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Art Daddy in Los Angeles: 3+ Fairs in 3 Days While Mildly Congested; "LA is wild. LA is weird. LA is warm."


Ulysses Jenkins, Video Art Trailblazer with an Eye on Mass Media, Has Died at 79; (1946-2026); Muralist, performer, and trailblazer of video art
Felix Podcast: Josh Brolin’s Fame Didn’t Help Him Land a Waitlisted Artwork: ‘Your Ego Gets Shot Down’; Brolin and his agent, Joel Lubin, talked with Dean Valentine and Janelle Zara

Vanity Fair Interview: Is Paul McCarthy the Most Dangerous Artist in LA? New hometown show; Fires destroyed his home and studio; How artists can make vital, trenchant work about the political discourse, even if it pisses off the collectors


"Village Square" at LACMA; Big gift win for LACMA gains its first paintings by Manet and van Gogh

Neither Saint Nor Sinner, Artemisia Gentileschi’s Mary Magdalene Is Electrifyingly Alive; "Her eyes and mouth are closed but she is awake. With flushed cheeks, red lips and long, golden hair..."


Rainey Knudson: No. 33 The Penny, the Smallest Unit of Our Faith in Union; There’s a poetry both beautiful and sad that (Lincoln) is on our smallest, most common coin

Gray Matter's Schneider: Can Pop Stars Paint? Why A-listers Long To Be Taken Seriously As Artists; From Ed Sheeran’s Pollock-inspired drips to Sylvester Stallone’s international exhibitions, celebrities yearn for art world recognition

Ezrha Jean Black: R. Crumb at David Zwirner


Rainey Knudson: No. 36. Romeyn Beck Hough, The American Woods; Unparalleled hands-on work of taxonomy


Kim Fay in Detroit Review: Marceline Mason 'Lumen Naturae' at M Contemporary


See Marceline Mason 'Lumen Naturae' at M Contemporary, Detroit


TJ Shin 'Songs of Emerging Endangerment' at Los Angeles State Historic Park, Presented by Clockshop


Yau: John Altoon’s Fever Dream Drawings; After a stint in 1950s New York, the LA-based artist abandoned abstraction and painting in favor of dreamlike, sexually charged drawings


Interview: ‘Was I Scared Going Back To China? No’: Ai Weiwei On AI, Western Censorship and Returning Home

HE'S A PRINCE


Butched Up Nurse Paintings: Richard Prince, Eden Rock

Richard Prince, Clearview AI and Your Face

Oh, Yeah! Hey, Wait: Richard Prince’s Untitled (Kool-Aid)

MONSIEUR NOUAR: LE FRANCAIS BUSTER KEATON


On Fashion and Women' Rights


L, Artist Whose Mysterious Sculptures Cast Spells on Viewers, Has Died


Lucian Freud’s Paper Trail; New London Exhibition Shifts The Focus From The British Artist’s Famous Paintings To His Lesser-Known, Lifelong Relationship With Drawing

Among the Van Gogh Truthers; Tenacious art sleuths believe the Dutch painter’s suicide was staged—by his killer


The Daily Practice of Felix Gonzales-Torres' “Untitled” (Go-Go Dancing Platform)

Interview: David Byrne on ‘Exploring and Sometimes Failing’ as an Artist; Legendary musician answers all our burning questions about the creative process—from a plane!

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Sounds Fun? From Textile Show to Poignant Commentaries on ICE Raids: Best Booths at Frieze LA


Woody Guthrie's Anti-Fascist America at the Huntington

AYE AYE FOR AI


AI Is Nothing Without Its Theatre; Emergence of Moltbook is one of thousands of AI projects whose greater accomplishments are not technological, or even business-related, but rhetorical

Digital Artist Gets In Hot Water For AI-Generated Works 'After' George Condo; "Three pieces in the show are the subject of a cease-and-desist letter..."


Lawrence Weschler: A Thread on Absorption and Immersion, From Analog Through Digital; Suburban Stalin


Super Rare ‘Jungle Book’ Illustrations Resurface in London Family Home; Original watercolors by the Detmold brothers are surfacing on the auction block


The Return of LARZ, Doug Harvey’s Less Art Radio Zine


Self-Invention of Helene Schjerfbeck. Meet a fascinating Finnish artist who came before us. First major exhibition in the US is a moving and harrowing document of her growth, as well as the psychic and physical ravages of aging


Fanatic Heart of Patrick Graham; Vulnerable Irish artist exposes interior landscapes at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts

BAUHAUS BONHOMIE


Video Doc: Untold Story of Bauhaus Women: The Avant-Garde Artists Who Helped Shape Modernism; Almost 500 women who studied at the Bauhaus

Video Doc: Architecture, Art and Design, 100 years of the Bauhaus


Conversation with San Antonio-based Artist Ethel Shipton on Creativity, Resilience and Building Community

BOOKS + WORDS

Michael Silverblatt, ‘Genius’ Host Of Kcrw Literary Show ‘Bookworm,’ Dies At 73

Five Great Episodes of Michael Silverblatt’s Bookworm, In Honor of The Late Host

World’s Most Powerful Literary Critic Is on TikTok; Jack Edwards Shapes The Online World’s Reading Habits From BookTok. But Can He Handle His Success?

