What Was the Pictures Generation? Who Were the Artists? A History
A Woman’s Work Is Never Done: Vaginal Davis in Conversation with Rick Owens
Review: Life’s Hidden Dramas in the Art of Walter Sickert; Sickert didn’t go in for glamour or flattery and the subjects of many of his best works are things seen off to the side, a bit inconsequential
Chuck Ramirez: Life in Motion; 'Seven Days: The Still Lifes of Chuck Ramirez,' at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Interview with Kim Fay and Her Show 'Brave' at Galerie Camille, Detroit
The Stellar Stoic: You Still Have Time, Pt. II
GOOD GIGS
Fashion Designer Jason Wu Collaborates With Robert Rauschenberg Foundation On Art-Inspired Collection
KAWS Named Japanese Fashion Uniqlo’s First Artist-in-Residence
Six Contemporary Artists Take on Classic New Yorker Covers— With a Twist; Photographs have only appeared twice on the magazine's covers. Until now
Shocking Allure of Erotic Abstraction; London show on Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, and Alice Adams gives a sense of how different, even alarming, these pieces would have been to viewers in the 1960s; Today?
New Exhibition in Norway Showcases Picasso’s Divisive Late Work; What creation means to an artist facing death?
Ben Sakoguchi Paints His Own Art History; Reclusive Japanese American art icon Ben Sakoguchi has resisted outside influence to arrive at a singular style. His intermediary Jackie Tarquinio Kennedy opines on how he came to be
PHOTOGRAPHY
Strangers in the Family Album: Reflections on Soviet Amateur Photography; Politics of Socialization
This Pioneering Photographer Captured Images No One Else Dared To: ‘She Had No Rules’; Powerful solo show, "Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit," is on view at the Brooklyn Museum
LensCulture Critics’ Choice Awards, In Pictures; From hazardous trips through the Kurdish mountains to a queer journey into the heart of Americana, these images all wowed the esteemed prize’s judges
7 Defining Images That Reveal How One Camera Revolutionized Photojournalism; Arrival of the Leica I, 100 years ago, reshaped photo reportage and documentary
The Lovers Who Revolutionized Modern Photography in Mexico; Photographs of Mexico by Tina Modotti and Edward Weston are now on view in "Points of Convergence" at Throckmorton Fine Art in New York
State of the Art: First-ever Extended Conversation between Larry Gagosian and Roberta Smith
Artnet CEO Jacob Pabst, son of Founder Hans Neuendorf, Resigns Abruptly Before Annual General Meeting; Artsy Takeover Likely
Who Are the 10 Top-Selling Living American Artists? List spans eminence grises like Jasper Johns and Ed Ruscha, and newcomers like KAWS
25 of 2025: Five Sculptors to Watch; We spotlight 25 boundary-pushing artists who have been dominating the conversation this year
Closed 'Til Tariffs Chill Out...
PHOTOGRAPHY
Digital Book: "Matthew Porter: Twenty Years of Photography" at M+B Art
Richard Prince on the Genesis of Rephotography and The Cowboy Series; "I also realized much later that I got rid of the decisive moment. I changed the history of photography that day. The decisive moment, it was, no longer had to do with luck, you know"
Nudes, Neighbours and Nopales: Mexican Martha Naranjo Sandoval moves to New York; Martha Naranjo Sandoval’s intimate images of family and friends document her first years in NYC – from fire hydrant rainbows to epic views of the skyline
With Camera and Questions, Joseph Cochran II Turns Photography Into Civic Work; Work captures raw, unfiltered truths about today’s America and asks us to reflect on societal dynamics and the minutia of individual lives
Photographer Studies New York City’s Water System; Stanley Greenberg has spent decades answering the question of how water arrives in our taps and building interest in this vast and impressive system
Interview: What Does It Feel Like to Be Called an Emerging Artist at 72? Ask Takako Yamaguchi; Painter of geometric seascapes is getting her first solo museum show in Los Angeles, the city she’s called home since 1987, with MOCA's “Focus” series this summer
This Artist Is Famous For His ‘Bad Taste’; In his work, Chinese artist Chen Fei asks: who gets to define taste?
LIVING IN A POSTHUMAN AGE
Julia Friedman and David Hawkes: 'Murder in the Posthuman Age; What to make of the assassination of Charlie Kirk'
SAVE OUR MORRISSEY
Morrissey Cancels US Tour Dates Following Death Threats; 26-year-old Ottawa man posted repeated threats. Arrested and released on bail; Charlie Kirk Jitters; Man named Noah Castellano was arrested after he posted a threat against The Smiths frontman Morrissey on social media which read, "I will attempt to shoot you many times?
