BRINGING HOME THE PRIZED BACON
WSJ: Elaine Wynn’s Estate Donated $142 Million Francis Bacon Painting to L.A. Museum; Much Sought after “Three Studies of Lucian Freud”; Other masterpieces in the casino magnate’s trove will head to auction this fall
Poundstone: Wynn Bequeaths Francis Bacon Triptych to LACMA
Gordy Grundy: What a Role Model; The Continuing Art and Influence of Elaine Wynn
Gisela Colón: Earthworks and New Worlds; Monograph of Global Site Installations from Skira; Essay by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Laughs with Chen & Lampert: Art and Ecstatic Ambience in Las Vegas’s "Trip Trap Art" Vortex
WSJ: Industrialist, Art Collector and Champion-Horse Breeder On Why Great Art Matters — And How To Pick A Winner!
Artist Alina Lindquist’s Portraits of Avi Kwa Ame Dazzle at Nevada Humanities
Attic Discovery Reveals the Moment Man Ray Went Avant-Garde; 1913 watercolor sketch that just sold at auction offers rare insight into the Surrealist icon’s early artistic breakthrough
New Medium in the Making! Inside the Brave New World of Quantum Art: ‘Consciousness Is Too Limited’; Meet the artists who are translating the strangeness of quantum fields into new ways of making, and seeing, art
PHOTOGRAPHY
Art Review: A God’s-Eye-View of Earth’s Destruction; Edward Burtynsky’s photographs once offered a prescient vision of large-scale anthropogenic changes; now, they feel more and more like a pretext for aesthetic dazzle
Annie Leibovitz Shoots Fifty Shades of Anne Hathaway; Internet is up in arms about the art-inspired Vogue shoot, with many lambasting Leibovitz’s choice of color and lighting, or lack thereof; See what they are screaming about
Joining the Crowd: 'Shoot Like Wes: A Practical Guide to Creating Your Own Wes Anderson Photography'
Artist Video: Trippy and Beautiful Repetition; Official Video by Kevin McGloughlin
Archaeologists Recover Remnants of a Long-Lost Ancient Wonder from the Lighthouse of Alexandria
Karl Benjamin, His Influence and Many Friends; Defining Hard-Edge
David Rappeneau Is a Fast-Rising Star at Gladstone Gallery. But No One Knows Who He Is—Not Even His Gallery; Enigmatic drawings of David Rappeneau and his absence from the spotlight have fueled his cult following and career
Rainey Knudson: My Taste is Not Myself
‘The Hot Tar Splashed Everywhere’: Remembering The Dark Magic of Derek Jarman; In 1989, artist was living on the Kentish coast when he created a series of mysterious paintings with a bonfire and tar. A new exhibition brings these so-called Black Paintings to life – and shows why they still resonate today
Dino Valdez 'Anachronism' at M Contemporary Art
Waiting to Be Discovered? Curators Reveal How Emerging Artists Can Get Noticed; "You can't just sit in the studio," experts say
Olfactory Dialectics; Art and Smell; Learning through ambivalence and through our bodies
Beats the Heck Out of a Lobby Installation! Artist Jacky Tsai’s Painting Launches Into Space, Literally
ARCHITECTURE
Ten Recent Buildings That Prove Domed Architecture Is Back In Vogue
Why Architects Are Talking About This Giant Timber Ring at Expo 2025; Sou Fujimoto’s soaring glulam megastructure might be the only reason to visit Osaka’s struggling World Expo—and a masterclass in scale and sustainability
PHOTOGRAPHY
Space Odyssey: Tadao Ando’s Lessons in Light; From Paris to Osaka to St. Louis, a new coffee-table book collects the Japanese architect’s bright, delicate designs, photographed by Richard Pare
‘People Laughing In The Galleries’: Finding Humor In Photography; At The Phoenix Arts Museum, New Exhibition Displays Different Approaches To Comedy Within Photography
Koons Is Hulk Is Koons; "...back to Yayoi Kusama to find an artist more embedded, photographically, in their own work"
Sink or Swim; In Tod Papageorge’s photographs of L.A. beachgoers in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, he transforms formally challenging scrums into theatrical vignettes or semi-abstractions
Dust Storm Blows Away Ukrainian Artwork at Burning Man; Monumental work “Black Cloud” was destroyed within hours of installation on Ukraine’s Independence Day; Video
WHISPERS OF THE SELDOM SPOKEN
“We Rarely Speak of the Shadow of (Nuclear Bomb) Annihilation” Filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow on Her Upcoming Thriller ‘A House of Dynamite’
Black Rain, Gold Screen; “There is a six-panel folding screen, donated recently by a Hiroshima family, whose gold expanses are streaked by black rain (from the Hiroshima blast): the most terrifying abstract painting I have ever seen”
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Holds Thousands of “A-Bomb Drawings by Survivors"
The Pleasure of Patterns in Art; Interplay between repetition and variation is central to how we perceive structure, rhythm, and depth across mediums
Did Michelangelo Pull Off Art History’s Greatest Hoax With ‘Laocoon’? Monumental sculpture stands as an exemplar of Hellenistic artistry—but not to everyone
One Fine Show: ‘Picasso and Paper’ at the Cleveland Museum of Art; The Role Picasso's experimentation with the material played in his overall artistic practice is showcased brilliantly here
Emerging Artist Li Hei Di Calls Her London Studio a ‘Parallel Universe,’ Where Hong Kong’s Cinematic Heroines and Mystical Abstraction Meet; Chinese-born artist had her first solo exhibition with Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles
ARCHITECTURE
How Architectural Sculpture in the U.S. Reimagines Public Space
Architect Who Designed the Iconic Entrances to the Paris Métro Is Finally Getting the Attention He Deserves; When Hector Guimard’s subway designs were unveiled in the early 1900s, the public rejected his Art Nouveau style
13 Frank Lloyd Wright Legacy Homes That Shaped Modern Architecture
Marek Wolfryd and Michele Lorusso “A Collapsing Reflection” at John Doe Gallery
One Fine Show: “From the Heart to the Hand: Dolce & Gabbana” at the Grand Palais; Exhibition embraces Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana's deep theatricality by building sets in which their baroque outfits can really chew the scenery
STREETWISE
Massive Mural of Ashamed Statue of Liberty Emerges in France; Dutch street artist Judith de Leeuw said she created the piece in response to the United States’s cruel immigration policies
Street Artist Michael Stewart’s Death Still Haunts New York; In 1985, police were acquitted in the killing of a graffiti artist and painter, a grisly act that galvanized the city’s art underground. Why has he been forgotten?
