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See All the Stars on the Red Carpet at the LACMA Art+Film Gala; Annual fundraiser, presented by Gucci, honored Mary Corse and Ryan Coogler

Fascinating. Artforum: Production Notes, What Do Artists Produce and How; With Andrea Zittel, Roni Horn, Katharina Fritsch, Chris Burden, Ai Weiwei, Sherrie Levine, Sam Durant, Rachel Whiteread, Bridget Riley, Monica Bonvicini, and Urs Fischer

Arts Writer and Poet John Yau in Conversation with Artist Sean Scully

‘Made in L.A. 2025’ Gets Points for Irony; At the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, a themeless biennial engages with local realities of gentrification and loss

How Jean Baudrillard Turned Philosophy into Performance Art

Matt Stromberg: Ten Art Shows to See in Los Angeles this November; Kathleen Ryan’s bejeweled rotten fruit, Puppies Puppies Puppies’s homage to freedom flags, TJ Shin’s bird songs, the rise and fall of monuments, and more

Artist Sasha Gordon 'Haze' at David Zwirner, New York

Cold, Dust and Darkness: Daily Rituals That Unleashed Picasso; Dublin Exhibition Turns the Key on the Chaotic Magic of the Artist's (Many, Many) Studios

Chloe Wise Is Looking Up— at UFOs, Angels, and the Unknown; Recently opened "Myth Information," a new exhibition at Almine Rech, exploring mystic visions from UFOs to angelic apparitions

Posters, Poems, Prints, and Richard Prince at Hetzler | Marfa

How One Author Fell in Love With the Louvre, and Discovered Its Secrets; In her new book, Elaine Sciolino peels back the curtain on the fortress-like museum

Fascinating Mini-Conversations with New Risk-Taking, Sharp-Eyed Galleries That Have Opened Around The World; Here Are 23 Shaping The Conversation

Blue Chip Artist Mickalene Thomas is Charged with Exploitation and Abuse in $14 Million Bombshell Lawsuit by Ex Racquel Chevremont, an Art Curator and TV Personality; Creative and romantic partnership gone disastrously wrong

ART NOIR: THE LOUVRE HEIST

Is This Dapper Man Going to Crack the Louvre Heist Case? Returning to Scene of the Crime? Is he even real? The internet had many questions after a photo began to circulate

BBC: Five New Suspects Arrested Over Louvre Jewellery Theft

Louvre Heist Being Investigated As Inside Job With Security Guard Eyed In Landmark Robbery: Report

Two Arrested Over Theft of Jewels at Louvre Museum In Paris

The Louvre Heist Memes Aren’t Letting Up

Glittering Royal History Behind the Louvre’s Stolen Jewels; Valued at $102 million, the gems were taken from the Paris institution in a daring eight-minute heist

Why Weren’t the Jewels Stolen From the Louvre Insured? Thieves snatched jewelry valued at more than $100 million, but the museum will not be compensated for the loss

No Security Cameras Covered Louvre Balcony Where Thieves Entered, Director Says

Wild New Footage Reveals Louvre Robbers’ Slow Getaway With $100M In Jewels

BOOKS + WORDS

Interview: Author Chris Kraus on Success, Drugs and 'I Love Dick; Decade after her debut became a cult hit, the US author talks about the true crime that inspired her latest novel; #MeToo overreach; Being married to an addict

Lost Jack Kerouac Story Found Among Assassinated Mafia Boss' Belongings

Review 'The Land of Sweet Forever' by Harper Lee; Newly discovered stories from an American great; If we regard this book as literature, it is an unqualified failure. But these juvenile stories and essays shed fascinating light on the repression of Lee’s early life

The Free Press: Dawn of the Postliterate Society; Smartphone hasn’t just distracted us. It’s dismantled the habits of thought that built our civilization

Secrets Behind the Roman Colosseum’s Enduring Engineering

LISA THE SUBVERSIVE

Lisa Yuskavage’s Drawings Are the Blueprints for Her Subversive Career; In "Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings" at the Morgan Library and Museum, another side of the controversial artist emerges

Vintage ArtForum, May 2000: 'Blonde Ambition: The Art Of Lisa Yuskavage'

8 Houston Collectors Reveal What Really Sets Their City’s Art Scene Apart From Its Coastal Counterparts; Here, Houston proves it can rival any coastal capital in taste and risk-taking, with five collections that will stop you in your tracks

The Greatest Profile In Magazine History; Old School Journo; 'The Chairman in Profile'; Gay Talese and Edward Sorel, the writer and illustrator of “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” on the origins, aftermath, and eventual sanctification of the greatest profile in magazine history

A Newer West: Ruminations on Robert Adams’s Front Range Imagery

At Age 18, Sculptress Vinnie Ream Was The First Woman To Receive a Federal Art Commission for Her Lincoln Portrait

Norwegian Art Scandals and Bangkok Back Alleys “My Career Is Down the Drain”; In a Very Frank and Personal Conversation, Artists Nicole Eisenman and Bjarne Melgaard

EVERYDAY IS HALLOWEEN, 2025

Groundbreaking Imagery! 1922 Swedish Horror Film 'Häxan'; See the Trailer

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Revives a Victorian Spook Show Story

Spookiest Images of Early Photography; From creepy Victorian post-mortem portraits to Félix Nadar’s horrifying shot of the Paris Catacombs, we’re definitely never sleeping again

A Brief Compendium of Mesmerising and Macabre Memento Mori

PORTRAIT: THE WILDLY CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHER WILLIAM MORTENSEN

William Mortensen's 20th Century Photos Are Some of The Most Beautifully Terrifying Images Ever Made

