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ARTIST PROFILE: MARCEL DZAMA

Yau: Matthew Wong’s Indelible Impressions; Just three years after he first devoted himself to art, Wong assembled an abstract vocabulary to create an entire world that is parallel to ours

HELLO OCMA!

While you were in quarantine, a major new art museum rose in Orange County; Morphosis Architects

Orange County Museum of Art Nears Completion, Reveals Plan to Relaunch California Biennial as Inaugural Exhibition

Young British Art: The Saatchi Decade: How important was Charles Saatchi really?

Will the Queen return her Benin bronze? How the African treasure was looted not once, but twice

'Two cool older boys': Lucian Freud's portrait of David Hockney expected to sell for up to £12m.

Late Journalist Janet Malcolm, Who Thought Artists Didn’t Have Anything Valuable to Say, Was Also an Artist—See Her Work Here

The Nevada Museum of Art Commemorates 50 Years of Land Art

Craig Kauffman "Works from 1961–1963 in Dialogue with Francis Picabia" at Spruth Magers

A MATTER OF GOOD TASTE

Knight Commentary: Marilyn Monroe statue in Palm Springs is an offense to Pride Month

The Art of Craft: Chanel Celebrates 100 Years of Its Storied No. 5 Fragrance With a Daring High Jewelry Collection

Donald Kuspit on Andy Denzler’s Anatomy of Mind at Opera Gallery

‘We Have So Much Illusion’: Watch Artist Sarah Sze Blend the Tactility of Organic Materials With the Intangibility of Images

Naotaka Hiro 'Armor' at The Box

‘Milton Avery: The Connecticut Years’ Review: Prelude to Success

Film Review: The Americanization of Hawai’i, Seen Through One Man’s Life

Nick Taggart 'LA Stories: Paintings And Drawings From 1980' at Odd Ark, Los Angeles

Lawrence Calver "On the Off Chance" at the Simchowitz Gallery

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

Rakeem Cunningham 'Hero' at Ochi Projects

Tetsumi Kudo: Metamorphosis at Hauser & Wirth

‘I’m Building My Own Mythology’: How a Generation of Artists Are Fusing Club Culture With Traditional Crafts for a New Queer Aesthetics

Can I Sue My Colleague for Stealing My Idea for a Party? + Other Artists’-Rights Questions, Answered

A Degas bought by the Van Gogh Museum sparks an ethical debate: Are female nudes OK?

Chinese Artist Yu Ji Makes Sculptures Using Rubble, Dribbling Water, and ‘Wasted Mud.’ The World’s Top Curators Are Obsessed With Her

STAGE STRUCK

Storefronts Turned Stages for ‘Seven Deadly Sins'; A live theatrical event in the Meatpacking district, featuring several playwrights and sets by David Rockwell

Theatre of Screams! Terrifying video shows a pack of 30 wolves chasing actors on stage and lunging into the audience in Chinese theatre show

Report: Scott Rudin Called the Police to Remove An Assistant He Didn’t Like From His Office

Springsteen on Broadway May Not Be Possible for Tourists, Others Without FDA Approved Vaccines

With New Show, a Broadway Rarity: Season Has 7 Plays by Black Writers

‘A Level of Abuse’: Laying Bare Theater’s Dirty Secrets; “Off Broadway,” a biting satire about a company whose leaders are willfully oblivious of their racial and gender biases

Gatsby, Ripley and the fake heiress: inside the tech fantasy Anna X; How the Anna Sorokin case inspired his play

Broadway: To Save a “Mockingbird,” Media Mogul Barry Diller Brings Back Jeff Daniels As Star and Without Producer Scott Rudin

‘In the Heights’ isn’t exactly like the stage version, and that’s a good thing

New Shenzhen DnA event this autumn aims to fill southern China's dearth of contemporary art fairs

BRAVING OPPRESSION

The Books Are Already Burning: The question is only: How long will decent people stand by quietly and watch it happen?; Stand up

‘One thing is clear to us now, we should have handled this better’—Royal Academy apologises to artist Jess de Wahls over transphobia row

