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PARIS WAS BURNING

Portrait of a Paris Art Week on Fire; On protest, business as usual, and the surreal experience of attending an art fair while smelling burning plastic

Art Basel Paris Opened—Then Closed Early, Due to Protests. What Happened? One of the biggest moments in contemporary art got cut short due to the demonstrations. What caused the shock cancellation?

The Free Press: Douglas Murray: France Stares Down the Abyss of History; Even great things come to an end. There’s no guarantee that French culture and traditions will survive ceaseless attacks from discontents inside the country

Financial Times: Riots Brought Art Basel Paris to a Close — Is it a sign of things to come?


Our One Percent 'Splainer, The Art Daddy: Art Basel Paris, What the F*** Was That? A $100 Million Modigliani, Humanitarian Aid for Billionaires, Mugrabi Mayhem, and the Return of the Gallery Girl


MOCA, "In These Times"; Recent Acquisitions; Vincent Valdez, Kathleen Ryan, Alex Israel, Charles Gaines, Liz Larner, Julie Mehretu and More

Tony Berlant, Artist Known For Large-Scale Found-Metal Collages And Comic Kate Berlant’s Dad, Dies at 85

The Enduring Allure of the Masquerade Ball; For centuries, masquerade balls have been a place where status takes a back seat, identities blur and fantasy becomes a reality

Collector Andrew Henderson Aims To Build The Largest Private Collection Of Cambodian Paintings In The World


LACMA Gets Serious About Digital Art; Group of LACMA supporters have promised more than 200 works of digital art to the museum


Wow! Hilla Rebay (1890–1967) Helped Shape the Guggenheim. Now Her Own Art Is Getting Its Due

What Changing Views of the Young British Artists Say About the Art World Today
Inside Peter Thiel’s Nashville Antichrist Lectures; We Are In An Apocalyptic Era; Peter Thiel Wants You To Study The Bible, Think Harder About The Antichrist, And (Literally) Save The World


Brice Marden’s Throwback Splendor at Dior


Review: Brett Sperry "Strange Days" at The Cube, Las Vegas

ART NOIR

The Nazis Stole Your Family’s Art? Call James Palmer; art detective has been clawing back looted paintings for 33 years. Some call him a ‘Holocaust hustler.’ His clients call him a hero

The Great Modigliani Sculpture Hoax of 1984; When curators went fishing for Modigliani sculptures in the canals of Livorno, their discovery came with a catch

New Lawsuit Alleges an International Andy Warhol Forgery Scheme; Family is suing over half a dozen people and companies, accusing them of being part of an elaborate and far-reaching scheme to sell fraudulent artwork

Miami Art Dealer Sentenced to Nearly Four Years in Prison for Selling Fake Warhols

BOOKS + WORDS


Inside Umberto Eco’s Library; In a collection of broken, dog-eared and graffitied books in Bologna, Ilaria Maria Sala finds an antidote to a world being muddled by AI


Meet Fiona Rogers; Curator and Writer of "Great Women Photographers"


Trans Actress Candy Darling Gets the Biography She Deserves; Half a century after the Warhol film star’s death, writer and critic Cynthia Carr brings Darling’s life to light in an empathetic, well-researched new book

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDITOR


Gordy Grundy: Breaking News + Opinion
This Conflagration Is a Hoot, a Howl and a Riot
Chance. Luck. It's All We Have.

Gioia: From the Burning Bush to ChatGPT, 42 Fascinating Milestones in the History of Conversation

San Antonio Arts Advocate Mike Casey, 1941 – 2026; How to Build an Arts Community; Sala Diaz; Blue Star

How Cringe Took Over Culture; And Society; Must We Forgive and Never Forget?

