News Tips? Email: Click Here

KICKING '21 TO THE CURB!

Gordy-Grundy
A Beautiful Deep Dive Into Our Worldwide Arts + Culture


BRAVING OPPRESSION COLLECTORS F.K.A. CINEMA JERRY GOGOSIAN PHOTOGRAPHY STREETWISE NFTs
EXPERIENTIAL DESIGN FICTIVE ART PALATE PALETTE STAGE STRUCK GOOD GIGS MUSIC + SOUND


Luciano Perna, an L.A. Conceptual artist known for spectral photos and homey sculptures, dies at 63


SWEET LIFE

The American Painter Wayne Thiebaud, Who Transformed Cakes Into Symbols of Joy and Longing, Has Died at 101

Julia Friedman on "Wayne Thiebaud: Clowns"


Swan Song: Wayne Thiebaud at the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio


Art Critic Robert Storr Has Never Been Afraid to Make Enemies. Now, as He Releases a New Book of Essays, He’s Calling Them Out by Name



Honolulu Museum of Art adds three works by contemporary artist Hung Liu (1948-2021) to its permanent collection


With ‘Picasso: Painting the Blue Period,’ the AGO stakes its claim to furthering our understanding of the master


ANNE BUCKWALTER


Global Perspectives on Surrealism Explored in Groundbreaking Exhibition at The Met


Anne Buckwalter "Clean Linens" at Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York



Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87

Five Joan Didion Movies You Can Stream Right Now

Anne Thompson: California Native Joan Didion Understood Hollywood Better than Anyone



Artist duo DRIFT to stage a spectacular light installation on the Elbphilharmonie's facade


Peter Schjeldahl: When Pop Culture Raids Art—and the Reverse


MY ALIEN BFF

How Harry Reid, ex-Nevada senator born near Area 51, spent final months demanding Biden reveal US government UFO secrets

NASA hires priest to prepare humans for an alien discovery and contact


Marina Abramović Wants to Teach You the Secrets of Serenity With an Educational Card Set


Full of Both Passion and Grace, MoMA PS1’s ‘Greater New York’ Exhibition Is a Model of Intelligent Curating



The Most Expensive Artworks Sold in 2021


The Best Gifts Art-World Insiders Have Ever Received, From a Mapplethorpe Photo to Dinner Plates by Laboratorio Paravicini


Art-World Insiders Alex Prager, Jane Kallir, Benjamin Godsill, and others Share Their Most Cherished Holiday Traditions, From Matching Pajamas to Crafting Artsy Ornaments


The Art Newspaper: From NFTs to LFTs: 2021's biggest art stories—and what they mean



Rita Angus: New Zealand Modernist


Incarceration Art: 'The Arts of Oppression' at Southern Methodist University’s Pollock Gallery, Dallas



Fabric of Impulse: Fiber Artist Olga de Amaral Melds Artistic Spontaneity with Slow Craft



Frieze: Five Up-and-Coming Painters to Keep a Close Eye On



Black Gold: Deana Lawson’s Portraits of Family, Beauty and Pride


In 2016, Julian Assange Gave Ai Weiwei a Treadmill. Now the Artist Is Using it in a Campaign to Save the WikiLeaks Founder; Ai’s social media campaign, #RunForOurRights



Pantone Conjured Up A Fresh Color of the Year for 2022 to Signal 'Newness'



Georganne Deen on Gary Panter’s “CRASHPAD”



The Biggest Survey of Bob Dylan’s Visual Art to Hit the U.S. Is Now Open in Miami—See Images Here



Nicolas Grenier "Eyes Adjusting Slowly" at Luis De Jesus


The Renaissance Women Who Painted Against the Odds; Spotlights female artists from Italy in the 16th through 18th centuries, and asks: Who got left out of the canon?



Artillery Reviews Keith Walsh at Rory Devine Fine Art



Shana Nys Dambrot: Painter of Dreams and Seeker Sol Summers



Yau: The Mysteries of the Universe in John Willenbecher’s Early Work



The Defining Artworks of 2021


Hyperallergic: A Look Back at Art News in 2021, From NFTs to Restitution; The pandemic raged on, plus we were forced to learn about crypto-art



Laura Karetzky "Concurrence" at Luis De Jesus



Club scenes – the art of the cabaret at the Barbican


Renzo Martens’s ‘White Cube’ in a Congolese Palm Oil Plantation; The Dutch artist’s critical take on the operations of critical art, cultural capital and the wealth that funds the two



The New Criterion: Anglicizing the avant-garde; On “Modern Times: British Prints, 1913–1939” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.


