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Simon de Pury: Art Basel is Back! 50th edition of the famed art fair features work by artists as varied as Camille Pissarro and Kara Walker

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Buys an Iconic Frida Kahlo Self Portrait

‘I’ve Learned to Lean on God’: Rising Artist Genesis Tramaine on How She Channels Her Christian Faith Into Ecstatic Portraits

‘Opera is boring’: Marina Abramovic’s cinematic ode to soprano Maria Callas opens in London; Belgrade-born performance artist discusses recasting opera for a younger generation, how the diva label is “dubious” and why sex is better post-menopause

A LITTLE KNOWN RUSCHA INFLUENCE

Eilshemius and Me: An interview with Ed Ruscha About the Works of Louis Michel Eilshemius

‘This Is My Swan Song’: After a Brush With Death, Tracey Emin Has Returned to Her Hometown to Build a Museum and Write Her Legacy

Tracey Emin's New Studio Tour: Video

Jean-Michel Basquiat Inscribed a Cocktail Book for His Favorite Bartender Before He Died. See His Personal Sketches Inside

The Guardian: Betye Saar: the brilliant artist who reversed and radicalised racist stereotypes

CHASING HUNTER

Selling Access is a Scandal About Joe Biden, Not Hunter

GOP Rep. James Comer demands ethics rules from gallery for Hunter Biden’s art show

"Hunter's career is "insulting to the art ecosystem," said Representative James Comer, quoting art advisor Lisa Schiff. Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee Is Demanding Hunter Biden’s Art Dealer Make the Artist’s Sales Public

The Atlantic: The Emerging Artistry of Hunter Biden; His upcoming solo show is a headache for the White House—and a window into the murky finances of the international art market; "From unqualified oil-and-gas adviser to budding Basquiat"

...TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET!

True Crime in Real Time: The Murder of Gabby Petito

California-Grown Cannabis To Be Judged at Next State Fair; California Commerce!

BRAVING OPPRESSION

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara named an ‘icon’ of 2021 by Time magazine; Cuban artist and activist is joined on the publication’s list of 100 Most Influential People by Barbara Kruger and Mark Bradford

Cuba Is Plowing Ahead With the Havana Biennial—But Don’t Expect the Government to Allow Artists Who Participated in the Recent Protests; Artists may want to think twice before participating in this winter's event

Ai Wei Wei: As They Hasten to Cozy Up to China, M+ Museum and Credit Suisse Have Let Freedom of Speech Fall By the Wayside

Hong Kong’s M+ Museum Has Removed Ai Weiwei’s Famous Tiananmen Square Photo From Its Website While It Awaits Government Review

Chinese Dissident Ai Weiwei Says Credit Suisse Is Closing Foundation’s Account

‘It’s Just a Perpetual Slaughter’: Barbara Kruger on Why She’s Remaking Some of Her Old Critiques of Power for Her New Museum Survey

Johnny Depp Says Cancel Culture Is “So Far Out Of Hand” & “No One Is Safe”, Asks People To “Stand Up” Against “Injustice”

Inside the Social Media Surveillance Software That Can Watch Your Every Move

Kenya bans 'blasphemous' film about gay lovers

See It Again! Timeless and Very Relevant Message from Artist Oliver Stone: 'JFK' "It's Your Government! What Are They Hiding From You?"

Mark Crispin Miller: A Propaganda Masterpiece, Perspectives on the Pandemic

‘We Gave Them a Lot of Authority to Guide Us’: How the Native Tribes of Oklahoma Are Helping Shape the New First Americans Museum; After languishing for 15 years, the Oklahoma City museum is opening to the public at last

"American Hero: The 9/11 Movie" An Art Show by Wayne Coe

Art Travels to Space: Celebrating Ocean Life using AI, Biology, and Space

Art Destined for Space Has an Earthly Impact; All-female artist collective is sending artworks into the stratosphere

Pace Gave Its New Digital Director Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle the Keys to Its Brick and Mortar Gallery. The Results Are Refreshing

A Startling Exhibition on the History of Documenta Reveals the Political Moves—and Nazi Ties—of Its First Curators; The exhibition unravels the history of the first 10 editions of the powerhouse show

