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BASEL MIAMI 2025


What Is Vielmetter Packing for Miami?


Roberts Projects at Art Basel Miami Beach


Charlie James Gallery Packs a Crate for Art Basel Miami Beach


In the Studio with Loriel Beltrán, Materializing Color and Memory in Miami

Get To Know Miami’s Top Hotels: The Shelborne By Proper, Andaz Miami Beach, The Elser Hotel, and More

Forbes: 17 Can’t-Miss Food And Drink Events During Art Basel Miami Beach 2025

ART NOIR?


What Is the Mysterious New Group Behind Trump’s Venice Biennale Pick? What is the American Arts Conservancy? Why is a pet foods entrepreneur in charge of the U.S. Pavilion?

Alma Allen Will Officially Represent the U.S. at the Venice Biennale. Here’s What You Need to Know; Utah-born, Mexico-based sculptor is an unusual pick for the high-profile international art exhibition

With Trump-Allied Arts Group at Helm, US Artist for 2026 Venice Biennale Is Chosen


“Las Vegas artist.” In all my 24 years in Las Vegas, the term has irked me, like poor stitching inscribing your skin. So, I have no answer to what makes one a Las Vegas artist today, but I have some questions. "
~ Essay by Artist Sean Slattery

RABIH ALAMEDDINE

Painter and Writer Rabih Alameddine Wins National Book Award For Fiction With Darkly Comic Epic Spanning Six Decades; True to his irreverent style, author of The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) thanks his psychiatrist, his gastrointestinal doctors and his drug dealers

Interview: Rabih Alameddine by Artist Kara Walker


Memories of Modern Utopias: Wende's first large-scale art installation "Enrique Martínez Celaya: The Sextant" and Their "Intersections: The Architecture of Victor Adegbite and Charles Polónyi in Ghana"


The Surfaces that Show Receipts: “CraftTexas 2025”; Long-Running Annual Show

The Politics of Abstract Painting; Abstract painting is inherently progressive; Abstraction is somehow more serious than figuration

NEVENA PRIJIC


Nevena Prijić 'Three Moments of an Explosion' at OCHI, Los Angeles


Video: Nevena Prijić: Three Moments of an Explosion

BOOKS + WORDS

LA Review of Books: Chris Kraus’s “The Four Spent the Day Together”; Chris Kraus joins Kate Wolf to talk about her new novel, “The Four Spent the Day Together”


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

Opinion: "AI could never replace my authors. But, without regulation, it will ruin publishing as we know it," says Jonny Geller, literary agent and CEO of The Curtis Brown Group; Basic principles need to be enshrined to protect the sacred craft of storytelling from this automated onslaught

An Art Magazine? In This Economy? The Sudden, Unlikely Rise of 'Cultured'

Lawrence Weschler: Dario Fo (Nobel Prize for Literature, 1977) On Broadway (1984)


Book Preview: “Barnett Newman: Here” by Amy Newman

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDITOR


Gordy Grundy: Breaking News + Opinion
Cattelan's Throne Has a New Palace,
The Last Knight: Christopher Knight Hangs Up His Typewriter,
This Week in the Arts: Maid in LA; Reverend Ethan Acres Resurrects; Fear Not Chicken Little


Brooklyn Rail: Julian Schnabel’s In the Hand of Dante

HEARTS HANG HEAVY IN LOS ANGELES


Stromberg: Llyn Foulkes, Quintessential LA Artist, Dies at 91

Kenny Schachter Tells All: Art Basel’s Miami Pivot; Run-In With Larry G; Michael Werner Gallery Divorce: Gordon VeneKlasen is on his way out, and headed to Los Angeles. And rumors swirl about who bought what at the New York sales

SLOW FLUSH

Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet Fails to Make a Splash; Work sold for $12.1 million after an awkward minute during which the auctioneer attempted to draw out more bids

Barely Worth Its Weight in Gold: can art still be considered an asset class? As Maurizio Cattelan's toilet sells to its gold spot price, experts question just how secure of an investment art really is


Tulsa Kinney: Review: R. Crumb Wonders What It All Means; With his new comic book and exhibition, the artist explores his neurosis and mortality, but continues to question authority


New Pantone Color for 2025 [Editor's Note: That looks about right: Dirty Beige.]


