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How Betye Saar Came to Be; “You just have to pay attention to how you put things together,” the artist told Hyperallergic shortly before her death. “They’ll tell you if they fit."


Lawrence Weschler: "The Velásquez and the Zurbaran, ought to be seen as virtual companion pieces"; The Giant at The Prado Redux

One Fine Show: “Peggy Guggenheim in London, The Making of a Collector”; Long before she became one of the 20th Century's most celebrated collectors, she ran a small gallery on a London side street. This show celebrates her brief stint as an art dealer

Destination Crenshaw Was Supposed To Celebrate South L.A.’S Black Community, But Some Say It’s Become An Eyesore

Neighbors Have Issues With Destination Crenshaw

New Yorkers' Anthony Lane: How Golden Is Silence, Actually? A secret history of shutting up

Good Read. 'In Search of the Consolations of Age' by Theodore Dalrymple

Our One Percent 'Splainer, The Art Daddy: Daddy’s Summer of Discontent; David Zwirner and I are both on vacation, Daddy’s gone upstate, Larry Gagosian is Marie Kondo-ing his empire, and the art market needs a drink

ARCHITECTURE


Will Gamble Architects Adds "Explicitly Tropical" Extension To Grade-II Listed English Cottage


Fountainhead: Belinda Stewart Architects To Lead Preservation Project At Frank Lloyd Wright–Designed Home in Jackson, Mississippi

Architecture Doesn’t Just Reflect Society. It Determines Whether It Survives.; Architecture influences everything from birth rates and education to social equity, peacebuilding, and the long-term future of civilization

I Learned Exactly Why American Architects Stay Tight-Lipped About the Government; Design professionals have highly practical reasons to keep their opinions to themselves

ARCHITECTURE


New Book: How Charles and Ray Eames Designed a 10,000 Dollar ‘Supermarket’ House

ArtReview: Notes from New York: Spectral Architecture; In Chinatown, a new ‘jailscraper’ project includes retail space and art galleries for the general public, accomplishing – as farce – the abolitionist goal of making carcerality disappear


Rare Early Frank Gehry Home Is For Sale; Benson House is Gehry's only residence in Calabasas; To change hands for only the second time in its 45-year history; Prime example of Gehry’s Deconstructivist style concluded in 1981


Extremely Rare LA Adobe Home Hits the Market For Attractive Price — And It’s One Of Around 40 Left

PHOTOGRAPHY


Click Bait! Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award Winners – In Pictures


Nevada Wier Exhibition Reveals the Photographer's Extraordinary Vision For Exploring The World And Its Cultures; Her twist is a customized degree of infrared in her photography


New Book. Helen Levitt Captured the Poetry of New York City; New survey publication serves as a testament to the photographer’s belief that the city’s working-class communities of color possessed a beauty and drama all their own


ArtReview: Artist Sunhil Sippy Casts An Ambivalent Gaze On The Industrial Landscapes Of Mumbai’s East Coast

HAS TECH KILLED OUR SENSE OF WONDER?

Seeing Ghosts Good For You? How Unexplainable Experiences Changed People For The Better

Financial Times: Why Play Is At The Core of A Meaningful Life. And of Fly Fishing; The Grasshopper Was Right All Along

Another Gift From the Sages of Silicon Valley. Opinion: AI Companies Are Pulping Our Humanity; Recent revelation about Anthropic’s systematic digitization and destruction of out-of-print books portends a rapacious future, one where soulless LLMs swell while the shelves starve

ART & COMMERCE

Behind Every Museum Gift Is a Negotiation Both Sides Are Trying to Win; Underlying donations of paintings, sculptures, installations and video works are complicated questions about legacy and long-term control

SF Camerawork To Close After Five Decades, Citing ‘Changing Philanthropic Landscape’

San Diego Museum of Art Lays Off 11 Workers; Cuts impacted employees in departments including programs, development, exhibitions, and operations as the institution cited financial difficulties

Two Veteran London Galleries Call It Quits; Beers and Sid Motion will cease operations after a combined 24 years in business

Inside the Calvert Brothers’ Art Club for Everyone; With the NYC Culture Club, Clayton and Parker Calvert have been transforming public space, partnerships and persistence into a sustainable support system for artists

LAND ART

Michael Heizer Earth Art Ephemera

Calvin Tomkins, Janury 1972, New Yorker: Maybe a Quantum Leap; A critic crosses deserts and canyons to witness Michael Heizer, Walter De Maria, Robert Smithson, and Christo remake the landscape


