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WARHOL-CAPOTE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY


The Story of the Studio 54 Drink Ticket Painting Warhol Gave to Truman Capote in 1978


Video: Comedic Actors Julio Torres (as Warhol) and Cole Escola (as Capote) Reading from the play WARHOLCAPOTE, a nonfiction invention based on never-before-heard conversations

Ben Davis: Just How Famous Is Yoshitomo Nara? Plus, Lucien Smith’s cause of death, and a museum for sale on Facebook Marketplace


Art World Maven Kenny Schachter Dishes on Ken Griffin’s $250M Leonardo, a Dealer Detained, and More; Plus, a massive interview with dealer (and movie star) Vito Schnabel. They've squashed their beef!


In Honor of Veteran's Day...
Wait, How Could There Be Lost Wartime Paintings of Jacob Lawrence of the US Coast Guard in WWII?; Commissioned to the Sea Cloud

Our One Percent 'Splainer, The Art Daddy: Daddy’s Office Is Open; Who the Fu** is Daddy, and why are we suddenly discussing advertising?

IS POP CULTURE HUMILIATING THE ARTIST?


Official Trailer Debut 'The Gallerist'; Set against the glittering excess of Art Basel Miami; Directed by Cathy Yan; Starring Natalie Portman, Jenna Ortega, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Zach Galifianakis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Charli XCX


No Nepotism Here: Official Trailer 'Drag'; Directed by Raviv Ullman and Greg Yagolnitzer; Starring Lizzy Caplan and Lucy DeVito (daughter of Danny DeVito), with John Stamos; Dark Comedy Thriller; Produced by Danny DeVito, Lucy DeVito, Jake DeVito

ALWAYS SUNNY WITH RAINEY


Rainey Knudson: No.202. Woody Guthrie’s Guitar

Rainey Knudson: No. 107, The Higgins Boat; The Scaliwag Who Helped Win the War


Rainey Knudson: No.195. Effigy Mounds, The Before is Here

BOOKS + WORDS

Lord Knows What I Am; What we can learn from the published correspondence of literary critic and academic titan Harold Bloom

New Bio: Cormac McCarthy’s Midlife Crisis; Heading West at 40 Transformed his Writing — and American literature

Cormac McCarthy’s Marriage Was Ending When an Editor Changed His Life; In an excerpt from his new biography of the author, Tracy Daugherty explores the grammatically eccentric manuscript and heated debates that led to the publication of McCarthy’s first novel

New Yorker: Why Is Illness So Hard to Write About?: Century after Virginia Woolf asked why sickness had failed to become one of literature’s great subjects, writers are still struggling to put physical suffering into words

ART NOIR

NYC Art Dealer Dubbed ‘The Real Auntie Mame’ Was Choked To Death Two Years Ago; Eagle-Eyed Cops Only Finally Nail ‘Killer’ Thanks To TJ Maxx Shoplift

The Curious Case of the Missing Basquiat; For 16 years, a $20 million Basquiat was at the center of a bitter legal battle between an Oscar-winning Italian producer and his ex-wife. Then, just as mysteriously as it vanished, it turned up in a Miami warehouse

Great Louvre Robbery Was Just the Start. It’s Been the Year of the Heist; More than 14 museums, from Wales to Sicily, have been hit by smash-and-grab criminals since early 2025

PHOTOGRAPHY


The Sheer Size of It All: Edward Burtynsky’s photographs chronicle the gigantic scale of the scarred landscapes created by twentieth-century extractive industries

Why Concerned Photography Is More Important Than Ever; Concerned photography, rooted in intention and responsibility, asks us to slow down and consider not only what we are seeing but also who made it and why

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LACMA STARLIGHTS

Nicole Kidman, Timothée Chalamet, and Anya Taylor-Joy Showed Up To Support Honoree Denis Villeneuve, But The Night’s Other Honoree, Artist Vija Celmins, Stole The Star-Studded Show; Where Hollywood Meets the Art World: A Night at the 2026 LACMA Art+Film Gala

Nate Freeman: Vija Celmins, the Ultimate Artist’s Artist, Gets Honored by LACMA Art+Film Gala; Recognizes one legendary artist and a legendary filmmaker—and this year it’s Denis Villeneuve and the 88-year-old Vija Celmins

LACMA: Shio Kusaka's "Beam" Unveiled; "Beam" can be taken as a populist photo-op or a punning monument to L.A.'s Light and Space movement

Shio Kusaka Explains the Construction of Her “Beam”


