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  1. seeing out loud
    Jerry Saltz on New York Graffiti Artists, Banksy, and Al Jazeera Fear“People like Banksy because other people have liked Banksy.â€
    By Jerry Saltz
  2. video
    Watch Jerry Saltz Hold an Impromptu Art Class at Banksy’s LatestA crowd gathered on the Upper West Side and the scene got a little wild.
    By Jerry Saltz
  3. art review
    Saltz: Chris Burden’s Big Art of Big Ideas Lives Large at the New MuseumFew artists have brought play, presence, magnitude, hostility, and pleasure into such close proximity.
    By Jerry Saltz
  4. Watch Billy Eichner, Fred Armisen, and Aubrey Plaza Talk Comedy As Art Funny or Die’s John Ramsey sat down with Billy Eichner, Fred Armisen, and Aubrey Plaza at the recent New Yorker Festival to talk about, or […]
    By Elise Czajkowski
  5. art
    Saltz on the Trouble With Mega-GalleriesWhen artists sign with one of the four giants, something happens to their work—and it’s often not good.
    By Jerry Saltz
  7. week in vulture
    10 Pop-Culture Questions Answered by Vulture This WeekHow do you make a movie, anyway?
    By E. Alex Jung
  8. seeing out loud
    Jerry Saltz on Art’s Insidious New Cliché: Neo-Mannerism“It’s everywhere, and it all looks the same.â€
    By Jerry Saltz
  9. legends
    Patti Astor, Eighties Art-Scene Icon And Wild Style Star, Still Has FunThe East Village art-scene pioneer and indie-movie icon takes Vulture on a walking tour through a lost world.
    By Mary Kaye Schilling
  10. Saltz on Lady Gaga’s Jeff Koons Album Cover“It looks like the rinky-dink work of some bottoming-out artist.â€
    By Jerry Saltz
  11. lady gaga
    Lady Gaga’s ARTPOP Cover Is a Koons Sculpture“One second I’m a Koons, then suddenly the Koons is me.â€
    By Lindsey Weber
  12. art review
    Saltz on Bjarne Melgaard’s Ignorant TransparenciesSafe, fake transgression is all over Chelsea these days. And then there’s Bjarne Melgaard.
    By Jerry Saltz
  13. art
    Saltz on the Painting the Metropolitan Museum of Art Won’t Show YouWhy Balthus’s The Guitar Lesson gives so many people the willies.
    By Jerry Saltz
  14. New York ‘Comedy Club’ To Open For Doll Standup FansNew York City plays home to some weird comedy shows, but this one is by far the creepiest. An art installation called “Comedy Clubâ€Â will open […]
    By Elise Czajkowski
  15. art
    Artist Raymond Pettibon on His Scrawled RevelationsHe has faith in the collaging of cultural clutter.
    By Carl Swanson
  16. Here’s Some Art from Gallery 1988’s Edgar Wright Art ShowGallery 1988, the LA-based pop culture art gallery opened a new exhibit Tuesday called “The Official Edgar Wright Art Show,†featuring hundreds […]
    By Bradford Evans
  17. james franco does it all
    See James Franco’s Face Superimposed On Famous PaintingsThe Instagram photos tease his new show.
    By Delia Paunescu
  18. art
    Lady Gaga and Marina Abramovic Made a Naked Art Video ThingIt’s super NSFW, unless you work at a performance art … factory(?).
    By Jesse David Fox
  19. art
    Annotations on Loren Munk’s The East Village Map PaintingIt is jam-packed, to the point of being dizzying, and an incredible historical document of this time of parallel universes.
    By Jerry Saltz
  20. classical music
    Justin Davidson on the MoMA’s First Sound Art ExhibitionThe artists in Soundings all seem to live in isolation booths.
    By Justin Davidson
  21. but is it art?
    Jay Z’s ‘Picasso Baby’ Video Is HereAnd it’s about what you would expect.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  22. obits
    Saltz: The Walter De Maria Work That Recalled My Past and Made My FutureAn homage to the late artist and his inspirational New York Earth Room.
    By Jerry Saltz
  23. art
    Saltz on the End of Jeffrey Deitch’s Doomed MoCA TenureIt was always only a question of when, never if. Today, when arrived.
    By Jerry Saltz
  24. ‘Picasso Baby’ Live: Jerry Saltz Goes Face-to-Face With Jay-Z“And then Jay stepped down from the platform and stood right in front of me.â€
    By Jerry Saltz
  25. art
    Jay-Z Did a Six-Hour Performance of ‘Picasso Baby’At Pace Gallery.
    By Amanda Dobbins
  26. art
    Colin Firth Finally Gets the Mr. Darcy Statue He DeservesBRB, going to London.
