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Saltz Sez: Caspar David Friedrich’s Lonely Islands; Friedrich is the painter par excellence of German Romanticism, yet also a man for all times and places

HAPPY 100th NEW YORKER!


The Singular Wit of One of the New Yorker’s First Women Cartoonists; Barbara Shermund’s single-panel cartoons, drawn with a seemingly off-the-cuff fluidity of line and expression, came to define the magazine’s sense of humor


Ilona Staller Made Waves as Jeff Koons’s Muse. Now She’s Telling Her Side of the Story; Former porn star and member of Italian parliament is setting out on a new chapter: capturing her life in print, art, and film


Noah Davis: An Innovative Painter Who Also Reimagined Art’s Role in Community

LAWRENCE WESCHLER


Superdinoflagellistic! The Nanoworlds of Michael Benson, Photographer of Electro-microscopic Images of Sea Creatures



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ECON RUMBLE!

French Culture Sector Faces 'Violent' Cuts As Parliament Adopts 2025 Budget

ZONAMACO Returns With Respectable Early Sales, But Fewer Foreign Buyers Than Expected; While more international art lovers descended on Mexico City this year, buyers at ZONAMACO's VIP opening hailed mainly from Mexico and South America

Facing $10M Budget Deficit, Brooklyn Museum Will Lay Off Dozens of Workers; Staff cuts will affect both full, and part-time, workers across union and non-union roles

A Shift at Gagosian: Brooke Lampley from Sotheby's Will Focus on the Secondary Market

At Guadalajara Art Weekend, Open Studios Are the Biggest Draw; What started as a spontaneous gathering—artists inviting visitors to the city ahead of ZONAMACO—has evolved into ART WKND GDL, a highly coordinated series of events that shine a spotlight on the city's art scene

NEA Cancels Grant Program Supporting Underserved Communities; Announces Other Changes to Grant Criteria


New Criterion: Paintings About Painting; On “Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Post-War France, 1946–62,” at the Grey Art Museum, New York


Jurassic Tech Builds a Medieval Islamic Ceiling

MUSIC + SOUND

Fela Kuti in Prison; How Nigeria literally went to war against one musician—and lost

Review: I just listened to Wu-Tang Clan’s 'Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.' As Music, It’s Good. As Art, It’s Truly Great

Ted Gioia: Why Love Songs Are Badass; And How to Read Sappho

‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli Ordered To Give Up One-Of-A-Kind Wu-Tang Clan Album He Paid $2M For


Documentary Trailer 'Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision'; Hendrix built a fab recording studio and the greatest musicians had to record there

Courage! The Bunny Museum in LA Looks to Rebuild After Fires; Co-founders of the world’s largest collection of rabbit-themed items want to recreate “the hoppiest place in the world”

MUCH LOVED WALTER ROBINSON (1950 - 2025) FIND OUT WHY!

Saltz Sez: Walter Robinson, Rogue Pirate of the Art World by Jerry Saltz

Maverick Painter and Critic Walter Robinson, Who Helmed Artnet Magazine, Is Dead at 74; Edited influential outlets, made alluring appropriation art, and with a rare, wry sensibility, helped define his era


Charlie James Gallery Remembers Walter Robinson: "Light gleamed on the spear’s point as she thrust it at me in a lightning move..."

Writer Salman Rushdie Faces His Alleged Attacker in Court

Fight to the Death! Banksy to Fight Greeting Card Company for Control of His Trademark

Dutch Police Arrest Three in Explosive Museum Heist; Stolen Ancient Romanian Gold Treasures Have Yet To Be Recovered


Yoshitomo Nara, 'My Imperfect Self' at BLUM Los Angeles ... ... Video: See the Install!


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


*cough* How This A.I. Image Became the First to Snag Copyright Protection; U.S. Copyright Office ruled generally last month that work created from A.I. text prompts could not be copyrighted


Kim Fay in Detroit: ’Nightshade': The World In The Evening at Oakland University Art Gallery

FEBRUARY 2025


11 Shows to See in LA This February


Five NYC Shows to Start Your February

Artist Opportunities: March and April 2025

SURREALISM


On Surrealism: Gagosian Artists Glenn Brown and Alexandria Smith

Dismissed, Excluded and Now Adored: The Revenge Of The Women Surrealists; Written off as ‘muses’ and denied entry to the movement, they still produced extraordinary work that is only now being appreciated. We enter a gender-breaking world of occult worship – and cats


