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THE MIAMI HANGOVER

From Miami to the metaverse! Art Basel hits Florida – in pictures

Signs of sea change at Art Basel Miami: More galleries of color

Miami Fête: Dinner with Chanel, a Party with LOEWE, and More.

Enter the Chanel Labyrinth at Art Basel

Podcast: A Gossip Columnist Walks Into a Bar at Art Basel Miami Beach

Lenny Kravitz closes Art Basel with starry private show for billionaires

15 Works That Sold at This Year’s Art Basel Miami Beach.

Cardi B Debuts Boozy Whipped Cream Partnership During Miami Art Week

Cardi Loves to Party!!! Mad Dancin' at the Maxim at Art Basel

Art Basel kicks off with the hottest celebrities and artists. All Star Photos!

We Went on a Whirlwind Tour of Art Basel Miami Beach With Patron and Collector Sarah Arison. Here’s What Caught Her Eye

Miami Interview, Maurizio Cattelan: 'Life is often tragic and comedic at the same time"

Betye Saar, Hugh Hayden Conjure Mysteries with Everyday Objects in Standout ICA Miami Shows

On the beach in Miami, Refik Anadol creates a Pandora's Box of unearthly delights

ART AND RACE

The Coexistence of Beauty and Evocations of Race and Power

Black Skin, White Bust: Doreen Garner at Halle für Kunst Steiermark

For centuries, Black communities in New Orleans have cultivated a tradition of assemblage, transforming everyday materials into sacred objects and spaces

Teeth, lips, flowers: rising star Rachel Jones on her latest works and how she prioritises a Black audience

Brooklyn Rail: Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror

DUCHAMP

Sex, wit and cigars: five contemporary artists on Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp cover for Beatrice Wood catalogue; Play it on the Hi-Fi!

SO SURREAL

Looking at Surrealist Art in Our Own Surreal Age; When viewed as a vehicle for various forms of liberation, the movement remains highly resonant even a century after its heyday

Magritte, Surrealism and the Pipe That Is Not a Pipe

A First-Class Voyage Through The Golden Age Of Ocean Liners; Pictured, a child's chair

The Story of Amazing Ruth Asawa And The Secret Gift From Her Teacher Josef Albers

Yau: Houston artist HJ Bott, an Under-Recognized Geometric Abstractionist Who Took a Different Path

Maximalist Magic: Marco Brambilla's Heaven's Gate plays the scale game in virtual reality

A Mail Art Renaissance Is Growing In The Us—Just As The Postal Service Struggles To Survive

Once Upon a Time: Narrative in Art — Rachel Feinstein, Tamara Jenkins, and Lisa Yuskavage

BODY ART

This Is the Story of the Artist Who Has Made a Career Tattooing Herself Like Europe’s Famed ‘Iceman’ Mummy; The artist used her own blood.

STREETWISE

Streetartist Faile at Goldman Global Arts with BSA – Miami Art Week Marches On

Lance De Los Reyes, graffiti artist known as Rambo, has died, aged 44

1UP Crew Brings Discipline to Wynwood Wall in Miami

Brooklyn Street Art Images of the Week.

Molotow Artist Session X Tony Tuan Luong Aka Tyle2

BRAVING OPPRESSION

Why Was Xxavier Edward Carter, a Nude and Black Artist “Swarmed” By a Large Police Presence During a Miami Art Fair Performance on the Beach?

'Jobless, futureless, in constant fear': Afghan artists sign open letter to world leaders asking for help to escape the Taliban

RIP Phil Harvey, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist Who Expanded Human Pleasure and Human Choice; Fought the Law

Meryl Streep, Zadie Smith and others sign letter demanding Cuban government stop persecuting artists.

Courage to Couture: Christian Dior’s sister was in the French Resistance

Voters Are Done With COVID-19 and Pandemic-Powered Officials; Panicked Americans surrendered a lot of authority during the pandemic. Now they want their country back

In conversation with Lawrence Weschler: Artist and Disability Activist Riva Lehrer

FORMERLY KNOWN AS CINEMA

Lina Wertmüller, First Woman Nominated for Best Director at Academy Awards, Dies at 93; Quentin Tarantino once said of Wertmüller: "She was the first female director I knew by name."

