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VENICE!

Witty Christoph Büchel: Fear and Loathing in Venice; With an apparent appetite for destruction, not least that of his own reputation and even art, what, one might ask, are the Swiss artist’s motivations, and does he have any limits?

Nate Freeman: Inside the 2024 Venice Biennale: Papal Pavilions, a Polarizing Program, and Billionaires Aplenty; Art world's every-other-year Olympics is officially underway. Why even His Holiness is getting in on the action this go round

10 Must-See Exhibitions During the 2024 Venice Biennale; From Willem de Kooning at the Gallerie dell'Academia di Venezia to Julie Mehretu at the Palazzo Grassi, these are the top shows to discover beyond the Biennale

Reviews: Willem de Kooning’s Italy; Paintings from the late 1950s and on prove that de Kooning had sat at the feet of, and learnt much from, such old Italian masters as Titian and Tintoretto

Art Forum: Willem de Kooning, Last Master; His Obit

Julia Friedman Has an Essay, "The Meta of Marble" in a New Monograph on the British-Iranian artist Reza Aramesh, which Accompanies His site-specific, "Must-See" exhibition NUMBER 207 at Chiesa Di San Fantin in Venice. Read the Excellent Essay Here.

See Walton Ford's Epic Show 'Lion of God.' First solo exhibition in Italy at the Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in Venice

The Legacy and Mystery of The Display of Native American Art At The 1932 Venice Biennale; Remarkably little is known about the selection, reception and whereabouts of the Native art shown in the US pavilion at the 18th Biennale

MSCHF 'Art 2' at Perrotin

Crime Pays for Inigo Philbrick; Swindler Gets an HBO Series! What Will He Wear on the Red Carpet?

Kim Fay in Detroit: Earthlings Unite at Metropolitan Museum Of Design Detroit; A Radical Action Based Artivisim Exhibition on Energy Conservation

Yau: Painting at the Periphery of Language; Mary Lum is interested in the deeply rooted human desire to make meaning out of everything, while recognizing that language is a slippery phenomenon

This Isn't Happiness: 'Watch Me Burn All of My Art in My Front Yard (Free Event)'

See the Show! Arghavan Khosravi 'At Her Fingertips' at M+B

Not a Poet? You Can Be, By Taking a Picture; New AI Camera turns the visual into poetry

Newly Unearthed Agnes Pelton Painting Leads Auction; Original Sketch and Handwritten Notes Appear in Pelton's Sketchbook

Yau: The Quiet Urgency of Barbara Takenaga’s Paintings; Her paintings are searching for materially rooted forms while simultaneously reaching for something unfixed and uncontainable

The Must-Also-Haves: In Nicole Eisenman’s Paintings and Sculptures, a System’s Impending Demise May Reveal Itself in Feverish Hilarity

Van Gogh’s Meager Diet While Painting a Portrait of His Mother; In 1888, hungry Van Gogh wrote his brother asking for money for food; “I cannot stand the colorless photograph,” Van Gogh wrote. “I am trying to do one in a harmony of color, as I see her in my memory.”

Clayton Campbell Shares a Long Look of His New Book "Trance of Thought," with Over 100 Digital Works and an Essay by Cansu Peker. Click Here!

CARAVAGGIO KORNER

Just How Did Caravaggio Die? Disease? Infection? Murder? Rumors and theories abound

Caravaggio Made Darkness Visible; In his violent, carnal visions, sparks of divinity may glow even from within the blackest confines of our fallen reality

Financial Times Review: The Last Caravaggio, National Gallery, London; A Final Dark Masterpiece Brought To Light; Painting that was attributed to the Italian master only in the 1970s is a priceless example of his brooding late style

Who is Painter Scott Kahn? Zwirner Just Picked Him Up; The 'Hobbyist' is Fetching High Six Figures

A Graphic Review: Mark Rothko’s Emotional Self-Portraits

VIVA!