THE MIAMI HANGOVER


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


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

Enter the Chanel Labyrinth at Art Basel


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


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"


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



Brooklyn Rail: Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror


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


STREETWISE


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


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

Omicron coverage reveals how the establishment, media keep us scared

Richard Serra, Kara Walker and other artists urged the Met to remove Sackler name


Aziz Hazara Takes $100,000 Future Generation Art Prize for Video About Afghan Resilience
... See his excellent video!

The Second Great Age of Political Correctness; P.C. culture of the '80s and '90s didn't decline and fall. It just went underground. Now it's back.

North Korea Executes People for Watching K-Pop, Rights Group Says

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.




FORMERLY KNOWN AS CINEMA

When Joan Didion’s Worst Screenwriting Experience Turned Into Her Best

The Tragic History of Charlie Chaplin's Last Film in 1967; Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Chaplin Writes, Directs and Composes Score

"Everything Everywhere All At Once", Official Trailer; Directed by the duo Daniels


Pedro Almodóvar Confirms His Next Film Could Be ‘Money Manual' With Cate Blanchett
... About "A Manual for Cleaning Women" by Lucia Berlin

‘West Side Story’ is Officially a Box-Office Bomb

On Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria; With Tilda Swinton; “It would be ridiculous to say we watched or saw this movie. No: We listened to it”; Will play in theaters “forever”; Screening in one city at a time for one week at a time. It opens at the IFC Center, New York, on December 26.


New film starring Bridgerton's Phoebe Dynevor puts trailblazing Art Deco designer and ceramic craftswoman Clarice Cliff back in the spotlight

Official Trailer 'Death on the Nile'

‘Compartment No. 6’ Trailer: Two Strangers Head to the Arctic by Train in Finnish Oscar Contender


Bad Dream Couture: How Noir ‘Nightmare Alley’ Got Its Carnival Look

A Recollection of Sterling Hayden

Much Anticipation for director Robert Eggers 'The Northman', Official Trailer

Robert Eggers’ ‘The Northman’ Trailer Suggests Bloody Period Epic; Reaction from Test Screenings

Video Review: The Drinker Recommends... Spider-Man: No Way Home; Exemplary Storytelling


‘It’s All an Indian Burial Ground’: Folk Horror Cinema’s Reckoning with Colonial Violence

The 2021 Black List: Kanye West Biopic, Wild Dennis Rodman Tale Make the Cut

‘Deep Water’ Headed Straight to Streaming; Based on Highsmith novel; Sexual Thriller with Affleck and De Armas

‘France’ Review: When the Journalist Becomes the Story; Léa Seydoux plays a star television anchor whose life comes unraveled in Bruno Dumont’s new film.

‘Tragedy of Macbeth’: Anatomy of Masterful Photography

The Biblical Clash at the Core of 'The Power of the Dog'

'Italian Studies' Official Trailer

The Story Of How Leonardo DiCaprio’s Dad Ended Up In 'Licorice Pizza' (And How Leo Reacted)

"The Gilded Age" Official Trailer HBO

“Canterbury Glass” New David O. Russell Test Screens; Top cast

Woody Allen’s ‘Rifkin’s Festival’ Finally Being Released in January


"A Very British Scandal" Trailer

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

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

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


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


STAGE STRUCK


'The Little Prince’ to Land on Broadway With Dance and Acrobatics; This international production, an adaptation of the novella that is described as “a theatrical experience with musical elements,” will run for five months


A Four de Force: The sole performer onstage, actor and director Ralph Fiennes brings T. S. Eliot’s words to life and into the now


What Did London Critics Think of 'Cabaret', Starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley?


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


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


JOHN STEPPLING


A Solution Without a Solution

"The path out of this morass is one of reclaiming the imagination. And I have noted before my sense of turning away from this spectacle. Power is too concentrated. I feel the voices of dissent must protect their voices like the desert fathers, the coptic monks living in caves protected ancient manuscripts. For there, in the vast nothingness of such spaces perhaps a new project of discovery, of speech, and even of text, can be found."