William Mortensen: The Anti-Christ of American Photography? That's What Ansel Adams Called Him

Biography: Pictorial Portrait photographer William Mortensen (1897-1965)

Film Review: Artist Sharon Lockhart’s Beguiling Tableaus of Children in Nature; 'Windward' pulls us into an almost prelapsarian vision of childhood existence on Newfoundland’s Fogo Island: no phones, no screens, no sense of impending climate crisis

Elyse Pignolet 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised' at Track 16

Olafur Eliasson Big Stones

Celebrities Off The Hook For Promoting Bored Ape NFT; Dismissed class action named several celebrities as defendants, including Justin Bieber, Paris Hilton, Madonna, Serena Williams and Steph Curry

Take a Look at the Work of Prinston Nnanna at Koplin Del Rio, Seattle

Empires of Dirt: Michael Heizer’s City

Gordy Grundy: The Beau Geste of LACMA and LVMA; The new 'Family Album' show is the first of many gifts to Las Vegas and the West

Francesca Mollett Manipulates Form; At Modern Art, London, the artist abstracts scenes from nature to create ambiguous paintings

K-Pop Star RM Brings His Art Collection to a Museum for the First Time; "RM x SFMOMA" will surface selections from the pop star's art trove, including works by Yun Hyong-Keun, Kim Yun Shin, and Philip Guston

Worth a Read: Waiting to Be Discovered? Curators Reveal How Emerging Artists Can Get Noticed; "You can't just sit in the studio," experts say

Secret of CIA’s ‘Kryptos’ Sculpture, Unsolved For 35 Years, Is Up For Sale; Video

“Northern Lights” Show Proposes a New Geography of Art, at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Collector’s Guide to Art Authentication and Avoiding Costly Mistakes; Paying an expert to confirm provenance is one of the best ways to protect one’s investment, but it's not the only way

The Medium is their Message: Compulsion and Identity in Zion; Artists Stephanie Leitch, Angela Ellsworth, and Nancy Rivera use materially obsessive processes to reflect on the mythos of Utah—a place shaped by the dominance of the LDS Church

How Jenny Saville Reclaimed the Female Nude

Damien Hirst and Plagiarism: ‘All my ideas are stolen anyway’; So said the artist in 2008. As he is accused once again of stealing the idea for his best work, will it make any difference to his reputation?

The Stellar Stoic: What This Philosophy Is Here For

DESIGN

Collectible Design Fair Rolls Out Bold Visions of Fantasy, Function, and the Future; From drag boudoirs to high-tech recliners, Collectible shows design’s full spectrum in New York

Hiding Homosexuality on the Cover of America’s Magazines a Century Ago; The Fine Art of Joe Christian Leyendecker

Donald Judd’s Architecture Office Is Reborn After $3.3 Million Restoration; After seven years and a fire, the Judd Foundation has restored the space the artist used to display work and receive clients

Nuttin' Changes! Best and Worst of Times: American Advertisements of The 1930S – In Pictures

What Was the Pictures Generation? Who Were the Artists? A History

A Woman’s Work Is Never Done: Vaginal Davis in Conversation with Rick Owens

Review: Life’s Hidden Dramas in the Art of Walter Sickert; Sickert didn’t go in for glamour or flattery and the subjects of many of his best works are things seen off to the side, a bit inconsequential

Chuck Ramirez: Life in Motion; 'Seven Days: The Still Lifes of Chuck Ramirez,' at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Interview with Kim Fay and Her Show 'Brave' at Galerie Camille, Detroit

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

GOOD GIGS

Fashion Designer Jason Wu Collaborates With Robert Rauschenberg Foundation On Art-Inspired Collection

KAWS Named Japanese Fashion Uniqlo’s First Artist-in-Residence

Six Contemporary Artists Take on Classic New Yorker Covers— With a Twist; Photographs have only appeared twice on the magazine's covers. Until now

Shocking Allure of Erotic Abstraction; London show on Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, and Alice Adams gives a sense of how different, even alarming, these pieces would have been to viewers in the 1960s; Today?

New Exhibition in Norway Showcases Picasso’s Divisive Late Work; What creation means to an artist facing death?

Ben Sakoguchi Paints His Own Art History; Reclusive Japanese American art icon Ben Sakoguchi has resisted outside influence to arrive at a singular style. His intermediary Jackie Tarquinio Kennedy opines on how he came to be

PHOTOGRAPHY

Strangers in the Family Album: Reflections on Soviet Amateur Photography; Politics of Socialization

This Pioneering Photographer Captured Images No One Else Dared To: ‘She Had No Rules’; Powerful solo show, "Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit," is on view at the Brooklyn Museum

LensCulture Critics’ Choice Awards, In Pictures; From hazardous trips through the Kurdish mountains to a queer journey into the heart of Americana, these images all wowed the esteemed prize’s judges

7 Defining Images That Reveal How One Camera Revolutionized Photojournalism; Arrival of the Leica I, 100 years ago, reshaped photo reportage and documentary

The Lovers Who Revolutionized Modern Photography in Mexico; Photographs of Mexico by Tina Modotti and Edward Weston are now on view in "Points of Convergence" at Throckmorton Fine Art in New York

State of the Art: First-ever Extended Conversation between Larry Gagosian and Roberta Smith

Artnet CEO Jacob Pabst, son of Founder Hans Neuendorf, Resigns Abruptly Before Annual General Meeting; Artsy Takeover Likely

Who Are the 10 Top-Selling Living American Artists? List spans eminence grises like Jasper Johns and Ed Ruscha, and newcomers like KAWS

25 of 2025: Five Sculptors to Watch; We spotlight 25 boundary-pushing artists who have been dominating the conversation this year

Closed 'Til Tariffs Chill Out...

