BEST OF "THE BEST OF THE YEAR" New Yorker: The Best Jokes of 2025
The Best Movies of 2025, According to John Waters
The 10 Worst Movies of 2025
WSJ: The Best Movies of 2025: Art and the Apocalypse
Annual ArtReview Power 100
WSJ: 10 Best Books of 2025
WSJ: Best Theater of 2025: New Views on Classic Stories
New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025, Justin Chang and Richard Brody
WSJ: The Best Architecture of 2025: Place Over Pizzazz
10 Best London Art Shows of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
10 Best Mystery Books of 2025; Pub trivia night gone wrong! A post-Brexit government conspiracy! A drug-kingpin granny! And much more...
WSJ: Best TV Shows of 2025: Beating Back the British Invasion
10 Best Art Films of 2025
200 Years of Solitude; Giovanni Strazza’s The Veiled Virgin is considered among the world’s great sculptures. So why has it been sequestered inside a Newfoundland convent?
'A Christmas Sermon' by Legendary Wordsmith Robert Louis Stevenson (1900)
First Look: Huntington's Updated American Galleries
Rage Bait: The Psychology Behind Social Media's Angriest Posts; “Rage bait” is the Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year
Art Market Is a Rollercoaster. How Are (the Very Few Artists Who Actually Make a Living Selling Their Work) Handling It?
Don’t Miss: Tatiana Trouvé’s Maps of Memory and Collapse at Palazzo Grassi; French-Italian artist has transformed the Pinault Collection’s Venetian outpost into a poetic, post-capitalist ecosystem in which the self endures
GOOD GIGS
ART vs. COMMERCE
New Art Action Film, Not a Remake; Set against the backdrop of contemporary London, “Heist of Benin” is described as a thriller that intertwines action, love and art restitution; New Ava DuVernay movie; Starring David Oyelowo
Louis Vuitton’s Ship To Nowhere Marks The New Age of Luxury
Review: KAWS Makes Art for the Tech Bro Era; His exhibition at SFMOMA could have examined the collapse of culture at the hands of commodity, but instead it nudges us toward the gift shop
Financial Times: Museums Are No Longer Afraid Of ‘Selling Out’. But Have They Forgotten About The Art? From huge digital billboards to advising tech billionaires, US arts institutions are embracing a range of moneymaking initiatives
How to Close Your Gallery? Shutting down a gallery with care can protect artists, staff and even spark new beginnings
Pour One Out for the Galleries That Closed in 2025; It's been a tough 12 months, but there are reasons for hope. There have to be.
America's Dull Bipartisan Obsession; Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Rose to Influence and Got Rich; Read and Get Over It
Southwest Contemporary Magazine‘s Winter 2025-26 Art Guide
2025 California Biennial Is Trapped in the Past; Show's displays of juvenilia from established artists say little about adolescents today and make its message inscrutable
Justice Delayed: Hidden Holocaust Archive Must Force An Art-World Reckoning; Old works, New Light; Cloudy legalities
ARCHITECTURE
The Modern Homes Hidden Inside Ancient Ruins; Meet the architects taking tumbledowns to the next level
Inside the Fascinating History of America’s Spite Houses That Prove Revenge Is a Home Best Built Bold
POST-BASEL MIAMI RECAP
Was Attending Art Basel Miami Beach Worth It This Year? Wet Paint Weighs In; After perusing far-flung pop-ups, a flurry of fairs, and late-night concerts, our columnist files from Magic City
Artist’s ‘Self Checkout’ Lets You Pay What You Wish at Art Basel Miami Beach; Artwork you're purchasing is literally the receipt
Who Owns Taste Now? Art Basel Miami Beach Offered Some Answers; As one insider put it: 'Institutions are no longer calling the shots'
Very Young Rising-Star Painter Gets a Spotlight During Art Basel Miami Beach; Lorenzo Amos has a room of paintings at the Rubell Museum
Luis Fernando Zapata Is the Breakout Revelation of Art Basel Miami Beach; Long-overlooked queer Colombian multimedia artist was a visionary who sculpted his own afterlife
All the Basel Miami Celeb Sightings; Leo, Rihanna, ASAP Rocky, Larsa Pippen, Swiss Beatz, Haim Sisters, Beeple and So Many More!
