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Banksy Confirms Statue of Man Blinded By Flag That Appeared In London Is By Him; Posted social media video showing large sculpture installation at Waterloo Place in middle of night


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Dammit. Warhol Is Out, Gulfstreams Are In: The SuperRich Are Souring on Art; Art sales are stagnant even though demand for private jets and luxury yachts is on a tear


LA’s The Box Gallery to Close After 19 Years

HAYWARD HIJINKS


Tulsa Kinney: Remembering James Hayward, LA’s Adored Cowboy Painter; A legendary artist, Jimmy was equally known for his magnetic personality, sense of ribald humor, and inspired storytelling

Exclusive: James Hayward Writes of an Urgent Crisis In His Early Days, As He Was Hanging a Show For NYC Gallerist Paula Cooper, Who Had Sublet Rosamund Felson's La Cienega Gallery for the Summer. 'Lynda Benglis is in Trouble! Jack Brogan Saves the Day'


Yau: Raging Against the Dying of the Light; Jake Berthot’s paintings are haunted by an awareness of mortality and, beyond that, a feeling that no light awaits in the darkness

Joseph Beuys Might Be the 20th Century’s Most Influential Artist—but We Have Him All Wrong


Rainey Knudson: No. 62, George W. Bush Bathtub Painting

Paige Powell Captured Warhol’s Final Days Up Close; At Jeffrey Deitch, Powell’s Warhol photographs hint at a wider archive shaped by her role as a chronicler of Basquiat and the 1980s scene


Jasper Johns Watermark; 'Foirades/Fizzles'


Juan Uslé’s Childhood Shipwrecks; New retrospective at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid traces Uslé’s work from a Spanish shipwreck to its rebirth in New York City

Teresinha Soares, Artist Who Brought Sex And Feminism To Pop Art, 1927–2026

Cultured: Legendary Art World Deviant Paul McCarthy on Santa Claus, Trauma, and the Rise of Fascism; 80-year-old provocateur has three shows on view this spring. Our writer followed him around Paris, where one of them is up at Hauser & Wirth, to unpack the staying power of his psychosexual fever dreams

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How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time; Crowd-curated digital movement is one of the most pertinent and explicit reactions to our particular slice of dystopian late capitalism


Distance Between Us: Are These People Together Or Apart? Yolanda Del Amo’s New Book 'Archipelago'


Interview: Dean Majd’s “Hard Feelings” Expands the Emotional Register of Masculinity; "I created a space of vulnerability for men who are often told they need to be invulnerable to survive, a space for my friends and me to face our own shadows."


Irving Penn's 1948 Peru Project "Cuzco" to Getty; Penn rented the studio of a local photographer specializing in portraits of rural families taken during Christmas shopping expeditions

Gioia: Why Are Tech Bros Watching Videos at 3x Speed; Our culture might be boring but it sure is fast; “Every podcast is better at 2.0 speed.”

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Stromberg: George Herms, Titan of West Coast Assemblage, Dies at 90; Transformed found materials and cast-off debris into poetic representations of impermanence, suffused with pathos and humor

Mat Gleason: George Herms, the Most Underrated Artist in Los Angeles; Recounts the fire that destroyed the Nick Wilder Gallery and much of his work; Read how Warhol tried to console him. Ouch!

Inside Gagosian’s Quiet Power Move to Street Level on Madison Avenue; New space is being christened by a Duchamp and Rauschenberg double header


Painter Colleen Barry Wants You to Believe in Pictures Again; Painter's path to contemporary figuration has roots in both the aughts indie scene and ancient Greece

NEW LACMA IS A CURIOUS HIT

Guardian: Architecture: Like A Concrete Aircraft Carrier: was LA’s giant new $724m gallery really worth all the carbon emissions? Built on tar swamps and two tortuous decades in the making, LACMA’s latest addition used twice as much metal as the Eiffel Tower. How did America supersize revered architect Peter Zumthor?

