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John Tottenham, Short Fiction: 'Winter in Cincinnati,' Alien paths and irrelevant junketings

Burning Man Noir: Are Cops Any Closer To Solving The Mysterious Burning Man Murder A Year After Grisly Crime?

Bianca Jagger Says: The Three Titans of Art Who Shaped My Life – And Reshaped The World; Deaths of Georg Baselitz, David Hockney and Yayoi Kusama mark the end of an era. All three were creating masterpieces until the very end

Little L.A. and the New Gringos; Deported by Trump after decades in the U.S., Mexican-born immigrants are being treated as foreigners back home. But in Mexico City’s Little L.A., they’re finding work—and one another


Our One Percent 'Splainer, The Art Daddy: Daddy’s Last Known Whereabouts Before September; Yayoi Kusama leaves us, the Hamptons lose their minds, Magnus climbs a mountain and Phillips enters its Chuck E. Cheese era. Rhossi gets a doctor’s note and Daddy discovers an art world turducken

Blake Gopnik: Why Andy Warhol Couldn't Capture Dolly Parton; Andy Warhol’s images of Parton don’t strike me as up to the level of his best society portraits; they aren’t quite worthy of the singer’s complex excellence

The Family Flowers Behind Chanel’s Signature Scent; Cult-classic perfume Chanel No. 5 is made with roses and jasmine from Joseph Mul’s estate in Grasse, France


Artist Samella Lewis (1923–2022) in Claremont


New Richard Estes Survey Proves There’s More to Photorealism Than Meets the Eye; Movement's most devoted practitioner is still covering new ground in his latest show at Schoelkopf Gallery


Michelangelo Made His First Masterpiece When He Was 12 Years Old; Is This the Painting?


Fragrance Designer Francis Kurkdjian Presents Perfume as a Sculpture of the Invisible at Palais de Tokyo; Conceived as an “olfactory promenade;" Smell, see, and listen their way through more than ten key “movements” in Kurkdjian’s practice

DESIGN


How Does It Feel? Peter Saville’s Color Code; From his New Order album covers; Video


Must Read. Rainey Knudson: No.151, Nail Salon; The Small Mercy of Being Touched


An Ode to Vintage Book Design

Ikea’s New ‘Konstrunda’ Collection Is Art For Every Home; Andu Masebo and Lisa Reiser are among seven artists and designers bringing their distinctive approaches to a new Ikea collection that asks what art in the home can be

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDITOR


Gordy Grundy: Breaking News + Opinion
Like Quarreling Lovers, The Chicken and The Egg
Leapin' Lari Pittman Saves the Day!

Lawrence Weschler: Documentary Filmmaker Adam Curtis on the American Pop-Cultural Taproots of The Entire 9/11 Debacle, Part 1 of 3; See the video collaboration with Curtis and Massive Attack


Must Look. Exquisite Violence of Altadena-based Artist James Griffith; LA, Tar and the Birth of the Universe

'Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatan,' by Robert Smithson, Artforum, September 1969; A report on the artist’s feelings of physical and temporal dislocation on a road trip through the Maya heartlands

Victor Davis Hanson: The Western Way of Reason; On the intellectual legacy of ancient Greece and Rome

ART & COMMERCE

Aussie Artist CJ Hendry, Price Laddering and a New Collecting Model for the Kidulting Economy; With offerings that include $1 beads and five-figure drawings, the Australian artist is blurring the boundaries between retail and the art market

WNDR Museum Closing After 8 Years; Immersive, experiential; Features a variety of Instagram-worthy installations will shut down Sept. 7

The New Economics of the Art Book; Publisher Gerhard Steidl’s financial difficulties prompted predictions of a wider collapse in art-book publishing. Interviews with publishers, editors and collectors suggest a different picture: not an industry in decline, but one undergoing a profound economic transformation

Schneider: It’s Time For Masterworks To Walk The Walk; Now is the moment for fractional art ownership’s giant to prove its model fully scales, ArtTactic’s data shows


