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How Artist Josh Kline Wrote the Essay the Art World Can’t Stop Talking About

Reddit Readers Opine '"New York Real Estate and the Ruin of American Art" Josh Kline's essay in October'

Opinion: Unlike Josh Kline, I Choose New York; His new article taps into deep frustrations about affordability, but I throw my lot in with those making change, rather than moving out

The Essay by Josh Kline, 'New York Real Estate and the Ruin of American Art'


Overdue Payments To Artists, Landlords And Workers At A Popular Gallery Reflect Pressures Squeezing The Dealer Sector; New York gallery The Hole has closed its Los Angeles space after struggling to pay bills and artists

In Luxury Arts Publishing, Artists Are Reclaiming the Narrative; According to the 2025 State of Art Book Publishing report, trade-distributed art titles have seen flat growth while "limited-run, studio-led" editions have grown by 30 percent in market share

Business of KAWS: What Data and a Museum Show Reveal About His Market; After his auction results soared in 2019, he shifted


2026 Cultured Magazine Power Advisor List: Meet the Art Advisors Shaping the World’s Top Collections; Number of art advisors is ballooning


Bravo: Dedicated Ruth Asawa Space Is Coming to San Francisco

Diebenkorn "Ocean Park" Heads Banner Year for MOCA Acquisitions; See the New Loot

WELL-BEING

The Insights Psychedelics Give You Aren’t Always True; Be wary of Accepting Every Realization From Psychedelic Trips Without Critical Thinking

Psychedelics and Mental Health: Having Mystical Experiences May Yield Strongest Benefits


Guide to Alternative Art Schools in North America; ‘Chaotic’ was how John Baldessari remembered the beginnings of CalArts during the 1970s

Photographer Laura Aguilar at the Huntington

Camille Paglia: Elite Trolling; Having almost got her cancelled, the pugnacious public-intellectualism of Camille Paglia is trending. Why? Rosanna McLaughlin has a theory, and it’s not pretty


Kour Pour Reclaims the Geometry of Abstraction; Latest series of shaped paintings; Canon is informed by non-Western visual traditions that preceded it

Edvard Munch’s Formative Influence On Paula Rego Revealed In Unearthed Painting; ‘It’s so impressive that you can’t imagine,’ wrote a 16-year-old Rego to her mother after seeing a Munch exhibition in London in 1951

PHOTOGRAPHY


Lost Cecil Beaton and Lee Miller Photos Turn Up in Old Scrapbook; Compiled by the photographers' assistant, the book has been acquired by the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford


Interview: ‘Arms And Legs Are Very Expressive, Especially With Bruises’: Absurdist photography of film director Yorgos Lanthimos

Marilyn Monroe’s Final Photo Shoot Weeks Before Her Death Sparks Legal Battle; Auction house makes nearly $1M off negatives


ArtReview: Does Pierre Huyghe Have a Problem With Women?


Horizons and Highways: Franco Fontana’s Stunning Photographic Experiments In Pictures; Mesmerising new exhibition showcases the work of the Italian colour pioneer whose landscapes, motorways and swimming pools often seem more like abstract paintings

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDITOR


Gordy Grundy: Breaking News + Opinion
Our Fantastic Film Critic Justin Tanner Is Back and Blazing
Stipending the Artist


The New Home and Troubled History of LACMA's First Commission and Alexander Calder's “Three Quintains (Hello Girls)”
Six American Land-Art Sites That Challenge Our View of Nature and Art; Earthworks go back to prehistoric times. But our turbulent era is inspiring a new generation of artists. Here are six projects that stand out

“Spectrum of Desire” at the Met Cloisters Is a Raunchy and Romantic Divine Revelation

What Does Hyperallergic Really Think of the New New Museum? Hyperallergic’s editors sit down for an earnest conversation about the institution’s expanded building and inaugural exhibition


A History: Pat Steir, Whose “Waterfalls” Dazzled, Dies at 87


Vienna-Based Austrian Art Collective Gelitin; At Perrotin, Gelitin Creates Space for Collective Ludic Experiences


Meet Hard-Charging Artist Arch Hades; Traces Her Shift from Verse to Visuals; Artist-poet is building on themes of connection, vulnerability, loneliness and death for a new exhibition timed with the Biennale


The Mandrake: An Oral History of a Los Angeles Art Bar; How a DIY Culver City watering hole, opened by New York artists in the early 2000s, became LA’s art-world gathering place

