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ARTIST PROFILE: ELIZABETH NEEL

Rachel Lachowicz, One On One, Eyeshadow and Aluminum, 1998-1999, Courtesy of Shoshana Wayne
Chuck Close Closes at 81

Kimberly Brooks: Interview with the artist and author of the new artworld-changing book The New Oil Painting: Your Essential Guide to Materials and Safe Practices

RAUL GUERRERO

Painter Raul Guerrero skewers American history in wry solo show at David Kordansky Gallery

Raul Guerrero 'Fata Morgana' at David Kordansky Gallery

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp: Raul Guerrero and Social Studies, With a Twist

John Tottenham: Gone To The Dogs

In Her First Major U.S. Exhibition, French-American Sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle’s Vision of the World Shines at MoMA PS1

See Major Works by Karon Davis, Hélio Oiticica, and Others That the Pérez Art Museum Miami Has Added to Its Collection; Works by Coco Fusco, Veronica Ryan, and Nathaniel Mary Quinn now also belong to the museum

Illustration: Hilma af Klint Inspires an Artist to Take a Closer Look; She was an artist who believed in progress, in the evolution of humanity

Post-Spiritual Abstraction

Leticia Maldonado “Autonoetic” at Bermudez Projects

Yau: Brenda Goodman’s Abstraction and Pain

The Art World Remembers the Late Painter Hung Liu, Who Valorized Everyday Immigrants in Monumental Portraits

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

Christine Nguyen 'Cosmic Gardens' at AMcE Creative Arts, Seattle

Alberto González Vivo – 'I think if the work has the desired effect on me, it will have that effect on others'

BRAVING OPPRESSION

‘We’re Doing All We Can’: Art Workers in France Are Mobilizing to Help Afghan Creators Threatened by the Taliban Reach Safety

Afghans Are Painting Over Images of Women While Culture Workers Are Putting Art in Storage as Afghanistan Braces for Taliban Control

How Goldman Sachs exploits ‘woke values’ to pursue its own profit and power

Sasha Stone: How to Think Critically About CRT, and other Fictional Simulations of Our Dual Realities

All These Artworks Have Been Censored By Instagram; Artists from Imogen Cunningham and Sebastião Salgado to Peo Michie and Lena Chen have had their works banned from the platform

Mae West: The Sex-Positive Old Hollywood Icon Who Was Far Ahead of Her Time; “Her way is all her own”

China pushes adoption of language, cultural symbols in Tibet

‘Law and order collapsed’: Hong Kong artist Kacey Wong on finding freedom in Taiwan

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

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

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

GO, VAN GOGH!

Ten surprising facts about Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, his greatest masterpiece; From a brothel garden to Nazi leader Hermann Göring’s fake—all part of the sunflower story

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

Pablo Larrain’s ‘Spencer’: First Reaction

Dueling Dianas: Kristen Stewart's Pablo Larrain‘s 'Spencer' Vs. Emma Corrin in 'The Crown'

Comedian Jimmy O. Yang Reteams With Jon M. Chu for "The Great Chinese Art Heist" Movie at Warner Bro.; Mysterious thefts across world reclaiming Chinese art and antiquities

Ezrha Jean Black: Phil Connell’s "Jump, Darling" at OUTFEST Los Angeles

Actor Sonny Chiba, martial arts icon and ‘Kill Bill’ star, dead at 82

Inside Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Radical Directorial Debut, 'The Lost Daughter', based on Elena Ferrante's Novel

Author Elena Ferrante: ‘Maggie Gyllenhaal is filming one of my books. It’s her story to tell now'

'White as Snow’ NYT Review: The Fairest of Them All; Director Anne Fontaine spins the Snow White fairy tale into a contemporary thriller, with Isabelle Huppert as the jealous stepmother

'White As Snow' With Isabelle Huppert, Official US Trailer

"Lamb" Trailer

Marvel Studios’ 'Eternals', Final Trailer

Nicolas Cage Hasn’t Lost His Edge; The actor may have retreated from the mainstream, but his latest film is a reminder that he’s always been a magnetic screen presence

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

The Story of La Veneno, Spain’s Badass Trans Superstar; HBO Max series Veneno embraces all of the media personality’s colorful life, including the messier parts

"Venemo" Trailer

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

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

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

IS ARTFORUM PAY-TO-PLAY?