Who Owns the Logo of the Lesbian Avengers, Decades Later? After Gap released a shirt with the group's 1990s logo, a controversy revealed complex questions about the visual language of activism

‘I Didn’t Think I’d Survive’: Sculptor Thomas Houseago on His Mental Breakdown, Recovery, and How Facing Trauma Transformed His Art

Why Louise Bourgeois made her iconic spider sculptures

Ten objects by Joseph Beuys exhibited at different locations in Munich

Light Years Ahead: Interview with Robert Irwin

STREETWISE

Forbes: Street Art On The Blockchain: How Streeth Is Changing The Art Market

Whoa! See Pics! Saype in New York for General Assembly – and Celebrate 75 Years of United Nations with gift from Geneva to NYC

Heartbreaking Art From Afghanistan’s First Female Street Artist Shamsia Hassani

Brooklyn Street Art Images of the Week

Street artist/fine artist Adele Renault: “Plantasia” Show and Birds Of Paradise at Galerie Quai 4, Belgium

Hyuro: “Douce Vie” – A Posthumous Tribute in Angers, France

Cosima von Bonin Takes Cute Art Seriously; Implicit throughout the artist's latest show is the tension between the feeling of failure and the struggle to be recognized and taken seriously, rather than erased

EJB: Umar Rashid “Per Capita” at Transformative Arts

Snapshots of Gay Culture and History in Pornography; Evan Purchell’s collage film Ask Any Buddy stitches together 100 adult films from the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, illuminating aspects of everyday life amid the sex.

Ask Any Buddy; Official Theatrical Trailer

FORMERLY KNOWN AS CINEMA

Melvin Van Peebles, iconic ‘blaxploitation’ filmmaker, dead at 89

Venice Film Festival: ‘L’Événement’ Wins Golden Lion, ‘Hand Of God’ Takes Grand Jury Prize, Jane Campion Best Director, Penelope Cruz Best Actress, Maggie Gyllenhaal Best Screenplay – Full List

Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story", Official Trailer

The Mad Vehicular Creations for the Last 'Mad Max: Fury Road' Masterpiece are For Sale!

Kristen Stewart is hauntingly brilliant as Princess Diana in ‘Spencer’

"Spencer" Official Trailer

No Time to Lose: Hollywood Pins Its Hopes on Bond Director Cary Fukunaga

New York Times Film Critics Praise Joel Coen’s ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’

"The Tragedy of Macbeth" Official Trailer; From writer/director Joel Coen and starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand

Christopher Nolan Exits Warner Bros and Chooses Universal for His J. Robert Oppenheimer Atom Bomb Movie

The Matrix Resurrections: Keanu Reeves' Reaction to the Initial Cut

"C'mon C'mon" Official Trailer HD

'The Guilty' Official Trailer, Jake Gyllenhaal, Netflix

Return to Paul Thomas Anderson Land, "Licorice Pizza"

Nightmare Alley: First Look at Guillermo del Toro’s Noir Thriller

Arrebato’ Trailer: Pedro Almodóvar’s Favorite Spanish Cult Horror Movie Gets Its First U.S. Run

Kenneth Branagh‘s “Belfast” Reactions Are Scaring Me

"Belfast" - Official Trailer

Much Anticipated Robert Eggers’ ‘The Northman’ Test-Screens in Dallas

'The Many Saints Of Newark' – Official Trailer 2

Why The Heavily Criticised Digital Revolution Has Been Good For Cinema

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

STAGE STRUCK

Cindy Adams: Broadway Rises Once Again!

