Pop Culture ‘I Realized the Power of Art to Infuriate People’: John Waters on How He Built His Art Collection—and Then Gave It Away "Coming Attractions" runs through April 16, 2023. By Min Chen, Nov 21, 2022
Pop Culture Drake Is the Surprise Angel Investor Behind the Resurgence of Luna Luna, a 1987 Art Carnival With Rides by Haring, Basquiat, and Dalí DreamCrew, the entertainment firm co-founded by rapper, plans to restage the fair next year. By Vittoria Benzine, Nov 17, 2022
Pop Culture Shantell Martin Is One of 12 Contemporary Artists Set to ‘Reskin’ Classic Arcade Games for Atari’s 50th Anniversary Project The redesigns will also be minted as NFTs, launching on November 19. By Richard Whiddington, Nov 17, 2022
Pop Culture 10 Can’t-Miss Art Films to See at the DOC NYC Film Festival, From a Portrait of Nan Goldin’s Activism, to a Family Story of Radical Architecture There are also films on artists David Bowie, Kobra, Robert Irwin, Jonas Mekas, and more. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 11, 2022
Pop Culture King Charles Has Unveiled a Larger-Than-Life Statue of Queen Elizabeth II, Carved From Three Tons of Limestone The stonemason who designed the statue was the winner of a competition. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Nov 10, 2022
Pop Culture The Andy Warhol Museum Has Unearthed Rare Master Tapes of the Velvet Underground’s Debut Album The recordings were made by the Velvet Underground at Scepter Studios in 1966. By Richard Whiddington, Nov 10, 2022
Pop Culture The New Title Sequence for ‘The White Lotus’ Is a Sexy Romp Through Renaissance Frescoes. Here’s How They Did It The opener blends actual 16th-century works with digital painting to weave in the hit TV show's key themes and characters. By Min Chen, Nov 3, 2022
Pop Culture ‘A Naked Lunge for a Twitter Storm’: Critics Pan British Comedian Jimmy Carr’s TV Show Where Art Is Destroyed Live on Air One commentator called the program, which wanted to see if "problematic" artists can be separated from their art, a “surface-level exploration of what ‘cancellation’ means." By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Oct 27, 2022
Pop Culture A 28-Year-Old Who Unexpectedly Won a Dalí Etching at Auction for $4,000 Has Gone Viral With Her Rueful TikTok Video About It The 1974 work by the Spanish surrealist was expected to sell for $15,000. By Richard Whiddington, Oct 24, 2022
Pop Culture Tom Hovey, the Illustrator Behind the Delectable ‘Great British Bake Off’ Drawings, on How the Show Has Catapulted His Career Meet the U.K. artist who has created over 3,000 illustrations of often-fantastical baked goods for the award-winning TV program. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 20, 2022
Pop Culture How Accurate Is the New ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Video Game’s Picture of 9th-Century Baghdad? Not Very, Archaeologists Say A video game expert and archaeologist worries the lack of published research on the Islamic Golden Age available to developers will limit the historical faithfulness of "Mirage". By Sarah Cascone, Oct 19, 2022
Pop Culture Kasmin Has Teamed Up With Mattel for a Pop-Up Launching Artist Mark Ryden’s New Line of Macabre-Pop Barbie Dolls The toys will be unveiled alongside new Ryden artworks in a Los Angeles pop-up show next month. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 12, 2022
Pop Culture Comic Book Dealers Are Making Six-Figure Sales at New York’s Comic Con, Thanks to the Boom in Film and TV Adaptations The comic book market is in uncharted waters. We talked to the experts to help understand why. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 7, 2022
Pop Culture Pace Gallery Now Represents Hollywood Legend David Lynch, an ‘Artist Who Happens to Make Films’ Lynch will have his first show with the gallery in November. By Dorian Batycka, Oct 6, 2022
Pop Culture Watch John Oliver Make the Case for a New Frontier in the Fight Over Restitution: Revenge Looting Among the objects on view in Oliver's proposed "Payback Museum" is a piece of Stonehenge stolen by Nigeria as punishment for British troops' 1897 looting of the Kingdom of Benin. By Artnet News, Oct 4, 2022