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ARTIST PROFILE: MARCEL DZAMA

IS ARTFORUM PAY-TO-PLAY?

The Pay-For-Play Scandal Behind Many Maxim, Playboy ‘Covers’

SAD KUSAMA

A Typhoon Sends a Yayoi Kusama’s "Yellow Pumpkin" Into the Sea; Video

Marina Abramović’s Latest Immersive Installation Will Take You on a Journey Through Her Life Story; The pop-up show will be broken up into five rooms, each inspired by an object or idea that has influenced her work

Doug Harvey's Less Art: A Rembrance of Recently Passed Pierre Picot: Pierre & the Lion

Honoring the Past With Art and Tears; With a style of ‘weeping realism’ often based on photos, California-based Hung Liu evokes the crucible of China’s Cultural Revolution

Live! Christo and Jeanne-Claude: L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped

Gopnik: Hiroshi Sugimoto's Jekyll and Hyde year

Yau: A Poet-Artist Looks to the Stars; Monica Ong is a 21st-century visual poet who extends the reader’s sense of what is possible

The long and thorny history of the Salzburg Festival's logo

Exploring the Jewish Artists Who Helped Make Salzburg a Success

BRAVING OPPRESSION

Covid Corruption: ‘In the Same Breath': Infuriating Doc Tackles China's COVID-19 Coverup [Review]; Nanfu Wang follow-up to her 'One Child Nation'

An Artist Who Defended Ai Weiwei Has Resigned From Hong Kong’s Arts Council, Citing ‘Personal Safety’; Chris Chan Kam-shing's resignation came alongside several others, as tensions over a new national security law continue to mount

Prescient and highly lauded, Philip Agre predicted the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago. Why did no one listen?

Instagram apologizes for censoring nipple on Penelope Cruz film poster for Almodovar's film; Nudity is Subjective

Director Pedro Almodóvar’s new Teaser Trailer: “Madres Paralelas” (“Parallel Mothers”)

Queen Victoria statue defrocked after ex-politician Nigel Farage blasts public art project addressing UK’s slavery history; "tired of this endless conversation about the UK's complicity with slavery"

Filmmaker Oliver Ressler accuses YouTube of censorship after account suspended 'without warning'; Austrian artist who creates political and environmental documentaries believes his videos have been deleted because of their "anti-capitalist content"

Plans for a Public Art Show in Florida Have Been Derailed After the Mayor Accused Two of the Artists of Being Communists; City commission voted to fund the show only if Cai Guo-Qiang and Sandra Ramos were dropped from the project

‘There is a terrible fear’: Inside Cuba’s crackdown after dramatic protests

How artists lost their courage; Keeping silent is the price of a successful career; Gender Ideology; Sucking up to an academic elite

Reporters Without Borders Hides News Articles in the 'Uncensored Library' which is Hidden in the Minecraft Game

How the Bobos Broke America; Creative class was supposed to foster progressive values and economic growth. Instead we got resentment, alienation, and endless political dysfunction; Bobo: boorish bourgeoisie

What a Movement Looks Like; The History of Act-Up; As a Guide

The Growing Divide: Billionaires Segregate Themselves on Luxury Private Islands as Ordinary People Told They Can’t Travel

Podcast: How Britney Spears’s Image Inspired Millennial Artists

GO, VAN GOGH!

Exuberant Van Gogh landscape—featuring his beloved olive and cypress trees—could well make $40m at Christie's New York; From the Cox Collection

FORMERLY KNOWN AS CINEMA

EXCLUSIVE: Balmy Nights, Gentle Trades and a History of the Open-Air Movie Theaters That Were Once Found All Over the Hawaiian Islands

Pedro Almodóvar’s Films – Ranked!

Andrew Dominik’s ‘Blonde’ is Rated NC-17 and Netflix Isn’t Too Happy About it

Andrew Dominik‘s 'Blonde' Hindered By Raw Sexuality; Netflix Blanches; Extends Release Date; Based on the Joyce Carol Oates Novel

"Impeachment: American Crime Story" Official Trailer; Ryan Murphy Takes on Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky

'Y: The Last Man' Trailer Imagines a World Without Men

Catherine Zeta-Jones Joins Tim Burton's Series as Morticia Addams; Luis Guzmán (Boogie Nights) is Gomez

Director Abel Ferrarra Pursuing Shia LaBeouf for Comeback Role as Italian Saint Padre Pio, early 20th century saint; William Dafoe

“Respect” Director on Cutting Aretha Franklin’s Famed Backup Singer Cissy Houston from Movie: “That is part of artistic license”