‘Of Mice and Men’ Review: Seeing Steinbeck Anew; Webcast staging from 2008 refreshes the familiar story by turning its world of bunkhouses and barns into something genuinely poetic

Broadway is Back! Four Musicals Re-open Tonight, and “Lackawanna Blues” Arrives

A Shaky New Season: On Pass Over at August Wilson Theatre, Trial on the Potomac: The Impeachment of Richard Nixon at the Theatre at St. Clement’s, and The Book of Moron at Soho Playhouse

Ida Rubinstein, Diva/Dancer/Actress of Fascination, in New Christian Holder Play in London

‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ review: Drag musical film lacks sparkle; Co-starring Richard E. Grant

A Troubled and Fascinating History: Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark – Broadway's Underrated Musical Gem

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

New Doc, 'On Broadway', Official Documentary Trailer <p> </p>

AMAZING MOTHER NATURE

Inside the Bizarre Life of the Star-Nosed Mole, World's Fastest Eater

Animal Attraction: Joachim Schmeisser’s African-wildlife photographs pay homage to the magical creatures of Kenya’s Amboseli National Park

Artist Joan Jonas: On the Ocean and Nature

Take a peak: the mountains and mysticism of Nepal – in pictures

The Epic Love Story Between a Man and an Octopus

ART NOIR

Nearly 500 Counterfeit Francis Bacon Works Confiscated in Italy

Maurizio Cattelan’s $6 million, 18-karat Golden Toilet Is Still Missing; Likely Re-sculptured

DNA Evidence Leads Dutch Police to a 59-Year-Old Man Accused of Serial Art Thefts Worth $20 Million

The Philadelphia Museum of Art Will Return an Ancient ‘Pageant Shield’ Looted by Nazis to the Czech Republic

Property and Theft: A History of Looting in Southeast Asia

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(THE) CHRISTO(S)!

In Paris, the Wrapped Arc de Triomphe Is a Polarizing Package

Photo Essay: Making Christo’s Dream a Reality

Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s wrap of L’Arc de Triomphe reads like a salient point on hollow glory

Give Jeanne-Claude Her Rightful Credit; Scattered across headlines and social media, there is a pernicious tendency of journalists to attribute the work of Jeanne-Claude and Christo to Christo alone

All the World in a ‘Slice’ of Art; The newest painting by Jasper Johns was inspired by a fan letter from an astrophysicist. Here’s a first look

Seeing Double With Jasper Johns; Two major museums teamed up for “Mind/Mirror,” only to realize they disagreed. Alike yet different, the two shows offer a revelatory look at America’s most famous living artist

How Kulapat Yantrasast became museums’ design man of the moment: A timeline

AVERY SINGER

In Pictures: Millennial Art Star Avery Singer Conjures Dazzling Paintings Out of Digital Chaos in Her Debut Show at Hauser & Wirth; Works like 'China Chalet' and 'Wojak Battle Scene' show why Singer has her paintbrush on the pulse

Brooklyn Rail: In Conversation with Avery Singer: "...a real stake in authorship, in originality, and offers a unique conception of the world.”

THE FOUR PERCENT

The Artists of Time Magazine's “the 100 most influential people of 2021”

Mark Bradford by Anita Hill

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara by Ai Weiwei

Architect Kengo Kuma by Kenjiro Hosaka

Barbara Kruger by Hal Foster

Japan’s “Nobel Prize for Art” Awarded to American sculptor James Turrell (sculpture), Brazilian artist Sebastião Salgado (painting), U.K.-born architect Glenn Murcutt (architecture) and French cellist Yo-Yo Ma (music)

STILL PARTING THE WATERS

Ed Moses "Edges, Magmas and Waterfalls" at the Kohn Gallery

Telluride Gallery presents "Ed Moses Master of Crazy Wisdom"

LOCA MOCA

Vanity Fair: True Colors: Inside the Director Scramble at MOCA

Klaus Biesenbach named director of Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie

Knight: Why this bizarre email represents larger problems at MOCA

Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles names Johanna Burton of the Wexner as its first executive director; Burton will run the museum with Klaus Biesenbach, who has been reassigned as artistic director in a restructuring

GO, VAN GOGH!

A Newly Discovered Vincent van Gogh Drawing of a Bummed-Out Old Man Has Been Unveiled in Amsterdam; Completed in November 1882, the sketch depicts an old man with his head in his hands and appears to be a study for the artist's 'Worn out.'