What a Gal! 98-Year-Old Pop Art Queen Has a Memoir; She invented plastic surgery journalism, helped Andy Warhol make his first perfume, hosted the Velvet Underground’s first Philly concert, and commissioned Roy Lichtenstein’s “Super Sunset Billboard”


Awww, Pretty! MIT Professors Bedazzling Security Cameras to Highlight Campus Surveillance; Intervention is responding to the university’s recent $3 million investment in more than 500 new AI-integrated campus surveillance cameras


Video: 'This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte'; Dedicated to René Magritte and his enduring legacy; Paintings, sculptures, and works on paper; Paired with works by more than forty artists of different generations, many of which have been created specifically for the show; At Gagosian

K-POP CURATOR


At SFMOMA, K-Pop Star RM Is Curating His Own Way; 'I’m not from the art world,' the BTS member said. 'I guess I’m a little free'; Nearly 180 pieces: 142 from RM’s collection and 36 from SFMOMA’s

‘Unlike Anything We’ve Experienced’: Fans Swarm San Francisco for BTS Star’s Art Exhibition


Space Is the Place at the Wende; Opens Nov. 7; Drawings of Chesley Bonestell (1888–1986) helped sell the Chrysler Building and the Golden Gate Bridge to the American public. Bonestell was also a Hollywood matte artist

ART & COMMERCE

Schneider: More and More Dealers Are Blackballing The White Cube; Cross-section of selling shows in Paris pinpoints the market’s swing toward maximalism

Can a Farm Help Rethink the Gallery Model? With gallery costs rising and spaces closing, Parisian dealers Victoire de Pourtalès and Benjamin Eymère are testing whether their regenerative farm can support a different kind of gallery

Pace Reports $5.6 M. Loss for International Business, With Glimchers Pledging to Keep It Afloat

Surprising Origin Story of Rodin’s ‘The Thinker’; If it weren't for a 14th-century poem, we would never have had one of the world's most iconic sculptures; Gates of Hell

Review: British Art Show 10, Bold and brilliant exploration of who the British really are; UK’s largest recurring contemporary art exhibition

ARCHITECTURE


R.M. Schindler’s Modernist Beach House, Built for a California Health Nut, Hits the Market for a Breezy $18.8 Million


Video House Tour: A Century of Modernism: Inside the Lovell Beach House by Rudolph Schindler

New Renderings Revealed as Eames Institute Moves Forward at Former Birkenstock Site; Ambitious


Zero to 60-Story Residential Skyscrapers; Automobile industry’s embrace of high-end real estate is the latest expression of top-tier carmakers’ mission to separate their wealthiest patrons from their copious spare cash—without trying to sell them more actual cars


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Old School Formula 1, Offical Trailer 'Race to Monte Carlo'; Directed by Russian Filmmaker Ilya Malanin; Starring Yura Borisov (Anora) and Ivan Yankovskiy

Quentin Tarantino to Publish ‘The Adventures of Cliff Booth' Novel, Out December 8

First Look: Hollywood’s Secret AI Talks Go Public. Here’s the Plan; Kathleen Kennedy quietly convened Oscar winners, actors, studio execs, Silicon Valley — and me. Now our first public framework draws a line in favor of human-controlled AI

Interview: Director Na Hong-Jin On ‘Hope,’ Why The Sequel Shifts To The Aliens and His Darker, Bloodier Next Film

Successful Screen and Stage Writer Jack Thorne Warns Some Fellow Scriptwriters Are Using AI To Cheat

Stephen Follows Researches: Is TIFF’s Market Here To Stay?


Official Trailer 'Orfeo'; Classic Greek tragedy of Eurydice and Orpheus; Based upon Italy's first graphic novel 1969; Directed by Virgilio Villoresi; Starring Luca Vergoni, Giulia Maenza, Aomi Muyock, and Vinicio Marchioni


Our Film Critic Justin Tanner Reviews "You Can See Everything"

Review 'The Debut' Julianne Moore Is A Thrill In Jesse Eisenberg’s Oddball Comedy

As Big Tech Takes Over Hollywood, the Picture Onscreen Gets Darker; “The Social Reckoning” And Other Movies Reflect Growing Discontent With Silicon Valley Founders; But such films may be at the mercy of the companies themselves
Is The Teal And Orange Look Over In Movies? I measured the colour of every shot in 8,135 films, from 1930 to today, to find out when warm faces against cold shadows took over the movies, and whether the look ever went away
Robert Eggers to Direct ‘Romeo and Juliet’ for Focus Features — Will Be His Next Film

Gioia: The 50 Essential Western Films; In this final installment of my survey, I cover the turbulent period from 1969 to the present day


Official Trailer 'Paper Tiger'; Directed by James Gray; Starring Adam Driver, Miles Teller, and Scarlett Johansson

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