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Masterworks, a Company Offering Fractional Shares of Major Artworks, Is Now Valued at Over $1 Billion; The company, which now counts top collector Glenn Fuhrman among its investors, is officially the first art-startup unicorn ... Masterworks Website

Laurie Anderson Has a Message for Us Humans; For half a century, she has taken the things we know best— our bodies, our rituals, our nation — and shown us how strange they really are

Milan's Dep Art Gallery opens an exhibition devoted to the works of Imi Knoebel... Knoebel at Depp Art

‘Greater New York,’ MoMA PS1’s Closely Watched Survey, Returns to Excavate New York’s Past and Reckon With Its Surreal Present

Wallace Berman: Off the Grid

'Una Stanza Per Panza' by Donald Judd; Addressing the collector Giuseppe Panza di Biumo’s forgeries of his work

Pace Gallery’s Marc Glimcher on his family business, NFTs and vaccines; The chief executive put aside a scientific career to follow in his father’s footsteps — but they did have their differences.

See How a New Generation of Ceramic Artists Is Pushing the Medium Into Strange Dimensions in Jeffrey Deitch’s ‘Clay Pop’

In Need of Cash, Burning Man Is Selling Art in a Sotheby’s Charity Auction That Includes a $50,000 Rocket Car; 'Hamilton' creative director David Korins designed the exhibition

Brooklyn Rail: Interview with Jorge Pardo “When I started putting things in galleries, I always had a hard time telling myself when to stop the game of perception.”

‘Build back beautifully’: new bill aims to support arts jobs with $300m federal grants and commissions programme

RUN, JENS, RUN!

Should Artists ‘Take the Money and Run’? Jens Haaning Did!

Artist 'Takes The Money And Runs,' Delivers Blank Canvases

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.’

JASPER JOHNS

The New Yorker and Peter Schjeldahl: Jasper Johns Remains Contemporary Art’s Philosopher King

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

ART AND RACE

Carolina Miranda:‘Who Designs Your Race?’

Yinka Shonibare sculptures sold to fund fellowship for Black and POC curators at V&A East

A Major New Exhibition on Afrofuturism Touches Down Right on Time; This rich history is undercut with urgency, as gentrification is displacing Oakland’s Black population at a staggering rate

‘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

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

BRAVING OPPRESSION

The remnants of Hong Kong’s independent press

Hong Kong’s Local Art Market Is Flourishing. But Under Its National Security Law, Many Fear an Artist Exodus; Sales have been strong at the start of the city's fall art season—but it's market appears to be operating in a parallel universe

Danish Artist Condemns Hong Kong University’s Removal of His Tiananmen Monument “The Pillar of Shame” After Over 20 Years: ‘I Think They Will Destroy It’

Mass Surveillance System Set to Spoil Secret Lovers’ Paradise in Venice, Italy

Tania Bruguera Agreed to Leave Cuba in Exchange for Release of 25 Prisoners

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

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.

The CCP’s Culture of Fear: In China under Xi Jinping, idealism is passé and conformity a shell for the ruthless pursuit of hierarchical power and private interests

Exhibitors at a Fair in Dubai Have Covered Up the Private Parts of Michelangelo’s ‘David,’ Fearing It Might Offend Visitors; Italian pavilion's organizers insisted the decision wasn’t censorship, but instead a kind of conceptual gesture

Desperate and in hiding, Afghan artists beg international community for help

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yau: Alix Bailey’s Unfashionable Pursuit; Painting, as a verb, is a way of living in time, of inhabiting a state of solitude, even when you are with other people

‘Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1960’ Review: Before His Career Popped

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

Shana Nys Dambrot: Meet Mixed Media Painter Joy Ray

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The Golden Age of Animation In 10 Inventive—And Politically Incorrect—Cartoons

Looney Tunes: Hollywood Steps Out (1941)

‘The French Connection’ turns 50: Hackman, Friedkin reveal why it’s a miracle no one died; the famous (and illegal) car chase

9 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘Mulholland Drive’

Malcolm McDowell Recalls ‘Torture’ of Making ‘Clockwork Orange’: ‘It Was Worth It’; Kubrick put his actors in dangerous situations on the set, and his 1971 dystopian masterwork was no exception