PHOTOGRAPHY

Digital Book: "Matthew Porter: Twenty Years of Photography" at M+B Art

Richard Prince on the Genesis of Rephotography and The Cowboy Series; "I also realized much later that I got rid of the decisive moment. I changed the history of photography that day. The decisive moment, it was, no longer had to do with luck, you know"

Nudes, Neighbours and Nopales: Mexican Martha Naranjo Sandoval moves to New York; Martha Naranjo Sandoval’s intimate images of family and friends document her first years in NYC – from fire hydrant rainbows to epic views of the skyline

With Camera and Questions, Joseph Cochran II Turns Photography Into Civic Work; Work captures raw, unfiltered truths about today’s America and asks us to reflect on societal dynamics and the minutia of individual lives

Photographer Studies New York City’s Water System; Stanley Greenberg has spent decades answering the question of how water arrives in our taps and building interest in this vast and impressive system

Interview: What Does It Feel Like to Be Called an Emerging Artist at 72? Ask Takako Yamaguchi; Painter of geometric seascapes is getting her first solo museum show in Los Angeles, the city she’s called home since 1987, with MOCA's “Focus” series this summer

This Artist Is Famous For His ‘Bad Taste’; In his work, Chinese artist Chen Fei asks: who gets to define taste?

LIVING IN A POSTHUMAN AGE

Julia Friedman and David Hawkes: 'Murder in the Posthuman Age; What to make of the assassination of Charlie Kirk'

SAVE OUR MORRISSEY

Morrissey Cancels US Tour Dates Following Death Threats; 26-year-old Ottawa man posted repeated threats. Arrested and released on bail; Charlie Kirk Jitters; Man named Noah Castellano was arrested after he posted a threat against The Smiths frontman Morrissey on social media which read, "I will attempt to shoot you many times?

Yau: An Artist’s Unexpected Confrontation With Mortality; Asako Tabata never checks the usual boxes

Furry Artists Will Remake The World; The Next Avant-Garde Is at Anthrocon

Frieze Sculpture Unleashes a Provocative Play of Light and Shadow; See Five Standouts

Burning Man’s Black Vanguard; Years after I began photographing Black and Brown Burners, I returned to the festival simply to witness. What I saw humbled me

Official Teaser 'BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions'; Director Kahlil Joseph presents a documentary essay; Visual and intellectual journey through Black history and beyond

Against Symbolic Inclusion: Investing in Black Art

Charlie Engelman 'Pith' at Château Shatto; Old-growth redwood and high-density polyurethane foam

INTO THE PACIFIC

After 50 Years, LA Louver Is Closing Its Gallery In Venice; Transitioning; Gallerist Peter Goulds explains, "I have no intention to retire, ever, but we need a new business model”

Stromberg: LA Louver to Close Gallery Space and Shift Into Private Model; Los Angeles gallery’s vast archive will be donated to the Huntington Library

Book Review: In 'Black in Blues,' Imani Perry reaches to the height of the sky and the depth of the ocean, casting the history of blue as one of both triumph and tragedy, possibility and limitation; The color blue and the nature of Blackness

Emily Mason’s Quest for Color and Truth; Late painter was influenced by Abstract Expressionism, but she had none of the hubris of its male artists. For her, painting was not about an experience, it was an experience

Director of the Art, Design and Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara, Gabriel Ritter’s Five Favourite Works from Frieze Seoul Viewing Room

Interview: Matthew Barney, ‘I’m Not Interested In Participating In Consensus Culture’; Multidisiplinary American artist has put together an ambitious new live performance, the latest stage in a provocative and unusual career

Book Review: This Novel Is the Art World’s Black Mirror; We all know the protagonists of Vincenzo Latronico’s 'Perfection.' You’ve seen them at the gallery openings, on Instagram. In fact, there’s a good chance you are them; Berlin art scene

Closed 'Til Tariffs Chill Out.

How a Tennis Match Bonded Duchamp and Man Ray for Life; Initial language barrier didn’t hold the artists back from a lifelong friendship

PHOTOGRAPHY

Suck It Up! The Sinister Side of Holiday Snaps

New Book: "Flashes of Brilliance, The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History"; Story of the wildest experiments in early photography and the wild people who undertook them

The Camera and the Pen; Arts Writer Christian House Tracks the History of Novelists’ Engagements With Photography and Speaks With Three Contemporary Writers—William Boyd, Teju Cole, and Orhan Pamuk—About Their Own Approaches To The Medium

Video: Reimagining His Boyhood in the Midwest, 'Twelve Acres' by American Photographer Henry O. Head

Technicolour Lakes and Butterfly Brains: Wellcome Photography Prize 2025 – In Pictures

Tribute to Tim Walker; Pioneering neon expert and artist; Co-founded The Neon Gallery in Houston; Victim of the devastating Texas Hill Country floods; Fabrication and restoration of neon artworks made him a hero to conservators, curators, private collectors, and artists

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

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

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'

Karl Benjamin, His Influence and Many Friends; Defining Hard-Edge

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!

Official Trailer 'Modi'; Directed by Johnny Depp; 72-hour whirlwind in the life of artist Amedeo Modigliani; Starring Riccardo Scamarcio, Antonia Desplat and Al Pacino

Books Excerpt: '100 Assignments From Nayland Blake' "While these assignments will not turn someone else into me, they will provide the practitioner with a path to the deviations within themselves"; "I’ve taught for 30 years in colleges, residencies, and sex parties."

