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2026 Whitney Biennial Reveals Its 56 Participating Artists and Collectives; 82nd Edition, still untitled


Vielmetter's Artist Math Bass can type a new aquisition onto their CV. Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles is the new owner of their sculpture 'Full Body Parentheses'

America's Dull Bipartisan Obsession; Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Rose to Influence and Got Rich

Southwest Contemporary Magazine‘s Winter 2025-26 Art Guide

2025 California Biennial Is Trapped in the Past; Show's displays of juvenilia from established artists say little about adolescents today and make its message inscrutable

LUSCIOUS MARILYN MINTER

New Yorker Profile: Marilyn Minter’s Rapturous Visions; Artist was shunned by the art world for being too vulgar. Her new show embraces the female body, with muses like Lizzo, Padma Lakshmi, and Jane Fonda

In New Documentary, Artist Marilyn Minter Overcomes the Burden of Shame in the Art World; "Pretty Dirty: The Life and Times of Marilyn Minter"

"Maybe it's the wide open spaces. Maybe it's the neon sunsets battling neon lights for attention. Maybe it's the lack of artistic trends that bombard us from white cube spaces or the “art world” in general. Whatever it is, Las Vegas artists, for the most part, do their own thing.
~ Essay by Nancy Good


Southwest Contemporary: Nancy Good: Radical Futures; Las Vegas-based artist Nancy Good blends AI-generated imagery with handcrafted process in a new series of cyborgian self-portraits

Justice Delayed: Hidden Holocaust Archive Must Force An Art-World Reckoning; Old works, New Light; Cloudy legalities


Review: Jennifer Packer Confronts Grief Through Paintings That Cut Deep; Painter mines an iconographical language of grief through delicate, translucent paintings imbued with a sense of intimacy and intensity

Interview: Woody De Othello Transformed Pérez Art Museum Miami into a Living Temple; Reflection, blending ancestral memory, spirituality, and immersive sculpture

ARCHITECTURE


Wow! New 'Studio Museum in Harlem' Returns Triumphant; 82,000-square-foot, $300 million building; Designed by Adjaye Associates with Cooper Robertson

The Modern Homes Hidden Inside Ancient Ruins; Meet the architects taking tumbledowns to the next level

Inside the Fascinating History of America’s Spite Houses That Prove Revenge Is a Home Best Built Bold


Sotheby’s New Breuer Home Dazzles, Even If the Iconic Building’s Elevators Remain Slow; Everything old is new again! Herzog and de Meuron's renovation delivers fresh glamor, but auction staffers will have to play musical chairs

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDITOR


Gordy Grundy: Breaking News + Opinion
Hopefully a Significant Pop Culture Moment
Week In The Arts: Math Bass Acquisition for MOCA and Vielmetter; David Shrigley; YouTube Colossus
Say It Ain't So: Art Economics

Best Art World Movies of 2025; Year’s defining art-world films explore collapsing partnerships, digital experiments, and the urgent hope that art can still save us

WEST COAST JAZZ

Ted Gioia: Will West Coast Jazz Finally Get Some Respect?

Contemporary Art Finds a Home Gallery at Couper Russ in Las Vegas


Matthew Couper: New Series Devoted to Kazimir Malevich

ARTIST DAVID SHRIGLEY

Review: 'Pass the Spoon' Painter David Shrigley Serves Up a Macabre Kitchen Opera; Shrigley's Career As an International Success Continues to Expand

Review: Yours for £1m! David Shrigley Puts 10 Tons Of Old Rope On Display In A Gallery; Is the pranksy artist’s latest show a worrying comment about Britain’s discarded rope problem – or a joke at the expense of the buy-anything art world?

Instagram ... ... Stephen Friedman Gallery


Thumbs Up for British Artist David Shrigley!