Daniela Melchior is the breakout star of the squad. Ratcatcher 2 Is the Stealthy Soul of The Suicide Squad

‘The Suicide Squad’: James Gunn Had Just Two Conditions for Making His R-Rated Superhero Film

Review: Shariff Korver’s 'Do Not Hesitate' (2021); Small-scale war film that explores the international dimensions of the War on Terror

Velaslavasay Panorama, at 20, makes electric Chinese connection; Los Angeles theater dating to 1910

'The Others' at 20: the haunted house movie that reinvigorated the genre

Criterion Collection's release of Bill Duke's "Deep Cover" (1992); Laurence Fishburn; provoking questions about the Black experience

Taika Waititi’s Flash Gordon project switches from animated to live-action

Blake Edwards’s 'Experiment in Terror'; Since its release in 1962, 'Experiment in Terror' has inspired artists from David Lynch to Lana Del Rey; Neo-Noir

2020 Was a Great Year for MOCA Acquisitions

ART AND RACE

Hugh Hayden Confronts the Black American Dream

A Landmark Show of Black Women Artists Gets a Second Life; Fifty years ago, the historic Sapphire Show modeled a Black feminist ethics of uplifting one another when others fail to do so

$25,000 Art Prize to Focus on AAPI and Asian Diaspora Artists: ‘We Won’t Be Overlooked Again’

Assemblage as Medium and Method: “You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: The Sapphire Show” at Ortuzar Projects; as a reaction to a lack of representation of Black women in the local art scene

8 Black Art Advisors Transforming the Art Market from the Inside

A Lyrical Ode to the Vernacular Art of the American South; At the California African American Museum, 'Dust My Broom' convenes a group of largely self-taught artists from the American South, and other Black artists profoundly influenced by it

GOOD GIGS

Reddymade and Ai Weiwei add hexagonal extension to Salt Point home

Opportunities in August 2021; Grants, Residencies

Street Artist Sofles Commissions Marvel

STAGE STRUCK

Broadway: Scott Rudin’s Miserable “West Side Story” Will NOT Re-open, As Predicted Here, To Make Way for Spielberg Movie

'West Side Story' to not re-open on Broadway; What was it all about? Read our critic's review from 2020

Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story" (2021), Official Teaser

Féral Benga, the Cabaret Dancer Who Redefined Black Masculinity; Performed with Josephine Baker

Hello, Gorgeous! Beanie Feldstein to star in 'Funny Girl' on Broadway next year; Actress will soon appear as Monica Lewinsky for Ryan Murphy; She is little sister to actor Jonah Hill

Catch up with Tony Yazbeck who plays Cary Grant on a LSD trip in the new musical Flying Over Sunset, Freestyle Love Supreme’s Anthony Veneziale on the plays personality and freedom, & More

Blasphemy, violence and live turtles: 10 plays that shocked the world; A history of theatre’s most controversial moments, from Jerry Springer: The Opera to Sarah Kane’s ‘unrelenting’ Blasted

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

AMAZING MOTHER NATURE

Study of Santa Catalina Island’s Blue Cavern Point nature preserve turns up more than 1,000 species and signs of changing oceans

These Moths Are So Gorgeous They ‘Put Butterflies to Shame'–Pictures!

Researchers have discovered a tiny new species of pygmy seahorse that inhabits the boulder-strewn coasts of Japan

The Earth Is Humming—Here's What It Means; Ceaseless rumble is nothing new, but observing it from the ocean floor could help future research

‘He transformed how sculpture is made’ – a tribute to Phillip King (1934–2021)

ART NOIR

Looking Back on Anthony Bourdain and Asia Argento’s Roller-Coaster Romance; A deep dive into the relationship so complicated that Roadrunner filmmaker Morgan Neville deemed it “narrative quicksand.”

'The Lost Leonardo' Official Trailer, (2021); Inside story behind the Salvator Mundi; Questions Remain

Go Inside One of Hollywood’s Wildest Scandals in Vanity Fair’s Newest Podcast, Love Is a Crime; Dark, bygone story of film producer Walter Wanger and actor Joan Bennett; With Actors Zooey Deschanel, Jon Hamm, Griffin Dunne, Mara Wilson and More

How the ‘art of the insane’ inspired the surrealists – and was twisted by the Nazis

Why Do Forgeries Sometimes Deceive Even the Most Venerable Experts? Because We All Want to Believe

Sotheby’s Is Suing a Miami Couple for Consigning Millions of Dollars Worth of Allegedly Fake Diego Giacometti Works

Outraged and Rich: The Doris Duke, Socialite and Art Collector, Cold Case Reopens; 1966 "Accident" Or Gruesome, Callous Murder?; The Only Known Eyewitness Speaks for the First Time

A Canadian Art Dealer Has Admitted to Co-Inventing a Fake Indigenous Artist

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Governor Cuomo Resigns: Street Art May Have Seen it Coming

The Performance Art of ‘Cooking with Paris’

Balmy Nights, Gentle Trades and a History of the Open-Air Movie Theaters That Were Once Found All Over the Hawaiian Islands ... Exclusive!