Financial Times: Are UK Museums Turning American? Bettina Korek, the Serpentine’s CEO thinks it’s the future
How Joan Miró’s ‘Constellations’ Rose From the Chaos of War; 23-work series was finally reunited for a 1993 retrospective at MoMA
Podcast: Art Dirt: Discussing Artist Obituaries and Generational Shifts
Inside Andy Warhol’s Lifelong Obsession With Perfume; Chanel-in$pired
BASEL MIAMI 2025
Nate Freeman: The Only Art Basel Miami Beach Guide You Need to Read; Miami Beach still has a stranglehold over the pop-cultural imagination, despite some galleries sitting out this year
I. Art Daddy: Basel Edition Collector's Tips and Services; Champagne and Xanax Curation; Supervised Booth Interaction; Stuck in Dull Conversation? Emergency Exit Extraction Team; Fair Fatigue IV Drip ... ... II. Art Daddy’s Basel PTSD Prevention Guide; Protect Yourself From Art Boys, Tequila Activations, and “Experimental” Sound Installations
Page Six: Art Basel Miami Beach 2025: Biggest Parties and Events
Rare Basquiat Photos and More Art to See in Miami This Week
Jeffrey Deitch Champions Ultra-Emerging Artists in Miami Pop-Up This year, young guns are in charge of his annual show
New Yorker: The Best Jokes of 2025
“It isn’t like anywhere I know or have ever experienced before. But I feel at home here and it’s not just because I am following the well-trodden path of the pioneers heading west, it’s because I am also in the company of the likes of, Richard Long, David Hockney and Anthony Gormley who all came to Las Vegas from the UK."
PHOTOGRAPHY
BASEL MIAMI 2025
Get To Know Miami’s Top Hotels: The Shelborne By Proper, Andaz Miami Beach, The Elser Hotel, and More
Forbes: 17 Can’t-Miss Food And Drink Events During Art Basel Miami Beach 2025
ART NOIR?
Alma Allen Will Officially Represent the U.S. at the Venice Biennale. Here’s What You Need to Know; Utah-born, Mexico-based sculptor is an unusual pick for the high-profile international art exhibition
With Trump-Allied Arts Group at Helm, US Artist for 2026 Venice Biennale Is Chosen
RABIH ALAMEDDINE
Painter and Writer Rabih Alameddine Wins National Book Award For Fiction With Darkly Comic Epic Spanning Six Decades; True to his irreverent style, author of The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) thanks his psychiatrist, his gastrointestinal doctors and his drug dealers
Interview: Rabih Alameddine by Artist Kara Walker
The Politics of Abstract Painting; Abstract painting is inherently progressive; Abstraction is somehow more serious than figuration
NEVENA PRIJIC
BOOKS + WORDS
LA Review of Books: Chris Kraus’s “The Four Spent the Day Together”; Chris Kraus joins Kate Wolf to talk about her new novel, “The Four Spent the Day Together”
Opinion: "AI could never replace my authors. But, without regulation, it will ruin publishing as we know it," says Jonny Geller, literary agent and CEO of The Curtis Brown Group; Basic principles need to be enshrined to protect the sacred craft of storytelling from this automated onslaught
An Art Magazine? In This Economy? The Sudden, Unlikely Rise of 'Cultured'
Lawrence Weschler : Dario Fo (Nobel Prize for Literature, 1977) On Broadway (1984)
Review: 'Monuments' Collapses American History on Itself; Exhibition in Los Angeles pairing decommissioned public Confederate statues with contemporary art captures America’s shifting political terrain
The Stellar Stoic: Don’t Just Settle for a Shortcut, Do the Work
BOOKS + WORDS
Ted Gioia: On the Rise and Fall of Hunter S. Thompson, Part One
Ted Gioia: On the Rise and Fall of Hunter S. Thompson, Part Two
Ted Gioia: On the Rise and Fall of Hunter S. Thompson, Part Three
CERAMICS
Review: “Hot! & Ready to Serve: Celebrating Functional Ceramics” at American Museum of Ceramic Art
Review: The Trailblazing Pueblo Potter Who Forged Her Own Path; Though Jody Folwell has always felt rooted in her culture, she pursued a ceramics practice in the early 1970s with a desire to find a distinctive voice
Wow. Documentary Filmmaker Ken Burns On Why The American Revolution Is ‘The Most Important Event In History After The Birth of Christ’
LARRY & WES
Larry Gagosian Teams Up with Movie Director Wes Anderson to Reimagine Joseph Cornell’s New York Studio
POP ART
Fine Art Issue of W Magazine, a series that since 2006 has placed the day’s luminaries before the gaze of contemporary artists
BRAVING OPPRESSION
Hyperallergic: School Nixes Exhibition Criticized by Turning Point USA; 'The Fletcher Exhibit' of political art was hosted at East Tennessee State University for 11 years until it came under attack from right-wing figures
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
At Age 18, Sculptress Vinnie Ream Was The First Woman To Receive a Federal Art Commission for Her Lincoln Portrait
EVERYDAY IS HALLOWEEN, 2025
PORTRAIT: THE WILDLY CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHER WILLIAM MORTENSEN
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
Closed 'Til Tariffs Chill Out...
