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The Artful Magic of Tony DeLap Now on Display at The Honarkar Foundation in Laguna Beach

Lorena Ochoa 'Ruegos Y Desiertos' at Charlie James Gallery; See the Show

NEW ARTS COMEDY 'DAAAAAALÍ!'

Illustrated Review: The Bombastic, Paranoid World of Salvador Dalí; Quentin Dupieux’s new comedy 'Daaaaaalí!' is about an artist trolling the media — and how the media deserves it

See the Hilarious 'Daaaaaalí!' Trailer

BRAVING OPPRESSION

A Crackdown on Russian Artists Paints a Portrait of a Scared Putin; The FSB has begun searching and questioning dissident artists, which reveals the power, and the Kremlin’s fear, of art

Why Is Vladimir Putin So Afraid of 'The Master and Margarita'? Five years ago, filmmaker Michael Lockshin embarked on an ambitious adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s classic novel. Then Russia invaded Ukraine, the movie became a hit, and Putin’s cronies went to war against Lockshin’s blockbuster

Life Imitates Art as a 'Master And Margarita' Movie Stirs Russia; Celebrated Stalin-era satire, unpublished in its time, is partly a subversive sendup of state tyranny and censorship — forces bedeviling Russia once again today

See the Stunning Trailer! Beauty of 'The Master and Margarita'; Story concerns a visit by the devil and his entourage to the godless Soviet Union

CONTRETEMPS AT AMERICAN RIVIERA

Julia Friedman: On Amada Cruz’s Cancellation of “Three American Painters: Then and Now” Art history got cancelled at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Artists Protest Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Cancellation of Michael Fried-Inspired Show; In a letter to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s board, eight artists included in the nixed exhibition denounce the “outrageous” termination of the show’s curator, Eik Kahng

What Will Meghan Markle's New Brand 'American Riviera Orchard' Sell?

'Inside Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz’s Art Empire'; With their envy-inducing holdings, the Dean Collection, the music-industry power couple have helped lead the way for a generation of collectors of Black art. The rest of the world is finally catching up

Chris Burden, The TV Commercials, 1973-77

Matt Stromberg: Major Collection of California Narrative Art Reopens in Orange County; New Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University holds over 5,000 works that plumb the rich history of the Golden State

HIRST CAUGHT BACKDATING

Damien Hirst Formaldehyde Animal Works Dated To 1990s Were Made In 2017; Three sculptures exhibited in galleries around world were artificially aged, sources claim

Damien Hirst’s Shark Changed My Life. Now He Has Taken A Chainsaw To His Glorious Past; In creating sculptures backdated to the days when his art electrified the world, the former YBA has cast doubt on his youthful legacy and destroyed our belief in his creative future

THE ELUSIVE CADY NOLAND

Cady Noland’s Ultra-Mysterious L.A. Show; Rumor and Innuendo ... ... Update: Artist was not contacted about the show in advance, did not give consent for it, and did not travel to Los Angeles to install it or see it

Absolutely Would Tanya; Artist Cady Noland, Patty Hearst as Bandit

THREADS

Meet Basil Kincaid, the Artist-Quilter Making a Splash in Miami Beach; For the residency's twelfth year, the Rubell Museum leans into textile art

Aerial Embroidery by Victoria Rose Richards

Priscilla Edwards: Hoarder, Stitcher and Sculptor

STREETWISE

Brooklyn Street Art Images Of The Week!

AMERICAN ART AS WEAPON

Was Robert Rauschenberg’s Venice Biennale Victory Rigged? New documentary explores the scandals surrounding the 1964 show, illuminating the US government’s obsession with its international image

Modern Art was CIA 'Weapon'; Revealed: How The Spy Agency Used Unwitting Artists Such As Pollock and De Kooning In A Cultural Cold War

See the Trailer: Doc 'Taking Venice' SIFF 2024; Cultural Weaponization; Rauschenberg and the First American to Win the Golden Lion International Grand Prize for Painting

NYT Review: America's Secret Weapon; A study of how the C.I.A. sponsored modern art exhibitions and literary journals during the cold war; "The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters" (2000)

Excerpt: Chapter One: Exquisite Corpse "The Cultural Cold War; The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters" By Frances Stonor Saunders

FORMERLY KNOWN AS CINEMA

Adam Driver Calls Francis Ford 'King' Coppola's ‘Megalopolis' “Undefinable" and “Wild on a Big Scale”; Learn More!

Two ‘Road House’ Reviews: 1) This Remake Has No Business Being This Good; Pain don’t hurt, and neither does this remake of the cult classic ... ... 2) Jake Gyllenhaal Can’t Save Doug Liman’s Chaotically Stupid Movie

'Furiosa : A Mad Max Saga' Official Trailer No. 2; Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth star; George Miller Directs; Will Open The 2024 Cannes Film Festival

'Humane' Official Trailer; Caitlin (Daughter of David) Cronenberg’s Dystopian Debut

'The Fall Guy' Official Trailer 2; Director David Leitch; Starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt; "Steven Spielberg loved The Fall Guy!"

Review: Furiously Jumped Up, 'Poor Things' Delivers Visceral and Cerebral Thrills; “And when we know the world, the world is ours”

13 Books All Aspiring Directors Should Read; Want to arm yourself with everything you need to know to address the technical, artistic, and logistical challenges that come with directing?

