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Stromberg: Frieze LA Meets the Real World; Intentionally or not, this year’s edition brought issues of class, labor, and immigration into the fair tent


Artists Announced for the 61st Venice Biennale


2026 Venice Biennale Gets An Official Gin

Show, Don’t Tell: Museums and the ‘War Against Woke’; American museums are in Trump’s firing line. Do legacy institutions have a future?


How Tate Modern Is Serving Up Frida Kahlo, From Canvas To Cuisine


Jacques Adnet Vichy Desk Goes Up at Christie's

JAZZ LIVES


Ted Gioia: The Live Jazz Music Event That Changed My Life; I met my destiny, and nothing would be the same afterwards

NYT: I’m New to Jazz. Where Do I Start?


An Introduction to Stan Getz in 10 Tracks; He is still famous today for his bossa nova hits, but Getz did so much more

Lincoln Logs and the Frank Lloyd Wright Design That Inspired a Beloved Children’s Toy; To create the Lincoln Logs toy set, John Lloyd Wright took cues from one of his father's most enduring designs

Meet Esphyr Slobodkina, the Russian-Born Abstractionist Who Shook Mid-Century New York; In "Architects of Being" at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, the artist is presented as a kindred spirit to Louise Nevelson in a dazzling, interdisciplinary exhibition


Artists Embrace an Affordable and Ubiquitous Material in ‘Cardboard: Infinite Possibilities’

‘You Can’t Drink Fanta. You Have To Smoke Marijuana’: Fela Kuti’s Artist Recalls Their Wild Collaborations


Gloria Klein Pushed Abstraction to Its Limit. Now the Art World Is Catching Up


Turner and Constable Face Off in London; Is there any real rivalry in Tate Britain’s 'Turner & Constable: Rivals & Originals,' or is it a PR exercise to lure us through the door?

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Michael Heizer Measures His Art In Miles and Tons; It took the artist half a century of toil in the most remote parts of Nevada to build what may be the most extreme contemporary monument ever made


Michael Heizer: Negative Sculpture; Across his nearly six-decade career, Heizer has continued to probe the possibilities of sculptural form defined by its absence. His exhibition Negative Sculpture features Convoluted Line A and Convoluted Line B, among the artist’s most complex negative sculptures


How Artists Captured the Strange World of Sleep; From Dream States to Dark Visions; New exhibition in Paris traces how artists throughout history have depicted the act of slumber

Never Known Heaven; On "Street Style: Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio" by Elizabeth Currie; 'the desire to take and the ‘desire to be taken’

Rocker and Artist Nick Cave responds to Wim Wenders’ comments on politics from Berlin Film Festival: “At its core, great art exists purely for its own sake”; German director had argued that filmmakers are "the counterweight of politics"

Artist-Run Spaces Represent The Heart of Los Angeles’s Art Scene, Yet Most People Still See The City’s Identity As Tied To The Market — One That’s Increasingly Influenced By The East Coast


Spain’s Cosmic Mother of Modernism; Maruja Mallo viewed herself as an extension of her modernist paintings, in which female energy is a conduit for natural and even otherworldly forces

Rainey Knudson: No. 30 Watts Towers; What thoughts occupy such a person? What am I doing with my life?


Toward the Light, Group Show at Koplin Del Rio; Works by Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Tommy Gregory, Eirik Johnson, Elyse Pignolet, Stacey Rozich and Fred Stonehouse


George Morrison Painted a Different Picture of Abstract Expressionism; Ojibwe artist was active in New York’s midcentury art scene and embraced by fellow Abstract Expressionists, yet he’s rarely in canonical histories today

BOOKS + WORDS

11 Books That Will Transform Your Understanding of Art

Dorothy Parker’s Profile of Ernest Hemingway (November 1929)

Philip Roth’s Coldhearted Betrayals His Loved Ones Were Merely Raw Material

Strains, Tensions, Exaltations, A Requiem for Raritan; Raritan, the all-American literary quarterly of a pre-internet world, closed its doors last spring, ending a nearly half-century run of literature, politics, art and cultural criticism