Once a Bastion of Free Speech, the A.C.L.U. Faces an Identity Crisis

Woke, Inc: Why I’m blowing whistle on how corporate America is poisoning society

Critical Race Theory: Historical Explanation, Pervasiveness and Response

New Rule: Progressophobia; Real Time with Bill Maher

Hong Kong film censors get wider ‘national security’ powers

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

Ensemble at Château Shatto

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

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

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

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

AMAZING MOTHER NATURE

Blue Animals Are Different From All the Rest

Planetary heartbeat? Earth has a geologic ‘pulse’ every 27.5 million years

As sea turtle nesting season begins in Hawaii, experts ask public to keep their distance

The Horsetail Firefall of Yosemite

ART NOIR

As Money Launderers Buy Dalís, U.S. Looks at Lifting the Veil on Art Sales; Secrecy has long been part of the art market’s mystique, but now lawmakers say they fear it fosters abuses and should be addressed

Former Obama Ethics Chief: Hunter Biden’s Art Venture Has a ‘Shameful and Grifty Feeling to It’

Jason Chaffetz: Hunter Biden's art scam – with his work selling for $500K, we need to know who's buying

Theory of An Art Market Scandal: Artistic Integrity And Financial Speculation In The Inigo Philbrick Case

Like Hitchcock's Vertigo, Obvious Factor in Bourdain Suicide Ignored? A Theory

Egyptian 'Enigma' Goes On Trial For Louvre Machete Attack

Belgium Will Seek a Partnership With the Democratic Republic of Congo to Begin Returning Plundered Artworks

Art stolen from a Grosse Pointe collector recovered by FBI and returned 5 years later

Nearly 800 illegally exported antiquities returned to Italy

Mighty war horses and stolen sculptures

Damien Hirst’s Fake Antiquities From an Imaginary Shipwreck Are on View Alongside the Real Thing at the Galleria Borghese—See It Here

PHOTOGRAPHY

The Look of Glove: Nick Cave’s Moving First Photobook – In Pictures

The Fearless Photographer Lee Miller’s Life Reads Like an Adventure Novel. A New Exhibition Fills in the Glamorous Details

Alex Prager’s hyperreal America – in pictures; From a car in a hole to a house ablaze, the American photographer’s bold, bright and frequently unsettling work captures the disquiet of modern life

Accidental photographer Arnold Odermatt dies aged 96; Former policeman Arnold Odermatt, a pioneer of police photography

Electric Images: Ming Smith’s Transcendent Photography

‘Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography, 1946-1964’ Review: The São Paulo Style; Take a trip to MoMA and experience the abstract beauty of these 60 amateur photographs from postwar Brazil, never before seen in the U.S.

A history of A small Brazilian photo club that reached for the skyline

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Why the Artworld Returned to the Old Normal

Galerie Buchholz Literally Turned Over Its Keys to Cady Noland to Land an Ultra-Rare Show of New Works by the Deeply Private Artist

Ivan Morley's third solo exhibition with Bortolami Gallery opens in New York

See the Morley Show!

NFT: THE CELEBRITY ART REVOLUTION

Bitcoin Forms ‘Death Cross’ as Selloff Shows No Sign of Reprieve

Dogecoin has plunged more than 75% since Elon Musk's SNL performance in May, shedding $70 billion in market cap

NFTs of a different stripe: Joe Exotic gets into the digital art trend

Director and Artist Robert Wilson Is Auctioning Off His First-Ever NFT: A Video Portrait of Lady Gaga

Jay-Z Album NFT Sale Blocked ... Roc-A-Fella Gets Legal Win

Here Are the 14 Most Expensive NFTs Sold to Date, From Beeple to Mad Dog Jones and Beyond

Jay-Z Tapped Art Star Derrick Adams to Make a Unique NFT Marking the 25th Anniversary of His Debut Album

“First Ever NFT” Sells for $1.4 Million; Kevin McCoy minted his non-fungible token “Quantum” in 2014, long before the crypto art market exploded

More in our comprehensive NFT Guide

KUDOS!

This young South American collective considers itself an Art Concierge, an advocate for artists and, with price discounts, an enabler for buyers. Through their IG posts, the Fuzzion goal is to "connect people to a new form of art", believing "an artist's background story and motivations is what truly drives people to feel a connection to them." We say Bravo!

