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Maurizio Cattelan unveils memorial to 9/11 in new Milan show—20 years after witnessing tragedy; Idea for the project was considered "too emotionally fraught" for New York by Guggenheim chief curator

Doug Aitken "Green Lens", a site-specific installation, Isola Della Certosa, Venice, Italy; It's Sinking!

Community Outreach: Pornhub creates 'Classic Nudes' tours of museum collections

There’s More to Alma Thomas Than Colorful Abstractions; Artist's hometown museum hopes to offer new insight into her life and career

"Border Crossings" Kunstmuseum Bern

Detained, Interrogated, Deported: the Art of Border Cruelty; For artists Hamishi Farah and Arahmaiani, the experience of Los Angeles International Airport began as calamity and developed as farce

"Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter", The Jewish Museum, New York

Louise Bourgeois’s Long Relationship With Psychoanalysis; For all of its emphasis on unraveling, the most intriguing works in Freud’s Daughter are often the most abstruse ones

Break + Bleed Opens at San José Museum of Art

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How Hunter Biden’s Ethics Agreement Sets a Dangerous Precedent for Rising Artists (and Other Insights); ArtNews columnist thinks through the curious ethics agreement between the presidential progeny’s gallery and the White House

Ben Davis: Hey Hunter Biden, Here’s a Radically Simple Solution for All Your Art Woes: Don’t Sell Your Work; If Hunter Biden wants his art to be received outside a political black box, his best bet is not to sell it

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."

Georges Bergès – The New Art World Visionary of SoHo

Busch-Reisinger Museum’s New Instagram Account Redefines the Boundaries of Its Collection

The Victoria and Albert Museum Says It Has Spotted Michelangelo’s Thumbprint, Preserved in Wax, on One of His Sculptures; Long-hidden mark likely appeared on the delicate wax sculpture due to changes in temperature or humidity

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Art Critic Jerry Saltz Turned Down a $250,000 Salary to Write for Substack Because He Needs Editors; What does a direct-to-consumer product like Substack mean for the future of journalism?

Lucian Freud’s Sex Life Explored In New Exhibition

ARTIST’S HEALTH

We’ll soon know more about our bodies than ever before – but are we ready? Huge moral and ethical implications

World needs 'new mindset for our survival', says Goodall

In South Korea’s ‘healing forest,’ the pandemic-stressed compete for the ultimate chill; Most fascinating line in this article is "South Korea's annual competition to be the best at doing nothing"

The Astonishing Difference a Smile Can Make

‘The Creative Act Is a Deeply Private Experience’: Watch Sculptor Phyllida Barlow Make Hulking Works From Modest Materials

Phyllida Barlow: Homemade

BRAVING OPPRESSION

What Happened To You? The radicalization of the American elite against liberalism

Sasha Stone, "The Thinking Democrat": How One Introvert Blew the Lid off the Empire
Is the only thing we fear truth itself?

Cannes Screens Bombshell Hong Kong Protest Doc as Late Addition to Official Program

More Videos Filter Out Of Cuba Showing Brutal Repression

Cubans Cry for 'Freedom'

Freedom Push Foiled; Police patrol Havana in large numbers after rare protests

'Patria y Vida': anti-government protests sweep Cuba, as artist-led movement gains ground

Artists Demand Release of Dissident Artist Detained in Cuba; Over 140 artists and intellectuals including Tania Bruguera and Katherine Bisquet have voiced their support for Hamlet Lavastida

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

A PTA Purge of Asians; America’s top public high school shows us what discrimination looks like today; "that effort is largely led by paternalistic White liberals who are determined to ‘help’ minority victims at any cost—I see it for what it is: a tacit admission that they don’t think Black and Hispanic students have what it takes to compete on merit.”

Critical Race Theory Is a Complex — Oh, Who Are We Kidding? A series of increasingly hilarious defenses!

Wikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I created

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

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

Artist Mandy El-Sayegh on Making Her Studio Into a Bedroom, and the Kind of Art She Doesn’t Care for; El-Sayegh is currently enjoying her first solo show in Seoul

ART AND RACE

Black Grief Examined at New Museum, NY "Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America" By Okwui Enwezor

Janiva Ellis Challenges White Supremacy’s Influence on Visual Culture; At the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, the artist presents a suite of new works that confronts the notion of 'white angst' in western iconography

Brooklyn Rail: Are All Artists Mystics? The Case of Leonardo da Vinci

What’s it been like preparing for fine art degree shows during a global pandemic

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

DANCE

Oʻahu hālau Kawailiʻulā named overall winner at 2021 Merrie Monarch Festival; See Video

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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

The Giacometti: A Family of Creators

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 DESIGN

California Continues to Rewrite the Rules of Design

In California, a Legacy of Political Protest Through Graphic Design Lives On

Shepard Fairey Creates New City Logo For Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board

GOOD GIGS

Surprising and fragrant legacy of artist Niki de Saint Phalle and La Prairie

Two Major U.S. Foundations Are Giving $5 Million to Latinx Artists, Who Have Long Lacked Dedicated Support; Will give 75 artists $50,000 each

Doug Aitken creates reflective artwork for Saint Laurent in Venice

92 New York Artists Receive $616,000 in Grants; Kenneth Tam, Kiyan Williams, and Victor Murillo are among the recipients

LACMA Announces New Art + Technology Lab Grant Winners

STAGE STRUCK

Review: ‘Schmigadoon!’ Has a Song in Its Heart, and Everywhere Else; The Apple TV+ series both mocks and embraces the glories of classic musicals like “Brigadoon,” “Oklahoma!” and “Carousel”

A Choreographed Return to Theaters; Dance is back in theaters

Opera gets a TV makeover: How ‘Desert In’ blew up an old art form for the ‘Insecure’ generation

A Roundtable Conversation: Alicia Ramírez talks to Dr. Alisa Hurwitz and Jesús Dávila as Empty Theaters Breed Mental Health Concerns

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

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

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

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AMAZING MOTHER NATURE

Moon Phases 2021 – Northern Hemisphere

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

Planned Harvard balloon test in Sweden stirs solar geoengineering unease; An early experiment toward using sun-dimming technology to cool global warming has opponents fearing a slippery slope toward engineering the climate

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

A Conspiracy Theorist (sic) Who Vandalized Hunter Biden’s New York Gallery Has Been Arrested; The vandal tried to write “Daddy is a war criminal" on the wall

The Louvre’s Art Sleuth Is on the Hunt for Looted Paintings; Emmanuelle Polack is the face of the French museum’s efforts to return stolen works. But some discoveries have put her employer in an awkward situation

Less Than a Month After the Louvre Hired a Nazi Loot Expert to Investigate Its Collection, She Found 10 Ill-Gotten Works Hiding in Plain Sight

As Part of a $4.5 Billion Oxycontin Settlement, the Sackler Family Has Promised Not to Lend Its Name to Museums for Nine Years

Is It a Goya? Curators at the Prado Keep Changing Their Minds Over Who Painted the Museum’s Famed ‘Colossus’; Initially said to be a work by the Spanish master, its attribution was since downgraded. Now, it's being reconsidered

The FBI Has Busted a Man for Hawking Fake Basquiats After Catching Him Red-Handed During a WhatsApp Sting; The works were offered to two New York auction houses

Actress Jodie Turner-Smith Had Thousands of Dollars in Jewels Stolen at Cannes

The North Face Will Phase Out a Logo That the Street Artist Futura Said It Lifted Illegally From His Work; The company has denied any wrongdoing in the case

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

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

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‘James Turrell: Into the Light’ Review: In the Eye of the Beholder

Podcast: Legendary Auctioneer Simon de Pury on Monaco, Hip Hop, and the Art Market’s New Reality; Chats with Arts Editor Andrew Goldstein

Sculptor Eva LeWitt’s Colorful Outdoor Installation in Massachusetts Celebrates the Power of Observing Art in Nature—See Images Here