Why Dune fans should be thankful Jodorowsky’s Dune was never made

Europa: The 1931 peculiar tale of the anti-fascist film the Nazis didn’t want you to see; Polish avant-garde silent flick is finally getting its premiere in London, 80 years after it was made, though its themes still pack a punch

Barry Levinson Sells New Acclaimed Film “The Survivor” Starring Ben Foster to HBO; Harrowing True Story of Human Grit

"Titane" - Redband Trailer

Director Julia Ducournau and Lead Actors Vincent Lindon & Agathe Rousselle on 'Titane'

Andy Serkis: Future of Motion Capture Is Wearing Real People’s Faces, Such as Abraham Lincoln’s; Whether people want to hear it or not, Serkis says mo-cap is getting closer than ever to being "digital makeup."

Big and Bloody! 'House Of The Dragon' Official Teaser to the 'Game of Thrones' Prequal

'Breakfast at Tiffany’s' at 60: the sharp romcom that grows darker with age

How RED Cameras Changed Filmmaking as We Know It; RED digital cameras have become a go-to for big-budget studio productions

'Cyrano' Official Trailer, from director Joe Wright and starring Peter Dinklage

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

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

STAGE STRUCK

Not Just Our Imagination: John Legend Film Company Now a Producer of Temptations Broadway Show

‘Diana the Musical’ is the legendary flop Broadway deserves; Broadway wouldn’t really be back unless there was one show playing that’s so ridiculous, we’re baffled by its very existence

Supporting cast – Andrew Lloyd Webber does up Drury Lane with a few of his favourite things

The Flea Announces New Resident Company and a Focus on Black and Queer Artists; The Off-Off Broadway Flea announced a play that will start off its new season, “Arden: A Ritual for Love and Liberation,” in 2022

America’s First Private Theatre, Cupid’s Park Theatre

‘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

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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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

ART NOIR

How artefacts linked to indicted dealer ended up in Australian galleries

From temples to offshore trusts, a hunt for Cambodia’s looted heritage leads to top museums

Pandora Papers: Biggest Ever Leak of Offshore Data Exposes Financial Secrets of Rich and Powerful

5 ways celebrities in the Pandora Papers use the offshore system

Pandora Papers, an ICIJ Investigation

Contested Modigliani seized from freeport as Swiss open investigation; Artwork may be worth as much $25 million, and is at the center of a court dispute that involves an offshore company featured in the Panama Papers

A Judge Paves the Way for Scholar Marc Restellini’s Lawsuit Over Ownership of Valuable Modigliani Research to Move Forward

Antiquities Dealer Pleads Guilty for Role in Sale of Looted Items; The dealer, Nancy Wiener, acknowledged in court that she used fake provenances to cover for the murky histories of some items she sold

Political Pressure? Mystery surrounds sudden closures of two major Shanghai museums

Mexico Is Forming a New Art Crime Unit to Track Down Looted Artifacts; A recent study found that nine out of ten cultural objects that are stolen in Mexico are never recovered.

UNESCO Has Called on the British Museum to Reassess Its Position on the Contested Parthenon Marbles; Statement marks a major step forward in Greece's claim to the 2500-year-old marbles

A return of the knockers? How criminals gain the trust of the elderly and vulnerable in order to steal their art and antiques; The conviction of the father-and-son duo, Des and Gary Pickersgill, for the thefts of around £1.7m from an elderly widow's home, brings renewed focus on the threat of antique “knockers”

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

“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

BOOKS AND WORDS

A Haunting Compendium of Paris Ghost Stories

Every Trick in the Book: Inside the British-retirement-home mystery that knocked the new Sally Rooney off the No. 1 spot on the Sunday Times best-seller list after just one week

New Frida Kahlo Monograph Moves Beyond Individual Genius Narrative; Three art historians put the focus back on Kahlo’s artistic output

New Book: Auto Erotica: A Grand Tour through Classic Car Brochures of the 1960s to 1980s, published by FUEL

Marie Antoinette's letters to her dear Swedish count, now uncensored

NYT: New Book! David Sedaris Shows Us How His Mind Works

Must Read Hilarity! An Excerpt: David Sedaris’s Diary; America’s comedian in England reveals more than 10 years’ worth of his inner thoughts