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




BOOKS AND WORDS


Brooklyn Rail: 20 Best Art Books of 2021

The Art of the Con: The Art World in Novels

Jason Alexander Explains Integrity in the Arts

Wondercabinet: Lawrence Weschler’s Fortnightly Compendium of the Miscellaneous Diverse


Wallpaper: 10 best contemporary art books published in 2021

Is Self-Censorship a Problem for Writers? At an event organized by PEN America, four prominent writers debated art, identity, appropriation and the state of free expression. (Fisticuffs not included.)

Best Art Books of 2021; The art critics of The NY Times select their favorites from this year’s crop of art books

The Best Graphic Novels of 2021; This year’s crop of comics art included experimental storytelling and flights of stylistic fancy

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


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


ART NOIR


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

Two Artists Charged With Faking Indigenous Heritage to Sell Art; Violating the Indian Arts and Crafts Act

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

Alison Roman: Brothy Beans


Fit for a King; At his new Versailles restaurant, Alain Ducasse continues his reign over French cuisine.

"Boiling Point" (2021) Restaurant kitchen drama, with Stephen Graham and director Philip Barantini

How to turn up the heat in "Boiling Point" a feature film? Make your actors cook in real time






RESOURCES
Artist Opportunities
The Art Story: Artists + Movements
Dictionary

Thesaurus
Drudge Worldwide Weather
Maps
NightOut

Freewill Astrology
National Art Openings--Coming Soon!
Reference Desk
Contemporary Art Movements

FORMERLY KNOWN AS CINEMA
Birth.Movies.Death.
Collider
Deadline
Roger Friedman
Lloyd Grove
Hollywood Dementia
Hollywood Elsewhere
Hollywood Reporter
IMDB
IndieWire
Rotten Tomatoes
Variety

TECHNO
Ars Technica
Boing Boing
Engineering & Technology
Innovation & Tech Today
Jalopnik
MIT Technology Review
National Geographic
NASA
Tech Briefs
The Verge
Wired

LAUGHS
Bizarro
Butcher and Wood
Dave Barry
The Chive
CNN
Doonesbury
Funny Or Die
NYT Loose Ends
The Onion
Popbitch
Smoking Gun

FINE ARTS
Artsy
Artforum
Artillery
Apollo
Art F City
Art Almanac
Art and Australia
Art Daily
Art Fix Daily
Art in America
Art Monthly
Artnet
Artnews
Art Review
Artspace
Blouton ArtInfo
Brooklyn Rail
Brooklyn Street Art
Burnaway
CARLA
Deviant Art
Flash Art
Frieze
Glasstire
Hi·Fructose
Hyperallergic
Juxtapoz
Parkett
Saatchi Art
The Art Newspaper
White Hot

TRAVEL
Adventure Journal
AFAR
Conde Nast Traveler
The Culture-ist
Go Nomad
Go World Travel
Matador Network
National Geographic Traveller
Travel + Leisure
Vagabondish
Wanderlust

MANKIND + NATURE
Fine Gardening
Garden Design
Land 8
Landscape Architecture Magazine
Landscape Architecture Foundation
World Landscape Architecture

FASHION
Allure

Cosmopolitan
Elle
Fashionista
Fashion
Glamour
GQ
Look
Marie Claire
NYT Style Magazine
Teen Vogue
Vogue
Vogue China
Vogue India
Vogue Italy
Vogue Paris
Women's Wear Daily

BEAUTY INSIDE + OUT
Abitare
Architect Magazine
Architectural Digest
Architecural Record
DeZeen
Dwell
Elle Decor
Gray
House Beautiful
House and Garden
Interior Design
Metropolis
Veranda
Wallpaper
World of Interiors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


‘The Regional’ Review: The Midwest on the Move


‘Podcast Movies’? Feature-Length Fiction Stretches the Medium; Backed by Hollywood, Featuring stars like Kate Mara, Adam Scott and Kiernan Shipka


‘Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction’ Review: Celebrating Abstract Art as It Was Meant to Be


Director of Salon 94 Design Zoe Fisher Loves a Goofy Gallery Name



Goldman: Post-Christmas Art Surprises at MOCA



Beer With a Painter: Janice Nowinski: “I am trying to keep the immediacy of my emotional experience while I’m painting.”


