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How to Escape the 21st Century: Adam Curtis Talks to Dean Kissick; The planet’s most beguiling documentary maker and the world’s least boring art critic discuss the future of everything you ought to care about


Lawrence Weschler: Produced Under Duress And In Thrall To Trickster-Artist Ed Kienholz; Barbet Schroeder’s Koko: A Talking Gorilla

The End of Art School(s)? School of Visual Arts Faculty “Blindsided” by Course Cuts Amid $22M Deficit

How a 31-Year-Old New York Dealer Got His Artists into the Whitney Biennial and the Venice Biennale

Tracey Emin Plots Her Next Big Move in Margate; Artist's plan to transform a dilapidated beachside pavilion into a $5 million arts and community hub is proceeding apace; We're rooting for you Tracey


Artforum (March 2014): 'Like, Totally' by David Rimanelli on His Love of Instagram
Kim Fay of Detroit: 'Fabric of America: Our fashions, Textiles and Technologies' At The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation

The Free Press: How to Wreck a Museum; Art history now teaches that ‘putting things in categories’ is bad—which is how galleries end up feeling like a garage sale

ARTS & COMMERCE


Top Executive and Senior Sales Director Leave Pace Following Gallery’s ‘Restructuring’

White Cube Loses Three Star Directors in New York; Departures come at a time of upheaval in the gallery world

ARCHITECTURE


The Brutalists; David Geffen Galleries and Concrete

Intriguing Staempfli House On Costa Brava Was Once Home To A Surrealist Art Dealer; Once host to Dalí, Bertoia, Noguchi and more, this elegant Spanish seaside villa was a meeting point for post-war artistic movements

Owning a Rare Frank Lloyd Wright Home Isn’t The Paradise You’d Imagine — But That Isn’t Stopping Some Buyers


How a Protected Mediterranean Island Became One of France’s Most Compelling Art Destinations; Charles Carmignac shares how his father, the billionaire collector Édouard Carmignac, fell in love with Porquerolles and what it takes to build a serious arts institution in a pristine national park

BOOKS + WORDS

Poet’s Premiums; Wallace Stevens was a successful insurance executive by day and a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet by night—but his letters reveal he had existential doubts about the trade-off

ArtReview: What Do We Actually Want From Literary Adaptations?


The Burial of the Dead; The Obituarist; "I wish I knew why I feel such loyalty to the deceased."

An Interview with Meghan O’Gieblyn “It makes me sad to think about a young person who might never cultivate the process of self-discovery that takes place in writing, which is inseparable from thinking.”

A Dying Art; Film Props, Mortuary Sciences

Contemporary Art Finds a Home Gallery at Couper Russ in Las Vegas


Matthew Couper: New Series Devoted to Kazimir Malevich


Gordy Grundy: How Does an Artist Say Goodbye To Lost Art Works?


We Recommend: Video: “Music for Pieces of Wood” Performance; Inside the exhibition Richard Serra: Running Arcs (For John Cage), 1992, at Gagosian


Mavis Pusey’s First Solo Museum Exhibition Spotlights Her Work in Geometric Abstraction at ICA Philadelphia; (1928–2019)


What a Role Model; The Continuing Art and Influence of Elaine Wynn

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDITOR


Gordy Grundy: Breaking News + Opinion
Frontlines of Our Culture Wars
Learning From Las Vegas (1972)
A Snooping Sociologist


John Tottenham Short Story, "Cincinnati in the Fall, Part Two"


Epic. Matthew Barney Interviews Jordan Wolfson; “I Built a Box That Has Sex With the Floor”

Does LACMA Art Play in Vegas? Curatorial relationship and plans remain uncertain

The Met Has Put the Oldest Existing Copy of the Odyssey on Display


Must Read. Rainey Knudson: No.151, Nail Salon; The Small Mercy of Being Touched; Birth of an industry


‘Comedy Is Terrified of Being Called Art’: Meet the Performance Artist Who Does Both; Harriet Richardson has gone on 100 dates in a day and engaged in a faux romance with Mark Zuckerberg. Now, she's gotten tattooed ahead of her new stand-up set