Graffiti Legend Brings His ‘Dark Green Daze’ to Ibiza; Showcased by Dark Green in a private residence, the solo presentation marks the artist's debut on the Spanish island
RATTLE OF THE DYING PATRIARCHY
Slow Death of the Contemporary Art Gallery; Hunger for new voices and unconventional methods is reshaping the market; “The old model was built on scarcity and prestige. The new one runs on access and attention.”
‘It Was the Greatest Adventure of My Life’: Gallerist Olivier Babin and the True Story of CLEARING Closing; "We scaled up pretty fast, because that’s what it’s about," he says. "That was pure magic. It was an adventure, a trip, the purest part of my life—there was no money, but we made it work."
One of our faves, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery to Close Los Angeles Space
'Art World’s on Life Support, I Need More Potent Weed, and I’m Still Not Invited to the Zwirner Wedding': The Last Art Daddy Dispatch Until the Fall Season
Ted Gioia: 30 Ways to Revitalize Arts and Culture "I Can Dream, Can't I?"
Wild! NYC Gilded Age Mansion With Ties To Mark Rothko and Elvis Asks Just $9.5M — But There’s A Catch
The Taxidermist A-Listers Call When They Need a Ram’s Head for the Wall; Amber Maykut has sold butterflies to Drew Barrymore, an antler mount to Nick Jonas and a miniature white horse to Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka
Truly Remarkable; Everything You Need to Know About the Bayeux Tapestry; As the U.K. prepares to receive the 950-year-old, 230-foot artwork, centuries of shared — and contested — cultural history come back into focus
‘The Ocean Is Spitting Our Rubbish Back’: Italy’s Museum Of Plastic Pollution; Faded items dating back to 1950s have been found on Italian beaches, underscoring plastic’s problematic longevity
CARLA: Artmaking and Apocalypse: Four Artists on Author Octavia E. Butler
How Reginald Sylvester II Transforms Dark Industrial Histories Into Powerful Abstract Meditations; In this Source Material, we follow the rising artist on trips from Home Depot to the streets of Ridgewood, Queens
Worth a Read. Who Was Georges Seurat and Why Was He So Important?
The Stellar Stoic: You Still Have Time,
Pt. II
How Egg Tempera Painters Crack the Mystery of the Perfect Yolk; We’ve hatched a practical guide to the centuries-old egg-based paint
THREADS
Fiber Art Has Officially Taken Over New York’s Museums and Galleries; At Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, Sikkema Malloy Jenkins Gallery, American Folk Art Museum, International Studio & Curatorial Program, Magenta Plains, Albertz Benda, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Glorious Show of Textile Art Unspools in 18th-Century New York Building; In-demand curator Elissa Auther of New York’s Museum of Arts and Design
Susie Vickery: Embroidery in Motion
What CLEARING’s Closure Tells Us About the Fragile Economics of Art Galleries; CLEARING's untimely end lays bare the high pressures and paradoxes that are challenging, and potentially reshaping, the traditional gallery system
See the Show: Gio Swaby, 'How We Go' at Vielmetter Los Angeles
Patti Smith Says Her New Memoir Cover, Shot by Robert Mapplethorpe, Captures “a Deeply Transitional Moment”; Smith’s forthcoming memoir, she shares the intimate love story behind the image
"Art World’s on Life Support, I Need More Potent Weed, and I’m Still Not Invited to the Zwirner Wedding": The Last Art Daddy Dispatch Until the Fall Season Madness
See the Pics. George Lucas Offers a Peek Into His New Museum: ‘A Temple to the People’s Art’; Filmmaker previewed the ambitious project at his first-ever appearance at San Diego's Comic-Con
School That Became a Refuge For Artists From Georgia O’Keeffe to Tony Smith; As the Art Students League celebrates its 150th anniversary, an exhibition highlights the school's remarkable alumni; Has Influenced Generations of Artists
Never Heard of Her... Doc Trailer: 'Monk in Pieces' Film about Artist Meredith Monk: Composer, Performer, Visionary
Interview: Artist Jerry West “It Was a Magic Thing, Our Life On That Little Prairie World”
Rad! NYC Subway Mural Evokes Hilma af Klint’s Mysticism; Abstract mural by feminist collective Hilma’s Ghost draws from tarot archetypes and hero myths to honor the journeys commuters embark on every day
ARCHITECTURE
From Breton Brut to Brick: A Review of The Tuskegee Chapel at Yale
Frank Lloyd Wright’s The Fountainhead – A Shining Example Of Usonian Design – Is Now On The Market; Quintessential Wright home – built in a vibrant mid-century neighbourhood – was named after a novel inspired by the architect; See the pics
David Sellers, Architect Who Built What He Designed, Dies at 86; He believed that architects could design better buildings if they did the construction themselves. His do-it-yourself approach caught on
THE STELLAR STOIC: What This Philosophy Is Here For
THREADS
Celebrating 100 Years Since George Hewitt Myers Established The Textile Museum
Six Textile Works at MoMA That Reframe the Story of Modern Abstraction; Landmark exhibition at MoMA reframes textiles not as peripheral craft, but as central to the evolution of modern abstraction—from Anni Albers to Rosemarie Trockel
Kenny Nguyen’s Beautiful Refusal; People of Color Are Often Called Upon To Perform Their Identities, But Nguyen’s Lush Tapestries Largely Avoid That Trap
Art Critic Waldemar Januszczak: The Art Of Getting High, From Tea To Ayahuasca
Review: Nanette Carter’s Abstract Balancing Act; In this retrospective, the Montclair, New Jersy-raised artist gives the viewer a look at an artistic language that continues to evolve and shed layers to reveal its essence
In ‘Spirit Level,’ at David Zwirner, Tau Lewis Blurs Boundaries Between Matter and Meaning; Through a deeply personal process of collecting, sorting and assembling remnants and found objects, Lewis channels the unseen—creating sculptures that function as spiritual transmitters bridging lived experience and the divine
DUCK AND COVER!
Horrors of the Atomic Age Through Artists’ Eyes; Art and literature in 'Invisible Colors' turn our gaze toward the blinding fury of the atom’s explosion in its singular purpose to raze and slaughter
Arthur Beaumont (1890-1978); As the official artist for Operation Crossroads – a series of nuclear tests that took place in the Marshall Islands, Beaumont recorded the history with a series of watercolors. The events produced a fascinating color palette. See what he saw! Click Here.
Visual Language of the Nuclear Age; Eighty years after the US bombed Hiroshima, a show tracks the cultural reception of both nuclear weapons and nuclear power
When in Las Vegas, Visit The Atomic Museum!
Speaking Soil and Glowing Skies: What Not to Miss at SITE SANTA FE International
The Free Press: Social Media Shortens Your Life. Here’s How to Get Time Back; Apps are designed like casinos: endless, curvilinear paths that can be perpetually navigated on autopilot. The key is to find right-angle turns.