The Trauma and Talent of Some of History’s Greatest Women Artists


Why London’s Underground Art Scene Is Disappearing



World's largest museum for an artist? Munch gets new digs


Amazing remastered video of Los Angeles from 1930s shows city full of life - with the same old traffic


UC Irvine Museum Gets $$$ and a New Name



Chess Player Eve Babitz Dies: Writer and Avatar of LA Cultural Scene Was 78; Friend of Duchamp

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp: All about Eve Babitz: Artists Ed and Paul Ruscha on the late L.A. icon

Eve Babitz, chronicler of 1960s and 70s Hollywood excess, dies aged 78; Babitz’s witty dispatches from Los Angeles featured everyone from Jim Morrison to Steve Martin and made her a cult figure to a generation


The Most Deranged Posts of 2021



At home with Jeff Koons: The Interview


FRIEZE TOP 10 SHOWS OF 2021: US, UK, EU


United States


United Kingdom



European Union



Madonna’s Son Rocco Ritchie Is Secretly an Artist and May Have Been Showing His Paintings Under the Pseudonym ‘Rhed’ for Years
... Rhed at Tanya Baxter Contemporary



‘There Are Always More Questions’: Abstract Painter Mary Lovelace O’Neal on Creating Art That Refuses to Be Boxed In



From the pyramids to Venice: splendid survey of British painters traces the rise of the professional artist-tourist.



In The Galleries: Artists Illustrate The Evolving Principles Of Geometric Painting



'Most important gift in recent decades': trove of works by Kandinsky, Otto Dix and Max Ernst donated to Städel Museum in Frankfurt


Meet the Movers and Shakers Leading the Way in Budapest's Art Scene



‘Desperation Befell Me’: The Elusive South African Painter Marlene Dumas on the Struggle to Paint Throughout a Year Marred by Tragedy; A poignant show on view at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris


Vienna exhibition tests ethics of displaying human remains



An Illustrated History of Bad Art Friends; Is there a line between being inspired by others’ lives and stealing from them?


Italian Women Artists Celebrated in Groundbreaking Exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Travels to Detroit Institute of Arts



Hyperallergic Best of 2021: Our Top 10 New York City Art Shows


‘People Think About Me When They See a Banana’: Artist Maurizio Cattelan on His Now-Viral Fame in China


METRO


As Metro Pictures Closes, Its Founders Look Back; Janelle Reiring and Helene Winer on their landmark gallery, which introduced Cindy Sherman, Louise Lawler, Robert Longo and Richard Prince to the art world.

Goodbye to Metro Pictures; What does the closure of the iconic gallery mean for the New York art world?


FICTIVE ART


Andreas Gursky's "Review"

‘Birds Aren’t Real’



T.E.W.S.R., Fresh Off the Streets!



Kim Abeles Turns the Climate Crisis Into Eco-Art; She doesn’t just make art about pollution, she makes art out of it



Liz Larner and the Upcycling of Material; On the occasion of survey at Sculpture Center in New York



Futurist Tullio Crali’s flights into the future



Gilded glass from the world’s most glamorous ship


A slow and insightful Look at Claude Monet's 'Charing Cross Bridge, brouillard'


The New Criterion: Between art & revolution; On Alexandre Lenoir and the Musée des Monuments Français.



Slime Time: How Contemporary Culture Got Gunged



Berlin Artist Anke Eilergerhard on Why Whipped Cream Is the ‘Perfect Sculptural Form’


Ian Strange: Light Intersections II



Interview Artist David Shrigley: ‘I see genius where other people see rubbish’



Revolution, Restaged and Translated: "If Revolution Is a Sickness (2021)" A video by Diane Severin Nguyen



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


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 GOES BIG!


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


HELLO, MARISOL!


How Marisol, “the True Trailblazer,” Paved the Way for Andy Warhol. Who Influenced What?


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


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


ARTIST’S HEALTH

Meds not needed: For anxiety sufferers, exercise proves to be a powerfully effective treatment

Across the World, Covid Anxiety and Depression Take Hold


Not a Tanning Bed! Switzerland Approves Assisted ‘Suicide Capsule’

For Tribes, a Good Fire Is a Key to Restoring Nature and People

Feeling Overwhelmed? 16 Artists, Including Hunter Biden, Share Their Best Self-Care Tips, From Eating Cookies to Walking in Graveyards


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


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


For La Prairie, 2021 Was Defined by the Beauty of Art Collaborations and a Sense of Blue; The luxury skincare brand supported a range of high-profile art projects

‘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.


An Astronaut Steers an Elaborately Constructed Paper Spaceship in a Hermes Window Display by Zim & Zou

Artist Opportunities with Upcoming Deadlines in December and January

Burnaway: Call for Artists: December 2021


KAWS dropped his new Nikes last week. Get on the mailing list, here.


