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Rainey Knudson: No. 24: Cindy Sherman, Untitled #458, We Are Nature, Undeniably

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Elda Cerrato, Artist of the Extraterrestrial, Has Her Long-Awaited New York Debut; "Elda Cerrato — Transcend/Transport: Paintings 1965–1976" at Galerie Lelong is the late Italian Argentine artist's first New York show

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Carolina Miranda: Ingrid Hernández Reveals Tijuana’s Hidden Beauty; Often seen as too American to be Mexican, too Mexican to be American, the city is presented by the artist as it is, not as anyone assumes it might be

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ART AND ECONOMICS

LVMH Shares Tank By 8% As Luxury Sector Struggles To Recover

How Sotheby's Is Deepening Its Transformation From Auction House To Financial Institution

VAT Anger Sparks Spanish Galleries’ Shutdown; ‘Unsustainable’ Value Added Tax (VAT) rates on the sale of visual art have driven commercial galleries across Spain to close next week in protest

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Ragnar Kjartansson Keeps Repeating Himself; Kjartansson’s latest work suggests the impossibility of returning to the past, and therefore captures something unique about recent European politics

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This Office Building Now Has a Videogame on Its Lobby Ceiling; Artist Pierre Huyghe’s Atari grid is 1,024 feet and comes with two controllers ... ... Video, Click Here

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JOHN YAU

Click Here. Our Editor's Dispatch explains our focus on the poet, critic and curator John Yau.

Yau: Jeff Koons’s Reflective Sculptures Mirror the One Percent

Yau: Michelle Segre’s Impermanent Worlds; By remaining open to time and its effects, Segre’s art defies the idea of permanence often associated with both sculpture and empire

Yau: The Quiet, Meteoric Rise of Yu Nishimura; Japanese artist is making some of the most in-demand paintings of the moment. They are also some of the most demure

Yau: Harriet Korman’s Nonchalant Rigor; What surprised me about Korman’s new works was the degree of inventiveness I encountered in her off-kilter compositions

Yau: Josephine Halvorson Paints to Remember; She invites the viewer to contemplate all the ways we mark and live in time, and how much of what we record and keep we will eventually dispose of

Yau: Brenda Goodman, Scars and All; Paradoxical combination of freedom and entrapment animates Goodman’s composition in her latest body of work

Yau: Shirley Jaffe’s Outlier Beginnings

Yau: There Is Nothing United About the United States or the Art World: Painter Peter Williams

Yau: Stanley Lewis in a Wayward World; Lewis’s tattered canvases and pasted over drawings mirror a world in need of constant upkeep and repair

Yau: Andy Warhol on Race and Ethnicity; Whether we examine Warhol’s work from a Marxist viewpoint or through the lens of queer studies, what has been sidestepped in nearly every discussion is his relationship to race and ethnicity

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CERAMICS

Uncanny Personalities Appear from Nature in Malene Hartmann Rasmussen’s Ceramics

The Art of Xanthe Somers

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DISPATCHES FROM THE EDITOR

Gordy Grundy: Breaking News + Opinion
Big Wow For John Yau
Rethink Ramen. The Rich Are Pinched.
Speaking of Laughs, Two Films Deliver

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‘Do You Want To Say I’m Dated?’ Artist Anne Imhof On Her S&M Venice Shocker – And The Show That Earned A Mauling; She was the art world’s hottest ticket after her confrontational goths-and-dobermans show at the Venice Biennale. But did she get too cosy with the worlds of fashion and advertising?

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Kenny Schachter: Billionaire Ken Griffin Drops Half-Billion on Basquiats, a Beloved London Gallery’s Decline; Plus, who commissioned Damien Hirst to make a grotto? And how much are those Peter Doigs at the Serpentine? Kenny knows.

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Design: MONDOBLOGO: Viva Mexican Modernismo! Almost as good at being at Zona Maco (Not really!)

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Rich Henrich: Sundance 2026 Review: 'The Oligarch and The Art Dealer,' an Art World Series; "It indicts an entire ecosystem of power, taste, and money laundering disguised as culture"

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Rainey Knudson: No. 25: Kukui Nut Lei; Symbol of shapeshifting power; "Their love affair is war; their war is creation"; God Kamapua'a and Goddess Pele

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

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Kim Fay in Detroit: Khary Mason 'Friendly Fire' at Irwin House Detroit; By multidisciplinary artist and former Homicide Detective Khary Mason

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Michelangelo Made His First Masterpiece When He Was 12 Years Old; Is This the Painting?

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Podcast: The Magic of ‘The Artist’s Way’; Author Julia Cameron on the rituals that unlock creativity, and the new tools she's adding to the mix; First published in 1992

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Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio's Show at MOCA Geffen

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Francesca Gabbiani 'Hot Panoramas' at Cedric Bardawil

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His Dreamy Art Is Like Nothing You’ve Seen Before. Artist Ken Gun Min Explores Identity in L.A.