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

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

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”

New Man Ray study brings artist's long-hidden Jewish heritage out of the shadowsA study of Man Ray, best known for his photography but also a self-professed painter, explores his barely acknowledged Jewishness and his relationship with Marcel Duchamp

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BEATINGS, BOMBINGS AND ARTIST LARS VILKS

Controversial Prophet Muhammad artist dies in mysterious car crash

Lars Vilks Obituary

Cromer: In the Crosshair of the Dog; Artist Lars Vilks remains a target for radical Islamists

Dead Man (Still) Drawing; Despite beatings and bombings, artist Lars Vilks presses on

Performance Artist Jerry Gogosian Headlines the Wall St. Journal

THE OBJECTIVE REALITY HOWL OF DAVID CHAPPELLE

Dave Chappelle Gets Standing Ovation Amid Netflix Special Controversy: “If This Is What Being Canceled Is, I Love It”

Dave Chappelle Responds To His Critics, Says ‘F**k Twitter’

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

Dear Dave Chappelle, transgender comedians can take a joke, but why are yours so unfunny?

Andrew Sullivan: Dave Chappelle Is Right, Isn't He? The comedian defends reality. Which is currently under siege

New Exhibition Examines Cultural Exchange Between American Artists and Venetian Glassmakers During the Late 19th Century

Zak Smith 'Decorder': Prayer Against Turbulence

Is There Anything Mr and Mrs Doodle Can’t Do? Love and Millions! He was last year’s fifth-biggest millennial artist at auction; He Draws and She Colors Them In!

THE EMERALD TABLET

Shana Nys Dambrot: Ariana Papademetropoulos and the Legend of The Emerald Tablet at Deitch

Artillery's Pick of the Week: Ariana Papademetropoulos at Jeffrey Deitch

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

Unarius, an Introduction to an Influence

Kehinde Wiley's "Blue Boy" Unveiled at the Huntington Museum

Joker to Django: The "Blue Boy" Cinematic Universe

Inside Lorna Simpson’s Tireless Pursuit of Transformative Images

Dive, Die: The Angeleno pool is joyful and brutal, a space for the continued exploration of American contradiction

Los Angeles Valley Relics Adds Madison Avenue Mythology

Steve Martin on “The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris”

With Big, Bold Art, Sarah Cain Redefines Seriousness in Painting; Los Angeles artist, with her crazy titles and caustic colors, offers “a really provocative combination of pleasure and politics,” says one museum curator

Ezrha Jean Black: Emblazoned World — Bel Ami; Where “Everything Is Illuminated”; Lucy Bull & friends find the light in the dust

Free the Nipple: A History of a Hidden Movement; The slogan “Free the nipple” is so ubiquitous that it sounds as though it belongs in the annals of history, but actually this rallying cry is barely a decade old

THE LUCAS MUSEUM OF NARRATIVE ART

George Lucas and the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Bought an Artemisia Gentileschi

Museum of Star Wars creator George Lucas goes on buying spree with international, if not intergalactic, focus

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

ADAM PENDLETON

Critical Eye: Publishing Amid the Museum’s Ruins; Adam Pendleton “I have a copy machine. It’s the queen of my studio.”

‘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

DASH-ING

‘I Want People to Have Strong Reactions’: Director Cheryl Dunn on Her Documentary About Enfant Terrible Artist Dash Snow; 'Moments Like This Never Last' features never-before-seen footage of the mid-2000s New York scene

'Moments Like This Never Last' Official Red Band Trailer

DASHCAM Dash Snow: Photographs of Life at Moran Moran

OUR CULTURE

Ex-Google worker recalls 'scary' terminator moment he feared company was 'creating God'

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

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’

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

DISCOVERY

European spacecraft reveals rare images of Mercury’s craters after a ‘flawless’ flyby

Finders Keepers! A Lucky Retiree Visited an Arkansas National Park and Discovered a 4.38-Carat, Jellybean-Sized Diamond

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

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

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

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

GO, VAN GOGH!

