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Interview: The Inside Story of The Biggest Art Fraud In American History; Orlando Whitfield was a student when he became best friends with Inigo Philbrick, ‘the art world’s Bernie Madoff’. He talks about how their decade of hustling would lead one to a breakdown – and the other to jail

Andrew Alba’s New Works at Material Expose the Pain We Inherit

LAWRENCE WESCHLER

a) Art Spiegelman and Dan Nadal discuss Si Lewen at the James Cohan Gallery; b) Ren Weschler in conversation with Jamaica Kincaid about her roots, work, and years at the New Yorker, at the Chicago Humanities Festival in 2014

A Creepy, Entrancing German Pavilion Is This Venice Biennale’s Big Hit

The Aquatic Meets the Galactic in Artist Josèfa Ntjam’s Captivating Mythologies; Artist's stunningly psychedelic take on science and science fiction debuts at the Venice Biennale

Carolyn Castaño “Otros Seres” at Walter Maciel Gallery

Here Are Three Facts About Richard Serra’s ‘Tilted Arc’, Sculpture So Controversial It Was Put on Trial; The monumental sculpture, which was installed in Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan from 1981 to 1989, posited free speech considerations against the role of public opinion

Teruko Yokoi, a Retrospective at Marlborough Gallery

Why More Artists Are Forming Limited Liability Corporations?; More artists are incorporating their practices, and Observer dug into what prompts creatives to become corporations

Who Was Marcel Duchamp’s Female Alter-Ego? The Daddy of Dada Had a Feminine Side

Downtown Los Angeles Places Another Big Bet on The Arts

N. Dash: Down to Earth; Artist’s Own Brand of Conceptual Naturalism Draws a Line Between the Natural World and Human Ideals

Olafur Eliasson’s Art —and Dance Moves— Feature on Musician Peggy Gou’s New Album; Gou dons one of Eliasson's sculptures on the cover of her new album, "I Hear You"; Have a Listen!

ART NOIR

Speak, 'Muse;' Tell Us the History of the Brancusi; An Angry Widow, Unscrupulous Dealer, Rape and Murder

Andrew Crispo, Disgraced Manhattan Gallery Owner, Dies At 78; Long series of tabloid-worthy scandal; “It was a horror show”

Ex-Husband of Gallerist Brent Sikkema Is Arrested in New York; Daniel García Carrera, who is accused of orchestrating the murder of his husband, was detained on charges of passport fraud

Mona Lisa Targeted in Louvre Bomb Threat; Mysterious and menacing message was sent to the world famous museum early on Sunday morning

ILLUSTRATION

Illustration and Pictures Have Been Teaching Doctors Medicine For Centuries; A Medical Illustrator Explains How

Madeline and More: The Whimsical World of Ludwig Bemelmans

Unseen illustrations Show the Genius of Biba’s Barbara Hulanicki; In Pictures

STAGE STRUCK

Theater: LA Mythmaking Fear of Kathy Acker

In Pictures: ‘We’re All Agog’ Behind the scenes at Welsh National Opera’s 'Death in Venice'; Britten’s atmospheric, strange and beautiful opera, the last he wrote, comes to life in this new production

‘An Enemy of the People’ Review: Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli duke it out on Broadway; Amy Herzog's conversational new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play

‘I am not a Satanist!’: Meet the Great Blasphemer of Contemporary Art; The mischief-making Maurizio Cattelan on shaking up this year’s Venice Biennale, kneeling Hitler and that notorious solid-gold lavatory

All In It Together? A Guide to Artworld Friendships; Contemporary Art Runs On A Cocktail Of Fuels: Alcohol, Bullshit and Bonhomie

Did Pollock Really Pee in Peggy Guggenheim’s Fireplace? Considering all that Guggenheim had been through, what's a little urine between friends?

Kim Fay in Detroit: Tom Livo at Black Box

Yau: San Francisco Art Pioneer’s Collaged Dream Worlds; With the layers of his collaged “paste-ups,” Jess pulls us into an oneiric world, at once delightful and perplexing, magical and sublime

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'Trap' Official Trailer; Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, Stars Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan

Luca Guadagnino's 'Challengers' Review – Everything Is Sex, Except Sex, Which Is Power

First Teaser for Netflix's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' Adaptation

Quentin Tarantino Drops ‘The Movie Critic’ As His Final Film

Tarantino Canceled ‘Movie Critic' Months Ago, and Then Started Writing A Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt's Character in 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) Spin-Off

‘Life of Jesus’: Martin Scorsese Eyes Andrew Garfield & Miles Teller For Roles In Upcoming Film

Ageless Auteurs: Scorsese Eyes Frank Sinatra Biopic With Leonardo DiCaprio (as Sinatra) and Jennifer Lawrence (as Ava Gardner), Spielberg Tackling UFO Movie and More

Scorsese-Sinatra Project Sounds Nuts; Really, C’mon, Come Up For Oxygen!

