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Hunter Biden’s Art Dealer Has Reportedly Made an Agreement With the White House to Keep His Sales Top Secret; The goal is to prevent bad actors from purchasing Biden's art as a way to curry favor with the White House; “The [White House] has outsourced government ethics to a private art dealer,” Shaub continued. “We’re supposed to trust a merchant in an industry that’s fertile ground for money laundering."
Secret deals: Hunter Biden’s gallery pens ethics agreement with White House to keep art sales anonymous
Obama White House Ethics Chief Shaub: Biden Created ‘Perfect Mechanism for Funneling Bribes’ Through Hunter's 'Artwork'
White House grapples with ethics of Hunter Biden’s pricey paintings; Saltz: “generic post zombie formalism illustration”
NYT: White House Sets Ethics Plan for Sales of Hunter Biden’s Art; The president’s son will be able to sell his paintings through a New York dealer, who will not disclose the buyers or the prices
Georges Bergès – The New Art World Visionary of SoHo
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
Thomas J. Price, Artist at Forefront of Debate Over Monuments, Joins Hauser & Wirth
Picture perfect: Ellsworth Kelly’s rarely seen postcard collages on view in Saratoga; The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery reopens to the public this weekend with a special exhibition of intimate works by the abstract artist
The Mysterious Magic of Waterfalls
The Medici Were History’s Greatest Patrons—and Also Tyrants. The Met’s New Show Tackles How Art Served Power
At 96 Years Old, Richard Mayhew Is Still Painting Transportive “Mindscapes”; The American painter was a member of the legendary artist group Spiral and continues to make art every day in his studio in Santa Cruz
‘The Creative Act Is a Deeply Private Experience’: Watch Sculptor Phyllida Barlow Make Hulking Works From Modest Materials
Phyllida Barlow: Homemade
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Meet Virginia Jaramillo, a Pioneering Minimalist Who Fuses Cosmology and Science Fiction
Despite a career spanning six decades, Jaramillo’s rigorous, original work has largely been overlooked by museums and markets — until now
Yu Ji "Wasted Mud" at Chisenhale Gallery, London UK
Performers bring famous paintings to life
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
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
‘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
1981 Village Voice and Soho News Articles Go To Auction
OUR DIGITAL WORLD
'Vertigo ' the game: could it delete the horrific history of movie tie-ins?; New French project ‘inspired’ by the Hitchcock classic could point the way to video games that riff off a film-maker’s wider aesthetic; Will tell an original story
57% of People Would Use a Sex Emoji, Survey Says
STAR ART
Zach Braff Reveals Painting He Commissioned of Girlfriend Florence Pugh's Black Widow Character
Sedrick Huckaby, George Bush’s Former Painting Teacher, Speaks
Christian Slater is a Still-Life Artist
Sofia Vergara, Eva Longoria and chef José Andrés named to Latino museum board
DANCE
Oʻahu hālau Kawailiʻulā named overall winner at 2021 Merrie Monarch Festival; See Video
‘We Have So Much Illusion’: Watch Artist Sarah Sze Blend the Tactility of Organic Materials With the Intangibility of Images
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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 indifferent Editor'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
See the WORKER show now, Click Here!
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
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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
Curator Diego Cortez, Who Helped Launch Basquiat to Fame, Is Dead
How Do You Paint Portraiture Without a Portrait? By negating the figure, Amir H. Fallah expands the limits of portraiture to make space for multiple interpretations
California Continues to Rewrite the Rules of Design
In California, a Legacy of Political Protest Through Graphic Design Lives On
GOOD GIGS
Shepard Fairey Creates New City Logo For Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board
Vanessa Beecroft Shoots SKIMS Campaign for Olympics
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
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WITHOUT SCOTT RUDIN
Broadway: “The Book of Mormon,” with Sinking Ticket Sales Pre-Pandemic, Returns without Producer Scott Rudin
Broadway: To Save a “Mockingbird,” Media Mogul Barry Diller Brings Back Jeff Daniels As Star and Without Producer Scott Rudin
Broadway’s New “Lehman Trilogy” Adds Great British Actor Adrian Lester, Subtracts Ousted Producer Scott Rudin
Scott Rudin’s Biggest Mistake: Insulting Rita Wilson, aka Mrs. Tom Hanks, Making Her Feel “Worthless, Unvaluable, and Replaceable”
New York Times 'killed' Scott Rudin exposé last year: report
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
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'
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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
New Shenzhen DnA event this autumn aims to fill southern China's dearth of contemporary art fairs
BRAVING OPPRESSION
Sasha Stone ’The Thinking Democrat: America is an Idea Worth Fight For
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Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’ adaptation is going to get him canceled
How Rick West helped shift the love-hate dynamic between Indigenous people and museums
Father and Daughter speaks against Critical Race Theory in Viral TikTok Video
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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'
The Front - Official Trailer
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'I want the UN to come and see what has happened here': Canadian Indian residential school survivor speaks out for victims in his art
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
See More of Toulouse-Lautrec's Work in the Art Report Today Virtual Exhibition WORKER: Click Here
BEST OF THE WEEK with JERRY GOGOSIAN, THE INSTAGRAM LAUGH SENSATION!