BRINGING HOME THE PRIZED BACON
Poundstone: Wynn Bequeaths Francis Bacon Triptych to LACMA
BAS JAN ADER
Retrospective Dispels Myths Surrounding Bas Jan Ader
BACK TO TOP
ARCHITECTURE
Opportunity of a Lifetime; In Los Angeles, the Stahl House, designed by Pierre Koenig, is for sale
Architecture No Longer Considered A "Professional Degree" in US
Concrete Loops: Brutalism and the Weather of Houston
BOOKS + WORDS
Glamour and Grit: Anjelica Huston’s Cultured Coolness; Oscar winner digs into her groovy youth in swinging London, her long entanglement with Jack Nicholson, and so much more in her two essential autobiographies
Nick Cave (of the Bad Seeds fame) on the Best Children’s Book Ever Written
'1984' Versus 'A Brave New World'; Two Giants Collide; George Orwell and Aldous Huxley
Jeeves and the Well-Meaning Acolytes; Collection of 12 new stories about P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster, including tales by Roddy Doyle and Dominic Sandbrook, update the duo
‘Like a Mini Louvre’: Two Generations of Rothschilds Fight Over Priceless Treasure Trove of Artworks
Major Signs of Another Coming Dark Age; Collapsing The West Could Make History Repeat
CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVE ART
The Art of Usefulness: Inside the Complicated World of Studio Assistants
WEST COAST JAZZ
Ted Gioia: Will West Coast Jazz Finally Get Some Respect?
LUSCIOUS MARILYN MINTER
New Yorker Profile: Marilyn Minter’s Rapturous Visions; Artist was shunned by the art world for being too vulgar. Her new show embraces the female body, with muses like Lizzo, Padma Lakshmi, and Jane Fonda
In New Documentary, Artist Marilyn Minter Overcomes the Burden of Shame in the Art World; "Pretty Dirty: The Life and Times of Marilyn Minter"
ARTIST DAVID SHRIGLEY
Review: 'Pass the Spoon' Painter David Shrigley Serves Up a Macabre Kitchen Opera; Shrigley's Career As an International Success Continues to Expand
Review: Yours for £1m! David Shrigley Puts 10 Tons Of Old Rope On Display In A Gallery; Is the pranksy artist’s latest show a worrying comment about Britain’s discarded rope problem – or a joke at the expense of the buy-anything art world?
Instagram ... ... Stephen Friedman Gallery
Podcast Video: Artist David Shrigley: 'I Stopped Watching The News When Trump Won'
GOOD GIGS
Yoko Ono Will Help Transform JFK Airport’s New Terminal; $4.2 billion upgrade to the New York airport will include art installations from the city's biggest institutions
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Design Legacy Hits the Road in a Fancy Airstream Trailer; Only 200 units will be built, each to order and priced at $184,900
"I soon found there were no fine art museums in Las Vegas.... Yet, there was a multitude of outrageous Vegas-themed museums... It became my quest to curate art exhibitions in every museum on The Strip ."
FRANK GEHRY
"The Greatest Architect" Frank Gehry Dies Aged 96
In Pictures, From Bilbao to Las Vegas: Frank Gehry’s Incredible Architecture
Coagula Art Journal Discusses the Creation and Funding of the Disney Concert Hall
Artist Nnena Kalu Wins 2025 Turner Prize; First artist with a learning disability to earn the coveted distinction
Closed 'Til Tariffs Chill Out...