BANKSY SEASIDE SPREE!

Banksy Has Gone on an Art-Making Spree, With Murals and Installations Popping Up Across Five English Coast Towns

Banksy street art appears in English coastal towns

PAINTING WITH HUNTER

Psaki ‘not aware of plans’ for Joe Biden to attend Hunter’s pricey art show

Donald Kuspit: Self-Healing Through Art: Hunter Biden’s Abstract Paintings

Mark Bradford Puts Menorca on the Map

BETTER BURNING MAN

Garbicz, a discreet, ultra-cool music festival in Poland, East of Berlin, could blow Burning Man out of the water ... Visit their Site

What Is Burning Man Without Burning Man? World’s most famous festival turned cultural phenomenon is canceled for the second year in a row. What will rise to fill the Technicolor void it leaves behind?

Matt Stromberg: Matt Warren Makes Movie Posters For Your Consideration

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PALATE PALETTE

Alison Roman: The Pasta Salad of Summer

Chef Tara: A Summer Cocktail Hour: Frivolity with an Amuse-Bouche

The Turner Prize-Nominated Art Collective Cooking Sections Wants to Change the Way You Think About Food

ART vs. COMMERCE

Artists Should Never Take on a Commission Without a Contract; By the end of my commissioned project, it was obvious that the agency owner had no respect for me as an artist, a contractor, or even as a person

‘There’s All These Rules That Aren’t Written’: Watch Jacolby Satterwhite Navigate the Pressures of a Flourishing Art Career

Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art Movement of the Nabis, Paris, 1889–1900

A New Taschen Book Gathers Every Single Documented Frida Kahlo Painting, Including Lost Works—See Images Here

Shayne Oliver: ‘Being a Black weirdo is harder than being any other kind’

Dale Chihuly Returns to the Sonoran Desert with a Stunning New Exhibition at Two Iconic Arizona Venues

Tomás Saraceno Convinced His New Art Gallery to Shorten Its Hours for His Debut Exhibition to Save Electricity

Cheng: Santa Barbara Museum of Art opens rejuvenated lobby and galleries

Comic book writers and artists follow other creators to Substack

Yau: The Tension in Liat Yossifor’s Paintings

The Politics of Looking at Portraits of the Incarcerated

Review: “I GOT UP” Hot Wheels, Athens

Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg exhibits a group of Donald Judd works from 1977-1991 ... The Show, Click Here

A Los Angeles Classic: Richard Ankrom: Guerrilla Public Service 2011 Street Artist Gone Good

EJB: Susan Silton: WE at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles

Lunar Mountains and Divine Spheres: 1,000 Years of Illustrating Outer Space

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DISCOVERY

Ancient Roman Shipwreck Loaded With Wine Amphorae Found Off Sicilian Coast.

RadBots: A Preview of Virtual Companionship

How nature inspired the science behind these 3 powerful technologies; From CRISPR to glowing proteins to optogenetics, scientists have drawn from the natural world in their quest to advance biological research

Move over, Mars: Why the moons of Jupiter and Saturn may be key to finding alien life

TUNJI ADENIYI-JONES

For Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Joining White Cube Caps Meteoric Rise

Tunji Adeniyi-Jones joins White Cube

Actor Bill Murray Shares How an Inspirational Painting Saved His Life in Resurfaced Video

NFT THIS WEEK: THE BRANDING MARKET'S BEST FRIEND

Louis 200: Louis Vuitton celebrates its founder’s bicentennial birthday with a video game, NFTs, artists collabs and more

NFT Sales Top $1.2 Billion In July As Demand For Blockchain Games Soars

Phillips to Present 'What the Fork?' by Mike Parisella aka Slimesunday is a viral digital collage artist

Christie’s Hong Kong is the First to Auction Profile Pic NFTs

How Artists Are Seizing the NFT Moment to Transform the Debate About Tech and the Environment

Voice Makes NFTs Easy With New Carbon Neutral Platform

Voice Partners with Emerging Artists to Launch a New Carbon-Neutral NFT Platform

Russell Simmons launches NFT collection to help pioneers of hip-hop

1stDibs Launches NFT Platform, Introducing Auctions Featuring Group and Solo Exhibitions