Yau: An Artist’s Unexpected Confrontation With Mortality; Asako Tabata never checks the usual boxes
Furry Artists Will Remake The World; The Next Avant-Garde Is at Anthrocon
Frieze Sculpture Unleashes a Provocative Play of Light and Shadow; See Five Standouts
Burning Man’s Black Vanguard; Years after I began photographing Black and Brown Burners, I returned to the festival simply to witness. What I saw humbled me
Official Teaser 'BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions'; Director Kahlil Joseph presents a documentary essay; Visual and intellectual journey through Black history and beyond
Against Symbolic Inclusion: Investing in Black Art
Charlie Engelman 'Pith' at Château Shatto; Old-growth redwood and high-density polyurethane foam
INTO THE PACIFIC
After 50 Years, LA Louver Is Closing Its Gallery In Venice; Transitioning; Gallerist Peter Goulds explains, "I have no intention to retire, ever, but we need a new business model”
Stromberg: LA Louver to Close Gallery Space and Shift Into Private Model; Los Angeles gallery’s vast archive will be donated to the Huntington Library
Book Review: In 'Black in Blues,' Imani Perry reaches to the height of the sky and the depth of the ocean, casting the history of blue as one of both triumph and tragedy, possibility and limitation; The color blue and the nature of Blackness
Emily Mason’s Quest for Color and Truth; Late painter was influenced by Abstract Expressionism, but she had none of the hubris of its male artists. For her, painting was not about an experience, it was an experience
Director of the Art, Design and Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara, Gabriel Ritter’s Five Favourite Works from Frieze Seoul Viewing Room
Interview: Matthew Barney, ‘I’m Not Interested In Participating In Consensus Culture’; Multidisiplinary American artist has put together an ambitious new live performance, the latest stage in a provocative and unusual career
Book Review: This Novel Is the Art World’s Black Mirror; We all know the protagonists of Vincenzo Latronico’s 'Perfection.' You’ve seen them at the gallery openings, on Instagram. In fact, there’s a good chance you are them; Berlin art scene
Closed 'Til Tariffs Chill Out.
How a Tennis Match Bonded Duchamp and Man Ray for Life; Initial language barrier didn’t hold the artists back from a lifelong friendship
PHOTOGRAPHY
Suck It Up! The Sinister Side of Holiday Snaps
New Book: "Flashes of Brilliance, The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History"; Story of the wildest experiments in early photography and the wild people who undertook them
The Camera and the Pen; Arts Writer Christian House Tracks the History of Novelists’ Engagements With Photography and Speaks With Three Contemporary Writers—William Boyd, Teju Cole, and Orhan Pamuk—About Their Own Approaches To The Medium
Video: Reimagining His Boyhood in the Midwest, 'Twelve Acres' by American Photographer Henry O. Head
Technicolour Lakes and Butterfly Brains: Wellcome Photography Prize 2025 – In Pictures
Tribute to Tim Walker; Pioneering neon expert and artist; Co-founded The Neon Gallery in Houston; Victim of the devastating Texas Hill Country floods; Fabrication and restoration of neon artworks made him a hero to conservators, curators, private collectors, and artists
BRINGING HOME THE PRIZED BACON
WSJ: Elaine Wynn’s Estate Donated $142 Million Francis Bacon Painting to L.A. Museum; Much Sought after “Three Studies of Lucian Freud”; Other masterpieces in the casino magnate’s trove will head to auction this fall
Poundstone: Wynn Bequeaths Francis Bacon Triptych to LACMA
Gordy Grundy: What a Role Model; The Continuing Art and Influence of Elaine Wynn
Laughs with Chen & Lampert: Art and Ecstatic Ambience in Las Vegas’s "Trip Trap Art" Vortex
WSJ: Industrialist, Art Collector and Champion-Horse Breeder On Why Great Art Matters — And How To Pick A Winner!
Artist Alina Lindquist’s Portraits of Avi Kwa Ame Dazzle at Nevada Humanities
Attic Discovery Reveals the Moment Man Ray Went Avant-Garde; 1913 watercolor sketch that just sold at auction offers rare insight into the Surrealist icon’s early artistic breakthrough
New Medium in the Making! Inside the Brave New World of Quantum Art: ‘Consciousness Is Too Limited’; Meet the artists who are translating the strangeness of quantum fields into new ways of making, and seeing, art
PHOTOGRAPHY
Art Review: A God’s-Eye-View of Earth’s Destruction; Edward Burtynsky’s photographs once offered a prescient vision of large-scale anthropogenic changes; now, they feel more and more like a pretext for aesthetic dazzle
Annie Leibovitz Shoots Fifty Shades of Anne Hathaway; Internet is up in arms about the art-inspired Vogue shoot, with many lambasting Leibovitz’s choice of color and lighting, or lack thereof; See what they are screaming about
Joining the Crowd: 'Shoot Like Wes: A Practical Guide to Creating Your Own Wes Anderson Photography'
Artist Video: Trippy and Beautiful Repetition; Official Video by Kevin McGloughlin
Archaeologists Recover Remnants of a Long-Lost Ancient Wonder from the Lighthouse of Alexandria
Karl Benjamin, His Influence and Many Friends; Defining Hard-Edge