Jeff Koons reveals he is making NFTs, details plans for his Pace Gallery shows and remembers his hotel rendezvous with Salvador Dalí

HK Zamani at PRJCTLA

Diving among ancient ruins where Romans used to party; Baiae Underwater Park

Demand for Grace Hartigan’s Pioneering Ab-Ex Oeuvre Extends to Works on Paper

Sarradet: The Other Side: Stories From the Artists’ Perspective

Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? at Legion of Honor Museum

‘Matthew Wong: Blue View’ at the AGO a chance to see the work of an artist ‘hitting his full stride’

How Alice Walton Is Doubling Down on Her Mega-Museum in Arkansas; The only daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton brought priceless artworks to Bentonville, Arkansas. Now, a decade on, she’s taking on the establishment with ambitious expansion plans to make the museum—and the town—a world-class destination

A brush with... Artist and Choreographer Tino Sehgal; In-depth conversation on the artist's big influences, from Beethoven to Watteau

Thoughts On New Exhibition “Till They Listen: Bill Gunn Directs America”

Reviews: Oto Gillen “Wax Gourd” LOMEX Gallery, New York

ARTIST’S HEALTH

Why has the Amish community doubled in size over the last 20 years? Similarities to the Artist's Life?

Your mental health may depend on what’s in your diet

Doctors in Brussels to prescribe museum visits in new trial; to counteract pandemic-related mental health issues

VR POTENTIAL

Art, terror and erections show VR potential at Venice; "Can you tell the difference between what is and isn't real?" intones Tilda Swinton

VR Burning Man lets revellers experience festival's infamous 'Orgy Dome' at home

GOOD GIGS

Designer Willo Perron aims for calm; Inside Jay-Z’s Surprisingly Serene L.A. Office

See Tiffany’s New Collaboration With Artist Daniel Arsham

Jeff Koons and BMW: First Look of The Artist's Special Edition 8 Series Gran Coupe Revealed

A Beautiful Marriage of Art and Commerce: Swedish artist Mamma Andersson on Her Collaboration With Svenskt Tenn

What is Svenskt Tenn?

Vacheron Constantin’s New York Flagship Store Opens With a Surprising Collaboration With the Chris Burden Estate

Opportunities in September 2021; From collaborative grants to open calls and experimental residencies, a list of opportunities that artists, writers, and art workers can apply for this month

NEW MEDIA: INTRODUCING PUCK

Our favorite topics: Money, Ego and Power! Launching in September, we introduce the insider-savvy PUCK, a new media platform focused on Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Washington and NYC. The experienced writing staff is top-notch. Click Here for an early access subscription deal!

PALATE PALETTE

Alison Roman: Dad's Matzo Brei

Chef Mina Stone and Artist Urs Fischer Discuss How to Feed Artists

The very special toast was conceived by 29-year-old artist Tim Bengel as a symbol of the millennial ethos. ‘An Icon of Our Time’: An Artist Is Selling a $2.9 Million Solid-Gold Avocado Toast at Berlin Art Week

How to Make 24K Gold Avocado Toast? See Here!

Ania Hobson “I See You” at SETARAH X, Düsseldorf

How Pipilotti Rist Made Menstrual Blood Mesmerizing

Artist Pipilotti Rist is about to open a survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; Carolina A. Miranda interviews

THE CLIMATE IS ALWAYS CHANGING

Read Artillery magazine's September 2021 Climate Issue

Zaria Forman: Fear and Awe; Showcasing Beauty and Fragility with Drawings

What Does It Mean to Exhibit Nature? Like a creeping scent, Sean Raspet’s exhibition at Various Small Fires works its way through the viewer’s psyche almost imperceptibly

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LOSING AND CHOOSING MY RELIGION

Carl Sagan on the Existence of God

Stoicism: Wake Up, You’re Fever Dreaming

"There's always people doing far better than you, in anything you want to imagine, but it's not a good comparison, because first of all, they aren't you."