Robert Therrien at the Broad


Yau: Paying Homage to the Iconoclasts of Abstraction; Exhibition traces the radical advancements in painting by Al Held, Elizabeth Murray, Judy Pfaff, and Frank Stella

Most Jaw-Dropping Costumes of the Miss Universe Competition

Debutante Mary Boone Reveals the Part of the 1980s Art World She Misses the Most

In New Documentary, Artist Marilyn Minter Overcomes the Burden of Shame in the Art World

DATALAND


'Dataland' Bumps Opening Again to Spring 2026; L.A.-based AI artist Refik Anadol's museum of AI art in DTLA; Under the artistic leadership of Refik Anadol Studio

(2024 Article) L.A. Gets First For-Profit Museum of AI; Financed by real estate developer Related California; Los Angeles has a tradition of artists starting DIY museums

Art Critic Jerry Saltz Gets Into an Online Skirmish With A.I. Superstar Refik Anadol; Saltz enraged Anadol after dismissing his installation at MoMA

Here Are the 10 Most-Searched Artists in 2025; Are You Listed?

ARCHITECTURE

Venice Architecture Biennale 2025; This year’s must-see shows range from a Nordic Pavilion exploring transgender spaces to a compelling Lebanese project confronting the realities of ecocide


PBS Video: The Case Study House Program; West Coast Modernism took hold in Southern California when Arts & Architecture Magazine sponsored the “Case Study House” program; One of the most significant architectural studies


Clean lines and a connection with nature: the modernist beach house jutting out over a Scottish loch; Couple’s dream home on Scotland’s rocky west coast is an audacious, Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired feat of architecture


Pablo Bronstein’s Speculative Architecture; By its imagining of the Temple of Solomon, Bronstein’s work can’t help but be pulled by the gravity of political discourse

Feminine Abandon of Danielle Mckinney; Painter enshrines private moments of ease within small, intimate canvases


Film Review: The True-ish Story of a Rediscovered Schiele Masterpiece; New film 'Auction' layers an awful lot of melodramatic meat on the skeleton of the facts to create its vision of the art world

The Lost City of Atlanta; Can the Atlanta art scene’s survivalist rhetoric and utopian visions make up for a lack of public funding?


A Life in the Arts: Jack Pierson Revisits His Miami Years at The Bass; Contemporaries with Basquiat and Haring

The Exploding Career: Following Controversial Tibet Project, Activists Denounce Cai Guo-Qiang Fireworks in Paris


Review: Lisa Yuskavage’s White Hot Women; Often considered provocative, her nude women embody a patriarchal status quo of feminine desirability, and the privileges that come with it


Good Read. The Disturbing Masterpiece We Were Never Meant to See; Francisco Goya painted 'Saturn Devouring His Son' on the walls of his country villa in the 1820s. The mysterious image has haunted art historians since

See it! One of America’s Oldest Art Collections Gets a Stunning New Home; Princeton University Art Museum's brand-new David Adjaye-designed building

ART & COMMERCE

Art Basel & UBS Survey of Global Collecting 2025

Seven takeaways from the 2025 Survey of Global Collecting

Book Review; The Women Artists Who Found Freedom in Old Age; Artists profiled in 'Grand Finales' refused to consign themselves to what the author calls “Little-Old-Lady-Land,” and opted to keep searching, pushing, and trying new things


Stephen Buscemi 'Playing In And Out of Tune' at M+B, Los Angeles

Greenberger: Long Life in the Arts; Alison Knowles, Fluxus Artist and Gallerist Who Spun Art from the Everyday, Dies at 92; 'Make a Salad', her most famous work


Elmer Guevara 'Yesterday Like Today / Ayer Cómo Hoy' at Charlie James Gallery

Surreal Moment When Salvador Dalí Met the Pope

Jasper Johns Is [Not] Over Painting; "(Johns) has not stopped painting after all"

East of Borneo: The Sick Shall Inherit the Earth; Palisades and Eaton Fires; Todd Haynes' 'Safe'; Land of Light and Air; Neutra; Rockhaven


What’s Behind the Boom in Rome’s Artist-Run Spaces? How spontaneous, informal networks are transforming the art scene of the eternal city


Murakami Deepfakes Hiroshige

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