AMAZING MOTHER NATURE
Moon Phases 2021 – Northern Hemisphere
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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
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Mt Etna’s latest eruptions awe even those who study volcanos
ART NOIR
Italian Authorities Have Seized Nearly 800 Illicit Ancient Artifacts Worth $13 Million From a Single Belgian Collector
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Stolen Sigmar Polke Painting Found in German Apartment
Nazi-Looted Poussin Painting Found in Italy, Returned to Owners
When the US was accused of ‘plundering’ Berlin’s museums: new show reveals murky history
A Man Stumbled Upon Two 17th-Century Paintings in the Garbage at a Highway Rest Stop. Now Police Are Trying to Figure Out How They Got There
German socialite Angela Gulbenkian pleads guilty to theft in London court
Inside the Art Scandal that Rocked European Society; Angela Gulbenkian played the part of art world heiress to build her career. Now accusations of fraud have insiders wondering if she was really just another artful dodger all along
'The biggest mistake of my life': 49-year-old ‘art freak’ confesses to stealing a Picasso and Mondrian from National Gallery in Athens
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
Nearly 800 illegally exported antiquities returned to Italy
Italian Police Discover Looted Ancient Roman Sculpture in Belgian Antiques Shop
"Sex and the Single Feminist" Candid and Brave, Barbara T. Smith on Her First Podcast Ever; Another Art Report Today Exclusive!
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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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THE OLYMPICS OF ART
Aesthetic Prowess: the artists who competed for Olympic gold; the noble but ill-fated effort to hold art competitions at the Olympics
AND THE WINNER IS...
The Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London: Faces of 850 Trans People to Grace London’s Fourth Plinth; Bronze sculpture by Malawi-born artist Samson Kambalu
Gainsborough’s ‘Blue Boy’ to Return to U.K. for First Time in a Century
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Ivy Haldeman at Francois Ghebaly
NFT: THE CELEBRITY ART REVOLUTION
The first NFT to be sold by Phillips in London
CryptoPunk NFT joins ICA Miami collection
Beeple Just Debuted a New NFT Sales Platform With a Series of Works Made in Collaboration With British Tennis Star Andy Murray
Yes, But is it Oceanfront? Crypto billionaire Novogratz leads funding for virtual real estate firm
Meet the Dutch Startup That's Riding the NFT Wave on Top of a $9,500 Digital Couture Dress Before most people had heard of Beeple, this startup was making digital assets backed by NFTs pay
Barrons: Is Now the Time to Invest in NFTs?
How the $5.4 Million World Wide Web NFT Lays Bare the Promises and Lies of the Crypto-Art Market (and Other Insights)
After the Gold Rush: What Are the Next Steps for NFTs?
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
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Before Crypto Art there was Fluxus, the Ultimate Avant-Garde Movement of the 60s
‘What Is Missing Is Momentum’: The National 2021, New Australian Art – Review
Something New Must Turn Up: Six Singaporean Artists After 1965 – Review
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)
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Sarah Sze, 'Fallen Sky' at the Storm King Art Center
Sarah Sze, 'Fifth Season' at the Storm King Art Center
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Gagosian Gallery curator Antwaun Sargent Moonlights With a Cameo on 'Gossip Girl'
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
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
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!
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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
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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
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Nancy Holt’s archives head to Smithsonian, opening the door for more Land Art works; From astronomical observations to personal photographs, the 50,000-piece collection includes documentation of unrealised works that the artist's foundation hopes to one day complete
Zarina and the Idea of Home: What Happens When an Artist Becomes an Exile?