David Rappeneau Is a Fast-Rising Star at Gladstone Gallery. But No One Knows Who He Is—Not Even His Gallery; Enigmatic drawings of David Rappeneau and his absence from the spotlight have fueled his cult following and career
Rainey Knudson: My Taste is Not Myself
‘The Hot Tar Splashed Everywhere’: Remembering The Dark Magic of Derek Jarman; In 1989, artist was living on the Kentish coast when he created a series of mysterious paintings with a bonfire and tar. A new exhibition brings these so-called Black Paintings to life – and shows why they still resonate today
Dino Valdez 'Anachronism' at M Contemporary Art
Waiting to Be Discovered? Curators Reveal How Emerging Artists Can Get Noticed; "You can't just sit in the studio," experts say
Olfactory Dialectics; Art and Smell; Learning through ambivalence and through our bodies
Beats the Heck Out of a Lobby Installation! Artist Jacky Tsai’s Painting Launches Into Space, Literally
ARCHITECTURE
Ten Recent Buildings That Prove Domed Architecture Is Back In Vogue
Why Architects Are Talking About This Giant Timber Ring at Expo 2025; Sou Fujimoto’s soaring glulam megastructure might be the only reason to visit Osaka’s struggling World Expo—and a masterclass in scale and sustainability
PHOTOGRAPHY
Space Odyssey: Tadao Ando’s Lessons in Light; From Paris to Osaka to St. Louis, a new coffee-table book collects the Japanese architect’s bright, delicate designs, photographed by Richard Pare
‘People Laughing In The Galleries’: Finding Humor In Photography; At The Phoenix Arts Museum, New Exhibition Displays Different Approaches To Comedy Within Photography
Koons Is Hulk Is Koons; "...back to Yayoi Kusama to find an artist more embedded, photographically, in their own work"
Sink or Swim; In Tod Papageorge’s photographs of L.A. beachgoers in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, he transforms formally challenging scrums into theatrical vignettes or semi-abstractions
Dust Storm Blows Away Ukrainian Artwork at Burning Man; Monumental work “Black Cloud” was destroyed within hours of installation on Ukraine’s Independence Day; Video
WHISPERS OF THE SELDOM SPOKEN
“We Rarely Speak of the Shadow of (Nuclear Bomb) Annihilation” Filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow on Her Upcoming Thriller ‘A House of Dynamite’
Black Rain, Gold Screen; “There is a six-panel folding screen, donated recently by a Hiroshima family, whose gold expanses are streaked by black rain (from the Hiroshima blast): the most terrifying abstract painting I have ever seen”
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Holds Thousands of “A-Bomb Drawings by Survivors"
The Pleasure of Patterns in Art; Interplay between repetition and variation is central to how we perceive structure, rhythm, and depth across mediums
Did Michelangelo Pull Off Art History’s Greatest Hoax With ‘Laocoon’? Monumental sculpture stands as an exemplar of Hellenistic artistry—but not to everyone
One Fine Show: ‘Picasso and Paper’ at the Cleveland Museum of Art; The Role Picasso's experimentation with the material played in his overall artistic practice is showcased brilliantly here
Emerging Artist Li Hei Di Calls Her London Studio a ‘Parallel Universe,’ Where Hong Kong’s Cinematic Heroines and Mystical Abstraction Meet; Chinese-born artist had her first solo exhibition with Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles
ARCHITECTURE
How Architectural Sculpture in the U.S. Reimagines Public Space
Architect Who Designed the Iconic Entrances to the Paris Métro Is Finally Getting the Attention He Deserves; When Hector Guimard’s subway designs were unveiled in the early 1900s, the public rejected his Art Nouveau style
13 Frank Lloyd Wright Legacy Homes That Shaped Modern Architecture
BAS JAN ADER
Bas Jan Ader Made Fate Into an Art; So much of what Ader explored was about surrendering to destiny, but also about heeding internal calls — to adventure, open horizons, and the sublime
Retrospective Dispels Myths Surrounding Bas Jan Ader
Video: 'Dreadnaught' Short Experiential Film on Bas Jan Ader
Mavis Pusey’s First Solo Museum Exhibition Spotlights Her Work in Geometric Abstraction at ICA Philadelphia; (1928–2019)
New Yorker Cartoons for the Week!
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Nam June Paik’s TV Buddha Is a Perfect Artwork
Geometric Abstraction in the Age of Disparity; Lisa Corinne Davis has stretched the possibilities of painting into a territory defined by digital systems, algorithms, flow charts, and diagrams
"Horror Rendered with Featherlight Tenderness" Financial Times Review: Jenny Saville at National Portrait Gallery
Artists Are Losing Work, Wages, and Hope As Bosses and Clients Embrace AI; Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job
ART IN THE MOVIES
New Anime About Three Sisters Who Are Art Thieves; Official Trailer for Japanese Anime 'Cat's Eye'
Art & Scandal: First-Look Film Review 'The Christophers'; Directed by Steven Soderbergh; Starring Ian McKellen, James Corden, and Michaela Coel; Screenplay by Ed Solomon; Adult children of a famed painter try to forge daddy's work
Robert Longo Fails to Meet the Moment in a Pace Gallery Mega-Show
Interview: Scottish Artist and Painter Jacob Littlejohn
JoAnne Carson: In the Garden of Raucous Retro-Futurism
Closed 'Til Tariffs Chill Out...