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



Eric Johnson at the Paul Williams Gallery: Now Showing

Sculptor Eric Johnson Discusses the Secrets of Fabrication and Legendary Art Fabricator Jack Brogan


PHOTOGRAPHY


Georgia O’Keeffe Was an Accomplished Photographer, Too. A New Exhibition Focuses on Her Work in the Medium for the First Time


Winners of the ‘Red Bull Illume Image Quest 2021’ contest

Photo Essay: A Look Inside Kerala’s Ghost Houses


Winners of the 2021 Natural Landscape Photography Awards

Archive of James Van Der Zee, once-ignored chronicler of Harlem, acquired by the Met


This Astrophotographer’s Strikingly Detailed Image of the Sun Is Going Viral; Combining 150,000 images

A photographic memory: Hanging with master architectural photographer Julius Shulman

Photographer Edward Burtynsky on Creating Immersive Experiences and How to Find Your Aesthetic Voice in a World Flooded with Images


An Elegy for Sweaty Nights of Drum & Bass


‘Born with a twisted mind’: Helmut Newton’s freaky fashion – in pictures


DESIGN


Beyond Architecture: 6 Young Chinese Architects Working in Alternative Careers


The Best Book Covers of 2021


Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts.


Mexico celebrated through the eyes of designers – in pictures


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

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!




Introducing Artist Zahava Sherez


DISCOVERY


Ninety-Nine Fascinating Finds Revealed in 2021; The year’s most exciting discoveries include a Viking “piggy bank,” a lost Native American settlement and a secret passageway hidden behind a bookshelf


Drawing bought for $30 at estate sale is actually worth $50 million

NASA Scientists Are Gonna Bawl Their Eyes When the Tiny Mars Chopper Dies


Preparatory sketch discovered beneath Rembrandt's Night Watch

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'







ART WORDS
Andrew Berardini
Glenn Adamson
Skot Armstrong
Eli Anapur
Martin Bailey
Maurice Berger
Ezrha Jean Black
Kate Brown
Alan Bamberger
Robert Becker
Betty Ann Brown
Andrianna Campbell
Clayton Campbell
Sarah Cascone
Robin Cembalest
Scarlet Cheng
Rachel Corbett
Holland Cotter
Shana Nys Dambrot
Ben Davis
Sarah Douglas
Mira Dayal
Travis Diehl
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Makeda Easter
James Elkins
Deena Elgenaidi
Jason Farago
Julia Friedman
Jessica Gelt
Mat Gleason
Caroline Goldstein
Andrew Goldstein
Adam Gopnik
Tyler Green
Boris Groys
Gordy Grundy
Doug Harvey
Eleanor Heartney
Josh Herman
David Hickey
Tyler Hubby
Paddy Johnson
Jonathan Jones
Nancy Kenney
Michael Kimmelman
Tulsa Kinney
Christopher Knight
Rainey Knudson
Rosalind E. Krauss
Debra Levine
Lucy Lippard
Logan Lockner
Laura London
Christopher Michno
Carolina Miranda
David Pagel
William Powhida
John David O'Brien
Kelly Rappleye
Christina Rees
Jerry Saltz
William Sarradet
Peter Schjeldahl
Tim Schneider
Martha Schwendener
Adrian Searle
Sebastian Smee
Roberta Smith
William S. Smith
Zak Smith
Rebecca Solnit
Deborah Solomon
Julian Spalding
Helen Stoilas
John Steppling
Matt Stromberg
Mark Swed
Anne Thompson
John Tottenham
Phyllis Tuchman
Deborah Vankin
David Velasco
Catherine Wagley
Jasmine Weber
Lawrence Weschler
Mary Woronov
John Yau
Brandon Zech
Jessica Zhang

MUSIC
Alternative Press
Billboard
BBC Classical Music
Downbeat
Kerrang!
MOJO
NME
Pitchfork
Q
Revolver
Rolling Stone
SPIN

HALCYON
Air Mail
Daily Beast

Esquire
The New Yorker
New York Magazine
Los Angeles Magazine
Town and Country
Vanity Fair

MISTER CHOW
Art of Eating
Bon Appetit
Cooks Illustrated
Epicurious
Fine Cooking
Food & Wine
Gastronomica
Saveur
You Grow Girl

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back to Top

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PRIVACY POLICY TERMS OF USE

AD CHOICESPRIVACY RIGHTSARCHIVES

 

 

 
 

