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JAMES HAYWARD IS NOW PAINTING ELSEWHERE


James Hayward, West Coast Painter with a Cult Following, Dies at 82

EXCLUSIVE: "I Sh*t Like a Tough Guy" Essay by James Hayward; As a day in the life of an artist, this essay also provides tips on jail cell etiquette, drinking and driving and various art issues

Marian Goodman Gallery To ‘Pause’ Operations in Los Angeles

Harry Bertoia Gets His Moment; As a sculpture long thought lost resurfaces in Detroit, the artist and designer’s alma mater sets its sights on a major retrospective

Art Versus Commerce: Walker Art Center Severs Ties With (Unprofitable) Restaurant, Citing (Unsustainable) ‘Core Values’


A Workingman’s Surrealist; Artist H. C. Westermann cribbed from science fiction, pulp novels, and comic strips to make impeccable constructions from utilitarian stock


Book Review: Ai Weiwei and the Art of Keeping Your Mouth Shut; “On Censorship” offers timely reflections from the dissident artist, whose entire life and career have been marked by state persecution

Sol LeWitt Was Here; "Windows" (1980); "LeWitt used photography more than it might seem."


Yau: Steve DiBenedetto’s Cosmic Sense of the Absurd; He conceives of a painting as a search for a functional structure, a talisman that can aid viewers amid our collective sense of traumatic crisis

BOOKS + WORDS

Jazz Pictures the FBI Silenced; Fearing for her safety, Lisette Model buried her photos of artists like Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong, but a new book reveals them to the world

"The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary" Ralph Waldo Emerson drafted "Nature," an essay he hoped would be a spiritual “Shot heard round the world.”; Tto initiate an ongoing revolution of the spirit by attending to the ever-present Divinity of the natural world

‘I Want My Career, My Children and a Free Supple Life’: Sylvia Plath’s Radical Reinvention; Too often framed as a tragic icon or a victim of domesticity, the poet remade herself and her work at the start of the 60s, as a new collection will show

How Charlie Chaplin inspired George Orwell’s Big Brother; For the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, films had a power that books couldn’t hope to match

'Project Hail Mary,' the Film, Is Fun. Maybe That's All It Takes

ARCHITECTURE


Archigram: How Beautiful It Was Tomorrow; Influential and heterodox magazine, produced by the architectural collective of the same name between 1961 and 1974

Portland Has A Wonky Secret To Building Cheaper Houses. Other Cities Are Copying

Artist Rirkrit Tiravanija in Milano; Show of Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Architectural Projects


A Wall by George Nakashima; The Nakashima Compound in New Hope, Pennsylvania feels well-loved, impressive when visited, and very haphazardly documented


Can International Art Star Olafur Eliasson Provoke Urgency to Restore Great Salt Lake?

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDITOR


Gordy Grundy: Breaking News + Opinion

James Hayward Rides Forever

A Siren's Call

LA Times" First Installation At LACMA’s David Geffen Galleries Is a Revisionist Fever Dream; "It’s not only easy to get lost in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Galleries, it’s inevitable, intentional — and one of the best things about the place."


David Geffen Galleries: First Look

Free Toaster for New Clients! Sotheby’s offers to pay sellers interest as art market struggles; Patrick Drahi-owned auction house contends with heavy debt burden in shrinking market


Gotham as Muse at Frieze New York 2026; Inspired by NYC itself

Our One Percent 'Splainer: The Art Daddy’s Weekly Daddy Wrap-Up: Midlife Crisis, But Make It Strategic; Sotheby’s gets sued, Artnet consolidates, influencers paint, and the art world insists it’s intentional


The Violent Weather of Roger Brown’s Paintings; Show of landscapes and cityscapes at GRAY Chicago reaffirms his status as an American original

STREETWISE: THE RAPPEL TECHNIQUE


Hanging by a Thread: Inside the Death-Defying World of Rappel Graffiti; Method demands not just artistic vision but technical climbing expertise: knowledge of anchor systems, rope dynamics and belay devices. It also requires the kind of calculated risk assessment that separates mountaineers from corpses; Extensive planning and often multiple nights of reconnaissance


Video: GmanGk_GraffitiKings "Can't Stop, Won't Stop


Video: Rams MSK and Zoner BAMC IGTV

MONSIEUR NOUAR: LE FRANCAIS BUSTER KEATON

On Child-Rearing

DESIGN


MONDOBLOGO: Murray Moss + Enzo Mari; The Maestro Shows Us How to Collect in a 2013 Flashback Post


Act Black: Posters of Black Americans on Stage and Screen; In Pictures


Walk Through The Fantastical World of David Hockney's Immersive Opera Stage Designs


Love & Fury: How Poster Artists Responded To The AIDs Crisis


Click Here for Your Best Reading Experience on Our Film Site!


100% Rotten Tomatoes Score; Official Trailer 'Mārama'; Directed by Taratoa Stappard; Starring Ariana Osborne, Toby Stephens, Umi Myers, Evelyn Towersey, and Erroll Shand


Hard Crime Thriller 'Dirty Hands'; Starring Patrick Muldoon, Denise Richards, Michael Beach and Kevin Interdonato

Fascinating Read: Doug Liman Says AI Helped Slash ‘Killing Satoshi’ Budget From $300M to $70M — Shot Entirely With AI Backgrounds; No sets; Focus on performance


‘Cathartic Violence’: Why "Kill Bill: Volume 1" Is My Feelgood Movie

How Lawrence Sher’s Shotdeck Helps Cinematographers and Directors Bring Film Worlds to Life; Director of Photography of Maggie Gyllenhaal's genre-defying "The Bride!" and “Joker” and “Joker: Folie à Deux,” talks about his influences and about capturing lightning in a bottle


Our Film Critic Justin Tanner Reviews "Sentimental Value"


Our Film Critic Justin Tanner Reviews "Sirat"

Life in the Raw: The Pre-Code Films of Director Mervyn LeRoy


Pre-Code Joan Crawford Film Was Released From Legal Limbo After Almost A Century; Long-lost "Letty Lynton" returns to the screen after 90 years in a vault; Starring Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery


Film Fest Comedic Fave, 'Like High-octane 'Uncut Gems'" Official Trailer '$Positions'; Written and Directed by Brandon Daley; Starring Michael Kunicki, Trevor Dawkins, and Kaylyn Carter

IndieWire: ‘The Plague’ Review: Charlie Polinger’s Debut Takes Body Horror and ‘Lord of the Flies’ Into Extraordinary, Emotional Spaces; Filmmaker Polinger plays with broad riffs on coming-of-age, body horror, and bullying genres to craft something with a potent power

Film Stage: 'The Plague' Review: Bullying Drama of Paranoia Requries Suspension of Disbelief

ArtForum: Pop Before Pop: Welles, Sirk, Hitchcock


Provocative Taboo Indie 'Blue Film' Trailer; Starring with Kieron Moore and Reed Birney

Interview With Linda Rosenkrantz, the Writer Behind 'Peter Hujar's Day' About the Art of Reconstructing a Reconstruction

Alexander Kluge, Filmmaker, Writer, Philosopher, 1932–2026; Started working in cinema as Fritz Lang’s assistant

Siskel & Ebert Warned About the Rise of Hive-Mind in Film Criticism: “That’s Death to a Critic"


New 'Painted' Animation by Award-winning Japanese Animated Filmmaker Yoshiki Imazu; Music Video for Japanese Duo Yorushika

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