BOOKS + WORDS
Podcast: New Yorker's Anthony Lane on Elmore Leonard’s Perfect Pitch; How the author of “Rum Punch” and “Out of Sight” came into his style
Are Movies With Plot Twists Better Than Those Without? I studied the plots of 26,710 movies to look at where plot twists work, where they don’t, and why genre matters
The Art of Biography: The Acid Queen; Interview with Susannah Cahalan, the author of 'The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary'; Ex-wife and partner of Timothy Leary
‘The CIA Book Club’ Review: Typewriter Revolution; During the Cold War, the CIA may have had as much success with books and magazines as with gun-running and spies
LA MORT DU MAGAZINE
The Luxurious Death Rattle of the Great American Magazine; In the glory days of magazines, journalists flew business class and contributors were sent flowers just for meeting a deadline. It was absurd
The Small Magazines That Birthed Surrealism; Surrealism Through Its Journals Reminds Us That The Movement Began With, And Cannot Be Understood Without, The Written Word
Bob & Bob Are Back. Read Part Two: 'Birth of an Art World Duo at the Dawn of Performance Art
Bob & Bob Are There! Building a Legacy; The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art
25 of 2025: Five Trailblazing Performance Artists to Know; 25 boundary-pushing artists who have been dominating the conversation this year
Look at the 2025 Turner Prize Show, and the Artists, Vying for the U.K.’s Top Art Award; Showcase opens with exhibitions by Nnena Kalu, Mohammed Sami, Rene Matić, and Zadie Xa
Six L.A. Museum Projects to Open by 2028
UC Irvine Takes Over OCMA
Expect Major Shift in Journalism and News: Bari Weiss, founder of The Free Press, to lead CBS News as part of major Paramount Skydance shakeup: sources
Mary Boone Stages a Triumphant Return With the Art Titans of 1980s New York; After years away from the spotlight, Mary Boone returns to Lévy Gorvy Dayan to co-curate an ’80s-themed show where Warhol, Basquiat, Koons, and other greats define the decade anew
Artists Are Projecting Satirical Anti-Trump Images Around LA; From Jesus being arrested by ICE to Trump eating the Epstein files, an anonymous art collective’s “guerrilla projections” use humor as a form of protest
ARCHITECTURE
Bruce Goff's Legacy Lives on at LACMA; Man behind LACMA's Japanese Pavilion inspired renegade West Coast architects
Celebrated, Imprisoned, Reviled, Rebuilt: Fernand Pouillon, The Lost Architect of France; From designing enormous postwar housing projects to escaping from prison using a rope, Pouillon’s life had high drama. New documentary charts the extraordinary rise, fall – and rise again – of France’s ‘most wanted’ creative
Las Vegas ‘Underground House’ Hits Market for $8.5M — Photos underground-house
Eight Ways Frank Lloyd Wright’s Buildings Are Still Making Headlines in 2025; Decades after his passing, Frank Lloyd Wright continues to leave his mark on the architectural world
Valuable Read; Rainey Knudson: 'Halfdan Was Here' (527 words): Viking Graffiti in the Hagia Sophia, a Poem to Street Art, and a Prayer to Life As We Know It
BELL RINGING
Interview: Larry Bell’s Art Through the Looking Glass; Soon to be unveiling his largest public art project to date
Art Report Today Podcast: Artist Larry Bell Discusses His Life, Work and Career
STEALING LIKE AN ARTIST
A Curious Incident, a Dog in 'Night Watch' Was a Copy by Rembrandt, Expert Claims
Rijksmuseum says that just like Shakespeare, Rembrandt drew widely and shamelessly from earlier sources
Chloe Sherman Renegade, at Von Lintel Gallery; Interviewed by Ezrha Jean Black
Working Hand-in-Hand: On L.A.’s History of Collaborative Printmaking
2025 California Biennial: Desperate, Scared, But Social at Orange County Museum of Art
Duelling Reviews: Peter Frank and RC Peck: Mary Corse and Hearts of Glass at Pace Gallery
Artists William Powhida and Ellsworth Kelly: The Art World In Two Drawings
GOVERNMENT ARTS
Could Rejecting State Art Grants Be the New Anti-Trump Resistance?
Art Organizations Prevail in Legal Battle Over NEA Grants; Here's how the Trump administration is drastically reshaping the arts landscape
Trump’s “Gender Ideology” Ban for Art Grants Ruled Unconstitutional
Is This the Breaking Point for Museums? Severe cuts to public funding and political uncertainties are straining museums across the West and Europe; Climate of Anxiety for Museums
The Intelligence Report, Mid-Year Economic Review 2025
Pop Art in the Age of AI; 'Pop on Paper: Lichtenstein, Ruscha & Warhol,' Modest-Sized But Elegant Exhibition at the Tyler Museum of Art
ARCHITECTURE
Earthen Architecture and Culture (Xi'an) Research Center / OnEarthStudio
Forget Roadside America, Let’s Location Scout in “Weird France”; Architectural Wonders
‘I Live in a 1900's Sears Catalog Home— Here’s What It’s Like To Own a House That Arrived in a Box’
Historic Artifacts From Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Skyscraper, Price Tower, Saved by Conservancy; Frank Lloyd Wright Conservancy has snapped up the objects to keep them off the private market
Remember When Art Was Fun? Bob & Bob Are Back. Read Part One: 'Birth of an Art World Duo at the Dawn of Performance Art'
'Ukraine Must Win': Five Members of Pussy Riot Sentenced to Jail In Russia; Fortunately in absentia
Life-Sized Dollhouse by Artist Anna Weyant Is One of New York Fashion Week's Hottest Tickets; Marc Jacobs designed outfits for the models roaming the rooms
Video Studio Visit: Benjamin Langford: Scenes and Images, at OCHI, Idaho
Less Art: Christine Wertheim Reviews Nancy Buchanan Truthfully; At The Brick, Los Angeles: Truthfully, Nancy Buchanan A Retrospective
ALWAYS EMERGING
Art Adviser Josh Baer Says Collectors Should Pay No More Than $15,000 for Emerging Artists’ First Solo Show Works
When Artists Are Too Old to Be “Emerging”; If the art world is serious about equity, it has to stop equating emergence with youth and start building structures that reflect the multiplicity of artistic timelines
STAGE STRUCK
‘Art’ Review: James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris drone on about paintings in retro Broadway comedy
Exhibition at the National Theatre; The Greeks: Radical Reinvention; Sense of different approaches to staging Greek tragedy over the years
Jeremy O. Harris Is the Greatest Showman; Talented multihyphenate is a playwright, producer, performer, provocateur, dandy, bon vivant, and depending who you ask, a genius. As his latest wave of projects gains momentum, can Harris keep all the plates spinning?