Novelist Who Took On The Italian Mafia — And Lived To Tell The Tale; In The Biography A Sicilian Man, Caroline Moorehead Tells The Story Of Leonardo Sciascia, Who First Exposed The Rampant, Murderous Corruption That Had Infiltrated Italian Society

DESIGN


Identity Crisis: Museum Branding Unveilings; Well Done vs. Angry Crowds

Short History of the Old Neon Signs Along Las Vegas Boulevard

Blow Me: Inflatable Art, Architecture & Design; MONDOBLOGO


Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman at Craft Contemporary

Guardian: From 'Melania' To Kid Rock’s Halftime Show: Why Is MAGA Art So Dreadful?; As the right stokes culture wars, their alternatives to ‘woke’ Hollywood prove to be shoddily made and uninspired


Reevaluating Rose Hilton; Late-flourishing artist, who once had to paint in secret, found freedom in an abstraction of her own making


Even Mythical Creatures Need a Safety Net; Balancing Act: Shenea Stiletto on Circus Arts and Advocacy


Grunwald Center at UCLA Branches Out; Significant anniversary of its prints and drawings collection



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With the Director's Name Above the Title, Official Trailer 'Lee Cronin's The Mummy'; Written and Directed by Lee Cronin; Produced by James Wan and Blumhouse; Starring Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace, with Veronica Falcón


Official Trailer 'Mother's Baby'; Directed by Johanna Moder; Starring Marie Leuenberger, Hans Löw, Claes Bang, and Julia Franz Richter


Official Trailer 'Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man'; Written by Steven Knight; Directed by Brit Tom Harper; Starring Cillian Murphy, Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Roth, and Barry Keoghan

Do We Trust Sarandos? 78 Percent Say "No." Ted Sarandos of Netflix Says Warner Bros. Films Would Hit VOD After a 45-Day Theatrical Window

Grim Report From Hollywood: 'People Are Having A Hard Time Here'


Only Two Nights, March 17-18 on IMAX Screens; The Who's Epic Rock Opera 'Tommy'; Directed by Ken Russell; Starring Roger Daltrey, Oliver Reed, Ann-Margret, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Jack Nicholson, Robert Powell, Keith Moon, Paul Nicholas, Pete Townshend, and Tina Turner

AI Video of Tom Cruise Fighting Brad Pitt Has Top Writer Warning: “It’s Likely Over for Us”; Stunning viral video of Cruise vs. Pitt has 'Deadpool & Wolverine' screenwriter warning "Hollywood is about to be revolutionized/decimated," as MPA calls for the company to cease its "infringing activity"

Doug Liman’s ‘Killing Satoshi’ Will Shoot Entirely on AI-Generated Stages, No Locations; Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson star


New Yorker Review: Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” Never Plumbs the Depths; Extravagantly superficial adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel

‘Movies Can Change The World But Not In A Political Way’ Says Wim Wenders; At a press conference to open the 76th edition of the Berlin film festival, the jury president said ‘cinema has an incredible power’ but little influence on political decision-makers

To Disagee: Actor Ian McKellen Doesn’t Get ‘Hamnet’: “It’s Improbable!”

Agree: James Cameron Has Seen ‘Hamnet’ Twice: “I Bawled Both Times, Multiple Times”


Official Trailer for Werner Herzog's Doc 'Ghost Elephants' Set in Angola


10 Favorite Movie Posters from 2025 - Dreams of a Good Ballad

Debut Director Hailey Gates and Veteran Actress Alia Shawkat Know Their Satire ‘Atropia’ Isn’t for Everyone; But the people it is for? Oh, they're going to love it, the filmmaker and star tell IndieWire about their Sundance winner


Gwyneth Paltrow Talks ‘Royal Tenenbaums’ “Dissonance” With Co-Star Gene Hackman: “He Didn’t Understand The Tone”


Another Unseen Bardot Film On My Checklist; "French-Italian film noir about a 50ish established attorney (Jean Gabin) falling for a hell-bent blonde hottie (Brigitte Bardot)"

ASPIRATIONAL: YOU CAN TOO

'Iron Lung,' Largely Unheralded Indie Horror Game Adapted For The Big Screen By A YouTuber Is A Hit Of A Very Modern Kind, Built On Blood, Sweat And Parasocial Relationships

Film Review: ‘Iron Lung’ (2026)


Official Trailer 'Iron Lung'; Directed by Mark “Markiplier” Fischbach

Box Office: ‘Iron Lung’ Eyes $18M Weekend — Without a Studio; $3M Budget; Loyal YouTube Following

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