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Heinous! Russian pro-war symbol 'Z' sprayed onto Pussy Riot member's door

Russians Live in a Police State. Don’t Write Off Its Art Professionals for Failing to Exercise Freedoms They Don’t Have

Three Years Ago, I Had Dinner With Vladimir Putin. What He Told Me Makes Me Fearful for Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage

Russia’s Hermitage Museum Is Demanding the Early Return of Loans It Made to Three Italian Museums; By the end of the month

Oliver Stone’s 2016 Ukraine Documentary Banned on YouTube

Here's how you can help the Ukraine aid effort by buying art

Russia’s Red-Hot Temple of Contemporary Art, and Its Jet-Setting Cofounder, Are Losing Major Exhibitions

Venice Biennale to Ensure Presence of Ukrainian Pavilion

Heirs of Christian Boltanski—whose Ukrainian-Jewish parents fled from Nazis—pull Russia show

Russia-Ukraine war seeps into Art Dubai fair

I Grew Up Behind the Iron Curtain. Isolating Russia’s Art and Artists Will Not Help Us Achieve Peace; Cultural boycott is not the answer

In Miami, a Ukrainian art show becomes unintentionally timely

Calling For “No-Fly Zone” Over Ukraine, Artists Launch Hundreds of Paper Planes at Guggenheim Museum

“We Are Safe, the Bomb Shelter Is Fine,” Ukrainian Cartoonists Draw Under Siege

Photographers Are Mobilizing to Sell Prints to Benefit Ukraine—Here’s Our Running List of What You Can Buy Where

Artist paints dog poop Putin portrait to raise money for Ukraine victims

How journalists decide which images from Ukraine are too awful to publish

‘We have knives, a machete, and a stick with nails’: Ukraine’s defiant artists continue to make art amid realities of war

The Hellish Mining Scenes of George Bissill

Financial Times: ‘I like the way things look.’ The world according to Larry Gagosian; Interview; "And there's the rich"

ART CAR

Movie Cars From Ghostbusters, Batman, and More Go on Display in L.A. at the Petersen Automotive Museum

The Weird and Wonderful Wheels of Jay Ohrberg

DISCOVERY

The Search for Meaning in a Mysterious Brain Signal at Death

Huge Find! Amazing Pics! Ernest Shackleton’s sunken ship 'Endurance' found 107 years later

Archaeologists Now Believe That 8,000-Year-Old Human Skeletons From Portugal Are the World’s Oldest Mummies

Controversial rock art may depict extinct giants of the ice age

Archeologists in Mexico decipher ancient frieze

Scientists baffled after discovering new substance deep in Earth’s core

9,000-year-old ritual complex found in Jordan desert

Intricate Roman mosaic is largest to be found in London in half a century

The Incas Believed They Controlled the Water. New Evidence Uncovered by Archaeologists Shows How They Wielded It in Ceremonies

Yoko Ono’s Birthday Comes During a Reassessment of the Artist’s Cultural Output; Multidisciplinary artist is also one of the greatest rock and roll figures of all time

DESIGN

Cover to Cover: An Auction of Artists' Books & Ephemera

American Modernist Design; An Auction

Art Nouveau’s Obsession with the Peacock

Gucci Vault: 10 Signature Styles & Motifs

Theodora Allen 'Syzygy' at Blum & Poe

‘The Residue of a Performance You Never Get to See’: Gary Simmons Discusses His First Show at Hauser & Wirth with Thelma Golden

GO, VAN GOGH!

Revisiting Van Gogh’s comments on the Crimean War—when the Russian emperor was defeated by the winter weather

In Pictures: The Most Significant Show of Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits in a Quarter-Century Reveals His Evolving Psychic State

We know Van Gogh’s face from his self-portraits, but how did his friends see him?

ILLUSTRATION

The History of Rosie the Riveter

The Utopian Avant-Garde: Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s

Standing Above the Real: Surrealist Graphics, 1924-1965

PALATE PALETTE

Why Is Cake (Yes, Cake) Suddenly Omnipresent in Contemporary Art? An Investigation

'Julia' Official Trailer; HBO Max's Julia Child bio pic

'A Taste of Hunger' Trailer

Alison Roman: Dilly Bean Stew

STREETWISE

Well-Rounded Compositions from Augustine Kofie: “Rotationships” Opens in SF

‘Adolf Putin’ graffiti sprayed across Russian buildings as thousands protest President ‘acting like Hitler’

Street Artist Pejac Creates a Limited Edition Anti-War Print "So Far, So Close."