When Was the Last Time You Did Nothing? In London, shows by Bruce Nauman, Klara Lidén and Helen Cammock reflect on the pleasures and politics of idleness
Rediscovered Cache. Jamie Wyeth’s Lost Portraits of Andy Warhol See the Light After 50 Years
Deep Look at Para-Pastoral Movement Is Taking Root in Art. It’s Anything but Idyllic; Why contemporary artists are co-opting the romantic language of pastoral painting and bringing it to an uncanny new dimension
Check Him Out: Walter Swennen, Revered Belgian Painter and Poet, Has Died Aged 79; Paintings were illogical, joyful, and radically free
Gordy Grundy: Annually, Over 80 Art Shows, Across 15 Galleries, Exhibiting 400 Artists; In Las Vegas, the Engine of the Fine Arts Community Is the Public Library
BAD, BAD BANKSY! THE BRICK WALL WAS A TEMPLE
New Banksy Mural Appears at Royal Courts of Justice; Too Contemporary? Quickly Covered Up
Haunting Shadow of Scrubbed Banksy Mural Goes Viral
Banksy: A Look at the Artist’s Other Works That Were Destroyed
Banksy Could Be Forced to Reveal Identity as UK Police Probe Latest Artwork; “Criminal damage” "Grade I listed heritage designation of the building"
Las Vegas Artist Sydney Gallindo and Her New Documentary 'Unseen Territories'; Premiere at Nuwu; Site-Responsive Exhibition for cultural reclamation and collective authorship; Flags and parades
A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
Maybe it's the new doc out about singer, actress and Mick Jagger's squeeze Marianne Faithfull. Or maybe it's about that Ukranian refugee, safe on a public bus in North Carolina, who was slaughtered by a ghoul straight out of a Blum House horror. Or maybe it's the inconceivable assassination of a lawful, earnest seeker. I just can't get this sad and adamant song out of my head.
OUR MODERN LIVING
Does Minimalism Actually Make You Happier? Yes. Sharing actual stuff: 'skills, food, time, labor. You know, community.'
Neuroscientist’s Guide To Banishing Stress, Self-Doubt and Loneliness; Don’t believe everything ‘wellness’ brands and books say – for a happier, healthier life, make your brain your best friend
The Stellar Stoic: Don’t Just Settle for a Shortcut, Do the Work
Barrick Museums’s ‘Living Here’ Exhibit Examines Asian Identity, Memory and Belonging
Lawrence Weschler's Issue No. 98: Threadworks and the Needlepoint Vermeer; Collecting amateur needlepoint knock-offs of Vermeer paintings; The Trouble with AI Cartoons
Must See! ‘Remarkably Executed, Compelling and Resonant’: $100,000 Hadley’s (All Mediums) Art Prize; In Pictures; Most outstanding portrayal of Australian landscape
VIJA CELMINS
Vija Celmins Painted Surfaces
Podcast: Tyler Green's Modern Art Notes with Vija Celmins
‘Overwhelming and Sublime’: The Primal Power of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinematic Art; Cannes-winning film-maker’s latest work, created specially for Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, is a tribute to his obsession with the magic of light and shadow
How Top Curators Spot the Artists of Tomorrow; Gatekeepers of contemporary art share how they identify emerging talent—and the unexpected places they discover it
Belonging, Independence and Restoration: “Los Encuentros” at Ballroom Marfa
Ted Gioia: Why Are Quiet Spaces Disappearing? And how do we get them back?
Para-Pastoral Movement Is Taking Root in Art. It’s Anything but Idyllic; Why contemporary artists are co-opting the romantic language of pastoral painting and bringing it to an uncanny new dimension
In Menorca, Cindy Sherman’s Cinematic Take on Womanhood; Hauser & Worth show, curator Tanya Barson celebrates Sherman’s ability to amalgamate collective imagery and channel it into something new
Visionary Qatari Artist, Wafa Al-Hamad (1964 – 2012), Reasserts Her Legacy; "Sites of Imagination" at Doha's Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art shines a light on the multifacted Qatari artist
The Nazis Are Coming! How to Bury an Entire Museum, Fast!
