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Blue Chip Artist Mickalene Thomas is Charged with Exploitation and Abuse in $14 Million Bombshell Lawsuit by Ex Racquel Chevremont, an Art Curator and TV Personality; Creative and romantic partnership gone disastrously wrong

ART NOIR: THE LOUVRE HEIST

Is This Dapper Man Going to Crack the Louvre Heist Case? Returning to Scene of the Crime? Is he even real? The internet had many questions after a photo began to circulate

BBC: Five New Suspects Arrested Over Louvre Jewellery Theft

Louvre Heist Being Investigated As Inside Job With Security Guard Eyed In Landmark Robbery: Report

Two Arrested Over Theft of Jewels at Louvre Museum In Paris


The Louvre Heist Memes Aren’t Letting Up

Glittering Royal History Behind the Louvre’s Stolen Jewels; Valued at $102 million, the gems were taken from the Paris institution in a daring eight-minute heist

Why Weren’t the Jewels Stolen From the Louvre Insured? Thieves snatched jewelry valued at more than $100 million, but the museum will not be compensated for the loss

No Security Cameras Covered Louvre Balcony Where Thieves Entered, Director Says

Wild New Footage Reveals Louvre Robbers’ Slow Getaway With $100M In Jewels


Tulsa Kinney Review: Junk Food for the One Percent; In 'A Match Made in Heaven,' Katherine Bernhardt and Jeremy Scott are so simpatico that the intertwining of their art feels natural — even divine

BOOKS + WORDS

Interview: Author Chris Kraus on Success, Drugs and 'I Love Dick; Decade after her debut became a cult hit, the US author talks about the true crime that inspired her latest novel; #MeToo overreach; Being married to an addict


Lost Jack Kerouac Story Found Among Assassinated Mafia Boss' Belongings

Review 'The Land of Sweet Forever' by Harper Lee; Newly discovered stories from an American great; If we regard this book as literature, it is an unqualified failure. But these juvenile stories and essays shed fascinating light on the repression of Lee’s early life

The Free Press: Dawn of the Postliterate Society; Smartphone hasn’t just distracted us. It’s dismantled the habits of thought that built our civilization

WOMEN NAMED AGNES


Queen Agnes: Abstract Painter Agnes Martin Sought Isolation In New Mexico To Stoke Her Obsessive Practice. She Found Vibrant Community; “Painters must live together because other social contracts are barred to them”

Agnes Gund, Champion of Arts and Equity, Dies at 87; From her efforts to end mass incarceration to her deep belief in education, the collector and philanthropist advocated for a more compassionate world

Secrets Behind the Roman Colosseum’s Enduring Engineering

LISA THE SUBVERSIVE


Lisa Yuskavage’s Drawings Are the Blueprints for Her Subversive Career; In "Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings" at the Morgan Library and Museum, another side of the controversial artist emerges


Vintage ArtForum, May 2000: 'Blonde Ambition: The Art Of Lisa Yuskavage'

8 Houston Collectors Reveal What Really Sets Their City’s Art Scene Apart From Its Coastal Counterparts; Here, Houston proves it can rival any coastal capital in taste and risk-taking, with five collections that will stop you in your tracks


The Greatest Profile In Magazine History; Old School Journo; 'The Chairman in Profile'; Gay Talese and Edward Sorel, the writer and illustrator of “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” on the origins, aftermath, and eventual sanctification of the greatest profile in magazine history


A Newer West: Ruminations on Robert Adams’s Front Range Imagery

At Age 18, Sculptress Vinnie Ream Was The First Woman To Receive a Federal Art Commission for Her Lincoln Portrait


Norwegian Art Scandals and Bangkok Back Alleys “My Career Is Down the Drain”; In a Very Frank and Personal Conversation, Artists Nicole Eisenman and Bjarne Melgaard

LETTERS FROM THE EDITOR

Gordy Grundy: Making the IP, a History of the Elusive and Convenient Antichrist; New Series 'Defining the Las Vegas Artist'; Bob & Bob Are Back. Just in the Nick of Time!


'MONUMENTS' at MOCA Geffen; Conceived by The Brick director Hamza Walker


Inside Barnett Newman’s Failed Run for Mayor of New York: ‘I Don’t Particularly Expect to Be Elected’


IP Magic: A Fascinating, Unfinished History of the Antichrist; Sinister figure was shaped by social and political forces throughout the centuries. Is he still walking among us?

ALSO IN PARIS...

Is Art Basel Paris Too Big to Fail? Fair showed relative market resilience but leaned into the risk-averse paintings, with most standout work in the emerging sectors


Asian Art Scene Is Thriving in Paris: ‘It’s a Moment to Reclaim Presence’


Julia Friedman: Appetite for Destruction; Trump and the art of the demolition, from Bonwit Teller to the White House


James Turrell to bring most ambitious ‘Skyspace’ installation yet to Denmark museum; After 10 years in development, the 40m-wide work will go on display next June at the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum


Rainey Knudson: On View, Marjorie Norman Schwarz (414 words); Nine astounding door-shaped paintings

Robert Rauschenberg at 100: How the Relentless Experimenter Rewired American Art; Eight Significant Moments

Remembering the Pigment Shop That Taught Me How to See; Kremer’s New York City location, a painter’s paradise and key resource for conservators, is closing in November. For artists, the loss goes far beyond a storefront

FANBOY SPHERE


Video: Spectacular! Spectacular! 'Wizard of Oz' at the Sphere Sells Over 500,000 Tickets, $65 Million in Sales!