Brooklyn Street Art Images of The Week

The Story of Double Putin by Lapiz

FORMERLY KNOWN AS CINEMA

“Look At What We’re Doing With Your Money, You Dick”: How Peter Thiel Backed An “Anti-Woke” Film Festival

How ‘The Batman’ Director Matt Reeves Made a $200 Million Bet on Robert Pattinson’s Darker Knight

Anthony Lane: “The Batman” Is a Waste of Robert Pattinson

First Photo of Joaquin Phoenix as Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon’ Leaks Online; Based off of Stanley Kubrick’s legendary unfilmed 1970’s screenplay

Adrian Lyne Is Back, err, Sort of; Silly movie, watchable but ludicrous; Affleck and de Armas in Patricia Highsmith thriller

The 1971 Western That Celebrated Male Intimacy

Larry David Pulls the Plug on His Own HBO Documentary — the Day It’s Set to Premiere; Live Performances First!

‘Oppenheimer’: 25 Details to Know About Christopher Nolan’s Atom Bomb Movie

Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ Will Be the First Film to Shoot in IMAX Black-and-White

'Bullet Train' Official Trailer; Director David Leitch; Brad Pitt leads all star cast

Another ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ Reaction; George Miller directs Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba; Genie romance; $60 million dollar art film

‘Camera Man’: How Author Dana Stevens Uses Buster Keaton’s Career to Track the History of Cinema Itself

The First Lady (2022) Official Trailer; Starring Viola Davis as Michelle Obama, Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford and Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt

“The Whole Durn Human Comedy”, Joseph McBride’s Brilliant Coen Bros. Book Is Touched by Sadness

New Yorker: The Sex Scene Is Dead. Long Live the Sex Scene; Four critics discuss erotic thriller

Francis Ford Coppola to Spend His Own $120 Million on ‘Megalopolis’; “A love story that is also a philosophical investigation of the nature of man.”

Must Read! GQ: Francis Ford Coppola’s $100 Million Bet "Megalopolis"

STAGE STRUCK

Warhol Foundation sends cease-and-desist letter to Ryan Raftery’s musical parody

Big Broadway debut of ‘Paradise Square’ is actually a ‘nightmare’ behind the scenes; Fraudster Garth Drabinsky

Broadway's Cort Theater will have a new name: James Earl Jones

Shifting Identities in Sanaz Toossi’s “English”

Take Me to Dimes Square: Matthew Gasda, a young playwright reveals how the pandemic led him to find himself—and his latest play—in the Chinatown stomping ground of New York’s downtown set

Here There Be Dragons, A New Off-Broadway Musical, Newly Announced

Broadway and the rigors of masking— this regimen isn’t the show we need

When Warhol met Basquiat; Acclaimed writer of biopics about Stephen Hawking, Winston Churchill, and Freddie Mercury has now turned his attention to the two great artists in a new play

Review: Off Broadway Another “Hamilton” May Be Brewing with “Black No More” Starring Lillias White and Brandon Victor Dixon

BOOKS AND WORDS

From The Hawaii Review of Books: The Pidgin Inferno: Canto II, Reading by Jeffrey #PidginDante Higa

The Pidgin Inferno: Canto XXVII by Jeffrey Higa

The Crisis That Nearly Cost Charles Dickens His Career

Margaret Atwood on Envy and Friendship in Old Age; Author of The Handmaid’s Tale read my story about losing friends in midlife. She had some thoughts.

David Ulin on Joan Didion, California, Counterculture, and the Essay Form

Is the Media Doomed? From a Big Tech crackdown to the rebirth of local news, 16 future-minded thinkers predict where journalism will be in 15 years.

JOHN STEPPLING

Total Awareness of Nothing

The anti intellectualism of western society today has bled into an animosity to art (or further animosity) and is tied into, I believe, the irrational fears of the pandemic as global leaders have presented or sold it to the public (meaning the propaganda narrative). {Ive noticed, also, a distrust of the word narrative, which is among the more Zizekian psychological tropes in recent memory }. Distrust or disavowal are the bread and butter of an increasingly incoherent opposition to domination. It is the paranoia of a culture and society less able to depend on its most familiar experiences and associations. The psychological signposts are growing more unfamiliar. This is a top down process, it should be noted. As if the ruling class were changing the lettering on those signposts.