70 paintings in 70 days: Van Gogh’s astonishing achievement at the end of his life

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

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

Burnaway Review: 2021 Mississippi Invitational, Jackson

ARTIST’S HEALTH

Recovering from a lack of sleep takes longer than you might think, study says

Go for a Walk; What I learned about transcendence from a very boring 100-mile trek

GOOD GIGS

Turkish-born, Los Angeles-based new media artist Refik Anadol will be unveiling a large format installation at the Abu Dhabi incarnation of the Semi Permanent arts festival; Mark Ronson will spin with a one-off DJ Set

What’s That Smell? KAWS Eau de Toilette! It’s Comme des Garcons & KAWS

Lawmakers in Congress Want to Put Unemployed Artists Back to Work With a $300 Million Bill to Fund Public Cultural Projects; Bill was inspired by the New Deal's Works Progress Administration

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

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

In Pictures: See a Starfish Brooch by Salvador Dalí and Other Glittering Works From the Museum of Natural History’s Surreal Jewelry Show

Opportunities in October 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; Thanks Hyperallergic!

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

Georgia O’Keeffe: She Lived Deliciously Alone in the Wild, Wild West

Australian painter Clarice Beckett (1887–1935): The Present Moment

Take a Virtual Tour of Japanese Prints In 'Nature/Supernature' At Japan House LA

PALATE PALETTE

Alison Roman: A Very Simple Grilled Fish with Quick and Easy Sides

Paul Kalemkiarian: This Is Not The Wine World I Grew Up In

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Bruce Bozzi Jr.'s How To Prepare Lobster At Home

Photographer Edward Steichen was a Painter: In Exaltation of Flowers

THE CLIMATE HAS ALWAYS BEEN CHANGING

Drip Dry: Our Relationship with Water

Hugo Hopping and The Winter Office; Nature As Infrastructure

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

An Interview with T.J. Demos; Climate Breakdown and Capitalism; Author of "Beyond the World’s End: Arts of Living at the Crossing"

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

NFT THIS WEEK: THE NEW GAMING AND FASHION TOY!

Investors Spent Millions on 'Evolved Apes' NFTs. Then They Got Scammed; Developer behind the NFT project, 'Evil Ape,' suddenly disappeared along with its Twitter account, website, and $2.7 million

Dolce & Gabbana just set a $6 million record for fashion NFTs

TikTok announces NFT collection led by top creators

This Is How NFTs Might Change TV and Film Industries

The Duo That Invented the Art World’s First Crypto Platform in 2014 Is Back With a Tool to Help Galleries Launch Their Own NFT Marketplaces; Monegraph has released a software suite called Readymade NFT that enables crypto newcomers to buy, sell, and distribute NFTs with art-specific customizations

Market Brief: CryptoPunks Continue to Lead the NFT Market

AI-Driven Generative Art For Video Walls by Refik Anadol Generates $5M At Sotheby’s NFT Auction

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

Can I Be Sued for Making an NFT of a Painting in My Collection? + Other Artists’-Rights Questions, Answered

Argentine artist who squirts paint with his eyes destroys canvases to create NFTs

A History of Digital Art Through a Feminist Lens; To understand the current climate for digital art and NFTs, it’s useful to look at these histories through the lens of women artists and feminist theory

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 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

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

‘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

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Kilauea is erupting in Hawaii. Here are 7 things to know about volcanoes. It’s a reminder that volcanoes are beautiful, dangerous, and closer than we may realize

Photos! Kilauea volcano’s eerie glow before sunrise!

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

Artist Joan Jonas: On the Ocean and Nature

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Sala Stories, Part One; with Hills Snyder

THE GLITZ! THE GLAMOUR! THE POLS!

EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden is seen hanging out with star-studded potential buyers of his half-million-dollar art at LA's Milk Studios debut show, despite White House claims he will have no idea who is buying his pieces; Other notable artist guests were British performer Millie Brown and LA-born Gary Baseman, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, musician Moby who brought his pet dog, and artist Shepard Fairey

Hunter Biden sells five art prints for $75K each as NYC show pushed back

Miranda Devine: Hunter Biden has a lot of 'chutzpah' for hosting lavish art shows while under investigation; Critics say the anonymous sales of the president’s son’s artwork could be an avenue for anyone rich enough to buy their way into the Biden family; Tucker Carlson says "Hunter is probably our greatest painter right now."