Paulina Peavy, the Spiritualist Artist Who Channeled a UFO; Show at Beyond Baroque is Peavy’s first on the West Coast in 75 years

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NFT: THE CELEBRITY ART REVOLUTION

The NFT revolution isn’t just a fad. These galleries and artists were ahead of the curve

Phillips to offer Sound of Color, an NFT collaboration between artist ThankYouX and composer Hans Zimmer

NFTs and LACMA Part 1: NFTs 101

Damien Hirst Has Created 10,000 Artworks That Can Be NFTs, If You Want

Damien Hirst launches his own NFT ‘Currency’

Damien Hirst and Mark Carney discuss the artist’s new hybrid NFT project ‘The Currency’

Damien Hirst’s New NFT Project Forces Buyers to Choose Between Owning a Digital Token or a Work on Paper

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Mark Bradford on Painting with Paper

‘What Is Missing Is Momentum’: The National 2021, New Australian Art – Review

Brooklyn Rail: "Made in L.A. 2020: a version"

British Art Show 9 Brings Eclecticism to a Pandemic-Stricken UK

All the Eternal Love: “Limitless!Limitless! Five Women Reshape Contemporary Art” at the McNay

Damien Hirst Reveals He Mainly Made His Polarizing New Painting Series to Please His Mom

Ghana's Kojo Marfo: Sell-out show for butcher-turned-painter

Ivy Haldeman at Francois Ghebaly

Chuck Kelton and Joseph Minek ‘Chemistry and Light’ at Von Lintel Gallery

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

The Forgotten History of Those Iconic National Parks Posters

The Painter & The Preacher: Botticelli’s Mystic Nativity and Savonarola’s Sermons; the Bonfire of the Vanities

Explore Wayne Thiebaud’s Evolving Influence at the Manetti Shrem Museum

Brooklyn Rail: An Interview with John Sims

Machine Melancholia; “Get Life/Love’s Work,” Ed Atkins at the New Museum in New York

Five-Minute Tours: "Ebb + Flow" at TC Energy Center Lobby, Houston

DISCOVERY

Derbyshire cave house identified as ninth-century home to exiled king; Anchor Church cave is thought to be one of the oldest intact domestic interiors found in the UK

Medieval French Coins Unearthed in Poland? A Mystery Begins; Could a scavenger hunter’s find be a part of the lost booty once extorted by Vikings to spare Paris from ruin? A full-scale excavation may tell

‘Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins’ Review: Where Credit Is Due

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

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

ART COMICS

COMIX: Butcher and Wood: Christo and His Bag

MUSIC AND SOUND

Interview: Jackson Browne: ‘I Think Desire Is The Last Domino To Fall’

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

What Year Is It? The Number 1 and 2 Albums on iTunes Are 40 (Queen) and 50 (Joni Mitchell) Years Old

ARTIST’S HEALTH

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

STREETWISE

Lluis Olive Shoots “The Photographer”: Summer Dispatch from Barcelona I

Hereditas - Video, Gonzalo Borondo

Gaia, Oranges, and Honoring Immigrant Lue Gim Gong in Massachusetts

Brooklyn Street Art: Images of the Week

Dragon76 “Coexist”

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

Jersey City Mural Festival 2021 Inaugural

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

Concreate Urban Art Festival 2021 Launches in Finland

BOOKS AND WORDS

New Book: Jean-Michel Basquiat HEY HEY HEY!

A Very Personal Conversation About Jean-Michel Basquiat; "We Were All F***ed Up!"

Please! John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel

Phaidon Sale: Bestselling Culinary Bibles

The 100 Best Novels Written In English: The Full List

From the Plains: Amy Von Lintel on Georgia O’Keeffe’s Canyon, Texas, Years

Eric Rohmer’s Beach Readers; The Catholic Way

Book Conservator Frank Trujillo on Repairing and Reconstructing Manuscripts

FELIX ART FAIR: July 29-August 1!