About Kai

Ahol Sniffs Glue (A Mini Doc)

Graffiti Godfathers - Miami Style Gods

Get To Know: Aaron Kai

Yau: Alyse Rosner is Painting Abstractly in the Midst of Unending Crises

The Sky’s the Limit as 50 Museums Join to Stream Yoko Ono-inspired Cloud Gazing

18 Artist Superstar Line-Up "Proximity" a Group Show, at Wilding Cran Gallery

3 Fateful Friendships, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente, That Empowered Revolutionary Artists to Change the Course of Art History; Discover the captivating stories behind a few of the art world’s most famous and enduring friendships

GO VAN GOGH!

A new Van Gogh work discovered hidden in a book; Reproduced here for the first time: a trio of sketches from Vincent’s village—designed as a bookmark

We Took a Preview Tour of the Immersive Van Gogh Experience Opening in New York. It Was Actually Pretty Spectacular; The show made its first big splash when it was used as a set for "Emily in Paris"

Can This $45 Thrift Store Painting Provide Clues About Vincent Van Gogh’s Final Days in France? Art Historians Are Hoping So

Jamian Juliano-Villani: ‘Art Is the One Place Where You Should Not Censor Anything’

Emily Mae Smith ‘Waiting Room’; New York; Spring 2021

Artist Ines Doujak Reveals the Cyclical History of Pandemics

DISCOVERY

Finding the last ship known to have brought enslaved Africans to America and the descendants of its survivors

A Painting Fell Off the Wall and Went in for Conservation. Turns Out It’s a Long-Lost Rembrandt Worth Up to $240 Million

New prehistoric human unknown to science discovered in Israel

‘Dragon Man’ skull in China may be new species, shaking up human family tree; Enormous skull

National Geographic says there’s a fifth ocean on Earth

Brian Eno's Fifteen Essential Ambient Works

ART COMICS

Comics by Butcher and Wood: Art-Musement Park

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

"Heavy Lemons" Eric Yahnkers's solo exhibition at The Hole on Bowery

'Cross Currents' at William Turner Gallery, Group Show: Casper Brindle, Alex Couwenberg, Shingo Francis, Jimi Gleason, Peter Lodato, Andy Moses, Nellie King Solomon and Jennifer Wolf

5 Outstanding Artists From ‘Super-Rough,’ the Experimental Exhibition Takashi Murakami Curated for the Outsider Art Fair

How Japonisme Forever Changed the Course of Western Design

STREETWISE

At the Vanguard: Bristol Opens Exhibition On Evolution of Global Movement of Street Art

Dragon 76 “Coexist” Theme for Jersey City Mural Festival 2021

Jersey City Mural Festival 2021 Inaugural

Brooklyn Street Art Images of The Week

Homily to Country, JR, Triennial NGV, Australia, 2021

Concreate Urban Art Festival 2021 Launches in Finland

BOOKS AND WORDS

Books Fit for a Queen; A new exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York features luxurious bindings made for French royalty and aristocrats

Nathaniel Mackey’s Epic Poem; Memories appear and disappear in a meditative work that feels as if it could stop at any moment or continue on forever.

Grand mural projects: a vital chapter in British art history

What Unites Brilliant Artists Who Died in Their Twenties? Here Are 8 Case Studies From a New Book About Starry Lives Cut Short

How to cook like minimalist architect John Pawson

The Artspace Art for Life Interview with Collector John Pawson

John Pawson's Anatomy of Minimum is available here

Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group; Curated by Michael Duncan

FELIX ART FAIR

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

BAER FAXT

Art Market, Museum & Collecting Insights

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"Midsommar' Director Ari Aster and Joaquin Phoenix in A24 Film ‘Disappointment Blvd.’: Plot is described as an intimate, decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time; Phoenix first role since Joker!

19 University of Iowa students sign Hollywood film deal for 'Great Gatsby' adaptation; Gatsby as an African American, lesbian art dealer

"Mama Weed"; Official US Trailer; Starring Isabelle Huppert; Crime 'n Comedy

Quentin Tarantino Tells Bill Maher He Still Plans to Retire After One More Film: ‘I’ve Given It Everything I Have’

On Bill Maher: Quentin Tarantino has considered making his final film a ‘Reservoir Dogs’ reboot

Quentin Tarantino: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ Never-Before-Seen Footage Debuts in Trailer for Tarantino’s New Book Novelization; "a complete rethinking of the entire story."

