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  1. Here Are All the Pieces from Gallery 1988’s ‘SNL’ Art ShowGallery 1988, Katie Cromwell and Jensen Karp’s LA-based pop culture art gallery, unveiled an SNL-themed art show this weekend, featuring over […]
    By Bradford Evans
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    Saltz on the Death of the Gallery ShowBetween online sales and art fairs, fewer and fewer people are showing up to see art in its natural habitat.
    By Jerry Saltz
  3. Watch 9 Videos That Capture Tilda Swinton’s Glorious EccentricityShe’s more than a lady who sleeps in glass boxes.
    By Jesse David Fox
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    Jerry Saltz on MoMA’s Sleeping Tilda SwintonBlame Marina Abramovic.
    By Jerry Saltz
  5. great things
    Tilda Swinton to Occasionally Sleep in a Glass Box at MoMAFriday was her first performance.
    By Andre Tartar
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    Saltz: 20 Things I Really Liked at the Art FairsAnd which of them were sold.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Saltz: 20 Things I Really Liked at the Art FairsAnd which of them were sold.
    By Jerry Saltz
  9. obits
    Saltz on Critic Thomas McEvilley, 1939–2013The father of art world multiculturalism has died.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Saltz Revisits the 1913 Armory ShowWhen new art became modern art.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Jerry Saltz on Richard Artschwager, 1923-2013“An artist … preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd.â€
    By Jerry Saltz
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    George W. Bush Is a Good Painter!Jerry Saltz explains why the former president’s work belongs in the Whitney.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    The New Hauser & Wirth Makes Room for an Entire Army of Loyal ArtistsThe grand opening of this converted disco is the biggest thing to hit West Chelsea since Hurricane Sandy.
    By Carl Swanson
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    Jerry Saltz on the Outsider Art FairWhatever “outsider†means.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Saltz: The Met’s Matisse Exhibit Is Intoxicating, Possibly DangerousWhat makes this show so ravishing is, improbably, that it’s arranged like an art-history-class slideshow time line.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Saltz: The Met’s Matisse Exhibit Is Intoxicating, Possibly DangerousWhat makes this show so ravishing is, improbably, that it’s arranged like an art-history-class slideshow time line.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Davidson: DJ Spooky Spins Into Oblivion at the MetIn his first year as the museum’s artist-in-residence, he offers up watery music and weak ideas.
    By Justin Davidson
  18. profile
    The Trials of Art Superdealer Larry GagosianFor the past two decades, he’s been the most powerful gallerist in the world by a wide margin. Now he’s facing two bruising lawsuits.
    By Eric Konigsberg
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    Robin Rhode Turns a Gallery Into a Coloring BookThe artist invited 37 first-graders from the South Bronx to draw on the walls of Lehmann Maupin.
    By Carl Swanson
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    Robin Rhode Turns a Gallery Into a Coloring BookThe artist invited 37 first-graders from the South Bronx to draw on the walls of Lehmann Maupin.
    By Carl Swanson
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    Jerry Saltz on Kate Middleton’s Terrible Official PortraitShe described it as “amazing.†So much for her art-history background.
    By Jerry Saltz
  22. Check Out the Movie Monster High 1986 YearbookTakes you back, doesn’t it?
    By Eliot Glazer
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    Saltz on the MoMA’s Inventing AbstractionInsiders will go gaga here. But I wonder whether larger audiences will grasp the way this kind of art thrust itself to the fore in the West.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Saltz on the MoMA’s Inventing AbstractionInsiders will go gaga here. But I wonder whether larger audiences will grasp the way this kind of art thrust itself to the fore in the West.
    By Jerry Saltz
  25. batman
    See Norman Rockwell’s Take on BatmanRobin and Batgirl, sitting in a tree …
    By Eliot Glazer
  26. nice things
    ‘Potato Jesus’ Painter Has a Real Art Career NowCongrats, Cecilia!
    By Amanda Dobbins
  27. One Artist Paints by Air-Drumming, BasicallyIs air-drumming lame? Not when Alexis Fraser does it.
    By Eliot Glazer
  28. Inside the Judd Apatow Art Show Gallery 1988 held a Judd Apatow tribute art show in Los Angeles last week, and here’s a nice little mini-documentary about the event, which […]
    By Bradford Evans
  29. See Storybook Characters Made From the Pages of Their BooksIt’s books! It’s art! It’s meta!
    By Eliot Glazer
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    Art Basel in a Dampened, Post-Sandy MoodEverything seemed a little lower key in the event’s eleventh year.
    By Alexandra Peers
  31. See Beaded Portraits of Famous PeopleBeads, not beards!
    By Eliot Glazer
  32. Watch This Painter Make Art by ScreamingGiving new meaning to “loud art.â€
    By Eliot Glazer
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    The Judd Apatow Art Show Looks AwesomeAnd, yes, there is “a whale’s vagina.â€
    By Eliot Glazer
  34. year in culture 2012
    Jerry Saltz’s Top 10 Art Picks of 2012Clint Eastwood pioneered a new genre of performance art, the Met examined the dawn of Egyptian art, and more.
    By Jerry Saltz
  35. video games
    Super Mario Is Real, Now Made of BeadsBeautiful beads.
    By Eliot Glazer
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    Saltz: Is Glenn Beck’s ‘Obama in Pee-Pee’ Actually Art?Yes, but it unintentionally reveals something about the artist.
    By Jerry Saltz
  37. optical illusions
    This Is, Hands Down, the Coolest Optical Illusion You’ll Ever SeeEat it, Magic Eye.
    By Eliot Glazer
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    Saltz: Make Me a Faux Gerhard Richter PaintingOne guy in Jersey knew how.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Saltz: Make Me a Faux Gerhard Richter PaintingOne guy in Jersey knew how.
    By Jerry Saltz
  40. Behold Art Through IroningSee? Laundry can be fun!
    By Eliot Glazer
  41. art auctions
    A Rothko From 1954 Just Sold for an Ungodly Sum$75.1 million for No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue).
    By Zach Dionne
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    Chelsea Gallerists on Hurricane Sandy’s Damage and Their Reopening PlansA portrait of the flood.
    By Miranda Siegel
  43. These Crests for Beloved, Ass-Kicking Female TV Characters Are Worth BuyingWomen: They’re just better.
    By Eliot Glazer
  44. These ‘Lifelike’ Celebrity Dolls Are Also ‘So Effing Creepy’Halloween returns!
    By Eliot Glazer
  45. the aftermath
    Saltz: Glimmers of Optimism at the Chelsea GalleriesLast Wednesday all seemed lost. By Sunday, the mood was, “We’ll be back.â€
    By Jerry Saltz
  46. james franco
    What Is James Franco Doing?Whatever it is, we’re onboard.
    By Eliot Glazer
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    Saltz’s Devastating Tour Through Chelsea’s Ruined Art GalleriesThese oft-attacked art havens, now ruined by Sandy, must be saved.
    By Jerry Saltz
  48. parks and recreation
    Tony Stark Meets Parks and Rec’s Tom HaverfordStark and Recreation.
    By Eliot Glazer
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    Saltz: Picasso’s Monochrome Paintings Display a Rainbow of EmotionBrilliantly conceived and installed by Carmen Giménez, the Guggenheim’s show zeroes in on Picasso’s use of black and white and gray.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Talking Circumcision and SSRIs With Jemima KirkeAt home with the ribald Girls star who wants to be known for her other art.
    By Molly Young
  51. Motorcycle or Naked Person?[Insert key-in-ignition joke here.]
    By Eliot Glazer
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