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NYT: Marian Goodman, Eminent New York Art Dealer, Dies at 97; Although known for promoting German painters, she also sought out artists who shunned painting in favor of newer mediums, like photography and film

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Two-Part Sale Shattered Expectation; Billionaire Bill Koch’s Rad Western Art Collection Gallops Past Estimates at Christie’s

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Assembling a World-Class Sculpture Park And Exhibition Program In Kistefos, About An Hour Outside Oslo

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Jeweler Nicola Bulgari Redefines Car Collection and Preservation

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We Recommend: Video: “Music for Pieces of Wood” Performance; Inside the exhibition Richard Serra: Running Arcs (For John Cage), 1992, at Gagosian

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STREETWISE: THE LISTER AFFAIR, AN ARTS LIFE DESTROYED

‘Don’t Tell Anybody’: Aussie Netflix Star Anthony Lister Stabbed In Throat Inside Sydney Jail; Sydney celebrity - who starred in his own Netflix documentary - was viciously attacked in a jailyard by five men after mistakenly giving his cellmate a gift

How ‘Enthusiastic Consent’ Videos Led To Street Artist Anthony Lister’s Rapid Acquittal; Jury’s lightning-fast acquittal of Anthony Lister has prompted his barrister to launch a scathing attack on the “believe all women” narrative

Website Anthony Lister ... ... Lister on Instagram

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CASSANDRA PREDICTS 2026

Mega-Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist Shares His Predictions for Art in 2026

Ben Davis; Cultural Trends I’m Watching at the Beginning of 2026; Quick thoughts on the forces shaping art this year

Check Out 11 Artists on Artsy Having Breakout Moments in 2026

Art Report Today: 2026 the Year of Yarn

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Ted Gioia: On Norwegian Saxaphonist Jan Garbarek

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BOOKS + WORDS

Why Would A Woman With Children She Loved, Writing At The Peak Of Her Powers, Want To Die? Revisiting Sylvia Plath’s suicide

Bravo! Artnet’s Katya Kazakina Wins Newswomen’s Club of New York Award for Second Year in a Row; Her look at the lavish—and sometimes fraught—lifestyles of art dealers and advisors nabbed the arts and entertainment prize; Focus on two ultra-high-end art advisors and former business partners, Barbara Guggenheim and Abigail Asher

Ted Gioia: How I Learned to Love Reading; Is this how to fix the crisis in reading?

Laugh Riot Fran Lebowitz: ‘Hiking is the most stupid thing I could ever imagine’; US author and orator on leaf blowers, dinner parties, book clubs and Labubus; Weirdest thing she has done for love and struggling with contemporary novels

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CERAMICS

Eight Up-and-Coming Artists to Discover at Ceramic Brussels; Third edition of the fair—on this weekend—is a hotbed of emerging talent

Degenerate Forms: Women Ceramicists Breaking the Mold of Classical Beauty

The Greek City That Was the Ceramic Center of the Ancient World

Julia Fernandez Hand Paints 300 Ceramic Tiles To Create A Mesmerising Stop-Motion Music Video

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DISPATCHES FROM THE EDITOR

Gordy Grundy: Breaking News + Opinion
Yarn or Yawn, Art World Predictions '26
The Stairway to Heaven: Led Zep Shows Us How To Outfox The Man; Fine Artists Can Reclaim Our Power
We Are Creators, Not Destroyers

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Rainey Knudson: The Guide Wire of Close Attention To Nature Across a Lifetime; No. 17. Artist Fidelia Bridges, 'Bird’s Nest in Cattails'

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Bari Weiss Unveils Sweeping Vision: “I Am Here to Make CBS News Fit for Purpose in the 21st Century”; Weiss rallied the troops and outlined her vision at an all-hands meeting Tuesday morning, naming a lineup of new contributors: "Our strategy until now has been to cling to the audience that remains on broadcast television. If we stick to that strategy, we're toast."

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Review: Pierre Huyghe 'Liminals' Terrifying Quantum Visions In A Notorious Berlin Club Take Seeing Beyond Believing

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STREETWISE

Coney Island Family Sells Entire Wall Featuring Banksy Mural To Connecticut Brewery For Big Bucks

The Aerosol Awakening: Shepard Fairey On Street Art’s Infiltration of Miami Art Week; Gritty revolution that started with spray cans and subway cars continues its assault on the rarified precincts of Art Basel; Wynwood Walls; "1870s, the Impressionists held their own exhibitions after being rejected by the Paris Salon"

ONLY HUMAN at Wynwood Walls: Murals, Memory, and the Hand-Made Mark in Miami Art Week