AYE AYE FOR AI


Ayoung Kim Is Stargazing in a Digital World; Her exhibition at MoMA PS1 synthesizes live-action footage, video game engines, and generative AI to create an interlocking series of speculative narratives


East of Borneo: I Am Abandoned; Becoming Phone; Performance artist Barbara T. Smith


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Official Trailer; Contemporary, London-set 'Hamlet'; Directed by Aneil Karia; Starring Academy Award winner Riz Ahmed, Morfydd Clark, Joe Alwyn



Official Teaser A24's 'Backrooms'; From Writer and Director YouTuber Kane Parsons; Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell


Wow. Taylor Sheridan's IP is Grand; Official Trailer 'The Madison'; Starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell

Richard Linklater Just Made César Awards History — Best Director Win Stuns 2026 Ceremony

Very Interesting Director David Robert Mitchell’s ‘Flowervale Street’ Retitled ‘The End of Oak Street’; New film stars stars Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway; “Transported back in time to the prehistoric era”; Spielbergian


Watch: Gorillaz's 'The Mountain, The Moon Cave, The Sad God' Short

New Yorker: “The President’s Cake” Is a Neorealist Treasure from Iraq; First feature by Hasan Hadi, set in 1990, depicts the agonies of war and dictatorship as experienced by a schoolgirl in the course of a high-stakes day

Review: Berlinale 2026: German-Turkish Filmmaker İlker Çatak's Clever 'Yellow Letters'; Artists vs Politics


Béla Tarr, Poet-Laureate of Doom (1955–2026); Late Hungarian film-maker’s epic studies of apocalyptic gloom have never seemed more ravishing or more timely

‘You Have To Be Ready To See It’: Abel Ferrara And Catherine Breillat On Why Pasolini’s Salò Is A Gift That Keeps Giving; Pier Paolo Pasolini’s notorious film is now 50 years old, and its cavalcade of shocking cruelty and violence still leaves a stark impact on its viewers. Film-makers explain why Pasolini ‘was a saint to us’

Martin Scorsese Recalls Tender Rob Reiner Scene in ‘Wolf of Wall Street’: ‘Breaks my heart’

Source: Mel Gibson’s ‘Resurrection of the Christ’ Shot With IMAX Cameras; 11-Month Shoot Wraps in June 2026; $250M+ Budget; Two Films; Good Friday and Ascension Day Release Dates 2027

‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Review: Amanda Seyfried Is a Singing Female Christ Figure in Mona Fastvold’s Incredible Quasi-Musical About the Shaker Prophet; Team behind "The Brutalist" returns for another, possibly even better epic about someone coming to America and building a church

How Did They Miss This? 'The Testament of Ann Lee' Deserves Better


‘I Find It All A Bit Comforting’: Why 'Zodiac' Is My Feelgood Movie

Podcast: The B-Side Ep. 174: On Actor James Stewart (with Mitchell Beaupre); What made Stewart so relatable and endearing to millions, we marvel at his WWII service and how it affected his on-screen demeanor

Demise of Critical Film Writing: 'The Outsiders' Why Francis Ford Coppola’s Coming-Of-Age Drama Is Secretly Gay

Hollywood was Built On Movie Stardom. AI is Changing The Rules

The Happiest Man in Music; Global Creative Director of Apple Music Zane Lowe has made a career out of relentless positivity. Is there anything he doesn’t like?

Sphere’s ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Walks an Uneasy Line Between Cinematic Enchantment and A.I. Slop; The 4D mega-spectacle, while captivating, tests how far a national cultural treasure can be reshaped by technology before it loses its original spell

IP: The Paddington Playbook; What a heritage bear can teach today’s IP owners

Director Paul Schrader Slams ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ as “Sex Party Crazyland” Nonsense; What is more surprising is how thoroughly Schrader’s criticism seems to misunderstand what Stanley Kubrick was actually doing with his final film

Disney’s Original Tinker Bell, 96, Reveals Trait She Snuck Into the Film


Interview with Actor Crispin Hellion Glover and His New Film "No! YOU'RE WRONG, or: Spooky Action at a Distance"


The Lost Art of the Movie Title

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