Podcast Video: Artist David Shrigley: 'I Stopped Watching The News When Trump Won'

GOOD GIGS

Yoko Ono Will Help Transform JFK Airport’s New Terminal; $4.2 billion upgrade to the New York airport will include art installations from the city's biggest institutions

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Design Legacy Hits the Road in a Fancy Airstream Trailer; Only 200 units will be built, each to order and priced at $184,900

BOOKS + WORDS

Glamour and Grit: Anjelica Huston’s Cultured Coolness; Oscar winner digs into her groovy youth in swinging London, her long entanglement with Jack Nicholson, and so much more in her two essential autobiographies

Nick Cave (of the Bad Seeds fame) on the Best Children’s Book Ever Written

'1984' Versus 'A Brave New World'; Two Giants Collide; George Orwell and Aldous Huxley

Jeeves and the Well-Meaning Acolytes; Collection of 12 new stories about P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster, including tales by Roddy Doyle and Dominic Sandbrook, update the duo

THREADS


Discover: Seven Contemporary Textile Artists


Interview: Diné (Navajo) Weaver’s Sacred Looms; Artist DY Begay, best known for her abstract textiles featuring undulating bands of color, speaks about her decades-long practice of experimenting with pigment and form

STAGE STRUCK


(Funny and Insightful) Review: Michelle Williams Navigates Choppy Waters in ‘Anna Christie’
Eugene O’Neill’s less-revived dockside romance sails unsteadily in Brooklyn

Tom Hanks Play Opened “This World of Tomorrow” to Mixed-Negative Reviews (Except the NY Times), Celeb Pals Martin Short, Meryl Streep Hit Opening Night

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

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Official First Teaser Steven Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day'; Screenplay by David Koepp; Starring Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo, Wyatt Russell, and Henry Lloyd-Hughes


Return of Acclaimed Director Gore Verbinski, 'Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die'; Starring Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, Asim Chandhry, Tom Taylor, Juno Temple

Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ IMAX Prologue Shows Matt Damon Emerging From the Trojan Horse and an Epic Battle Beginning

New Images of Christopher Nolan's Next Movie," The Odyssey"; Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland are a family divided


Worst to Best: 17 Christmas Cartoons from Animation’s Golden Age

New Film, Not a Remake. Set against the backdrop of contemporary London, “Heist of Benin” is described as a thriller that intertwines action, love and art restitution; New Ava DuVernay movie; Starring David Oyelowo

‘Sinners’ Mob Targets More Critics; Pushback Over Variety’s Year-End List Snub

Gordy Grundy: Criticism in a Post-Racial Society; And a Few Laughs

Francis Ford Coppola: "Plans to issue a director’s cut of "Megalopolis," to be called "Megalopolis Unbound"; There’s No Age Of Woman That Isn’t Beautiful; Over his own home-cooked chicken cacciatore, the legendary director reflects on marriage, grande dames and his palazzo hotel near the Ionian sea

Inside Hollywood’s AI Freak-Out, Featuring Darren Aronofsky, Natasha Lyonne, Tilly Norwood, and a Lot of Nervous Anonymous Sources; Hollywood knows AI is a profound technology, bound to be transformative, and also bound to replace humans. But the players are having an incredibly hard time being honest about it with one another


Official Teaser 'The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2026)'; Starring Joseph Zada, Jesse Plemons, Ralph Fiennes, Glenn Close, Kieran Culkin, Elle Fanning, Mckenna Grace, Maya Hawke, and Kelvin Harrison Jr.


Remake Coming! Official Trailer 'That Man From Rio' (1964); Directed by Philippe de Broca; Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Françoise Dorléac


Official Rom-Com Trailer 'Under The Stars'; Filmmaker Michelle Danner; Starring Toni Collette, Andy Garcia, and Alex Pettyfer

Priciest Movie Ticket In NYC Is Hiding Beneath A Tribeca Hotel — And Nearly Impossible To Book


Bleeding Yellow and the Birth of Digital Noir;: How Director Robert Rodriguez and Graphic Novelist Frank Miller Turned a Comic Book into a Bleeding, Breathing Canvas; the Brilliant "Sin City" (2005)


Cozy Up With Ten Time Travelling Paris Movies


del Toro's Audacious and Excellent Debut, 4K Restoration Trailer 'Cronos'; Recommended

‘The Boys’ Teaser Trailer: Prime’s Mega-Popular Violent and Mature Superhero Series Comes To An End


Official Doc Trailer 'Teenage Wasteland'; Filmmaker duo Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine


Behind The Scenes '28 Years Later: The Bone Temple'; With Director Nia Dacosta

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