The Last Living Monet, His Garden; Nearly 800,000 tourists visit Claude Monet’s gardens each year between April and October
Why Collectors Are Lining Up for Rising Artist Jiab Prachakul’s Elusive, Melancholic Portraits; Tap into the South Asian diasporic experience, are now on view at Contemporary Austin in Texas
STREETWISE
Monoliths and Market Forces: SpY’s Golden Intervention in Lille, France
Review: When Graffiti Met Conceptual Art; 'Gordon Matta-Clark: NYC Graffiti 1972/3' Has The Feel Of A Time Capsule That Never Veers Too Far Into Didacticism, While The Art Almost Makes You Feel Like You’re There
Artist Known for Scaling Buildings Was Arrested at His Show’s Opening; Isaac Wright took a vertiginous photograph of the Empire State Building after he climbed to the top of its spire — evidence the police used to arrest him
THREADS
Podcast: Re-Air: How Textiles Took Over the Art World
Dutch Artist Mirjam Gielen: Down to Earth Organic Embroidery
Interview with California-based Artist Daniella Woolf: The Creative Paper Trail
Appropriate Size Oldenburg Good Humor Bars, 2025
Michael Govan On Building a Museum for the 21st Century; LACMA director and CEO sees the museum of the future as not just a repository for art but also a civic space for intercultural connection and global exchange
LACMA Commissions a Ten Foot Long Sculpture of a Lauren Halsey Sphinx; Visible from the street, particularly at night
Financial Times: Art World’s Age of Empires Might Be Over; As growth-chasing dealers opt out of the market, Gen Z gallerists look to replace conquest with collaboration
Growth in the Age of Uncertainty; Hauser & Wirth to Open New Palo Alto Outpost in 2026
Wifredo Lam Collapses Past, Present and Future; His print show at STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery, Singapore, upends the question: ‘What does it mean for an artist to be ahead of their time?’
Art Daddy: Conversation with Busy Leo Braudy of Capital Art Advisory; Mostly Famous for a Cameo on Netflix’s 'Love Is Blind'; Gallerist Lessons; Ick Gmail Art Advisors; "It’s about flipping the work for profit while patting themselves on the back for being “progressive”
LAWRENCE WESCHLER DOUBLE HEADER
Another Spinout with Filmmaker Walter Murch; On Saccadic Cinema or The Uncanny Persistence of the Persistence of Vision
An Extended Passage from My Essay “Valkyries Over Iraq"; "Heart of Darkness" Documentary; The Year Being 1876...
New Music Review: The Weeknd: 'Hurry Up Tomorrow'; A Record That Will Floor You... And Drive You Up The Wall
Film Director of the Dylan Biopic 'A Complete Unknown,' James Mangold Is The Child Of The Artists Robert Mangold and Sylvia Plimack Mangold; Growing Up in 1960's Lower East Side
How Artist, With a Funny Bone, Andrea Fraser Turned Institutional Critique Into a Lifelong Practice; Fraser reflected on the politics of making art, teaching with purpose and holding museums accountable in a spectacle-driven culture
Did Michelangelo Pull Off Art History’s Greatest Hoax with ‘Laocoon’? Monumental sculpture stands as an exemplar of Hellenistic artistry—but not to everyone
Henri Matisse Was a Good Dad; Matisse's daughter Marguerite inspires a new angle on the ubiquitous artist; Ubiquitous? Artist work enters public domain this year!
Nothing Is What It Seems in Magritte’s Most Iconic Artwork; We dive into the visual riddle that is René Magritte's 'The Treachery of Images', art history's most infamous pipe
Willem de Kooning’s Jacket: Artist Megan Craig Asks "Can I be worthy of an inheritance from my hero?"
When Hilma af Klint Found the Soul in Plants; Her 'Nature Studies' invoke the promise of something greater, a direct line from the material world to the spiritual experience that art is presumed to offer
Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Questionnaire: Artist Holly Herndon
Artwork from Arab and Israeli Children Proves That Peace Is Possible in the Middle East
DEPP AND MODI
The New Johnny Depp Collection Has Been Revealed; Limited-edition prints, two deeply personal artworks, revisit an idyllic chapter of the life of the artist
Motion Picture Review: "Modigliani – Three Days on the Wing of Madness"; Director Johnny Depp’s painter as bohemian badass
What If We Were Wrong About Pono? A look back at Neil Young's doomed hi-res audio player on its 10th anniversary
VINCENT VALDEZ
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Adds Vincent Valdez Series; 'Excerpts for John' Series of six grisaille paintings of a military funeral for childhood best pal
First Museum Survey Of Works By Vincent Valdez On View at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
BAS JAN ADER
Bas Jan Ader Made Fate Into an Art; So much of what Ader explored was about surrendering to destiny, but also about heeding internal calls — to adventure, open horizons, and the sublime
Retrospective Dispels Myths Surrounding Bas Jan Ader
Video: 'Dreadnaught' Short Experiential Film on Bas Jan Ader
Mavis Pusey’s First Solo Museum Exhibition Spotlights Her Work in Geometric Abstraction at ICA Philadelphia; (1928–2019)
New Yorker Cartoons for the Week!
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Gordy Grundy: Annually, Over 80 Art Shows, Across 15 Galleries, Exhibiting 400 Artists; In Las Vegas, the Engine of the Fine Arts Community Is the Public Library
BAD, BAD BANKSY! THE BRICK WALL WAS A TEMPLE
New Banksy Mural Appears at Royal Courts of Justice; Too Contemporary? Quickly Covered Up
Haunting Shadow of Scrubbed Banksy Mural Goes Viral
Banksy: A Look at the Artist’s Other Works That Were Destroyed
Banksy Could Be Forced to Reveal Identity as UK Police Probe Latest Artwork; “Criminal damage” "Grade I listed heritage designation of the building"
Las Vegas Artist Sydney Gallindo and Her New Documentary 'Unseen Territories'; Premiere at Nuwu; Site-Responsive Exhibition for cultural reclamation and collective authorship; Flags and parades
A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
Maybe it's the new doc out about singer, actress and Mick Jagger's squeeze Marianne Faithfull. Or maybe it's about that Ukranian refugee, safe on a public bus in North Carolina, who was slaughtered by a ghoul straight out of a Blum House horror. Or maybe it's the inconceivable assassination of a lawful, earnest seeker. I just can't get this sad and adamant song out of my head.
OUR MODERN LIVING
Does Minimalism Actually Make You Happier? Yes. Sharing actual stuff: 'skills, food, time, labor. You know, community.'