Must See Video: 'Vija Celmins: The Way I See It'

Arts PR Has a Problem. But It's Bigger Than Bad Publicists; Tim Schneider's damning survey of arts journalists has prompted some uncomfortable conversations among publicists. One industry insider asks whether the problem goes deeper than bad pitches and bruised egos

How Cringe Took Over Culture

ART & COMMERCE

Pace CEO Marc Glimcher Responds to Reports of Financial Losses, Says Gallery Will Open New Location in Europe

Vienna's Gallery Exodus: Four Spaces Close or Shrink as Sales Dry Up; Layr, Exile, Zeller van Almsick and Eva Presenhuber's space

Would You Pay $4,500 for a ‘Premium Pass’ to Art Basel Miami Beach?

Art Market Is Doubling Down on the Gulf Despite the War With Iran; Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Frieze, NOMAD and Art Basel are pushing ahead with auctions, fairs and openings in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Doha; organizers say they are monitoring the geopolitical situation closely

Tim Schneider Finds Hope in Humanity: Why The Art Industry Is More Abnormal Than Ever; One factor is pushing the business farther and farther away from almost everything else in American life—and that’s good, actually

Not As Much Fun As a Slot Machine! Artnet and Kalshi Partner on Art Industry Prediction Markets First up are this month's marquee auctions of modern and contemporary art in New York


John Tottenham, Fiction: 'White Noise'

Gnarly. In Battle Over Auschwitz Watercolors; Dr. Josef Mengele Ordered Artist Dina Babbitt to Portray the Physical Traits of Roma Prisoners


Secrets of Visual Perception: With his sly, vacant images, Roy Lichtenstein explored the distance that technology created between us and reality; Monet, Half Tone Printing and the Xerox

Inside One Couple’s Legendary Pop Art Collection, John and Kimiko Powers


Offical Doc Trailer 'The Powers: A Life in Art'; Directed by Tyler Oliver


L.A's Phyllis Green: An Exceptionally Productive Life of Artistic Inquiry

STAGE STRUCK


‘The Heart’ Review: Touching EDM Musical (Electronic Dance Music) Blends ‘The Pitt’ With Broadway

Audiences Are Shrieking Bloody Murder at ‘Othello’ and Howling at ‘Something Rotten!’ at The Stratford Festival

‘A Couple of Times People Walked Out’: How An Anne Frank Musical Became The Hottest Theater Ticket Of The Year


Rubell Museum Partners With a Theater Company to Present Plays Based on Paintings; Museum Plays Will Feature Six Short Plays Inspired By Works In The Museum's Collection

Iran Opens Criminal Probe Against Theater Company After Actress Rests Head Against Co-Star’s Chest

Broadway’s Most Haunted Theaters Revealed – Including One Rumored To House Dozens Of Ghosts


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Official Doc Trailer 'The Disciple: A Wu-Tang Fable'; Directed by Oscar-winning producer Joanna Natasegara; Starring The RZA and Cilvaringz

Bruno Dumont ("Humanity", "Twentynine Palms", "P'tit Quinquin", "France" and "Flanders") Made His Next Film ‘The End’ Entirely With AI; His full creation

The Accidents and Instincts That Brought Six Golden Lion Winners Fame


A Look Back at Cult Classic 'Vanishing Point' (1971): The Studio Wanted Him Dead


Official Final Trailer 'Dune: Part Three'; Directed by Denis Villeneuve


Our Film Critic Justin Tanner Reviews "Club Kid"

Quen Blackwell Is Coming for Hollywood; 25-year-old has millions of Gen-Z fans on lock. Can she persuade the grown-ups who run the entertainment industry to take her seriously?

Podcast: TCM's Ben Mankiewicz Takes a Deep Look at Stanley Kubrick and His 'Dr. Strangelove'

In 'Brailled It,' the Tension and Stakes of The Annual Braille Challenge Are Brought To The Screen By Three of The Competitors; Remarkable documentary made by blind students: ‘We were stunned by the footage’

Follows: Are Claims of Mid-Budget Movies Disappearing True? Twelve US states have just ordered the new Paramount / Warner studio to release 30 films a year. I crunched the data on 170,279 films to see what happened to the middle they are trying to bring back

Ava DuVernay Says That “Hollywood Is Over”


Official Trailer No.2 'The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth'; Directed by David Fincher; Starring Brad Pitt, Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Carla Gugino, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Peter Weller, Corey Fogelmanis, JB Tadena, and Karren Karagulian

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