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PARIS IS STILL BURNING

Liberté, Egalité, Absurdité: That This Autumn’s Riots in France Have Occurred – and that the artworld, ever keen to wash its hands of politics when unable to dictate them, ran scared – can be seen as nothing else but inevitable


Monsieur Nouar, Le Francaise Buster Keaton: Live on the Streets of Paris! Art and Danse!

Paris Riots Spark Fears For Loss of Hollywood Shoots; Paris has been cinematic catnip for film producers for decades

French Galleries Demand Art Basel Paris Compensate Early Closure

How Locals and Shopkeepers Tried to Save One Paris Street From Rioters; As arson, looting and destruction overwhelmed Rue Beaurepaire, some residents pleaded with rioters to stop. Others hid out of fear. Many dread a repeat


Official Trailer Debut: "The Hunchback, Soul of Paris"; Directed by Jean-François Richet; Starring Vincent Cassel, Benjamin Voisin, Jean-François Richet and Daphné Patakia


Pop Insider: At Auction, Collection of the Artist Idelle Weber Who Had Very Famous Friends

Those Crazy Kids at Hyperallergic’s Halloween Party; Greatest Art Costumes; From “Las Dos Fridas” to a walking Eva Hesse sculpture

Why Don’t You Take a Picture?: An Elvis Lamp and Other Items I Desperately Need from Paul Reubens’s Big Auction

Fashion Designer Anna Sui on the Psychedelic Art That Rocked Her World; On Gary Grimshaw's vivid, kaleidoscopic rock posters

GEORGIA ON MY MIND


BREAKING: Long-lost $3M Georgia O’Keeffe Painting Buried in NYC Apartment Closet for 40 years Hits Auction Block


Skyscrapers and Smokestacks: The Grittier Side of Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Launches Digital Catalogue Raisonné; Over 2,000 works by the artist, including paintings, handwritten letters, and early sketches

ART & COMMERCE

Luxury’s Growth Problem: Can Rarity and Sustainability Restore Its Appeal? Luxury’s pursuit of scale has weakened its promise of rarity while making environmental sustainability harder to achieve. To win back skeptical customers, brands must rethink growth around innovation, longevity and circular business models

Why Museums Are Teaming Up to Buy Art; Growing number of joint acquisitions signals a shift away from decades of competitive collecting

Without A New Approach, Art Fairs Are at Risk of Strangling Galleries; Pressing question is: How many galleries will continue to struggle in this challenging market climate?

MoMA, Centre Pompidou, and M+ Will Treat Their Holdings as One Collection in Unprecedented Alliance; “If we succeed, we will be more than the sum of our parts, and I think that is something quite new,” Pompidou president Laurent Le Bon said


Alien: Jess Johnson’s Immersive Exhibitions Transcend Every Timeline, Resolving Visceral Alternate Realities Through Drawings and Installations in Roswell, New Mexico

OUR GLORIOUS ART HISTORY

Retrospective Introduces Francis Picabia to a New Generation—with Funhouse Mirrors and a Peep Show!

Mysterious Leonora Carrington Etched-Painting Resurfaces After 70 Years in Hiding

New Yorker: The Secret History of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock; At the Met, a landmark exhibition doesn’t just show that the painters were equals. It makes it impossible to imagine their art existing without their marriage


Historian and Former MoMA Director Glenn D. Lowry: Thinking About Brice Marden

BOOKS + WORDS


Books: "The Art of the Devil: An Illustrated History", a Delightfully Diabolic Illustrated History; Demetrio Paparoni’s latest book ultimately hints at how latent fears of the prince of darkness have continued to fuel our imaginations, no matter how much we try to laugh him off

Edgar Allan Poe, Quintessential American Writer; It’s time to acknowledge just how influential he was

Ted Gioia: My Favorite Philip K. Dick Novels; Here are seven entry points into the oeuvre of this troubled and troubling sci-fi author


Al Hansen's Art of Pronouns

CERAMICS


Unruly Ceramic Beings of Kathy Butterly; Artist’s quasi-vessels incorporate folds, indentations, apertures, and coverts, which hint at bodily, biomorphic, and natural forms


Lots from the Private Collection of Gertrud & Otta Natzler

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDITOR


Gordy Grundy: Breaking News + Opinion
Free To Be

Our One Percent 'Splainer, The Art Daddy: Daddy’s Halloween Horror Show: Financial Ruin, Institutional Debauchery, and Other Things That Go Bump in the Art World: MoMA enters a throuple, Pace needs a guarantor, Art Basel discovers workers

Kim Kardashian’s First Auction Purchase Was a Monet Painting; Inspired by the Film ‘Clueless’; “She’s a full-on Monet." (Beautiful from far away, a Mess up close)

Long-Hidden Monet Heads to Auction With Record Estimate; "In 1956, the Parisian gallerist Katia Granoff made an extremely bold move."