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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Report: Apple exploring potential acquisition of indie film studio A24 for $3 billion

‘The French Dispatch’ Plays Like Wes Anderson on Ritalin and Steroids [Cannes]

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Wes Anderson’s Latest Conjures a Confectionary Vision of France

The French Dispatch 2021 - Official Movie Trailer

Griffin Dunne Previews Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch”: “The audience is going to go nuts for it”

"The French Dispatch" First Clip

New Anthony Bourdain Documentary Sparks Controversy for ‘Creepy’ A.I. Rendering of Late Chef’s Voice: ‘Crosses an Ethical Line’

Cannes 2021: "Ali & Ava" review – Barnard’s Bradford romance is an understated triumph

Drive My Car Review – Mysterious Murakami Tale of Erotic and Creative Secrets; Ryûsuke Hamaguchi reaches a new grandeur with this engrossing adaptation about a theatre director grappling with Chekhov and his wife’s infidelity

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'Obama feared assassination': Oliver Stone reheats conspiracies at Cannes and new "JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass"

Cannes: Raves for Sean Penn’s “Flag Day,” on the Croisette, First Film He’s Directed Himself In

‘Flag Day’: Sean Penn Directs Another Catastrophic Bomb [Cannes]

'Red Rocket' Review – Sean Baker’s vivid study of a washed-up porn star; Film-maker’s follow-up to 'Tangerine' and 'The Florida Project' is another Lo-Fi comedy about lives at the margin of US society

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Writer and Director Mike White's "The White Lotus" HBO Limited Series

Contemporary Animation from Marvel/Disney: "What If...?" Official Trailer

The Little-Known Genius Behind Midnight Cowboy and Coming Home; Jerome Hellman was at the vanguard of Hollywood’s 1970s creative rebellion

ARCHITECTURE

From thatched huts to Wakanda, a massive new architectural guide explores Sub-Saharan Africa

Shaker-inspired garden furniture designed by architects

Fire 'severely damages' historic Marfa building housing Donald Judd architecture office

The Design Of Central Park, A Masterpiece Of Landscape Architecture

Image Gallery: Modernist Architect Vladamir Ossipoff’s Liljestrand House, Oahu Hawaii

Increasingly, architects and builders are thinking about how their creations affect the health of the planet. Kunle Adeyemi has built his career around that question

For Just $1, You Can Live in a Gaudí Masterpiece for a Night; Casa Vicens was Gaudí's first-ever commission in Barcelona and one of the first buildings of the Art Nouveau movement

Turtle Island Indigenous architects feature in new TVO documentary

China Expat Entrepreneur: ‘Perfect Introduction,’ Climate Pressure Help Spur Architect’s Success

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Contemporary art hotspot Petzel Gallery is expanding and relocating; Double footprint; Roster includes Ross Bleckner, Simon Denny, Sarah Morris and Stephen Prina, among scores of others

Scarlet Cheng: Return of Art Fairs, Painting is "In," and What The New Normal in Los Angeles Looks Like

ART REPORT TODAY GALLERIES: Now Exhibiting

The Beauty of Nudity

Bret Easton Ellis’s Rules of Attraction; The shock jock of American letters is back with a serialized audiobook that eschews the culture wars for something closer to home

Shape-Shifting and Sophie Taeuber-Arp

‘Everything on This Planet Is Endangered’: Why Artist Tino Sehgal Is Bringing His Ephemeral Performances to a British Palace

Artist Sophia Giovannitti Contemplates the (Lack of) Separation Between Sex and Art

Genius at Work: 29 MacArthur Fellows Show Their Art in Chicago; Mega-show of MacArthur fellow artists — Kara Walker, Kerry James Marshall, David Hammons and Nicole Eisenman among them — has community on its mind

Two Summer Exhibitions Feature John Baldessari and Richard Anuszkiewicz, Artists Who Shaped Art Genres in America

MANUFACTURING ART

What happens if you cross breast milk with celluloid? Enter the weird world of handmade film; A new season of experimental cinema has opened at the Barbican showing works made by drawing, painting, scratching and otherwise messing about with the surface of film

Roped in: the acrobatic builders repairing Italy’s historic domes and bridges

Fabricator Charles Mathis on Making Work for Other Artist

Brooklyn Rail: What Happened When Renaissance Artists Prayed While Painting?

