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Betye Saar, Who Opened Portals Between Worlds, Dies at 99 Her visionary assemblages recast the debris of American history into monuments of Black resilience and liberation

LACMA Video: 'Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business'



Yau: The Sunflower Effect of Kyung-Me; Artist’s current series marks a shift in her practice, evoking the life span of a sunflower — from blooming to dying, from sharply defined forms to rivulets of dissolution


The Face: Edward Lucie Smith on Andy Warhol; Glitterati’s favourite image maker



Dash Snow's 'Surrender Dorothy', 2026



Success Stories: Frieze Artist Award Winners; Artists championed across 15+ years of the Frieze Artist Award, from Jordan Wolfson to Lauren Halsey, and Sung Tieu to Abbas Zahedi
ART & COMMERCE

Hauser & Wirth Announces Opening Show “Calder | O’Keeffe” at New Location in Palo Alto

Art advisor and curator Victoria Mouraux Durand-Ruel to Open New Chelsea Gallery during Armory Week

David Zwirner Exits New York’s Upper East Side

Why the Destination Art Fair Is Here to Stay; From St. Moritz to Gstaad, from Capri to the Berkshires, from Punta del Este to Joshua Tree, smaller, boutique fairs are setting up shop where collectors already are



Illustrator Akiko Stehrenberger’s Explosive Movie Poster Art; Stehrenberger’s ability to capture the essence of a film in a single image has made her one of the most sought-after poster designers in the industry


When Fine Art Takes To The Stage; Theatrical design utilizes principles akin to fine art painting



Video: Artist Jeff Weiss 'The East Side"


What One Angeleno Learned From a Six-Week Bender With the Downtown NY Art Scene; Sammy Loren landed in New York, straight into a melting pot of disruptors, dirtbags, and disillusioned artists. Here's what happened next


'Proudly Making Art Since 13,000 BC' Hidden Charcoal Reveals The True Age of Ancient Cave Paintings; Scientists have finally revealed the true ages of mysterious prehistoric paintings in a famous French cave


ARCHITECTURE


Must See. Official Archi-Biopic Doc Trailer 'Schindler Space Architect'; Directed by Bulgarian Filmmaker Valentina Ganeva; Narration by Meryl Streep, with Udo Kier

Incredible SF Cliffside Complex Once Home To Frida Kahlo Hits Market for $8M

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater: Everything You Need to Know; History, Material Palette, Renovations, Challenges


When Great Architecture Dies, It Becomes Art; Jinhua Architecture Park was once a global showcase for Ai Weiwei, Herzog & de Meuron, Wang Shu, and Tatiana Bilbao. Its slow decay may be the project's greatest achievement



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Lawrence Weschler: Which Is Denser, the Milky Way Or The Human Arm? Recent massive photomosaic of the galaxy; Experts weigh in.


Picasso "Centaur" Back on View at LACMA



Vermont-based Painter Altoon Sultan Makes Small Tempera Paintings of Farm Equipment That Hover Between Realism And Abstraction


Endless Matinee at the Lucas; Details on its inaugural film programming



[Editor's Note: I want one of these so badly, I think I deserve one.] Matthew Porter 'Flying Cars' from M+B Gallery


Fascinating Story. BBC's Fake or Fortune Uncovers 'Enormously Important' Painting Worth £100,000



Free Online Archive Lets You Explore 5.8 Million Works of Art Spanning 5,000 Years of History; Search features; Billed as “the largest search engine for museum art”


The Stellar Stoic: What This Philosophy Is Here For; Was Odysseus a Stoic?


MONSIEUR NOUAR: LE FRANCAIS BUSTER KEATON


So Wrong and So Right. Love Is Just Seconds Away.


BOOKS + WORDS

"We Always Leave Things Unfinished" William T. Vollmann is dying. In his Sacramento studio, he talks America, unfinished work, and the 3,096-page opus he finished just in time

From Burma to Big Brother: George Orwell’s Best Books – Ranked! From frontline reporting to a trailblazing comic novel and a prophetic dystopia, which of Eric Blair’s books is the best?

New Criterion: Desert-Island Reading; On a Few Works From The Desert-Island Genre of Literature

Great Americans: David Mamet on America’s First Pop Poet; Forget Walt Whitman. America’s greatest bard wrote songs

An Ordinary Mind on an Ordinary Day; What novelists can teach neuroscientists about consciousness


PHOTOGRAPHY


Kim Faye in Detroit: Photographer Rob Kangas at Hatch Art; 'Looking Forward, Looking Back'

Berlin on Camera: 100 Years of Photography and the Press


Lost Cecil Beaton and Lee Miller Photos Turn Up in Old Scrapbook; Compiled by the photographers' assistant

Hidden History of Stock Photography; In her first book, scholar Simona Supekar mines the history of stock imagery as a vessel for racism and sexism and considers its role in the age of AI


Photographers Man Ray and Max Dupain Surrealism – In Pictures




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Official Trailer 'It Ends'; Directed by Alexander Ullom; Starring all newcomers Phinehas Yoon, Akira Jackson, Noah Toth, and Mitchell Cole


Favorite of Luca Guadagnino; Masterpiece of West African Cinema; Official Trailer 4K Restoration 'Samba Traore' (1992); Directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo; Starring Starring Bakary Sangaré, Mariam Kaba, and Abdoulaye Komboudri

San Diego Comic-Con: Marvel Reveals Ryan Gosling as Ghost Rider, David Jonsson to star as Black Panther


Welcome the Heroes: Alamo Drafthouse to Resurrect Iconic Hollywood Dome Theater

Darren Aronofsky Raising Cash For His AI Film Studio (Exclusive); Primordial Soup, which launched last year, quietly filed with the SEC for a $15 million raise

Leverage Indie Film Has Never Had To Build, On Display At The Industry Gatherings That Are Reshaping What Counts As Proof In Hollywood; What’s a CAA? VidCon, Cannes Lions, and Hard Questions

Stephen Follows: Why Are Hollywood Movies Bad? What does the data say? Five rules Hollywood Execs have to live by

Vanity Fair Interview: Lin-Manuel Miranda Explores Incels, Porn Addiction, and Cancel Culture in His New Film 'Octet'; Horrors of the Digital Age


‘The Odyssey’: The Feelgood Film of the Year: Christopher Nolan’s adaptation goes for modern psychology over textual ‘fidelity’, eschewing not just the silliness of toga-clad deities perched in the heavens, says Beatrice Loayza, but the itchiness of dogmatic truths

Last Week, Our Film Critic Justin Tanner Smartly Reviewed "The Odyssey"

Stephen Follows: Does the Black List Find Talent or Launch It? "Includes 103 films that grossed more than $100m each"


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