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BASEL MIAMI 2025

Nate Freeman: The Only Art Basel Miami Beach Guide You Need to Read; Miami Beach still has a stranglehold over the pop-cultural imagination, despite some galleries sitting out this year

I. Art Daddy: Basel Edition Collector's Tips and Services; Champagne and Xanax Curation; Supervised Booth Interaction; Stuck in Dull Conversation? Emergency Exit Extraction Team; Fair Fatigue IV Drip ... ... II. Art Daddy’s Basel PTSD Prevention Guide; Protect Yourself From Art Boys, Tequila Activations, and “Experimental” Sound Installations

Page Six: Art Basel Miami Beach 2025: Biggest Parties and Events


Seven Miami Collectors to Know

Rare Basquiat Photos and More Art to See in Miami This Week


Worth a Look. Four Buzzy Emerging Artists to Watch for at Art Basel Miami Beach; Set to make striking debuts in Miami

Jeffrey Deitch Champions Ultra-Emerging Artists in Miami Pop-Up This year, young guns are in charge of his annual show


The Horror: Beeple’s Latest Spectacle “Regular Animals”; Miami Art Show Has Realistic Looking Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg Robot Dogs Pooping NFTs


New Yorker: The Best Jokes of 2025



“It isn’t like anywhere I know or have ever experienced before. But I feel at home here and it’s not just because I am following the well-trodden path of the pioneers heading west, it’s because I am also in the company of the likes of, Richard Long, David Hockney and Anthony Gormley who all came to Las Vegas from the UK."
~ Essay by Artist Zoe Camper



Art in Art Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting


CERAMICS


Rising Artist Ginny Casey Has Spent Years Painting a Make-Believe Ceramics Studio


French Porcelain Makes A Showboating Appearance in New York


GALLERY GROOVES

New Art Conglomerate: Pace Gallery, Emmanuel Di Donna And David Schrader Join Forces; Power threesome will launch, specialising in secondary market sales


How Simões de Assis Built a Global Platform for Brazilian Art; Family-run gallery’s long-term, intergenerational vision reflects a 40-year commitment to expanding the reach of the art and artists of Brazil

Gallerist Wendi Norris Bet On Women Surrealists—Now the Market Has Caught Up


PHOTOGRAPHY


‘SEEEU 2025 European Photography Month in Tokyo’ is Under Way! AI-generated nostalgia and a Nazi horse: A trip beyond understanding; In pictures; Features shots by European image-makers displayed in public, from cafes to construction sites across the capital


Amazing World of Fungi; In Photos



DISPATCHES FROM THE EDITOR


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This Week in the Arts: 2025 Rage Bait Tops List and New Color for '26 Is an End of Inspiration Off-White; State Sanctioned Galleries; Artists Are Dying, I've never Been Happier
Two Schools of Social Realism, Celebrating Political Polarity
Criticism in a Post-Racial Society, Coogler's 'Sinners.' And a Few Laughs.



Is 2026 the Year of State-Sanctioned Art & Culture?


Parting Shots and Final Words: Former Art Critic Christopher Knight



JR Is Wrapping Paris’s Pont Neuf in a Nod to Christo and Jeanne-Claude; For three weeks in 2026, Pont Neuf will become a grotto; a “gift to Paris”


Yau: Tongji Philip Qian Finds the Comedy in Conceptual Art; Differs from most conceptual artists and their self-imposed strategies: even when he follows the rules, he undermines himself



Kim Fay in Detroit: "Al Held: Constructing Abstraction" at David Klein Gallery



The Weltempfänger Origins. AM or FM?


ART CAR


Video: Explore Lowrider Culture, Creative Obsession and Brotherhood with the Drastic Auto Club; One of Oldest Clubs in New York City



To Dream the Impossible Dream: Lisa “DragonMistress” Nigro’s Latest Quest



Review: “So, This is Love”: A Lesson in Taking Black Worlds Seriously; "Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe" at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston



Can a Painter Eschew Style? A Look at Tristan Unrau’s Big Swing; Artist, who is presenting works at Art Basel Miami Beach, will have a major solo show with Kordansky Gallery in March 2026


WOMEN'S ISSUES

Do We Still Need All-Woman Art Shows?


