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David Hockney Writes: 'Abstraction in art has run its course'

Nate Freeman: True Colors: Amid the Truly Die-Hard Collectors at Art Basel

Marina Abramović: Seven Deaths

Artist Marco Brambilla on creating the visual intermezzos for Marina Abramovic's opera '7 Deaths of Maria Callas'

JASPER JOHNS

Gray Areas: Eight Artists on Jasper Johns

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

In Pictures: See the Highly Ambitious, Two-City Jasper Johns Retrospective at the Whitney and the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Despite gossip about the show's two curators not getting along, the two exhibitions work together just fine

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

The Complicated Story Behind Jasper Johns’s Dispute With a Cameroonian Teen Over a Drawing of a Knee (It Has a Happy Ending)

Free Peter! Guardianship forces pop art legend Peter Max to live as shut-in, pals say

Can a Building Dream, Learn, and Hallucinate? A Conversation with Refik Anadol

Yau: Adventure and Spirituality Collide in Joseph E. Yoakum’s Visionary Art; Yoakum had said repeatedly that the drawings were “spiritual unfoldments,” meaning that faith guided his patterns and passages

Henri Matisse, as only the collector Etta Cone knew him; Baltimore Museum of Art exhibition pays tribute to the French artist and his most ardent American patron

Photographer Greg Velasquez "In The Context Of Their Surroundings" at onodream Gallery ... Exhibition Essay by Mat Gleason

ART AND RACE

‘It’s About Black Art Not Being a Sellable Fad’: How One Curator Is Navigating the Market for a Show of Black British Art at Christie’s London

French Court Convicts Magazine Over Racist Portrayal of Black Lawmaker. Magazine caused an outcry last year after it published a fictional narrative depicting the legislator as an enslaved African

Earliest European portraits (1508 and 1525) of African men on show together for first time

Amy Lincoln at Sperone Westwater

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

Artist Anna Weyant Paints the Indignities of Being a Young Woman—and Collectors of All Ages Can’t Get Enough; On the heels of two sold-out shows, 26-year-old phenom Anna Weyant explains how 2020 set her on a new course

CHASING HUNTER

The Spectator: Hunter Biden, artist of modern life; Without vision, training or talent, Hunter Biden deigns to glue his crippling jewels onto the back of our society

Wall Street Journal: Selling Access is a Scandal About Joe Biden, Not Hunter

BRAVING OPPRESSION

Now in Exile in Poland, Political Cuban Artist Hamlet Lavastida Describes Three Trying Months in State Detention: ‘My Work Became My Life’; Artist was recently released and sent to Poland with a warning: security forces would be waiting for him if he returned

Cuban artist freed from jail, forced into exile. Other protesters face harsh sentences.

Australia Police Goes Door to Door: "Are You Aware Of Any Planned Protests Or Events Coming Up?"

Afghan Artists Watch, and Worry, as Taliban Promises a Framework Rooted in Islamic Law to Evaluate Cultural Production

The woke are abolishing women; There’s a whole new world of terminology out there, all of it centered on bodies and biology

Meet Scientist and “Biohacker” Josiah Zayner, America's Most Censored Person

YouTube/Google bans all anti-vaccine content, not just COVID-19-related ... Google Now Has a Pharmaceutical Company

Hong Kong’s ‘BBC’ ordered to support China national security; Chinese government angry at broadcasters coverage of 2019 riots

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

‘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

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

Shana Nys Dambrot: The Studio for Lodging the Mind and the Flowery Brush Library Opens at the Huntington with debut exhibition "A Garden of Words: The Calligraphy of Liu Fang Yuan"

New Criterion: Duchamp in Kabul; On a new cultural imperialism

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

Swiss landscape painting—once destined for Hitler’s Führermuseum—acquired by London’s National Gallery; Alexandre Calame’s Chalets at Rigi was sold in 1996 at an auction of unclaimed works with proceeds going to benefit victims of the Holocaust

Gagosian: John Currin: Monuments To Lust

R.H. Quaytman Finds a Muse on the Verge of Oblivion; Ahead of a major new exhibition in Wiels, Belgium, the artist speaks with Yve-Alain Bois about the influence of Antoine Wiertz on her latest body of work

