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  1. art candy
    Contemporary Chinese Photography, Highly DistilledA selection of images handpicked from twenty different provinces over 60 years.
    By Emma Pearse
  2. art candy
    Georgia O’Keeffe’s Startling Abstract WorksFifteen pieces, including paintings that will surprise even some of her most devoted fans, and several charcoal drawings that first convinced Alfred Stieglitz of her greatness.
    By Emma Pearse
  3. chat room
    Vulture Interviews Dennis Hopper, Photographer“I can’t find anything in my life that says, ‘Well, you can’t work for the Pope.’â€
    By Blythe Sheldon
  4. vulture lists
    10 Things We Learned at Chelsea’s New Art SeasonArtworks have shrunk, but sex still sells — and much more.
    By Alexandra Peers
  5. art candy
    Photographer Tracey Baran’s Intimate Take on LifeSee fifteen photos full of humor but also some horror.
    By Emma Pearse
  7. artsy
    Kehinde Wiley: The PhotographsAfter years of using his photos to paint from, Wiley decided to show the source material itself.
    By Emma Pearse
  8. genius
    Saltz: Duke Riley’s Insane Triumph, a Live Roman Naval Battle in QueensSpectators cheered as leaky boats foundered, rammed one another, and fired watermelon cannonballs in every direction.
    By Jerry Saltz
  9. art candy
    Thirty of John Currin’s Controversial WomenHis paintings of nude women have been both reviled and — especially since his 2003 mid-career survey at the Whitney — revered.
    By Emma Pearse
  10. art candy
    See What 30 Local Artists Stuffed Into ‘Dime Bags’Anthropomorphized acorns! Lego Michael Jacksons! Embroidered “domestic specimensâ€!
    By Emma Pearse
  11. art candy
    See Works by Dorothy Iannone, Sex Goddess, Matriarch, and Contrarian For all her influence, this, at 75, is Iannone’s first solo show in an American museum.
    By Emma Pearse
  12. dash snow
    Friend: Dash Snow ‘Knew Exactly What He Was Doing When He Went to That Hotel’The ‘Times’ gives the most detailed account yet of Dash Snow’s final days.
    By Lane Brown
  13. art candy
    Photographs of South Africa From David Goldblatt’s Massive, Rich Museum Show The exhibit — 38 pieces of which we’ve included in this slideshow — is part documentary, part high drama.
    By Emma Pearse
  14. dash snow
    Dash Snow Piece Pulled From AuctionOrganizers say the artwork has been removed from the Watermill benefit auction.
    By Alexandra Peers
  15. dash snow
    AA Bronson Remembers His Dash Show Photo Shoot“He took naked photos of me … I knew him and I liked him and I trusted him.â€
    By Jada Yuan
  16. dash snow
    What Will the Art Market Decide About Dash Snow?Prices often zoom up when an artist passes away, but Snow’s work faces some peculiar circumstances.
    By Alexandra Peers
  17. dash snow
    Dash Snow Seemed Happy and Healthy in Weeks Leading Up to Death, Say Shocked FriendsThe artist, who died of a drug overdose last night, had been in rehab and was working on new pieces.
    By Sarah Douglas
  18. tributes
    Terence Koh’s iPod to Honor Dash SnowArtist Terence Koh will perform a tribute to Dash Snow tonight.
    By Lane Brown
  19. devil in the centerfold
    Amusing, Newly Unearthed Responses to Lynda Benglis and Her Infamous Dildo“Many thanks for finally printing something outside of your normal drivel.â€
    By Rachel Wolff
  20. news reel
    Did Merkin Sell His Rothkos for More Than They Were Worth?At $310 million, J. Ezra Merkin is getting less than he had hoped for his art collection, insiders say — but he still may be making more than the collection is worth.
    By Alexandra Peers
  21. right on
    Aw, Yeah: New Museum Saves ‘Hell, Yes!’Exclusive: Originally loaned for a two-year exhibition, the piece was recently purchased for the museum by trustees.
    By Andrew Goldstein
  22. art
    Saltz: Glimpse Art’s Near Future at No Soul for SaleThe intrepid X Initiative is staging what it calls an exercise in “radical hospitality,†with free blocks of space marked out on the floor.
    By Jerry Saltz
  23. economypocalypse
    The Met Makes Good on Promised LayoffsThe Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that it has completed the round of layoffs announced back in March, with an overall death toll of 357 positions.
    By Lane Brown
  24. artsy
    Standard Hotel Elevator Now Making All Local Stops to HellCheck out footage from the hotel’s new video installation.
    By Lane Brown
  25. google
    World’s Richest Internet Company Not Wasting Money on ArtSome illustrators are bristling over a request from Google to provide artwork free of charge for the company’s upcoming web browser. But others said yes!
    By Lane Brown
  26. art candy
    The Diversity and Dynamism of the Venice BiennaleIt’s the most diverse fair yet, with a record 77 nationalities represented among 90 artists.