The Stellar Stoic: What If This Made You Stronger?

LAWRENCE WESCHLER

With Pianists Samson Tsoy and Pavel Kolesnikov Across Their Marathon Highwire Marfa Residency

Interview: ‘My Paintings Don’t Fit The Narrative’: Kerry James Marshall On Why He’s Depicting Black Enslavers

Impressive “Natural Mystics” at The Warehouse, Dallas

Ted Gioia: Spotify Backs Down; Are we finally winning the AI war against slop?

Rainey Knudson: What Happens When We Die (487 words)

‘Sixties Surreal’ at the Whitney Explores a Forgotten Side of the 1960s; It's more a vibe than a thesis—but what a vibe!

Modeling Home: A Call for New Approaches to Art and Research Residencies

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

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 Best Artists’ Gardens To Visit, from Cecil Beaton to Claude Monet; As the Garden Museum in London celebrates Beaton’s floral passions, Ann Treneman heads outdoors to visit some of the most lush, evocative spots at home and abroad

Art Review: John Wilson Spent a Lifetime Making Blackness Visible; His social realism style was well suited to the difficult subjects, including racism and other forms of oppression, he took on in his art

'MONUMENTS' at MOCA Geffen; Conceived by The Brick director Hamza Walker

ALSO IN PARIS...

Is Art Basel Paris Too Big to Fail? Fair showed relative market resilience but leaned into the risk-averse paintings, with most standout work in the emerging sectors

Asian Art Scene Is Thriving in Paris: ‘It’s a Moment to Reclaim Presence’

Julia Friedman: Appetite for Destruction; Trump and the art of the demolition, from Bonwit Teller to the White House

James Turrell to bring most ambitious ‘Skyspace’ installation yet to Denmark museum; After 10 years in development, the 40m-wide work will go on display next June at the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum

Rainey Knudson: On View, Marjorie Norman Schwarz (414 words); Nine astounding door-shaped paintings

Robert Rauschenberg at 100: How the Relentless Experimenter Rewired American Art; Eight Significant Moments

Remembering the Pigment Shop That Taught Me How to See; Kremer’s New York City location, a painter’s paradise and key resource for conservators, is closing in November. For artists, the loss goes far beyond a storefront

FANBOY SPHERE

Video: Spectacular! Spectacular! 'Wizard of Oz' at the Sphere Sells Over 500,000 Tickets, $65 Million in Sales!

‘Wizard of Oz’ at Las Vegas Sphere Making $2 million a Day, Researchers Say

Sphere Continues To Soar High Thanks To 'Wizard of Oz' Success

Walter De Maria Show to Include His Final Sculpture: Three Earthy and Otherworldly Pickup Trucks

Recent Scholarly Reappraisal of the Trove of Woodblock Prints Collected By a Pillar of The Nascent L.A. Art Community John H. Culley, Author of 'Cattle, Horses & Men of The Western Range'

Black American Artist Who Found Himself in Finland; First retrospective of Howard Smith’s works in his home country beguilingly blurs the distinctions between art, design, and décor

What’s Up With Phoenix’s Latest Gallery Scene Shuffle? Phoenix is one of the top five art markets in the US; Change is afoot; Closings, mergings and redevelopment

What a History! Man Ray at the Met: A One-Man Art Movement; Revelatory survey at the Met frames Man Ray’s slippery genius in the blurry space between Dada, Surrealism, and modern desire

Destruction, Donation, Disposition: The Strange Economics of Unsellable Art; Rauschenberg's 'Canyon'; Collectors should be aware that the legal status of an artwork or artifact can erase its market value entirely, regardless of its artistic significance

Book Review: Poetry of van Gogh’s Montmartre Years; 'Christianity had failed him. What next then? Art?'; Miles J. Unger’s new study on the artist is in part a critical biography and in part an impressive and sensitive account of his creation of some key paintings

Ted Gioia: Is Mid-20th Century American Culture Getting Erased? They call it the "Greatest Generation"—so why is its art disappearing?

LETTERS FROM THE EDITOR

Gordy Grundy: Legendary Has a New Name, Bari Weiss; Diane Keaton Was Quite an Exception; New Bi-Weekly Column via Airship Cablegram

Kenny Schachter: Inigo Philbrick Has a New Venture, and Diddy’s $21 Million Kerry James Marshall Has a New Owner: Kenny Schachter Tells All

Made in L.A. 2025: Take a Look with the Arts Site 'Los Angeles County Museum of Art'

Dean Kissick: The Vulgar Image; AI is co-spawning a visual culture beyond any imagination. Will an overthrow of good taste re-vest pictures with their mysterious power? Or are we chasing our machines into pastiche hell?