See new footage from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in trailer for Quentin Tarantino's novelization

Movie novelizations have become something of a rarity these days; Popular in the 70s, 80s and 90s

Catch This Eclectic Anthology of Shorts By Emerging BIPOC Filmmakers

Who Will Start Another Fire - Official Trailer

Hell Freezes Over? Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners In Deal To Make Movies For Netflix; No Blockbusters

Film Fest Fave: ‘Strawberry Mansion’: Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney’s Surreal Sundance Mind-Bender

“Don’t Fuck With the Jews” and Other Moments of Muscular Judaism on Film

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Joe Rogan On Everything Wrong With Hollywood And Los Angeles

ARCHITECTURE

LVMH opens La Samaritaine, $894 million luxury shopping destination in Paris; Historic 19th century landmark; Photos

La Samaritaine Developer: Hélène and Bernard Arnault

Venice, Italy: The 17th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice

Design by architecture collective Red Deer; Minimalist lido and surf shack open a Retreat a stone’s throw from London

Richard Neutra’s Famed Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs Hits the Market for $17 Million

David Netto By Design; The acclaimed American interior designer describes why David Bowie and Bryan Ferry are among those who've informed his practice

This weird doughnut skyscraper is the future of architecture; highly adaptable to an ever-changing cityscape

The architecture of Gottfried Böhm (1920-2021); Pritzker Prize winning German architect

‘A Deeply Satisfying Architectural Richness’: Counterspace’s 2021 Serpentine Pavilion

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An Irresistable Profile: Brigid Berlin, Andy Warhol’s Most Enduring Friend

Allen Midgette, an Ersatz Andy Warhol, Dies at 82; In a prank, or perhaps a piece of performance art, Mr. Midgette pretended to be the famed artist on a lecture tour in 1967

ART REPORT TODAY GALLERIES: Now Exhibiting

MANUFACTURING ART

At Michelangelo’s Medici Chapel, Stain-fighting Bacteria Work Miracles

The Little-known Indigenous History of “Titanium White”; Not created in 1908; researchers found evidence of the pigment in centuries-old Inca ceremonial objects

New design brand Mino Soil unearths the creative potential of Japanese clay; First in a series of exhibitions, ‘Archeology of Mino: in collaboration with Studio Mumbai’ explores the creative potential and ‘brutal beauty’ of clay from the Mino region and marks the debut of ceramics brand Mino Soil

Galleria Nazionale d’Arte, Rome, Group Exhibition "lo dico lo - I say I"

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp: Off The Charts; Mark Bradford’s latest exhibition for Hauser & Wirth Menorca maps out new artistic territories

ART BUSINESS

What Do the Inigo Philbrick Scandal and the NFT Craze Have in Common? They Can Help Us Rebuild the Art Market

Damien Hirst Got a $21 Million Loan From the U.K. Government’s Pandemic Relief Fund + Other Stories

Monaco, Mon Cherie: Sotheby’s Is Opening a Pop-Up Sales Gallery in Monaco as the French Riviera Art Scene Continues to Heat Up This Summer; Hauser and Wirth and Johann König

Art Market Data—Including Catalogues Raisonnés—Just Took a Big Leap Forward

Off-the-Wall Art Disposals; The Newark Museum of Art chose to take advantage of a new rule about museums selling works from their collections, damaging itself in the process

Yau: The Gallery Dealer as Tightrope Walker; Rather than identifying with a style or brand, Klaus Kertess was remarkably independent in his choices, and was not averse to risks

New French art market report finds auction sales dropped 19.5% to $25.5bn in 2020

If you sell art in the UK, you must register for anti-money laundering supervision by June 10—or risk prosecution!

Satellite Summer: Lehmann Maupin and Carpenters Workshop Gallery collaborate in Aspen, while Christie’s pays homage to the Hamptons

Mega-Gallery Hauser and Wirth Is Opening a New Space in Yet Another Posh Vacation Hub: Monaco

A Playful, but Critical, Tribute to Los Angeles; Umar Rashid creates an alternate timeline that shows Black and Indigenous people defeating colonizers

Every Trick in the Book: The magician, professional gambler, and sometime fraudster Steve Forte is spilling his secrets

Purgatory Confidential: James Ellroy’s new novel, 'Widespread Panic'

Ashes to Optics: The ghoulish politics of exhumation; Suspect Inquests; Posthumous Punishment