Chez Fifi, Upper East Side, Restauranteur Joshua Foulquier Built a Restaurant Around the Art His Mother Loved

Watch: Supernatural Horror Short 'Death Red' Featuring Haunted Paint; Filmmaker Mitch Glass; "Young artist Claire acquires a forgotten can of paint, believing it will fuel her next masterpiece"

Hyperallergic: New Mexico Artist Celia Álvarez Muñoz Unbinds the Artist Book; Artist’s work embodies a level of confrontation

FRIDA. FRIDA. FRIDA.

Fridas for Everyone; The face that sold a million mugs returned to museums and the operatic stage this spring, as if there was a yearning to reconnect with the real Frida Kahlo

Battle Over Frida Kahlo: Activists Sue To Keep Her Art From Leaving Mexico

Raven Chacon: Three Songs Extols Indigenous Matriarchy

DESIGN


Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia’s '391' Review (1917–1924)

A Driving Tour of LA's Remaining Googie Architecture; Rise of larger-than-life, space-age architecture marked the boom of car culture in 1950s Los Angeles. Join us on a tour of the city's remaining Googie gems – and prepare to eat a lot of burgers

MondoBlogo: I'm not an Interior Designer, but I play one on TV. My list of the 15 most egregious interior designs mistakes


Sharmistha Ray Transforms Pickleball Courts Into Stunning Artworks; Artist’s fully playable installation “Geometry of Play” spreads over three courts in downtown Pittsburgh


Lucifer Is Very Much A Happy-Go-Lucky Guy; Kenneth Anger's Approach in "Lucifer Rising"

BAS JAN ADER


Bas Jan Ader Made Fate Into an Art; So much of what Ader explored was about surrendering to destiny, but also about heeding internal calls — to adventure, open horizons, and the sublime

Retrospective Dispels Myths Surrounding Bas Jan Ader


Video: 'Dreadnaught' Short Experiential Film on Bas Jan Ader


Two-Part Sale Shattered Expectation; Billionaire Bill Koch’s Rad Western Art Collection Gallops Past Estimates at Christie’s


Click Here for Your Best Reading Experience on Our Film Site!


Official Trailer 'Misty Green' Written and Directed by Chris Rock; Starring Rosalind Eleazar, Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, Anna Kendrick, Topher Grace, and Chris Rock


Official Trailer 'The Uprising'; Directed by Paul Greengrass; Starring Andrew Garfield, Jamie Bell, Stephen Dillane, Tom Hollander


Official Trailer 'Everybody Digs Bill Evans' Directed by Grant Gee; Starring Anders Danielsen Lie, Bill Pullman, Laurie Metcalf, Barry Ward, and Valene Kane


Inside Filmmaker Gregg Araki’s Kinky New Art-World Romp; ‘I Want Your Sex,’ starring Olivia Wilde as a vampy contemporary artist, is an art-world satire with a heart

Actors Are Losing Roles To AI Knockoffs of Themselves

Paul Thomas Anderson Thinks Modern Movies Need “More Solid Writing”


Video: Paul Thomas Anderson in Recent Conversation with Critic David Ansen at Festival Theaters in Palm Springs


Interesting Remake. Official Trailer 'Sense And Sensibility'; Directed by British filmmaker Georgia Oakley; Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, Caitríona Balfe, George MacKay, and Fiona Shaw




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


Our Film Critic Justin Tanner Reviews "Desperate Characters"


Full-Size Replica of Frank Lloyd Wright-Styled “North by Northwest” House in Park City; Videos on architectural styles of the mastermind criminal/villian and a walk through Hitchcock's film house


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


New Doc. Official Trailer 'Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul'


Official Spanish Trailer 'La Bola Negra'; Directed by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo; Starring Guitarricadelafuente as Sebastián, Carlos González as Alberto, Miguel Bernardeau as Rafael, Milo Quifes, Lola Dueñas, plus appearances by Penélope Cruz and Glenn Close

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