ART NOIR

Financial Times: French Government Recognises ‘Failure’ Over Louvre Heist; Daylight Burglary Of Priceless Royal Jewels Triggers Review Of Security Measures At Country’s Cultural Institutions

Daring Louvre Heist Could Have Been Commissioned By A Collector, Officials Say

No Chardins? No Leonardos? We’re Lucky The Louvre Raiders Had Dreadful Taste In Art; Philistine thieves skipped the museum’s real treasures in favour of dull royal knick-knacks

New Book: “Art Fraud: 50 Fakes That Fooled the Art World”; As much as 50% of all art on the market today may be forgery

Greek Abbot of The Mega Spilaio Monastery Was Arrested On Charges of Trafficking Byzantine Icons And Other Antiquities

Art World Infamy: Inigo Philbrick – Nowhere to Run (Ep. 4); Listen as Inigo Philbrick’s fugitive chapter ends in an unlikely island hideout

PHOTOGRAPHY

Man Ray Was So Much More Than a Photographer; From film to painting to sculpture to chess, the Surrealist was an artist-inventor, tinkering away at light and objects and having a good laugh all the while

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For Inez and Vinoodh, Photography Is Personal: ‘Every Picture We Take Is a Self-Portrait’; Celebrated photography duo is unveiling a new body of work, highly personal and shot entirely on an iPhone

Segregation, Serenades and Social Gatherings: Slice of Black Life in Texas – In Pictures; Exhibition showcasing African American photography in rural and urban areas of Texas underscores the role of the community photographer in documenting local life and culture

Surfer Todd Weaver Takes Magical Pictures of the Golden State Under the California Sun

Fantastic Work! 2025 Bowness Photography Prize 20th Year Winner Anna Higgins. Judge Anna Zahalka said: ‘The stand-out work... is a poetic evocation on the Australian landscape

Must See Video. Diane Keaton (1946-2025) and Her American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement; Woody Allen’s brilliant tribute to her; Keaton sings

David Hockney: ‘I Assume I’ll Die Soon, So I Want To Work Every Day’; Revealing his transcendent new direction; Happiest when painting

Tale of Old Los Angeles; Legendary Actor Steve McQueen’s Granddaughter Sues for Jackson Pollock Painting Lost in Botched Trade for a Motorcycle and Land

Shara Hughes’s Luminous Landscapes Open Portals into Life, Death and the Sublime; At David Kordansky in New York, her nine radiant canvases probe existential questions about human mortality, transcendence and nature’s overwhelming force

Inside The Legal Spat Between One Of The World’s Richest Men And His Longtime Interior Designer; Kickbacks or Tips?

Yau: The Divided Being of Forrest Bess (1911-1977); He was one of the first American artists to grapple with the many parts of an individual’s identity, and seek to unify them; In accordance with the aborigine ritual, becoming a hermaphrodite was the key to immortality; Designed camouflage in WWII

Video Conversation: Between Urs Fischer and Film Curator and Writer Róisín Tapponi About Fearless Creativity And The Artist’s Most Recent Monograph, 'Urs Fischer: Monumental Sculpture'

Interview with Curator Erin Christovale; 'Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal' at the Hammer; 'Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation' at the Hammer

BIG COLLECTORS

How the Green Family Art Foundation Is Shaping Dallas’ Rise in Contemporary Art; Family has quietly been building one of the most coherent and ambitious collections of contemporary art in the country. Their next goal? Cementing Dallas’ reputation as a major art hub

PHOTOGRAPHY

Photographer Mike Brody at M + B Gallery

‘The Surfers Were Methodical and Mesmerising’: Ed Templeton’s Best Phone Picture; US photographer watched on enviously as young people enjoyed the artificial wave in the centre of Munich

James Bidgood’s Dreamy Homoerotica; Best known for his cult film, Pink Narcissus, Bidgood’s 1960s photographs of men as mythological figures are equally alluring

Condoms, Cows and Contortions: Peter Hujar’s Astonishing Vision – In Pictures

Young And In Love: An Intimate Look At Los Angeles – In Pictures; Paul Jasmin, who died in May, helped define the visual language of LA and its youthful dreamers – as these sensual, glowing portraits prove

Nam June Paik’s TV Buddha Is a Perfect Artwork

Geometric Abstraction in the Age of Disparity; Lisa Corinne Davis has stretched the possibilities of painting into a territory defined by digital systems, algorithms, flow charts, and diagrams

"Horror Rendered with Featherlight Tenderness" Financial Times Review: Jenny Saville at National Portrait Gallery

Artists Are Losing Work, Wages, and Hope As Bosses and Clients Embrace AI; Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job

ART IN THE MOVIES

New Anime About Three Sisters Who Are Art Thieves; Official Trailer for Japanese Anime 'Cat's Eye'

Art & Scandal: First-Look Film Review 'The Christophers'; Directed by Steven Soderbergh; Starring Ian McKellen, James Corden, and Michaela Coel; Screenplay by Ed Solomon; Adult children of a famed painter try to forge daddy's work

Robert Longo Fails to Meet the Moment in a Pace Gallery Mega-Show

Interview: Scottish Artist and Painter Jacob Littlejohn

JoAnne Carson: In the Garden of Raucous Retro-Futurism

Closed 'Til Tariffs Chill Out...

BOOKS + WORDS

Podcast: New Yorker's Anthony Lane on Elmore Leonard’s Perfect Pitch; How the author of “Rum Punch” and “Out of Sight” came into his style

Are Movies With Plot Twists Better Than Those Without? I studied the plots of 26,710 movies to look at where plot twists work, where they don’t, and why genre matters

The Art of Biography: The Acid Queen; Interview with Susannah Cahalan, the author of 'The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary'; Ex-wife and partner of Timothy Leary

‘The CIA Book Club’ Review: Typewriter Revolution; During the Cold War, the CIA may have had as much success with books and magazines as with gun-running and spies

LA MORT DU MAGAZINE

The Luxurious Death Rattle of the Great American Magazine; In the glory days of magazines, journalists flew business class and contributors were sent flowers just for meeting a deadline. It was absurd

The Small Magazines That Birthed Surrealism; Surrealism Through Its Journals Reminds Us That The Movement Began With, And Cannot Be Understood Without, The Written Word

Bob & Bob Are Back. Read Part Two: 'Birth of an Art World Duo at the Dawn of Performance Art