AMAZING MOTHER NATURE

Like Cheetahs, Ancient Ocean Creatures May Have Moved With A Gallop

Chimps Seen Performing First Aid on Themselves and Each Other

Japan’s Monkey Queen Faces Challenge to Her Reign: Mating Season

Arresting Photos Document the Polar Bears Occupying an Abandoned Weather Station in Russia

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How Larry Gagosian courted Russian oligarchs to build art gallery empire

The Stupidity of the Artworld’s Russophobia

Russian Yachts Are Held in Harbors. What About Art in Secretive Free Ports?

SO CUTE! MAN-UP, JEFF! CLAIM IT!

For 25 Years, Jeff Koons Has Been Locked In a Legal Battle With an Italian Man Over a Sculpture He Insists He Didn’t Create; Courts Decree “Authentic Artwork” by the Artist

Never before exhibited, Francis Bacon’s 1946 first screaming Pope goes on show at London’s Gagosian gallery

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WeeGee: Born Usher Fellig in Ukraine

Leopold Kozlowski: The last Klezmer

Dimitri Tiomkin: Film scores for American Westerns

Ivan Vasiliev: Trained in Ukraine

Sergei Polunin: Great dancer of our time, Ukrainian

Nijinska: Before Pacific Palisades, she lived in Kiev

The Rauschenberg Foundation Is Teaming Up With New Galleries to Bring a Bonanza of Shows to New York and Salzburg; An Artist Overshadowed by History

‘The Andy Warhol Diaries’ reveals artist’s secret love life after being shot

See German Artist Regine Schumann’s Playful, Light-Filled Minimalist Installations

Pioneering L.A. Artist Ulysses Jenkins Changed the Way We Look at Video and Performance Art. We Talked to Him About How He Did It

VISIT MARFA!

Marfa, Texas: an artistic oasis in the Chihuahua Desert

Art Trip: Marfa, PBS

National Portrait Gallery boosts female representation with five new self-portraits

When the Outsider Art Fair Began 30 Years Ago, It Catered to a Niche Audience. Now, Even Celebrities Want In

The Art World’s Tainted Love for “Discovering” Artists: The Case of Etel Adnan

Josh Kline: Living in the Ruined World

Dambrot: Gary Simmons Makes Art that Clarifies by Blurring the Lines

Sea Change: Ashley Bickerton at Lehmann Maupin and O’Flaherty’s

The Met Just Purchased an Exemplary Renaissance Roundel for $23 Million—the Second Most Expensive Acquisition in Its History

James Turrell Takes Up Curating, With a Show by His Hero; What does the master of light, have in common with Ad Reinhardt, the master of dark? Benches, for starters

Chris Burden’s Impossible Artworks; New book reveals the dozens of planned pieces that the artist, known for his extreme performances and wry installations, left unrealized

The Unpredictable Art of Elizabeth Hayes Christopher

Yau: Painter Jenny Dubnau Captures a Momentary Encounter; Photo-based psychological portraits

Flora Yukhnovich Has Rapidly Become One of the Hottest Artists in the World. We Toured Her Studio Ahead of Her New Solo Show

Brian Wills' Abstractions Inspired by Light and Space Are an Exciting Perceptual Experience at Ochi Projects

Lawrence Weiner (1942–2021)

25 influential female artists of the 20th century

At 103, Kim Byung-ki still has something to say: In latest exhibit, the veteran artist shows off colorful additions to body of work

I met Louise Bourgeois 30 years ago—in a cellar once used as a porn studio—to discuss the betrayal of her father's affair

A SPECIAL REPORT
A COMPELLING PORTRAIT

doug-chrismas

N I N E E X H I B I T S

THE TALENTED MR. CHRISMAS
Introduction by Gordy Grundy

INTERVIEW, WITNESS: No. 7
THE EYE

INTERVIEW, WITNESS: RON COOPER
FOUNDATION

INTERVIEW, WITNESS: No. 4
ARROGANCE

DOUG CHRISMAS FOOLED ME ONCE
AND FIRED ME TWICE
Non-Fiction by Dimitri Vorvoulakos