‘Wizard of Oz’ at Las Vegas Sphere Making $2 million a Day, Researchers Say

Sphere Continues To Soar High Thanks To 'Wizard of Oz' Success


Walter De Maria Show to Include His Final Sculpture: Three Earthy and Otherworldly Pickup Trucks


Recent Scholarly Reappraisal of the Trove of Woodblock Prints Collected By a Pillar of The Nascent L.A. Art Community John H. Culley, Author of 'Cattle, Horses & Men of The Western Range'


Black American Artist Who Found Himself in Finland; First retrospective of Howard Smith’s works in his home country beguilingly blurs the distinctions between art, design, and décor

What’s Up With Phoenix’s Latest Gallery Scene Shuffle? Phoenix is one of the top five art markets in the US; Change is afoot; Closings, mergings and redevelopment


What a History! Man Ray at the Met: A One-Man Art Movement; Revelatory survey at the Met frames Man Ray’s slippery genius in the blurry space between Dada, Surrealism, and modern desire

Destruction, Donation, Disposition: The Strange Economics of Unsellable Art; Rauschenberg's 'Canyon'; Collectors should be aware that the legal status of an artwork or artifact can erase its market value entirely, regardless of its artistic significance

Book Review: Poetry of van Gogh’s Montmartre Years; 'Christianity had failed him. What next then? Art?'; Miles J. Unger’s new study on the artist is in part a critical biography and in part an impressive and sensitive account of his creation of some key paintings

Ted Gioia: Is Mid-20th Century American Culture Getting Erased? They call it the "Greatest Generation"—so why is its art disappearing?


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Official U.S. Trailer 'Little Trouble Girls'; Slovenian indie drama; Directed by Urška Djukić; Best Cinematography prize at Tribeca; Starring Jara Sofija Ostan, Mina Svajger, and Sasa Tabakovió


Official Trailer 'Reminders of Him'; From Colleen Hoover, the best-selling author of 'It Ends With Us'; Directed by Vanessa Caswill; Starring Maika Monroe and Tyriq Withers


New Trailer 'The Old Woman with the Knife'; Korean Thriller; Directed by Min Kyu-dong; Starring Lee Hye-young, Kim Sung-cheol, and Kim Mu-yeol

Creator of 'Sopranos,' David Chase Limited Series ‘Project: MKUltra’ About Covert CIA Program In Works at HBO

WSJ: David Ellison Is Moving Fast and Spending Big to Remake Hollywood; Industry is rooting for him to revive Paramount. His pursuit of Warner Bros. Discovery has some worried

“Boorman and the Devil” Triggered Hearty Laughter at Brooklyn Horror Fest; "the crowd was frequently laughing at the litany of blunders and terrible misfortunes endured by director John Boorman;" "gallows humor in spades"

Creators Are Building Their Own Supersized Studio System As Hollywood Cuts Back; YouTube stars now reach as much people as legacy media — and they’re poaching some of the top players to grow even bigger

From “Back” To Bust: Inside The Epic Implosion of Technicolor

Podcast: The Banned Prince Documentary: Director Ezra Edelman Speaks; Best documentary filmmaker in America spent nearly five years of his life making a nine-hour masterpiece for Netflix. Which has now, officially, been cancelled" What's a director to do?


Official Trailer 'Last Samurai Standing'; Starring Junichi Okada, Yumia Fujisaki, Kaya Kiyohara, and Hiroshi Abe


Official Trailer 'Crime 101'; From Don Winslow’s acclaimed novella; Written and Directed by Bart Layton (American Animals, The Imposter); Starring Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, and Halle Berry


‘The Wizard of the Kremlin’ Clip: Paul Dano Determines the Limit of Satire; From the film of Putin's Rise; Starring Alicia Vikander, Jude Law, Zach Galifianakis, Tom Sturridge, Will Keen, and Jeffrey Wright


Official Trailer '28 Years Later: The Bone Temple'; Directed by Nia DaCosta​​​; Starring Ralph Fiennes, Alfie Williams, Jack O'Connell and Erin Kellyman


Rave Reviews. Official Trailer 'Urchin'; Directed by actor Harris Dickinson; Starring Cannes prize-winner Frank Dillane


Official Trailer 'Christy'; Sydney Sweeney steps into the ring as Christy Martin; From writer-director David Michôd (Animal Kingdom)


ILM Visual Effects Artist Breaks Down Hidden VFX

Review: Mount Vesuvius Casts Its Shadow Over 'Below The Clouds'; Gianfranco Rosi beautifully captures the unease of life in Naples, near the legendary volcano, and of modern times in his new film


Trailer 'Below The Clouds'; Filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi

'A House Of Dynamite' Review – Kathryn Bigelow’s Nuclear Endgame Thriller Is A Terrifying, White-Knuckle Comeback; Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson and Tracy Letts star in this immaculately constructed nightmare procedural that ticks down the minutes from an atomic bomb’s launch to its detonation

‘I Was Killed In Virtually Every Film’: How Trailblazing Chinese-American Star Anna May Wong Upended Cinema; Retrospective at the BFI celebrates how Wong – whether typecast in orientalist fantasies or breaking taboos with a kiss – could always steal the show

Horror Movies Aren’t What They Once Were. They’re Better, and These 10 Films Illustrate the Innovation


14 Memorable Quotes From The New Doc ‘Mr. Scorsese’; “You just spent a year of your life making a piece of sh*t.”


Inside the Fictional Museum at the Heart of the New Art Heist Film ‘The Mastermind’; Of all things, Kelly Reichardt's bumbling art thief steals four paintings by American Modernist Arthur Dove, not exactly an art star

Francis Ford Coppola, Who Says He’s ‘Broke,’ Is Selling a $1 Million Watch; Famed director will put some pieces from his personal collection up for auction later this year


Official Trailer 'Ella McCay'; Starring Emma Mackey, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Lowden, Kumail Nanjiani, Ayo Edebiri, with Albert Brooks and Woody Harrelson

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