Smoke Signals: Silas Martí on the 34th São Paulo Bienal

Gagosian: Thomas Houseago: Encountering Rodin

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

Sound Artist Robert Takahashi Crouch, "Reconciliation" and a Film by Tyler Hubby

A Conversation With San Antonio-based artist Mark Menjivar

STREETWISE

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

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

Can VFX-CGI Artists Follow BoB Ross in Real Time? A Competition

EJB: Umar Rashid “Per Capita” at Transformative Arts

Sarah Sze: Fifth Season at Storm King Art Center, NY

The Brooklyn Rail: McArthur Binion at Lehmann Maupin Gallery

FORMERLY KNOWN AS CINEMA

Hilarious! ‘Don’t Look Up’ New Footage: Netflix Previews Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Cosmic Comedy

Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Licorice Pizza' is Based on Tom Hank's Producer Gary Goetzman's Childhood; Bradley Cooper Plays Hairdresser, Producer and Streisand's Boyfriend Jon Peters

"Licorice Pizza" Official Trailer

Return to Paul Thomas Anderson Land, "Licorice Pizza"

“CODA” is the Under the Radar Dark Horse 2022 Oscar Candidate That’s Gotten Better With Time; Apple+ TV

Paul Verhoeven's New Erotic Lesbian Nun Romance ‘Benedetta’

Puck: "Robbins, the newly installed C.E.O. of Paramount Pictures, was perceived as an “affront” to film industry purists. But the former Nickelodeon chief may be just what Paramount+ needs to compete with Netflix in a low-stakes, high volume, post-theatrical world"

‘The Souvenir Part II’ Trailer: Joanna Hogg’s Sequel Ends a Dazzling Meta Memoir

No, It's Not "Archer". The Opening Credits for the Anime Hit Live Action Film "Cowboy Bebop"

Review: Joel Coen’s “Tragedy of Macbeth” Is Masterful Art, With Oscar Worthy Performances from Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand

Marcia Nasatir Didn’t Wait for Permission to Become Hollywood’s ‘First Mogulette’

"Passing" Official Trailer, From the celebrated 1929 novel, Directorial debut by actress Rebecca Hall

Brad Pitt and George Clooney set for fixer thriller; The top-secret project, said to be a thriller about fixers assigned to do the same job

"Antlers", Official Trailer

‘Coming Home in the Dark’: Midnight Noir Doesn’t Hold Back the Shocks [Review]

Review: Jake Gyllenhaal carries claustrophobic ‘The Guilty’

'The Guilty' Official Trailer, Jake Gyllenhaal, Netflix

"The Electrical Life of Louis Wain" True story of eccentric British artist and cat lover Louis Wain (Benedict Cumberbatch)

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

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

‘He was easy to spot!’ Gus Van Sant on spying Andy Warhol – and his musical about him; The Oscar-nominated film director has made the jump into musical theatre with a portrait of the high priest of pop art, staged in Europe

Aaron Sorkin on Scott Rudin: “Scott Got What He Deserves” An exclusive interview with Sorkin as his smash adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird reopens on Broadway, without its disgraced producer

A Black Theater Flourished in New York. 200 Years Ago. The African Theater, which had its first performance on Sept. 17, 1821, is both an inspiration and a cautionary tale

Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga to star in ‘Macbeth’ Broadway adaption

Back Onstage! On Stefano Massini’s remarkable drama 'The Lehman Trilogy' at the David T. Nederlander Theatre
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Review: Actor and Playwright Tracy Letts Brings Out the Long Knives in Short Plays; It takes 15 minutes or less in each segment of “Three Short Plays by Tracy Letts” for the bard of male moral decrepitude to skewer his subjects

Say It Three Times: “Beetlejuice” Is Coming Back to Broadway After “The Music Man” Chased it Away

Broadway: “Girl from the North Country,” the Best Musical of All, is Returning with Mare Winningham, Jay O. Sanders, and Marc Kudisch

Broadway: Coronavirus hits ‘Aladdin’ just a day after reopening, show canceled

The Moulin Rouge in Paris gets ready for reopening – in pictures

‘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

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

AMAZING MOTHER NATURE

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

Thousands expected to flock to Kilauea as lava returns to summit, creating fiery show

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

Legal battle over Frida Kahlo trademark dismissed in the US; Years-long legal tussle: Dismissed by a US District Court this week; Following the release of a Barbie doll made in the Mexican painter’s likeness

How to Bury an Entire Museum; When German forces took Athens in April 1941, they found nothing!