OUR MISSION STATEMENT
Founded April Fools’ Day 2019


+ To provide the most comprehensive arts news resource in the world, all on one wild page

+ To report on creative influences: sociology, tech, nature, materials, discovery, philosophy, etc, et al

+ To present the joy and beauty of the arts to a wider audience with inspiration, simplicity and relevance

 

 

 


GORDY GRUNDY
Publisher

GRACE SPERLING
Editor

MIU TACAO
Art Director

CHAZ DIAZ
Editorial Assistant

 

 

 

 

 

Gordy Grundy


How Georgia O’Keeffe’s Texas Years Shaped Her Art; Between 1912 and 1918



ART REPORT TODAY GALLERIES: Now Exhibiting



LOSING AND CHOOSING MY RELIGION

Better Living Through Stoicism, From Seneca to Modern Interpreters



Christina Ramos, Jack Winthrop and Judy Ostro at Gabba Gallery


Katharina Grosse "Repetitions without Origin" Gagosian, Beverly Hills



Wondercabinet: Lawrence Weschler’s Fortnightly Compendium of the Miscellaneous Diverse; Pashgian, Hutton, and Godot



Utah Museum of Fine Arts Buys Deep With works by major Japanese American artist Chiura Obata 1885-1975



Félix Vallotton’s “Intimacies”


The NYC subway can be ‘sketch’: How one artist captures its riders



Eight Years Ago, Irish Artist Genieve Figgis Was Painting in Her Kitchen for an Audience of One. Now, Collectors Clamor for Her Six-Figure Works



Painting Apart from the World: Monks and Scholars of the Ming and Qing Dynasties


What Art Galleries Can Learn from Playgrounds



Hilma af Klint’s Dazzling Paintings Made Us Question the Source of Genius. Here Are 3 Things You Might Not Know About ‘Youth’; The painting was among 193 commissioned by a spirit during a seance to adorn a cosmic temple


SALA DIAZ, THE SWEETEST ART SPACE IN ALL OF TEXAS


Sala Stories, Part Seven with Karen Mahaffy and Hills Snyder



Internationally acclaimed Australian artist Tracey Moffatt creates a new site-specific art installation



Lisa Yuskavage on Unquestioning Love



The New Criterion: Face-to-face with Matisse’s “Backs”



Recapping Performa 2021: But was it Performance Art?



In the wake of Krista Clark’s inclusion in the recently opened 2021 New Museum Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone, MaDora Frey interviewed the Atlanta-based artist about her evolving practice


The New Criterion: All turned about; On the Turner prize and a pair of exhibitions in London



Dutch State Moves to Acquire Rembrandt Masterpiece from Rothschild Family; Owners since 1844; France declared the painting a national treasure



More Getty Buys: Caligula's Dad and a Pink Qur'an



David Hockney’s Adventures in Printmaking; New exhibition in Minneapolis explores the British painter’s works on paper.


MANUFACTURING ART

Artist and Fabricator: This Artist and Master Stone Carver Was Isamu Noguchi’s Collaborator for Decades. Why Do So Few People Know Who Masatoshi Izumi Is?

The Model Shop in production for the film "The French Dispatch"



Striking light sculpture by artist Sharon Lockhart installed on facade of the Middelheim Museum


THE CLIMATE HAS ALWAYS BEEN CHANGING


How Doug Aitken, Andy Goldsworthy, and Other Artists Turned a Former Retreat for San Francisco Elites Into a Stark Reminder of Climate Change


The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane explores connections between people and place—and the encroaching danger of climate change

An expert's guide to Land Art: five must-read books on art and the environment

Maya Lin’s Dismantled ‘Ghost Forest’ to Be Reborn as Boats; Teenagers are making boats using the wood from her grove installation at Madison Square Park, and the artist is happy that the work is seeing a new life

We Can Clean Water with Our Earth; How locally sourced clay can be used to create natural water filtration systems



See the WORKER show now, Click Here!



The Neglected Afterlife of the Great Georges Braque; His paintings speak of self-containment, of a quietly impassioned, ongoing dedication to the task at hand.