    By Amanda Dobbins
  27. slideshow
    Saltz’s Postcards From the Venice BiennaleNavigating the good, the bad, and the overhyped in a suddenly empty Venice with my new digital camera.
    By Jerry Saltz
  28. slideshow
    Saltz’s Postcards From the Venice BiennaleNavigating the good, the bad, and the overhyped in a suddenly empty Venice with my new digital camera.
    By Jerry Saltz
  29. art
    Jerry Saltz on the Met’s Incredible Boxer at Rest Sculpture“It’s one of the greatest works of Western sculpture I’ve ever seen.â€
    By Jerry Saltz
  30. art
    Jerry Saltz on the Met’s Incredible Boxer at Rest Sculpture“It’s one of the greatest works of Western sculpture I’ve ever seen.â€
    By Jerry Saltz
  31. art
    Davidson on James Turrell’s Hallucinatory Guggenheim TransformationHe’s given visitors a new reason to raise their gaze.
    By Justin Davidson
  32. Watch Louis C.K. Play a Toilet Artist Named David Cross in an Early ’90s […] Here’s a recently-unearthed clip from an early ‘90s MTV show in which a 20something Louis C.K. plays a toilet artist named David Cross. What […]
    By Bradford Evans
  33. art review
    Saltz on the Met’s New European Paintings GalleriesThe new installation presents us with a much more coherent, legible vision of one of the great achievements of world civilization.
    By Jerry Saltz
  34. architecture
    Justin Davidson on the Twin Legacies of Le CorbusierWhy architects have never stopped paying tribute to him. ­
    By Justin Davidson
  35. slideshow
    20 Standout Works From the 55th Venice BiennaleSee all the highlights and press stunts (Milla Jovovich in a Plexiglas box).
    By Tess Thackara
  36. slideshow
    20 Standout Works From the 55th Venice BiennaleSee all the highlights and press stunts (Milla Jovovich in a Plexiglas box).
    By Tess Thackara
  37. The New ‘Always Sunny’ Promos Are Super Artsy It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia returns for its ninth season this September on FX’s new all-comedy network FXX, and the gang filmed a series […]
    By Bradford Evans
  38. art
    Saltz: The Early Reports From the Venice Biennale Sound Great, But …Our art critic on the 2013 Biennale.
    By Jerry Saltz
  39. art review
    Jerry Saltz on Jeff Koons’s Concurrent ShowsNew Paintings and Sculpture at the Gagosian Gallery and Gazing Ball at David Zwirner.
    By Jerry Saltz
  40. walk-through
    Jerry Saltz and Justin Davidson on the Restoration of Donald Judd’s LoftOur art and architecture critics walked through it together.
    By Jerry Saltz and Justin Davidson
  41. thank you for painting this portrait
    Forever Meme Naked Bea Arthur Painting Goes for (Just!) $1.9 MillionBut we’ll print you out a copy for $10 if you want.
    By Lindsey Weber
  42. interview
    Justin Davidson Talks to the New President of Lincoln Center, Jed BernsteinFor the first time in eleven years, the hand on the tiller at Lincoln Center is changing.
    By Justin Davidson
  43. frieze art fair
    Why Food (the Restaurant) Is the Talk of the 2013 Frieze Art FairCurator Cecilia Alemani is installing a canteen that pays homage to the Soho restaurant.
    By Carl Swanson
  44. feature
    What Does the Art World Have Against Jeff Koons?Dueling New York gallery shows, followed by a career retrospective at the Whitney. But the most powerful American artist has plenty left to prove.
    By Carl Swanson
  45. art
    Jerry Saltz: Venice Is Losing a Great Artwork, For a Really Dumb ReasonBasta!
    By Jerry Saltz
  46. art review
    Saltz on the Met’s Photography and the American Civil War A bracing look at the first war that was conducted in front of the camera’s cold eye.
    By Jerry Saltz
  47. installations
    Inside MoMA’s Rain Room InstallationOpening May 12, visitors briefly gain godlike control over wet weather.
  48. art
    Jerry Saltz on His First Time in High Heels“Sweat poured off my forehead as my body readjusted into an entirely new carriage. My ass seemed to turn into a shelf-thing.â€
    By Jerry Saltz
  49. please don’t yell at us art fans
    Adding Dame Maggie Smith’s Portrait Makes All Art BetterMunch’s The Scream? Mags will give you something to scream about! Degas’s Classe de Danse? More like Classe de Dame!
    By Lindsey Weber
  50. art
    Saltz on MoMA’s Plan to Raze Folk Art MuseumIt was doomed to death as an art museum from the beginning.
    By Jerry Saltz
  51. architecture
    Davidson on MoMA’s Plan to Raze Folk Art MuseumIf the museum’s architects can’t figure out a way to use the building, that is a failure of imagination.
    By Justin Davidson
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