscienza

A Travel Guide to Great Architecture and the Great Outdoors

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16 Museum Directors Show Us the Art That Hangs in Their Offices, From Richard Armstrong’s Al Held to Zoé Whitley’s Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Who’s Going to Monte Carlo? How the 1% Are Reshaping the Artworld

ART REPORT TODAY GALLERIES: Now Exhibiting

Radical Chic! Virginie Despentes managed to get her film banned in French cinemas. With the U.S. release of two of her fieriest works, the feminist shows no signs of slowing down

“Made-to-fade tattoo” parlors offer a chance to get inked without the risk of turning into a Pete Davidson doppelgänger; Entreprenurial Spirit!

Chef, activist and cookbook author Alice Waters answers 31 of life’s most pressing questions

Less Art’s Pathé Frdays: Topsy the DADA Kitty Artist (1961)

Art Report Today on CLUBHOUSE
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Sat. June 5 at 1AM (LA) 4PM (NYC)

ABOVE AND BELOW

US intel report on UFOs: No evidence of aliens, but...

Barack Obama: Proof of aliens will lead to new religions and massive military spending

And the Award for Most Fashionable UFO Cult Goes to….

Government’s UFO report cannot explain aerial phenomena

Sea It To Believe It! UFOs aren’t coming from space – but from beneath the SEA as crafts spotted buzzing US Navy, claims alien-hunting ex cop

Nine US Navy warships were 'swarmed by up to 100 UFOs' over one month period; 'Holy s***. They’re going fast'

Why Are We All Talking About U.F.O.s Right Now?

Upcoming UFO report to Congress creating lots of buzz

How pop culture set the stage for the coming UFO report — for better or worse; UFOs were fodder for Hollywood long before they headed to the Senate

So What Were UFO Sightings like in the Really Old Days?

Brooklyn Rail, In Conversation: KAWS

Gigantic KAWS hot air balloon to take flight over major world cities

Peter Hujar at Maureen Paley, London

Goldman: The LA Exhibitions You Must See! Angels Gate Cultural Center, Bridge Projects and Craft Contemporary

Federico Solmi at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles

Brooklyn Rail: An Interview with Artist Federico Solmi

'Victorian Radicals' exhibition is cautionary tale of art, industry; Human skill versus reproduction

“Wild Life: Elizabeth Murray & Jessi Reaves” at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

ART BUSINESS

The Whitney Museum Has Voluntarily Recognized Its Union Two Weeks After Workers Declared Their Intent to Organize

Inflation is soaring in th US and UK—here's what it means for the art market; When prices rise, investors often buy art to lower risk and increase returns. But the market's buoyancy may be short-lived, as experience tells us

This Taiwanese Pop Star (and Basquiat Superfan) Will Curate Sotheby’s Summer Hong Kong Auction + Other Stories

A Self-Styled ‘Troublemaker’ Creates a Different Paris Museum; Contemporary art owned by the billionaire François Pinault is displayed beneath the rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce and frescoes of a colonialist past

Art Is Sometimes in the Eye of the Dubious Accountant; A usually dry-as-dust biennial report on corporate governance reveals an investment in a Jeff Koons work and another in dubious yellow rocks

Artists will not be subject to anti-money laundering regulations, UK Treasury says; After lobbying from art organisations, government has made last-minute decision that creators who sell their work direct to clients will not be classed as "Art Market Participants"

How a Property Tax Helped Transform the Detroit Institute of Arts

Podcast: What Does the Sci-Fi Art Fair of the Future Look Like? Reports from Hong Kong; How the market is reacting in China

Would You Like to Adopt a Gargoyle? Notre Dame Is Raising Funds to Restore Individual Artworks Damaged in the 2019 Fire

A Bigger Splash! Venice’s oldest families are up in arms over a law that bars them from participating in this year’s Biennale. Expect protest on a grand scale

COLLECTORS CIRCLE

Collector Jo Baring

What I Buy and Why: Art Advisor Alaina Simone on Bartering for Work in Her Collection, and the Market Advice She’d Give Young Artists

Art Collector and Fashion Tycoon Bernard Arnault Becomes World’s Richest Person As LVMH Stock Rises

Leonora Carrington’s Wondrous Mexico City Home Will Become a Museum Filled With Thousands of Her Personal Belongings

Collectors Nina Gscheider and Franz Ihm: Like discovering a New Star in the Universe

Collections with Architect and designer Achille Salvagni

India’s 'vaccine prince' Andar Poonwalla has a Van Gogh landscape in his living room

Unlocking The Value Of Fine Art Assets: 5 Things To Know

In Conversation with Collector David Ruzicka

The Artspace Art for Life Interview with Collector John Pawson

John Pawson's Anatomy of Minimum is available here

Russian Collector Dasha Zhukova Is Launching a Real-Estate Firm to Put Exhibition Spaces and Artist Studios Into High Rises

EXPERIENTIAL

Spectacular! Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, internationally renowned artist Sarah Sze presents a fully immersive installation

The Big Bang Artwork That Makes Scientists Cry

How to Cope with Stendhal Syndrome (Overwhelmed by Art) When it Strikes

The Unbearable Lightness of Post-Pandemic Beauty

JOHN STEPPLING

Privatizing Emotions
“But habitual identification with the aggressor also frequently occurs in people who have not suffered severe trauma, which raises the possibility that certain events not generally considered to constitute trauma are often experienced as traumatic.” —Jay Frankel

“…the dominant aim has become a curriculum designed for tests, and the result is… barren and anti-intellectual.” —Joan Clancy

Putting aside for a moment if there is any reason to think anything will return to normal, or what that even means, there is the question of why there has been so little resistance to the decrees by governments over this last year. An entire year. And people continue to don masks (now being manufactured widely) and social distance and to passively accept the suspension of all social activity. I find this remarkable…