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ARTIST PROFILE: MARCEL DZAMA

Artnet’s Stunning Scribe Nate Freeman of 'Wet Paint' Fame Moves to Vanity Fair

STORM KING

Sarah Sze, 'Fallen Sky' at the Storm King Art Center

Sarah Sze, 'Fifth Season' at the Storm King Art Center

'Fallen Sky and Fifth Season' Exhibition Video

In Pictures: See Antwaun Sargent’s Curatorial Debut at Gagosian, Featuring Socially Engaged Works by Leading Black Artists; "Social Works" is on view now at Gagosian's 24th Street gallery

Interview: Director at Gagosian, Antwaun Sargent’s Guide on How to Really Look at Art

In the Biden White House, art selections come with a personal touch; Jamie Wyeth, Mary Page Evans, Hunter Biden, Josef Albers and Others

We Spoke to Hunter Biden About His New Life as a Full-Time Artist, and His Personal Quest for ‘Universal Truth’ Through Painting

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

With Kuba Kings and Kehinde, a Painter Rises Above the Fray; In Kinshasa, art is everywhere. Hilary Balu finds his focus uncovering the West’s powerful influences on African life

The Revival of Hamptons Art

Salvador Dalí… Introvert? A New Show Looks at the Quieter Side of the Debaucherous Surrealist’s Life

Why Angela Gurría Chose the Natural World Over the Artworld

How Rick West helped shift the love-hate dynamic between Indigenous people and museums

Behind the Scenes! Pageant of the Masters returns to celebrate art after a year-long closure

Two Talented Artists’ Lives, Lived Well: John O’Reilly and Jim Tellin had their art, and they had each other

8 LGBTQIA+ Artists on Self-Portraiture and Expressions of Pride

EJB: Johanna Breiding “Playing Submarine” at Ochi Projects, Los Angeles

11 Culture Leaders Share the Upcoming Industry Innovations They’re Most Excited About; Innovation across industries often signals big changes for our everyday culture

Sculpture Transplanted to the Gardens

Señor Mustache Mustache and a sinister taco-seller: Leonora Carrington's son on the colourful characters inspiring the next Venice Biennale

Brazil’s Black Trans Artists: ‘Peace Is Not an Option’

Christiane Feser "Unique Photo Objects" at Von Lintel Gallery

STAR ART

Sedrick Huckaby, George Bush’s Former Painting Teacher, Speaks

Christian Slater is a Still-Life Artist

Angelina Jolie continues NYC birthday trip with Red Hook art gallery tour

Sofia Vergara, Eva Longoria and chef José Andrés named to Latino museum board

Denzil Hurley at Canada, New York

Denzil Hurley at Canada

‘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

LOSING AND CHOOSING MY RELIGION

The Revival of Stoicism; Everyone from Silicon Valley billionaires to self-help enthusiasts is repurposing Stoicism for our modern age, with results that are good, bad, and highly indifferentEditor's Note: Art Report Today has been publishing Stoic principles since the onset of the Pandemic.

‘Meditations’ Review: A Stoic Emperor’s Bestseller; Marcus Aurelius was conﬁdent that goodness can be attained—that we can choose virtue, and avoid vice, with every decision we make

"The Means of Getting Someone in the Door": An Inside Look at Scientology's Lavish Production Facilities and Actor Recruitment Strategy

Warhol Foundation Announces Spring 2021 Grantees

Edward James the Eccentric English Socialite who Embraced Surrealism and Bankrolled Dali

In 'Working Girls', Sex Work Is Another Everyday 9–5; Restoration of Lizzie Borden’s landmark 1986 portrait of sex and labor is coming to theaters

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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

Purchased at a Landfill for $5, a David Bowie Painting Smashed an Auction Record

Photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode Captures the Abundant Glow of Black Queer Life
In Tranquility of Communion

The Giacometti: A Family of Creators

Tilda Swinton: I’m ‘Very Grateful’ Kevin Feige Spoke Out Against ‘Doctor Strange’ Whitewashing

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

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

GOOD GIGS

Vanessa Beecroft Shoots SKIMS Campaign for Olympics

Artist Opps: Residencies, Grants, and Open Calls

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

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

STAGE STRUCK

Yale Drama Goes Tuition-Free With $150 Million Gift From David Geffen

Broadway Hit Hamilton Could Get Up to $50 Million Federal Bailout

How Lin-Manuel Miranda Went From Cool To Corny; Over the past four years, the star musical composer has become a symbol of millennial cringe

Bill T. Jones Dancing Through Disease in Can You Bring It and Afterwardsness; A new documentary

'Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters'

LA Opera Streaming of "Oepidus Rex"

Oedipus Rex: Beyond the Shadows

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

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

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

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

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

BRAVING OPPRESSION

The Front - Official Trailer

Critical Race Theory Can't Be Banned. It Can Be Exposed, Mocked, and Avoided

Artist Hamlet Lavastida Has Been Arrested in Havana as Cuban Officials Continue Their Crackdown on Artistic Expression; Lavastida was arrested days after returning from a residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin

Facebook tests prompts that ask users if they're worried a friend is 'becoming an extremist'

'I want the UN to come and see what has happened here': Canadian Indian residential school survivor speaks out for victims in his art

How Arab Art Collectives Are Using the Internet to Cross Borders

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

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

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"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

A rainbow ending in an erupting volcano? What caused phenomenon in Hawaii park?

Blue Animals Are Different From All the Rest

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

Sharks that glow in the dark? Scientists discover luminous deep-sea predators off New Zealand

Mt Etna’s latest eruptions awe even those who study volcanos

ART NOIR

'The biggest mistake of my life': 49-year-old ‘art freak’ confesses to stealing a Picasso and Mondrian from National Gallery in Athens

Authorities Have Recovered Picasso and Mondrian Paintings That Were Brazenly Stolen From a Greek Museum Nearly 10 Years Ago

UPDATE: Stolen Picasso Dropped by Greek Authorities

A Top Portuguese Art Collector and Museum Founder Has Been Arrested Over His Alleged Ties to a Multimillion-Dollar Fraud Scheme; José "Joe" Berardo opened a museum to his collection in 2006

In a Major Policy Change, the Dutch Government Will Give Nazi-Looted Art to Jewish Institutions If Heirs Cannot Be Found

Joe Berardo, Portuguese millionaire art collector detained in Tax Fraud Probe

Egypt arrests former MP for smuggling antiquities

Greek police arrest 2 trying to sell rare Roman-era statue

Nearly 800 illegally exported antiquities returned to Italy

Italian Police Discover Looted Ancient Roman Sculpture in Belgian Antiques Shop

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

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

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C'est Bon! France to send creatives on the ultimate American road trip; Country’s Foreign Ministry is launching an innovativfe cultural residency that will exist beyond any walls

Two Hyperallergic Editors Among Recipients of Rabkin Prize for Visual Arts Journalism
Editors Jasmine Weber and John Yau are among the recipients of the prestigious award

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

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

NFT: THE CELEBRITY ART REVOLUTION

After the Gold Rush: What Are the Next Steps for NFTs?

NFT of the World Wide Web's source code sells for US$5.4 million

Twitter's giving away NFTs for free (it's hard to put a price on worthless)

NFTs and me: meet the people trying to sell their memes for millions

The Hidden Value Hollywood Hopes to Unlock With NFTs

Transgender teen's crypto art series fetches $2.16 million at Christie's

Meet the Dutch Startup That's Riding the NFT Wave on Top of a $9,500 Digital Couture DressBefore most people had heard of Beeple, this startup was making digital assets backed by NFTs pay

Savannah Spirit New York City photographer exhibits NFT at Superchief Gallery

Twitter is making NFTs now, apparently

The Twitter Self-Promotional NFTS

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

More in our comprehensive NFT Guide

Before Crypto Art there was Fluxus, the Ultimate Avant-Garde Movement of the 60s

Flowers, hyenas and haunted hotels – the surreal world of Dorothea Tanning

Kenjirō Okazaki joins Blum & Poe

Basquiat’s Painting on an Apartment Door Acquired by Dallas Museum of Art

“Organic Music Societies: Don and Moki Cherry,” at Blank Forms, New York; American avant-garde jazz legend Don Cherry (1936–1995) and his partner, Swedish artist and designer Moki Cherry (1943–2009)

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

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!

How Van Gogh helped set up a brass band in his village; Dutch trombonist discovers documentary evidence revealing that Vincent supported a musical group which still plays today

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

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

Secret sunken continent may be hiding under Iceland, scientists name it ‘Icelandia’

NPR: When A City-Size Star Becomes A Black Hole's Lunch, The Universe Roils

Cosmic gulp: Astronomers see black hole swallow neutron star

Controversial new study pinpoints where all modern humans arose; Research reignites a long-simmering debate about how and where our species emerged

In Pictures: See the Tunnels Beneath Rome’s Colosseum, Where Gladiators Prepared for Battle, Open to the Public for the First Time

Mystery object blotted out a giant star for 200 days; Something huge and opaque caused a star in our galaxy to dim, and astronomers are struggling to explain the phenomenon

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

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

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

ART COMICS

COMIX: Butcher and Wood: Art Amusement Park “All the Fun of the Museum!”

