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Russian Artist Gunned Down in Poland; Unflattering Portraits of Big Vlad Putin; "Signs of an assassination"; "Five shots, including one to the head"

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW


The Afrowesternist: Artist Brent Holmes Goes Deep Into Family, Culture and Country; Interview with Gordy Grundy

DISNEYLAND TO DATALAND, HOW TO SEE BOTH IN ONE DAY

Dambrot: Dataland Defies Expectations. But Will L.A. Embrace The World’s First AI Arts Museum?

Refik Anadol’s Dataland Leaves Contemporary Art in the Dust

Friedman: On the Spat Between The Critic Jerry Saltz and the Artist Refik Anadol; “Glorified Lava Lamp"

Dean Kissisck: At the Symposium Yesterday a Member of The Audience Asked, “Are we evolving in our intelligence, or devolving?”
The Professor and Chair from the University of California, Santa Cruz cautioned her against using the language of social Darwinism. The Professor from Manchester Metropolitan demanded of her, “What do you mean by ‘we’?”
Turned out afterwards that the girl asking was seventeen and still at school.

OUR DAVID

The Wit and Wisdom of David Hockney; Never shy of giving a good quote, David Hockney frequently made headlines with his thoughts about contemporary culture and fellow artists

‘An Evangelist For Joy’: David Hockney Remembered by Rachel Whiteread, Jeremy Deller and more; Artists and cultural figures celebrate the great Yorkshire painter who could ‘make teabags and toothpaste glamorous’ – with a poem from a fellow Yorkshireman; "Tacita Dean, artist: ‘He gave us our family motto: Inspiration, She Does Not Visit The Lazy!"

Gordy Grundy: The Consummate Artist


Poundstone: About the Connection Between Hockney, Humbert Humbert, and "Pearblossom Highway"

CONDUCT UNBECOMING AN ARTIST

Here is a news story about a production designer on a film. She accepted the job and shook their hand and took their paycheck. Read this story and do exactly the opposite of this classless ingrate. Her conduct is unbecoming an Artist.


John Steppling: The People of Resolution; “In the context of this new movement, liminal spaces, including so-called backrooms, are a type of emotional space that conveys a sense of nostalgia, lostness, and uncertainty.“

Art, Death, Duchamp; For an artist who treated the material status of his works with striking nonchalance, Duchamp in his afterlife seems rather preoccupied with asserting control over the material world


Yau: The In-Between Worlds of Larissa Borteh; In the artist’s paintings, are we looking at plants in a state of beautiful decay, ghosts, deities, fairylands, or something from a dream?


Video: Making Art Is Not Easy; Sunday Nobody is a meme and prank artist; Documenting his "Hiding Handsome Squidward Under The Sea"

Vogue, the Magazine as Museum: 21 Vogue Editorials Inspired by Art

BOOKS + WORDS


Ted Gioia: How to Read the Great Books in 52 Weeks; Conversation on my humanities reading program

American Library in Paris, Storied collection of English-language books in the French capital, tracking its evolution and enduring role in a cosmopolitan literary milieu from World War I to the present day


Shoot the Sh*t With Jack Kerouac; In NYC, an exhibition of cherished letters, photographs, and talismans brings us into the daily life of the reluctant Beat Generation icon

Writers Are Fleeing The Substack Tax; New wave of writers is porting their publications to rivals like Ghost and Beehiiv

The Artist and the Revolutionary; Hunted by his enemies and haunted by his past, living in exile in Mexico City, Leon Trotsky began an ill-begotten affair with Frida Kahlo


In Hayv Kahraman’s ‘Ghost Fires,’ Grief Becomes a Living Ritual; Artist’s new works at Jack Shainman in New York channel fire, folktales and jinn to confront exile, despair and regeneration

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The Consummate Artist


"SPACE IS THE PLACE" at the Hammer; Afrofuturism-adjacent

Review: Blockbuster Take on Ovid’s “Metamorphosis”; Rijksmuseum exhibition raises questions about gender, sexuality, and transformation that it is not prepared to answer

JERRY GOGOSIAN: AN ANALYSIS OF A COG IN THE ART WHEEL

Mat Gleason Honors and Intuits the Impact of Jerry Gogosian and Touches Upon Art Derangement Syndrome

Friedman: "Like A Plucked Chicken" Hilde Lynn Helphenstein: The Red-Headed Stepchild of the Art World

