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Go Rogue! Kenny Schachter Has Advice for Artists—and as Usual, Scoops! Who’s purchased Vito Acconci entire studio? Are NFTs back? And did Lucas Samaras rip off Yayoi Kusama?

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Think You Know Yayoi Kusama? New Show Asks Us to Look Closer; Major retrospective in Amsterdam reveals new sides to the Japanese artist

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Doyle Lane at the Huntington; Inventive ceramicist Doyle Lane (1923–2002); His first museum retrospective

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Lawrence Weschler: More on Brit Documentary Filmmaker Adam Curtis; American pop culture’s own cinematic imaginaire; More examples of the BBC archival spelunker Adam Curtis’s remarkable documentary flair

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BEING WELL + FEELIN' GOOD

The Quaalude Comeback: A Once ‘Extinct’ Drug From The 70S Makes A Resurgence; Underground chemists are now producing the notorious party drug after a Scorsese film sparked renewed interest; influence of Martin Scorcese’s film The Wolf of Wall Street

WSJ: Elon Musk’s Inner Circle Is Pouring Cash Into Making Psychedelics Mainstream

Atlantic: AI Is Already Making Us Less Human; As we learn to think more and more highly of the bots, we will learn to think less and less highly of our fellow humans

Brain Health Damage You Can Reverse In Midlife

Laughter Could Be Best Medicine For Lung Disease Patients; Low-cost therapy could bring relief to more than one million people in UK

The Clues In Human DNA That Prove Life Had An Intelligent Creator, According to a Medical Scientist

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Pulling For the Arts; With Ropes and Chants, Thousands Move Japanese Castle

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Book Review: The Beverly Hills Housewife by James Cahill; A trip inside Hockney’s world; Muse Betty Freeman sits at the centre of this sun-drenched book about art, eccentricity, and the spirit of Los Angeles

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‘Hyper-Stylised, Ultra-Cool Visions’: 10 Ways David Hockney Changed Art; He pushed landscape painting into the stratosphere, demolished one-point perspective, invented the Los Angeles look, embraced iPads, created dazzling stage sets for theatre and opera

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‘I Don’t Want Dead Art’ How do we experience an artwork of performance that existed decades ago for perhaps only an hour or a day?

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Bob & Bob: Birth of an Art World Duo at The Dawn of Performance Art, Part Two of Two

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Christian Marclay on Why ‘The Clock’ Challenges a Digitally Obsessed Generation

College Professor Reveals Most Kids Cannot Tell Time On Analog (Round) Clocks

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ART = GOOD

It’s Official: Statistics Prove That Art Really Is Good For Your Health; Huge cohort studies prove it, says professor at University College London, but you have to actually engage with the art to see results

The Free Press: Arthur Brooks on Happiness Lessons from a Miserable Wretch; Quiet the crisis of meaning lurking beneath the freneticism of modern life

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At Home In The Chaos: In the Studio with Zak Smith

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NYT: What Is ‘Narrative Art’? The Lucas Museum Finally Shows Us Its Vision

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BOOKS + WORDS

AI Has Plunged the Book Publishing Industry Into Utter Chaos; Spectacular implosions of big deals over suspected AI use are forcing a reckoning over creativity, trust and the future of the industry

First Look: Helen Mirren Captures the Difficult Genius of Patricia Highsmith in A Talent for Murder; Before its TIFF premiere, Mirren opens up about embodying literature’s most uncompromising misanthrope in Anton Corbijn’s new film

Book Review: Tangled Lives of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek; Andrew Durbin’s joint biography of shows that each of these fascinating artists is worth a book of their own

What Do Prince Harry, Britney Spears, and Ari Emanuel Have in Common? Expensive Ghostwriters, Of Course; High-demand for celebrity memoirs has led to a cottage industry for talented writers looking to make money. Now, as AI raises new questions about originality and disclosure; Inside the business of ghostwriting to see how the new technology is changing the nature of the industry

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DISPATCHES FROM THE EDITOR

Gordy Grundy: Breaking News + Opinion
The Arts: Why Do We?

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Carolina A. Miranda on Art Speak:
"A million years ago, I ranted about artspeak on Twitter, and Weisslink compiled it into his daily email, and then the painter Tom Knechtel preserved it and shared it with his students (who did not listen). Sharing again, in case any of you are tempted to hit me with horrible eartist statements."
Click Here to see the riot of a rant.