NFTy 50: Fortune ranks the most influential builders, creatives, and influencers on the scene. Meet the NFTy 50

More in our comprehensive NFT Guide

Japanese Artist Tatsuya Tanaka Creates Amazing Miniature Dioramas Every Day For 10 Years

Overlooked no more: Janet Sobel, whose art influenced Jackson Pollock

Steven Hull and His Nothing Moments Press, Los Angeles, 1998 – 2008

Anne Lindberg "a new light" at The Landing

STREETWISE

Take a Tour of This Artist-decorated Neighborhood in Bangalore; “Street art really helps reimagine what a place can look like”

Brooklyn Street Art: Images of The Week

Graffiti Writer Fem in Bremen, Germany: A Mini-Doc

French Duo Monkeybird: “L’ouvreur de Chemins” Celebrates a Cathedral’s 800th in Spain

BOOKS AND WORDS

‘My job was to let my mother talk’: Shirley Jackson’s son on a book of her letters

New book explores Indigenous Australian collections in museums across the UK for first time

Sense and Sensuality: As a new biography by Chris Kraus of the author is published, revisiting Kathy Acker's writing on literature, logic and the libido

Glitter In the Air: Tabboo! 1982–1988

Love in the Time of Márquez; A Son’s Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez

The Nuances of Loneliness; In a new graphic nonfiction book, Kristen Radtke interrogates this pervasive but often shame-filled aspect of the human condition

"A History of American Tonalism" 1880-1920 Crucible of American Modernism

'Paper Bullets': Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis; history of a daring anti-Nazi campaign undertaken by a pair of French women; “paper bullets”—vicious insults against Hitler, calls to rebel, and subversive imagined dialogues

Made on a Boat, a Photographer’s Dreamy Views of the Sea; Paul Rousteau’s Seascapes evokes the melancholy feeling we often get when looking out at the ocean

Joseph Campbell’s Woman Problem; In the writer’s classic study of world myths, women were in the background. A new book aims to change that

Rediscovering the Gin-Soaked Screwball Mysteries of Craig Rice (1908-1957), a Female Author

Carlson Hatton, Alexandra Grant, Laura Karetzky, Karla Diaz at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles

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ARCHITECTURE

Mysterious Painting Reveals Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Unfinished Vision for Newark; & Towers Instead of 3

Re-evaluating Critical Regionalism: An Architecture of the Place, Climate, Topography and Tectonics; "Towards a Critical Regionalism, Six Points of an Architecture of Resistance"

5 inspiring design and architecture creatives to follow on Instagram

10 World Renowned Architects Give Advice to the Upcoming Generation

The Future Of Drive-Thru Restaurants?

Architects as Provocateurs; As social and environmental issues become more dire, architects must widen their field of focus

This is how the White House almost looked: 5 rejected designs

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"BUT MA, I WUZ JEST LOOKIN' AT ART!"

Pornhub removes videos and online tours based on works in Louvre, Uffizi and Prado collections

Julia Friedman: A Treasure Trove of Priceless Pornography

ART REPORT TODAY GALLERIES: Now Exhibiting

'GHOST RIDER' OF THE WEEK

Willie Nelson & Johnny Cash (American Outlaws: Live at Nassau Coliseum, 1990)

Norman Jewison and Hal Ashby were one of Hollywood’s great creative teams. Their unraveling left insiders mystified.

Actor Stephen Fry writes: Wuthering fights! Will this priceless book collection be preserved or broken up at auction? The Honresfield Library, a discovery that has set the world of books aquiver

Why did a respected British M.P. stage his own death? Two new biographies seek to offer an answer

The Late Artist and Psychic Paulina Peavy Communed With a UFO to Create Her Work. A New Show Revives Her Otherworldly Legacy; "The Etherian Channeler" at Beyond Baroque in Venice Beach reintroduces the West Coast to this singular artist

‘If This Doesn’t Touch You, I Have Failed’: Watch Louise Bourgeois Explain How the Unconscious Informs Her Approach to Making Art

Why Contemporary Artists Are Embracing Spirituality in Their Work

KAWS Wants His New 18-Foot-Tall Cartoon Couple at Rockefeller Center to Make You Feel Good—See Images Here

Read Artillery magazine's 'Summer Reading' issue (July-August 2021), for Free!

