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Gimmicks of Future Past; Throttling Art’s Productive Force; Undemanding works designed to adorn the gallery-white walls of the superrich; Walter Robinson's "Zombie Formalism"

How Effective is Art as a Conduit of Change? Writers and curators Osei Bonsu, Okwui Enwezor, L.A. Kauffman, Rob Sharp, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Zheng Bo respond

ARTISTS WHO FILM


Hauser & Wirth Superstar, Harmony Korine's ‘Baby Invasion'; Described as an interactive home invasion thriller; Invaders' faces appear as babies ... ... Polarizing Reviews, Click Here


An Infinite, Unbreakable Cycle of Buying and Selling; The way these classical Ab Ex artworks are positioned for sale;"The auction catalogue essay is an underappreciated genre of art writing"


Dorothea Tanning Explored New Worlds Through Collage; Tanning’s practice shows that there is always another door to open, a new world to explore, and that art offers us another possible existence


REM Frontman Michael Stipe on Bruce Nauman’s Living and Breathing Sculpture 'A Cast of the Space Under my Chair'


Kim Fay in Detroit: Curious World: Storied Works of Madeleine Barkey and Sandra Cardew at Hatch Art


‘I Would Imagine Some Little Child Like Me’: The Eternal Youth of Yoshitomo Nara; Newest exhibition, on view at the Guggenheim Bilbao, is the most significant survey of the artist in Europe

Internet Randoms Fact-Check "Museum of Jurassic Technology"; Culver City institution is a deadpan travesty of the authority of museums, science, and experts; Segment of the online public remains troubled by the museum, its ambiguity, and its continued existence


Smart Seating Stuffed Animals: Luxury Beanbags Enliven the Runway for Bottega Veneta; Creative director Matthieu Blazy combined childhood reveries, the wild kingdom, and extremely cushy seating for the Summer 2025 runway

‘I Was Always a Rebel’: Artist and Actor Paz de la Huerta on Her Startling Debut Exhibition; Paz de la Huerta channels her complex narrative of tragedies and triumphs into her art. Her debut exhibition is now on view in Paris


Melanie Pullen “High Fashion Crime Scenes” at William Turner Gallery


Gordy Grundy: Who is Ed Emshwiller? CalArts Legend? Video Pioneer? And How Is He Related to Coppola's ‘Megalopolis’?

OLLY, OLLY, OLAFUR

Knight Review: Review: Artist Olafur Eliasson’s Thrilling New L.A. Show Whips Up Magic To Pry Open Perception


LACMA on Fire: Olafur Eliasson at MOCA

Olafur Eliasson’s New Work Will Have You Questioning Your Eyesight; Unusual public artwork will be beamed across Times Square and Piccadilly Circus


Music Video: See Artist Olafur Eliasson Dance! Peggy Gou - 1+1=11 (Official Video)


An Artist's Dream Assignment! Lee Bul’s Synthetic Angels of History; Her sculptures for The Met’s facade commission look like they’ve always been there, Frankensteined in the bowels of the museum’s ethnographic collections

AI: BOON OR BANE?

Provoke? Or Saving On Labor? Relaunched Newspaper London Standard to Feature AI-Written Review ‘By’ Dead Art Critic Brian Sewell; ‘Experimental review’ ‘to provoke discussion’ about AI and journalism


Artificial intelligence helps uncover 303 new geoglyphs in Nazca desert; Lrge number of new shapes, almost as many as those found during the entire last century, allows researchers to offer an explanation about their function

ART WRITERS WHO DON'T USE AI

The Rabkin Foundation Just Doled Out Another $400,000 to Art Critics; In a time of precarity, eight critics have received unrestricted $50,000 grants


Art Critic Holland Cotter Donates His $50,000 Rabkin Prize; It's the first time any recipient has passed the prestigious prize along

Ai Weiwei Speaks Out After His Sculpture Is Destroyed by Notorious Serial Vandal; Artist says he was approached by the vandal two days before the incident took place; 57-year-old Czech man also conked Marina Abramovic with a painting; Burned a draping covering David in Florence; Spray painted work of Urs Fischer installed in Piazza della Signoria

Matthew Barney’s Time Has Come Again; Misunderstood for decades, the sculptor and filmmaker is pushing ceramic to its limits. He’s dancing. He’s making the best work of his career

Doc Review: 'Shunga' Might Just Convince You That Pornography Is Art; Director Junko Hirata delves deep into the history and influence of the pornographic art form without cheap tittering at its illicit imagery

Beyond authenticity; In her final unfinished work, Hannah Arendt mounted an incisive critique of the idea that we are in search of our true selves

Reality of Being a New York Artist; Defying scholarly conventions, Marin Kosut’s latest book takes a searingly honest look at the “impossibility of New York” and the barriers artists face