GIFT GUIDE: JOHNNY CAN'T READ, BUT HE LIKES THE PICTURES
8 Standout Art Books to Gift (or Keep) This Season; Eight new releases distill what’s exciting in visual culture right now, spanning architecture, contemporary art, fashion, and more
15 Art Books to Gift This Holiday Season
The Gagosian Shoppe
Parting Shots and Final Words: Former Art Critic Christopher Knight
Yau: Tongji Philip Qian Finds the Comedy in Conceptual Art; Differs from most conceptual artists and their self-imposed strategies: even when he follows the rules, he undermines himself
WOMEN'S ISSUES
Do We Still Need All-Woman Art Shows?
Review: “Lines of Resolution: Drawing at the Advent of Television and Video” at the Menil Drawing Institute, Houston
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 Stellar Stoic: You Still Have Time, Pt. II
THREADS
HEARTS HANG HEAVY IN LOS ANGELES
Kenny Schachter Tells All: Art Basel’s Miami Pivot; Run-In With Larry G; Michael Werner Gallery Divorce: Gordon VeneKlasen is on his way out, and headed to Los Angeles. And rumors swirl about who bought what at the New York sales
SLOW FLUSH
Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet Fails to Make a Splash; Work sold for $12.1 million after an awkward minute during which the auctioneer attempted to draw out more bids
Barely Worth Its Weight in Gold: can art still be considered an asset class? As Maurizio Cattelan's toilet sells to its gold spot price, experts question just how secure of an investment art really is
“Las Vegas artist.” In all my 24 years in Las Vegas, the term has irked me, like poor stitching inscribing your skin. So, I have no answer to what makes one a Las Vegas artist today, but I have som e questions. "
Most Jaw-Dropping Costumes of the Miss Universe Competition
Debutante Mary Boone Reveals the Part of the 1980s Art World She Misses the Most
In New Documentary, Artist Marilyn Minter Overcomes the Burden of Shame in the Art World
DATALAND
(2024 Article) L.A. Gets First For-Profit Museum of AI; Financed by real estate developer Related California; Los Angeles has a tradition of artists starting DIY museums
Art Critic Jerry Saltz Gets Into an Online Skirmish With A.I. Superstar Refik Anadol; Saltz enraged Anadol after dismissing his installation at MoMA
Here Are the 10 Most-Searched Artists in 2025; Are You Listed?
ARCHITECTURE
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
Sperone Westwater, Legendary New York Gallery, Closes After 50 Years
Sperone Westwater Founders Are Locked in Legal Battle as Gallery Prepares to Close ; The two dealers are “so divided”
What If Every Artwork You’ve Ever Seen Is a Fake? Shocked to learn just how many pieces of art sold around the world are forgeries; Does cheap dupe really make us enjoy it less? Yeah.
Frieze: The 25 Best Works of the 21st Century
STREETWISE
Kickstarter: Looks Great! Make it Happen! "I Kissed Banksy's Girlfriend"; New book by OG street artist Dave the Chimp. The True Story of Street Art's early years; Hijinx on the Streets; "Wild West" days; 304 pages. Over 70 photographs and illustrations
The Free Press Podcast: Punk Rock Turns 50 ; Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s Socrates; Roots of punk go back much further than you think. Like 2,400 years back...
ART NOIR
Ah-ha! Fedora Man Unmasked: Meet The Teen Behind The Louvre Mystery Photo
The Week in Art Crime and Mischief: Googly eyes on a sculpture, updates in the Louvre heist, a teenager arrested for damaging exhibits at the Met. Art crime made the news this month
Where in America Are Museums Most ‘Heist-Prone’?; LACMA No. 7
Frieze: 25 Best Works of the 21st Century; Join us as we count down the defining works that have shaped contemporary art since 2000
Vietnam Vet From Long Island Finds Solace In Painting And Teaches It To Soldiers Fighting Ptsd: ‘I Was Getting Daymares’
Artist Q’Shaundra James Goes Beyond ‘The Veil’
ARCHITECTURE
California Modernist Icon, the Bailey House, Designed by Architect Richard Neutra Hits the Market in Pacific Palisades; Sole Case Study House realized by Neutra
Terry Farrell, ‘Non-Conformist’ Architect, 1938–2025; Known for his postmodern buildings in London
VIDEO
; 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
Ted Gioia: Spotify Backs Down; Are we finally winning the AI war against slop?