Lauren Halsey "Sister Dreamer" Opens; Halsey's Egyptian/Afrofuturist Sculpture Garden, "sister dreamer lauren halsey's architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles"

BOOKS + WORDS


Remembering Calvin Tomkins, a Master of the Profile; For nearly seventy years, he captured the lives of modern artists for The New Yorker

Calvin Tomkins, Art Writer and Biographer, 1925–2025

Revisit Five of the Late Legend Calvin Tomkins’s Most Essential Art-World Profiles

Ted Gioia: Montaigne and the Origins of Substack; Self-publishing has a glorious history, but what's coming next is even better


Best-Selling Crime Author Tana French on Why We’re All So Obsessed With Murder; Writer is releasing the final installment of her Cal Hooper trilogy in the aftermath of the American police debate, and as Ireland’s rural dismantling ramps up

STREETWISE: STRANGE POLITICAL JOURNEY OF THE IRYNA ZARUTSKA MURALS

Mural honoring Ukrainian refugee murder victim sparks debate in downtown Las Vegas; Nearly two dozen cities now display Remember Iryna murals as part of $1.5 million campaign targeting crime policies

Opinion: Miranda Devine: Dems’ Callous Rebuke of an Iryna Zarutska Mural Exposes Their Own Twisted, Backwards ‘Values’


Why This Controversial Providence Mural With Ties To Elon Musk Was Paused in Providence


Las Vegas Mural Details

Las Vegas Controversy ... Fort Lauderdale ... Los Angeles ... Chicago Defaced

Musk-Funded Mural Backlash Elevates The Messy Politics of Martyrdom


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Official Trailer 'ALPHA'; Written and Directed by Julia Ducournau


Our Film Critic Justin Tanner Reviews "Our Hero, Balthazar"

Iranian Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Has Returned to Iran, Faces One Year in Prison


Good Gigs: Robert Pattinson in 1664 Beer Ad; Beautifully Directed by Brady Corbet

Let’s Get Metaphysical! Existentialist Cinema Is Back, If Anyone Cares; Philosophy was embraced by film noir, the French New Wave and modern hitmen questioning life’s purpose. Now dust off your turtlenecks, for Sirāt and a new version of Albert Camus’ The Stranger look set to make ennui on-trend again


Our Film Critic Justin Tanner Reviews "Redux Redux"

How One Duo Turned an Infamous ’70s Horror Movie Into a Social Media-Era Nightmare; Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei have taken on ecoterrorism and sex work in their films. With Faces of Death, they tackle the darkness housed in our phones

Interview: ‘Alpha’: Julia Ducournau on Staying Connected to Humanity Inside Horror

Lena Dunham in the New Yorker: How I Became a Filmmaker; After college, I joined an odd little utopia of movie nerds working out of an office on lower Broadway. Then the sustainability of the setup started to seem questionable

Demons Hate Her! 21-Year-Old Aussie Director Alice Maio Mackay Just Made Six Feature Films in Four Years; "The Serpent's Skin" director chats with IndieWire about the Shudder acquisition and the Dark Star Pictures collaboration that's already turned her into a genre powerhouse


Alice Maio Mackay on the New Wave of Transgender Cinema

Review: This Is Not a French Film; Tom Adjibi transforms an awkward DIY documentary about racialised actors into a sharp, self-aware reflection on identity and representation in Europe’s film industry

See ‘Undertone’ with Dolby Atmos, or You’ll Miss Half the Horror; Writer and Director Ian Tuason tells IndieWire about why the sounds coming from the ceiling help enhance a podcaster's worst nightmare

What Happened To The Sound Of Action Films? Stephen Follows analysed the audio from nearly 2,000 action films across 75 years to track how their sound has changed. We're seeing shifts in gunfights, explosions, vehicles, music and more

It’s 1977. You’re a Hollywood Screenwriter Working On a Script With Sean Connery. Are You Going To Tell Him His Ideas Are Dumb?


Official Trailer 'I Love Boosters'; Film by Boots Riley; Starring Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza González, LaKeith Stanfield, Will Poulter, with Don Cheadle, and Demi Moore


Official Teaser 'Stop! That! Train'; Directed by Adam Shankman; Starring Ginger Minj, Jujubee, Symone, Brooke Lynn Hytes, Marcia Marcia Marcia, and RuPaul


Fresh! New! 'Cape Fear' Series (2026) Official Teaser; Showrunner Nick Antosca; Starring Javier Bardem, Amy Adams, and Patrick Wilson


'Cape Fear' (1991) Theatrical Trailer


'Cape Fear' (1962) Theatrical Trailer

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