Podcast: On Sincerity, Honesty, and the Art of Our Time; Recent cultural swing toward honesty and sincerity has affected comedy, art, and music

Doug Harvey's Less Art: "To fighi or not to fighi…" An Interview with Alan Tofighi

MY ALIEN BFF

Meet the Scientist Who Is Preparing for Humanity's First Contact with Aliens

Discovery’s Next Big Live-TV Event, ‘UFOs Declassified,’ Will Dissect Upcoming Government Report (Exclusive); “X-Files” creator Chris Carter and “Men in Black” director Barry Sonnenfeld are among simulcast’s participants

Government report: UFOs are real

UFO report: Government can't explain 143 of 144 mysterious flying objects, blames limited data

U.S. Has No Explanation for Unidentified Objects and Stops Short of Ruling Out Aliens

'Normalizing' UFOs - retired U.S. Navy pilot recalls Tic Tac encounter

“I Hope the Mindset Has Changed”: John Podesta Is Thrilled That Congress Finally Cares About UFOs

Harvard professor suggests interstellar object was a spy ship sent by aliens

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

30 year old British actress says she’s fallen for alien after UFO abduction; says her ET paramour is her “soul mate” – and they’re better than Brit men

So What’s the Deal with Those Quakertown Pyramids?

A Strange South American UFO Cult and a Mass Vanishing in the Rainforest

Los Angeles UFO Cult was Hipster Holiday Attraction

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

Goldman: LACMA’s Remarkable Reinstallation Of Its Modern Art Collection

Timothy Washington at Wilding Cran Gallery

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

What's the point of art prizes? The trend for awards to be shared among all the shortlisted artists reflects the current political climate, but it might be time to do away with them all together

GOOD GIGS

Everyone’s a winner: Artes Mundi 9 prize awarded to all six nominees; Firelei Báez, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Meiro Koizumi, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Prabhakar Pachpute and Carrie Mae Weems each win £10,000 in latest example of award-sharing

Who dreamt up the Lilly Pulitzer prints? For starters, not Lilly Pulitzer

Ian Schrager announces Public reopening with deep thoughts on luxury

Press Release: Ian Schrager Relaunches His Transformative New Brand Public for A New Beginning for Both the Hotel and New York City

Shortlist announced for the Sobey Art Award, Canada’s largest art prize

COLLECTORS CIRCLE

‘Great Design Dovetails Into Sculpture’: Carpenters Workshop’s Ashlee Harrison on How to Convince Art Collectors to Spend Big on Design

What Fascinares the Four ‘Underdog’ Collectors; Alessandro Mistretta, Bruno Izzi, Fabio Zivoli, and Tony Pecoraro

Collector Anna Dello Russo Co-Curates Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Auction in Milan

Alejandro Lazaro and his wife: Collecting When His First Daughter Was Born

What I Buy and Why: Millennial Art Advisor Lawrence Van Hagen on How He Collects the Artists of His Generation

EXPERIENTIAL

How High-Tech Van Gogh Became the Biggest Art Phenomenon Ever

The disappearance of the circus from American life leaves us lonelier

Artist Rachel Maclean’s First Permanent Installation, a Haunted Toy Store in the Scottish Forest, Captures the Horror of Being a Teen

Niki de Saint Phalle’s psychedelic garden is a seriously good trip

Visitors invited to row a boat through an apocalyptic underground maze in Tomás Saraceno's latest exhibition; Artist's installation in a water-filled, 19th-century reservoir in Copenhagen has been delayed for a year because of Covid

Control Group’s Immersive Nature Walk Recalls the 1965 Platte River Flood

Inside the Illuminarium, the $30 million spectacle that’s like walking into a film

Video: Celebrated Arts Writer Lawrence Weschler Interviews Federico Solmi

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

Calhan Hale’s Texas Pop Sensibility

JOHN STEPPLING

The Occult Technique

Certainly the arts in the West have been all but obliterated by institutions meant to further them. The rational that becomes myth is most acutely expressed in late capitalism by the institution. Arts institutions almost cannot, by their mere existence, serve emancipation and liberation of any kind. And institutions are predicated on a kind of empiricism, in theory at least.

ARTIST PROFILE: MARCEL DZAMA

Marcel Dzama on Artsey; Much to See!