TCM Remembers Lina Wertmüller (1928 - 2021)

Pedro Almodovar’s “Parallel Mothers” Has a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes But Spain Didn’t Enter It for the Oscars

New Trailer, "Drive My Car" Adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car is a haunting road movie

‘The Power of the Dog’: Why Jane Campion Will Become the Third Woman to Win the Directing Oscar

‘Get Out’ Tops WGA List of 101 Greatest Scripts of the 21st Century, ‘Parasite’ Cracks Top 10

The Future of Animation, See the Blending of Tech, A Mix of Styles, the Buoyant Design and an Unlimited, Well-Crafted Color Palette: "Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (Part One)"; First Look

Spielberg's "West Side Story" banned in parts of Middle East over trans character – report

Sasha Stone writes “Summer of the Shark”, an ode to "Jaws" for Director David Fincher and Producer David Prior‘s "Voir"

Peter Bogdanovich: Garbo Lives

"The Matrix Resurrections" Official Trailer 2

'Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty' Official Teaser; Directed by Adam McKay, John C. Reilly as Jerry Buss

Why actor Will Ferrell cut off ‘Anchorman’ director Adam McKay: He ‘f – – ked up’; the Jerry Buss role

Los Angeles Soundstages Can’t Keep Up With Demand: “It’s Almost Like the Floodgates Opened”; A streaming content boom is also leading to a boom in building proposals, retrofits and competition for long-term leases.

Cahiers du Cinéma Reveals Their Top 10 Films of 2021

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “Lost Daughter” Sweeps Gotham Independent Film Awards, “Flee” is Best Documentary

"Zeros and Ones" Trailer (2021) Ethan Hawke stars and Abel Ferrara directs

MCU Artist Says Thor: Love and Thunder is Going to Be Wild; Taika Waititi

Director Vilsoni Hereniko Premieres His Very Personal “Sina Ma Tinirau” at HiFF

STAGE STRUCK

Broadway: “Wicked” Gets COVID, Cancels Performances, “MJ Michael Jackson Musical” Gets 3 Standing Ovations

Interview, A sense of discovery’: Playwright Philip Pullman on religion, school plays and The Book of Dust; Why 'His Dark Materials' was better as a play than a film

Cast Set for Off-Broadway's 'Prayer for the French Republic'; Play follows five generations of a French Jewish family in its examination of history, home, and the effects of an ancient hatred

Five collaborators on the challenge and thrill of working with Stephen Sondheim

Lorne Michaels still lives for Saturday night

Paint the Stage Red: Plays About Artists – In Pictures

Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021) was American theater royalty whose music will stand the test of time

The Highs And Lows Of The New Movie Musical Boom

Up, Up and Away: The Trippy Tales Behind ‘Flying Over Sunset’; How’s this for an unlikely idea for a musical? Three 1950s celebrities, including Cary Grant, experimenting with LSD. Together. It happened, sort of.

JOHN STEPPLING

Fascist Baby Talk

"They will walk you to the internment camp wearing Vegan shoes and signing more laws to restrict tobacco use and limit what food stamps can buy. They are only following the consensus. One manufactured by the ruling class. Soldiers of virtue. The Great Reset is only Nazi dreams (I was thinking of Hitler’s plans for Norway while writing this. A winter ski resort, essentially, for party members only) dressed in new cultic bio tech terminology. Kitsch and the sentimental are both a form of violence.

BOOKS AND WORDS

From bowler hats to bad forgeries: new biography offers a fresh look at René Magritte’s complex life—including his dodgier side hustles

‘Magritte’ Review: This Is Not a Book Review; Surrealism, in the hands of Salvador Dalí, was a wild performance. René Magritte made it a clever, cool trick

Mel Brooks says his only regret as a comedian is the jokes he didn't tell

Solid Ivory by James Ivory review – an Oscar-winning film director tells all

Should We Believe the Stories of Men Mistaken for Gods? New book casts a mostly skeptical eye over the tales long told about Christopher Columbus, Captain Cook, and many more

Brooklyn Rail: Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch: Anderson’s latest film recognizes that writers are as much a part of their stories as the story is itself

Book Review: "A Sting in the Tail: Art, Hoax and Provocation"

A New Book About Jay DeFeo Gets at the Essence of Bay Area Art

The Saga of Jay DeFeo's 'The Rose'

Fiction: Scheherazade and Her Repertoire; To match one of the most fantastic feats of invention in literature, the story of how it came to be

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time - Official Documentary Trailer

Hollywood Doesn’t Want Your Idea Unless It Is Based On A Book

CAA Agent Julia Glausi Tells You What Kind of Scripts Are Selling

ART NOIR

On the Lam, Christian Rosa, the Fallen Art Star Accused of Selling Forged Pettibon Paintings, Has Reportedly Been Arrested in Portugal

Italy’s museums move to stop ticket touts’ post-Covid comeback

Billionaire Investor Michael Steinhardt Is Forced to Surrender $70 Million in Art and Agree Never to Collect Antiquities Again

A swindler’s playground: why is the art market so appealing to fraudsters?