In "Dream On Baby," 33 Artists Recollect How Their Early Years Have Shaped Their Creative Practices; Marina Abramović, Ai Weiwei, and 31 Other Artists Reveal Moving Childhood Memories in a New Book


Jasper Conran’s Guide to Tangier; British designer and hotelier shares his favorite spots in the Moroccan coastal city


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Official Red Band Trailer 'Rumours' Director Guy Maddin Romps with the G7; Starring Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, and Charles Dance; Executive Produced by Ari Aster


Official Trailer 'Sinners' Ryan Coogler, Director of “Black Panther” and “Creed”; Starring Michael B. Jordan as Twin Brothers, Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O’Connell and Delroy Lindo; Shot in IMAX, Music Composer Ludwig Göransson; Film Journo Jordan Ruimy writes "We gather that it’s set in 1920's Jim Crow South, and that vampires and the KKK are involved in the story."


Official Trailer 'Blitz' Written and Directed by Sir Steve McQueen; Starring Saoirse Ronan


Review: 'The Room Next Door' Almodóvar’s Graceful Exploration of Mortality and Friendship; Pedro Almodovar’s first English-language feature offers a philosophical view of euthanasia with its gentle story two old friends, played by Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, navigating the realities of death


First Trailer for Oscar-Winning Doc Filmmaker Asif Kapadia's New '2073' About Climate Change and Our Dystopian Future (and Present)

Producer Christine Vachon: It's “Tragic" and “Criminal" Joaquin Phoenix “Wasted" Todd Haynes' Valuable Time; Phoenix and His History of Imperious Behavior ... ... What Scared Phoenix? Todd Haynes' Producers Discussing Potential Lawsuit Against Joaquin Phoenix; “Full-frontal and explicit gay sex;” Phoenix: "No, let’s go further with the sex!”


Sight and Sound Review: 'Firebrand' Alicia Vikander gives her finest performance yet; Brazilian-Algerian director Karim Aïnouz makes his English-language feature debut with a distinctive period piece starring Alicia Vikander as Katherine Parr, sixth and last wife of Henry VIII (Jude Law)

Francis Ford Coppola: ‘Hollywood Doesn’t Want Me Any More’; The dramatic unfulfilled exhibition ideas of ‘Megalopolis’

Video: Francis Ford Coppola is in the 100th Legendary Vidéo Club; Discusses 'The Godfather,' 'Apocalypse Now,' and 'Dracula'


What a Premise! Must See! Official Trailer 'The Black Sea' Directed by Crystal Moselle and Derrick B. Harden; Unanimous praise from critics at SXSW


Trailer "Maria' Starring Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas


Official Trailer 'A Real Pain' Starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin; Written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg


Official Doc Trailer 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat' Sundance award winner; Jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the United Nations Security Council in 1960; Director Johan Grimonprez explores a moment when jazz, colonialism, and espionage collided


FILM SCHOOL with JUSTIN TANNER: “The Strange Woman” (1946)
Though Edward G. Ulmer directed dozens of Poverty Row cheapies in his career, his reputation primarily rests on two films…

Interview: Pedro Almodóvar: ‘Life needs fiction to make it bearable’; Spanish film-maker on the raw, real life experiences behind his first collection of short stories; Scriptwriting vs Fiction writing


Official Trailer 'The Room Next Door'; Starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore; Almodovar's First English Language Film


‘Vermiglio’ Review: Italy’s Award-Winning Oscar Submission Is A Sprawling, Ambitious Family Chronicle; Trailer

Venice Review: Kevin Costner Is Going Strong With 'Horizon: An American Saga, Chapter 2'; 'Mythopoetic'

How Hollywood Placates Talent! Did Disney Give Robin Williams a Fake Picasso? Gift was meant to smooth over a long-simmering argument, but its origins remain unsubstantiated


Gagosian Artist Titus Kaphar On His Transition to Filmmaking and the Potency of Erasure; "Making a painting can be a meditative solitary act, while there's almost no way to make a film on your own."

TIFF Review: 'Conclave' is an Engaging Political Thriller Undone by Ridiculous Third Act Twists


Official Trailer 'Conclave' Starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow and Isabella Rossellini


Sight and Sound: 'The Count of Monte Cristo': The Latest Adaptation Of Alexandre Dumas’s Novel Is A Grand, Robustly Entertaining Spectacle; Alexandre De La Patellière And Matthieu Delaporte’s Rollicking, Expensive French Blockbuster Is A Fittingly Bold Take On Dumas’s 1,300 Page Revenge-Tale; Trailer


Official Trailer 'Disclaimer' Written and Directed By Five-Time Academy Award Winner Alfonso Cuarón; Starring Cate Blanchett, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Kevin Kline; A forbidden Italian summer. A deadly secret. A grieving father’s revenge.

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