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Greg Allen: A World Without Dolly Parton In It

Rainey Knudson: No.163: Dolly Parton Wig; Big-hearted, permissive, and abundant

When Dolly Met Andy; A Muse for Artists


Daniel Joseph Martinez and Martha Stewart Color Theory


Chris Kraus Interviews Shirley Tse and Dana Berman Duff’s Breathing Moons; Artist duo, who go by “Relational,” explore the unseen forces that bind us to the universe

ARTS + COMMERCE

The Long View: What Qatar Can Teach Us About Investing in Culture; ROI of the arts includes not only economic activity fueled by tourism and the growth of creative industries

Schneider: The Great Wealth Transfer is Art’s Reddest Herring; Those tens of trillions of dollars of inheritance aren’t going where you think—and especially not to the average art dealer


The Teller Ornelas and Cody families Are Evolving The Diné Weaving Tradition
Time Sync. In 1657, Dutch Mathematical Physicist Christiaan Huygens Invented The Pendulum Clock; Learn why.

Manuscript Fragments Hiding In Plain Sight Shed Light On Medieval Guernsey’s Literary Life; Researchers say texts from 12th to 15th centuries ‘hint at a culture which has not even been imagined’

Brilliant British Artist Who Vanished In The Second World War; Eric Ravilious’s plane disappeared over Iceland in 1942, but his unmistakable vision of pre-war Britain lives on

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Patriotic Brits Cough Up the Funds to Keep Modern Sculpture Masterwork in the UK. After Fundraising Campaign, Citizens Bought the Barbara Hepworth 'Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red' (1943), by Fiat From the Hands of an Overseas Private Collector


Surrealist Couple History Forgot Is Finally Getting Its Due; First show bringing together the work of Wolfgang Paalen and Alice Rahon

The Stellar Stoic: You Still Have Time, Pt. II


Kim Fay in Detroit: Khary Mason 'Friendly Fire' at Irwin House Detroit; By multidisciplinary artist and former Homicide Detective Khary Mason


Michelangelo Made His First Masterpiece When He Was 12 Years Old; Is This the Painting?

Podcast: The Magic of ‘The Artist’s Way’; Author Julia Cameron on the rituals that unlock creativity, and the new tools she's adding to the mix; First published in 1992


What to Know About Félix Vallotton, Cult Favorite Among Collectors; Work by the French-Swiss artist went under the hammer for $2.8 million on Thursday at Sotheby's

First Look: Huntington's Updated American Galleries

Rage Bait: The Psychology Behind Social Media's Angriest Posts; “Rage bait” is the Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year

Art Market Is a Rollercoaster. How Are (the Very Few Artists Who Actually Make a Living Selling Their Work) Handling It?


From Artist Clayton Campbell, 'Making Our Miracles' Gathers Stories of Wonder And Transformation And Reimagines Them As Digital Ex-Votos; Now on view in The Wrong Biennale

ART NOIR

Theft That Made the Mona Lisa Famous; When it was stolen in 1911, before Selfies, Leonardo da Vinci’s painting had been missing from the Louvre for more than 24 hours before anybody noticed

You’ve Just Stolen A Priceless Artifact, What Happens Next? Narrow Market of Buyers; Jewels and Gold Easier to Montetize; The Sensational Allure


How a Scandal-Stained Art Dealer Still Haunts the Market for American Modernism; Notorious Andrew Crispo was a high-flying New York dealer until tax evasion and sex scandals brought him low

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Lawrence Weschler: A Pair of Pieces on Nail Salons, and What Two Master Writers Did With Their Own Fingers By Way of Response; Rainey Knudson today online and George Trow in 1987 at the New Yorker with a 'Talk of the Town'

Yayoi Kusama, Era-Defining Artist of Dots, Mirrors, and Infinity, Dies at 97; She became a cornerstone of contemporary art


Tillmans Making Picture of Tree Filling Window


Jordan Wolfson Is Opening a Major Show at Gagosian. He Does Not Want to Talk About It; 'I’m not here to retain power and transform that power into mediocrity. I’m here to do art. This is serious'


Ref, I Barely Brushed Him! Irish Painter Seánie Harte, the Artist Who’s Painted All of Soccer Hellion Roy Keane’s Red Cards