Em Rooneyn at Francois Ghebaly
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Inked Mummies, Linking Tattoo Artists With Their Ancestors; As scientists find more tattoos on preserved remains from Indigenous cultures, artists living today are drawing from them to revive cultural traditions
Archaeologists find ruins of vast Medieval Nubian cathedral in Sudan; Polish team used remote sensing techniques to detect the building, the largest of its kind in the region, as well as a possible tomb of an archbishop
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
A Painting Fell Off the Wall and Went in for Conservation. Turns Out It’s a Long-Lost Rembrandt Worth Up to $240 Million
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What Year Is It? The Number 1 and 2 Albums on iTunes Are 40 (Queen) and 50 (Joni Mitchell) Years Old
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!
Barbara Hepworth’s Monumental Elegance
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Not an Ad. Get Ready for the Next Studio Visit: Aging Reversed; Study shows how you can become 3 years ‘younger’ in just 8 weeks!
Why laughter can make you more productive at work
Israeli breakthrough migraine treatment 'zaps' away pain - new study
Self-help yourself! A review of ‘The Quick Fix’, by Jesse Singal; Oliver Wendell Holmes once said that if the whole of the pharmacopeia were thrown into the sea, it would be the better for mankind and the worse for the fishes
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Lluis Olive Shoots “The Photographer”: Summer Dispatch from Barcelona I
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Book Conservator Frank Trujillo on Repairing and Reconstructing Manuscripts
Suburban Underground; Shary Flenniken’s two decades of Trots and Bonnie comic strips
An Intimate Look at James Baldwin and His Rarely Discussed Suicide Attempts; Harmony Holiday wants to show “the Baldwin who was baffled and befuddled and wounded and perfectly real.”
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?
What Unites Brilliant Artists Who Died in Their Twenties? Here Are 8 Case Studies From a New Book About Starry Lives Cut Short
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Sparks fly as musical film 'Annette' geeks out Cannes
Audacious Cannes Opener ‘Annette’ Is No Crowd pleaser
Annette Kicks Off Cannes With a Gush of Hot Air; The daring and garish musical, starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, is a lot of nervy construction built around very little substance
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Hilarious and Very Punny: ‘Our new cul-de-sac looks just like a ball sack’
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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
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The Design Of Central Park, A Masterpiece Of Landscape Architecture
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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Review: Once upon a Time in Hollywood: A Novel by Quentin Tarantino
Pilgrimage to 19th-Century Italy; The Hero’s Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna
The Wave of the Future Is Female; Tracing the male-dominated history of surfing to its women-wave-rider roots
When Did Artists Get So Beautiful? Make Artists Ugly Again!
'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
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Fabricator Charles Mathis on Making Work for Other Artist
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
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Dubai's long-awaited Expo 2020 (for 2022) announces artist line-up; Hamra Abbas, Olafur Eliasson, Yinka Shonibare and Haegue Yang are among the artists that will make works for the delayed giant world fair this autumn
ART BUSINESS
'An opportunity for bargain hunters' or a waste of time? Italy relaxes stringent export laws for Old Masters and antiques worth less than €13,500; Lower-value older works and those by artists who died less than 50 years ago no longer need an export licence to leave the country—but the process can still be slow
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
“Only a Joke Can Save Us”, Group Show, at Present Projects, Hong Kong ... The Exhibition 'Zine
JOHN YAU
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
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
Yau: Where Painting Can Live; Jason Stopa's desire to infuse his paintings with joy mixes sophistication and innocence without privileging either one
Picasso's painted theater curtain for the ballet "Le Tricorne"
GOOD NUN
The Extraordinary Story of Corita Kent, the “Pop Art Nun”; Hyperallergic has the exclusive premiere of KCET Artbound's short film "Corita Kent: The Pop Art Nun."
Corita Kent: The Pop Art Nun
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BAD NUN
Nun, Womanizer, Conquistador: Mercedes Azpilicueta at Gasworks; Seventeenth-century Basque nun who escaped her convent, traveled to South America, and became a murderous, womanizing conquistador, under various male guises
MY ALIEN BFF
Mystery as ‘fleet of 10 UFOs’ spotted hovering near International Space Station on NASA live stream
"Scariest Abduction Film Ever" Official Trailer: Fire in the Sky (1993)
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India’s Utopian “Star Wars” City
Dogfights, near misses and disabled weapons – inside France’s UFO probe
Uriel Speaks on the Landing
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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
So What Were UFO Sightings like in the Really Old Days?