MUSIC AND SOUND

For a composer, the final minutes are critical; Christopher Cerrone explains

Rock sideman Earl Slick: ‘Bowie had gone levels into insanity’

Soundwave: 65; Yann Novak Mixes It Up: Listen Here!

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

See the Morley Show!

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

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

An Enchanting Visual History of Astrology; Introduced in Mesopotamia some 2,500 years ago, astrology continues to fascinate poets, writers, and artists

Books Are Forever. Best Sellers Are Fleeting. A History

What’s Up with all the Lady Parts in Medieval Prayer Books?

Confessions On The Dance Floor, Reveries From The Gay Bar; A Cadre of Writers Reminisce

A gay man with major ambitions in a prejudiced world, Hudson valiantly tried to be all things to all people—as Mark Griffin writes in All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson

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

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!

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FORMERLY KNOWN AS CINEMA

Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’ adaptation is going to get him canceled

Quentin Tarantino Addresses Several Career Controversies, Slams Critics; "Go suck a d**k": The director discussed that Bruce Lee debate, violence against women in his films, Harvey Weinstein, retirement and more while visiting 'The Joe Rogan Experience' podcast

‘Kill Bill Vol. 3’ Would Star Maya Hawke as The Bride’s Daughter and Maybe Bring Back Elle Driver

Can Paramount+ Build a Streamer Worthy of Its Golden-Era Studio Legacy?

Mae West Vamped and Winked. She Also Blazed a Trail We’re Still Following

What Does the MCU Have Against Showrunners? The MCU has eschewed the role of showrunner on its Disney+ series. Is that why they aren't better?

Cinema glitz returns with a reborn Cannes

Cannes: Sean Penn Loses Saturday Premiere Spot to French Movie Starring Johnny Depp’s Ex Wife, Directed by Her New Husband

‘Zola’ Review: A Wild Road-Trip Comedy Just as Fun as the Tweets Behind It; Janicza Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris adapt the viral Twitter thread by turning it into a rambunctious crowdpleaser

The Real-Life Stripper Story Behind Zola

'F9' Is the Biggest-Budget Piece of Surreal, Avant-Garde Cinema I've Ever Seen, and This Is Not a Joke

‘Sopranos’ Prequel Trailer: First Look at ‘The Many Saints of Newark’

The Sopranos Prequeal; 'The Many Saints Of Newark'; Official Trailer

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Overview: “Truman & Tennessee” Explores the Two Most Famous Creative Eccentrics of Their Wild Time

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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

Joe Rogan On Everything Wrong With Hollywood And Los Angeles

ARCHITECTURE

New York’s Independent Art Fair Is Moving Into the Historic Battery Maritime Building—See Images of the Beaux-Arts Space Here

Video: Famous Hearst mansion in Beverly Hills. Look inside

Frank Gehry on LUMA Arles: ‘I kept thinking about what the light was like for Van Gogh’; Architect talks about his new structure in France

Inside Luma Arles, the Van Gogh-Inspired Arts Tower That Took Mega-Collector Maja Hoffmann (and Frank Gehry) Over a Decade to Build

Van Gogh by Way of Gehry

Step Inside a Los Angeles Home That’s All About Natural Tones and Clean Lines

Cinematic revival: Hong Kong's post-war landmark State Theatre to be restored by 2026

Schissel Montgomery Architects renovates Brooklyn flat for art gallerist

The Design Of Central Park, A Masterpiece Of Landscape Architecture

'A Fiasco’: Redesign Around Mosul Landmark Prompts Outcry

Frank Lloyd Wright: Touring the famed architect’s iconic sites

Modern architecture: Ugliness is beauty

Yabba dabba deal! California town settles suit over Flintstones house; Owner Florence Fang will apply for permits for sculptures; Town of Hillsborough agrees to pay $125,000

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‘I Got to Be the Artist I Wanted to Be’: Sculptor Maren Hassinger on What Success Looks Like for an Artist in America

Artist Lynda Benglis Remembers Life at 222 Bowery in the 1970’s

ART REPORT TODAY GALLERIES: Now Exhibiting

In their first collaboration, the High Line and the Shed invite the public to a sculpture hunt, in augmented reality

'Clay made me': Theaster Gates to receive series of major London shows around his love of ceramics; The Chicago-based artist will design the 2022 Serpentine Pavillion

MANUFACTURING ART

Peering Under Vermeers Without Peeling Off the Paint; High-tech scanning techniques used by geologists, planetary scientists, drug companies and the military are revealing secrets of how artists created their masterpieces

