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Couple Caught Having ‘Loud Sex’ Atop A Huge Elephant Sculpture Ahead of Art Basel In Miami Beach

Miami Millionaires Fight For Their Right To Party In Court Over Crackdown On Bashes During Art Basel


Following the Market’s Banana Boost, Experts’ Outlook for Art Basel Miami Beach Is Bright; Textile artists, who continue their rise in the market, and institutionally linked artists of color will have strong showings at the fair

Art Basel Miami Beach Opens With Buoyant Mood, $30 Million Picasso; 'Collectors are taking their time,' Larry Gagosian said

Art Basel Miami Beach 2024: Biggest Parties, Events, Screenings and Shows


Gagosian Goes to Miami; See What He Unpacked!

Art Basel Miami Beach’s Director on the Fair’s ‘Centrifuge of Tech, Fashion, Art, Music;' Bridget Finn is hosting 286 exhibitors in Florida this week. In a wide-ranging interview, she reveals how she does it—and what to expect


Lucy Sparrow Opens a Felted Vegetable Stand—With Fatboy Slim Playing Greengrocer; Artist has a new selection of felt "paintings," as well as 20,000 of her beloved stuffed sculptures

Kenny Schachter Dishes on $68 Million Ruscha, $5.1 Million Koons, While Avoiding Gagosian’s Wrath; Plus, our columnist goes behind the scenes at Sotheby's—and offers some book recommendations

LAWRENCE WESCHLER: More on the Great Exiled Afrikaner Poet/Painter/Political Prisoner and Anti-Apartheid Activist Breyten Breytenbach

MORE BANANAS!

NYC Fruit Vendor, 74, Who Sold $0.35 Banana (San Duct Tape) Devastated After It Became Viral $6.2M Artwork: ‘I Am A Poor Man’; New Owner of Cattelan’s 'Comedian, 'Justin Sun Offers to Buy 100,000 Bananas

Can You Have Your Banana and Eat It Too? This Thanksgiving, cryptocurrency billionaire Justin Sun reminds us all not to waste by eating Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian,” his $6.2 million banana

Media Goes Bananas! Click Here for 77,528 Articles! (Not including video and news channels)

Maurizio Cattelan: 'Life is often tragic and comedic at the same time'; Artist behind 2019's viral banana installation talks to us about his newest pigeon sculptures at Miami, what he hopes his art communicates to audiences, and why it was important for him to create a 9/11 memorial


‘Most Of The Value Comes From The Internet’: Collector Justin Sun Discusses The Future Of Digital Art And His Newly Acquired Banana Work At Hong Kong Event

The Banana? The End of Art?

Sotheby’s David Galperin On the Market for Maurizio Cattelan; Artist’s 'Comedian' is being sold as an ephemeral installation, where its value resides in a certificate of authenticity and the right to recreate the work. The buyer will, however, receive one banana


Video: Sotheby's Auction: The World's Most Expensive Banana: Maurizio Cattelan's 'Comedian' Sells for $6.2 Million

Summary: How a Banana Becomes Worth $6 Million

The Surprisingly Sunny Origins of the Frankfurt School; When a group of German Marxists arrived in Naples in the nineteen-twenties, they found a way of life that made them rethink modernity

New Yorker: Why Is Gratitude So Difficult? When we feel grateful, we’re doing something that’s more complex than it seems

THE DARK BOB SINGS OF ART AND ARTISTS


With his collected art works now ensconced in the Smithsonian Museum, The Dark Bob has just completed his ninth musical creation. The double album, "Ekphrasis Synesthesia, Songs For Artists," features 26 “genre-blurring” tribute songs celebrating, pondering and occasionally criticizing the visual artists that he loves. From Ed Ruscha to performance artists John Fleck and Barbara T. Smith; the list is rich. Click Here to hear the album, see videos and follow The Dark Bob on his tour of the art universe.

