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Why Should Artists Stay In Cities Like London and New York When Financial Pressures Are Making It Harder Than Ever? Josh Kline’s viral essay highlights how creative people lose gumption in the face of financial burden, but we should all strive for community instead of competing for the wealthy’s attention

Frieze: Ai Weiwei’s Detention Re-Enactment Turns Drama Into Farce; Gruelling 24-hour reimagining of the artist’s imprisonment by Chinese authorities provokes unexpected audience reactions as the production is beset with blunders

LAWRENCE WESCHLER


Ed Kienholz’s Five Car Stud of the Colonial And Revolutionary Era Taproots Of Our Nation’s Ongoing Racial Agon

Rainey Knudson: No. 42. Marcel Duchamp, In Advance of the Broken Arm; The art joke spoofed by the Internet, even


Greg Allen: I Like Art That Doesn’t Sell; Leaving the good stuff behind these days

High-End Art Market Not Exclusive Enough For You? Now There’s an Art Show Aboard a 236-Foot Yacht Featuring Marina Abramović and Shirin Neshat


Financial Times: James Turrell, Master of light; As he debuts a new Skyspace in Denmark, the artist discusses Quakers, Kanye West and his volcanic ambitions

I Just Inhaled 2.4Bn Year Old Oxygen In Tasmania; Now I’m part of an exhibition until I die; In Mona’s new permanent installation, visitors can breathe air so pure it ‘has not been touched by any being before you’

Francis Picabia: Against Bad Breath and Cathedrals of Sh*t; Carefully crafted waywardness is what continues to make the work of Francis Picabia so relevant today

THREADS


Lee ShinJa’s Handwoven Portals; Nonagenarian South Korean artist helped catapult fiber art from the realm of domestic craft and tradition into the experimental field of contemporary art; Told as a graphic novel


Diedrick Brackens’s Tapestries Beckon the Light of Freedom; In this Bay Area artist’s hands, weaving becomes a site of experimentation and refusal


How to Use Sketchbooks


A Natural History of William Kentridge’s Studio; Let it be said, the studio is a safe space for stupidity. A space where impulses can be given the benefit of the doubt

The Real Coyote: Terry Allen’s Life & Work; By the time he was 20 years old, Terry Allen had hosted Elvis for dinner at his family home in Lubbock and had met Marcel Duchamp in Los Angeles

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDITOR


Gordy Grundy: Breaking News + Opinion

A Look At Two Artists On Their Roads:
Nicolas Winding Refn and Sandow Birk

Artist Lari Pittman slaps us back to reality with a response in the NYT: "Sorry, Marc Spiegler (former Art Basel global director), but galleries are not the engine of the art world. Artists and their art are. Culture only trickles up, and money never trickles down."


Must Read Essay. John Tottenham "Motel Time Again"

MUSEUM TALLY

These 18 Artists Are Having the Biggest Moment at U.S. Museums Right Now; They include Betye Saar, Jeffrey Gibson, and—just in time for America 250—Jasper Johns

Almost-Canonized: A Closer Look at the Artists Museums Are Showing Now; Digging into who is rising, who is resonant, and who is resurgent


See Sandow Birk's Epic 'Snafu' at Track 16; Must Watch Artist

Ted Gioia: A Fascinating Smart and Populist Look at Homer's 'The Odyssey'; When 'The Odyssey'was a performance

MONSIEUR NOUAR: LE FRANCAIS BUSTER KEATON
More Modern Art.

The Stellar Stoic: Always Give Credit to Something Greater

PHOTOGRAPHY


Lee Friedlander’s America; Photographer spent decades meandering across the country with his camera. What was he looking for?


New York Drenched In Colour – In Pictures; Harry Gruyaert’s vibrant photographs of the Big Apple are bursting with energy – from kids letting off fire hydrants to yellow cabs zooming by in a blur


Review: Martha Cooper Captures How Urban Youth Made New York; Her photographs showcase an intensely physical side of the city: breaking down boxes to dance upon, spray-painting subway cars

Yale Review: Is the Twenty-First Century a Creative Void? Critics mourn a bygone cultural era. But nostalgia for the new isn't new


Video: Annual Master Drawings Symposium 2026

Nearly Half of Mid-Career Women Are Thinking of Leaving the Art World: Report


Natural Dyes Merge with Mixed Media in Annalise Neil’s Dreamy Cyanotypes

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Offical Trailer 'Her Private Hell'; Written and Directed by acclaimed Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn; Starring Sophie Thatcher, Charles Melton, Kristine Froseth, Havana Rose Liu and Diego Calva


From A24. Official Trailer 'The Debut.' Written and Directed by Acclaimed American Actor And Filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg; Starring Julianne Moore, Jesse Eisenberg, and Paul Giamatti

Why Liminal Horror Feels Stuck in the Backrooms; With the recent releases of Backrooms and Exit 8, the liminal horror genre has never been more visible. Yet as leitmotifs solidify into tropes, these films often feel like they’re limping over the line


Zach Cregger and Brian Duffield Team on Warner Bros.’ ‘Siren Head’ After Fierce Five-Studio Bidding War for the Popular Meme


Illustrator Akiko Stehrenberger’s Explosive Movie Poster Art; Stehrenberger’s ability to capture the essence of a film in a single image has made her one of the most sought-after poster designers in the industry

The Luxury Film MFA Ends Today; For 20 years, an uncapped federal loan made the elite film MFA possible. Not anymore


Video: Not a Handheld. Featurette for 'The Odyssey' Shooting Completely in IMAX


Tribute to Movie Theaters. Doc Trailer 'The Last Picture Shows'; From Filmmaker Rustin Thompson




Our Film Critic Justin Tanner Reviews "Mile End Kicks"


Our Film Critic Justin Tanner Reviews "No Down Payment"

James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez Planning to Direct A Secret Movie With Cost-Conscious 17-Day Shoot

A Look at 80's TV Action Production Spree; Full Trailer for 'Knight Rider: Declassified' Geeky 80s Throwback Doc

Review: Horny Horror 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma'; Acclaimed trans filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun


15 Movies That Expose the Divide Between Critics and Audiences

Podcast: Legendary Screenwriter Allan Loeb on Hollywood, the Future of Entertainment, and Compulsive Gambling

Michael Fassbender Set to Star in Brady Corbet’s ‘The Origin Of the World’ — His 4-Hour, X-Rated Western; Shooting 65mm film; Would tackle Northern California immigration and span 150 years

Creepy Corner Of The Internet Reinventing Horror; New generation of film-makers is reshaping Hollywood – and studios are scrambling to sign them up

Vin Diesel Writes a Passionate Essay, Defending ‘Popular Cinema’ as ‘Not a Lesser Form of Art’

Essay by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer; Movies Have Shown Our Country — And The World — The American Story


Guardian Review: 'Her Private Hell' Nicolas Winding Refn’s Shapeshifting Fantasia Is A Dreamy Swirl of Strangeness

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