Jessica Gelt: LACMA Goes to Las Vegas; Govan Speaks! How exactly will that arrangement work? And Why?

Christopher Knight Commentary: LACMA finally is getting its satellite space. Regrettably, it’s in another state; "As bad art museum ideas go, this one is right up there."

William Poundstone: Loathing Las Vegas; 'My half-serious theory is, this is all about Elaine Wynn. Or Francis Bacon'

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Must Read! For Francis Ford Coppola’s Go For Broke Movies, All Roads Lead to Cannes; Director readies his self-funded epic 'Megalopolis' for the Croisette, with echoes of his 'Apocalypse Now' journey 45 years ago accompanying him

How Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Movie Critic’ Fell Apart; Inside the messy, late-hour collapse of the director’s mysterious final feature amid wild script and casting rumors (Tom Cruise?) and a fully on-board Sony Pictures

Revivals Might Save Theaters? Sam Raimi's ‘Spider-Man 2' (2004) was No. 2 at the Domestic Box Office Tuesday with $805k!

‘Kinds of Kindness’ is “Almost 3-Hours Long; "Hostile, Aggressive, More Like Yorgos Lanthimos’ Early Work"

Trailer: 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' (2017) Official Trailer; Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos; Starring Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, and Alicia Silverstone

Trailer: 'Blink Twice' (Formerly Titled 'Pussy Island'); Newbie Zoë Kravitz Directs Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum, Kyle MacLachlan, Adria Arjona, Christian Slater, Simon Rex and Alia Shawkat

Trailer: 'Touch'; Based on the Icelandic Best-Selling Romantic Thriller Novel by Ólafur Johann Olafsson

‘Gladiator II' Test Screens; 160 Minutes, “Thrilling" and Oscar-Worthy

Keanu Reeves in Talks to Star in (“The Square” and “Triangle of Sadness”) Ruben Östlund’s ‘The Entertainment System Is Down’

First Look: Sean Baker's ‘Anora' Starring Mikey Madison; Cannes Debut; Director of 'Tangerine' 'The Florida Project' 'Red Rocket'

Review: ‘Boy Kills World’ Bill Skarsgard Goes Nuts In Hyper-Violent Revenge Flick With Shades Of 'The Raid' and 'The Running Man'

Jerry Seinfeld Says the Movie Business Is Over: ‘No Longer the Cultural Pinnacle’; Promoting His New Pop-Tarts Movie

David Mamet Describes the Film Industry as Being in the Late Stages of the “Growth, Maturity, Decay, and Death” Cycle; Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter and provocateur criticized DEI initiatives as "garbage" at an LA Times Book Festival event on Sunday

Can You Dig It? Alice Rohrwacher's 'La Chimera' Unearths the Contradictions at the Heart of a Brittle Society, Where Culture is Yet Another Arena in which the Wealthy Explit the Poor

Why It’s Never Been Easier to Land in Director’s Jail

Cineuropa: The 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Czechoslovakia) Celebrates Franz Kafka; Retrospective will include works by filmmakers such as Orson Welles, Federico Fellini, Martin Scorsese, Ousmane Sembene, Jan Němec and Steven Soderbergh

How ‘Moneyball’ Became The Most Enduring Baseball Movie Of The 21st Century

ArtReview Interview: Paul B. Preciado; Filmmaker of 'Orlando, My Political Biography' (2023); Adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Genre-bending Modernist Novel; ‘If you can’t write it, film it.’

Trailer: 'What You Wish For' Official Trailer; Starring Nick Stahl as a Gourmet Chef Thriller

Trailer: 'Deadpool & Wolverine' Official Trailer

Doc Trailer: 'Jim Henson Idea Man'

‘Furiosa' Has A 15-minute Action Sequence That Took 78 Days to Shoot

Furiosa: George Miller, Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth on Madness and Medicine

The Austin Film Festival’s 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2024

Sympathy For The Assassin: Jean-Pierre Melville's 'Le Samourai' Shines in New 4K Cinematic Release

Film Critic Justin Tanner Recommends You See This Classic!