Rodin’s complicated relationship with classical art

Lisa Brice, Charleston Residency, East Sussex, United Kingdom

What Happens When Artists Take Over a City? See 5 Colossal and Urgently Relevant Artworks at the Manchester International Arts Festival

Hauser & Wirth opens an exhibition of works by Gustav Metzger

ART BUSINESS

Inside Tribeca’s Booming Gallery Scene with Jonathan Travis, the Realtor Who Helped Build It

An Archivist Sneezes on a Priceless Document. Then What?

Cuts at SFMOMA: Community Artists Gallery and film programs will close; Pandemic Economy

Rezoning Plan Will Destroy What Made Soho an Artists’ Neighborhood; Plan also raises questions about the fate of the now elderly generation that built a world-famous arts community and the survival of live-work spaces in general

'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

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

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

Jeffrey Steele, pioneer of Op Art, 1931-2021

Annie Ernaux: ‘The Young Man of Venice’; A thirty-year-old memory, a one-night stand and an art exhibition featuring this newly translated piece by the prize-winning author

See How British Artist Bridget Riley’s Paintings ‘Caress and Soothe’ the Eye in Her New Show at David Zwirner London

MY ALIEN BFF

NASA Is Quietly Funding a Hunt for Alien Megastructures

The Strange World of TikTok “Reality Shifters"; Popular video creators claim to have actually visited other universes (especially fictional ones) in their sleep. They have millions of dedicated believers

Mystery as ‘fleet of 10 UFOs’ spotted hovering near International Space Station on NASA live stream

India’s Utopian “Star Wars” City

Uriel Speaks on the Landing

We Just Walked into America’s Creepiest Egyptian-UFO Cult

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

8 Questions for Art Collector and Dealer Rock Walker on His Passion for M.C. Escher’s Fantastical Works; Walker's main piece for advice for aspiring collectors? Avoid eBay

The Daughter of Collectors Who Gave the Beyeler Foundation a Trove of Art Is ‘Scandalized’ by the Museum’s Plan to Sell; A series of Dubuffet paintings donated to the museum in 2013 are now headed for sale

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

Collector and Founder of the Sloomoo Institute Karen Robinovitz Picks Her Favorite Works From Artnet Galleries

Baltimore Museum of Art receives major promised gift from Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff

Meet Collector Kiran Nadar, the founder of India's first private museum

Fine Art Insurance 101; Three Insurance Experts Explain the Intricacies of Insuring Your Art Collection

Inside Gagosian Art Advisory with Its Director Laura Paulson

FICTION: JOHN TOTTENHAM

John Tottenham: Everybody Wants Some! "Why leave? I had already gambled my mood away."

EXPERIENTIAL

Is performance art finally collectible? New London gallery event aims to move medium into mainstream market

"Every Wall is a Door" Superblue Miami, 2021

The Museum of Ice Cream Is Getting Sweeter; Just announced plans to open new locations in Austin, Texas, and Singapore

Immersive whale and waterfall media art to appear in New York's Times Square

Thirst Trap: Getting Sweaty in teamLab’s ‘Sauna Trance’

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

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

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

PHOTOGRAPHY

What, no smartphones? Teens without screens – in pictures

'Picturing the South' Exhibition Marks 25th Anniversary of the High’s Photography Series

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JOHN STEPPLING

Notes on Turning Seventy

The fringe thinking about Moon Landing hoaxes and the like were taking on greater and greater prominence. And as a side bar note: the term conspiracy theorist is greatly feared (as I and others have said before) and it was, it seems, a CIA invention. But this does not mean there are not crazy conspiracy theories out there. And the first sign of the latter is that one’s interlocutor will have all the answers. He or she will have an answer for everything. There is nothing uncertain, nothing they have doubts about, and nothing they file under ‘unknown’. No, the conspiracy theorist, in the true sense, has an answer for every question... The kitsch artist is also an imitator.

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