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The LA Fires Changed These Artists’ Lives; Year Later, They’re Still Dealing With The Fallout; Slew of exhibitions ruminate on displacement, rebirth and the climate threat looming over the city’s future; Artist Christina Quarles at Hauser & Wirth

Art Daddy: LA Art Week Edition: The Fully Licensed Emotional Containment and Market Stabilization Franchise; "Someone announced they’re “just popping by Felix” in the tone of someone storming Normandy"


What is Vielmetter Hauling Across Town to Frieze Los Angeles? See Tonia Calderon, Alec Egan, and Shanna Waddell

AI PUSHBACK

There’s a Grim New Expression: “AI;DR”; "Why should I bother to read something someone else couldn't be bothered to write?"; AI Slop

Something Big Is Happening Now; "I am no longer needed for the actual technical work of my job. I describe what I want built, in plain English, and it just... appears.

All This Has Happened in Just the Last 15 Days... This isn't the future. It's happening now. And you can't afford to ignore it

The Free Press: Are We at an AI Precipice? A viral essay argues AI is about to make most human work obsolete. We asked Editors Noah Smith, Andrew Yang, Tyler Cowen, Gary Marcus, and others to weigh in

Meet the One Woman Anthropic Trusts to Teach AI Morals; Tech company has tasked Amanda Askell with giving its chatbot, Claude, a sense of right and wrong

Bravo! Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback

Zuckerberg Patents an AI That Lets People Post From Beyond the Grave

Modern CGI is a “A Big Step Backwards”: “The Aesthetic of Games is Leaking Into Cinema” Says Film Director Gore Verbinski

Boston Hotel Roasted for Using A.I.-Generated ‘Warhol-Like’ Portraits as Decor; Shame Ensues

AI and the End of Common Culture; Culture is fragmented; It is about to become atomised

Rainey Knudson: The Artists A.I. Is Leaving Out ... ... The List of Artists Copyrighted Artworks Without Permission

Amid Multiple Lawsuits, OpenAI Says Creating A.I. Would Be ‘Impossible’ Without Copyrighted Material

Miranda: AI is Making Mincemeat Out Of Art (Not To Mention Intellectual Property)

AI Executive Turns AI Crusader to Stand Up for Artists; Ed Newton-Rex quit his job at startup Stability AI over ethical concerns about its collection of training data. His nonprofit Fairly Trained aims to deter startups from scraping the web


Peter Hill: AI and Superfictions: Forward Through Fiction; The Fictive Artist Delves Into His Archive To Ask What The Future Might Look Like


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

BRAVING OPPRESSION

Googoosh, the ‘Voice of Iran,’ Has Gone Quiet – And That’s Her Point; 75-year-old Iranian megastar living in exile

Russia Jails 18-Year Old Teen Musician Over Anti-war Street Songs For Her Third Time

Russia’s Gen Z Uprising Might Accomplish What the West Can’t; New generation of dissident artists is inspiring a wave of solidarity against Putin’s war—recalling the Soviet people who ultimately defeated the Soviet Union

Russia Outlaws Human Rights Watch As Crackdown On Dissent Continues; Russian authorities have outlawed Human Rights Watch as an “undesirable organization,” making all involvement with the group a criminal offense

Russia Puts Pussy Riot Member On Wanted List For Criminals; Nadezhda Tolokonnikova faces criminal charges; Pussy Riot extremist organization

Taliban ‘Re-Educates’ Afghan Youths for Dressing Like ‘Peaky Blinders’ Characters

BOOKS + WORDS

Laughs with Chen & Lampert: Hard Truths: How Can a Curator at a Big Museum Evade Invisibility?

Uncovering the Secrets of Henri Rousseau’s Paintings; New exhibition freshly contextualizes many artworks in the light of his personal story; "Self-taught, self-confident, and inscrutable, Henri Rousseau was "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"

The Free Press: I Want to Die with a Book in My Hands

Joan Lowell and the Birth of the Modern Literary Fraud; A century ago, an aspiring actress published a remarkable autobiography. She made up most of it


Epic Life of Joan Lowell, from Berkeley, CA

COLLECTORS CIRCLE


‘Trust Your Gut, and Don’t Be Intimidated’: 6 Esteemed Art Collectors Share What They’ve Learned; More collectors, including a comedian and a dermatologist, reveal key lessons about their long lives as art lovers


Twelve Art Collectors Reveal Their Biggest Rookie Mistakes So You Don’t Make The Same Ones; Art collecting is full of missed opportunities. Follow this advice from seasoned pros to spare yourself the heartache


At Home In The Chaos: In the Studio with Zak Smith

In Conversation: Samuel Beckett and Jasper Johns Began a Book Collaboration Foirades/Fizzles; Gagosian Quarterly looks back to the genesis of this project


Marianne Vitale 'Blowing Robots' at The Journal Gallery

A Con Artist, a Music-Industry Legend and the Feud Over a Masterpiece; Thomas Doyle already had 11 convictions to his name for various swindles. His latest alleged fraud involves a London gallery owner and Bruce Springsteen’s manager

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDITOR


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Ali Eyal Wins Mohn Award, a $100,000 prize given to an artist in the Hammer Museum's "Made in L.A." biennial


Robert Williams in Long Beach; Our SoCal Lion in Winter

Tracey Emin: ‘Regrets? Number One: Smoking. Number Two: Taking It Up The Wrong Hole’; Tracey Emin On Reputation, Radical Honesty And Reform


Jerry McMillan, Whimsical Chronicler of LA’s Art Scene, Dies at 89; Experimental photo-sculptures and inventive portraits of artists like Judy Chicago and Ed Ruscha pushed the boundaries of photography


Amy Sillman’s Alternate Sides; Can painting achieve new forms of fluidity once it subjects free association to self-imposed restrictions?


