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LEAPIN' LUCAS

ArtReview: The George Lucas Museum: It’s a Trap!

Quotes of the Day: Queen Latifah and Aaron Betsky, Priceless and Pointed

HI-YO TONE RANGER


Video: New Music. 'Through the Canyon Doorway' (Live in Diablo Canyon) by Tone Ranger


Video: New Music. 'Lifeblood' by Tone Ranger


Video: New Music. 'Cheyenne' by Tone Ranger


Video: New Music. 'Mágico' by Tone Ranger


Video: New Music. 'Saguaro' by Tone Ranger

IN THIS ZUMTHORIAN LIGHT


Upon Reflection... Succumbing to the Allure of the Selfie in LACMA’s Glare And Reflection Machine

In This Zumthorian Light; 'Look, I think we all get it: the light in LACMA sucks for paintings'

Your Reflection Is Not You; On Mirrors, Magic, and Obsession


Roy Dowell 'Evidence to the Contrary' at Miles McEnery Gallery


Video: The Atlantic Discusses Their Willem de Kooning Article by Sebastian Smee, "The Artist Who Ripped Up the Rules of Drawing"

Iconic Richard Prince Instagram Portrait Holds Up; “The fight for earth doesn’t end until one of us is gone?”

Historical Art Can Hide Scientific Secrets; From bats eating birds to butterfly behavior, art can contain ecological clues


A Norwegian Visionary for the Getty. With paintings at Versailles, Peder Balke left art for socialism. Built uptopian Oslo suburb

Punk at the Skirball; The Diaspora


Who Is Maurizio Cattelan For?


New Yorker Cartoons for the Week!

GOOD GIGS


Jeff Koons is blowing up Hublot; Artist’s Balloon Dog watches have the bow-wow factor


Liu Wei’s Met Facade Comission Reflects Our Moment


New Play: "The Wreck of the Unbelievable"; Titillating Tale of Damien Hirst’s Gay Hole; Infectious play by Sleth explores infatuation and fame through an imagined relationship between Hirst and his gay lover, a younger artist whose paintings consist of holes on the ground

MONSIEUR NOUAR: LE FRANCAIS BUSTER KEATON

Love, As We Find It

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDITOR


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The Beautiful Gesture of Art Making
To the Promised Land

Our One Percent 'Splainer, The Art Daddy: Welcome to the Fall 2026 Opening of NYC’s Art Season. Did You Miss it? I Sure as F*** Didn’t. Field report from two nights inside New York’s fall opening-week Hunger Games

ART & COMMERCE

Tim Schneider: How Unhealthy Is Arts PR? The Gray Matter Investigates! Proprietary survey of 33 seasoned arts writers and editors rings the alarm for publicists and publishers alike

Tech Entrepreneurs Are Making Their Presence Felt In The Art World, And Not Just In Digital Art; The received wisdom is that tech titans don’t care for art. Is it true?

School of Visual Arts Ends Photography, Video MFA Program; Founding Chair Charles Traub said he believed the closure could have been avoided with “better coordination” and more strategies for “how we were going to deal with the future of AI”


Yau: Catherine Murphy Has Her Cake and Eats It Too; Painter reconciles modernist conventions like the grid with one-point perspective, creating something fresh and entirely her own


Plastique Fantastique, Berlin-Based Duo, Twisted Sculpture Lands on Manhattan’s High Line; Inflatable cavatappi-shaped artwork, inspired by fashion house Bulgari’s serpent motif, will remain on view through New York Fashion Week

Pace Prints Acquires Brand X Editions, Creating a Printmaking Giant; Following a long history of collaboration, the firms will now operate under one umbrella

How Gemini G.E.L. Spent 60 Years Reinventing the Art of Printmaking; Powerhouse publisher is entering its sixth decade with a retrospective that revisits nearly every year of its storied output

ARCHITECTURE


Yau: The Architect Shaping a New Chinese Vernacular; Pritzker-winner Wang Shu’s design for the Ningbo Historic Museum reconciles China’s nostalgia with its desire for a shiny, avant-garde future


Rare Frank Gehry-Designed LA Loft Asks $2.39M And Comes With Storied History; ‘People painted on the walls’


How Paul Williams Built White and Black Los Angeles; Pioneering architect’s archive, long thought lost, was preserved by his family. Now, three museums are featuring the work of a man who broke California’s color barrier

STREETWISE


Street Artist Joshua Vides' Concept Cars at Petersen

“Pam the Bird” Graffiti Stirs Controversy in Melbourne; Days after police arrested the graffiti artist who tagged a prominent bridge tower with a giant bird, some are calling on the city to preserve the work


Berlin: Various & Gould “Übergang”

PHOTOGRAPHY


The Cat That Fought Mussolini: How The Wulz Photography Sisters Weaponised The Family Pet; Wanda and Marion Wulz defied the unbridled patriarchy of fascist Italy by shooting dancers, fencers and other famous women – as well as their cat Mucincina

10 Photo Books to Read This Month


The Anti-Apartheid Photographer Who Was Stranded in America; Ernest Cole’s life story is an anti-colonialism epic, Cold War thriller, and a tragedy


What Hew Locke Carries; With his haunting exhibition, 'Passages,' the Guyanese-British artist reminds us that when we survive, so do our ghosts and our wounds

Stellar Stoic: What Did The Stoics Think About Fame?


Ochi Projects Present Fasciating New Monoprints by Rives Granade; Labor-intensive, improvisational process in which watercolor is transferred from soapy plexiglass to paper


Sarah Fox Conjures Elemental Grace & Earthy Gravity in “The Woman Under the Water & Other Stories” at the Laredo Center for the Arts

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


Official Trailer 'Animol'; Debut Directed by Ashley Walters; Starring Tut Nyuot and Vladyslav Baliuk


Official Trailer 'Animals'; Directed by Ben Affleck; Starring Ben Affleck, with Kerry Washington, Steven Yeun, Gillian Anderson, Adriana Paz and Luis Gerardo Méndez; Remake of Kurosawa's 'High and Low' kidnapping thriller

Historic Moment For AI Filmmaking; Roger Avary’s ‘Paradise Lost’ and Alex Proyas’ ‘Heaven’ Set for Wide Theatrical Releases in 2027


James McAvoy's Directorial Debut 'California Schemin' Music Film; Trailer


Our Film Critic Justin Tanner Reviews"Colossus: The Forbin Project"


Our Film Critic Justin Tanner Reviews "Leviticus"

Opinion, Dayvid Figler: How 'Paul Blart' Changed My Mind About Film Tax Credits; Here’s an economic incentive that would actually work: Give money directly to indie filmmakers

Johnny Depp’s Comeback?: ‘Ebenezer’ Tests Through the Roof for Paramount, ‘Pirates 6’ Role Confirmed


One Hander. Soccer Agent's Past Exposed. Offical Trailer 'The Soccer Agent'; Directed by Irish filmmaker Brendan Muldowney; Starring Danny Dyer and Elliott Rogers

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