How Gen AI Tools Like Lore Machine Revisualize Storyboarding

Wild! 'Parasyte: The Grey' Official Trailer; Filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan)

Jordan Peele On Dev Patel's 'Monkey Man'

'Monkey Man' Official Trailer 2

'The Veil' Trailer (2024) Espionage Thriller Starring Elisabeth Moss

'Frida' Doc: How Director Carla Gutiérrez Brought Frida Kahlo to Life With Her Own Words; Shows viewers Kahlo’s real-life personality and wickedly funny side

‘Late Night With the Devil': What You Need to Know About the Year’s Most Acclaimed Horror Movie; David Dastmalchian headlines this unique found-footage horror flick

On the Philosophy of 'Dune: Part Two'; Power & Control, Fate & Love

Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke: ‘Let’s Just Embrace Love and Sex’; Married duo behind Drive-Away Dolls bicker about Russ Meyer and reveal their plans for queer comedy genre movie domination

'American Horror Story: Delicate Part Two' Official Trailer; Created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk; Starring Emma Roberts and Kim Kardashian

Intriguing! 'The King Tide' Trailer (2024) Thriller, Mystery, Drama

Did ‘Joker 2: Folie à Deux' Test Screen? Social Media Reaction

James Gunn’s ‘Superman’ Will Be Shot Entirely (and Appropriately) in IMAX

The Surreal Realism of Buñuel’s Mexican Films; Luis Buñuel believed that surreal moments were necessary to achieve a true documentary style, as they reflect the fantastical, mysterious nature of everyday reality

'The Beast' Official Trailer; From Director Bertrand Bonello (Saint Laurent, Nocturama); Starring George MacKay and Léa Seydoux

'The Acolyte' Official Trailer; New Star Wars Series; Starring Carrie-Anne Moss, Amandla Stenberg, Lee Jung-jae and Jodie Turner-Smith

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The Heavy Hand Of God: Europe’s Brutalist Churches, In Pictures; Vienna-based photographer Jamie McGregor Smith has spent years travelling the continent in search of sacred spaces that allowed architects’ imaginations to run wild

We Don’t Need Air Con’: How Burkina Faso Builds Schools That Stay Cool In 40c Heat; Gando Primary School, Diébédo Francis Kéré’s First Construction Project After Finishing His Studies In Germany. Architects Use Local Materials And Merge Traditional Techniques With Modern Technology To Make Schools And Orphanages Cool, Welcoming Places; "They are more resistant to bullets than concrete blocks."

The Forgotten Houseboat Hotels of Kashmir

PHOTOGRAPHY

Witness Unseen Photos From the Day Spike Jonze Met Björk; Before His First Film, Famed Director Was About To Shoot The Video For The Icelandic Superstar’s Smash Hit “It’s Oh So Quiet”

Wawi Navarroza’s Self-Portraits Contain Multitudes; With her self-portraits, photographer Wawi Navarroza gives us insight into the strong sense of self that can emerge from multiple identities and cultures

Winners of the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024: Photos

Seeing Photography as an African Art Form; Giulia Paoletti surveys the development of Senegalese photography along with more than a century of shattering historic events

Carol Kino’s Forthcoming Biography of Frances McLaughlin-Gill and Kathryn Abbe, the Identical Twin Sisters Who Blazed New Trails In The World of Photography

Jane Corrigan 'The Noise Upstairs' at Sea View

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DIGITAL ART WORLD

NATURE ART CLIMATE

THREADS: TEXTILE ARTS

STAGE STRUCK

Sara Bareilles on Love, Anxiety And A New Film Version of ‘Waitress’, Her Broadway Musical

Review: “Harmony” Makes a Tuneful, Tearful Premiere on Broadway After 25 Years in the Making; Barry Manilow's musical; Based on the true story of the Comedian Harmonists, a troupe of Jewish singers in Berlin in 1934

The Arts Center at Ground Zero Is Finally Here. Can Bill Rauch Make It Work?; Rauch has been called the “nicest man in show business.” Now he’s trying to bring the spirit of community theatre to a building that cost half a billion dollars

LAWRENCE WESCHLER

a) Si Lewen, Curated by Art Spiegelman, Including His Stunning Anti-War Epic Suite Of Stark Monochromatic Drawings; b) First Movement Of Composer Ernst Toch’s Pulitizer Prize Winning Third Symphony

ART BUSINESS

How Auctions Became the Ultimate Form of Art Market Theater

The Gray Market: Anyone Wrestling With Money's Influence On Art Has 800 Years Of Company; Show At The Morgan Library & Museum Traces The Modern Economy's Emergence In The Middle Ages—And How It Influenced Art From The Start

I Speak for the Rainmaker; Performing the Fundraiser Role In The Nonprofit Art World

Kim Fay in Detroit: Laura Whitesides Host at Lawrence Street Gallery; Patterns Patterns Everywhere

The Tragic, Poetic, and Ironic Ways in Which Artists Die; New book by former Met Museum archivist Jim Moske assembles a haunting and hilarious revue of artist obituaries from 1906 to 1929

Gossip Makes this Art World; The Ugly Usefulness, and Worthlessness, of Gossip

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