Hunter Biden hobnobs at first art show in LA amid ethical concerns

Mother Jones: Check Out These Exclusive Pics From Hunter Biden’s Big LA Art Opening; Shepard Fairey, Moby, and Eric Garcetti were among the VIPs who attended

Art, Politics, and Hunter Biden with Punchbowl News Journalists Anna Palmer & Jake Sherman

LA Mayor Eric Garcetti among 200 people to attend Hunter Biden's art show

Three Heads of State Backed a Blockbuster Art Show About Democratic Values. Critics Say Its Organizers Don’t Practice What They Preach

Take It Easy by John Tottenham

I’ve never been to Heaven,

but I’ve been to Oklahoma.

Played For The Good Times

fifty times in a row,

then pissed on the jukebox.

Smeared my blood

against a white picket fence,

and left town.

Marina Abramović: Seven Deaths

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

ART BUSINESS

Stripping Away the Veil; Secondary market transactions are rarely transparent

Putting Focus on Emerging Artists, Sotheby’s to Hold New Marquee Contemporary Art Evening Sale; Sotheby’s Shakes Up Its Sale Structure – In order to offer “greater flexibility” for buyers and to meet “the current demands of the market"

Move over London—the Asian auction market is exploding

International galleries including Lehmann Maupin and Esther Schipper flock to new Beijing "free trade" hub; 14 galleries are taking part in the three month pop up

LA’s David Kordansky Gallery to Open New York Outpost

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

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

MANUFACTURING ART

Golden Artist Colors is Now 100% Owned by Its Employees; Golden Artist Colors employs over 200 workers in upstate New York

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

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.”

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

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

Casper Brindle "Light Glyphs" at William Turner Gallery

Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything

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

Reference: Contemporary Art Movements

MUSIC AND SOUND

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Maria Callas; Listen to the best of opera’s defining diva, chosen by Patti LuPone, Renée Fleming, Marina Abramovic and many more

Karen Dalton, a Musical Mystery That Doesn’t Need to Be Solved; New documentary about the blues-folk singer, who died in 1993, works to make her known without unraveling all of her riddles

She's Back! Adele "Easy On Me" (Clip)

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

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

How Amy Winehouse’s Friends Are Reclaiming Her Legacy

AMERICAN WEST IN FLAMES

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

See Our Virtual Exhibition:

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

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

COLLECTORS CIRCLE

A new platform lets you buy shares of blue-chip paintings – but is art a wise investment?

What makes buyers want to create private museums for their collections?

A Film Producer Is Opening a Coworking Space in Brussels Where He Can Show Off His Art Collection (Because Private Museums Are So 2019)

Walter Storms and Caro Jost, this Munich Power Couple Is Shaping the German Art Market

This San Francisco Mansion Is a Stunning Celebration of Black Artists; Starting with the walls of their home, art collectors Pamela Joyner and Fred Giuffrida are on a mission to reconstruct the canon

K-pop idol G-Dragon’s over the top art and decor collection: KAWS, Condo, Man Ray and More!

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

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

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

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

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

LACMA, Brooklyn to Share Photo Collection

Serge Hamad 'I always felt that I could speak out in a deeper sense when using photography'

Harvard Art Museums Present Fall 2021 Exhibition Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970; 60 Artists

For Masahisa Fukase, Cats Were Much More Than Cute; Fukase’s obsession with photographing the people he was close to overwhelmed his subjects and eventually drove them away — so he turned to cats

Illumination Procured: Steven Arnold and the Body Eclectic

Photography: FRÆNKEL Exhibitions at Art Basel 2021

Skull brides and iguana hats: Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico – in pictures

Bill Claps - ‘I hope the images make people feel the power of nature, and help them realize we are a small part of it, not the center’

Over and above: stunning images from the Drone Photo Awards 2021

Photographing the Microscopic: Winners of Nikon Small World 2021

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

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

JOHN STEPPLING

The Mechanical Soul
Information processing, rather than learning. One sees the stepchildren of this trend in how computer modeling is used. The Corona models (like most climate models) have been stunningly wrong. But then this is also how institutional “studies” are initiated and what motivates those conducting the studies. The EU provided a lot of money for “Corona studies” and so there was an economic motivation to find…