Neuroscientist’s Guide To Banishing Stress, Self-Doubt and Loneliness; Don’t believe everything ‘wellness’ brands and books say – for a happier, healthier life, make your brain your best friend
The Stellar Stoic: Don’t Just Settle for a Shortcut, Do the Work
Barrick Museums’s ‘Living Here’ Exhibit Examines Asian Identity, Memory and Belonging
Lawrence Weschler's Issue No. 98: Threadworks and the Needlepoint Vermeer; Collecting amateur needlepoint knock-offs of Vermeer paintings; The Trouble with AI Cartoons
Must See! ‘Remarkably Executed, Compelling and Resonant’: $100,000 Hadley’s (All Mediums) Art Prize; In Pictures; Most outstanding portrayal of Australian landscape
VIJA CELMINS
Vija Celmins Painted Surfaces
Podcast: Tyler Green's Modern Art Notes with Vija Celmins
‘Overwhelming and Sublime’: The Primal Power of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinematic Art; Cannes-winning film-maker’s latest work, created specially for Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, is a tribute to his obsession with the magic of light and shadow
How Top Curators Spot the Artists of Tomorrow; Gatekeepers of contemporary art share how they identify emerging talent—and the unexpected places they discover it
Belonging, Independence and Restoration: “Los Encuentros” at Ballroom Marfa
Ted Gioia: Why Are Quiet Spaces Disappearing? And how do we get them back?
Para-Pastoral Movement Is Taking Root in Art. It’s Anything but Idyllic; Why contemporary artists are co-opting the romantic language of pastoral painting and bringing it to an uncanny new dimension
In Menorca, Cindy Sherman’s Cinematic Take on Womanhood; Hauser & Worth show, curator Tanya Barson celebrates Sherman’s ability to amalgamate collective imagery and channel it into something new
Visionary Qatari Artist, Wafa Al-Hamad (1964 – 2012), Reasserts Her Legacy; "Sites of Imagination" at Doha's Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art shines a light on the multifacted Qatari artist
The Nazis Are Coming! How to Bury an Entire Museum, Fast!
VIJA CELMINS
Vija Celmins Painted Surfaces
Podcast: Tyler Green's Modern Art Notes with Vija Celmins
THREADS
Interview: Sam Dienst Weaves the Everyday Into Rich Tapestries; Dienst wrests playfulness and movement from the warp and weft of weaving
Stitch Picks: The Best Sewing Machines For Textile Art
Tapestry Transformed: Five Artists Pushing The Boundaries
How Textile Artist Maria Lai Turned ‘Women’s Work’ Into Avant-Garde Art; Artist has never had a museum show in North America before
Richard Mensah “Tangled Embrace” at Band of Vices
Cosmo Whyte’s Whispering Portals; By blurring the line between individual and collective memory, the works demonstrate the Panafrican ideal that our experiences are part of a shared narrative
The Investigative Strategies of Juliana Halpert and Chris Kraus; New show at Bel Ami, Los Angeles, makes detectives of viewers by inundating them with documentation
Kenny Schachter: When Good Dealers Go Bad: On Gallery Closures, Unpaid Artists, and Clawbacks; And stop the complaining! It's time to find a way forward
One Fine Show: Steve McQueen’s ‘Bass’ at the Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager Basel
In this complicated and enveloping work, the artist seeks to expand the limits of our perception
Why You Should Know Maruja Mallo, the Artist Who Redefined Spanish Modernism; Hailed as one of Spain's foremost painters within her lifetime, the artist fell into obscurity after her death
Book Review; ‘Matisse in Morocco’ Review: The Light in Tangier; In a hotel room converted to a studio, Henri Matisse set out to liberate his painting from gloom
Spike Lee’s New Film Turns His Art Collection Into a Cinematic Set Piece; "Highest 2 Lowest" stars Denzel Washington and selections from the director's own trove of art
Lawrence Weschler: What We Can Learn From OG Film Editor and Filmmaker Walter Murch and Fine Artist Tristan Duke
The Stellar Stoic: What If This Made You Stronger?
“Breakfast Special”: a New Short Story by Woody Allen
THREADS
Transforming Sites of Violence, One Stitch at a Time; Photographer Spandita Malik invited nine women in North India to embroider their own portraits, reclaiming domestic spaces as liberated havens for their inner worlds
Do Ho Suh’s Monumental Fabric Homes Probe Urgent Questions in an Age of Borders; London-based Korean artist confronts ideas of belonging with his sculptural installations at Tate Modern
Bauhaus-Trained Artist Silvia Heyden Wove Tapestries in the Woods for Decades. Now, Her Legacy Comes Into Focus
Emily Ginsburg “Metabolic” at SE Cooper Contemporary, Portland
The Case for Installing Temporary Public Art; Time-limited, swappable public art installations come with shorter approval timelines, lower costs, less-intensive maintenance provisions and more favorable reviews
STAGE STRUCK
Busy Ayo Edebiri, Don Cheadle To Star in Broadway Revival of 'Proof'; First revival David Auburn's Tony- and Pulitzer-winning play
Disney Can’t Get ‘Hercules’ Right — Musical Doesn’t Go The Distance Again In London
Off Broadway Revival, "House of McQueen" at The Mansion at Hudson Yards; Iconic fashion designer Alexander McQueen
Patriotic Brits Cough Up the Funds to Keep Modern Sculpture Masterwork in the UK. After Fundraising Campaign, Citizens Bought the Barbara Hepworth 'Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red' (1943), by Fiat From the Hands of an Overseas Private Collector
Chinese Dissident Artist Badiucao on His First Solo Gallery Show; 'Being able to finally have an exhibition that I can share with my own little community is a moving experience,' the Australia-based activist says
The Asian Modernists of Paris; Living in Paris in the Twenties; Landmark exhibition; More than 220 works by Asian artists, a landmark exhibition tells a different story of the city’s golden age
Parkour and the Art and Origins of Running Across Paris Rooftops; Wild Pics and Video; See Ben Cante, 'Le Charli Chaplin des temps modernes'; Leaps and Laughs
COLLECTOR'S CORNER
Christophe de Menil, Patron with Deep Connections to Top Artists, Dies at 92; Close to Merce Cunningham, Andy Warhol, and Willem de Kooning; Married the artist Enrique Castro-Cid; Grandmother of late artist Dash Snow
Legendary Art Collector Sylvio Perlstein Has Died; Hauser & Wirth confirmed the news; Expansive inclusion of “Dada and Surrealism (Max Ernst, Man Ray, Dora Maar, René Magritte, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle); American minimalism and post-minimalism (Donald Judd, Ad Reinhardt, Brice Marden, Fred Sandback); and Land art (Richard Long, Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer, Gordon Matta-Clark)”
Away From A Slant Step Theory of Postwar Sculpture