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Yau: Law and Order Writer Who Moonlights as an Artist; Is René Balcer a street photographer, documentary photographer, or a landscape photographer?

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David Salle and Adam Lindemann on Museum Malpractice, Art World Politics, and Painting Today

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Joel-Peter Witkin’s God-Loving, Gender-Bending Art; His elaborate tableaux vivants blend elements of mythology, the Bible, and art history to express compassion for the marginalized

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ART & COMMERCE

It’s Not Your Fault The Fall Art Season Feels Suffocating; Tim Schneider grounded the industry’s seasonal overwhelm in 20 years of facts so you don’t have to

Pavilion Seoul Puts ‘Art First’ Amid Fair Fatigue; After runs in Taipei and Hong Kong, the alternative event is setting down in the South Korean capital

Inflation Comes For Burning Man, Leading Iconic Camps To Bow Out; Economic and personnel issues have forced prominent camps to sit out 2026

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Trust Fund Kid Makes Good; Why Louis Comfort Tiffany Still Dazzles Collectors; Two New York shows offer new windows on the designer's expansive practice

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RAINEY KNUDSON OF TEXAS

The arts writer and advocate has been busy creating several series of thoughtful and poignant works. Her latest is 'The American 250,' featuring 250 objects, made by Americans. Following is a brief sampling of Rainey Knudson. She is the founder of Glasstire, the daily art bible of Texas contemporary art.

Podcast Art Dirt: Talking with Glasstire Founder Rainey Knudson

No. 3, Lyda Newman’s Hairbrush; Change the everyday, and you change life itself

No. 4, Wayne Thiebaud, Cakes; Our world has not exhausted its meaning

Rainey Knudson: We are Starstuff; Rocks Are Not Dead

On Quitting Art Writing (455 words)

30 Years of Email (397 words); What do we need to remember?

Rainey Knudson: Thomas McEvilley on Art and Joseph Campbell, A college course that changed me

Lawrence Weschler: Noting how much and how long I have cherished the cultural reportage of Houston’s own Rainey Knudson

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ART NOIR

Museum Heists Getting More Violent As Thieves Recruited On Social Media Turn To New Strategies, Europol Warns

Louvre Jewel Heist Suspects Claim ‘Mysterious Sponsor’ Recruited Them; Update: "Mysterious sponsor" remains unidentified and is treated with high skepticism by French investigators

When the 'Mona Lisa' Was Stolen In 1911, Leonardo Da Vinci’s Painting Had Been Missing From The Louvre For More Than 24 Hours Before Anybody Noticed; The Theft That Made the Mona Lisa Famous

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[Editor's Note: We at FKA Cinema will be temporarily minimizing editorial production to focus on busting some moves. Our arts colony project has some legs and we better run with it. Light a candle for us. Full cinema coverage will return soon.]

Takashi Miike Become 3rd Director in the Unoffical IP; Offical Trailer 'Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo' Directed by Takashi Miike; Starring Lily James and Shun Oguri

Look What the Director and Lead Actor of Marvel's Now Cancelled 'Blade' Did Instead; Offical Trailer 'Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother'; Directed by ; Starring Mahershala Ali, Giancarlo Esposito, John Cho, Tramell Tillman

Brady Corbet’s ‘The Origin of the World,’ His ‘X-Rated’ 4-Hour Follow-Up to ‘The Brutalist,’ Begins Production in South Africa; Epic about "Northern California’s economy" in the 1970s

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‘Fjord’ Cristian Mungiu’s Divisive Palme d’Or Winner Takes Aim at “Left-Wing Fundamentalism”

The Terrible Movie That Chinese Audiences Can’t Stop Watching; Viewers are flocking to a new film that captures the pleasure of bad art

Wells: Six Richest Female Characters or Performances in a Michael Mann Film

Official Trailer Thriller Film 'The Girl in the River'; Directed by Brando Benetton; Starring Maggie Grace, Devon Sawa, Tiffany Haddish, Ralph Macchio

Official Trailer 'Olmo' Directed by Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke; Starring Aivan Uttapa, Gustavo Sánchez Parra, and Melanie Fromet

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