New Yorker, Listen to: Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art; To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence


How Cancel Culture Panics Ate the World; Set of peculiarly American anxieties has spread across continents


'Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West' Uncovers The Little-Known Stories of Professional and Creative Gains in The Region, and Especially in the Texas Panhandle

Van Gogh Was Not Fantasising When He Painted Mountain Landscapes With ‘The Two Holes’


Fast-Growing Market! Australian Gallery Sullivan+Strumpf on Supporting Asia-Pacific Artists; Incubator for underrecognized talent


Prices of Contemporary Indigenous American Art Have Risen More Than 1,000%; Long overdue boom in art by Native American artists is finally here


A Shameful US History Told Through Ledger Drawings; In the 19th century ledger drawings became a concentrated point of resistance for Indigenous people, an expression of individual and communal pride


Who is Takako Yamaguchi, the Under-Sung Painter Causing a Frenzy at Auction? After decades of quiet work, her evocative paintings breaking auction records and surpassing high estimates mark a sensational turn in the artist’s career


An Interview with Gagosian Artist Devin b. Johnson and the Influence of the Underground Museum

NOTHING BUT A SMALL CONTRACTION

The L.A. Art Scene Was Booming. Why Are Galleries Suddenly Closing?

American Art Galleries Closing in Mexico City: ‘Nobody Likes a Tourist’; Over the course of just three months this year, three mid-sized US galleries have shuttered their outposts in Mexico City: Morán Morán (Los Angeles), Deli (formerly based in New York and now permanently shuttered), and Commonwealth and Council (Los Angeles)

KISSICK KONTRETEMPS

Zwirner Podcast: Has Contemporary Art Lost Its Edge? With Dean Kissick and Helen Molesworth

Make Art Great Again? A Response to the Nostalgia and Backlash in Dean Kissick’s Clickbait Manifesto; Artist and critic Ajay Kurian dissects the writer’s argument that identity politics are the enemy of artistic innovation

Read Dean Kissick's Essay, Click Here; 'The Painted Protest, How Politics Destroyed Contemporary Art'

Make Art, Not War! Trump’s Pick to Lead the Navy Has No Military Experience — But He Does Have a Great Art Collection!

Maybe It's Not 'All About Me'? This Beloved Austrian Museum May Never Reveal Which Artist Is Doing Its Big Fall Show Next Year


Anselm Kiefer Unveils a Preview of His New 78-Foot Painting; Work will be part of Kiefer’s landmark exhibition in Amsterdam, the first-ever collaboration between two major Dutch institutions

The Pact of 'Oscar de la Rent Boy'; "I, Oscar Orlis de la Renta Fiallo, will give you, at all times and during all my life, and by will and testament after my death, one half of all my possessions, incomes and earnings..."


The Hort Legacy: How New York’s Boldest Art Collectors Are Preserving Their Vision; Susan and Michael Hort have transformed personal loss and a keen eye for emerging talent into a collection of over 5,000 works. Now, they’re cementing their legacy with a private museum at Art Omi Pavilions


Lauren Bon 'Concrete is Fluid' at Honor Fraser


Jasper Johns Doing Numbers


Jean-Léon Gérôme’s Art Epitomized Orientalism. A Major Show in Doha Reconsiders His Legacy; 400-work exhibition "Seeing Is Believing: The Art and Influence of Gérôme" present broader and more diverse perspectives on the artist, without overlooking the critical scrutiny

Fascinating Read! How Food, Art, and Life Intersected in Swiss Artist Daniel Spoerri’s Uncanny Assemblages


Kim Fay in Detroit: Heloisa Pomfret at N’namdi Center; ”The Brain” A genius in our midst


Q&A with Artist Hills Snyder, Part II: The artist answers big questions on art, road trips, life, love and the American West from artists, curators, art writers, critics and gallerists