Self-Marketing Notes: The Artist as Philanthropist: Why Giving Back Matters; While splashy million-dollar donations make headlines, more artists are quietly giving back and crafting their own legacies through targeted foundations, grassroots initiatives and hands-on community-building
Video: Prized Works from the Cy Twombly Foundation
PHOTOGRAPHY
Nobody Captured Summer Vibes More Elegantly Than Slim Aarons; From Marisa Berenson sunbathing in Capri to C.Z. Guest poolside in Palm Beach, Aarons’s photos of the rich and famous have been a vicarious ticket to the jet set for decades
Review: ‘You Can Almost Smell The Marijuana’ Dennis Morris, The Boy Photographer Who Made Bob Marley Catch Fire
Book Review: “Border Documents” by Arturo Soto
ARCHITECTURE
Inside a Sublime and Approachable Island Cottage in Hawaii; Lucas Interior’s design for a couple of aesthetes creates a California beach bungalow–meets–Fire Island vibe
RIBA Announces Best British Buildings For 2025
Brazilian Studio Bernardes Arquitetura Crowns Underground Gallery With Cantilevered Roof
Fine Artist Julian Schnabel’s New Film ‘In the Hand of Dante’ Leaks Online Weeks Before Venice Premiere; 150-minute epic; Starring Oscar Isaac, Martin Scorsese, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, John Malkovich, Gerard Butler, Al Pacino; Who leaked the film online?; "Leak couldn’t have come at a worse time."; Backstage drama
Official Trailer 'Peter Hujar's Day'; One long conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and Linda Rosenkrantz in 1974; Directed and Written by Filmmaker Ira Sachs; Starring Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall
Museum of Jurassic Technology Reopens After Escaping Destruction In Fire; ‘A place of mysterious inquiry’
State Fair Rejects: Art that didn’t make the Fine Arts Competition
COWBOYS AND INDIANS
See What Sold and For How Much at the July 26, 2025 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, Fine Western and American Art
Off-Market: 11 Must-See Satellite Shows and Events for Santa Fe Indian Market 2025
In L.A., Artist Aya Takano Channels Cosmic Consciousness Through a Manga Lens; Artist's latest works, on view at Perrotin, fuse anime aesthetics with myth and universal thinking in one spiritually-charged show
An Artist Who Builds Dreamworlds Alongside Moths, Stones, and Stars; Sculptor - photographer Virginia L. Montgomery is based somewhere between science and dreams
Curator's Choice, Art Baby, Contemporary Bathwater; What to Preserve? The Artist or the History?
PHOTOGRAPHY
Contorted Bodies and Bare Bottoms: Photographer Ralph Gibson’s All-Seeing Eye – In Pictures; Photographer has spent six decades photographing Hollywood, New York … and lots of women. He talks us through his favourite images
British Victorian Photographer Julia Margaret Cameron Put Her Personal Imprint On Art’s Newest Medium To Indelible Effect; Devised the Close-Up
Down By The River: A Meditation On Mental Health – In Pictures; During a period of deep personal turmoil, Marjolein Martinot took her camera down to the riverside in southern France – and began to feel connected again
ANDREA FRASER
How Artist, With a Funny Bone, Andrea Fraser Turned Institutional Critique Into a Lifelong Practice; Fraser reflected on the politics of making art, teaching with purpose and holding museums accountable in a spectacle-driven culture
The Field of Contemporary Art: A Diagram; Artist Andrea Fraser represents the field of contemporary art fragmenting into relatively autonomous subfields; Where do you fit in?
Interview with Curator Erin Christovale; 'Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal', at the Hammer; 'Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation' at the Hammer
TOOR AND THE MAYOR
Portrait of a Mayor as a Young Man; See Salman Toor's 'Portrait of Zohran Mamdani,' (2007); Toor was a 24-year old student at Pratt and Zohran Mamdani was then 14
New, State-of-the-Art Exhibit C Gallery Emerges in Oklahoma City’s Horizons District; Showing works by Chickasaw and First American artists; Owned by the Chickasaw Nation
RAGNAR KJARTANSSON
Promise and Impossibility of Belonging in Ragnar Kjartansson’s Most Beloved Work; 'The Visitors' is one of the most lauded artworks of the 21st Century. That doesn’t make it easy to sit through; Vistor reaction
Ragnar Kjartansson, The Visitors Complete Video
Art Critic Waldemar Januszczak: The Art Of Getting High, From Tea To Ayahuasca
The Stellar Stoic: You Can Find Peace
ARCHITECTURE
The Ransacking of Britain: Why The People Finally Rose Up Against ‘Sod You Architecture’; Inspired by Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier, who believed streets fostered disease, a vision of Britain was cooked up that would see historic city centres flattened for flats and ring roads. But the public decided they’d had enough – and took to the streets
Gagosian: Architect Carlo Ratti: On The Cities of Tomorrow; To see how digital tools can help create smarter cities
Piece of Japan’s Most Iconic Futurist Tower Just Landed at MoMA; useum's spotlight on the Nagakin Capsule Tower includes a newly restored pod recovered from the building
MAD Unveils Giant Graceful ‘Chinese Paper Umbrella’ at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
STAGE STRUCK
Shakespeare In War: Bard’s ‘Existential’ Theatre Takes Hold in Ukraine; ‘You can always find an intersection to Shakespeare’s world in such situations as we have,’ says translator, as Shakespeare productions boom across Ukraine
Cry, Uncle: On a Production of 'Uncle Vanya' Directed By Matthew Gasda
‘Just In Time’ Review: Lead Actor Jonathan Groff Parties Like It’s 1965 In Stellar Bobby Darin Musical
In Pictures, 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' Returns To London’s Bridge Theatre; Nicholas Hytner’s immersive 2019 production is back with a brand new cast from Titania to Bottom. We joined rehearsals and took a first look on stage
‘Free of Human Logic’: The Modern Artists Inspired By Surrealism’s 100-Year-Old Parlour Game; Century after André Breton invented Exquisite Corpse, artists are using it to tap into something unexplored
Rachel Whiteread: Casting History; Engaged with the emotional and historical complexities of addressing deeply troubling moments in human history through art
Alta Journal: See Spectacular Body of Work; The CIA and the Collagist: Howard Smith Retrospective at the Palm Springs Art Museum showcases the elusive designer’s expansive portfolio; Through February 2026
Day Job! Artist Jack Craft Wrangles Cattle, Pours Iron, and Pulls Prints in the Texas Panhandle
Ted Gioia: The Nine Best Movies on the Creative Life
Huntington to Host Smithsonian Show of Chicano Prints
What Would DOGE Say? Rijksmuseum "Our librarians have let their creativity run wild and crafted something truly unique. By carefully arranging the books on our shelves, they’ve brought [Johannes Vermeer's] "The Milkmaid" to life, one spine at a time!"