"You Can Remove Graffiti With Photoshop" Buff or Delete Elfo? The Last One For ’25, the First One For ’26

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ARCHITECTURE

Future of $2 Trillion Megacity The Line Hangs By Thread As Saudi Rulers Scale Back Plans For Scandal-Hit Vanity Project

Saudi Arabia to Scale Back Flagship NEOM Project: Report

This Secret California Community With 17 Rock Cabins Is So Exclusive, No Amount Of Money Can Get You In

Iconic Frank Lloyd Wright Home 'Fountainhead' Acquired by Mississippi Museum; Usonian gem is one of just four Wright designs in the state and is the only one logged on the National Register of Historic Places

Stunning SPACE Homes Printed By Swarms of ‘Miner Robot’ Builders For Mars Colonists Living In Vast ‘Tunnel Cities’; There's even a giant 'lander robot' that scurries across Martian surface

Space-Age Magus; From beginning to end, experts saw through Buckminster Fuller’s ideas and theories. Why did so many people come under his spell?

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ART NOIR

Vienna Prosecutors Order Seizure of Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of an African Prince; Painting was offered for $16.4 million at TEFAF Maastricht in March

Rembrandt Thief Who Came Out On Top; Myles Connor is one of the very few people alive to have come out ahead after lifting an artwork from the wall of a museum, as Anthony M. Amore explores in his new book

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Wicked. Wild. Boots Is Back. Very Contemporary Comedy “I Love Boosters”; Directed by Boots Riley; Starring Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Don Cheadle, Demi Moore and LaKeith Stanfield; Will Open the 40th SXSW Film Festival

New Christopher Nolan "The Odyssey" TV Spot; Featuring Rapper Travis Scott and Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theron, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong'o, Robert Pattinson, Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, John Leguizamo, Elliot Page, Himesh Patel, Bill Irwin, Samantha Morton, Jesse Garcia, Will Yun Lee, Rafi Gavron, Shiloh Fernandez, Mia Goth

Beautifully Made, 'The 25 Best Films of 2024: A Video Countdown', Created by david ehrlich, IndieWire's Reviews Editor and Head Film Critic, his annual mash-up is always well done

Sensation at Sundance: ‘Josephine’ Review: An 8-Year-Old Girl Grapples With Matters Beyond Her Understanding in Beth de Araújo’s Shattering Sundance Drama; Gemma Chan and Channing Tatum play protective parents unsure how to explain harsh realities to their daughter in a powerful film based on formative experiences from the director's childhood

The Safdie Split Revealed: Teenage Sex Scene That Sparked Infamous Rift Between Edgy Director Brothers Behind Hollywood’s Hottest Movies

Sex Toys, Toplessness and S&M: Olivia Wilde Stars In Greg Araki's New Wild and Filthy Movie ‘I Want Your Sex’; Set in the Art World

Challenges Facing The Ellisons' Media Empire

Artist Duo’s Dystopian Short Film Earns Oscar Nod; "Two People Exchanging Saliva" has been nominated in the category of Live Action Short Film

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Official Trailer 'EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert'; From visionary filmmaker Baz Luhrman

Paul Schrader on ‘Babylon’: “It’s Even Worse Than I Remembered”; "Every aspect overplayed. What a missed opportunity--an opportunity which won't come again"; But...

Margot Robbie Hopes ‘Babylon’ Will Be Seen as a Great Movie “20 Years from Now”

After the Resounding Failure of ‘Babylon’, a Great Actress Joins Damien Chazelle’s Next Film

Damien Chazelle’s 'Babylon' Is a Misunderstood Masterpiece Despite criticisms of excess, the maximalist masterpiece is a visceral, stylish tribute to Hollywood

FILM SCHOOL with JUSTIN TANNER Critical Insights for the Cinema Creative

Not only is 'Dodsworth' (1936) my favorite film, directed by my favorite director (William Wyler) and starring my favorite actor (Mary Astor), it is also a surprisingly potent examination of a disintegrating marriage that has lost none of its sophisticated bite even 80 years later.

Lead Walter Huston gives one of his finest performances opposite the delicious Ruth Chatterton as a small town American couple who lose their way during a European vacation. ~Justin Tanner

Trailer: "Dodsworth" Nominated for Multiple Oscars and One of the Top Box Office Grossing Films of 1936

Must See. This Teaser Pops: 'Kokurojo'; Written and Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Not related to filmmaker Akira Kurosawa); Epic Feudal action thriller

Official Trailer Irreverent Comedy 'Idiotka'; Directed and written by Nastasya Popov; Starring Anna Baryshnikov and a fun cast of characters

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