Three Men and a Goddess: Once Hollywood’s Most Irresistible Woman, Wed to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra, by 1988 Ava Gardner was nearly broke, ravaged by illness, and intent on selling her memoirs

'Hit Man' Official Trailer

Spooky 'Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever' Featuring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Official Trailer

New US Trailer for Stunning Love Story 'Banel & Adama' from Senegal

Sammo Hung & Louis Koo Get into Action in First Trailer for Soi Cheang’s Cannes Premiere 'Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In'

At 88, Woody Allen on Marriage, Kids, His Great Films, Influence on Movie Making, Writing a Novel, Epstein, and Not Retiring

The Japanese Noir 'The Bad Sleep Well' That Inspired 'The Godfather' Director Francis Ford Coppola

Fascinating Look at the Visual Artistry of Akira Kurosawa's 'The Bad Sleep Well' (1960) - The Geometry of a Scene

'All You Need Is Death' Review; A Memorable Fiction Debut; A young couple get more than they bargained for when they translate a rare folk ballad in this effective Irish horror.

How A Six Year Old Shirley Temple Saved Twentieth Century Fox From Bankruptcy

Batsh*t Crazy Chinese Remake! 'Anaconda' (2024) Trailer

'Daddio' Official Trailer; Starring Sean Penn and Dakota Johnson

'A Man in Full' Official Trailer; Based on the New York Times bestselling novel by the late Tom Wolfe; From writer & creator David E. Kelley

'You Can't Run Forever' (2024) Official Trailer; Starring J.K. Simmons

'The Listener' Trailer No.1 (2024) Starring Tessa Thompson; Directed by Steve Buscemi

'Twelfth Night' Orson Welles (1933); Ten Minutes of Surviving Color Footage From His Production for His Alma Mater the Todd Seminary for Boys, at Age 17

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ARCHITECTURE

Antoine Predock, Architect who Channeled the Southwest, Dies at 87

New Project From Annabelle Selldorf, the Art World's Favorite Architect, Plays Against Type

A Look At Asmara, Africa’s Unknown City of Modernist Architecture; Asmara, Eritrea's capital city, was just named a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Thomas Heatherwick: The Architect of Our Neoliberal Hell

BRAVING OPPRESSION

WSJ: A Crackdown on Russian Artists Paints a Portrait of a Scared Putin; The FSB has begun searching and questioning dissident artists, which reveals the power, and the Kremlin’s fear, of art

Hong Kong Artists Flee As City Grapples With Status As Arts Hub Amid Rising Repression; Some artists have taken their work to Brussels, saying they no longer feel safe, yet the art market back home continues to boom

CERAMICS

Missouri artist Kahlil Robert Irving Explores Perception and Modern Life In Nerman Museum Exhibit

Maria & Modernism; The Heard Museum; Exhibition in Phoenix through July 28 offers a reappraisal of the pioneering American potter

Eric Croes: Mix-n-Match; In Comme un vieux tatouage at Almine Rech, Paris, Croes pursues a cheerful exploration of the cultural-historical connotations of ceramic art

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DIGITAL ART WORLD

NATURE ART CLIMATE

THREADS: TEXTILE ARTS

BOOKS + WORDS

Douglas Murray: The Fight to Recover What Has Been Lost; Between two world wars and a mental breakdown, T.S. Eliot still believed in the possibility of restoration

'Poor Things,' the Weird Movie, Was A Weird Novel First

J.G. Ballard: Dangerous Driving; Writer shares his thoughts on cars, desire, celebrity and the coolness factor within his novels

Writing is Not Thinking; On AI, Yarn, and Hamlet

How a Literary Darling Finally Broke Through to the Mainstream; Between an Oscar-winning movie adaptation of one of his books and a new novel with rave reviews, Percival Everett’s gone from cult favorite to superstar

Douglas Murray: An Elegy for a Young Man; Poet Thom Gunn found his greatest—and most harrowing—subject in the AIDS epidemic

COLLECTORS CIRCLE

How Miami Collectors Jack and Tara Benmeleh Switch Into ‘Basel Mode’

Rosa de la Cruz, Who Helped Build Miami into an Art Destination, Dies at 81; She and her husband had built a vast contemporary art collection, starting in the 1980s

White Cube's Sukanya Rajaratnam on Curating for Younger Collectors and More

THREADS

Sam Dienst Weaves the Everyday Into Rich Tapestries; Dienst wrests playfulness and movement from the warp and weft of weaving

Akea Brionne’s Uncanny Rhinestone Tapestries Unsettle Memory and the Familiar

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