Meet Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie, the ‘Jazz Witch’ Who Captivated the Art World; "The Whole World Is a Mystery" at the Carnegie Museum of Art marks the first retrospective look at the artist in more than 30 years


Surrealism’s Legacy of Antifascist Activism; Show at Munich’s Lenbachhaus museum is an urgent study in the meaningful art-political networks that stressed solidarity and unity over isolation

Scholar Mary Ann Caws on Women Surrealists and André Breton’s Ass; If you can name more than two or three women surrealists without using Google, the 90-year-old art historian has probably helped make that happen



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Anora's Sean Baker on His Journey From Wedding Video Editor to Oscar-Nominated Director; "Around 2000, just after Sean Baker got clean from opioids, he had to rebuild his life from scratch..."

Shot on an iPhone! Director Luc Besson’s Secret Lockdown Film ‘June & John’ Finally Emerges With Trailer, Spring Release and Details: ‘A Love Story for the Ages’


Must See! Trailer 'June & John'; Directed by Luc Besson (“La Femme Nikita,” “Leon” and “The Fifth Element), Starring newcomers Matilda Price and Luke Stanton Eddy


Woody Allen on Robert Altman's 1973 Masterpiece 'The Long Goodbye'

That Creepy Poem In The '28 Years Later' Trailer Has A Disturbing Real-Life History


Official Trailer '28 Years Later'; Director Danny Boyle and Academy Award-nominated writer Alex Garland; Starring Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, ​Jack O'Connell, ​Alfie Williams and Ralph Fiennes


Official Trailer 'Sew Torn' Psychological Thriller with a Few Laughs; Directed by Freddy MacDonald; Starring Eve Connolly, Calum Worthy, and John Lynch


Official Trailer 'The Accountant 2'; Directed by Gavin O'Connor; Starring Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal and J.K . Simmons

The Neoliberal Fantasy of ‘The Brutalist’; Film’s reductive portrayal of an exploited creative ‘genius’ places individuation as the defining feature of existence

How Production Designer Judy Becker Did 'The Brutalist' on a Budget

Frieze: ‘The Brutalist’: A Phenomenon, Not a Monolith; Far from cold or concrete, this celebrated film pulses with raw emotion, fuelled by the passions and worldview of its creators


Interview: 'The Brutalist' Composer Daniel Blumberg on the Ambitious, Intensive Process of Scoring Brady Corbet’s Epic


Backlash Builds: Why The Architecture World Hates 'The Brutalist'; Brady Corbet’s Oscar-tipped film is clearly based on real-life modernist master Marcel Breuer but brazenly misrepresents him and his revered modernism


Interview; 'The Brutalist' Cinematographer Lol Crawley on VistaVision, the 70mm Experience, and Brady Corbet’s Flexibility


Whoa! 'F1' Super Bowl '25 Teaser; Starring Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, and Javier Bardem; Directed by Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick); Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer


Official Trailer 'Demon City'; Based on a Hyper Violent Manga; Hitman Out for Revenge; Director and Screenplay by Seiji Tanaka; Stars Toma Ikuta


Big Game Spot 'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning'; No Need To Say More!


Official Trailer 'Magazine Dreams' Directed and written by indie filmmaker Elijah Bynum; Starring Jonathan Majors


In Praise of Stan Brakhage’s Most Disturbing Film Document; No body horror fiction can compare to the haunting revelations of Brakhage's 32-minute film 'The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes'

Book Review: ‘1001 Movie Posters’ The Art of the Screen Teaser; A movie poster is made to promote a film. Hung on a wall at home, it becomes an advertisement for a sense of self


Review: 'Black Dog' Director Guan Hu


Why Don't Movies Look Like "Movies" Anymore? A Passionate Argument for High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Creative Choices


Official Trailer 'Running Point'; Executive producer Mindy Kaling; Starring Kate Hudson, Brenda Song, Drew Tarver, Chet Hanks, Jay Ellis, Max Greenfield, and Justin Theroux


Official Trailer 'Locked'; Trapped in a Luxury SUV; producer Sam Raimi; Filmmaker David Yarovesky; Starring Bill Skarsgård and Anthony Hopkins


Crime Comedy Trailer! 'Riff Raff' Directed by New Yorker filmmaker Dito Montiel; Starring Jennifer Coolidge, Ed Harris, Gabrielle Union, Lewis Pullman, Miles J. Harvey, Emanuela Postacchini, Michael Angelo Covino, Pete Davidson, and Bill Murray


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