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

Esteemed lecturer Dirk Obbink taught ancient texts at Oxford. Now he is accused of stealing some

When Disney Declared War on Deutschland

Emily Ratajkowski Violated Photographer’s Copyright With Instagram Post, Judge Rules

'No matter how wealthy you are, no one is above the law': New York court rejects Sotheby's attempt to dismiss suit alleging it helped collector evade tax on $27m of art

“I Knew It Was Doomed; I Knew Someone Was Doomed”: Inside Anthony Bourdain’s All-Consuming Relationship

‘He was a shark’: Anthony Bourdain’s loved ones reveal obsessions with exes, drugs, tanning

Dutch man gets eight years for Van Gogh, Hals thefts; Combined $20M Vakue; The works themselves remain missing

Nearly 500 Counterfeit Francis Bacon Works Confiscated in Italy

BOOKS AND WORDS

A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Woman: Patricia Highsmith's diaries and notebooks chart her early work and love life

It’s Never Too Late to Publish a Debut Book and Score a Netflix Deal; Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, at 50, is not the average age of a debut author. But the public school teacher describes herself as a “literary debutante"

Reading Playboy for the Articles: 13 Essential Journalism & Literature Pieces from Playboy Magazine; Kerouac, Bradbury, Dahl, King Jr., Thompson, Atwood and Many Startling More!

If You Can't Answer These 6 Questions You Don't Have A Story

Latest James Bond film prompts art and antiques firms to promote memorabilia.

Booker Prize 2021: Anuk Arudpragasam Makes Final Six Shortlist

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

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

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”

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THOSE CRAZY CHRISTOS!

Stunning Photos of “Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped,” Before the Silvery Fabric Comes Down

The last interview with Christo, The artist speaks about the realization of Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped

Brooklyn Rail: In Conversation with Christo

The Charm and Conviction of a Christo and Jeanne-Claude Exhibition

NYT: Photo Essay: Making Christo's Dream a Reality

Give Jeanne-Claude Her Rightful Credit

A Danish museum lent an artist Jens Haaning $84,000 for his work. He kept the cash and named the art ‘Take the Money and Run.’

Buoyancy, Joy, and Damage: Niki de Saint Phalle at the Menil Collection

Interview: Anish Kapoor on vaginas, recovering from breakdown and his violent new work: ‘Freud would have a field day’

More than Not: LACMA’s 'Not I' and the Necessity of History

Shana Nys Dambrot: Rebecca Farr "Cave" at Five Car Garage

Beverly Fishman "Love Letter to L.A." at GAVLAK

Doug Harvey's "Less Art": Strangers with Eyecandy: Jenn Berger and her "Stranger Friends" at CMAY Gallery

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Intergalactix: against isolation/ contra el aislamiento at LACE

CULTURE

COVID lockdown was a ‘live social experiment’ revealing how women, men behave during pandemics

“No one really expected the next generation of the internet would come from mobile gaming, and yet here we are.” It’s on Us to Queer the Metaverse: A Digitally Savvy Athens Biennale Tackles the Promises and Pitfalls of the Web 3.0

The 18th-century English Craze for One-Eyed Portraits

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

Marisa Takal "Euphoric Recall" at Night Gallery

Kellyann Burns: Processing at Louis Stern Fine Arts

Cinema at Last! Arts, Images and Entertainment in France, 1833–1907

“Just Put the Eggs”: Ana Hernandez’s Protean Punctuation; The Texas artist is preparing for her first whirl at Art Basel Miami

Lisa Yuskavage "New Paintings" at David Zwirner, "Study the backgrounds for themselves; they are, in different ways, breathtaking.” —Roberta Smith

Salvador Dali on "What's My Line?"

Millennial/Gen Z artists cast fresh eyes on the picture of masculinity

DISCOVERY

Cavers Reached the Bottom of an Ancient 'Well of Hell' For the First Time; No Evil Found.

Noah’s Ark hunters claims they’ve 'found' boat in Turkish mountains as 3D scans detect ‘shape matching Bible description’

Oldest ever human footprints in North America discovered in southwest US

They struck gold! Huge archaeology discovery in Denmark; Archaeologists unearth almost a kilo’s worth of golden treasure in Jutland dating back to around 1,500 years ago

Scientists Discover Enormous Sphere-Shaped Void In Space; "Per-Tau shell," which extends for nearly 500 light years, solves a big mystery and has implications for astrophysics as a whole

Details of rare bronze age coffin found in golf course pond revealed.

