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The Bests of 2024

 All the books, podcasts, and anime (plus TV, movies, music, and more) that captivated our critics (and John Waters) this year. By Vulture Editors
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Jerry Saltz’s 33 Rules for Being an Artist

 How to go from clueless amateur to generational talent (or at least live life a little more creatively). By Jerry Saltz
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Come for the Art, Stay for the Art

 Punching Nazis is just a bonus in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. By Lewis Gordon
  1. year in culture
    Vulture’s 20 Most-Read Stories of 2024From brat summer to a scandalous fall, here’s what our readers loved most this year.
    By Vulture Editors
  2. profile
    Lorraine O’Grady Finally Has the World’s AttentionAt 86, the artist had cemented her (belated) trailblazing status.
    By Jillian Steinhauer
  3. art review
    Night BitchesAlex Katz, Matthew Barney, and Jamian Juliano-Villani face the darkness.
    By Jerry Saltz
  4. best of 2024
    The Best New York Art Shows of 2024Outsiders, Renaissance masterpieces, crazy quilts, and more.
    By Jerry Saltz
  5. the work of art
    How Jonathan Franzen Learned to Write a Franzen NovelTo finish The Corrections, he had to kill his protagonist — and his idea of what a book should be.
    By Adam Moss
  7. ring ring … banana phone!
    It’s One Banana, Michael. What Could It Cost? $6.2 Million?Comedian, the piece of fruit taped to a wall, sold to a crypto bro at auction.
    By Jason P. Frank
  8. art
    The Extremely Chaotic Life of Jamian Juliano-VillaniLess than six months after her Gagosian solo show, the downtown artist-slash-gallerist lost her gallery and all her money.
    By Jay Bulger
  9. art review
    Maps of Things PastThe brilliant art-world cartographies of Loren Munk.
    By Jerry Saltz
  10. art
    Kehinde Wiley Can’t Believe This Is Happening to HimHe built an empire out of painting young Black men into art history. Can it survive accusations of sexual assault?
    By Rachel Corbett
  11. art review
    Maybe KAWS Is Not So Bad After AllHis collection of outsider art, on display at the Drawing Center, is a marvel.
    By Jerry Saltz
  12. tributes
    Gary Indiana’s Exuberant VenomThe late critic and novelist documented the seedy vanities and sorrows of American life with bitchiness and, sometimes, sympathy.
    By Brandon Sanchez
  13. art review
    The Met’s Siena Renaissance Show Is a MasterpieceGo see it now.
    By Jerry Saltz
  14. scene report
    Charli XCX Sculpts a MomentThe jobless made a pilgrimage to Storm King.
    By Jason P. Frank
  15. art review
    A Black Surrealist Finally Gets His DueA solo exhibition of the poet and visual artist Ted Joans is a mostly fitting tribute to an artistic visionary.
    By Jack Denton
  16. art review
    A World Without WeatherThe flat and deep paintings of Hilary Pecis.
    By Jerry Saltz
  17. art review
    What Is a Brooklyn Artist?A sweeping survey at the Brooklyn Museum provides a lot of answers, none of which satisfy.
    By Jerry Saltz
  18. art review
    Yvonne Well’s Patchwork HistoriesA new show spotlights how the artist’s abstract quilts tell the story of the African diaspora.
    By Jerry Saltz
  19. encounter
    Thomas Houseago Was Mad at His Dad (and Larry Gagosian)It’s his first NYC gallery show in a decade, thanks in part to Leonardo DiCaprio.
    By Rachel Corbett
  20. fall preview 2024
    10 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See This FallAn Alvin Ailey retrospective sets the tone for an array of eclectic offerings from the art world.
    By Jerry Saltz
  21. art review
    Abigail Goldman’s American Horror StoryHer new show, “State of Nature,†depicts our depraved moment in miniature — literally.
    By Jerry Saltz
  22. public art watch
    A Sixteen-Foot-Tall Pigeon Comes to Nest on the High LinePlease don’t feed Iván Argote’s monumental Dinosaur.
    By Carl Swanson
  23. wwjd
    Da Vinci Would Have Loved the Olympics’ Controversial ‘Last Supper’The Catholic church of France, however, did not.
    By Jason P. Frank
  24. remembrance
    The Power and Grace of Barbara GladstoneThe venerated gallerist worked for the love of art.
    By Jerry Saltz
  25. art review
    Jenny Holzer’s Word SaladHer takeover of the Guggenheim reads like intellectual clickbait for the extended Trump era.
    By Jerry Saltz
  26. art review
    Maurizio Cattelan’s Enormous Wall of KitschA shiny bauble meant to comment on capitalism and to sell.