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

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

Mark Bradford Puts Menorca on the Map

ART AND RACE

What Does It Mean to Create Afrofuturistic Art?

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

SCIENCE

Device makes seawater drinkable in minutes, possibly solving world’s freshwater shortage

AI gave Val Kilmer his voice back. But critics worry the technology could be misused

Is a Giant Purple Nipple the Digital Nose of the Future?

Black Hole Megastructures May Be Powering Alien Civilizations, Scientists Say; Dyson spheres encompassing around black holes could yield up to one million times more energy than those built around stars, according to a new study

STAGE STRUCK

Joshua William Gelb turned a small space in his small apartment into a blueprint for astonishing theater streaming during the pandemic. But what happens as real venues open again?

A Las Vegas theater company knows the value of having an interior architect on board (and they're hiring one right now)

Review: Shakespeare in the Park Merry Wives Is a Gift of Black Joy; Playwright Jocelyn Bioh creates a Harlem-based adaptation of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor

New Plays by Annie Baker, Dominique Morisseau, and More Join Signature Season

New Doc, 'On Broadway', Official Documentary Trailer

As Venues Reopen, Will Streamed Theater Still Have a Place? Shutdown allowed increased access and artistic experimentation. But how much sticks is an open, and contested, question

Velvet, Organza and Vipers: Stage Costumes Dazzle; Exhibition offers a close-up look at “Hamilton,” “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” and more. Here are 10 highlights

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

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

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

AMAZING MOTHER NATURE

Sahli Nature Park: Using butterflies to tell a greater story about conservation

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

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

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

ART NOIR

Gunfire at Dutch Museum; Failed Monet Heist; Motorcycle Escape; Perps at Large

Edgar Allan Poe’s Final Macabre Mystery: His Own Death

What constitutes art sales under duress? A dispute reignites the question

‘Slap in the face’: Poland passes law effectively blocking Holocaust-era art restitutions

A Judge Has Dismissed Hollywood Exec Ron Meyer’s Lawsuit Claiming Two Dealers Duped Him Into Buying a Fake Rothko; Court ruled that Meyer's suit was irrelevant

The Dresden Job; A rash of sensational museum robberies; Fearsome crime family; Billion-dollar jewel heist illo dresden
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Dresden Green Vault Jewelry Heist Suspect Arrested in Berlin

Italian mobster linked to Van Goghs is held in Dubai; Alleged major cocaine trafficker; “I bought them directly from the thief, because the price was attractive,. But most of all because I love art"

Berlin museum gold coin heist: 3 sentenced to jail

The Spine Collector For years, a mysterious figure has been stealing books before their release. Is it espionage? Revenge? Or a complete waste of time?

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.”

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

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

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Philip Kennicott, Washington Post Art and Architecture critic: It’s too simple to compare the photos of Kabul to those from Saigon. The real connections are deeper

NOT YOUR GRANDMA'S VAN GOGH EXPERIENCE

Making Waves: Production brings Hokusai's works to life; Through dance, Japanese instruments and projections

FORMERLY KNOWN AS CINEMA

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

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NANCY RUBINS

In Conversation, Video: Nancy Rubins

Nancy Rubins: Exploring Form; Video

Nancy Rubins: Drawing In Graphite

PRJCTLA

Doug Harvey Interview: Welcome Back Potter: Carter Potter Emerges at PRJCTLA

Doug Harvey Interview: McDonald’s “Don’t Know” Meal; David McDonald at PRJCTLA

The 'blackest' black: How a color controversy sparked a years-long art feud; Anish Kapoor, owner of Vantablack Vs. Stuart Semple, the Liberator of Color

Appreciating the Poetic Misunderstandings of A.I. Art

Cuts, Splinters and Frames: Wood Takes Centre Stage

How Contemporary Art Became a Vibe; the Visually Ambient

A brush with Glenn Ligon; In-depth interview on the artist's big influences, from Stevie Wonder to Charles Dickens

Swimming in Dreams: In Conversation with Artist Jenny Fine, 'Synchronized Swimmers'

The Portfolio of Gabriella Sanchez at the Charlie James Gallery

Phyllis Tuchman on Pablo Picasso’s “Les Femmes d’Alger (Version L)”

BANKSY SEASIDE SPREE!

