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15 Art Shows to See in New York This October: Henry Taylor, Barkley L. Hendricks, Carlos Villa and Leo Valledor, Cecilia Paredes, and more

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MUST READ, AMAZING LIFE

New 3D Documentary Tells The Multidimensional Story of American Artist H.C. Westermann; Hand-Carved Wooden Sculptures Pop Off Cinema Screens

Info on the Doc: The Life and Work of Artist, Marine, and Acrobat H.C. (Cliff) Westermann, LA-based Artist; Wood Sculptor

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Aboudia, an Artist from Ivory Coast, Blindsides Market Experts As Bestselling Artist of 2022; Sold 75 artworks in auction, topping Damien Hirst’s 73; Style compared to Basquiat

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Smee: Obsessed With The Obsessive Recluse Who Fathered Modern American Art, Albert Pinkham Ryder

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Art Angle Podcast: Why Digital Art Lives Fast and Dies Young; Look at an entirely new field within the art world dedicated to conserving new media art works

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Stromberg: The Made in LA Biennial Is All About Diaspora; 39 artists and collectives in the sixth edition of the Hammer Museum’s show call LA home but make visible legacies of migration that have built and shaped the city

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Sasha Frere-Jones: Mr. Smith Came From Washington; Harry Smith’s “Fragments of a Faith Forgotten”

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Get Him! Legendary Artist's Troubling History With Women Is Explored In New Documentary; BBC three-part series; "Picasso, who died in 1973 aged 91, bedded hundreds of lovers in his lifetime" "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, depicting five naked prostitutes from a Barcelona brothel" "Picasso was a serial womaniser with a love of young women whom he would depict, seduce and often get pregnant"

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Interview with LA Artist Hayley Barker

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Kim Fay in Detroit: Scheherazade Washington Parrish at M Contemporary; Tools Of Redaction: Form

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Pace Tapped Painter Pam Evelyn as Its Youngest Talent; We spoke with Evelyn on the occasion of 'A Handful of Dust' the artist's debut solo exhibition at Pace London

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The Dark Side of Beautiful Things, What's Problematic in This Picture?

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Fiona Connor Continuous Sidewalk (2021–23) at Château Shatto

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Foundation Begins To Define Its Scope And Goals, Including Executing The Artists’ Final, Gargantuan Project

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Some of Earth’s Most Famous Art Started with Stardust; Astrophysics reminds us that earthly beauty has stellar origins; Carbon, Cobalt, Cadmium, Helium

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Photographer Jack Pierson, the Massachusetts-born artist known for his unflinchingly intimate male portraits, is entering fresh territory with a new job title and his first show with Lisson Gallery

Two Become One: Dazzling Duos; The Diptyks of Nina Welch-Kling

LensCulture Street Photography Awards

Instagram Photos of Jarvis Cocker, Kamila Shamsie, Rachel Whiteread and Other Creatives; Surprising images from the Instagram accounts of various artists, writers and musicians are brilliantly captured in “Seeing Things”, published by The Redstone Press

Gagosian Quarterly: Jake Skeets Reflects On Richard Avedon’s Series 'In The American West', Focusing On The Portrait Of His Uncle, Benson James

Allen Ginsberg at Fahey/Klein Gallery

The City of Houston Exhibits Newly Acquired Lens-Based Artworks

More New Works + Photographers

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Gordy Grundy: Fevered Dreams, Modern Times, The Artist's Choice and the Edge of the Horizon

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Painter Emma Webster Uses the Art of Illusion to Transform Jeffrey Deitch’s L.A. Gallery Into a Theatrical Environment; Solo show, titled "Intermission"

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FORMERLY KNOWN AS CINEMA

Gus Van Sant is Back With ‘Feud: Capote vs. the Swans’; NYC Socialites Tackle Writer Truman Capote

Our Lead Film Critic Justin Tanner Covers the New Wes Anderson–Roald Dahl Shorts "The Swan," "The Rat Catcher" and "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar." Tanner says "It’s a heady thrill unlike anything else I’ve seen this year."

Legendary Film Editor Thelma Schoonmaker Says Robert De Niro’s “Greatest Performance” is in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

The Trial: Crime of the Century: Franz Kafka’s Unfinished Novel and Orson Welles’s 'The Trial' (1962)

Cronenberg’s ‘The Shrouds’ is “His Most Personal Film” and About The Passing of His Late Wife; With Diane Kruger, Vincent Cassel and Guy Pearce

Steve McQueen Defends His Doc’s “Occupied City” 4-Hour Runtime: “Could Have Been 40 Hours Long”; Tackling the occupation of Amsterdam during WWII; Critics: "a major artsy bore" "plays like an art installation"

‘Fair Play’ Review: A Riveting Financial Drama Dunked in Up-to-the-Minute Sexual Politics Chloe Domont's first feature, about two romantically entangled office workers at a ruthless hedge fund, has much to say about the post-#MeToo world and has a lot of fun saying it.