VIJA CELMINS
Vija Celmins Painted Surfaces
Podcast: Tyler Green's Modern Art Notes with Vija Celmins
THREADS
Interview: Sam Dienst Weaves the Everyday Into Rich Tapestries; Dienst wrests playfulness and movement from the warp and weft of weaving
Stitch Picks: The Best Sewing Machines For Textile Art
Tapestry Transformed: Five Artists Pushing The Boundaries
How Textile Artist Maria Lai Turned ‘Women’s Work’ Into Avant-Garde Art; Artist has never had a museum show in North America before
Richard Mensah “Tangled Embrace” at Band of Vices
Cosmo Whyte’s Whispering Portals; By blurring the line between individual and collective memory, the works demonstrate the Panafrican ideal that our experiences are part of a shared narrative
The Investigative Strategies of Juliana Halpert and Chris Kraus; New show at Bel Ami, Los Angeles, makes detectives of viewers by inundating them with documentation
Kenny Schachter: When Good Dealers Go Bad: On Gallery Closures, Unpaid Artists, and Clawbacks; And stop the complaining! It's time to find a way forward
One Fine Show: Steve McQueen’s ‘Bass’ at the Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager Basel
In this complicated and enveloping work, the artist seeks to expand the limits of our perception
Why You Should Know Maruja Mallo, the Artist Who Redefined Spanish Modernism; Hailed as one of Spain's foremost painters within her lifetime, the artist fell into obscurity after her death
Book Review; ‘Matisse in Morocco’ Review: The Light in Tangier; In a hotel room converted to a studio, Henri Matisse set out to liberate his painting from gloom
Spike Lee’s New Film Turns His Art Collection Into a Cinematic Set Piece; "Highest 2 Lowest" stars Denzel Washington and selections from the director's own trove of art
Lawrence Weschler: What We Can Learn From OG Film Editor and Filmmaker Walter Murch and Fine Artist Tristan Duke
The Stellar Stoic: What If This Made You Stronger?
“Breakfast Special”: a New Short Story by Woody Allen
THREADS
Transforming Sites of Violence, One Stitch at a Time; Photographer Spandita Malik invited nine women in North India to embroider their own portraits, reclaiming domestic spaces as liberated havens for their inner worlds
Do Ho Suh’s Monumental Fabric Homes Probe Urgent Questions in an Age of Borders; London-based Korean artist confronts ideas of belonging with his sculptural installations at Tate Modern
Bauhaus-Trained Artist Silvia Heyden Wove Tapestries in the Woods for Decades. Now, Her Legacy Comes Into Focus
Patriotic Brits Cough Up the Funds to Keep Modern Sculpture Masterwork in the UK. After Fundraising Campaign, Citizens Bought the Barbara Hepworth 'Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red' (1943), by Fiat From the Hands of an Overseas Private Collector
Chinese Dissident Artist Badiucao on His First Solo Gallery Show; 'Being able to finally have an exhibition that I can share with my own little community is a moving experience,' the Australia-based activist says
The Asian Modernists of Paris; Living in Paris in the Twenties; Landmark exhibition; More than 220 works by Asian artists, a landmark exhibition tells a different story of the city’s golden age
Video: Prized Works from the Cy Twombly Foundation
Doug Harvey's Less Art: Guest Columnist Steve Hurd: Field Trip Report From The Desert Lighthouse
MONSIEUR NOUAR: LE FRANCAIS BUSTER KEATON
Stop Spending Your Money on Stupid Sh*t!
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Stromberg: Five Artists Share Their Work in This Year’s Made in LA Biennial; Ahead of the opening at the Hammer Museum, Hyperallergic spoke to participants whose practices embrace the show’s threads of history and dissonance
Hunter S. Thompson’s Death To Be Reinvestigated 20 Years After Suicide Ruling
ART 'N ECONOMICS
Philadelphia’s Bankrupt UArts Sells off Library of Rare Art Books; Sale, which included rarities associated with Picasso, Albers, and Motherwell, netted more than $160,000—and there’s more to come
Almine Rech Shuts Down London Gallery After 11 Years
Pace to Close Hong Kong Gallery
Christie's Hong Kong Autumn Sale Drops 46% From Last Year
OCMA 'No Longer Exists,' After UC Irvine Announces Merger with Langson IMCA
Hauser and Zwirner’s UK Galleries Report Nearly 90% Drop in Earnings; News of the dip in profits, reported in public financial filings, comes amid a rumored global art market downturn
How the MoMA Store Became More MoMA than the MoMA; Outstanding places to shop; Licensing partnerships with brands like Lego, New Era, and Nike
Step Into the Unknown at Brave New Work; World Leaders in Art and Technology Gather in Santa Barbara to Discuss Our Future
On The Sounds LA-based Steve Roden Created
TWOMBLY SELF-MARKETING
Act In The Gap Between Art and Handwriting; Cy Twombly
Reissued Twombly Exhibition Posters from Yvon Lambert
Neon Museum Restores the Last Remaining Dunes Hotel Sign
Here’s How Q-Tips, Crocs, and Ben & Jerry’s T-Shirts Play a Role in Arcmanoro Niles’s Studio Practice; On the heels of opening his latest show with Lehmann Maupin
Modern Patronage? Meet the ‘Maintenance Artist’ Who Has Made Lifelong Art Out of Labor; New documentary profiles the unpaid artist in residence with the New York City sanitation department
Argentinian-born Artist Amalia Ulman’s Absurdist Cinema Picks Up Where Her Art Left Off; Starring Chloë Sevigny and Alex Wolff, "Magic Farm" marks another entry in Ulman's ongoing art of illusion
Masterpiece by Diego Rivera's Wife Poised to Fetch a Record-Shattering $60 Million; Painting is part of Sotheby's sale of Surrealist works including those by René Magritte and Dorothea Tanning
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ENHANCING COLLECTOR EXPERIENCE
Superstar Cj Hendry’s Hit Floral Art Spectacle Blooms Again; You can build your own bouquet of flowers real and imagined, for $5 a blossom
Experiential Floral Art Spectacle on Instagram
Kenny Schachter: When Gagosian Goes So Do His Galleries; How Hockney’s Swimmer Swam Away; Moving Chairs and Price Reductions in the Gallery World; Teasing Smith and Saltz
BOOKS + WORDS
Woody Allen Published His First Novel; Film-maker has previously written short stories and essays but this story about a middle-aged Jewish author whose marriage is on the rocks is his first published novel
‘Deeply Concerning’: Reading For Fun In The Us Has Fallen By 40%, New Study Says; Over the last 20 years, the number of Americans who read daily for pleasure has seen a considerable decline
The Onion Brought Back Its Print Edition. The Gamble Is Paying Off. Publications turn to the old-style products to appeal to nostalgic readers and stand out in a crowded digital media landscape
Mick Herron’s Horse Sense; The 'Slow Horses' author on the inspiration for Jackson Lamb, taking a page out of Stephen King’s book, and what his third act would look like
The Stellar Stoic: You Can Find Peace
ART NOIR
Collusion, Evasion, and Theft! 25 Years in Art Market Scandals; Artists, dealers, and collectors have been accused of all sorts of malfeasance. The fallout has varied
The Spy Who Came In from the Burning Picassos; Working undercover for the French Resistance, Rose Valland witnessed the Nazis’ destruction of 500 precious artworks
Lies, Private Jets And A Missing $86M: Inigo Philbrick’s Art World Swindle; Convicted fraudster expresses regret, not remorse, in a two-part BBC documentary but also asks ‘What about all the good deals?’