Video: One Hour of David Lynch Listening To Rain, Smoking And Reflecting On Art


The 30 Best Art Books of 2024: This expansive genre includes any title with a bearing on the multifaceted art world — from Audrey Flack’s memoir to Caitlin Cass’s 'Suffrage Song'


Glenn Ligon, Gustav Metzger, and Jason Rhoades in Their Own Words in New Books From Hauser & Wirth Publishers


Tove Jansson (1914 - 2001) Found Refuge in Play; Finnish artist Tove Jansson’s childlike worlds are not pure escapism, but rather an expression of a state in which joy and fear are allowed to coexist


Rare U.S. Caravaggio Masterpiece Shows How A Murderer Painted Death; God Granted A Saint’s Wish: To Die as a Martyr. A Killer Painted The Moment


Christina's World: Christina Ramberg (1946-1995) was a Chicago Imagist, not so well known as some, with a truly amazing career

Artist Peter Doig on the Thrilling Show He’s Organized at Gagosian in New York; A Balthus borrowed from the Museum of Modern Art is at the heart of the exhibition, which unites canonical and obscure figures

Richard Serra Embossment and Gemini G.E.L.


PBS Video: 'The Cheech' Film tells Cheech Marin's Journey From Comedy Icon To Chicano Art Advocate; With gallerist Charlie James, LACMA's Michael Govan, Artist Patssi Valdez and many more

 

CERAMICS


American & European Art Pottery, at Auction

Asuke II Cruise Ship is a Floating Museum of Traditional Japanese Craftwork


Artist Manuel Mathieu has Recently Found Innovative Ways of Combining Painting and Ceramics

BOOKS + WORDS

How the Regime Captured Wikipedia; Inside the cultural revolution at wikipedia, which pivoted it from a decentralized database of all the world's knowledge to a top-down social activism and advocacy machine

Salman Rushdie’s Blasphemy Case, Shakespeare, Freud, and More; Blasphemy seems like an anachronistic offense. But Rushdie’s case is thoroughly modern

Paris Review: The Private Life: On James Baldwin

The Death of the Magazine; Or what happens when journalism forgets about quality writing

The 33 Best Plot Twists of the 21st Century, Ranked; Great plot twist doesn't just shock, it can make a movie truly unforgettable. Here are the best surprises, twists and turns we've seen since 2000, including "Us" and "The Visit"


Writing a Mystery? And Now, a Brief History of Poisoning

The Romantic Life of Robert Louis Stevenson; New Book “A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson” (Viking)

What I Learned About Loss And Joy From Joan Didion, My Mentor 60 Years My Senior: Cory Leadbeater

Is Blasphemy Illiberal? Salman Rushdie’s Thoroughly Modern Controversies


Interview with Pauline Curnier Jardin; Spends most of her time between Berlin and Rome; Multi-disciplinary practice:vfilm, installation, performance, drawing and sculpture

ILLUSTRATION


French Illustrator Paul Colin Posters: Masterworks from the Rennert Collection


Illustrations for 'Carmen' by Baron Hans Henning Voigt


Inspirational Video: Finding Artist, Illustrator and Muralist Wes Cook; A Touching and Meaningful Search for an Unknown Artist; Appreciate Everything Endlessly ... ... See the Art of Wes Cook, Click Here!


There’s Something Toxic About Megan Bickel’s Landscapes; Knowledge, visual perception, and the disruption of both by new technologies are at the heart of artist’s multimedia paintings


Emerging Artist Li Hei Di Calls Her London Studio a ‘Parallel Universe,’ Where Hong Kong’s Cinematic Heroines and Mystical Abstraction Meet; First solo exhibition with Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles in November


Death by Art: The Untimely Death of Luis Jimenez; His Demonic 'Blue Mustang' Sculpture Crushed Him

Sebastian Smee: When Weegee worked for Stanley Kubrick, things got a little crazy; Notorious photographer’s career was cratering when he took a gig on the set of ‘Dr. Strangelove’

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