Rainey Knudson: What Happens When We Die (487 words)
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
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
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
‘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
LETTERS FROM THE EDITOR
Gordy Grundy :
Kenny Schachter: Inigo Philbrick Has a New Venture, and Diddy’s $21 Million Kerry James Marshall Has a New Owner: Kenny Schachter Tells All
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
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
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
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'
BIG COLLECTORS
PHOTOGRAPHY
Condoms, Cows and Contortions: Peter Hujar’s Astonishing Vision – In Pictures
JoAnne Carson: In the Garden of Raucous Retro-Futurism
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
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
MONSIEUR NOUAR: LE FRANCAIS BUSTER KEATON
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDITOR
Breaking News + Opinion
PLAYWRIGHT 2026 JUSTIN TANNER
Justin Tanner Essay: The Rehearsal Process; Fun on the Front Lines of Creativity; Playwright and Actor; "I snapped my wig at rehearsal on Saturday - behaving in a truly ghastly fashion in front the director and stage manager."
"My Son the Playwright" Opens January 24, at the Rogue Machine Theatre at The Matrix, in WeHo , LA
The Avant-Garde Is Over. Should Artists Embrace Being Fashionably Late? Marshall McLuhan’s assertion—"...that art functions as a “Distant Early Warning system... tell[ing] the old culture what is beginning to happen to it”
Mourning and Melancholia in Las Vegas; What does it mean to “think Las Vegas”? "Postmodern simulacrum just does not fly."
The Grab List: How Museums Decide What To Save In A Disaster; Billions of dollars’ worth of art is imperilled by climate change. Curators will have to make sacrifices
Rainey Knudson: What Do We Want from Antiquity? (750 words)
Julia Stoschek’s Groundbreaking Video Art Collection Is Getting an Outing in L.A.; “What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem” marks the first major U.S. presentation of the collector's storied trove
AI-Powered Forgeries Plague Art World
Fraudsters Use AI to Fake Artwork Authenticity And Ownership; Chatbots forge convincing sales invoices and other documents, say industry figures
The Innovation That’s Killing Restaurant (and Cinema and Art Gallery) Culture; Delivery has turned America into a nation of order-inners
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDITOR
Breaking News + Opinion
A CLEAN, WELL-LIGHTED AESTHETIC
Puck: Art Collection’s Escape From L.A.; Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall decided to sell their collection six months before fires ravaged Los Angeles. Now, dozens of 20th century works are safe and sound
What Monuments Stand To Teach Americans About Themselves; To mourn responsibly is to accept that history cannot be perfected and should not be forgotten, but understood
Yau: Theaster Gates Is Best When He’s Ambiguous; When Gates opens a gap between how something is perceived and what it is, he does not simply make a connection for the viewer — he invites self-reflection
How a Major Commission Drove Mark Rothko to Rage— and Refusal; Exactly why Rothko agreed to the commission may always be a mystery...
Untold Story Behind Pop Art’s Most Famous Word; With editions of the sculpture installed all over the world, Indiana's 'LOVE' series remains at the acme of art dedicated to love
Michelangelo’s Forgotten Foray Into Military Fortress Design; Although the Old Master's designs were impressive, they were also complicated, and never fully completed
SOPHIE CALLE
The Woman Who Slept at the Top of the Eiffel Tower; Artist Sophie Calle; Professor Jean Baudrillard
Utopia: Three Centuries of Sexuality in American Cults and Communes
Gustave Courbet and His Self-Portraits; Story Behind One of Art History’s Most Haunting Self-Portraits
Rediscovering Norman Zammitt, a 1960s Visionary of the Light and Space Movement; Otis Grad; Evolving Practice
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDITOR
Breaking News + Opinion
Best Art World Movies of 2025; Year’s defining art-world films explore collapsing partnerships, digital experiments, and the urgent hope that art can still save us
Contemporary Art Finds a Home Gallery at Couper Russ in Las Vegas
BOOKS + WORDS
Glamour and Grit: Anjelica Huston’s Cultured Coolness; Oscar winner digs into her groovy youth in swinging London, her long entanglement with Jack Nicholson, and so much more in her two essential autobiographies
Nick Cave (of the Bad Seeds fame) on the Best Children’s Book Ever Written
'1984' Versus 'A Brave New World'; Two Giants Collide; George Orwell and Aldous Huxley
Jeeves and the Well-Meaning Acolytes; Collection of 12 new stories about P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster, including tales by Roddy Doyle and Dominic Sandbrook, update the duo
THREADS
STAGE STRUCK
Tom Hanks Play Opened “This World of Tomorrow” to Mixed-Negative Reviews (Except the NY Times), Celeb Pals Martin Short, Meryl Streep Hit Opening Night
Lawrence Weschler: Dario Fo (Nobel Prize for Literature, 1977) On Broadway (1984)
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDITOR Breaking News + Opinion
Annual ArtReview Power 100
When Masha Met Ragnar: Maria "Masha" Alyokhina of Pussy Riot and Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson
THE DARK BOB
Less Art: Artist Steve Hurd on The Dark Bob’s EkpHraSis SyNestHesiA
Will the Long-Awaited Las Vegas Museum of Art Serve Locals or Tourists? Here’s a Clue
Caravaggio’s 10 Most Provocative Paintings, Ranked by Storytelling, Intrigue and Sheer Audacity
PAULA REGO
STREETWISE
Embassy Bomb Threat 'Was Graffiti Art' Court Told
MONSIEUR NOUAR: LE FRANCAIS BUSTER KEATON The Stellar Stoic: You Can Find Peace
‘The Lowdown’: Novelist Walter Mosley on Writing a Crime Noir Where ‘the Crime Is Original Sin’; Acclaimed author and screenwriter spoke to IndieWire about the "challenge" that brought him to "The Lowdown," his history with Sterlin Harjo, and what being a "truthstorian" really means. "There are all kinds of history, but none of it is true."