Meet the Ceramic Innovators Firing Up an Age-Old Craft; Ceramicists Aneta Regel, Andile Dyalvane and Shigekazu Nagae are injecting future-facing innovation into one of the oldest art forms

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

NOTHING: ARTE INVISIBILE

A Florida Man Is Threatening to Sue Salvatore Garau, an Artist Whose Invisible Sculpture Sold for $18,000, Saying He Came Up With the Idea First; Tom Miller, who says he made an invisible sculpture in 2016, is demanding visibility

'Nothing' A Documentary by Tom Miller

An Italian Artist, Salvatore Garau, Auctioned Off an ‘Invisible Sculpture’ for $18,300. It’s Made Literally of Nothing

Buddha In Contemplazione, la scultura che non si vede, piazza della Scala, Milano Salvatore Garau

Readers of Art Report Today, if you believe you may have come up with Nothing prior to June 1, 2021, our crackpot legal time is available to come to your defense, for a cut. Send us an Email: Click Here

ART BUSINESS

Megan Fox Kelly: As the Art Industry Has Ballooned, So Has the Number of People Claiming to Be Expert Advisors. Here’s How to Tell If They Actually Are

Small Museums Are Stealing the Show on TikTok

How do you move a 30-ton Diego Rivera fresco? Very carefully

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

Meet Ashlyn Davis Burns and Shane Lavalette, the people behind Assembly - a new kind of gallery/agency/studio

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

“Only a Joke Can Save Us”, Group Show, at Present Projects, Hong Kong ... The Exhibition 'Zine

Tricks of the Trade; Writer and Editor Gordon Lish

A celebration of Leslie Caron, just in time for her 90th birthday

Diamonds Are a Thief’s Best Friend; Daring and, some would say, inspired $4.5 million jewel heist in the middle of Mayfair

Picasso's painted theater curtain for the ballet "Le Tricorne"

At Versailles, Marie Antoinette’s private retreat plays host to a madcap menagerie of sculpture

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

MY ALIEN BFF

Dogfights, near misses and disabled weapons – inside France’s UFO probe

Uriel Speaks on the Landing

UFOs ‘shut down 10 nuke missiles at US base & may have been alerted to humanity by first atomic bomb blasts’

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

“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

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

Elizabeth McIntosh, “Family” at Tanya Leighton, Los Angeles

Cultured: Young Curators 2021

Abhijan Toto: How Curators Can Learn from Protesters

One of Norway's most famous painted images to be offered by Sotheby's

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

COLLECTORS CIRCLE

Bronx Museum Trustee Richard Torres on Supporting Artists of Color, and the Picasso He’d Most Love to Pilfer; We caught up with the collector to get a peek into his home

How Collectors Can Advocate for a More Climate-Conscious Art Market

Mega-Collector Steve Cohen Just Bought the World’s Leading Auction House… for Baseball Cards

How Drs. Tonya and Ato Wright Collect “Images of Affirmation”

The Artspace Art for Life Interview with Bassist Adam Clayton, founding member of U2

Art Collecting 2021: An Artsy Report; Overview ... Download the Report

Inside Gagosian Art Advisory with Its Director Laura Paulson

Collectors Luis Laplace and Christophe Comoy on Creating Honest Spaces

EXPERIENTIAL

Virtual Van Gogh exhibition set to lure shoppers in Dubai

The Waitlist for Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition; Palmdale, California

Instagram: Klimt: The Immersive Experience; All Art is Erotic!

The Waitlist for Klimt: The Immersive Experience

‘Stranger Things: The Experience’ coming to NYC

At This Instagram Hot Spot, All the World’s a Stage (and the Buffalo’s a Prop): China's Quaint Peasant Life of Yore; The setups are elaborate, including burning straw to simulate mist

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

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

PHOTOGRAPHY

Cathy Opie has a new book by Phaidon; See the Pics!
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Photos Capture Golden Age of Discos “Before Bottle Service and Bland Design”

Artist Sarah Bahbah Slides Into the DMs of Famous People to Ask Them to Collaborate With Her. Surprisingly Often, It Works

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

JOHN STEPPLING

The Dream is the Mother

In his epilogue to Devils of Loudun, Huxley noted the seductive nature of group think, of what he called the collective alienation of herds. “Moreover, the crowd-delirium can be indulged in, not merely without a bad conscience, but actually, in many cases, with a positive glow of conscious virtue…”

ARTIST PROFILE: MARCEL DZAMA

Marcel Dzama on Artsy; Much to See!