Why do we know so little about the Druids? The powerful Celtic social class posed a threat to the Roman Empire before being subsumed by Christianity, but their origins remain shrouded in the past

An Art History Professor Spotted an Unusual Painting at a Local Church. Now, It Is Being Hailed as a Major Italian Baroque Discovery

LOCA MOCA

Satirist Jerry Gogosian comments:

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

A LITTLE KNOWN RUSCHA INFLUENCE

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

Planet Hollywood: On the opening of “The Emerald Tablet” at Jeffrey Deitch

Koichi Nasu: Retrospektive at Galerie Friedrich Müller, Frankfurt am Main

Nikolai Astrup’s Joyous Norway; Not a hint of psychological trauma in Astrup’s art, despite the parallels in his own experience to that of his countryman Edvard Munch

The Resonant Surface: Movement, Image, and Sound in California Painting

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

STILL PARTING THE WATERS

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

Telluride Gallery presents "Ed Moses Master of Crazy Wisdom"

Burnaway Review: 2021 Mississippi Invitational, Jackson

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

‘I Want to Get People’s Attention’: Artist Adam Pendleton on Taking Over MoMA’s Atrium With a Monumental Tribute to Black Dada; The artist's first solo show at a New York institution encapsulates concepts he's been refining for years

GOOD GIGS

Hermès Lends Detroit-Based Artists a Platform at Their New Store in Troy, Michigan; Colorful mural from multidiscplinary Ellen Rutt

Jeff Koons and his Uniqlo Collection

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

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

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

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

PALATE PALETTE

Alison Roman: My Favorite Key Lime Pie Recipe

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

Collector Bruce Bozzi Jr.'s Espresso-Chili Rubbed Steak

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

A Real Horror Show; Ecological Dystopia in Contemporary Art

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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JULES TAVERNIER

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

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Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo

Jules Tavernier and Hawaii’s Volcano School

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 NEW GAMING TOY!

British Museum to sell NFTs of 200 Hokusai works—including The Great Wave

Another NFT-Sphere Innovation: The Launch of the NFTY Token

Cosmic Wire presents "We Found A Banksy! Here’s Your Chance to Own a Piece of “Lost” Art History". Play the Game! Win an NFT!

We Found A Banksy! The Remaining Banksy Spy Booth Mural Bricks

Art collector sues NFT platform Nifty Gateway over Beeple auction

A 27-Year-Old Bohemian Prince Jumps Into NFTs to Keep the Palace Lights On!

Art Dealer Vito Schnabel Is Teaming Up with Internet Entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk to Launch a New NFT Platform for Artists; Each NFT work sold on ArtOfficial will be accompanied by IRL experiences

Christie's surpasses $100 million in NFT sales

‘It doesn’t stop with Putin’: Pussy Riot release NFT to mark almost ten years since members were sentenced to two years in Russian penal colony

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

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

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

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

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‘Artists aren't able to defend human values anymore’: Ai Weiwei on how the art market is king and why Western museums are courting China

ALL THE NEW GENIUSES!

Jordan Casteel, Nicole Fleetwood, and Daniel Lind-Ramos Named MacArthur “Genius” Fellows; Each of the 25 winners will receive a no-strings-attached $625,000 stipend, paid out over five years

ART REPORT TODAY GALLERIES: Now Exhibiting

Casper Brindle "Light Glyphs" at William Turner Gallery

MARCEL DZAMA

Dzama at Zwirner "Who Loves the Sun"

‘I Have One Foot in the Subconscious and One In Reality’: As His L-Train Murals Debut, Watch Marcel Dzama Explain The Dark Side of His Whimsical Art

Marcel Dzama: Organizing Chaos

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

Page Six: Odd Hoax Claims Debut of Justin Bieber's 'Erotic' Artwork in the Show “Paintings from Space” at the Harry Gablowsian Gallery (Is That a Bad Word Play of Larry Gogosian? *sigh*)

Jim Jarmusch’s Collages Are Ready for Their Close-Up; Filmmaker has been quietly making small, eerie collages on newsprint for 20 years, with faces switched onto other bodies. Now they’re finally on view

Yau: Philip Guston’s Unblinking Eye, "I cannot think of another American artist who went as far as Guston did without a safety net."