INTERVIEW, WITNESS: No. 3
PROPRIETARY

KARMA KABUKI
Non-Fiction by James Hayward

THE ACE IS WILD
Article by Kristine McKenna
October 9, 2003
Courtesy of the L.A. WEEKLY

BRAVING OPPRESSION

Mexican activists hack Viennese museum’s audioguide in protest over its ownership of the Montezuma headdress

Switching Geres; Author of a new book about China and Hollywood reveals how Richard Gere went from A-list to blacklist

Fredi Washington was the Black Actress Who Refused to Pass

This digital archive brings women art dealers back into the story of Modern art; The Women Art Dealers Digital Archives

Back in 2012, when Putin was pushin' Pussy Riot around and locking them up, two U.S. artists created a fictive work, an elaborate website, business plan and marketing campaign for Pussy Riot Vodka!

Ukrainian sailor sinks his arms-manufacturing Russian boss’s $7.7 million luxury superyacht

The Invasion of Ukraine Is a War Against All Democratic States. As We Fight for Our Liberty, Here Are 5 Ways the Art World Can Help

‘You’re in an Authoritarian State. You Just Don’t Know It.’ Artist Ai Weiwei Warns of Chinese and American Authoritarianism

Ai Weiwei sparks outcry by posting ‘vaccine-sceptic’ video on Instagram; Chinese artist and activist says society does not have the right to make the Covid-19 vaccine compulsory

ART IN FILM

'Flux Gourmet' Review: Peter Strickland’s Performance Art Satire Is a Light Meal; Arcane world of high-end performance-art cooking

The French Dispatch’s Best Story Finds the Violence Between Art and Commerce

‘Euphoria’ Director of Photography Marcell Rév Unpacks the Art Influences That Shaped the Show’s Buzzy Aesthetic

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BODY ART

New Deep Ellum (Neighborhood in Dallas) Pole Banners Features Work By Local Tattoo Artists

Flowers From Space: Toronto Tattoo Artist Jess Chen is Finally Back Behind the Gun

Tattoo Artist Anger Over New EU Rules Goes Beyond Skin Deep

Hard-Edge Carmen Herrera, Whose Late-Career Triumphs as an Abstract Painter Redefined the Age of Art Stardom, Has Died at 106

MANUFACTURING ART

Archeologists Uncover the Oldest Ochre Workshop in East Asia

Oahu woodworker’s old Hawaiian style surfboards are works of art

In Pictures: See How a New Cohort of Contemporary Textile Artists Are Taking Quilting in Challenging New Directions

Revolutionary material stronger than steel yet as light as plastic developed by MIT scientists

FICTIVE ART: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE ARTISTS

Part One: Author Antoinette LaFarge Talks Fictive Art with Artist Beauvais Lyons

Part Two: Author Antoinette LaFarge Talks Fictive Art with Artist Beauvais Lyons

GOOD GIGS and ARTIST'S OPPORTUNITIES

Obama Foundation Announces First Piece in Series of Commissioned Art for Obama Presidential Center; Chicago Artist Richard Hunt

Rising-Star Artist Meriem Bennani Will Create a Mobile Sculpture for New York’s High Line This Summer

Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari's Vanity Fair Covers Suggest A Surreal Escape for 2022

Jeff Koons’s Latest Collaboration with BMW Is Inspired by Pop Art

Hublot Classic Fusion Chronograph Shepard Fairey

Creative Capital: Artist Opportunities with Upcoming Deadlines in February and March 2022

Hyperallergic: Artist Opportunities in March 2022

PHOTOGRAPHY

Hands-On Experiences: The Intimate And Tender Images of Ken Graves and Eva Lipman

Hold on to your hat! British Peculiarities – In Pictures

‘A Trillion Sunsets: A Century of Image Overload’ Review: Pictures Aplenty

Photographer Richard Schulman: “Make way for Tomorrow” Meets Hollywood Babylon

Picturing Black Childhood: An Artist’s Journey; Long devoted to the subject of Black girlhood, now the focus of two new exhibitions, Deborah Roberts reflects on what has changed and what hasn’t when it comes to self-representation, play and power

SURF

Must See! Absolute Poetry: Mitch Parkinson Steals Joel Parkinson's Board After Drop In

A Look at Indonesia’s Incredible Run of Swell Through the Lens of Federico Vanno

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