Curious Case of the AIR Festival in Aspen; On the small town-fication of art

Review: “Chuck Ramirez: Ordinary Wonders” at The Momentary, Bentonville

MONSIEUR NOUAR: LE FRANCAIS BUSTER KEATON

Hotel Breakfast Ends at 10AM

AI-Powered Forgeries Plague Art World

Fraudsters Use AI to Fake Artwork Authenticity And Ownership; Chatbots forge convincing sales invoices and other documents, say industry figures

Podcast: The Magic of ‘The Artist’s Way’; Author Julia Cameron on the rituals that unlock creativity, and the new tools she's adding to the mix; First published in 1992


Rainey Knudson: No. 25: Kukui Nut Lei; Symbol of shapeshifting power; "Their love affair is war; their war is creation"; God Kamapua'a and Goddess Pele

The Stellar Stoic: You Still Have Time, Pt. II

In the Face of European Colonization, Aboriginal Artists Created Images of Powerful Beings, Study Finds


Kim Fay in Detroit: Khary Mason 'Friendly Fire' at Irwin House Detroit; By multidisciplinary artist and former Homicide Detective Khary Mason

The Innovation That’s Killing Restaurant (and Cinema and Art Gallery) Culture; Delivery has turned America into a nation of order-inners


Review: Raychael Stine’s 'Falls and Springs and Stardust Thing'; Chimerical Colors at Cris Worley Fine Arts in Dallas

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Offical Trailer 'Fjord'; Directed by two⁠-⁠time Palme d'Or winner Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu; Starring Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve, with Lisa Carlehed


Offical Trailer 'The Social Reckoning'; Written and Directed by Aaron Sorkin​​; Starring Jeremy Strong, Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Wunmi Mosaku, Betty Gilpin, Billy Magnussen, with Bill Burr


From the Very Interesting Indian Market. Wild and Beautiful. Offical Trailer 'Toxic: A Fairytale for Grown-Ups'; Directed by Geetu Mohandas; Starring Yash

Quick Look Video: Official Selections From the Venice Film Festival 2026

‘Hooters: The Movie’ In The Works About Chicken-Wing Eatery’s Origins


‘The Devils’: Everything You Need to Know About the Unlikely Restoration of Ken Russell’s Scandalous, Sexually Charged Film; 15 years after Russell's death, the director's cut of his notorious and censored epic is one of 2026's most anticipated releases


‘The Rivals of Amziah King’: Matthew McConaughey Stars in One of the Best Movies of the Year (That You Don’t Know About)

‘The Rivals of Amziah King’: Matthew McConaughey’s Comeback Undercut by Reshoots, Distribution Woes, and Too Much Movie


Hollywood Encore: How ‘Pro-Shot’ Broadway Shows Became a Major Draw On The Big Screen; Filmed versions of hit shows such as Hadestown, Hamilton and SIX have been transformed into cinematic events for those without hundreds to spend on tickets

Paul Schrader’s ‘The Basics of Philosophy’ First Look, Martin Scorsese Boards as Executive Producer

Copyright Is for Suckers: A Brief History of Unofficial Movie Sequels

How Taylor Sheridan Built a $1B TV Empire, Without Needing Hollywood, A-listers or Emmys

The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores; Decades before recommendation algorithms, video stores served as social hubs where conversation and camaraderie became a form of taste-making as social hubs where conversation and camaraderie became a form of taste-making


Esquire: A Monday with Brad Pitt; He Likes AI for Many Reasons


Official Trailer 'Los Vampires' (2026); Written and Directed by Craig Mitchell. At Universal, in 1931, the famous film 'Dracula' starring Bela Lugosi was shot on the same sets that were used at night to recreate a Spanish-language version with a different cast and director. Strange things happended.


Official Trailer 'Jimmy'; 1948, Harlem writer James Baldwin goes to Paris. Artist navigating the world; Written and Directed by Yashaddai Owens; Starring Benny O. Arthur


From the Guy Ritchie IP and Netflix. Official Teaser 'The Gentlemen: Season 2'

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