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Richard Serra, Minimalist Sculptor Whose Steel Creations Awed Viewers, Dies at 85

IN THE MUD WITH JUDD

Kim Kardashian Sued For Claiming 'Low-Grade' Knockoff Furniture Was Made By Artist Donald Judd; See the TMZ Video!

Lemons Throughout Art History

CAT FIGHT

Style Against Style! Who was First? Artist Lynthia Edwards Fires Back at Deborah Roberts in Ongoing Copyright Dispute; Edwards alleges Roberts "used a barrage of social media posts and private messages to spread her false conspiracy theory"

Artist Deborah Roberts, a Favorite of Beyoncé and Barack Obama, Gets Her Due (WSJ January 2021)

‘It’s Not a Soft Landing’: Contemporary Art Prices Come Crashing Down. Is This the End?; Current market conditions challenge the popular belief that art always goes up

Banksy: Artist Confirms New London Tree Mural Is His Own Work ... ... Update: Banksy's Urban Tree Artwork Defaced With White Paint

From Zero to Hero: Meet 7 Artists With Serious Spikes in Artnet Price Database Searches in 2023; Meet the artists behind the headline-making prices

Kahlo Incorporated; How did Frida Kahlo go from being a little-known artist to a feminist icon to a global brand?

Refrigerator Magnets are Destroying Religious and Political Significance; Fight To Protect the Dignity of Michelangelo’s David Raises Questions About Freedom of Expression

Kim Fay in Detroit: Martyna Alexander at Playground Detroit

Video: Artist Demonstration: Martyna Alexander

Seance? Celebration? Christeene and her Fukkn Band Presents a Risqué Tribute to Sinead O'Connor

BRAVING OPPRESSION

NYC’s Metropolitan Opera Puts Trigger Warning On Puccini Masterpiece ‘Turandot’ In Bow To Woke Culture

‘The Pendulum Keeps Tightening’: What Hong Kong’s New Security Law Could Mean For The Art World

In Hong Kong, China’s Grip Can Feel Like ‘Death by a Thousand Cuts’; As Hong Kong’s leaders embrace China’s top-down political culture, many believe the city’s dynamism and vitality are slipping away

Art Basel Hong Kong Roars Back, the Biggest It’s Been Since 2019; The landmark Asian fair is returning to what it calls “prepandemic scale,” with a huge slate of dealers, big-name artists and deep local representation

Videogames and the Puzzling Patterns of Abstract Art

LAWRENCE WESCHLER

Author Weschler Dives Back into a Project with Illustrator Drew Friedman on the Rich History of German Creatives who Fled from Hilter to Sunny Los Angeles; Russian Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff at the Garden of Allah; Thomas Mann Walks a Condom-filled Beach; German Emigré Writer Frederick Kohner was Father of Surfergirl 'Gidget' and More!

Broad Expands, Backed by Billion-Dollar Endowment; 70% More Gallery Space!

MEDIA REMODELING

Model Karlie Kloss and her Husband, Investor Josh Kushner's Bedford Media has Acquired Publishing Rights to Revive Life Magazine; Shut Down in 2000; Not Buying Life‘s Valuable Photo Library and Content Archives

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Francis Ford 'King' Coppola's ‘Megalopolis' Privately Screened Last Thursday March 28 to a Large Crowd of Industry Friends and Family; "Startling," “Experimental," “Avant Garde"; Details...

‘Joker 2: Folie à Deux' is a “Jukebox Musical" With at Least, 15 Songs Performed

First Set Images (and Temperament) of Ari Aster's Neo-Western ‘Eddington'; Stars Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone and Austin Butler; With Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward and Clifton Collins Jr. ... ... [Update] Ari Aster's ‘Eddington' Might Tackle—[Yes, Spoilers]

‘SNL 1975' Will Take Place in Real Time, 90 Mins Before Show Airs

'The Dead Don't Hurt' Official Trailer; Starring Vicky Krieps and Director Viggo Mortensen

‘Stress Positions’ Trailer: John Early’s Sundance Millennial Screwball Comedy

'Kinds Of Kindness' Official Teaser; Director Yorgos Lanthimos; Cast: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn

‘Under The Bridge’ Trailer: Riley Keough & Lily Gladstone’s New Hulu Crime Series

'The Goat' Official Trailer; Comedian and Troublemaker Daniel Tosh Hosts Reality Competition

Paul Giamatti Picks from the Criterion Collection

New Yorker’s Richard Brody Shares His List of the Thirty-Three Best Bio-Pics Ever Made, Including Films by Carl Theodor Dreyer, Kenji Mizoguchi, Martin Scorsese, Agnès Varda, and more

We Don't Talk Enough about Paul Robeson (And What He Brought To The Film Industry)

'Unfrosted' Official Trailer ; Michigan, 1963, Kellogg's and Post, sworn cereal rivals... Stars Jerry Seinfeld in his directorial debu t, with Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Amy Schumer, James Marsden, Maria Bakalova, Bill Burr, Dan Levy, Christian Slater and Hugh Grant

Short Mini-Doc! Denis Villeneuve on 'Lawrence of Arabia'

'Renegade Nell' Official Trailer (2024) Fantasy, Disney+; Might Be Fun!