More than 30 years later, a tantalizing clue in the Gardner Museum art heist surfaces

PALATE PALETTE

What Artists Cook Up in Their Kitchens; It turns out that making a dish and making a work of art have a fair amount in common

Tasting Notes: Tong Yuhn m.

Alison Roman: A 30-Minute and Delicious Strawberry Shortcake Cobbler

Melanie Dunea: My Last Supper with Mario Batali and 6 More Chefs on Their Final Meal

Skye McAlpine doesn’t just kill it in the kitchen; she nails the presentation as well. Now you can, too

Stanley Tucci - How to Make Classic Gin Martini

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Official Trailer "Paper & Glue" Doc on Extremely Busy and Highly Creative French Street Artist JR

How Pop Became Political for Artists Across the Americas; From North to South America, artists used the bold colors, figuration, and appropriated imagery of Pop Art, but with a biting political message

Like Robin Hood, Banksy will sell jailbreak stencil for £10m to turn Reading prison into art centre

'Chihuly in the Desert' Brings Large-Scale Glass Works by the Iconic Artist to Frank Lloyd Wright's Famed Taliesin West

Andrea Marie Breiling "Sweet Dreams of Rhythm and Dancing" at Almine Rech, London

About Artist Tom Mosser – and how his dog made him famous!

M.C. ESCHER "NOT AN ARTST!"

From snubbing Mick Jagger to explaining the cosmos: the secret life of MC Escher and his impossible worlds; New Taschen Book

M.C. Escher: Journey into Infinity Trailer

The Best of 2021: Hyperallergic's Top 10 United States Art Shows

Julia Friedman and David Hawkes: Damian Hirst and His ‘The Currency’ Referendum

RAGNAR!

Icelandic performance artist Ragnar Kjartansson goes big in Moscow; A living sculpture; Daily performances with a cast of 80; Remaking the soap classic 'Santa Barbara', a cultural touchstone in Russia

Ragnar Kjartansson: Santa Barbara and To Moscow! To Moscow! To Moscow!

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Santa Barbara – A Living Sculpture by Ragnar Kjartansson

JORGE PARDO

Jorge Pardo: ‘I don’t draw by hand anymore’

Jorge Pardo: Mongrel at Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College

Yau: Pete Schulte’s Magical Abstract Drawings

SONG 1 opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, as part of the Doug Aitken: New Era exhibition

Miles Regis, "Better Days Ahead", at Von Lintel Gallery

Scottish Artist Daniel Mullen Uses a Meditative Process to Create Paintings as Dazzling as They Are Exacting

Yau: The Unknown Work of Rakuko Naito

The Sublime Spectacle of Yoko Ono Disrupting the Beatles; In Peter Jackson’s “The Beatles: Get Back,” Ono is a performance artist at the height of her powers

Exhibition explores the extraordinary breadth of Caribbean-British art over four generations

How Cheech Marin’s Forthcoming Art Center Is Changing the Game for Chicanx Art

This Gallery Is Dedicated to the Aesthetic Joys of Rust

Australia’s richest art prize, the Doug Moran prize 2021: Asher Keddie, Holocaust survivors and ‘ghostly crew’ portraits share major win

Underground Museum to Reopen Jan. 12th

The Art Review 'Power 100" Annual Ranking of the Most Influential in Art

HELEN PASHGIAN

Helen Pashgian "Spheres" at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe

Lawrence Weschler: The Confounding Lightness of Helen Pashgian; Long underrecognized for her innovations, a trailblazer of the Light and Space Movement is suddenly juggling three tribute shows to her six-decade career

Vanity Fair: Hunter Biden Is Painting His Truth

THE GOOD WORKS OF LAWRENCE WEINER

Lawrence Weiner in His Own Words (1942–2021)

How Lawrence Weiner (1942–2021) Reimagined What Art Could Be

Upwards in Language: Lawrence Weiner in Austria; Recent exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz revealed the power of the artist’s linguistic interventions

A Vindication of Conceptualism; Robert Storr compares Lawrence Weiner and Kara Walker’s projects of the early 2000s

Lawrence Weiner on the Trash Can; ‘When it fills up at the end of the week, you think, “Okay, I have done something!”’

