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Jordan Wolfson’s New Virtual Reality 'Little Room' Is Peak Body Horror; I cannot unsee what I saw in “Little Room,” the artist’s ambitious new work at the Fondation Beyeler; Clever Use of VR



From Natural and Political Disaster, She Became One Of America’s Great Artists; Miyoko Ito Survived An Earthquake, Incarceration And Illness. Her transporting paintings defied ideas about abstract art


Justice! Two Men Jailed for Theft of Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.1 Million Gold Toilet; 18-karat gold loo, titled "America," was stolen from Blenheim Palace in September 2019



Ben Davis: Here’s My Personal Method for Seeing an Art Show, If You Want to Get the Most Out of It; Three-and-a-half step program


Frieze: The Rise of the Anonymous Critic; As secret voices on platforms such as 'spittle' and 'Hollywood Superstar Review' shake up cyberspace, Sam Moore examines the rewards and risks of masked critique



‘Sometimes He Cast Spells Over Them’: The Raging Beauty of Filmmaker Derek Jarman’s Black Paintings; From his unfinished film about a murdered director to a stunning series of doomy oil paintings, Derek Jarman’s work could be angry, dark and disturbing – not to mention highly relevant in these bleak times



Painter Grace Hartigan’s Artistic Kinship with Midcentury Poets



Verso: Campbell Kids From Ed Ruscha



ArtReview: Salman Toor’s Night Vision; 'Wish Maker' at Luhring Augustine Chelsea & Tribeca, New York


New Book: How a Street Peddler Fooled Some of Manhattan’s Biggest Art Collectors — And Killed Off The City’s Oldest Art Gallery, Knoedler & Co.
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Marley Freeman Is Making Abstraction Cool Again; Artist talks about how her experiences in the textile industry still shape her work and life


Donald Judd Historic District in Marfa, Texas, Added to National Register



Painter Heidi Hahn on Art, Insecurity, and the Unseen Body; Digging into the process behind "Not Your Woman," seen recently at Michael Kohn in L.A.


EXPERIENTIAL

Exploring the Sensory-Rich Colors of Mexico by Fantasy Lab

Blue Man Group Celebrates 25 Weird, Wild And Influential Years in Las Vegas


New Immersive Experience by Hermès Asks You to Crack an Equestrian Mystery; The French luxury house transforms a New York pier into a theatrical maze of secret passages, oversized carrots, and saddle-strewn rooms—inviting guests to play detective


ART NOIR

Works by Pissarro, Renoir, and Avercamp Vanished. Here’s How an Amateur Art Sleuth Cracked the Case; For 43 years, police were stumped—until the dashing, enigmatic Clifford Schorer III went searching for clues online

Inside Peter Paul Rubens’s Secret Life as a Spy; Baroque master earned himself major commissions by leveraging his political connections; Rubens’s illustrious side-job career as a Holy Roman Empire diplomat

Jim Morrison’s Stolen Graveside Bust Recovered After 37 Years; Sculpture went missing in 1988 under mysterious circumstances

Podcast: The French Lesbian Curator and Spy Who Saved Art From the Nazis; Author Michelle Young joins Hrag Vartanian to discuss her new book, which uncovers astonishing findings about the World War II hero


Close Look at Caravaggio’s Last Painting; Just two paintings are in The Last Caravaggio, both in perplexed mourning over their subject matter, and both emerging from dark places



Sculptor Elyn Zimmerman and Her Monumental 'Palisades,' 1981


BOOKS + WORDS

Stephen King Once Gave George R.R. Martin The Perfect Advice For His Writer's Block ... ... See the Video


It’s the Best of Times for Dickens Fans! A New Show Spotlights Rarities Linked to the Author; Rare portraits of a young Dickens, private letters, and personal effects will go on show in at the author's former residence

Here’s What Bothers Me About How ‘Paris in Ruins’ Rewrites Impressionist History; Review of Sebastian Smee’s 'Sebastian Smee, Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism'

Tosh Berman: 'Love, Joe: The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard', Prose writer, poet, and artist

17 SNL Writers Remember the First Sketch They Got on the Air; Live from New York, it’s an oral history featuring Colin Jost, Chevy Chase, Sarah Silverman, and more talking about their earliest days at 30 Rock


Jean-Patrick Manchette: Inside the Decades-Long Effort to Bring a Master of French Crime Fiction to American Readers




Must See! Yau: Tim Hawkinson Makes the Ordinary Otherworldly; Recent paintings of everyday life transcend the literal without becoming overtly symbolic; This is the tight rope he walks; 'Tim Hawkinson: Cabinet Pictures' at Miles McEnery Gallery


Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh's Dark Comedy ‘The Christophers' to World Premiere at TIFF; About "the estranged children of an artist who hire a forger to complete his unfinished works"