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDITOR
Breaking News + Opinion
ART CAR
GALLERY GROOVES
New Art Conglomerate: Pace Gallery, Emmanuel Di Donna And David Schrader Join Forces; Power threesome will launch, specialising in secondary market sales
Gallerist Wendi Norris Bet On Women Surrealists—Now the Market Has Caught Up
CERAMICS
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDITOR
Breaking News + Opinion
The Lost City of Atlanta; Can the Atlanta art scene’s survivalist rhetoric and utopian visions make up for a lack of public funding?
The Exploding Career: Following Controversial Tibet Project, Activists Denounce Cai Guo-Qiang Fireworks in Paris
See it! One of America’s Oldest Art Collections Gets a Stunning New Home; Princeton University Art Museum's brand-new David Adjaye-designed building
ART & COMMERCE
Art Basel & UBS Survey of Global Collecting 2025
Seven takeaways from the 2025 Survey of Global Collecting
Book Review; The Women Artists Who Found Freedom in Old Age; Artists profiled in 'Grand Finales' refused to consign themselves to what the author calls “Little-Old-Lady-Land,” and opted to keep searching, pushing, and trying new things
Greenberger: Long Life in the Arts; Alison Knowles, Fluxus Artist and Gallerist Who Spun Art from the Everyday, Dies at 92; 'Make a Salad', her most famous work
Surreal Moment When Salvador Dalí Met the Pope
Jasper Johns Is [Not] Over Painting; "(Johns) has not stopped painting after all"
East of Borneo: The Sick Shall Inherit the Earth; Palisades and Eaton Fires; Todd Haynes' 'Safe'; Land of Light and Air; Neutra; Rockhaven
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDITOR
Gordy Grundy :
PHOTOGRAPHY
KUSAMA KULTURE
ARCHITECTURE
Secret Apartment Atop the Eiffel Tower; Boasting Paris' best view, in one of the world's most famous landmarks; Former workshop of Gustave Eiffel
Decrepit Brooklyn Mansion Where A Widow Once Lived For Decades
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDITOR Gordy Grundy : WHAT RECESSION?
San Francisco's Longstanding Rena Bransten Gallery Switches To Pop-Up Model To Combat Changing Art World
Museums had a rough 2025: Report shows lower attendance, lost grants, less money
Doubling-Down, George Condo Is Now Represented by Sprüth Magers and Skarstedt, Departing Hauser & Wirth
BOOKS + WORDS
PHOTOGRAPHY
THREADS
LETTERS FROM THE EDITOR
Gordy Grundy : ;
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
ART NOIR: THE GREAT LOUVRE ROBBERY
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
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
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
LETTERS FROM THE EDITOR
Gordy Grundy :
WOMEN NAMED AGNES
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
WILLIAM BLAKE
CERAMICS
BEST OF THE WEEK with JERRY GOGOSIAN
"Maybe it's the wide open spaces. Maybe it's the neon sunsets battling neon lights for attention. Maybe it's the lack of artistic trends that bombard us from white cube spaces or the “art world” in general. Whatever it is, Las Vegas artists, for the most part, do their own thing. 
Legendary Has a New Name, Bari Weiss; 
s