    By Emma Pearse
  27. artsy
    Saltz: Highlights of the Venice Biennale; Plus, Worst in ShowMaybe sinking malls have no other way of making money.
    By Jerry Saltz
  28. art
    Tim Burton Retrospective Coming to MoMAIt will run from November 2009 until April 2010.
    By Mark Graham
  29. news reel
    Art Galleries Breaking for the Summer — We HopeClosed gallery doors evoke chilling memories of the early nineties, when, during the downturn, a handful of galleries temporarily closed, never to reopen.
    By Alexandra Peers
  30. art candy
    The Damaged Glamour of Marilyn MinterShe photographed the tongues of models through glass as they sipped and slurped on gelatinous candy and cake decorations.
    By Emma Pearse
  31. tube junkie
    Video: All of the Non-Naked Parts of Last Night’s Shen Wei Dance Arts PerformanceThe dancers appeared and disappeared, climbed on each other, hopped like agitated popcorn, and then collapsed.
    By Jonah Green
  32. art candy
    Decades of Painter Alice Neel in a Single SweepSee 29 portraits and nudes in our slideshow.
    By Emma Pearse
  33. artsy
    Saltz: Adel Abdessemed’s Fighting-Animal Video Sparks Art-World UproarThe conclusion of many was that “art should be moral.†That’s when I started to get uncomfortable.
    By Jerry Saltz
  34. art candy
    Preview the Met’s Fab New Show, ‘The Pictures Generation’It’s a look back at the gang of mostly New York artists who first came of age with TV news and pop culture.
    By Alexandra Peers
  35. news reel
    Saltz on the New Museum’s ‘Younger Than Jesus’ ShowA video tour of the show with the ‘New York’ art critic.
    By Aileen Gallagher
  36. artsy
    New Yorkers to Storm the Venice BiennalePaul Chan, Tony Conrad, and Yoko Ono at the art-world equivalent of the Miss America pageant.
    By Alexandra Peers
  37. chat room
    Guest of Cindy Sherman Co-director Paul H-O on Dating Sherman and Fighting Julian Schnabel“If you push somebody [in the art world], they might start crying.â€
    By Simon Dumenco
  38. artsy
    Jerry Saltz Explains MoMA’s Kippenberger Retrospective’New York’ art critic Saltz walks us through the highlights, including a brown-painted Ford covered in oat flakes.
    By Lane Brown
  39. artsy
    Why’s Steve Cohen Showing Sotheby’s So Much Love?Cohen lent nearly half a billion dollars worth of art to Sotheby’s, even though the works aren’t for sale.
    By Alexandra Peers
  40. economypocalypse
    Layoffs Hit the MetThe museum will eliminate 74 retail positions.
    By Lane Brown
  41. artsy
    The Met Drops a Cool Million for an Old MasterThe purchase comes at a time when the Met has publicly expressed some worries about money.
    By Alexandra Peers
  42. hacks
    Artist Arrested for Subpar Subway VandalismSeriously, a smiley face?
    By Lane Brown
  43. artsy
    The Art World Embraces Arts & Crafts at Armory WeekPeople bought art that was cheap and looked homemade, handmade, self-conscious, or like an echo of childhood.
    By Alexandra Peers
  44. news reel
    Window-shoppers Descend on Armory Art Show“Some people are feeling a little sad, but they’re nicer to each other.â€
    By Alexandra Peers
  45. Your Guide to This Week’s Six Unsnobby Art FairsArt-world snobbery gets shelved this week, as six art fairs opening around town tonight or tomorrow make an economy-inspired effort to be democratic and welcoming.
    By Alexandra Peers
  46. poster boy
    MoMA Cans Poster Boy AccompliceThe man responsible for creating and defacing MoMA’s subway ad campaign has been dumped by the museum.
    By Lane Brown
  47. news reel
    Open Bar Leads to Coat-Check Fiasco at MoMA Kippenberger Retrospective“This is not part of the Kippenberger exhibition. This is about people drinking too much.â€
    By Alexandra Peers
  48. poster boy
    MoMA Denies Being Complicit With Poster BoyCBS Outdoor, the firm that installed MoMA’s ads in the Atlantic-Pacific subway station, believes MoMA approved of Poster Boy’s remix.
    By Erica Orden
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    At P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Things Get PoliticalNow that Bush has left office, is political art becoming more accessible?
    By Andrew Goldstein
  50. poster boy
    Poster Boy Remixes MoMA Subway AdsOn February 10, the Museum of Modern Art launched one of its most extensive and expensive advertising campaigns in history. Then Poster Boy showed up.
    By Erica Orden
  51. news reel
    Recession-Addled Art World Weighs Return to Barter System at Group Show’We’ve exchanged work with people, but we haven’t said ‘You give me your Rolex and I’ll give you a piece of art’ … Not yet.’
    By Andrew Goldstein
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