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ARTY APRIL FOOLS


"Philadelphia Museum of Art Rebrands Again as “PhArt”; "Louvre Museum to Install Locks on Doors After Heist"; "List of Failed Business Ideas Found Beneath Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch”; and More...


Best April Fools’ Jokes and Memes in the Art World This Year

He Has Risen... Calling All Sinners: For His Latest Work, Artist Maurizio Cattelan Wants People To Confess; Italian art provocateur to play priest in Catholic-inspired work that invites people from around world to be absolved

Gao Zhen, a Chinese Artist Accused of Mocking Mao, Goes on Trial

ART NOIR

Three-Minute Museum Heist in Italy Leaves $10.3 Million in Paintings Missing; Thieves made off with works by Henri Matisse, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Paul Cézanne

Vanity Fair: An Amateur Investigation Into the Magnani-Rocca Foundation Heist; News didn’t break for almost a week

Selling Stolen Art Is Tricky, So Why Even Bother Heisting It? An Expert Explains


MoMA’s Curators on Organizing the Marcel Duchamp Show: ‘The Difficulty Level Is at a 15 Out of 10’; "Seeks to present the trickster artist’s sprawling oeuvre with “deadpan accuracy”

New Book: Long-Lost Photos of Chelsea Hotel Resurface, Revealing a Vanished New York

The Race to Evacuate the World’s Elite Horses From the Iran War; Nearly 150 show-jumping horses were in Qatar for a top competition when Iranian missiles lit up the sky


Rainey Knudson: No. 55: Dizzy Gillespie Trumpet

PHOTOGRAPHY


Review: Dean Sameshima, Did the Neighbours Really Not Know? The Extreme LA Sex Clubs Hidden In Plain Sight; at Soft Opening, London; Deadpan 90s photographs of seemingly ordinary buildings only hint at the queer bacchanalia within – and stand as a record of lost and beloved safe spaces


Legendary Mexican Photographer Graciela Iturbide on Risking It All For Life Behind the Camera; Recently rediscovered trove of vintage photographs by Graciela Iturbide is currently on view at Throckmorton Fine Art in New York


In Your Face: Close-Up Photographer Of The Year Awards 2026; In Pictures; Flora and fauna – the world photographed in close-up in the annual competition dedicated to micro and macro photography

Irving Penn: A Print-Making Obsession; Midlife genesis of the celebrated photographer’s devotion to the art of making prints, focusing on the many versions of 'Seine Rowboat'

Trove of Vivian Maier’s Photographs Could Rewrite Her Market


Austin Bell Embarked On A Wild Quest To Photograph All 2,549 Of Hong Kong’s Outdoor Basketball Courts; Using drone cameras and Google Maps. The results offer a fresh perspective on the city

BOOKS + WORDS

Interesting Read: The New Yorker Offered Him A Deal

Ancient Wisdom: I Want to Die with a Book in My Hands; We read differently in old age. After a lifetime of living, we have a different perspective on the things we read, often holding authors to a higher standard

Never Mind The Lit-Bros: Infinite Jest Is A True Classic At 30; Forget its reputation as a performative read for a certain breed of intense young man, thirty years after its publication, David Foster Wallace’s epic novel still delivers, says the Crying in H Mart author

William Sarradet: Lessons from My First Five Years of Writing About Art in Texas

Destroying Time: On the Lasting Legacy of Larry Levis; Intimate and compassionate voice from a lost paradise; “Caravaggio: Swirl & Vortex”

Art In Everything: Art of the Holzhausen; Picturesque method of stacking firewood
Artist Naotaka Hiro On Exploring the Unknown Self; In “Of Two” at Bortolami in New York, the L.A.-based artist uses abstraction to investigate the limits of subjective awareness in both corporeal attunement and existential inquiry


Giant Golden Toilet Sculpture Appears Near Lincoln Memorial in D.C. ‘A Throne Fit for a King’