Bob & Bob Are There! Building a Legacy; The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art

25 of 2025: Five Trailblazing Performance Artists to Know; 25 boundary-pushing artists who have been dominating the conversation this year

Look at the 2025 Turner Prize Show, and the Artists, Vying for the U.K.’s Top Art Award; Showcase opens with exhibitions by Nnena Kalu, Mohammed Sami, Rene Matić, and Zadie Xa

Six L.A. Museum Projects to Open by 2028

UC Irvine Takes Over OCMA

Expect Major Shift in Journalism and News: Bari Weiss, founder of The Free Press, to lead CBS News as part of major Paramount Skydance shakeup: sources

Mary Boone Stages a Triumphant Return With the Art Titans of 1980s New York; After years away from the spotlight, Mary Boone returns to Lévy Gorvy Dayan to co-curate an ’80s-themed show where Warhol, Basquiat, Koons, and other greats define the decade anew

Artists Are Projecting Satirical Anti-Trump Images Around LA; From Jesus being arrested by ICE to Trump eating the Epstein files, an anonymous art collective’s “guerrilla projections” use humor as a form of protest

ARCHITECTURE

Bruce Goff's Legacy Lives on at LACMA; Man behind LACMA's Japanese Pavilion inspired renegade West Coast architects

Celebrated, Imprisoned, Reviled, Rebuilt: Fernand Pouillon, The Lost Architect of France; From designing enormous postwar housing projects to escaping from prison using a rope, Pouillon’s life had high drama. New documentary charts the extraordinary rise, fall – and rise again – of France’s ‘most wanted’ creative

Las Vegas ‘Underground House’ Hits Market for $8.5M — Photos underground-house

Eight Ways Frank Lloyd Wright’s Buildings Are Still Making Headlines in 2025; Decades after his passing, Frank Lloyd Wright continues to leave his mark on the architectural world

Valuable Read; Rainey Knudson: 'Halfdan Was Here' (527 words): Viking Graffiti in the Hagia Sophia, a Poem to Street Art, and a Prayer to Life As We Know It

BELL RINGING

Interview: Larry Bell’s Art Through the Looking Glass; Soon to be unveiling his largest public art project to date

Art Report Today Podcast: Artist Larry Bell Discusses His Life, Work and Career

STEALING LIKE AN ARTIST

A Curious Incident, a Dog in 'Night Watch' Was a Copy by Rembrandt, Expert Claims

Rijksmuseum says that just like Shakespeare, Rembrandt drew widely and shamelessly from earlier sources

Chloe Sherman Renegade, at Von Lintel Gallery; Interviewed by Ezrha Jean Black

Working Hand-in-Hand: On L.A.’s History of Collaborative Printmaking

2025 California Biennial: Desperate, Scared, But Social at Orange County Museum of Art

Duelling Reviews: Peter Frank and RC Peck: Mary Corse and Hearts of Glass at Pace Gallery

Artists William Powhida and Ellsworth Kelly: The Art World In Two Drawings

GOVERNMENT ARTS

Could Rejecting State Art Grants Be the New Anti-Trump Resistance?

Art Organizations Prevail in Legal Battle Over NEA Grants; Here's how the Trump administration is drastically reshaping the arts landscape

Trump’s “Gender Ideology” Ban for Art Grants Ruled Unconstitutional

Is This the Breaking Point for Museums? Severe cuts to public funding and political uncertainties are straining museums across the West and Europe; Climate of Anxiety for Museums

The Intelligence Report, Mid-Year Economic Review 2025

Pop Art in the Age of AI; 'Pop on Paper: Lichtenstein, Ruscha & Warhol,' Modest-Sized But Elegant Exhibition at the Tyler Museum of Art

ARCHITECTURE

Earthen Architecture and Culture (Xi'an) Research Center / OnEarthStudio

Forget Roadside America, Let’s Location Scout in “Weird France”; Architectural Wonders

‘I Live in a 1900's Sears Catalog Home— Here’s What It’s Like To Own a House That Arrived in a Box’

Historic Artifacts From Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Skyscraper, Price Tower, Saved by Conservancy; Frank Lloyd Wright Conservancy has snapped up the objects to keep them off the private market

Remember When Art Was Fun? Bob & Bob Are Back. Read Part One: 'Birth of an Art World Duo at the Dawn of Performance Art'

'Ukraine Must Win': Five Members of Pussy Riot Sentenced to Jail In Russia; Fortunately in absentia

Life-Sized Dollhouse by Artist Anna Weyant Is One of New York Fashion Week's Hottest Tickets; Marc Jacobs designed outfits for the models roaming the rooms

Video Studio Visit: Benjamin Langford: Scenes and Images, at OCHI, Idaho

Less Art: Christine Wertheim Reviews Nancy Buchanan Truthfully; At The Brick, Los Angeles: Truthfully, Nancy Buchanan A Retrospective

ALWAYS EMERGING

Art Adviser Josh Baer Says Collectors Should Pay No More Than $15,000 for Emerging Artists’ First Solo Show Works

When Artists Are Too Old to Be “Emerging”; If the art world is serious about equity, it has to stop equating emergence with youth and start building structures that reflect the multiplicity of artistic timelines

STAGE STRUCK

‘Art’ Review: James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris drone on about paintings in retro Broadway comedy

Exhibition at the National Theatre; The Greeks: Radical Reinvention; Sense of different approaches to staging Greek tragedy over the years

Jeremy O. Harris Is the Greatest Showman; Talented multihyphenate is a playwright, producer, performer, provocateur, dandy, bon vivant, and depending who you ask, a genius. As his latest wave of projects gains momentum, can Harris keep all the plates spinning?