Fiction: John Tottenham, "Eastbound and Down"


Werner Herzog Visits Santa Fe To Discuss The Globe’s Beasts and Beauty

In Santa Fe, a Vibrant Contemporary Scene Has Been Taking Shape for Decades

Rauschenberg Foundation Publishes Digital Catalogue Raisonné


Review: Tacita Dean’s Truth in Materials; Instead of the slick stream of internet and AI imagery, the moving pictures projected onto a 31-foot-tall column are insistently material


Trippy! ‘It’s magic’: Scientists Rediscover How To Make Ancient Roman Colour-Changing Glass; Exclusive: Optical engineering that went into 1,600-year-old Lycurgus Cup has baffled experts for centuries

ART NOIR

Vietnamese-American Photographer, Guggenheim Fellow and Oberlin Professor Pipo Nguyen-duy Found Dead at 64; Son has been charged in connection with a double homicide


Book Review: The Trafficker Who Furnished the Museums of LA; Team of researchers excavates the story of Earl Stendahl, a mid-century gallerist who shamelessly stole ancient Mesoamerican objects and marketed them to the institutional art world

Europe’s Art Theft Problem Is Much Bigger Than the Louvre; Wave of museum thefts is exposing the vulnerabilities of institutions struggling to protect irreplaceable collections after years of underfunding

Salman Rushdie Was Stabbed. Then His Wife Started Filming; Alex Gibney’s new documentary 'Knife' takes a striking look at the aftermath of the 2022 attack on Rushdie

DESIGN


Radical Must See Poster Auction: 'Selling Modernism: The William W. Crouse Collection'; Automotive, Aviation, Cocktail Ads, Travel

How Midcentury Modern Design Went From Cool to Cringey; Millennials’ heavy-handed embrace of the style has fueled its reputational decline

PRACTICAL MATTERS

Art Problems: Do I Need an Agent? Artist agents are not the panacea we imagine them to be, but AI agents won’t solve all your problems, either. Paddy Johnson breaks it down

Hard Truths: Should a Jilted Artist Keep Applying for Grants?

Hilarious. Warm but Never Too Warm: A New Psychotic Art Job Listing Has Hit the NYFA Job Board


Yau: Trevor Winkfield’s Cheerfully Sinister Worlds; His rejection of certainty is an urgent reminder that imagination should not be neglected in the pursuit of art

ARCHITECTURE

Tadao Ando Designed and Donated a Floating Library that Delivers Books to Children


The Ozymandias Complex; On the architecture of self-aggrandizement


The Brute-Force Genius Of The Breuer Building; Upturned ziggurat on the corner of Madison Avenue is the work of a brilliant mind – though it wasn’t always seen that way


Hiroshi Sugimoto Talking About Architecture; Museums of the Future; Video

Marcel Duchamp Was the Messenger of History; “The art world changed,” scholar Thierry de Duve told us on the occasion of MoMA’s new show. “Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ is the message that brings us the news”

The Dada Catalogue Marcel Duchamp Designed to Be Thrown Away; For a 1953 Dada exhibition, Marcel Duchamp designed a one-page catalogue meant to be crumpled up and tossed in the trash


Vanity Fair: How Does Your Output Compare? Complete List of Meghan and Harry’s Creative Projects, From Documentaries to Unrealized Podcasts


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Exclusive: Callum Turner as James Bond? Rumor Mill Churns — Our Take: Combined with Dua Lipa (Turner's new wife) Singing Theme Song, It’s a Deal

Inside Brad Bird’s 30-Year Quest to Hard-boil the Future in Ray Gunn; The 'Iron Giant' filmmaker is shooting for another sci-fi favorite with his private-eye tale starring Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, and Tom Waits


Official Trailer 'La Gradiva'; French High Schoolers Travel to Italy; Directed by Martine Atlan; Starring Antonia Buresi, Colas Quignard, Suzanne Gerin, and Mitia Capellier-Audat

Kid Cudi to Write, Direct, and Star as Basquiat in New Biopic; The rapper called his forthcoming film, “JEAN,” a “love letter” to the late artist and ’80s New York

Gagosian: Standout Stories From Cannes: Mike Stinavage reports on five films—from a surreal slasher to wartime portraits—that debuted at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and have releases this year
Follows: How much more do Hollywood union bosses earn than their members? I went through 877 annual filings from 35 entertainment unions to compare what the people running them are paid with what their members earn


Stromberg: Why Do Horror Films Have Such a Hold on Our Imaginations? Exhibition at the Academy Museum explores the transgressive power of scary movies, channeling our deepest fears about life, death, and the unknown


Our Film Critic Justin Tanner Reviews Steven Spielberg's "Disclosure Day"

The Secret Playbook That Made the Elizabeth Holmes Movie a Smash Hit; A24’s strategy for its ‘You Can See Everything’ documentary catapulted the film to wild popularity

Controversial “Musk” Documentary Pulled From Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week by Newly Sold Bleecker Street Films

See Our Film Critic Justin Tanner's Review of "Musk"

Hell Takes the Form of State Repression in 1971’s “The Devils”; Ken Russell’s film was designed by Derek Jarman, mirrors the horrors unfolding outside our windows

Rebecca Miller (Wife of Daniel Day Louis) Sets ‘Moonsong’ With Elle Fanning, Julianne Moore, Josh Hartnett, Emma Thompson and More; Jarin Blaschke to DP, Scorsese Producing; Fascinating Story to Tell

Soon. Very Soon. Coming to IMAX November 25; Streaming on Netflix December 23. Behold the Official, QT Approved Poster.

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