Art Report Today

THE EXPERIENCE

Saudi Arabia pushes soft power by launching new teamLab digital art museum in Jeddah; The hi-tech Japanese collective will create trademark immersive experiences for the new space

Gatherings are taboo in the Covid-19 world, so where does that leave experiential art?

How Pace Gallery Helped Turn Experiential Art into an Industry

ARTIST PROFILE: JOHN BOSKOVICH

David Rimanelli: John Boskovich at Rosamund Felsen Gallery; “The Lack Of An Interior Life Is Less Often The Root Of Suffering Than One Might Imagine”

The ‘Schlock Apocalypse’ of John Boskovich

John Boskovich “Rude Awakening”; “There Has Been Quite A Brouhaha The Last Few Years Over Los Angeles’ Supposed Emergence As A World Class Center For Contemporary Art”

New York Magazine, 1988: Brief Lives, Valley Guy

Christopher Knight: “Alienation Lurks In Humanity’s Black Lagoon”

O-Town House, “Psycho Salon”

John Boskovich at O-Town House; Full Gallery of Images

Andrew Berardini On John Boskovich’s Boskostudio, 1996-2006

Joan Quinn Profiles: Polymath John Boskovich

Roger Ebert Film Review: “Without You I'm Nothing” Directed by John Boskovich

“Without You I'm Nothing” Trailer 1990

How Artists Have Transformed Their Homes Into Other Worlds

CARLA: John Boskovich at O-Town House

KELLY McLANE

OEUVRE UNLIMITED: Kelly McLane

Kelly McLane: PECKERWOODS, 2017

Artillery Best in Show 2017

Kelly McLane Dot Com

Kelly McLane on Artsy.net

Kelly McLane Artworks

The Dystopian Aesthetic in Lisa Adams’ and Kelly McLane's Paintings

ARTIST PROFILE: RAGNAR KJARTANSSON

Ragnar Kjartansson’s 'Never-Ending Lullaby' To Be Performed In Milan Church For The Covid Era

Ragnar Kjartansson’s Bonjour

An Evening with Artist Ragnar Kjartansson

Ragnar Kjartansson at Luhring Augustine Gallery

Artist Interview—Ragnar Kjartansson: Death Is Elsewhere

The Maddest House Party Ever – Ragnar Kjartansson On Making The Visitors

Ragnar Kjartansson’s Panorama of Love and Death

Artist Interview—Ragnar Kjartansson: Death Is Elsewhere

Ragnar Kjartansson: Me, My Mother, My Father, and I

JENNY SAVILLE

Gagosian Sells Big: Jenny Saville

ARTISTS GET GRAPHIC NOVEL TREATMENT

Yayoi Kusama’s Colourful Life Gets The Graphic Novel Treatment

Notable: A Biography of Edmonia Lewis Takes On A Life Of Its Own

ARTIST PROFILE: KARA WALKER

Today, like never before, Black artists are flourishing and in demand. Kara Walker, as did others, steadfastly blazed a lonely trail and paved the way for this new and long overdue attention.—Editor

Turbine Hall Artist Kara Walker: 'Apparently, The Only Thing I Am Is Black'

Kara Walker: Using The Horrors Of The Past To Awaken The Present

A Biography: Kara Walker

Kara Walker at Spruth Magers

Kara Walker: Starting Out

Why Kara Walker Is So Important

Vulture (2017) Kara Walker’s Next Act

The Controversies of Kara Walker (2013)

Dear Kara Walker: If You’re Tired of Standing Up, Please Sit Down

Roberta Smith: Kara Walker Traces Slavery’s Bitter Legacy With New Ways of Drawing

“She Still Faces Ire From Black Artists And The Black Community” Kara Walker Showed Me the Horror of American Life

Kara Walker Has Opened Her Personal Archive, Showing Nearly 270 Drawings

Catalogue: Kara Walker “Drawings” at Sikkema Jenkins & Co, 2020

Artist Kara Walker – 'I'm an Unreliable Narrator'

Kara Walker, ‘Tired of Standing Up,’ Promises Art, Not Answers

ARTIST PROFILE: JORDAN WOLFSON

Is Artist Jordan Wolfson Really So Offensive? A New Documentary Considers the Artist’s Persona

Artist Jordan Wolfson at David Zwirner

Jordan Wolfson – Painting as a Practice

Jordan Wolfson: Riverboat Song: Interview

‘He’s a Psycho. He’s a Monster’: A New Doc on Jordan Wolfson Paints a Dark Portrait of the Art World’s Enfant Terrible

Who Likes Jordan Wolfson?