Chef Ruthie Rogers and Ed Ruscha On Their Obsession With Lemons; When the chef and the artist decided to make a cookbook together, only one fruit would do
Video Worth Your Time; Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos' Magical and Very Funny Prada Short Film with Scarlett Johansson
STREETWISE
Graphic Short Story: I Never Was a Graffiti Artist; "Revisiting my teenage years working for artists Freedom and Crash and renovating Keith Haring’s Pop Shop, I wrestle with the ironies of parenting as my son takes up tagging"
Brooklyn Street Art Images of the Week
Interview: Alex Itin and Rene Lerude in the Streets: Contrarians, Punchlines, and Miles Davis; Hand-rendered one-off posters and stickers
Frieze Video: 'How to Look at Silver'
Gisela Colón: Earthworks and New Worlds; Monograph of Global Site Installations from Skira; Essay by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
‘In the Hand of Dante’: Julian Schnabel’s Operatic Misfire That Thinks It’s a Masterpiece [Venice]
As More Downtown LA Businesses Shutter, Indie Art Gallery Superchief Faces Possible Closure
LACMA EXPANDS
LACMA Will Time-Share Christian Marclay's "The Clock" with Las Vegas Museum of Art; Note the Comments
Video; LACMA Construction Update (08.25.25)
At the Armory Show, First-Time Artists Steal the Spotlight; For all the whispers about the art market downturn, newcomers prove the New York fair can still serve as a stage for fresh voice
TikToker Freaked Out When He Found a Painting of His Living Room Displayed in a London Gallery. Here’s How It Ended Up There; 'They have an oil painting of my living room... this can't be real'
How a Billionaire Owner Brought Turmoil and Trouble to Sotheby’s; Patrick Drahi made a fortune through debt-fuelled telecommunications companies. Now he’s bringing his methods to the art market
EASY EAMES
Inside the Eames House, the Newly Restored and Reopened Modernist Icon; New reopening now makes the Eameses' studio available to visitors
Creative Legacy of Ray and Charles Eames Finds a New Home; Architects Herzog and de Meuron will design the new museum in the heart of Marin County
SUMMER'S END
Long Hot Summer: The Mythos of the Pool On Screen
Trailer: 'Diabolique' (1955) Directed by Henri‑Georges Clouzot; Starring Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, and Paul Meurisse
Wet Hot American Summer; Backyard swimming pool moves the spirit unlike any other status symbol
Official Trailer Indie 'Pools'; By filmmaker Sam Hayes; Starring Odessa A'zion, Mason Gooding, and Ariel Winter
Film Commentary: 'La Pisine: Story Beneath the Surface' (1969) Avec Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet et Jane Birkin
Trailer: 'A Bigger Splash' (2015); 'La Pisine' Inspired; Directed by Luca Guadagnino; Starring Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ralph Fiennes, and Dakota Johnson
Trailer: 'The Graduate' (1967) Directed by Mike Nichols
PAINTER PORN
Click to Enlarge! Detail, of the Eye of Saint Peter, in Caravaggio's 'Crucifixion of Saint Peter,' 1600-01, Oil on canvas, 230 x 175 cm (Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome)
LAWRENCE WESCHLER
Tristan Duke, an LA Art Magus, Captures, Among Other Things, Light in Flight at a Trillion Frames A Second
Before Labubu, 1950s 'The Moomins' Changed Children’s Literature Forever. History Repeats. Artist Tove Jansson Created an IP and a Fortune
Gagosian Artist Kathleen Ryan: Time, Crafted; Ryan’s artistic process, methods of assemblage, and how her studio resembles an excavation site
When You’re Pontus Hultén They Let You Do It; Founding director of at least three modern art museums; One of the most influential figures in 20th century art; Groundbreaking curator; And a stone cold crook
RICHARD PRINCE
Coming to a Theater Near You? 'Deposition' (2025) Reviewed; Full 7-hour performance of Richard Prince talking extremely slowly in an adversarial conversation/deposition with offscreen lawyers
Artist and Bibliophile Richard Prince Has Amassed an Idiosyncratic Collection of First Editions and Literary Curios; Rare Bits & Pieces; Room-size walk-in fireproof safe
Podcast: Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin: Interview with Richard Prince (2025)
Jim Carrey Donates 1913 Picasso to LACMA; See Cary Grant and His 1980 gift of Diego Rivera's The Flower Vendor to the Norton Simon Museum
Ukrainian Artist and Anarchist David Chichkan Was Killed Fighting For His Country Against Russia
“Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists”; At Pallant House Gallery, Artists Capture Each Other With Candor, Compassion and Bite; Some artists express love for their subjects in their work, but others are less generous when their subjects are fellow creators
Curator Nada Shabout Traces the Enduring Legacy of the Baghdad Modern Art Group; Group sprang up in the roaring art scene and political ebullience of 1950s Iraq
Video: Steve Martin Goes to the Frick! And You Should Too!
