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Theatrical Impresario Quentin Tarantino's ‘The Popinjay Cavalier,' Starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Sets March London Premiere; Possibly his 10th and final film?!


Weschler: The Oakes Twins, Part II; Hudson River Series



Vegas, Modernity, and the Arts; Scott Dickensheets of Nevada Public Radio Interviews Isaac Ariail Reed, Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia


In Marfa, More a Reflection of You than the Land: An Interview with Filmmaker Sky Hopinka



Tim Kent’s Zones of Mystery, "Sojourn" at Hollis Taggart

ART + COMMERCE

Nepo Babies Are Taking Over the Art Market

Art Basel and UBS Collecting Survey Shows Gen Z Setting the Pace, and the Megafair Is Remaking Itself to Keep Up

Vienna's Gallery Exodus: Why Four Dealers Are Pulling Back at Once

Brussels Gallery Super Dakota to Close After 15 Years

Why This Avery Singer Painting Just Sold at a 91 Percent Loss

Getty Images was worth $4.8 billion just 4 years ago. Now it’s filing for bankruptcy; After years of financial struggles, a failed merger, and growing competition from AI technology that can create images in seconds


Gioia: 17 Fascinating Observations on Chivalry


‘Book of the Year’: How a 12-Pound Tome Can Save Western Civilization; Nothing less than a revival of instruction in Western Civ


Pressing Issues. The Long, Strange History of Yacht Clubs


Has Black Musical Culture Always Been a Visual Culture?


Devoid Magazine: Las Vegas Motels of Doom. And Their Exorcism-by-Wrecking Ball

New Yorker Cartoons of the Week


BOOKS + WORDS

Literary life in the 1990s; On writers and readers in an “Age of Sensitivity.”

Infinite Waves, Frank O’Hara at 100

“Weird” is a Weird and Ancient Word; From Beowulf to Shakespeare to you

Writing in Bed with Eve Babitz; It’s the 1980s, and Hollywood’s best—and most beautiful—writer wants you to write a screenplay with her. Can you keep up?

New Batch of Art-World Novels; Satirical art-world novels, poetry collections, and biographies we’re reading this season, plus a review of Ann Patchett’s newest book


BENGLIS, BEFORE AND AFTER


Fashion Designer Jonathan Anderson Brings Lynda Benglis’s Radical Spirit to Dior Haute Couture; At the Musée Rodin, Jonathan Anderson's first winter couture season for Dior answers the sculpture of Lynda Benglis — from her Peacock series to antique Indian chintz — and turns the show set into a gallery

Here is a classic 1987 LA art tale worth the read. Young Lynda Benglis was installing her new show at Rosamund Felsen's gallery when catastrophe struck. Starring fabricator Jack Brogan as told by artist James Hayward.



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Vegas, Modernity, and the Arts
Lynda Benglis: Dior + Rosamund Felsen
How Shall We Survive?


TRANSCENDENCE


Aaron Glasson at Roberts Projects


Artist Aaron Glasson Builds a Creative Desert Escape in the High Desert; In Landers, artist runs Jana Koya, an artist residency he redesigned from a 1956 homestead cabin using natural materials
... ... Jana Koya on Instagram


Nine Spiritualist Women Artists to Know


Pope Leo: The Church, the Art World's First Patron, Needs Artists


Good Read. 'For Sale: Robert Gober Plywood'


Wealthiest Collectors Are Increasingly Relying on AI, Says Art Basel/UBS Report



Yau: Roy Lichtenstein Has Lost His Luster; He went from being a satirist of America’s ideals to a parody of himself, an artist content with other artists’ masterpieces


Our One Percent 'Splainer, The Art Daddy: Art World Is a Pizza Hut and Art Collector, Former Online Poker Player, and Songwriter/Music Producer Jeff Magid Is Rapping; Corporate takeovers, questionable foundations, and Lichtenstein socks



Salman Toor’s Laws of Attraction


Kramer and Fauci, Enemies to Friends to Protagonists; Playwright and the immunologist famously argued about AIDs live on C-SPAN, in 1993. Their heated exchange now unfolds in a new play that almost included a “Guys and Dolls” song break


Kenny Schachter: A Taste for Toxins; On Sigmar Polke’s Poison Paradise and the Pathology of Normalcy


‘People Were Horrified’: How a Bruce Nauman Sculpture Shocked Dallas; New show at the Nasher Sculpture Center uncovered the forgotten history behind one of the artist's radical installations


DESIGN


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


If This Texture Could Speak; A material history of Mexican light

When Nordic Classicism Made a Splash; Modernists tended to regard Nordic classicism as a mere throwback, but it was much more radical than it was given credit for




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