‘The Boys In The Boat’ First Look: Go Behind-The-Scenes of George Clooney’s Upcoming Collegiate Rowing Sports Drama

‘Horizon: An American Saga’ Teaser: The First Part Of Kevin Costner’s Western Epic Hits Theaters In 2024 In Two Chapters

‘The Buccaneers’ Trailer: Unfinished Edith Wharton Novel Gets Its Own TV Series On Apple TV+ Next Month

‘The Beekeeper’ Red Band Trailer: Jason Statham Is Out For Revenge in David Ayer’s New Action Film

Spielberg and Hanks’ Much-Delayed $300 Million ‘Masters of the Air’ Premiering in January; Great Directors and Top Cast

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STAGE STRUCK

Get a First Look at Matt Doyle as Frank Sinatra in Sinatra the Musical; Tony winner will play ol' blue eyes at U.K.'s Birmingham Rep

A24 Musical Film ‘Dicks’ Calls God a Gay Slur. And Its Makers Are Ready To Be Hated For It

‘Dicks: The Musical’ Film Review: It’s As Obscene As You Think — And Funny, Too; Brought to You by Larry Charles, Josh Sharp, Aaron Jackson, Nathan Lane and Megan Mullally

Travis Alabanza and Debbie Hannan Invite the Club to the Stage; Rising playwright and director discuss Sound of the Underground – a collaboration between eight drag performers – opening at London’s Royal Court Theatre

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BEST OF THE WEEK with JERRY GOGOSIAN

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Kim Kardashian outbid by American football legend Tom Brady for George Condo work at charity auction—but both won in the end

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ART NOIR

German Museum Employee Has Been Caught ‘Shamelessly’ Swapping Original Paintings for Fakes to Fund His Lavish Lifestyle

China Wants the Return of Chinese Relics; Amends for 'Historical Sins' Campaign Continues; Viral series about Chinese teapot escaping from British Museum to become film; Series with 370m views echoes Chinese state media calls for return of cultural relics

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DESIGN

When Artist Saul Steinberg Reimagined an Icon; Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity recently debuted ‘Steinberg Meets the Eameses,’ an exploration of the designers’ relationship with the 20th-century modernist

"Gilding the Lily" And Why Not? A Selection of Carved and Engraved Shells

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BOOKS + WORDS

‘She was chatty, seemingly untroubled’: Jeffrey Eugenides on the babysitter who inspired 'The Virgin Suicides'; He was going nowhere as a writer. Then a shocking chat with a teenage girl in Detroit changed everything. Here, the author reveals the astonishing story behind his explosive debut

The Biographer's Dilemma: Manic Moods and 3 A.M. Texts: How Walter Isaacson Navigated Elon Musk And His Demons

Shana Nys Dambrot: Fall Books, a Backpack Full of Poetry and History

Gagosian Quarterly: A Vera Tatum Novel; The first installment of a short story by Percival Everett

Gagosian Quarterly: A Vera Tatum Novel; The second installment of a short story by Percival Everett

‘Larry McMurtry’ Review: A Prairie Boy and a Book Man; Restlessness of the novelist was evident in his abiding passion for long book-collecting trips across America

Writing the Artist's Profile: Jann Wenner Defends His Legacy — and His Generation’s

Why Are There So Many Books About Artists’ Wives?

Wall Street Journal: Books

A Wolfe in Chic Clothing and the Literary Feud: My Father, Tom Wolfe, was a Perfect Southern Gentleman who Always Seemed to be Butting Heads with the Literary Establishment

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MUSIC + SOUND

Gagosian Quarterly: Anohni, 'My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross' British-born, New York–based artist ANOHNI returned with her sixth studio album, My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross, this past summer. Here she speaks with Michael Cuby about the genesis of the project and the value of life

Erykah Badu: Come Join A Four-Hour Phone Call With The Artist; She’s a Fashion Week Standout

REM’s Michael Stipe on Monkee Micky Dolenz 4 Song EP of New Wave Giant’s Songs: “This is the pinnacle of wow for me!” (Listen)

‘We Didn’t Look Homogenized’: The Cure’s Go-To Cover Artist on the Creative Spark Behind the Band’s Most Enduring Album Sleeves; Andy Vella walked us through five of his most iconic designs for the band

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EXPERIENTIAL: MORE SPHERE!

First Look at The Incredible Screen To Be Used by U2 During Las Vegas Sphere Residency

Inside The MSG Sphere in Las Vegas: Darren Aronofsky Offers First Look At “Largest Screen On The Planet” In Action; See Video

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All the New Yorker Cartoons of the Week!

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ART BUSINESS

What David Zwirner’s recent surprise losses reveal about the high-stakes art market; The dealer remains “cautiously optimistic” about the trade’s prospects this autumn

Hauser & Wirth to open in Basel—taking over Galerie Knoell's space in 2024; Mega-gallery will also welcome Knoell's founder as a senior director, in a move that will "extend its commitment in Basel"

What's behind China's spate of museum closures and downsizings? As the country's economy takes a nosedive, its institutions face fiscal freeze and covert control amid an increasingly chaotic and arbitrary government censorship regime

On Balance: Court Documents Show Christie’s Fighting Back Against US-China Trade War; Industry Moves

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COLLECTORS

For Tennis Star Reilly Opelka, Art Collecting Is a Sport; The Guston-collecting, Margiela-wearing, McEnroe-dialing 26-year-old explains why he shuns art advisors (“I don't respect the profession”) and shows no emotion during studio visits. “I love any opportunity to go against the grain,” he tells GQ columnist Chris Black

Busy Bay Area Fixtures Pamela and David Hornik on Supporting Contemporary Art, With the Help of Their Dogs

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CERAMICS

Roberto Lugo Is Using a Greco-Roman Pottery Tradition to Tell His Own Stories; In his first solo gallery show in New York, the Philadelphia ceramicist plays with ancient motifs to recount his childhood struggles and obsessions

Zen and the Art of Clay and Fire

Solemn stares, collaborative practice, in George Rodriguez’s ‘In Unison’ at the Magic Gardens, Philadelphia

Johan Creten: The Overflowing Heart at the Abbey of Beaulieu-en-Rouergue in France

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