STAR ART

Gene Simmons Has Been Making Art in Secret for 50 Years; “During the pandemic, I had a chance to pull decades of my art out of storage and it reignited my passion for drawing and painting again,” Kiss bassist says

Courtney Love and Filmmaker Marco Brambilla Have Been Friends for a Decade. Here’s How His New VR Work Changed Their Relationship

An Early 20th-Century Erotic Illustrator and Her Queer Vision of Beauty

A New York Gallery Owner Says He Destroyed Six Paintings Over a Controversy Regarding Their Depiction of Native American Symbols; The paintings depicted the murders of Native Americans that took place in Oklahoma from the 1910s through the 1930s

Helsinki’s inaugural biennial goes off with a bang on the former military island of Vallisaari

This colour chart of nature is completely mad – and utterly beguiling

Jennifer Packer "The Eye is Not Satisfied With Seeing" Serpentine South Gallery, London

‘There Is an Unseen World Behind Our World’: Artist Cai Guo-Qiang on What the Cosmos Can Reveal About Humanity

An Oli Epp Painting Sold for Nearly 10 Times Its High Estimate

MANUFACTURING ART

‘Art doctors’ help keep the collection healthy at Smithsonian American Art Museum; They use scientific tools to maintain and repair the museum’s art collection

Meet the Ceramic Innovators Firing Up an Age-Old Craft

Artificial Intelligence May Have Cracked the Code to Creating Low-Priced Works on Canvas; Artifly was inspired by Christie's sale of AI-generated art by Obvious

Studio Matthews: From museums to university campuses, a design firm in Seattle immerses visitors in memorable stories

ART BUSINESS

The dep-Art-ment store: New York gets new gallery hub within Barneys former flagship store; Tefaf New York's former co-owners will launch the five-storey Art House this November with space for 60 galleries and a member's club—a similar model to London's Cromwell Place

In New York, Fair Weather Darkens As Books Show Cancels, Armory Pivots 55 Dealers Online

The Pandemic May Have Killed the Blockbuster Exhibition. Museum Veteran Chris Dercon Says That’s a Good Thing

Take the Quiz: Should You Work At A Gallery?

Dubai Is Building An Art Collection -- Without Buying Any Art-- Will Borrow; Aiming for Fast Growth; To create a canon of art history that has not been present in the Middle East

An Italian Museum Director Has Resigned, Saying the Country’s New Vaccine Mandate Exploits Cultural Institutions; exploiting cultural institutions to force vaccinations

Sam Lefebvre: The Financialization of Art; Art as a Liquid Asset

LACMA’s Game-Changing Partnership With Mega-Collector Budi Tek Will Kick Off With a Show of Contemporary Chinese Art; The Chinese-Indonesian collector forged the partnership with LACMA in 2018

COLLECTORS CIRCLE

Fabrizio Moretti on His Encyclopedic Collection, and the Urs Fischer Sculpture That’s Too Big to Fit Anywhere

Meet The New Generation of Art Collectors

Modern Patrons: Hussam Otaibi; The British financier discusses championing emerging art and expanding minds

London Collector Valeria Napoleone on Why She Exclusively Acquires Work by Women Artists; Italian-born collector and philanthropist told us about the artists on her wishlist for the next year

Step Inside Art Collectors Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo’s Soulful Los Angeles Home; Video

5 Essential Tips for Collecting Street Art

Celesta Hodge, "I Work to Buy Art"

EXPERIENTIAL

Trippy, Immersive Van Gogh exhibit in NYC to host WEED NIGHT!

David Gumbs: From Dust To Gold at Jepson Center, Savannah

Superblue to bring its immersive art experiences to New York and London this autumn; Dutch duo DRIFT and Japanese-British collective Studio Swine

London Officials Spent $2.7 Million to Build an Art Experience With ‘Soaring’ City Views. Its First Visitors Were Very Disappointed

The Asian Art Museum: Full of Art With a Past, Not of the Past

Cheng: San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum opens with more cutting-edge projections by teamLab

TeamLab’s Turbo-Charged Art Playground Inaugurates the Asian Art Museum’s New Pavilion; "teamLab: Continuity" marks the Japanese art collective's first U.S. museum incursion

PHOTOGRAPHY

20 of the First Photographs of Things, from People to Hoaxes to the Moon

Home is where the art is: LensCulture prize winners – in pictures

The Art in the Stars; the field of Astrophotography

2020: A Year Like No Other, Captured in Photos

The Surprising Benefits of Talking to Strangers; A Photo Show

See the Hallucinatory Images of Space That Made the Shortlist for the Royal Observatory’s Astronomy Photograph of the Year

50 Years of Taking Photography Seriously; When the Photographers’ Gallery opened in London in 1971, few saw the medium as suitable for exhibitions. Today, everyone does.

Rock’n’roll and the civil rights struggle: African American life in the south – in pictures; Ernest C Withers’ photographs

The Sensual, Surreal, and Queer PaJaMa Collective (Late 1930 to Early 1950)

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

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