Big Bucks on the Wall! A Banksy Mural in Harwich, Essex is Getting a Security Guard After Other Artworks Have Been Defaced

Could new Banksy works help seaside spot become the next UK City of Culture

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

Why would anyone pay $500,000 for a painting by Hunter Biden? He’s not an established artist – or critically acclaimed. Yet his works are apparently being sold for surprising amounts

A Gallery Sells Hunter Bidens. The White House Says It Won’t Know Who’s Buying. Hunter Biden’s works are being offered for as much as $500,000 apiece; his art dealer said he would follow ethics guidelines that the Biden administration helped to develop

ARTIST’S HEALTH

Austrian motorist runs over artist lying on road during ‘performance’ in Salzburg

Conversation: Having someone to talk to improves brain health, may prevent Alzheimer’s disease

The Surprising Benefits of Talking to Strangers; A Photo Show

NEW MEDIA: INTRODUCING PUCK

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PALATE PALETTE

Alison Roman: Tomato-Poached Fish with Chile Oil

Chef Tara: In Defense of Cauliflower

An Ancient Fast Food Restaurant in Pompeii That Served Honey-Roasted Rodents Is Now Open to the Public

The Performance Art of ‘Cooking with Paris’

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

A Conversation with Craig Drennen and his THE END Project Space in Atlanta

Edward Goldman Visits Alison Saar’s exhibition at the Armory Center for the Arts and the Norton Simon Museum

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DISCOVERY

Scientists Have Conducted Tests That Reveal Stonehenge Is Made From a Nearly Indestructible Ancient Material; Rare core sample, removed years ago, contains a form of quartz that doesn't erode or crumble

Archaeologists Have Unearthed a Rare Cache of 6th-Century Coins Hidden in the Ancient Greek City of Phanagoria; Researchers believe the coins were stowed away prior to a devastating attack by the Huns or the Turks.

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

TUNJI ADENIYI-JONES

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

Tunji Adeniyi-Jones joins White Cube

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

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

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

NFT THIS WEEK: THE BRANDING MARKET'S BEST FRIEND

Why Games Became Luxury Fashion’s NFT On-Ramp

1stDibs launches NFT platform, introducing auctions featuring group and solo exhibitions

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

Teens Cash In on the NFT Art Boom: Forget mowing lawns and bagging groceries. Some Gen Z kids are finding other ways to make money this summer

An Artist Just Sold 1,000 NFTs to Give Digital Art Nonprofit Rhizome the Biggest Gift in Its 25-Year History

Alibaba’s new blockchain auction platform is selling Star Wars art on a ledger run by Sichuan’s government

Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi launches 'Messiverse' NFT crypto art collection

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

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

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

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STREETWISE

Layer Cake Bring Their “Versus Project” to Urban Nation’s Special Projects space in Berlin

Brooklyn Street Art: Images of The Week

Street Art Networked by NYC History: Decommissioned vintage fire box alarms become mosaics

5 Essential Tips for Collecting Street Art

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

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

BOOKS AND WORDS

Gagosian presents 'St. Kit of New York: Part One': A short story in four parts by Christopher Bollen
Part Two ... Part Three ... Part Four

Werner Herzog to tell story of Japanese soldier who refused to surrender: The German film director has announced two new books: a memoir and The Twilight World, about a remarkable second world war officer

How West Magazine Created a Southern-California Pop-Culture Aesthetic with the Help of Milton Glaser, Gahan Wilson, and Others (1967-1972)

Medieval Grotesque: Gareth Brookes, ‘The Dancing Plague’; A graphic novel reimagines the famous case of mania that overtook the city of Strasbourg in 1518

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

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

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

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

ARCHITECTURE

The Glass Drawing Room at Northumberland House, London; VR View

Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Woods Bagot reveal updated Adelaide Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre after feedback

Inside a $28 Million NYC Townhouse Designed by the Same Architect as St. Patrick’s Cathedral

The Arab Woman: How This Young Female Architect Defied Obstacles in the Field

Forbes: Meet The Architect Building Spiritual Spaces In People’s Homes Amidst The Global Pandemic

Beyond the shotgun shack: How architects are rethinking Southern buildings for the 21st century

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

5 inspiring design and architecture creatives to follow on Instagram

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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Artists on What It Means To Be a Hero

ART REPORT TODAY GALLERIES: Now Exhibiting

'GHOST RIDER' OF THE WEEK

Roy Clark "Ghost Riders in the Sky"

Forget It, Jake, It’s Hollywood: New Book: The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