Maurizio Cattelan on His Show of Artists Named Smith, His Retirement Status, and Where His Golden Toilet Is Headed Next


Lawrence Weschler Interviews Jay Lynn (formerly Ramiro) Gomez



"Ink Dreams" at LACMA



'Labyrinth of Forms: Women and Abstraction, 1930–1950' Debuts at The Whitney


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


MUSIC AND SOUND


Avicii’s Final Journals Reveal a Superstar DJ Haunted by Demons

Peggy Gou @ Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille in France for Cercle

Seven music videos that take a cue from art history

 

Charles ‘Buddy’ Bolden: A haunting resurrection of the man who invented jazz

Artist John Akomfrah: 'Precarity' A study of musician Charles ‘Buddy’ Bolden

Robbie Shakespeare married funk and reggae to create a catalogue of classics



FICTIVE ART: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE ARTISTS

Part One: Antoinette LaFarge Talks Fictive Art with Artist Peter Hill

Part Two: Antoinette LaFarge Talks Fictive Art with Artist Peter Hill


EXPERIENTIAL

‘I’m a different person’: Miami Beach entrepreneur reflects on space journey aboard Bezos’ rocket


East of Borneo: Steve Roden, video documentation of 'Bowrain' (2010)

Inflatable Dinosaurs Stalk Paris’s Jardin des Plantes


Smell and sound: Artist Florian Hecker turns a historic Schindler home into a sensory experience

Critics Say New Church-Approved Plans for Notre-Dame Will Make the Place Look Like Disneyland; The proposal includes a “discovery trail” designed to tell the story of the Bible in different languages.


‘No One Who Hears Them Is Left Unaffected’: Bernie Krause on Turning the Sounds of Nature Into Visual Art; an audio-visual experience commissioned by the Cartier Foundation in Paris


Apocalyptic beach performance that took top Venice Biennale prize is coming to London

The Rise of Psychedelic Retreats


NEW BOOK



ART BUSINESS


What to do when faced with adversity? Hannah Traore set to open her namesake gallery in 2022

Larger-Than-Life Van Gogh Exhibits Are Drawing Crowds, and Museums Are Steamed


Maurizio Cattelan and his Sold Out Scarves

The White House flagged money laundering in the art industry on Monday as a point of corruption: The Report

Art As A Financial Asset, a Deloitte Report

To Adapt to a Changing Market, Art Basel Is Eliminating Old Rules That Barred Younger Galleries From the Fair


The Met Just Received $125 Million—the Largest Gift in Its History—to Build Its Long-Awaited Modern Wing Expansion; The gift comes from financier Oscar Tang and his wife Agnes Hsu-Tang

'Local galleries need to wake up, learn to compete with the real deal': what Seoul's galleries think of the influx of international dealers; With a rash of blue-chip gallery openings, and a new Frieze fair, the South Korean capital’s star is on the rise



COLLECTORS CIRCLE


Collector Fabien Fryns on the Works Above His Many Sofas, and the Basquiat He Got for a Steal


Ex-Big Blue linebacker and art collector Keith Rivers is now a ‘giant’ in the art world


Lawyer Schwanda Rountree on Collecting Without Regrets and Why Art Is an ‘Essential Part’ of Her Being

Collector Olusanya Ojikutu on Building a Stellar African Art Collection, and Why He Acquired a Double-Sided Painting


‘I Fell in Love’: Why Hong Kong Collector Queenie Rosita Law Is Building a Trove of Eastern European Contemporary Art




ARCHITECTURE


Eternal Innovator: Architect Richard Rogers' 10 Best Buildings – In Pictures


Inspiring homes and a restored town hall: New Zealand architecture awards 2021 – in pictures


Travelling in style on the Naples metro

East of Borneo: Millard Sheets, Albert Stewart: Monument to Freemason, Albert Pike, Scottish Rite Temple, 1961


On Czech Cubist architecture

The Architecture of Social Media; Online channels are influencing architecture in new and unexpected ways, creating opportunities—and headaches—for designers.

This architecture firm is making up to $300,000 per project to design real estate in the metaverse




Barbados, Which Just Shook Free of British Oversight, Has Tapped David Adjaye to Build a New Heritage District

Hawaii Architect Vladimir Ossipoff's Pālehua Cabin


More Pics of the Ossipoff Cabin on Instagram


‘The Materials Taste’: Postmodernesque Interiors in London

Important “Arts and Crafts” Architecture Archive Gifted to the Huntington Library; The gift will allow the institution to incorporate the Greene brothers' archives into its online systems to make it searchable online.