George Orwell Writes of Salvador Dali
Was Ist Das Boot? Celmins| Richter Double Vision ... ... Shows notes from Hamburger Kunsthalle
ARCHITECTURE
Woman Behind the Iconic Glass House; Life of Dr. Edith Farnsworth was long distorted by her dealings with Mies van der Rohe, who designed her glass house in Illinois. Almost Nothing asks us to take a closer look
Archaeologists Uncover Ancient High-Tech ‘Tower Houses’ Amid Ruins Of City Lost To Time
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Famed Oak Park Home Hits the Small Screen on ‘The Bear’; Architect's former home and studio serves as a meaningful site in the Hulu show's new season
France, Is That Really You?
How To Build The Perfect City
Review: British Artist Tacita Dean’s “Blind Folly”; Known as a Filmmaker; Menil Collection show is comprised almost entirely of drawings; “Drawing is the thread that connects everything”
In ‘Spirit Level,’ at David Zwirner, Tau Lewis Blurs Boundaries Between Matter and Meaning; Through a deeply personal process of collecting, sorting and assembling remnants and found objects, Lewis channels the unseen—creating sculptures that function as spiritual transmitters bridging lived experience and the divine
Painter Cosmo Whyte’s Whispering Portals; By blurring the line between individual and collective memory, the works demonstrate the Panafrican ideal that our experiences are part of a shared narrative
HEALING POWER OF POP (AND PUNK)
From the Hit New Blockbuster:
Lois Lane: “My point is I question everything and everyone. You trust everyone and think everyone you ever met is, like... beautiful.”
Clark Kent (aka Superman): “Maybe that’s the real punk rock.”
Punk Preservation: Getty’s Glenn Phillips On Securing Raymond Pettibon’s Archive; 32 boxes and a surfboard!; Pettibon archive reflects the artist’s diverse influences, from music and surfing culture to economic theory and the global art world
Julia Friedman: My Review of Svetlana Alpers Beautiful New Book, 'Is Art History?'
Digital Book: "Matthew Porter: Twenty Years of Photography" at M+B Art
Nancy Rommelmann: How I Built a Media Company; Covid? Cancellations? "You're not allowed to say/do/think/film that!" What better time to build a company?; Bari Weiss; History of Contemporary News Reporting
The Artist's Life: Renaissance Artists Raphael and Dürer Were Kind of Obsessed With Each Other; The two men carried on a pen pal correspondence until Raphael's death
A Hammershøi for Santa Barbara; First interior he painted (without human figure); "24-5/8 by 21-1/2 in., retains its original varnish"; "Santa Barbara is punching above its weight as the smallest American city and museum to have a Hammershøi on public display
Brooklyn Artist Aisling Hamrogue’s Horror-Inspired Paintings Both Terrify and Delight
Three Things You Should Know About ‘Island of the Dead,’ a Once Wildly Famous, Now Obscure Painting Full of Mystery
Interview: Artist Ryan Trecartin Built His Career on the Internet. Now, He’s Decided It’s Pretty Boring; New work in over five years at Moràn Moràn
Suzanne Valadon Was Her Own Muse; Sought out by artists such as Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec for her beauty, her true character was unleashed by her own frank brush
Doug Harvey's Less Art: Guest Columnist Steve Hurd: Field Trip Report From The Desert Lighthouse
Wow! Northern Lights: How the Boreal Forest Inspired Artists of Canada and Scandinavia
MONSIEUR NOUAR: LE FRANCAIS BUSTER KEATON
Stop Spending Your Money on Stupid Sh*t!
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‘In the Hand of Dante’: Julian Schnabel’s Operatic Misfire That Thinks It’s a Masterpiece [Venice]
As More Downtown LA Businesses Shutter, Indie Art Gallery Superchief Faces Possible Closure
LACMA EXPANDS
LACMA Will Time-Share Christian Marclay's "The Clock" with Las Vegas Museum of Art; Note the Comments
Video; LACMA Construction Update (08.25.25)
At the Armory Show, First-Time Artists Steal the Spotlight; For all the whispers about the art market downturn, newcomers prove the New York fair can still serve as a stage for fresh voice
TikToker Freaked Out When He Found a Painting of His Living Room Displayed in a London Gallery. Here’s How It Ended Up There; 'They have an oil painting of my living room... this can't be real'
How a Billionaire Owner Brought Turmoil and Trouble to Sotheby’s; Patrick Drahi made a fortune through debt-fuelled telecommunications companies. Now he’s bringing his methods to the art market
EASY EAMES
Inside the Eames House, the Newly Restored and Reopened Modernist Icon; New reopening now makes the Eameses' studio available to visitors
Creative Legacy of Ray and Charles Eames Finds a New Home; Architects Herzog and de Meuron will design the new museum in the heart of Marin County
SUMMER'S END
Long Hot Summer: The Mythos of the Pool On Screen
Trailer: 'Diabolique' (1955) Directed by Henri‑Georges Clouzot; Starring Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, and Paul Meurisse
Wet Hot American Summer; Backyard swimming pool moves the spirit unlike any other status symbol
Official Trailer Indie 'Pools'; By filmmaker Sam Hayes; Starring Odessa A'zion, Mason Gooding, and Ariel Winter
Film Commentary: 'La Pisine: Story Beneath the Surface' (1969) Avec Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet et Jane Birkin
Trailer: 'A Bigger Splash' (2015); 'La Pisine' Inspired; Directed by Luca Guadagnino; Starring Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ralph Fiennes, and Dakota Johnson
Trailer: 'The Graduate' (1967) Directed by Mike Nichols
PAINTER PORN
Click to Enlarge! Detail, of the Eye of Saint Peter, in Caravaggio's 'Crucifixion of Saint Peter,' 1600-01, Oil on canvas, 230 x 175 cm (Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome)
LAWRENCE WESCHLER
Tristan Duke, an LA Art Magus, Captures, Among Other Things, Light in Flight at a Trillion Frames A Second
Before Labubu, 1950s 'The Moomins' Changed Children’s Literature Forever. History Repeats. Artist Tove Jansson Created an IP and a Fortune
Gagosian Artist Kathleen Ryan: Time, Crafted; Ryan’s artistic process, methods of assemblage, and how her studio resembles an excavation site
When You’re Pontus Hultén They Let You Do It; Founding director of at least three modern art museums; One of the most influential figures in 20th century art; Groundbreaking curator; And a stone cold crook
RICHARD PRINCE
Coming to a Theater Near You? 'Deposition' (2025) Reviewed; Full 7-hour performance of Richard Prince talking extremely slowly in an adversarial conversation/deposition with offscreen lawyers
Artist and Bibliophile Richard Prince Has Amassed an Idiosyncratic Collection of First Editions and Literary Curios; Rare Bits & Pieces; Room-size walk-in fireproof safe
Podcast: Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin: Interview with Richard Prince (2025)
Jim Carrey Donates 1913 Picasso to LACMA; See Cary Grant and His 1980 gift of Diego Rivera's The Flower Vendor to the Norton Simon Museum
Ukrainian Artist and Anarchist David Chichkan Was Killed Fighting For His Country Against Russia
“Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists”; At Pallant House Gallery, Artists Capture Each Other With Candor, Compassion and Bite; Some artists express love for their subjects in their work, but others are less generous when their subjects are fellow creators
Curator Nada Shabout Traces the Enduring Legacy of the Baghdad Modern Art Group; Group sprang up in the roaring art scene and political ebullience of 1950s Iraq
Video: Steve Martin Goes to the Frick! And You Should Too!