NFT THIS WEEK: THE PROGRESSIVE ART FAIR'S BEST FRIEND

NFTs Make Their Debut at Art Basel, Where Collectors Are Curious—And a Bit Confused—About the New Art Medium

A New Virtual NFT Residency Wants to Open Technological Doors for a New Generation of Artists and Creatives

Artnet News columnist Kenny Schachter curates debut of new art-world NFT platform, Institut, from Unit London gallery

The Owner of Beeple’s $69 Million NFT Is Turning the Artwork Into an Immersive Party—You Just Have to Pay $150 to Attend ... Dreamverse Tickets

‘Technology Is an Extension of Our Bodies’: Why David Cronenberg Made Video Art About His Own Death as His First NFT

Canadian Photographer and Sony Ambassador Cath Simard Sells Her Widely-Stolen Photo as NFT for $300K, Makes it Free.

Artist Dread Scott’s First NFT Is a Video of a White Man Atop an Auction Block. He’s Taking It Straight to Christie’s; “If you have money to buy (a white male), you should do it—they don’t come up very often.” ... The video NFT

Art Dirt Podcast: NFTs: Where are they now?

Is a Bored Ape Tattoo the Ultimate Flex?

Bored Ape Anthem 3D Music Video by ExtraGramKen

'Yawn of the Apes' - Apisode 2: The Ape Factor

Major NFT Marketplace OpenSea Admits Employee Did Insider Trading; An OpenSea employee bought NFTs before they were promoted on the marketplace's homepage, which angered traders have compared to insider trading

Mark Cuban-backed NFT marketplace admits insider trading incident

Jay-Z’s NFT Feud Spotlights Legal Peril in Hot Investment Trend

Sotheby's to Auction Refik Anadol Studio's Machine Hallucinations — Space : Metaverse NFT Collection; Over Two Million Raw Images to Create a Visual Exploration of Space, A Place Where Humans Have Yet Travelled

Damien Hirst’s NFT Project Is a Lot Like Mine. But the Differences Speak Volumes About Our Divergent Visions for Crypto-Art; Bitchcoin, the first 'artist-backed currency,' is an experiment in vulnerability and democratic patronage

“Imagine If the Mona Lisa Was Digital and Then Auctioned on the Internet”: The Only NFT Explainer You Really Need, From a True Believer; Are NFTs real? And here to stay?

Shocking: Snoop Dogg Is Not a White NFT Influencer In Italy; Snoop Dogg doxed himself as anonymous NFT influencer Cozomo de' Medici

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BOOKS AND YOUR WORDS

Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk to serialise new book on Substack; Newsletter platform pays upfront sum for Greener Pastures, with no strings attached over what he writes

The 100-Year-Old Fiction That Predicted Today; 1920 Play "Rossum's Universal Robots"

Hell Can Wait; Jonathan Franzen makes history again; Millennials are unimpressed

Two stray notes on “Moby-Dick”; On contemporary reviews of Moby-Dick and Melville’s journey on the Acushnet

James Ellroy Adapting His ‘American Tabloid’ Novel Into Scripted Podcast Series With Audio Up

Working Girls: Former U.S. Army major general brings the untold stories of the women who changed the course of World War II to light

The Vindication of Truman Capote

Unearthed Interviews Shed New Light on Truman Capote

'The Capote Tapes' Official Trailer (2021) Documentary

The Sangorski Curse: The World's Most Elaborately Bound Book Of Poetry Followed By Death And Destruction

Unpublished Tennessee Williams story found in Yale archives; unpublished 1952 short story, which tells of an American academic who becomes infatuated with an Italian prostitute; “The Summer Woman”

Rob Kay: A Book Review from a Family Perspective: 'Mike Nichols, A Life', by Mark Harris

OUR SPOTLIGHT SERIES ON ARTS MEDIA

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ARCHITECTURE

The Case of the Missing Mies van der Rohe Frat House; After nearly 70 years, a forgotten, unbuilt design by the pioneering architect comes to life on Indiana University’s Bloomington campus

Client Chats: A Conversation With Venice Beach Homeowner Jeff Martin and WHY Site Architects

Biophilic Design Is Helping Big-City Apartment Towers Get Back to Nature; Buildings that incorporate plants, outdoor space, large windows and natural ventilation are growing in popularity

Design Conversation Series: Life at Liljestrand by Architect Vladimir Ossipoff

“Chasing Architect Vladimir Ossipoff” presented by Greg Warner: Video Lecture

At the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the city becomes a community landscape

Plans for $400-billion new city in the American desert unveiled; Planned by Billionaire Marc Lore

Architect Tadao Ando Transformed Paris' Bourse de Commerce; Reimagined as an extraordinary art space

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Documentarian Ken Burns Says Current Times ‘Equal’ to Civil War, Depression and World War II: ‘It’s Really Serious’

JUDD JUMPS!