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Citra Sasmita: Season of the Snake; Balinese artist’s paintings subvert old sources to tell new tales

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Two Overlooked Asian Artists Who Left A Mark On Modern British Art Celebrated With UK Exhibitions; Lives and work of Singaporean-British sculptor Kim Lim and the Chinese artist and poet Li Yuan-chia will be explored at the Hepworth Wakefield and Kettle’s Yard

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MONSIEUR NOUAR: LE FRANCAIS BUSTER KEATON


On Fashion and Women' Rights

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ARCHITECTURE

Late Frank Gehry Was The Ultimate Starchitect, But Even He Knew That Designing Buildings Takes Teamwork; As Our Celebrated Architects Sign Off, We Should Resist The Urge To Replace Them

The Sexy Modernists of Litchfield; Who knew architecture could be so titillating? "Lots of eating, drinking and apparently bed swapping"; Marcel Breuer and his clients, the Stillmans

Inside The Quietest Home In The World, Which A Turkish Architect Built For Himself Out Of Medical Need

What Lies Beyond the Doorway You’ve Never Walked Through? Inside the City of Dallas’ Latino Cultural Center (LCC)

Why Art Deco Still Dazzles 100 Years On

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ART NOIR

Theft That Made the Mona Lisa Famous; When it was stolen in 1911, before Selfies, Leonardo da Vinci’s painting had been missing from the Louvre for more than 24 hours before anybody noticed

You’ve Just Stolen A Priceless Artifact, What Happens Next? Narrow Market of Buyers; Jewels and Gold Easier to Montetize; The Sensational Allure

How a Scandal-Stained Art Dealer Still Haunts the Market for American Modernism; Notorious Andrew Crispo was a high-flying New York dealer until tax evasion and sex scandals brought him low

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Yoshie Sakai 'Grandma Entertainment Franchise' at the Vincent Price Art Museum

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New Cringe Comedy from A24; Official Trailer 'The Drama'; Written and Directed Kristoffer Borgli; Starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson

Wow. Beautifully Produced Trailer for Martail Arts Action;'Blades of the Guardians' Action Film; Directed by Yuen Woo-ping

Variety: ‘Wuthering Heights’ First Reactions: Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi’s Chemistry Is a ‘Whole Other Level of Hot’ in a ‘Bodice-Ripping Crowd-Pleaser’; “Intoxicating, transcendent, tantalizing, bewitching, lust worthy, hypnotic”; Note: Actual Critics are embargoed until Feb. 9

Rich Henrich: Sundance 2026 Review: 'The Oligarch and The Art Dealer,' Art World Docummentary Series; "It indicts an entire ecosystem of power, taste, and money laundering disguised as culture"

Jennifer Lynch, Daughter of David Says, "Unrecorded Night" scripts (unproduced) are likely to be published by myself and my siblings as a way to offer what could not be realized, to those who would have loved it"; On Reddit

Wise Christopher Nolan Skeptical About Netflix’s 45-Day Theatrical Promise for Warner Bros. Movies

Christopher Nolan Wants to Know Where All the Hollywood Jobs Are, Too; In his first interview as president of the Directors Guild of America, the ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Dark Knight’ helmer called a recent downturn in employment at the union “very troubling”

Elon Musk Says Christopher Nolan Has “Lost His Integrity” Over Casting Black Actress (Lupita Nyong’o) as Helen of Troy in ‘The Odyssey’

Was Helen of Troy an “Aethiope”? Sure... Why Not?

First Look Teaser 'De Gaulle: Tilting Iron'; French Director Antonin Baudry with Two Films

Official Racing Documentary Trailer IMAX '2DIE4'; 24 Hours at Le Mans; Focus on driver Felipe Nasr of Brazil; Created, financed, conceived and directed by Salomão and André, The Abdala Brothers

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Clever Thriller with a Little Romance; Official Trailer "Tuner'; Directed by Academy Award-winning Doc Director Daniel Roher; Starring Leo Woodall, Dustin Hoffman, Havana Rose Liu, Tovah Feldshuh and Jean Reno

FILM SCHOOL with JUSTIN TANNER Critical Insights for the Cinema Creative

‘The Claim’ directed by Michael Winterbottom in (2000) is a great adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s “The Mayor of Casterbridge,” set during the gold rush of the 1850s.

Peter Mullan plays a prospector who sells his wife and infant daughter in exchange for a mining claim, then strikes it rich and builds a thriving community in the mountains of Northern California.

Twenty years later, his grown daughter (Sarah Polley) and ailing wife (Nastassja Kinski) return, setting in motion a series of emotionally wrenching events that turn the prospector’s world upside down.

Gorgeously shot by Alwin H. Küchler, and with a stirring score by Michael Nyman (The Piano), ‘The Claim’ is a rollercoaster of heartbreak and redemption, with an ending that had me weeping into my popcorn. ~Justin Tanner

Trailer: ‘The Claim’ (2000) Starring Peter Mullan, Milla Jovovich, Wes Bentley, Nastassja Kinski and Sarah Polley

We Love Old Hollywood; Official Teaser Trailer 'Jimmy'; Untold True Story of Actor Jimmy Stewart; Directed by Aaron Burns; Starring KJ Apa

Official Teaser 'Margo's Got Money Troubles' (Apple TV Series); From multi-Emmy Award winner David E. Kelley; Starring Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nicole Kidman, and Nick Offerman' Based on the bestselling novel

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