Chicago on Lucas Museum: Regrets, Trollbait, Sour Grapes; Comic-Con prompted the Chicago Tribune to run an editorial lamenting the loss of the museum to L.A.: "This was a Midwestern mistake for the ages"
Dueling With Science, Argument of Our Times: Lowdown on Ronald Perelman’s $410 Million Art Damage Lawsuit Nears Verdict; Summary arguments have been filed in a contentious dispute stemming from a 2018 fire at Perelman's East Hamptons estate; Whose Science shall win?
Rainey Knudson: The Butter Thief, Regarding Unconditional Love
ROBERT WILSON (1941 - 2025)
Robert Wilson, Provocative Playwright and Director, Is Dead at 83; Upended theatrical norms with his own stunningly visualized works and his collaborations with a wide range of artists, from Philip
The Subject As Star; Robert Wilson, King of The Avant-Garde, Multi-Media Performance Event, Will Create Your Lifesize Video Portrait (2006)
Financial Times: My Favourite Holiday Photo – Artists and Designers Share Their Snaps
PETER LODATO (1946–2025)
William Turner Gallery Remembers Peter Lodato, Old School Light and Space Artist
Video: Joan Quinn Profiles
with Peter Lodato
Digital Catalogue "L.A. Louver Celebrates 50 Years"
Whales on the Move! Kenny Schachter Uncovers Real Estate Plays by the Nahmads, Mugrabis; Artist, collector, dealer . . . and poet? Columnist blasts art-market pessimists in spoken word piece
FANBOY SPHERE
Tornadoes, Monkeys and Towering Flames: How the Sphere Plans to Bring ‘The Wizard of Oz’ to Life; Senior executives from the Las Vegas attraction are recreating key moments from the film inside the venue at the same moment they happen on its massive screen
Listen to the Difference! Behind the Scenes of the Sound, Score and Infrasound Technology of The Wizard Of Oz at Sphere
American Eagle Is Investing In Sydney Sweeney and The Sphere For Its Largest-Ever Fall Campaign
ART NOIR: UPDATES ON THE ART CRIME OF THE CENTURY
What To Know About The Gardner Museum Heist, 35 Years Later
Documentary Trailer 'This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist'
(Art True Crime) Podcast: 'Last Seen' Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; All 10 Episodes
Essential Reading To Help You Understand The Gardner Museum Heist
JASPER JOHNS
Jasper Johns: Take An Object, Add Some Little Guys To It
To Brutally Paraphrase the American Artist Jasper Johns: Good art clashes two flinty ideas together, causing a spark, and then seeing becomes thinking. Johns believed that art should provoke cognition...
Video: "Jasper Johns: Take an Object"; A film by Hans Namuth and Judith Wechsler (1990)
Guardian UK: ‘They Digest Externally’: The Artist Who Creates Paintings With Live Flies; For over a decade, John Knuth has created art using the regurgitation of flies and after he lost his home in the California wildfires, his work has a new perspective
GROUP SHOW?
The Artists Confronting Sexual Violence: Laia Abril, Gabrielle Goliath and Lydia Pettit amplify the voices of survivors – and challenge the narratives that silence them
Stripper Collective’s Life Drawing Merges Sex Work and Art; East London group sees their life drawing sessions “as a natural progression from the age-old practice of hiring professional harlots and hussies as models for art”
Now, That's Punk!
In Menorca, Cindy Sherman’s Cinematic Take on Womanhood; In a new Hauser & Wirth show, curator Tanya Barson celebrates Sherman’s ability to amalgamate collective imagery and channel it into something new; Shown here in reverse chronology
If You’re Looking for the Best Southwest Landscape Art, Become a Gamer
FAN BOY SPHERE
‘Wizard of Oz at Sphere’ Sound Is Yet Another Groundbreaking Moment; New Depth in New Audio Creation
See This Video! Listen to the Difference! Behind the Scenes of the Sound, Score and Infrasound Technology of The Wizard Of Oz at Sphere
Gordy Grundy: How Does an Artist Say Goodbye To Lost Art Works?
Tosh Berman Discovers That Lucifer Is Very Much A Happy-Go-Lucky Guy; Kenneth Anger's Approach in "Lucifer Rising"
CERAMICS
Must See! This Turkish Artist Duo Mines History to Create Ceramics That Probe the Present Condition; Ertuğrul Güngör and Faruk Ertekin are the subject of their first European solo show with Anna Laudel gallery in Düsseldorf
Black Holes, Luna Moths, Marfa Lights, and Dreaming: An Interview with Virginia L. Montgomery
BEST OF THE WEEK with JERRY GOGOSIAN
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