After working with David Zwirner for more than a decade, Judd Foundation moves to Gagosian. Donald Judd was “one of the first artists whose work I really admired,” said Larry Gagosian

ART REPORT TODAY GALLERIES: Now Exhibiting

Bill Maher: The Satirist and Provocateur Answers 28 of Life’s Most Pressing Questions

To attract readers but stump libel lawyers, 20th-century magazine writers alluded to sordid gossip instead of printing it

The Wonderful Wizard of Dyson: Eight questions with the inventor James Dyson, who has a new memoir, on electric cars and the thinking behind the $399 hair dryer

Isaac Benigson; British artist’s colorful work made it to London’s Royal Academy of Arts before he graduated from high school

This Brooklyn Subway Station Is a Portal Into Marcel Dzama’s Surrealist Universe; Permanent installation in Williamsburg features anthropomorphic moons and suns, watching over wild, celebratory scenes

How Does Rising Artist Sarah Slappey Stay Mellow While Painting Scenes of ‘Quiet Violence’? A Soothing Studio Soundtrack; The artist's newest works are currently on view in "Self Care" at Sargent's Daughters in New York

JULES TAVERNIER

In the 1870's, Painter and Adventurer Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo, the California Indigenous Pomo community of Elem

The Met Exhibition

Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo

Jules Tavernier and Hawaii’s Volcano School

MANUFACTURING ART

The Hidden Labor Behind the Luxurious Colors of Purple and Indigo

Lawrence Weschler: The Alchemist: A Profile of Jack Brogan, “He is thoroughly sure of his expertise and his value. He is very much his own man.”

DUELLING DOCS

"Savior for Sale: Da Vinci’s Lost Masterpiece?" Official Trailer

"The Lost Leonardo" Official Trailer (2021)

7 Unbelievable and Contentious Takeaways From a New Documentary About ‘Salvator Mundi,’ the $450 Million ‘Lost Leonardo’

Artist and Bird Rehabilitator Protests “Animal Cruelty” at Deitch Gallery in LA; Opening of Ariana Papademetropolous’s solo exhibition included the release of domestic doves into the city, where they are susceptible to predators and malnourishment

Artists and activists argued that a male sculptor should not have the authority to depict Indigenous women; After Outcry From Activists, Artist Pedro Reyes Will No Longer Design a Monument to Indigenous Women in Mexico City

Charlene K. Lau asks: Is this feminist allyship or another example of art-history puritanism? Pornhub's Failed Attempt to Enter the Art World: With museums pulling the plug on the controversial company's unauthorized erotic art guide

EXPERIENTIAL

Team Lab is coming to Hamburg with their 'Borderless' show

Would You Pay to Live in Facebook's Metaverse? As Silicon Valley's latest buzzword pick's up traction, Kyle Chayka investigates if this new 'utopian' space is just yet another poorly regulated economy

With a Denver Location, Meow Wolf Expands Its Immersive Schtick; The company's mastery of the art market’s smoke and mirrors is its most impressive illusion

Experiential Art Venture Superblue Launches in London with A.A. Murakami

Doug Harvey: Immerse This! Notes on the Van Gogh Experience

Considering Immersive Art Rooms and Why We Love to Escape

Olafur Eliasson's 'Room for one colour'

Team Lab's 'Floating Flower Garden'

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

Reference: Contemporary Art Movements

WHERE ARTISTS GO, REALTORS FOLLOW

Iwan and Manuela Wirth Love Richard Neutra’s Iconic Lovell Health House So Much, They Bought It!