Carolina Miranda: For Better or Worse, the New LACMA Is an Instant LA Icon; The blob-shaped David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art offers architectural drama inside and out, sometimes at the expense of the art

Everyone Is A Critic. Mexican Cultural Workers Denounce Pedro Reyes Sculpture at LACMA


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Our One Percent 'Splainer: The Art Daddy; This Week, "From Saltz’s Archive Spiral To Institutions “Recalibrating,” Everyone Is Positioning"

Lukas Amacher Is Building a Chatbot for the Art World; Digital Docents; Wall Labels That Chat

Financial Times: America’s Venice Biennale Artist Was Scorned By Tastemakers. He Says He’s Misunderstood; Acclaimed artists William Eggleston and Barbara Chase-Riboud turned down the controversial commission — now the once-niche Alma Allen will represent the US


Yau: Squeak Carnwath Paints Her Own Path; Artist rejects the notion that paint as a medium inevitably becomes exhausted, incapable of making something, however broken it may be

Paddy Johnson's Art Problems: How Do I Get Gallery Representation? Dreaming of showing at your favorite gallery? Paddy Johnson has the masterplan

Suffering From “Creative Hangover”? You’re Not Alone; New study finds that artists experience negative emotions the morning after their most productive days

How a Texas Town Became an Art Project; With fewer than 700 residents, Kingsbury has become a hub for cultural governance and sovereignty, largely thanks to advocacy led by arts organization Habitable Spaces

TeamLab, Art’s Greatest Sugar Rush, Is Building an Empire; Art collective behind teamLab, which started in Japan, has expanded across the world, developing partnerships to pay for its immersive technology

Nick Cave on Grief, God and Why He’s Become an Artist; Rock star has returned to his first love — making art, with an exhibition of ceramics about the Devil. He talks to Laura Freeman about losing two sons, addiction and his faith

Hundreds of Theatres and Museums Face Closure As Crisis In Sectors Laid Bare; Alarm in sector as four in 10 of Britain’s theatres as well as many regional museums containing local and national archives are on the brink of closure


Sheila Hicks’s Faith in the Latent Power of Materials; Invigorating survey of mostly recent works by the American artist at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf is a feast of rhythmic form and pulsating color

The Stellar Stoic: Don’t Just Settle for a Shortcut, Do the Work

BRAVING OPPRESSION

Pussy Riot Shows Art by Russia’s Prisoners in New Protest Exhibition; Show at Ritsch-Fisch Galerie in France features work by people currently or formerly imprisoned in Russia, including Ukrainian civilians

Pussy Riot Founder Decries Russia’s Push to Designate the Group as ‘Extremist.' "I'm laughing in disbelief," said Nadya Tolokonnikova

Gen Z Rappers Defy Iranian Regime’s Rules; Islamic Republic faces most fundamental challenge from within since 1979 revolution

Reddit Forum r/Art Melts Down After Artist Is Banned Over the Word ‘Prints’; Subreddit went off the rails after artist Hayden Clay Williams received a permanent ban, leading moderators to mass resign

When Masha Met Ragnar: Maria "Masha" Alyokhina of Pussy Riot and Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson


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Official Film Trailer "Hamlet"; Directed by Aneil Karia; Starring Riz Ahmed, Morfydd Clark, Joe Alwyn, Sheeba Chaddha, Art Malik, Timothy Spall


Official Trailer Jessica Chastain Erotic Drama "Dreams"; Directed by Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco; Starring Jessica Chastain, Isaac Hernández,Rupert Friend, Marshall Bell, Eligio Meléndez, and Mercedes Hernández
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Jeremy Strong’s Mark Zuckerberg in ‘The Social Reckoning’ Divides Audiences at CinemaCon

Open Letter Opposing the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger; See who signed the letter

Ankler: Recent CinemaCon’s Quiet Wars: Fewer Movies, Bigger Screens — and TikTok in Charge; Behind the optimism in Vegas lies a more fragile theatrical reality


Rediscovering Singapore’s First Action Heroine; Crime-fighting, gun-toting lead of 1978’s 'They Call Her... Cleopatra Wong' was nearly lost forever. New restoration celebrates her overlooked history




Our Film Critic Justin Tanner Reviews "Is This Thing On?"


Our Film Critic Justin Tanner Reviews "No Other Choice"


Official Trailer 'California Schemin'; Directed by James McAvoy; Starring Samuel Bottomley, Séamus McLean Ross, Lucy Halliday, Rebekah Murrell and James McAvoy


First Look Teaser 'Godzilla Minus Zero'; From Tojo Studios; Written, VFX, and Directed by Takashi Yamazaki

CARRINGTONS ON FILM


Little White Lies Review: Tumultuous Life Story of Surrealist Painter Leonora Carrington Is Somewhat Explored In This Gorgeously-Shot Biopic


Official UK Trailer 'Leonora in the Morning Light'

Who Was Dora Carrington? No Relation to Leonora. Pedro Almodóvar’s Movie Shines Light on the Forgotten Artist; Bloomsbury artist who defied social norms is getting a fresh look from the art world

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