When Was the Last Time You Did Nothing? In London, shows by Bruce Nauman, Klara Lidén and Helen Cammock reflect on the pleasures and politics of idleness

Rediscovered Cache. Jamie Wyeth’s Lost Portraits of Andy Warhol See the Light After 50 Years

Deep Look at 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

Check Him Out: Walter Swennen, Revered Belgian Painter and Poet, Has Died Aged 79; Paintings were illogical, joyful, and radically free

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

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

Doug Harvey's Less Art: Guest Columnist Steve Hurd: Field Trip Report From The Desert Lighthouse

MONSIEUR NOUAR: LE FRANCAIS BUSTER KEATON

Stop Spending Your Money on Stupid Sh*t!

LETTERS FROM THE EDITOR

Gordy Grundy: ; Friends Call Him Modi; The Ginger Man; Johnny Depp Directs Modigliani; New Way of Looking at Art + Life; Emperors of the IP: Director Dan Trachtenberg

German Museum’s ‘Grumpy Guide’ Is Surprise Hit; ‘I try to make them feel as ignorant as possible’; Performance artist’s aggressive art historian shouts at visitors and insults curators – and his tours are sold out

Rainey Knudson: Van Gogh in the Quantum Fields (566 words); Everything is interconnected

Arts Writer and Poet John Yau in Conversation with Artist Sean Scully

‘Made in L.A. 2025’ Gets Points for Irony; At the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, a themeless biennial engages with local realities of gentrification and loss

How Jean Baudrillard Turned Philosophy into Performance Art

ART NOIR: THE GREAT LOUVRE ROBBERY

Louvre Robbery Got You Feeling Heisty? Here are 20 films to scratch that itch; From Rififi to Inside Man, here's a list of high-stakes crime thrillers and where to watch them

Atlantic: The Louvre Heist Is Terrific; Here was a dreamy little crime in which no one really got hurt

Two More Charged Over Louvre Jewellery Heist

Louvre Heist the Work of ‘Petty Criminals’; French prosecutors said four suspects have been charged

A Life in the Arts: Jackie Ferrara Lived and Died on Her Own Terms; Sculptor of graceful structures and architectural environments, who died voluntarily last week at age 95, sought to contain life’s chaos in geometric forms; Hard Choices in Life

Artist Sasha Gordon 'Haze' at David Zwirner, New York

Cold, Dust and Darkness: Daily Rituals That Unleashed Picasso; Dublin Exhibition Turns the Key on the Chaotic Magic of the Artist's (Many, Many) Studios

Chloe Wise Is Looking Up— at UFOs, Angels, and the Unknown; Recently opened "Myth Information," a new exhibition at Almine Rech, exploring mystic visions from UFOs to angelic apparitions

Posters, Poems, Prints, and Richard Prince at Hetzler | Marfa

How One Author Fell in Love With the Louvre, and Discovered Its Secrets; In her new book, Elaine Sciolino peels back the curtain on the fortress-like museum

Fascinating Mini-Conversations with New Risk-Taking, Sharp-Eyed Galleries That Have Opened Around The World; Here Are 23 Shaping The Conversation

LETTERS FROM THE EDITOR

Gordy Grundy: Making the IP, a History of the Elusive and Convenient Antichrist; New Series 'Defining the Las Vegas Artist'; Bob & Bob Are Back. Just in the Nick of Time!

Inside Barnett Newman’s Failed Run for Mayor of New York: ‘I Don’t Particularly Expect to Be Elected’

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

Tulsa Kinney Review: Junk Food for the One Percent; In 'A Match Made in Heaven,' Katherine Bernhardt and Jeremy Scott are so simpatico that the intertwining of their art feels natural — even divine

WOMEN NAMED AGNES

Queen Agnes: Abstract Painter Agnes Martin Sought Isolation In New Mexico To Stoke Her Obsessive Practice. She Found Vibrant Community; “Painters must live together because other social contracts are barred to them”

Agnes Gund, Champion of Arts and Equity, Dies at 87; From her efforts to end mass incarceration to her deep belief in education, the collector and philanthropist advocated for a more compassionate world

LACMA GIFTING BONANZA

LACMA Gifted Viennese Modernists

LACMA Receives Perenchio Collection + Bonus Gauguin

In Time for Art Basel Paris, Underrated Paris Museums That Locals Love

Must-See London Fall Shows: Big Names, Big Galleries

Human Marks: Tattooing in Contemporary Art

Make Life Beautiful; On the Art of Wolfgang Tillmans

Barnett Newman's 'Uriel' (1955); To Accept Completely The Values Of The Establishment In Which They Seek A Place

WILLIAM BLAKE

Book Review: Poetic Vision of Blake and His Legacy To Match That Of Its Subject; Philip Hoare has created his “version of a Blake print”, a complex book to dive into and get lost in

Video: 'William Blake: The Ancient of Days'

Decoding Cindy Sherman’s Many Roles, From Straphanger to Society Dame; Eight seminal series are on view in "Cindy Sherman. The Women" at Hauser & Wirth Menorca

PETER DOIG

Sound of Drums on the Surface of an Ocean: Music and the Art of Peter Doig

Video: The Street: Curated by Peter Doig; Doig discusses the artists and works that inspired the creation of the exhibition The Street, at Gagosian, New York

How Egg Tempera Painters Crack the Mystery of the Perfect Yolk; We’ve hatched a practical guide to the centuries-old egg-based paint