MANUFACTURING ART

Painters Rejoice: Scientists Have Created the Whitest Acrylic Paint Ever Known; Their original goal was to create a paint that would effectively reflect sunlight away from a building to reduce energy usage, but now the discovery has earned a Guinness World Record

Intimate Garments Handmade from Ceramics by Masami Yamamoto

Michelangelo Made This Haunting Pieta For His Own Tomb. Conservators Have Spent Years Painstakingly Restoring It—See Their Process Here

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.”

An Interview with Kon Trubkovich; Showing at Gagosian, Park & 75, New York

Yau: Takuji Hamanaka’s Spellbinding Prints, By reinventing the traditional bokashi technique, Hamanaka reminds us that nothing is dead, even when many proclaim otherwise

Françoise Gilot Is So Over Picasso; After she left him, Picasso tried to get Françoise Gilot blacklisted. Today, Gilot, who turns 100 this fall, is breaking auction records

Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything

ART BUSINESS

LA’s David Kordansky Gallery to Open New York Outpost

Why Joint Acquisitions May Be the Way Forward for Cash-Strapped Museums.

Orange County Museum of Art announces eight new trustees: Barbara Bluhm-Kaul, Phillip J. Bond, Idit Ferder, Sean Green, Linda P. Maggard, Cheryl Kiddoo, Robert Olson and Lucy Sun

Populism! Self-portraits by comic book artists to hang in Uffizi

In an Expansion, the Rubell Museum Will Bring Its Tastemaking Private Art Collection to Washington, D.C., Next Year

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

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

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

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

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

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MUSIC AND SOUND

Terence Blanchard, a Black Composer Finally Arrives at the Metropolitan Opera; “Fire Shut Up in my Bones”; Best known for scoring Spike Lee

The Synopsis: “Fire Shut Up in my Bones” at the Met

The Program: “Fire Shut Up in my Bones” at the Met

Jazz Organist Dr. Lonnie Smith Has Passed, For Your Listening Pleasure

‘Enormous: The Gorge Story’ Review: A Musical Paradise; A loving documentary about a Pacific Northwest amphitheater, created by a long-ago natural catastrophe, that is a haven for concertgoers

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

AMERICAN WEST IN FLAMES

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

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COLLECTORS CIRCLE

Billionaire Nicolas Berggruen Just Opened a New Branch of His Globe-Spanning Cultural Institute in a Historic Venice Palazzo; The space will host international programming for visual art and architecture

Gallery Director Terri Lew shares a work from her collection and one that she desires

Beck and Marissa Ribisi finalize their divorce and split up their possessions... including NINE original Banksy pieces

Lehmann Maupin partner Carla Camacho on the Best Collecting Advice She Ever Received, and Why She Likes to Shop at Work

Jeffrey N. Dauber, Former Tech Exec Who Built a Home Especially for His Art Collection

Being young, Black and collecting art: my life in the art world; Trials and tribulations of building an art collection

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

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

Zoe B, the personal DJ for aesthetic Jerry Gogosian, has a new mix! Listen Here!

Get Jerry's 'Art Basel Report 2021', Click Here!

In Pictures: See the Joyful Works Included in Frieze Sculpture 2021, From a Pearlescent Monolith to a Quirky Pineapple

PHOTOGRAPHY

An Interview with Legendary Cinematographer Roger Deakins on Getting Rejected from Film School and Releasing His First Book of Photographs at 72

Photographing the Microscopic: Winners of Nikon Small World 2021

The hidden beauty of the plants that feed the world; Seen through a microscope

Opinion: The Many Problems with Deana Lawson’s Photographs; In a world where Black female bodies are continually exploited in real life and in art, I am not sure there is true willing consent in Lawson’s prurient nudes

Photographer Captures Built-Up Pandemic Waste Polluting the Seas

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

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

Scenes From Greenland

JOHN STEPPLING

The Colour of Disenchantment
The appropriation of Gestalt thinking, and Goethe, even, by Nazi ideology, is a fascinating topic that has relevance to the contemporary magical thinking (a form of appropriating science) involved in both the Covid event and the climate discourse. It seems as if nearly all topics today are subsumed by some aspect of science, or beliefs in science. Nearly everything, even culture, is framed by science.