Taking a Seat at Robert Therrien’s Table; Broad invites us into the late artist’s obsessively iterative practice, where oversized tables and chairs give way to more elusive, personal forms


Interview with Cecily Brown: ‘I was too shy to talk to all these super cool kids like Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst’; She left London because her paintings felt hopelessly unfashionable compared with the work of the YBAs. Now she’s back with a blockbuster show – and the world has come round to her point of view

Rivals of the Landscape; The more we learn about J. M. W. Turner and John Constable, the more extraordinary it seems that two such breathtakingly original painters could emerge and flourish at the same time in the British art world

Film Review: Turner and Constable Hit the Screen

Review; Beneath The Great Wave: Hokusai and Hiroshige; How Two Japanese Masters Reinvented Art


Seurat and the Sea Is Postcard Perfect; Painted during summer trips to the Channel coast, Seurat intended his seascapes to “cleanse one’s eyes of the days spent in the studio


David Hockney Takes on the Bayeux Tapestry With a 300-Foot iPad Epic; Debuts his monumental landscape alongside other adventures in abstraction at Serpentine North exhibition


Lesbian Lovers Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore: Surrealist Lovers Who Defied the German Occupation; Surrealist visionaries embraced expanded views of gender and identity in a deeply personal artistic collaboration


Egyptian Blue: The First Synthetic Pigment; First human-made blue pigment emerged in ancient Egypt, then disappeared for centuries until it was rediscovered in Pompeii

MARIA LASSNIG


The Unbreakable Maria Lassnig; Three concurrent exhibitions pay tribute to the Austrian artist whose radical explorations of self defied the strictures of the male-dominated 20th-century art world


Music Video: Maria Lassnig, 'Kantate' 1992


Maria Lassnig at Hauser & Wirth

Pierre Huyghe Is Turning Quantum Uncertainty Into an Immersive Experience; Artist's first solo institutional show in Berlin will transform the halls of the iconic club Berghain into a speculative ecosystem of sound, light, and film

One Work, Short Take: Raychael Stine at Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas

How a Stormy Romantic Relationship Inspired Man Ray’s Most Famous Photograph; In Man Ray's most famous photograph, 'Le Violon d'Ingres', the surreal, the sexual, and the French Neoclassical combine


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Trailer 1 'Euphoria Season 3'


Official Trailer 'Backrooms'; Directed by YouTube sensation Kane Parsons; Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell

‘Cliff Booth’ Costs Add Up: Brad Pitt $40M, Fincher $20M, Tarantino $20M, and $200M Budget

Not Summer. ‘Cliff Booth’ Venice Film Festival Premiere? "Full on theatrical run in late September or early October"

Brilliant Director S. Craig Zahler's ‘The Bookie and the Bruiser' FINALLY Starts Production in April

‘The Social Reckoning’: Alexandre Desplat To Score Aaron Sorkin’s Anticipated Facebook Sequel, Not Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Tom Hanks, Bad Bunny and Colman Domingo to Star in ‘The Comebacker,’ Marielle Heller’s Baseball Drama; Heller: “The Diary of a Teenage Girl" “Can You Ever Forgive Me” “A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood”; Based on a short story by Dave Eggers


A Discussion of ‘The Battle of Algiers’; Gillo Pontecorvo's docudrama depicts the rise, fall, and resurrection of a popular uprising against French colonialism, one small detail at a time


Official Trailer 'Margo's Got Money Troubles' New Series; Showrunner David E. Kelley; Starring Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nicole Kidman, and Nick Offerman; Based on the bestselling novel by Rufi Thorpe


Gritty Thriller. Official Trailer 'Fuze'; Directed by David Mackenzie ('Hell or High Water'); Starring Theo James, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw


Official Trailer 'One Spoon of Chocolate'; Directed by RZA; Presented by Quentin Tarantino; Starring Shameik Moore and Paris Jackson


Official Trailer 'Pompei: Below The Clouds'; From Award-winning filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi; Striking portrait of life in Naples, a city living in the shadow of Vesuvius

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