Chicago on Lucas Museum: Regrets, Trollbait, Sour Grapes; Comic-Con prompted the Chicago Tribune to run an editorial lamenting the loss of the museum to L.A.: "This was a Midwestern mistake for the ages"
Dueling With Science, Argument of Our Times: Lowdown on Ronald Perelman’s $410 Million Art Damage Lawsuit Nears Verdict; Summary arguments have been filed in a contentious dispute stemming from a 2018 fire at Perelman's East Hamptons estate; Whose Science shall win?
Rainey Knudson: The Butter Thief, Regarding Unconditional Love
ROBERT WILSON (1941 - 2025)
Robert Wilson, Provocative Playwright and Director, Is Dead at 83; Upended theatrical norms with his own stunningly visualized works and his collaborations with a wide range of artists, from Philip
The Subject As Star; Robert Wilson, King of The Avant-Garde, Multi-Media Performance Event, Will Create Your Lifesize Video Portrait (2006)
Financial Times: My Favourite Holiday Photo – Artists and Designers Share Their Snaps
PETER LODATO (1946–2025)
William Turner Gallery Remembers Peter Lodato, Old School Light and Space Artist
Video: Joan Quinn Profiles
with Peter Lodato
Digital Catalogue "L.A. Louver Celebrates 50 Years"
Whales on the Move! Kenny Schachter Uncovers Real Estate Plays by the Nahmads, Mugrabis; Artist, collector, dealer . . . and poet? Columnist blasts art-market pessimists in spoken word piece
FANBOY SPHERE
Tornadoes, Monkeys and Towering Flames: How the Sphere Plans to Bring ‘The Wizard of Oz’ to Life; Senior executives from the Las Vegas attraction are recreating key moments from the film inside the venue at the same moment they happen on its massive screen
Listen to the Difference! Behind the Scenes of the Sound, Score and Infrasound Technology of The Wizard Of Oz at Sphere
American Eagle Is Investing In Sydney Sweeney and The Sphere For Its Largest-Ever Fall Campaign
ART NOIR: UPDATES ON THE ART CRIME OF THE CENTURY
What To Know About The Gardner Museum Heist, 35 Years Later
Documentary Trailer 'This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist'
(Art True Crime) Podcast: 'Last Seen' Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; All 10 Episodes
Essential Reading To Help You Understand The Gardner Museum Heist
JASPER JOHNS
Jasper Johns: Take An Object, Add Some Little Guys To It
To Brutally Paraphrase the American Artist Jasper Johns: Good art clashes two flinty ideas together, causing a spark, and then seeing becomes thinking. Johns believed that art should provoke cognition...
Video: "Jasper Johns: Take an Object"; A film by Hans Namuth and Judith Wechsler (1990)
Guardian UK: ‘They Digest Externally’: The Artist Who Creates Paintings With Live Flies; For over a decade, John Knuth has created art using the regurgitation of flies and after he lost his home in the California wildfires, his work has a new perspective
GROUP SHOW?
The Artists Confronting Sexual Violence: Laia Abril, Gabrielle Goliath and Lydia Pettit amplify the voices of survivors – and challenge the narratives that silence them
Stripper Collective’s Life Drawing Merges Sex Work and Art; East London group sees their life drawing sessions “as a natural progression from the age-old practice of hiring professional harlots and hussies as models for art”
Now, That's Punk!
In Menorca, Cindy Sherman’s Cinematic Take on Womanhood; In a new Hauser & Wirth show, curator Tanya Barson celebrates Sherman’s ability to amalgamate collective imagery and channel it into something new; Shown here in reverse chronology
If You’re Looking for the Best Southwest Landscape Art, Become a Gamer
THREADS
Books Reviews: Mapping Patchwork Across the Globe; Catherine Legrand’s 'Patchwork: A World Tour' is an important step towards finally giving this art form the appreciation it deserves
The Artist Reviving a Native Hawaiian Clothmaking Tradition; Lehuauakea, one of the few kapa practitioners under the age of 30 working in the art form today, is the recipient of a Walker Youngbird Foundation grant for emerging Native American artists
My Grandma’s Doilies Are Not a Joke; When will art institutions finally pay respect to our foremothers’ artistry?
The Feminist Revival of Embroidery; Once denounced as “women’s work” with no artistic merit, embroidery is experiencing a revival, with a feminist punch
Box Office: ‘Superman’ Aims for $55 Million or More in Second Weekend; Earned $155 million domestically and $250 million globally
'O Superman' Official Music Video, by Laurie Anderson
FAN BOY SPHERE
‘Wizard of Oz at Sphere’ Sound Is Yet Another Groundbreaking Moment; New Depth in New Audio Creation
See This Video! Listen to the Difference! Behind the Scenes of the Sound, Score and Infrasound Technology of The Wizard Of Oz at Sphere
STREETWISE
Brooklyn Street Art Images of the Week
Brooklyn Street Art: Street Art Goes Orbital: Shepard Fairey Lights Up the Sphere in Vegas. What a Ball!
Video: Shepard Fairey “Earth Power Globe” at the Sphere Las Vegas!