Jordan Wolfson’s Latest Provocation Has Already Been Acquired by the National Gallery of Australia

New Yorker: Jordan Wolfson’s Edgelord Art

BANKSY UPDATE


Banksy Triptych Raises $3 Million For Palestinian Hospital

Banksy Triptych—Estimated At £1.2M—To Be Sold At Sotheby's In Aid Of Palestinian Hospital

London Tube Invites Banksy To Make New Work In ‘Suitable Location.’ Classic Artwork Removed By London Underground Cleaners

HELLO ERWIN HAUER

Erwin Hauer, Celebrated Sculptor of Architectural Screens

Wallpaper: Hauer in Residence

Texture + Materials

Sculpting the Shape, Seeing the Light

Yau: Harriet Korman One of New York’s Purest Abstract Painters

HELMUT NEWTON

The Documentarian Who Secured Rare Footage of Helmut Newton at Work

Review: Helmut Newton, The Man Whom (Some) Women Loved

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful Documentary

Photographer Helmut Newton Killed in Freak Accident at Chateau Marmont (2004)

MILTON GLASER

Milton Glaser's unseen design for New York: 'Together'

Farago: Ten Signature Images From Milton Glaser’s Eclectic Career; In his graphic designs, he mingled Dürer with de Chirico, Breuer with Klimt, Islamic ornament with African textiles.

Christo’s Most Controversial Artworks: Protests, Political Outcries, Deaths, and More

Christo's Billowy Visions, Fleeting But Unforgettable

New Yorker: A Tribute to Christo’s Unforgettable Art Works

Sculptor Christo Remembered by Artist Lynn Hershman Leeson: ‘Spirited, Political, and Profoundly Kind’

Christo’s Valley Curtain

New Doc: ‘Maverick Modigliani’ To challenge the art world with his genuineness

ARTIST PROFILE: LARRY BELL

Larry Bell: Seeing Through Glass

Larry Bell’s Website

Art Report Today Podcast: Artist Larry Bell Discusses His Work, Career and Jack Brogan, by Michael Delgado

Larry Bell at Hauser & Wirth

Larry Bell, Bill and Coo, at MOCA’s Nest

Brooklyn Rail: Larry Bell: Still Standing

Larry Bell: Still Standing

Jagged, Glacier-Inspired Glass By California Icon Larry Bell

LA Icons Larry Bell and Billy Al Bengston Look Back

What Are Those Glowing Red Cubes Outside MOCA? Meet Larry Bell’s Latest Work

Tech Meets Fine Art in Larry Bell’s Glass Cubes

Larry Bell: Artist; Narrated by John McEnroe

Two American Art Icons, Larry Bell and Mary Heilmann, Discuss the Old Days and Their New Shows

Larry Bell Venice Fog: Recent Investigations

Larry Bell Takes us from 1950s Venice to Today in Taos

Larry Bell: A Studio Visit; A film by Eric Minh Swenson

ARTIST PROFILE: JOHN McCRACKEN

Frances Colpitt: Between Two Worlds: John McCracken

John McCracken (Artist) Wikipedia

Knight: John McCracken Dies at 76; Contemporary Artist Made Geometric Sculptures

Full Curriculum Vitae at David Zwirner

Roberta Smith: John McCracken, Sculptor of Geometric Forms, Dies at 76

John McCracken: Represented by David Zwirner

A Must See! John McCracken, Paintings, at LA Louver, 1993

The McCracken Collection at the Laguna Art Museum

Venus Over Manhattan: John McCracken “Planks” 2017

Smithsonian: Oral History Interview with John McCracken; 2010, Apr. 19-Aug. 4

Architectural Digest Retrospective of John McCracken's Colorful Sculptures at David Zwirner, 2013