Addressing 'The Woman Question, 1550–2025’; With the monolithic survey now open in the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, the show’s curator reflects on why reassessing women artists’s presence in the canon remains essential


Review: “Lines of Resolution: Drawing at the Advent of Television and Video” at the Menil Drawing Institute, Houston

Don’t Piss On Me And Tell Me It’s Painting; How a taxonomy developed, where Warhol's Piss paintings are just the ones with piss on gesso


The Stellar Stoic: You Still Have Time, Pt. II


THREADS


Tapestries That Contain the World; Nour Jaouda creates a patchwork space where history, memory, and landscape are made, mourned, and ever-returning


One Fine Show: “Robert Rauschenberg, Fabric Works of the 1970s” at the Menil Collection; Century after his birth, Rauschenberg’s art continues to challenge notions of meaning, value and the boundaries of artistic expression




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Frisky, Feminine, Film Noir, Official Trailer 'A Private Life'; Directed by Award-winning Rebecca Zlotowski; Starring Jodie Foster, Daniel Auteuil, Virginie Efira, Matthieu Amalric


Video: Behind the Scenes, 'Nouvelle Vague,' the Great Richard Linklater's History Lesson Is Worth a Watch; Paris and Cinema in the 60's. Zoey Deutch is a bright shining pro


All Singin'! All Dancin'! Official Trailer 'The Testament of Ann Lee'; Directed by Mona Fastvold (wife of Director Brady Corbet); Written by Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet; Starring Amanda Seyfried, Lewis Pullman and Thomasin McKenzie; Based on a true story

Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $83 Billion Deal to Create a Streaming Giant

With Hollywood Strapped For Cash, Saudi Arabia Is Re-Emerging As A Key Financial Backer; A-listers and dealmakers headed to the kingdom's coastal city of Jeddah for the Red Sea Film Festival this week

Review 'Marty Supreme' Actor Timothée Chalamet a Smash In Spectacular Screwball, Ping-Pong Nightmare; ('New film from Josh Safdie' is a Warning of Expectations); "The pure craziness is a marvel"

Udo Kier, German Actor Who Appeared in ‘My Own Private Idaho,’ ‘Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein,’ Dies at 81

His Satanic Majesty; Udo Kier pops up everywhere, from blockbuster to art house. But his real love is playing antichrists and sickly vampires


Official Trailer 'Mother Mary'; Written and Directed by David Lowery; Starring Anne Hathaway, Michaela Coel, Hunter Schafer, Kaia Gerber and FKA Twigs

Comedic Genius. With 'I Love LA,' Rachel Sennott Takes Her Place as Hollywood’s Reigning Zillennial; Sennott on surviving her 20s, then turning the experience into “Entourage for internet girls”—after getting some sage advice from Issa Rae and Lena Dunham

Quentin Tarantino Recalls Laughing Through Mel Gibson's 'The Passion of the Christ,' "Getting Kind of Turned On by the Beating"



Buried Alive with Peter Sellers; When the great comedic actor agreed to star in 'The Blockhouse,' a grim World War II drama, it seemed like his chance to be taken seriously— but the production turned into a comedy of errors


Official Trailer 'No Other Choice'; Directed by Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook; Starring Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Yeom Hye-ran


Video: Three Lessons That Modern Cinema Can Learn From Buster Keaton


Most Expensive Silent Film Shot Ever: Train Wreck From "The General" (Directed by and Starring Buster Keaton 1926)

Incredible Writer-Director Todd Field Todd Field on ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ and His First Meeting with Stanley Kubrick: ‘I Know Who the F**k You Are, I Hired You;’ Only His “First Cut"

‘Wuthering Heights’: Director Emerald Fennell Says Her Adaptation Is Her “First Disemboweling By The Baby God”; "Her most combustible swing yet"

Fascinating Read. James Cameron Says Netflix Movies Shouldn’t Be Eligible for Oscars

If You Build It: Three independent cinemas opening in New York City are betting that audiences still prefer collective experiences of art and urban space

PTA (Director Paul Thomas Anderson) in Fortnite? Warner Bros. Rolls the Dice on ‘One Battle After Another’ Marketing to the Gamer; Thorough? Desperate?


Jenn Nkiru: 'The Great North': Interview with the Filmmaker; Discusses the film’s formal and historical considerations and its place in Nkiru’s artistic practice


Official International Trailer 'MEGADOC'; Directed by Mike Figgis; Intimate look at the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s epic sci-fi drama MEGALOPOLIS


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