Elizabeth McIntosh, “Family” at Tanya Leighton, Los Angeles
Cultured: Young Curators 2021
Denzil Hurley at Canada, New York
Denzil Hurley at Canada
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Hunter Drohojowska-Philp: Off The Charts; Mark Bradford’s latest exhibition for Hauser & Wirth Menorca maps out new artistic territories
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
He’s Heir to a Fruit-Juice Empire, but His Main Focus Is Art; Eugenio López Alonso divides his time between Los Angeles and Mexico, filling both homes with paintings and sculpture
5 Reasons Collectors Should Hire an Art Law Attorney
The Late Samsung Chairman’s Multibillion-Dollar Art Collection Is Getting Its Own Dedicated Museum in Seoul; The announcement marks the latest twist in the fate of the 23,000-work collection
After Years of Heated Debate, an Exhibition Dedicated to Jewish Art Dealer Max Stern Is Moving Forward—and His Heirs Are Not Happy; The embattled exhibition lost its international partners after disputes over looted art
Collectors in Asia Are Driving Demand for Loie Hollowell’s Paintings
Art Insider: Pascal de Sarthe
In 2021, Almost All Art Collectors Buy Art Online
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
The Artspace Art for Life Interview with Bassist Adam Clayton, founding member of U2
Inside Gagosian Art Advisory with Its Director Laura Paulson
EXPERIENTIAL
The Immersive Van Gogh Installation Has Found Its Hit Demographic: Moms. We Asked One of Our Own for Her Review
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!
Two Immersive Van Gogh Experiences Offer the Post-Pandemic Escapism Visitors Crave. They Have Weirdly Little to Do With Van Gogh
The Waitlist for Klimt: The Immersive Experience
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
PHOTOGRAPHY
Triumphant in their time, yet largely erased later: a Met exhibition explores ‘The New Woman Behind the Camera’; Chronicling the work of female photographers from the 1920s to the 1950s
The New Woman Behind the Camera
Tomas Saraceno at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Patrick Nagatani: Chain Reaction Opens at the Bruce Museum
2021 International Portrait Photographer of the Year – in pictures
Rising stars of photography from the Getty inclusion scholarships – in pictures
Cathy Opie has a new book by Phaidon; See the Pics!
Catherine Opie and Hollywood, Click Here
Catherine Opie and Sports, Click Here
Catherine Opie and Sex, Click Here
Catherine Opie and Landscape, Click Here
Artist Sarah Bahbah Slides Into the DMs of Famous People to Ask Them to Collaborate With Her. Surprisingly Often, It Works
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
‘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
Checkpoints on the Frontier of Desire
It helped to fill in a certain missing part of what I had been experiencing vis a vis the Covid protocols. So much of the authoritarian top-down state reaction (sic) to the Covid virus story felt like something scripted for the screen. And its likely that all screens are partially Hollywood screens now. But not just in the sense that the lockdowns felt like a Hollywood disaster movie, but more that the very idea of 21st medicine was now inextricably tied to the various platforms of the internet. From social media to data harvesting to online tracking, et al.
ARTIST PROFILE: MARCEL DZAMA
Marcel Dzama on Artsy; Much to See!
Marcel Dzama at David Zwirner
Marcel Dzama on Artnet; Much to See!
Marcel Dzama: Organizing Chaos
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Drawing with Raymond Pettibon and Marcel Dzama
Marcel Dzama at MoMA
Best Practices: Marcel Dzama’s Fantastical Visions Bring a Spirited World Alive
The Artist Marcel Dzama Is Collaborating With His Cat
Dzama: Lockdown!
Marcel Dzama at Richard Heller Gallery
Marcel Dzama at David Zwirner; April 23–May 28, 2020
Cult artist Marcel Dzama: 'I try not to censor myself'
Video: The Future of Art: Marcel Dzama
Marcel Dzama at Instagram
Way Cool! How To Paint a Bat with Marcel Dzama
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An Irresistable Profile: Brigid Berlin, Andy Warhol’s Most Enduring Friend
SURF
Joe Quigg, Father of the Modern Surfboard, Has Passed Away
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Quite Possibly the Greatest Wedge Video Ever
Mind-blowing competition in skiing and snowboarding, Kings & Queens of Corbet’s
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