    By Jerry Saltz
  27. games people play
    Suing Richard PrinceStung when he felt ripped off by a famous artist, a photographer turned to the courts.
    By Choire Sicha
  28. profile
    Emil Ferris Still Believes in MonstersThe graphic novelist’s debut, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, was a hit. Seven years later—after a contentious lawsuit—the sequel is finally coming.
    By Mark Yarm
  29. sexual assault
    Artist Kehinde Wiley Accused of Sexual AssaultBy Joseph Awuah-Darko, a British-born artist working in Ghana.
    By Bethy Squires
  30. art review
    LaToya Ruby Frazier’s MoMA Show Does Too MuchThe photographer wants to “stand in the gap between working-class and creative-class people.†But her show’s venue makes that impossible.
    By Madeline Leung Coleman
  31. favorite things
    Jerry Saltz’s 78 Indispensable Instagram AccountsInstagram changed our art critic’s life. Here, he recommends 78 of his favorite accounts that you should follow.
    By Jerry Saltz
  32. announcements
    Discover Jerry Saltz’s Favorite ThingsOur chief art critic is writing a pop-up, subscriber-only newsletter about the cultural works that shape his outlook.
    By The Editors
  33. art
    Maurizio Cattelan Takes the Piss Out of the Art WorldThe Italian artist’s first solo gallery show in decades is a provocative commentary on America’s ills.
    By Madeline Leung Coleman
  34. art review
    Taxi Driver Was Always About RaceA new film by Arthur Jafa restores the Scorsese classic to its original intention.
    By Jerry Saltz
  35. the work of art
    How’d You Make That?Three masterpieces from glimmer through struggle to breakthrough.
    By Adam Moss
  36. remembrance
    Richard Serra’s Magnificent Balancing ActThe sculptor, who died this week, built massive houses of cards.
    By Jerry Saltz
  37. rip
    Richard Serra, Sculptor of Monumental Steel Works, Dead at 85His jarring, site-specific works made him a landmark figure of the minimalist movement.
    By Zoe Guy
  38. it takes one to know one
    The Art of the Royal Doppelgänger PhotoThere’s no better expert to turn to about faking a Kate Middleton shot than Alison Jackson.
    By David Mack
  39. art review
    What to See and What to Skip at the Whitney BiennialJerry Saltz searches for the real thing at the museum’s latest survey of contemporary art.
    By Jerry Saltz
  40. art review
    Byzantium RegainedThe Met’s exhibition of art from the African territories of the Byzantine Empire was a triumph.
    By Jerry Saltz
  41. encounter
    Christopher Wool’s Punk-Rock Art Show in a Fidi TowerThe blue-chip artist is over museums, galleries — and pretty much everything else.
    By Rachel Corbett
  42. performance pieces
    Want Enlightenment? Go to MoMA and Ask for CynthiaIf you keep buying things, you’ll never achieve understanding.
    By Jillian Steinhauer
  43. erect against the forces of evil
    A Real-Life Rock Groupie Inspired Miley Cyrus’s Drive-Away Dolls CameoEthan Coen’s new caper takes cues from Cynthia “Plaster Caster,†an artist known for casting the erect penises of famous rock stars in plaster.
    By Lisa Liebman
  44. art review
    The Met’s Tremendous Harlem Renaissance Show Redefines ModernismJerry Saltz says we’ve gotten everything wrong about the big bang of 20th century art.
    By Jerry Saltz
  45. art review
    Pictures From a GenocideAn astonishing new show of Native American ledger drawings brings a historic crime into focus.
    By Jerry Saltz
  46. art review
    What Was the Bodega?Tschabalala Self’s ambivalent investigation of the cornershop.
    By Jerry Saltz
  47. art
    Bettina Made New York Feel Like a SecretThe artist toiled in her room at the Chelsea Hotel for decades, making photographs and sculptures she showed to almost no one.
    By Tess Edmonson
  48. chat room
    Anna-Laura Sullivan’s Art Makes Her Cry TooThe Brooklyn-based artist brings us inside the cozy world of her viral Instagram comics.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  49. art review
    The Impeccable Peacocks of Barkley HendricksA master portraitist takes his place alongside the Whistlers at the Frick.
    By Jerry Saltz
  50. a long talk
    Finding Her HeartbeatSharon Stone walked through the valley of death and into an art-supply store.
    By Jerry Saltz
  51. best of 2023
    The Best New York Art Shows of 2023Queer cutouts, portable candies, and a retrospective of an American master.
    By Jerry Saltz
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