ART BIZ

Tim Schneider: Sorry, But Pace’s Cutbacks Aren’t The Death Of Mega-Galleries

Trust-Based Funding Works. So Why Are Artists Still Living in Precarity? How do you make a living as an artist today? For too many, the answer is: you can't, at least not without juggling multiple jobs or relying on personal or generational wealth

Art Problems: WTF Is an A-Corp? What exactly is an Artist Corporation, and should you start one? Paddy Johnson has your back

MARSDEN HARTLEY


Marsden Hartley, Walt Whitman’s Houses

Now Online: Marsden Hartley Legacy Project Launches; First comprehensive catalogue, Complete Paintings and Works on Paper


Hartley and Duchamp On Background

Yau: Celia Paul Transcends Her Own Mythology; She puts her own spin on autobiography, exceeding her own cult status as a monastic artist


Kim Fay in Detroit: Christian Curiel at David Klein Gallery

ARCHITECTURE

Seattle Artists Breathe Life Into Houses Slated for Demolition; “We want to act as a little eddy in the stream of gentrification, giving these houses one last burst of life before they’re gone,” one of the organizers of “Once Removed” told Hyperallergic

Remembering The Shocking, Yet Largely Forgotten, Murders Connected To Frank Lloyd Wright That Scandalized The World

Inside Artist David Hockney’s Enduring Love Affair With California—and the Humble $181K L.A. Home He Turned Into a Living Work of Art

How Hitler's Plans For Germania Would Have Torn Berlin Apart; Hitler’s megalomaniacal project to raze much of Berlin and transform it into his global Nazi capital killed thousands

DESIGN


The Painted Book Cover Is Back; Recent shift toward figuration on book covers may reflect a broader desire for physical presence — proof of the artist’s hand in the digital age


Fabergé Cactus

NEON


Artist Lily Reeves Believes Neon is Magic; Can She Convert the Rest of Us?


Forthcoming Nevada Museum is a Refuge for Endangered Species: Vegas and Reno’s Neon Signs

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If You Love Dogs, Danger in Nature and Brad Pitt... Official Trailer 'Heart of the Beast'; From acclaimed filmmaker David Ayer; Starring Brad Pitt and retired combat dog, Odin


Video Mini-Doc: In Studio: Composer Ludwig Göransson and the Creation of His Score for 'The Odyssey'; Historical Instruments


A Green Day Comedy; Official Trailer 'Nimrods'; Written and Directed by Lee Kirk; Produced by Green Day; Starring Mason Thames, Kylr Coffman, Ryan Foust, and Mckenna Grace

Review: Steven Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ Is a Dud; In an era primed for a great UFO movie, the film arrives with impeccable timing and almost nothing interesting to say

Review: Spielberg's Sci-Fi 'Disclosure Day' Really is Afraid of The Truth


What Film Director Nicolas Winding Refn Learned When He Died and Came Back to Life; After a life-altering experience, the filmmaker reunited with video game creator Hideo Kojima for a Prada Mode installation in New York


Define Auteur: In defence of 'Under the Cherry Moon'; Story of how Prince fought tooth and nail to retain full control over his directorial debut, which, 40 years later, demands new attention




Our Film Critic Justin Tanner Reviews "Backrooms"


Our Film Critic Justin Tanner Reviews "The Sparrow In The Chimney"


Official Trailer 'Mexico 86'; Starring Diego Luna, Karla Souza, Daniel Giménez Cacho and Álvaro Guerrero; Luna stars as the man determined to bring the 1986 World Cup to Mexico


Official Trailer 'Best Boy'; Director by Jesse Noah Klein; Starring Aaron Abrams, Marc Bendavid and Mario Dallaire

Film Director Jafar Panahi Sentenced to Prison in Iran Over His Palme d’Or Winner ‘It Was Just an Accident’; (Film) shot in Iran without permits or approvals; Refused asylum, chose jail

'The Chain' Is Getting a TV Adaptation From Exceptional Director Michael Sarnoski ('Pig') And Damon Lindelof

Confounded Cannes. First Showing Review: Korean Director Na Hong-jin's 'Hope' is the Best AND Worst of Sci-Fi; There is both love and hate for this movie


1931 Tracking Shot from 'Svengali'; Directed by Archie Mayo; Starring John Barrymore

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