Noah Davis at the Hammer



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Lynn Hershman Leeson’s ‘Of Humans, Cyborgs and AI’ at the Nevada Museum of Art; With her usual characteristic foresight, the artist addresses the ways in which technology and bureaucracy hollow out our humanity



Review; Jim Shaw Peels Back American Pop Culture’s Facade; More you connect the dots in his work, the more the insidious and catastrophic work of the US government, law enforcement, and military come to the fore



Bold New Museum Enters the New York Landscape in 2026, Promising ‘Good Art, Good Food, and Good Drinks’; Opening in 2026 in New York, Canyon will be purpose-built to showcase video, sound, performance, and other time-based art



The Art Daddy's Weekly Gossip Wrap-Up: Basel, Ghostings, and the Great Summer Migration; Anna Weyant’s Disney Detour; Jerry Gogosian Signs Off: When Meme Critique Meets Burnout; Frieze House Seoul Sounds Like Fyre Festival; Ana Mendieta’s Estate Just Leveled Up with Marian Goodman



Wild Genius of Joe Coleman Comes Alive in a Double Spotlight; Artist is enjoying outings at Jeffrey Deitch and in the film "How Dark My Love," screening at the Tribeca Film Festival



FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES


All In A Day’s Work: Hauser & Wirth Showing Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ “Untitled” (Go-Go Dancing Platform) at Art Basel 2025


Felix Navidad Post Office; Snapshot Christmas card Felix Gonzalez-Torres sent to MoMA curator Anne Umland


All The Gonzalez-Torreses In San Francisco


Video: Conversation with Artist Tom Burr on Felix Gonzalez-Torres and the Aesthetic, Political, and Social Intersections They Charted


DIGITAL ART WORLD


Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt: AI Companies Want To Legalize Theft; Big Tech’s newest products would be worth $0 without everyone’s data, but they don’t want to pay for it

Who Was Joan Shogren, the Secretary Who Pioneered Computer Art? Her nephew has been working to get his aunt suitably recognized with her own Wikipedia page

Major Newspaper Publishes a Summer Reading List—But the Books Don't Exist; AI disaster is getting worse—and a new survey of 48,000 people in 47 countries makes clear that the public is fed up' "It’s a shame that Isabel Allende never wrote this book. Nor did anyone else—the book simply doesn’t exist"


GOOD GIGS

KAWS Designs the Album Cover for 'Let God Sort 'Em Out'; Produced by Pharrell; Recorded at Louis Vuitton Headquarters

Turkish Airlines and Refik Anadol's Doc 'Inner Portrait' Trailer - About First Time Travelers

Mexico’s Legendary Artist Francisco Toledo Crafted a Design-Driven Tequila Vessel Like No Other; In one of his final creative acts, Francisco Toledo partnered with Maestro Dobel® Tequila to create a sculptural ode to Oaxaca’s craft and spirit—now available as a rare collectible


ARCHITECTURE


Book Excerpt: Hitler’s Three-Hour Architectural Tour of Paris; His first and last trip to the city in 1940 was not for military purposes — he left that to his generals — but for his one true love: Art

Bizarre Plan For World’s First Spacescraper That Will Be Built Upside Down and Dangle From Asteroid Over Dubai; Residents of this futuristic skyscraper will even get an extra 45 minutes of sunlight


First Images of 2025 Serpentine Pavilion Revealed


Video: Serpentine Pavilion Reflects the "Ephemerality and Temporality" of Bangladesh


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Official Trailer 2 'Weapons'; Directed by Zach Cregger; Starring Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, with Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan


Official Trailer Two 'Eddington'; Written and Directed by Ari Aster; Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O'Connell, Micheal Ward, with Austin Butler and Emma Stone


Official Teaser 'Eden'; Based on a True Story; Directed by Ron Howard; Starring Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby, Daniel Brühl, and Sydney Sweeney


No Fincher. ‘The Social Network Part II’ In Works at Sony With Aaron Sorkin Set To Write and Direct; Pic Is Inspired by WSJ’s ‘The Facebook Files’; "...Facebook’s effect on teens, preteens, violence and countries outside the U.S."