Trailer: 'Two For the Road' (1967) Directed by Stanley Donen; Starring Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney

Like a Black Panther 'Argo', Trailer: 'The Big Cigar' Huey P. Newton Escapes to Cuba

Trailer: 'The Watchers' Written for the Screen and Directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan; Produced by Dad M. Night Shyamalan

'Unfilmable' After 25 Years of Failed Screen Adaptations, New Regency, Director John Hillcoat ("The Road"), Screenwriter John Logan (“Gladiator” “Skyfall” “The Aviator”) are Trying Make Cormac McCarthy‘s “Blood Meridian” (’85) Into a Movie

Soiled Nappies and Karate: AI-Rendered Putin Biopic to be Released; Polish director Besaleel’s film will feature an AI-rendered Russian president and footage shot by Ukrainian film-makers during the Russian invasion; See the Uncomfortable Trailer!

BOOKS + WORDS

Babysitting Truman Capote: For a young assistant at Random House in the summer of 1978, Friday afternoons meant one thing

Douglas Murray: The Sweet Glee of Schadenfreude; Clive James describes the devilishly delightful feeling of seeing another author fail

‘Bitter Crop’ Review: Billie Holiday’s Swan Song; In final year of her life, Holiday continued to perform in spite of fast-declining health; Turned to friends such as Elizabeth Hardwick, Sonny Rollins and Frank Sinatra; Spoke with them about her pride in her career—and her premonition of her own death

How Quinta Brunson Hacked the Sitcom; With “Abbott Elementary,” the comedian and writer found fresh humor and mass appeal in a world she knew well.

Words, Words, Words; On the Bard’s Four-Hundred-Year Legacy

PHOTOGRAPHY

Tim Hetherington's War Photographs Show Moments of Intimacy and Absurdity; The photographer, who died in the Libyan civil war in 2011, had a gift for putting people at ease. The biggest British exhibition of his work since his death

Sculptor Daniel Arsham’s Never-Before-Seen Photos Make Their Museum Debut; Photographs are now on view at Fotografiska New York

Photographer George Hurrell’s Moonlight Serenade to Hollywood; Movie icons shot by the legendary lensman are on view at Washington, DC’s National Portrait Gallery.

Video Doc Trailer: 'Hidden Master' Official Trailer; Pioneering Photographer George Platt Lynes, who Took Radically Explicit Photographs of the Male Nude in the 1930's

Francesca Woodman Was a Photographic Oracle of an Ancient World

It’s about Time we Reinvented the Autochrome

Landscape of a Pessimist: Houston’s Latest FotoFest

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ARCHITECTURE

Dreamin' “California Forever,” the Billionaire-Backed City No One Asked For; Jan Sramek wants to “deliver a big solution” to the state’s housing crisis by building a new town from scratch. He may have considered every detail, but that doesn’t mean he’s been very considerate.

Saudis Scale Back Ambition for $1.5 Trillion Desert Project Neom

Video: How Vladimir Ossipoff Influenced Hawaiʻi Modern Architecture

Video: Vladimir Ossipoff Architecture in Hawaii

Why are Celebrities Destroying Multimillion Dollar Mansions?

Outrage After Actor Chris Pratt Destroys Iconic Mid-Century Home in LA; Advocates decried Pratt and wife Katherine Schwarzenegger’s decision to raze an architecturally significant home for yet another “McMansion”

COLLECTORS CIRCLE

One Collector's High Mountain Road To Hokusai; Assembling All 46 Images of “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji”

Art Advisor Anne Bruder Illuminates the Path of Art Collecting

At Auction: Beauty & Mischief: Selections from Blackman Cruz and the LA Antique and Furniture Gallery

How Hollywood Uncovered an Avant-garde Masterpiece by Róbert Berény Missing for almost a Century

Painter Róbert Berény was a Composer, Psychiatrist and Inventor

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