8 Facts About Controversial Millionaire Artist Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor Asks $26 Million for one of Central London’s Largest Homes; Bought for $5M

Joshua Tree oasis hailed by U2, Jay-Z and Beyoncé on sale for $1.75M

MUSIC AND SOUND

Meet Surf Gang, the Post-Rap Rap Crew; Collective of young rappers, producers, and skaters was forged in the fires of the freelance economy—and they lift each other up accordingly

C-U-T Asks What It Means To Be a Swedish K-pop Band; The group of art students – assembled by Ming Wong – negotiates the boundary between engagement and appropriation

St. Vincent Pokes Fun at Her Own Ego in 'The Nowhere Inn'; Mockumentary with Carrie Brownstein

How Amy Winehouse’s Friends Are Reclaiming Her Legacy

Just Released! Lana Del Rey, 'Arcadia' (Official Video)

Her 'Body is a Map of LA' 'And my lips like the fire licks the bay'; the Lyrics to "Arcadia"

AMERICAN WEST IN FLAMES

Why it can take months to subdue some wildfires...

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ART BUSINESS

Two veteran lawyers from New York's Herrick Feinstein create new firm, Kaye Spiegler—and save on moving fees

Gagosian to Open Third Paris Gallery

The rise of Paris: Larry Gagosian opens third gallery in the French capital; US dealer launches new space with giant Alexander Calder sculpture in the Place Vendôme

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, has opted to make Johanna Burton the sole director after Klaus Biesenbach abruptly announced he would leave the institution to run the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin

South Korea’s Airport May House Museum; Project could involve establishing a branch of the Tate Modern or the Centre Pompidou

Podcast: A Tech Giant and the Helsinki Biennial Director Share Their Visions for the Future of the Art World

Choose your unicorn: why angel investors are ploughing millions into art startups; What's a unicorn?

New Miart director Nicola Ricciardi on rebuilding an art fair from scratch as the pandemic rumbles on; Ricciardi was previously artistic director of Turin's OGR art centre which was used as a hospital for Covid-19 patients last year

Sunny Skies Forecast! Art Basel and UBS Art Market Mid-Year Review 2021; ‘Resilience in the Dealer Sector’: Download the Full Report ... Discover Key Findings

COLLECTORS CIRCLE

Collector Nicolas Laugero-Lasserre: The Very DNA of Street Art Is Sharing

Collector Chris Sharp: Taking Risks and Cultivating a Healthy Dread of Clichés

Collector Shalini Passi: Would You Expect Flemish Furniture at This Indian Art Powerhouse—Next to a Bharti Kher!

50 Art Collectors to Watch

Collector Dr Terry Wu: My Inner Desire to Be Amongst Creatives Is Ever Present

Esker Foundation: Leader and New Model in the Calgary Arts Community

In Conversation with Moran Bar-Kochva: cofounder of The Contemporaries

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

THE NEW OIL PAINTING REVOLUTION

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

PHOTOGRAPHY

Zak Noyle Tells the Story Behind One of the Most Powerful Ocean Preservation Images Ever

Brazil’s secret photography auteurs – in pictures; Between 1946 and 1964, a group of amateur photographers changed the face of Brazilian photography – yet are almost forgotten outside their homeland

The Silent Lives of Found Photographs; The mind works desperately to fill the gaps in these lost stories

Graceful, Glistening Photos of Beachgoers on Ipanema; Photography of Sandra Cattaneo Adorno

Photos: A Destructive Eruption on the Canary Islands

Journey to the Most Inhospitable Place on Earth: The Skeleton Coast

A Pioneering Photographer’s Legacy In Algae; In 1843, Anna Atkins created the first book illustrated with photography. It took over a century for her pioneering work to be recognized

JOHN STEPPLING

I Want to be a Real Boy, Part Two (Or I’m Not Who I Am)
Recently a high school teacher in Scandinavia was arrested for sexting (sic) female students. When he was caught he said “but that wasn’t me, that’s not me. I don’t recognize that person, the person who did that.” One can find dozens of such examples. The confession is the confession of someone else. And this is a real feeling, no doubt. I feel that increasingly in contemporary society there is a sense of unreality, that one is not actually part of this debacle, that the *real* me is other, outside, or not yet emerged somehow.