Thomas Houseago Makes Ancient Objects Speak to Our Violent Present

BOBBY FINGERS

Irish Artist Bobby Fingers Makes Dioramas of Pop Culture's Great Moments and Urgent Issues


Video: "Who Crapped on Johnny Depp's Bed? Including an Ad for Toliet Wine


Video: Joe Rogan and The Black Keys Diorama


Video: Jeff Bezos Rowing Boat. Including New Music Video


“Firelight Flickering on the Ceiling of the World”: The Aurora Borealis in Art


Southwest Contemporary: Nancy Good: Radical Futures; Las Vegas-based artist Nancy Good blends AI-generated imagery with handcrafted process in a new series of cyborgian self-portraits

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Exhibition Catalogue: "American Stories: The Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall Collection"

Puck: Art Collection’s Escape From L.A.; Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall decided to sell their collection six months before fires ravaged Los Angeles. Now, dozens of 20th century works are safe and sound


Schoelkopf Gallery Announceed a Sale and Exhibition of the Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall Art Collection in Early 2025; Check Out the Collection

What Monuments Stand To Teach Americans About Themselves; To mourn responsibly is to accept that history cannot be perfected and should not be forgotten, but understood


Empires of Dirt: Michael Heizer’s City

ARCHITECTURE

Late Frank Gehry Was The Ultimate Starchitect, But Even He Knew That Designing Buildings Takes Teamwork; As Our Celebrated Architects Sign Off, We Should Resist The Urge To Replace Them


The Sexy Modernists of Litchfield; Who knew architecture could be so titillating? "Lots of eating, drinking and apparently bed swapping"; Marcel Breuer and his clients, the Stillmans

Inside The Quietest Home In The World, Which A Turkish Architect Built For Himself Out Of Medical Need

What Lies Beyond the Doorway You’ve Never Walked Through? Inside the City of Dallas’ Latino Cultural Center (LCC)


Why Art Deco Still Dazzles 100 Years On

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Wow! Hindu Legend Action Opulence Epic, Official Trailer 'Ramayana'; Directed by Namit Malhotra; Starring Ranbir Kapoor and Yash; Big Score by Hans Zimmer and A.R. Rahman


Offical Trailer 'The Beloved'; Directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen; Starring Javier Bardem and Victoria Luengo

Zoe Saldaña Says Taylor Sheridan Gives Stars Two Choices: ‘Make Sure That You Don’t F–K Up… Or You Quit’; Interesting look behind the scenes

Paul Thomas Anderson Reportedly Shadowed Martin Scorsese and Rewrote ‘What Happens at Night’

Hollywood Elsewhere: As Expected, Anti-Woke “Fjord” Has Been Blown Off by NY Film Festival Elites

Actress Maude Apatow Directorial Debut ‘Poetic License’ Lands at Sony Pictures Classics After Row K Debacle; Sharp story


Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran; Blake Atwood, author of "Underground," chronicles how Iranians forged a vibrant, informal video distribution infrastructure when their government banned all home video technology in 1983


Lauded Doc, 40 Years of Iranian History. Official Trailer 'Rehearsals For A Revolution'; Directed by Iranian filmmaker Pegah Ahangarani


Must See. Offical Trailer 'Paper Tiger'; Directed by James Gray; Starring Adam Driver, Miles Teller and Scarlett Johansson



Our Film Critic Justin Tanner Reviews "Tuner"


Our Film Critic Justin Tanner Reviews "The End of Oak Street"


Film Fest Fave. "One of the Best Films of 2026" Offical Trailer 'Josephine'; Written, Produced, and Directed by Filmmaker Beth de Araújo; Starring Mason Reeves, Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan


Offical Trailer 'The Only Living Pickpocket in New York'; Directed by Noah Segan; Starring John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Will Price, Steve Buscemi, and Jamie Lee Curtis

Buzzing Hollywood. Penske Drama Continues. Nikki Finke's Last 'Toldja'; Hollywood’s most-feared journalist wrote a book before she died. Her estate is now shopping the manuscript


Stephen Follows: What Percentage of Hollywood Film Professionals Are Nepo Babies?


One Photo Changed ‘Odyssey’ Actress Samantha Morton’s Life; British actress's understanding of art, and herself, was altered by an unexpected encounter with an intimately familiar image by Nick Waplington

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