'Cold Copy' Official Trailer; Starring: Tracee Ellis Ross, Bel Powley, Jacob Tremblay

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‘Seeing the Whole’: The Fantasy Architecture of Julie Mehretu; New survey at Palazzo Grassi, Venice positions Mehretu amid a wider web of artists, musicians and theorists – including Paul Pfeiffer, Tacita Dean, Fred Moten, Pharaoh Sanders and Huma Bhabha

ART NOIR

Spanish Police Smash Banksy Fakes Syndicate

Art Dealer Guy Wildenstein Found Guilty of Tax Fraud; Wildenstein will remain under house arrest for two years

Two Devious, Conniving Lesbian Lovers’ Elaborate Art Hoax; Artworks will be attributed to both Dorothy Hepworth and Patricia Preece for the first time in a new exhibition

THREADS

Australian Artist Kurt Brereton: Zen and the Art of Making By Hand

Nengiren’s Embroidered Figures Embrace Feeling Carefree in Clothing

Interview: Kayla Powers Weaves Sensory Maps of Detroit; Fiber artist forages local plants to create delicate urban-agrarian weavings

ART BUSINESS

Interview with Margo McDaid: ‘I Paint Daily, No Matter What’: How One Woman’s Coping Mechanism Became A Global Business

Backstory: How Gagosian’s Blockbuster LA Basquiat Show Happened; Stars and billionaire lenders had to align for the mega-gallery’s museum-quality show of the late artist’s work, currently on display in Los Angeles

STREETWISE

Brooklyn Street Art Images of The Week

Ben Wakeling: Loving Fiercely, Inside and Outside

Brooklyn Street Art: Images Of The Week

COLLECTOR'S CIRCLE

How a fake Van Gogh Encouraged Barbra Streisand to Buy The Real Thing; Star's autobiography reveals her admiration for a “self-portrait” owned by a Hollywood producer; "This was the first time I realised that some people could actually buy a great painting and have it in their home. That was amazing to me.”

Inside a Family-Friendly, Art-Filled Manhattan Home; Yana Peel, the global head of arts and culture at Chanel, wanted something urban, sexy, arty, and design focused

Sisters Roselyn and Alexandra Mathews Shed Light on Their Family’s Illustrious Art Collection; Prominent Texan family provides state-of-the-art lighting to top art institutions around the world, and has built an enviable collection to boot mathews-sisters

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DIGITAL ART WORLD

NATURE ART CLIMATE

THREADS: TEXTILE ARTS

ARCHITECTURE

France, Is That Really You? A Gastronome of Concrete Architecture

Madrid’s Enterprising Heritage Seen Through Its Signs; With their exhibition of signs, Madrid collective Paco Graco has created a catalyst for conversations about the city’s past, present, and future

The Newest Must-Have Home Amenity for the Rich: Purified Air; Pollution, allergens and Covid have homeowners focusing on filtration systems and flexible designs to improve indoor air quality

Hector Guimard Art Nouveau House Numbers

BOOKS AND WORDS

Michiko Kakutani Was the Most Feared Woman in Publishing. What Happened? Former New York Times book critic was known for her devastating pans. How did she get so bland?

Review: 'No Judgement' by Lauren Oyler; Modish Observations From A Rarefied World; Despite occasional displays of wit and insight, the buzzy US critic’s ironic essays can feel airless and small

Fiction: Francis Spufford’s ‘Cahokia Jazz’; Plus Tommy Orange’s ‘Wandering Stars.’

Review: The Freaks Came Out to Write; How The Village Voice Changed American Journalism; Tricia Romano’s Entertaining Oral History Of The Radical New York Newspaper Is An Elegy To A Rough And Ready Era Of Punch-Ups And Passion

Among The Missing, Among The Dead: Black Poetry in America

DESIGN

Chicago Gangs Used To Have Business Cards

Designing a History of Indigenous Graphic Artists; I hear students and friends alike ask where are our books and documentation? Where can I see our Native American design history?

How Can a Poster Sing? Learning the notes, melodies, and messages of posters by Indigenous designers will only strengthen our communities and add such needed songs back into humanity

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