John McCracken's ART, an Interpretive Video (Turn the volume down)

Reflections on the Monolith: Kubrick, McCracken, Zeppelin, Nothing

John McCracken at David Zwirner 2017

John McCracken Works from 1963-2011 at David Zwirner

Exclusive: John Chalmers: Remembering the Maverick Metaphysician John McCracken

MARILYN MINTER

Artist Marilyn Minter Couldn’t Care Less that Ivanka Trump Unfollowed Her on Instagram

Minter at Regen Projects

Marilyn Minter at Gavlak

How I Get It Done: Artist Marilyn Minter

“Crude, Alluring and Complex: Marilyn Minter at LA’s Regen Projects”

Christopher Knight, “Minter Toggles ‘Pretty/Dirty” Los Angeles Times 2016

Marilyn Minter : Pretty/Dirty

A Talk By Faculty Member Marilyn Minter - Fine Artist

Minter on Artsy.net

ARTIST PROFILE: LLYN FOULKES

Llyn Foulkes at Kayne Griffin Corcoran

Biography of Lynn Foulkes

LLYN FOULKES ONE MAN BAND Official Trailer

Variety: Film Review: ‘Llyn Foulkes: One Man Band’

Llyn Foulkes Dot Com

A Selection of Work on Artsy.net

Foulkes at David Zwirner

Llyn Foulkes Performing at Documenta 13

In the Studio: Llyn Foulkes, 2011

The New Museum Will Present The Long-Overdue Career Retrospective Of Llyn Foulkes, 2013

Llyn Foulkes A Retrospective at the NEW MUSEUM

Between The Rocks And A Hard Place Llyn Foulkes: Private View

Oral history Interview with Llyn Foulkes

Llyn Foulkes’ Art of Raw Emotion

Artist Roger Shimomura confronts racism, stereotypes with art

ADGER COWANS

Who is Photographer Adger Cowans?

Cowans at Bruce Silverstein Gallery

Adger Cowans Gets His Due as a Great Photographer

LEWIS MacADAMS

Poet Lewis MacAdams, famed crusader for the Los Angeles River, dies at 75

River Boy: The Mask, A Collaboration with Lewis MacAdams and The Dark Bob

Mordred: The Mask, A Collaboration with Lewis MacAdams and The Dark Bob

LARRY BELL

Podcast: Artist Larry Bell Discusses His Work, Career and Jack Brogan, by Michael Delgado

Larry Bell Takes Us from 1950s Venice to Today in Taos

Primary Atmospheres: Works from California 1960-1970

Brooklyn Rail: Larry Bell: Still Standing

Jagged, Glacier-Inspired Glass By a California Icon

Larry Bell; Works on Artsy

Larry Bell at Hauser & Wirth

LA Icons Larry Bell and Billy Al Bengston Look Back

Larry Bell: Still Standing at Hauser & Wirth

The Website of Artist Larry Bell

Larry Bell: Artist

Meditate In This Sonic House Of Mirrors From Doug Aitken

Surrounded Islands: Christo Sails Back To His Pink Archipelago In Miami

Meet the Artist Korakrit Arunanondchai

Hilton Als on the Films of Kara Walker

Jordan Wolfson’s Latest Provocation Has Already Been Acquired by the National Gallery of Australia

New Yorker: Jordan Wolfson’s Edgelord Art

STANISLAV SZUKALSKI

Netflix Must-See: Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski


“You should have (statues) of anybody that changes history. That’s why we have carvings of Nero. That’s why we know what Hitler looks like. Don’t forget these assholes!” —Stanislav Szukalski, Sculptor (1893-1987)

JENNIFER GUIDI

Jennifer Guidi, Her Gagosian Show on Pause, Is Weathering Quarantine with Insta Stories and Baths

Guidi at Gagosian

Twelve Tracks on Her Victrola: Jennifer Guidi