Lawrence Weiner, a Pioneering Conceptualist Who Used Language to Find the Profound in the Prosaic, Has Died at 79

Zak Smith: Things Art Should Be Doing

Whose Art Thrives in Cuba? Art and dance were battlegrounds for the struggle to define the meaning of the revolution

ART, MIAMI & MORE SPACE

Artist Michael Kagan Wants to Get Miami Fairgoers Amped About Space Travel With This Floating, 400-Pound Space Capsule; Will Japanese collector Yusaku Maezawa Send Him to Space?

‘What If Basquiat Had Gone to Space?’ Why a Billionaire Collector Is Hatching a Plan to Take Artists to the Moon on Elon Musk’s Rocket

‘Draw Like a Machine: Pop Art, 1952 – 1975’ at the Menil Drawing Institute, Houston

Array Collective, a Belfast-Based Group Whose Winning Show Consisted of a Pub, Takes the 2021 Turner Prize; For the first time in the award’s history, the pool of shortlisted nominees exclusively included collectives

GOOD GIGS

Landscapes by Ojibwe Painter George Morrison Adorn 2022 USPS Stamps

‘You Just Have to Accept That Wes Is Right’ The French Dispatch crew explains how it pulled off the movie’s quietly impossible tracking shot.

In a Museum Collaboration with Snapchat, Alex Israel Asks: What’s in a Brand?

Artist Opportunities with Upcoming Deadlines in December and January

Burnaway: Call for Artists: December 2021

A Pioneering British Artist’s Painting of a Negotiation; Ahead of her solo exhibition at the Tate Modern in London, Lubaina Himid shares a new, exclusive work

‘Failure Was Around the Corner’: Why Joan Jonas, at Age 85, is Still Looking For New Ways to Perform and Spaces to Inhabit

What Should We Do With Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt’s Island? In the 1970s, the artists bought a rocky strip of land off the coast of Maine. Now, it’s a place for others to wrestle with their legacies

Cindy Sherman confirms that working from home can be murder

Constance Mallinson, Talking Trash: Figuratively and Abstractly

FALLEN FRUIT

Shana Nys Dambrot: Fallen Fruit’s Endless Orchard Grows Boundless Optimism

See the Fallen Fruit 'Endless Orchard' World Map! Sponsored by Creative Capital

RON COOPER

Light & Space at the Copenhagen Contemporary

Cooper and the Chouinard crew at Hussong's in 1962

Dave Hickey at The Harwood

Ron Cooper Racing at Bonneville Speed Week 2021

Ron Cooper "Cars & Bars" at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, 2021

Dennis Hopper’s Taos Ride

Artist Ron Cooper and His Work on Artsy

About the Memoir, "Finding Mezcal", by Ron Cooper

Forbes: Art, Love And Mezcal: How Ron Cooper Sparked A Revolución For Oaxaca's Smoky, Mysterious Spirit

Ron Cooper: Cars & Bars

Eric Johnson at the Paul Williams Gallery: Now Showing

Sculptor Eric Johnson Discusses the Secrets of Fabrication and Legendary Art Fabricator Jack Brogan
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King of New York; A Profile of Legendary Dealer Leo Castelli

DESIGN

20th Century Carpets at Auction

Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts. illo cinderella

Mexico celebrated through the eyes of designers – in pictures

Designers Alexander Díaz Andersson and Julian Mayor on Mexico’s Aesthetic Rise and the Importance of Artisanship (Even in the Metaverse)

Architectural Digest presents AD100, the definitive list of the top design, decor and architecture talent creating today

Casati Gallery: Visions of Italian Design at Auction

Why the Supermarine Spitfire Is Such a Badass Plane; Eighty years ago, the Supermarine Spitfire saved Britain and changed the course of history

Scandinavian Design at Auction! See the Pics!

Leigh Salgado “As the World Turns” at Launch Gallery

Introducing Artist Zahava Sherez

DISCOVERY

Preparatory sketch discovered beneath Rembrandt's Night Watch

Photographing Tutankhamun: Peeling Back the Messy and Myriad Layers of Tutankhamun’s Discovery

Chinese Rover Discovers 'Mystery Hut' Cube on Far Side of Moon

Boffs drilling 'tunnel to Hell' to build first ever volcano lab in Iceland; risking mega eruption; to build the world's first ever 'magma observatory', may find a new energy source

Magnificent Roman mosaic discovered in a farmer's field is 'UK's most exciting find of its kind in a century'

Restoration of Courtauld Gallery's Botticelli altarpiece yields surprising new discoveries

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