Why Berlin’s Budget Cuts Should Be a Wakeup Call; City’s cultural scene has long branded itself as radical but, for too long, politics has been confined to exhibition wall

London’s Blockbuster Marie Antoinette Exhibition in 5 Fabulous Objects

On Being Ivan Karp In 1962; Extended Excerpt from Karp's account of the emergence of Pop Art in New York in 1961-2; At the time he was director of Leo Castelli Gallery

Video: Jae Seok Kim, Founder and Director of Xlarge Gallery Explores Seoul’s Jongno District with a Look at Alternative Spaces

Stromberg: Five Artists Share Their Work in This Year’s Made in LA Biennial; Ahead of the opening at the Hammer Museum, Hyperallergic spoke to participants whose practices embrace the show’s threads of history and dissonance

Hunter S. Thompson’s Death To Be Reinvestigated 20 Years After Suicide Ruling

ART 'N ECONOMICS

Philadelphia’s Bankrupt UArts Sells off Library of Rare Art Books; Sale, which included rarities associated with Picasso, Albers, and Motherwell, netted more than $160,000—and there’s more to come

Almine Rech Shuts Down London Gallery After 11 Years

Pace to Close Hong Kong Gallery

Christie's Hong Kong Autumn Sale Drops 46% From Last Year

OCMA 'No Longer Exists,' After UC Irvine Announces Merger with Langson IMCA

Hauser and Zwirner’s UK Galleries Report Nearly 90% Drop in Earnings; News of the dip in profits, reported in public financial filings, comes amid a rumored global art market downturn

How the MoMA Store Became More MoMA than the MoMA; Outstanding places to shop; Licensing partnerships with brands like Lego, New Era, and Nike

Step Into the Unknown at Brave New Work; World Leaders in Art and Technology Gather in Santa Barbara to Discuss Our Future

On The Sounds LA-based Steve Roden Created

TWOMBLY SELF-MARKETING

Act In The Gap Between Art and Handwriting; Cy Twombly

Reissued Twombly Exhibition Posters from Yvon Lambert

Neon Museum Restores the Last Remaining Dunes Hotel Sign

Here’s How Q-Tips, Crocs, and Ben & Jerry’s T-Shirts Play a Role in Arcmanoro Niles’s Studio Practice; On the heels of opening his latest show with Lehmann Maupin

Modern Patronage? Meet the ‘Maintenance Artist’ Who Has Made Lifelong Art Out of Labor; New documentary profiles the unpaid artist in residence with the New York City sanitation department

Argentinian-born Artist Amalia Ulman’s Absurdist Cinema Picks Up Where Her Art Left Off; Starring Chloë Sevigny and Alex Wolff, "Magic Farm" marks another entry in Ulman's ongoing art of illusion

Masterpiece by Diego Rivera's Wife Poised to Fetch a Record-Shattering $60 Million; Painting is part of Sotheby's sale of Surrealist works including those by René Magritte and Dorothea Tanning

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ENHANCING COLLECTOR EXPERIENCE

Superstar Cj Hendry’s Hit Floral Art Spectacle Blooms Again; You can build your own bouquet of flowers real and imagined, for $5 a blossom

Experiential Floral Art Spectacle on Instagram

Kenny Schachter: When Gagosian Goes So Do His Galleries; How Hockney’s Swimmer Swam Away; Moving Chairs and Price Reductions in the Gallery World; Teasing Smith and Saltz

BOOKS + WORDS

Woody Allen Published His First Novel; Film-maker has previously written short stories and essays but this story about a middle-aged Jewish author whose marriage is on the rocks is his first published novel

‘Deeply Concerning’: Reading For Fun In The Us Has Fallen By 40%, New Study Says; Over the last 20 years, the number of Americans who read daily for pleasure has seen a considerable decline

The Onion Brought Back Its Print Edition. The Gamble Is Paying Off. Publications turn to the old-style products to appeal to nostalgic readers and stand out in a crowded digital media landscape

Mick Herron’s Horse Sense; The 'Slow Horses' author on the inspiration for Jackson Lamb, taking a page out of Stephen King’s book, and what his third act would look like

The Stellar Stoic: You Can Find Peace

ART NOIR

Collusion, Evasion, and Theft! 25 Years in Art Market Scandals; Artists, dealers, and collectors have been accused of all sorts of malfeasance. The fallout has varied

The Spy Who Came In from the Burning Picassos; Working undercover for the French Resistance, Rose Valland witnessed the Nazis’ destruction of 500 precious artworks

Lies, Private Jets And A Missing $86M: Inigo Philbrick’s Art World Swindle; Convicted fraudster expresses regret, not remorse, in a two-part BBC documentary but also asks ‘What about all the good deals?’

Chef Ruthie Rogers and Ed Ruscha On Their Obsession With Lemons; When the chef and the artist decided to make a cookbook together, only one fruit would do

Video Worth Your Time; Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos' Magical and Very Funny Prada Short Film with Scarlett Johansson

STREETWISE

Graphic Short Story: I Never Was a Graffiti Artist; "Revisiting my teenage years working for artists Freedom and Crash and renovating Keith Haring’s Pop Shop, I wrestle with the ironies of parenting as my son takes up tagging"

Brooklyn Street Art Images of the Week

Interview: Alex Itin and Rene Lerude in the Streets: Contrarians, Punchlines, and Miles Davis; Hand-rendered one-off posters and stickers

Frieze Video: 'How to Look at Silver'

Gisela Colón: Earthworks and New Worlds; Monograph of Global Site Installations from Skira; Essay by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

‘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

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

Gordy Grundy: How Does an Artist Say Goodbye To Lost Art Works?

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

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