← Calm Web Art Museum Plates, Exhibition Reviews, Contemporary Visual Art & Criticism In This Issue Early Morning, Tarpon Springs — Art Institute of Chicago George Inness (American, 1825–1894) (1892) · Oil on canvas. Love of Winter — Art Institute of Chicago George Wesley Bellows (American, 1882–1925) (1914) · Oil on canvas. Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water — Art Institute of Chicago James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903) (1872) · Oil on canvas. Peach Blossoms — Art Institute of Chicago Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910) (1878) · Oil on canvas. Water Lilies — Art Institute of Chicago Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) (1906) · Oil on canvas. Flower Girl in Holland — Art Institute of Chicago George Hitchcock · American, 1850–1913 (1887) · Oil on canvas. Coast of Maine — Art Institute of Chicago Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910) (1893) · Oil on canvas. Violet and Silver—The Deep Sea — Art Institute of Chicago James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903) (1893) · Oil on canvas. A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884 — Art Institute of Chicago Georges Seurat (French, 1859–1891) (1884–86, border added 1888–89) · Oil on canvas. Coast Scene, Bathers — Art Institute of Chicago James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903) (1884–85) · Oil on panel. Walid Raad’s Way of Working Is Inspired by the Mirrors in Vampire Movies — ARTnews His work in the Venice Biennale and elsewhere turns history’s absences into artworks. In a Historic Blunder, Wu-Tang Clan Sold an Album as a Unique Artwork—A New Doc Tells the Story of an Architect of the Sale — ARTnews Unfortunately, the architect of the project doesn’t prove a compelling presence on screen. From Wildwood to John Legend: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead — The Guardian Art Prized Monet Paintings at the Center of Milwaukee Art Museum and MFA St. Petersburg’s World Series Wager — ARTnews The Milwaukee Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, have entered a friendly Wold Series wager, with a Monet painting on the line. Monument to Iwo Jima Flag-Raising Near Quantico Vandalized — ARTnews Artist Duo Brognon Rollin Awarded 2026 Prix Marcel Duchamp, France’s Top Art Prize — ARTnews The artist duo is known for their multidisciplinary practice that spans installation, sculpture, video, performance, and photography. Korean Culture Ministry to Audit Former Director of the National Museum — ARTnews Director You Hong-june faced scrutiny after loaning the institution a misattributed work from his private collection This Is Class War — Hyperallergic The latest on the student protests in France, the art world’s AI problem, one-on-one with Rosana Paulino, and Beer With a Painter featuring Melissa Brown. Portrait of a Paris Art Week on Fire — Hyperallergic On protest, business as usual, and the surreal experience of attending an art fair while smelling burning plastic. How Art Can Deliver Justice for Refugees — Hyperallergic In the legal system, art created by refugees and incarcerated people can serve both as a form of therapy and as evidence of mass atrocities. The War on Art Is Repeating Itself — Hyperallergic As an artist who lived through the Reagan-era Culture Wars, I recommend Isaac Butler’s “The Perfect Moment” for the stories that parallel our current fight to defend creative expression. Kid Cudi to Write, Direct, and Star as Basquiat in New Biopic — Hyperallergic The rapper called his forthcoming film, "JEAN," a “love letter” to the late artist and ’80s New York in his announcement on October 21. Wangari Mathenge’s Vibrant Paintings Tap into Kenya’s Paradigm Shift in the 1960s — Colossal Ibrahim Said Nods to Ancient Islamic and Egyptian Pottery Traditions in ‘Shaping Time’ — Colossal “Earth Not a Globe”: Parallax’s Zetetic Astronomy (1865) — The Public Domain Review A book more or less responsible for the revival of Flat Earth theories in the modern period. Dozens of Sculptures Dot Bondi Beach in the 2026 Sculpture by the Sea Exhibition — Colossal A New Wildlife Crossing in Colorado Has Already Cut Vehicle Collisions by 91 Percent — Colossal Álvaro Urbano Honors the Lost Specimens of Mexico City’s Iconic Casa Cueva — Colossal Immortal Beloved: Krishna and Rādhā Exchanging Clothes (ca. 1700–1900) — The Public Domain Review Indian images that grapple with the unbearable fact that lover and beloved are not one. Tech firms should pay the creators whose work they use | Letter — The Guardian Art Letter: It could raise up to £300m a year, providing UK creators with additional income, write Barbara Hayes, Tayyiba Nasser, Christian Zimmermann and Paul Seheult