Day of the Assassins: A Long History of Political Murder

The Dark Side of Kubrick's "Lolita"; Sue Lyon was 14 when she starred in the film. The producer slept with her anyway

MY ALIEN BFF

Top Secret UFO Projects: What Do American Indian Legends Say About ‘Star People’?; Fascinating Origin Story of the Devil's Tower

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

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

‘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

You Are Dying Every Day

Lana Del Rey Says Narcissism, Not Climate Change, Is World’s Biggest Problem

Frieze’s Beloved Sculpture Park Is Back in Regent’s Park This September—Get a Sneak Preview of the Whimsical Works Here

Colleen Blackard - 'From an early age I found it easier to communicate with gestures and pictures than with words'

Matthew Wong: Blue View

Visit the Beautifully Bizarre Cryptozoo, a Sanctuary for Mythological Creatures; Creative duo Dash Shaw and Jane Samborski

Review: The animated ‘Cryptozoo’ is a sexy, political, wildly imagined beast of a movie

The cheek of it: Artists celebrate the bottom – in pictures

Huguette Caland’s Vivacious Takes on the Female Form; Robust, voluptuous, and sexually frank, the works in Tête-à-Tête showcase Caland’s outré sense of humor and vivacity

Andy Kolar “Head in the Clouds/Left Hanging” at Walter Maciel Gallery

Kiki Kogelnik, a Pop Artist With a Feminist Bent; Though created nearly 60 years ago, her artworks feel exuberantly contemporary

Pace Gallery presents a group exhibition curated by Michael Xufu Huang, art patron and founder of Beijing’s X Museum ... The Show

Group Show "Dysmorphia" at the Maddox Gallery, WeHo

Barbara Kruger: ‘Thank God I’m an artist and not a movie or Tiktok star’; As a survey show opens in Chicago, the US artist discusses the political urgency of her work, her response to rip-offs, and her desire to let the work speak for her

Why Contemporary Artists Are Embracing Spirituality in Their Work

MUSIC AND SOUND

‘They deserve a place in history’: music teacher makes map of female composers; Interactive tool features more than 500 women who are often forgotten in the classical music world

The New Criterion: Great Conductors

ART BUSINESS

Atlanta-based Galleries are Joining Forces: Marcia Wood Gallery, September Gray, and Mason Fine Art Move into a Shared Space

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

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

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

Indian Art Consultant Dev Bhojwani Shares 7 Tips for Collectors, From Avoiding Fakes to Spotting Bias Among Advisors

The Guru of Indonesian Modern and Contemporary Art: Art collector Dr. Oei Hong Djien; His private OHD Museum

Collector and Aspen Art Museum ArtCrush co-chair Jamie Tisch

Actress and Model Celesta Hodge on Why Art Is the Best Kind of Therapy

Collector Marinko Sudac: How Art History Is Being Re-Written with Eastern European Avant-Garde

Collector Robert Stilin

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

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

EXPERIENTIAL

Everything and Everyone is Connected: Ernesto Neto at MFAH

Thomas P. Campbell, director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, reviews one of the immersive Vincent van Gogh digital experiences: "Don't bother."

An Artist Just Transformed Berlin’s Berghain Nightclub Into an Eerie, Immersive 3D Swamp—See Images Here; Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen drew on gaming software for the high-tech installation

‘This Healing Ritual Can Continue’: Watch Artist Guadalupe Maravilla Confront Communal Trauma Through Experiential Art

From Boat Chases to Helicopter Adventures: This James Bond Travel Experience Puts You Inside Your Own 007 Flick

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

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

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

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

"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

PHOTOGRAPHY

Finding a Lavender Thread Even in Catherine Opie’s Landscapes; Queer outlook suffuses the photographer’s wide-ranging works, from streetscapes and still lifes to Elizabeth Taylor’s closet

Hiro, Fashion Photographer Who Captured the Surreal, Dies at 90

Swirling Images of the Cosmos, as Seen From Earth; 2021 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition

"Escape" Large Photography Sale on artnet auctions

Amon Carter Acquires More Than 240 Works from Collection of Finis Welch

A fresh angle: The revolutionary gaze of Canadian photographer Margaret Watkins – in pictures

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

2020: A Year Like No Other, Captured in Photos

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.

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: ELIZABETH NEEL

Elizabeth Neel at Vielmetter Los Angeles