Brooklyn Street Art Images of the Week
Taste Is the New Intelligence; Why Curation, Discernment, and Restraint Matter More Than Ever; We’re drowning in content
Joe Overstreet’s Activism Through Abstraction; Fundamental part of Overstreet’s mission was to break free of the flat, rectangular picture plane and the Eurocentric view of painting that dominated American art
Lloyd Wright’s Wayfarers Chapel: Inside the Rescue of a National Landmark; More details emerge for Lloyd Wright’s beloved glass-and-timber ‘tree chapel’ and its proposed new location. Backers lay out their vision and a timeline to reassemble the landmark wrecked by the Rancho Palos Verdes landslide
Enter the Twisted World of Overlooked Surrealist Bona de Mandiargues; Regular among Surrealist circles in Paris, the artist is finally getting her due
Ultra-Contemporary Chinese Artists to Know Now; These artists, based in authoritarian China are commanding attention around the world
Must See! Yau: Tim Hawkinson Makes the Ordinary Otherworldly; Recent paintings of everyday life transcend the literal without becoming overtly symbolic; This is the tight rope he walks; 'Tim Hawkinson: Cabinet Pictures' at Miles McEnery Gallery
Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh's Dark Comedy ‘The Christophers' to World Premiere at TIFF; About "the estranged children of an artist who hire a forger to complete his unfinished works"
Noah Davis at the Hammer
Beuys Collector Collection Shelf
George Lucas’ Spaceship of a Museum Lands In L.A. With a Wonderful Surprise; Foothills, groves, canyons and mesas
Maura Brewer Turns Money Laundering into Art
She Brought Surrealism to America and Painted Her Own Myth. How Was She Forgotten by History? Lucia Wilcox rubbed shoulders with Surrealists in Paris, reinvented herself in New York, and created fantastical scenes of jubilant women. A new show brings her visionary work back into view
The Marciano Is Back
OCMA and UC Irvine Consider a Merger
Cindy Sherman Will Destroy And Replace Aging Prints In New Legacy Project; Damaged Works to Be Reprinted; "Integrity of my work is protected in perpetuity"
Publisher and Printer Maurice Darantiere and the Distinct Color of Blue of the James Joyce 'Ulysses' Cover Proof
Jerry Gogosian Logs Off (Again), But This Time, It Might Be for Keeps; Jerry Gogosian’s art world saga: memes, meltdowns, and what comes next
Matthew Rosenquist and Rob Thom 'Somewhere Else, Right Here' at M+B, Beverly Hills; Parallel visions of Los Angeles personhood
PHOTOGRAPHY
Review: Neal Slavin’s Photographic Series “When Two or More are Gathered Together” at Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas
What Comes After The End? John Divola Asks Us: What Am I Looking At? Is It Real? Where Does That Distinction Now Lie, Given The Technology Required To Make A Photograph Now?
Perfumery and Photography Together; Chris Rusak and Amelia Konow are exploring what a photograph of a fragrance could be
15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Summer; Jeffrey Gibson’s ebullient beadwork, Luchita Hurtado’s restitched canvases, Black cowboy history, Barbara T. Smith’s photocopy experimentation, and more to see this season
BANKSY IN MARSEILLE
New Banksy Mural Is a Beacon of Nope; Anonymous artist’s latest may have a personal touch, but it’s still another installment in what feels like a series of works stifled by surveillance and media fatigue; in Marseille, France
"It's A National Sport To Fight The Tags Here": The Banksy In Marseille Briefly Degraded And Then Rehabilitated
Origins of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Tattoo
Interview: Unstoppable Film-Maker Skewering Bezos and Musk’s Macho Fantasies;‘Space travel is queer’
Landslides Leave Big Sur’s Beloved Landmarks Fighting for Survival; As California’s most majestic highway remains closed after three years, this roadside community tries to hold on. ‘It’s weird, dude’; Great photographs
Hope for Humanity! Salman Rushdie says AI won’t threaten authors until it can make people laugh; Author tells Hay festival AI has no sense of humour, but when it writes a funny book ‘we’re screwed’
STREETWISE
Artist Known for Scaling Buildings Was Arrested at His Show’s Opening; Isaac Wright took a vertiginous photograph of the Empire State Building after he climbed to the top of its spire — evidence the police used to arrest him
Photographer Isaac Wright on Being Busted by the NYPD During the Opening of His Show in Chelsea; Author profile picture; "They told Wright they delayed arresting him for a couple of hours at the opening last week because “(The police) liked my art so much that they waited a couple of hours so I could enjoy the (gallery opening) occasion.”
Lapiz Paints “Rainbow Nation” in Paderborn, Germany
Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen In “Place”
Video: Tagging a Train Yard with Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen
Kenny Nguyen’s Beautiful Refusal; People of Color Are Often Called Upon To Perform Their Identities, But Nguyen’s Lush Tapestries Largely Avoid That Trap
RAPT. TOGETHER. IN THE DARK.
Gordy Grundy: Today, we announce a new action, to bring attention to the beleaguered cinema art form. We believe our expression, "Rapt. Together. In The Dark." condenses a complex medium into a simple definition. Let's start the conversation...
EXPERIENTIAL
Devoid Magazine: How The Sphere in Las Vegas is Going to Ruin Entertainment As We Know It and Liberate the Experience
Experiential Spaces Are Getting Even Bigger; Those fake museums and gym-restaurant-spas are multiplying — and taking over even more square feet
Architect's Newspaper: Taking a Trip Through Meow Wolf’s Latest “Portal,” A Music-Themed Experiential Art Hub In Houston Called Radio Tave
The World’s Top Immersive Art Experiences; Paris, Miami, DC, Las Vegas, Denver, London, Jeddah, Tokyo, Bristol... Worldwide.
Gordy Grundy: How Does an Artist Say Goodbye To Lost Art Works?
JOHN WATERS
Tulsa Kinney: "John Waters’ Birthday Celebration: The Naked Truth" at The Wallis Theater; Generational Divide; The Comedian!?
"When I was young, there were beatniks. Hippies. Punks. Gangsters. Now you've got hacktivist. Which I would probably be if I was 20. Shuttin' down MasterCard. But there's no look to that lifestyle! Besides just wearing a bad outfit with bad posture. Has WikiLeaks caused a look? No! I'm mad about that. If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, it seems to me he should at least have an outfit for that." ~ John Waters, on the sorry style of today's rebels
From the Archives: John Waters: Subversive Success; The enigmatic auteur on his weird childhood, the sorry style of today's rebels and the social importance of bad taste
John Waters and the Relativity of Shock Value
At the Baltimore Museum of Art, the John Waters Collection Doesn’t Hate You, but Contemporary Art Still Might
ARCHITECTURE
Ai Weiwei Designs Large-Scale Camouflage Installation For New York on Roosevelt Island
The Lost Gardens of New York City
What to See at the 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
Our Fave Art Correspondent from Texas Rainey Knudson Has Been Counting Down Her 'Music 100,' a Love Letter to Song; While Listening to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, "Frogs," Her Short Prayer is Worth a Read!
Tosh Berman Discovers That Lucifer Is Very Much A Happy-Go-Lucky Guy; Kenneth Anger's Approach in "Lucifer Rising"
CERAMICS
Must See! This Turkish Artist Duo Mines History to Create Ceramics That Probe the Present Condition; Ertuğrul Güngör and Faruk Ertekin are the subject of their first European solo show with Anna Laudel gallery in Düsseldorf
Black Holes, Luna Moths, Marfa Lights, and Dreaming: An Interview with Virginia L. Montgomery
BEST OF THE WEEK with JERRY GOGOSIAN
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