’28 Years Later’ and the iPhone: Everything You Need to Know About How the $60 Million Film Was Shot; Nine keys to how Danny Boyle and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle shot the innovative sequel, as told to IndieWire


How ’28 Years Later’ Sets Up for Its Sequel, ‘The Bone Temple’; Spoilers: Director Danny Boyle walks IndieWire through the ending of his latest zombie thriller — and how it feeds directly into Nia DaCosta's 2026 sequel, "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple"


Video: 'Shooting on Film' Final Featurette for 'Jurassic World: Rebirth' Movie

Denis Villeneuve (Dune I and II, Blade Runner 2049, Arrival) Directing Next James Bond Film; "I’m a die-hard Bond fan. To me, he’s sacred territory"

Modern Film Marketing: A24 Launches a Membership Program - 'AAA24' with Movie Tickets

Apple Drops a 'Haptic' Feel Trailer for the 'F1' Movie For Your Phone; iPhone vibrates like a Formula 1


Apple Test-Drives Big-Screen Movie Strategy With 'F1'; Tech company’s theatrical programming business is in need of a win. Early reviews suggest its new Brad Pitt racing film could provide it

Film School: Why Our Critic Justin Tanner Recommends This Classic! ‘The Endless’ (2017)
Brothers Justin and Aaron (played by the filmmakers Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead) escaped from a U.F.O. Death cult ten years ago, and their lives have been stagnating ever since.
Loveless, sexless and seemingly without prospects for a future, they fumble about in a daze, cleaning houses for pennies and longing for a life outside the grim reality they find themselves in.
Luckily (or not) the arrival of a mysterious video tape offers a possible escape from their malaise.
But it also entails returning to the scene of their earlier trauma: Camp Aurora, the commune in the remote California woods where something huge and unknowable lurks just out of sight.
Directors Benson and Moorhead, whose impressive filmography includes the Lovecraftian romance “Spring,” the druggy, time-traveling epic “Synchronic” and the mind-bending, cosmic-horror “Something in the Dirt”, have concocted here a unique and utterly believable vision of hell where a distant, punishing God (not unlike the Catholic version I grew up with), treats his followers like a bratty kid burning insects with a magnifying glass:
Believe in him and enjoy the fruits of a rich and lovely life. Deny him and face the visceral consequences of eternal damnation.
With minimal violence and a series of confounding visions that only hint at the unimaginable cruelties lurking in the periphery, “The Endless” is a tightly written, slow burn nightmare of unrelenting dread that turns the idea of immortality into an unspeakable horror. ~Justin Tanner
Streaming on Peacock


Trailer: ‘The Endless’ (2017)




Official Trailer 'Before Dawn;' 1950's Roman Film Production; Directed by Saverio Costanzo; Starring Lily James, Willem Dafoe, Rachel Sennott, Joe Keery, Alba Rohrwacher, Michele Bravi, and introducing Rebecca Antonaci


Official Trailer No. 2 'East Of Wall'


Filmmaker Justine Bateman on AI's impact on Hollywood and film

Double Trouble: Can IP Impresario James Gunn Really Make Two Separate Batman Movies Work? It’s suggested that the Gunn-produced 'The Brave and the Bold' will be set within the DCU while Matt Reeves’s sequel to 'The Batman' will exist as a DC Elseworlds story

Podcast: Screenwriter Scott Z. Burns Examines Using A.I. To Write ‘Contagion 2’ In Fascinating New Audible Podcast; Experiment Using AI; Including filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, “Contagion” actors, Laurence Fishburne, Jennifer Ehle, and the film’s composer Cliff Martinez


Some of the Best Sound Design This Year Is in a Documentary About Marlee Matlin; Director Shoshannah Stern tells IndieWire about the exciting creative opportunities she found in her documentary "Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore"


How Do You Know What To Shoot?: On William Wyler and John Sturges’s “Thunderbolt”

The Endangered Art of Cinema is International; French Arts Chancellor Xavier Darcos: “French Awakening Must Create Bridges With Youth”


Fascinating Read! Film Editor Pietro Scalia on Editing for Bernardo Bertolucci, the Beauty of Keanu Reeves, and Collaborating with Ryuichi Sakamoto


Trailer for Uruguayan Filmmaker Lucía Garibaldi’s "A Bright Future" Introduces a Sci-Fi Adventure


Interview Wes Anderson: ‘You’re Hoping for the Right Accident’; Little White Lies and Hannah Strong speak to the mastermind behind 'The Phoenician Scheme' about family, fathers-in-law, and the great, grand plan of all things Wes Anderson

'I Love Lucy’s Other Half; Raised as a prince in pre-Guevara Cuba, Desi Arnaz fled to America and revolutionized the TV industry with Lucille Ball—but he couldn’t escape the trauma of his youth


Official Trailer 'Sovereign'; Starring Nick Offerman, Dennis Quaid and Jacob Tremblay


Trailer: Directorial Debut of Actress Kristin Scott Thomas; Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, Emily Beecham in Comedy 'My Mother's Wedding'


Official Trailer 'Roofman'; Crime and crazy love, based on an unbelievable true story; Directed by American filmmaker Derek Cianfrance ('Blue Valentine', 'A Place Beyond the Pines'); Starring Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst




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