NFT: BUSINESS AS USUAL


The 10 Most Expensive NFT Artworks of 2021, From Beeple’s $69 Million ‘Everydays’ to XCOPY’s $3.8 Million Portrait of ‘Some Asshole’

2021 Has Been the Year of the NFT. But What Exactly Is an NFT?

Inside the NFT Rush: Speculators Offer Up the Literal Formula for Success, Plus Other Lessons From ‘Crypto Coachella’

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

NFT of ‘Merry Christmas’ — first text ever sent — sells for $121K


NFT artist Refik Anadol looks to NASA for new UK experiential art show

The Artnet NFT 30 Report (Part One)

The Artnet NFT 30 Report: Meet the Artists, Innovators, and Collectors Who Built Our New Crypto-Art Era (Part Two)

Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sells $6 Million NFT From Prison; "This is just the beginning."


Nike Buys NFT Company that Made the Elon Musk “Cybersneaker”

Former Christie’s Rainmaker Loïc Gouzer Debuts a New Company to Sell Fractional Ownership of Pricey Artworks as NFTs; The company, Particle, hopes to establish a meta-museum.


‘Bored Ape’ NFT sells for $3K instead of $300K because of a typo

Tamil-Canadian Artist Shan Vincent de Paul’s NFT Collection Has a Twist

Melania Trump Is Releasing an NFT That Will Cost 1 SOL Each for Charity


Artist Lucien Smith Drops First NFT Collection ‘Seeds’; Crossbreed

‘It Was Important to Show That It’s Not Just Men’: An Interview With B, the Rare Female OG in the Crypto-Art Community

At Faena, Aorist Auctions Newly Minted NFTs to Save Miami’s Endangered Reefs

Signature of ‘Star Trek’ creator Gene Roddenberry becomes first living NFT at Art Basel

A New NFT Collection Gives Life to 6 Magical Entities, Each Representing an Ecological Concept


Stan Lee Is an NFT Now, And Fans Are Very Upset

Colborn Bell, Founder of the First Museum of Crypto Art, Isn’t Worried About Wooing the Traditional Art World; Is the metaverse the future for museums?

Why isn’t anyone bidding on an NFT of the Rockefeller Christmas Tree?


AMAZING MOTHER NATURE 


River of Grass, River of Stars: The Everglades


Mystery Lifeforms Have Been Found in The Hostile Darkness Beneath Antarctica

"Wings Over Water" Exclusive Trailer

We’re Not Done Yet; Here’s How Humans Are Still Evolving


GO, VAN GOGH!


The secret behind Van Gogh’s satirical herring still life: they represent policemen; Vincent told his artist friend Paul Signac that the fish stood for the gendarmes who hassled him after he mutilated his ear


First-Ever Exhibition on Van Gogh's Olive Grove Series Reveals His Passionate Artistic Process During a Personal Crisis.


Reunited for the First Time, van Gogh’s Olive Groves Reveal Secrets About His Work


Revealed: Larry Ellison, the world’s seventh richest person, has collected at least four Van Goghs

Then and Now: Imagining Van Gogh's Painting Process


SURF

John John Florence Releases 20-Minute Surf Film From His European Archives; John John in Europe -- Le Vieux Monde En Rouge

John John Florence Releases Extended Outer Reef Cut From Recent Film ‘Maps of Home’

Extended Cut from 'Maps of Home'

Surfing science: Dependent on weather, defined by the ocean; wave riders are unsung masters of science







News Tips? Email: info@ArtReportToday.com


Advertise With Us!

Letter from the Publisher: Creative Class? Is that elitist?

Privacy Policy


 


ART REPORT TODAY
Blue Chip, Red Dot
Our Current Exhibition Schedule
Art Noir: True Crime in the Art World
Artists Who Catch Our Eye
Collectors' Circle
Archives
Art Report Today: Our Podcasts
Art Report Today Gallery One Exhibitions
Art Report Today Galerie du Coeur
Art Report Today Paddock Gallery

ART PODCASTS
Arts & Ideas
Art History Babes
Art Attack
Bad At Sports
Brett Easton Ellis
Art Curious
CAA How To
The Conversation
Michael Delgado
TalkArt
Tyler Green
The Lonely Planet
NPR Fresh Air
A Piece of Work Abbi Jacobson
Raw Material SFMOMA
Sculptor's Funeral
Hrag Vartanian + Hyperallergic

BOOKS
Book Search
A. G. Geiger

Book Riot
Catapult
Electric Literature
Jane Friedman
Goodreads
Literary Hub
The Rumpus
Vol. 1 Brooklyn

IDOLATRY
Page Six

People
Popbitch
TMZ

 

 

 

 

ArtReportToday.com