Maine’s Sublime Canvas of Contradictions; "Every August, the public library in my hometown of Blue Hill, Maine holds a wet paint auction"

CERAMICS


Must See! This Turkish Artist Duo Mines History to Create Ceramics That Probe the Present Condition; Ertuğrul Güngör and Faruk Ertekin are the subject of their first European solo show with Anna Laudel gallery in Düsseldorf

ART CAR


Art Deco Collection Finds a Parking Spot; 30 deluxe French Art Deco cars from Peter Mullin's collection

Man Transforms a Yellow 1988 Ford Festiva Into the Thinnest Street-Legal Car

Inside Houston’s Art Car Community, Where Junk Cars Turn To Masterpieces


Inside The Greatest Gathering Of BMW’s Legendary Art Cars
From Calder, Stella and Warhol to Julie Mehretu, the landmark exhibition in Munich, Germany, reunites all 20 BMW Art Cars for the first time—the culmination of five decades of artistic vision, technological innovation and motorsport history

BODY ART


Meet the Tattoo Artists Who Champion Body Positivity; Young, queer, and non-White tattoo artists are exploring how the artform can complement the body’s natural curves and colors

Tattoo Artist Inking Arabic Script on Skin; New York-based artist Noore Yazigi’s designs reference everything from the Quran to the poetry of the late Palestinian writer Refaat Alareer


Raids, Fines and Secrecy: Inside The Hidden, Illegal World Of Tattooing In South Korea

BOOKS + WORDS

ArtReview: 'Oppenheimer': Christopher Nolan’s Biopic – For All Its Quantum Theory and Heady Bombast – reveals a man who understood that one’s finer choice in words can make all the difference

Book Prizes Don't Work How You Think; All the beans that's fit to spill

The End of Reading Is Here; Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history

Yale Review: AI and the Future of Writing; Roundtable of authors discuss the ramifications for art—and life; Writers Ayad Akhtar, Daniel Kehlmann, and Meghan O’Rourke

Free Press: Daniel Mendelsohn: The Immortal Appeal of ‘The Odyssey’

MONSIEUR NOUAR: LE FRANCAIS BUSTER KEATON

Paris. At Night.


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Whoa! Offical Trailer 'Sacrifice'; Directed by French filmmaker Romain Gavras (Son of Greek-French film director Costa-Gavras); Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Evans, Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Sam Richardson, Yung Lean, Ambika Mod, Charli XCX, and John Malkovich


If You Love Dogs and Brad Pitt, Making of Promo for New Thriller Dog Adventure 'Heart of the Beast'


Official Trailer 'Run Hide Fight: Infidels'; Islamic terrorists versus American vet; Coming exclusively to The Daily Wire news platform

Mel Gibson Says ‘Resurrection of the Christ’ Not in Aramaic Because the Story Is Too “Complex” for Subtitles


Does John Boorman’s ‘The Exorcist II: Heretic’ Deserve Reappraisal? New Doc (and Scorsese) Make the Case

Oleksinski: How Is The Mysterious New ‘Game Of Thrones’ Play? ‘Like Binge-Watching HBO Onstage’

Greta Lee Is Over Actors Giving ‘Two-Inch Performances’; The 'Past Lives' actor stars alongside Willem Dafoe as two bohemians aging out of New York's creative community in 'Late Fame'

ArtReview: 'Oppenheimer': Christopher Nolan’s Biopic – For All Its Quantum Theory and Heady Bombast – reveals a man who understood that one’s finer choice in words can make all the difference


Video: 15 Sci-Fi Box Office Bombs Destroyed By A Single Person




Our Film Critic Justin Tanner Reviews "The Invite"


Our Film Critic Justin Tanner Reviews "Amrum"


Long-Lost Film by French Cinema Pioneer Georges Méliès Turns Up in Michigan; 45-second film was donated to the Library of Congress, which has digitized the clip


'On the Beach' (1959): The Deleted Scene That Reveals How the War Actually Started

Follows: Do Diversely Cast Movies Really Make More Money? Answer says less about audiences than it does about how we measure


Exclusive First Look: Dakota Johnson and Ellen Burstyn Play Marilyn Monroe; Maggie Gyllenhaal wrote and directed the short film Flesh Impact, which is timed to Monroe’s 100th birthday and will play at the Venice Film Festival


Directors With Most Cuts Per Minute Include Tony Scott, Baz Luhrmann, Michael Bay — and Christopher Nolan?

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