Interview: Moment Caravaggio Became Caravaggio; What can an early painting tell us about an Old Master? We asked the Morgan Library’s curator to find out

In the Arts, We Forgive and Forget a Personal and Human Moment; James Rondeau is ready to expand the Art Institute’s footprint — and put that airplane incident behind him


How Do You Visualise The Supernatural?

Paris Review: Deeper Into "The Garden of Earthly Delights"


James Morse, 'Prairie Cloth & Northern Pine' at M+B, Beverly Hills; See the Exhibition Catalogue


Absurd Scenarios Stretch Across Paco Pomet’s Nostalgically Peculiar Canvases; At Richard Heller

Interview: Nadya Tolokonnikova On Pussy Riot, Life as Performance Art, and How Anonymity is Her Strength

Ralph Waldo Emerson on How to Touch the Universe; Exquisite passage from his journals


Nightmares Beneath the Surface of "Dreamworld"; Traumas of war and genocide and the fascist leanings of Salvador Dalí are among the subjects that this sprawling exhibition leaves out

Study Finds: Why You’re Wise On Tuesday And Foolish On Sunday: Practicing Wisdom In Uncertain Times


Rainey Knudson: Caddo Pottery R2-D2; Nothing Happens in Cultural Isolation

CERAMICS


Trailblazing Pueblo Potter Who Forged Her Own Path; Though Jody Folwell has always felt rooted in her culture, she pursued a ceramics discovery practice in the early 1970s with a desire to find a distinctive voice

Iris Ceramica Group’s “Magical Journey” landed in Paris; Presented during Maison & Objet – In the City, “The Magical Journey – Revealing Our Alchemical Soul” transforms the ICG Gallery Paris into an immersive narrative where ceramics become a bridge between memory, innovation, art and technology

Film Fest Devoted to Ceramic Culture; Ceramic Cinema: A Report on the Third International Ceramic Film Festival of Manises


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Official Teaser 'Lucky'; Apple TV Series; Big Cast Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Annette Bening, Timothy Olyphant, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, and Drew Starkey; Based on bestseller; From Reese Witherspoon’s production company; Con artist Lucky (Anya Taylor-Joy) is forced to go on the run


Official Trailer 'Fuze'; From Acclaimed Director David Mackenzie ('Starred Up,' 'Hell or High Water,'); Intense Trailer for Thriller 'Fuze' with Theo James, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw

IndieWire: ‘Wuthering Heights’ Review: Emerald Fennell’s Loose, Lush Adaptation Will Enrage Literary Fans and Spark a Legion of New Devotees

New Yorker: Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” Never Plumbs the Depths; Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi play a paper-doll Catherine and Heathcliff in an extravagantly superficial adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel

Darren Aronofsky’s AI Series ‘1776’ Draws Severe Backlash: “A Complete Betrayal of Cinema”

Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films; Attention-span crisis goes to the movies; Where goes the future of cinema?

John Turturro Has Never Been Oscar-Nominated — Could ‘The Only Living Pickpocket in New York’ Finally Change That?

Netflix Lands Dramatic Feature Pitch ‘Stradivarius’ From Itamar Moses, Tony Award-winning Playwright; Edward Berger To Direct; Academy-Award winning filmmaker behind 'Conclave' and 'All Quiet on the Western Front'

Director of Huge Hit "Drive My Car," “Happy Hour” and “Asako I & II”; Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s 3-Hour ‘All of a Sudden,’ Starring Virginie Efira Is Destined for Cannes; Learn more about the director

George Lucas Almost Signed Away All The Rights To Star Wars For $10K, Wanted To Cast Jodie Foster, Not Carrie Fisher


Review: Sundance 2026: Ethan Hawke vs Nature in 'The Weight' Superb Thriller; Most edge-of-your-seat intense experience


Official Trailer 'Last Ride'; Directed by American filmmaker Cinqué Lee; Starring Roman Griffin Davis, Felix Jamieson, Charlie Price, Kristofer Hivju, Gustaf Skarsgård; Synopsis: "In the winter of 1982, three American boys find themselves stranded in a cable car with a dead body, suspended midair in the mountains of Norway during a rare celestial event"

SWINGIN' SEVENTIES


Documentary of Seventies Era Cinema; Official Trailer 'Breakdown: 1975'; Directed by Academy Award-winning director Morgan Neville; Narrated by Jodie Foster


Dirty Movies of Yore; Quentin Tarantino's New Beverly Cinema Used to Be Called The Eros in the Seventies, Another Type of Grindhouse, If You Know What I Mean; Throughout the month, Quentin will be encouraging civic depravity by showing 23 nudie films. Hard-R. We must condemn him. I shall have to go to all 23 films to gather evidence. Another burden to bear

Dangerously Wild Director Ti West Takes on Hallowed Christmas Tale; Johnny Depp Looks Completely Unrecognisable For The First Time On Set Filming Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol With Andrea Riseborough; Currently, one of two competing Dickin's Films

THE MODERN SURF FILM


Five Minutes With Innovative Surf Filmmaker Noah Beschen


"Double Barrel" Pasquales, Mexico; Noah Beschen, Surfer and Director


The Troubled Biopic Finally Arrives; Official Trailer 'Michael'; Directed by Antoine Fuqua; Starring Jaafar Jackson, Nia Long, Laura Harrier, Juliano Krue Valdi, Miles Teller, and Colman Domingo; Part One? Will they scrap scandalous Part Two?

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