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  1. art candy
    Photographer Mickey Smith Goes to the LibrarySmith’s polished photographs pay homage to the days when hanging at the library was cool.
    By Emma Pearse
  2. comeuppances
    Will the Crappy Art Market Have Its Revenge on Richard Fuld?Christie’s is selling ‘master drawings from a private collection’ that turns out to be Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld’s.
    By Alexandra Peers
  3. art candy
    Artist Michael Buhler-Rose Visits Bollywood, FloridaMichael Buhler-Rose seems to have stumbled upon an outpost of Bollywood extras waiting for their big moment.
    By Emma Pearse
  4. politics
    Elizabeth Peyton’s ‘Michelle Obama’ Added to RetrospectiveOne more reason to feel good today.
    By Lane Brown
  5. art candy
    Artist Jonathan Horowitz Is Just As Excited As You AreHorowitz has cobbled together a very appropriate wall decoration for Obama’s new office.
    By Emma Pearse
  7. art candy
    Artist Jonathan Horowitz Does Some Last-Minute ElectioneeringFor those still undecided, Jonathan Horowitz has some voting advice.
    By Emma Pearse
  8. the economy
    Opening of Fall Art-Auction Season Marked by Crappy Sales, Great DealsGreedy art sellers “have learned their lesson,†said Tobias Meyer, Sotheby’s Teutonic auctioneer.
    By Alexandra Peers
  9. art candy
    Photographer Catherine Opie Is Saving Up for That Zoom LensOpie is best known as a provocateur, but she also has a talent for subtlety.
    By Emma Pearse
  10. chat room
    Kehinde Wiley on the Difference Between His Art and His Cooking’My cooking is more improvised. There’s a lot more room for disaster.’
    By Brian Keith Jackson
  11. art candy
    Artist Zhang Peng Takes a BloodbathDon’t you sort of wish you could be her for Halloween?
    By Emma Pearse
  12. news reel
    Mike Myers Is Taking Painting Lessons From Damien LoebIt’s true!
    By Jada Yuan
  13. goodbyes
    Outgoing Met Director Philippe de Montebello Forced to Share Plaque at Farewell PartyOn his replacement, Thomas P. Campbell: ‘We do not see eye to eye on everything.’
    By Alexandra Peers
  14. awesome
    A Night at the Museum You Might Actually EnjoyBen Stiller not included, thankfully!
    By Lori Fradkin
  15. art candy
    Artist Philemona Williamson Is, Like, WhateverPhilemona Williamson is taking up Judy Blume’s cause: painting restive teenagers caught somewhere between sadness and surliness.
    By Emma Pearse
  16. piracy
    Lars Ulrich Unloads a BasquiatWe hope you’re proud of yourselves, music pirates.
    By Amos Barshad
  17. art candy
    Artist Sloane Tanen Explains Her Work Better Than This Headline Ever CouldSloane Tanen is an author and artist working in the capricious mode that has propelled Kay Thompson, Josh Schwartz, and Tina Fey to cult status: adolescent angst for adults.
    By Emma Pearse
  18. politics
    Ever Wanted to Own a Piece of the Iconic Presidency of George W. Bush?Of course you have!
    By Lane Brown
  19. art candy
    Artist Joshua Lutz Visits History’s Most Exhilarating Ren FaireJoshua Lutz’s ever-so-slightly-askew photographs at ClampArt through October 18 document ten years in the meadowlands.
    By Emma Pearse
  20. art candy
    Melanie Vote Paints Girls With Some EdgeThe artist paints girlie-girls as lusty badasses.
    By Emma Pearse
  21. art candy
    Lauren Gohara Paints a Feather We Can Believe InThe artist will be auctioning off her dreamy work at an Obama fundraiser.
    By Emma Pearse
  22. banksing crisis
    Banksy Bombs at AuctionThis weekend’s attempt to sell the elusive street artist’s work was a spectacular failure.
    By Matthew Perpetua
  23. art candy
    Sculptor Hiroshi Shafer Instantly Becomes Quentin Tarantino’s Favorite ArtistHiroshi Shafer has a show of strange, lewd, rubbery, resin-y works reminiscent of Murakami’s pop figures.
    By Emma Pearse
  24. art candy
    Artist Alessandra Sanguinetti Grounds ChildrenAlessandra Sanguinetti’s playful scenes have both a sense of impending glee and one of imminent doom.
    By Emma Pearse
  25. art
    David Archuleta Immortalized in CornThere’s no word yet on a competing David Cook corn maze.
    By Lane Brown
  26. art candy
    Artist Susan Jane Belton Takes Her Coffee CheapHer show at George Billis Gallery was inspired by the varied decaying coffee cups she has strewn around her studios.
    By Emma Pearse
  27. art candy
    Artist Michael Krebber: Board to PiecesAlthough Starbuck’s reintroduction of the pumpkin-spice latte means that fall has officially arrived, sculptor Michael Krebber is keeping the summer alive.
    By Andrew Goldstein
  28. art candy
    Artist Keith Jones Splits the Difference Between ‘Where’s Waldo’ and ‘The Road’So where is Waldo? Probably holed up in his basement with stockpiled canned goods and a sawed-off Remington pump action.
    By Andrew Goldstein
  29. art candy
    Artist Aura Rosenberg Is Loving Angels (of the Apocalypse) InsteadRilke observed that “every angel is terrifying,†and that certainly goes for the rapture-ready seraph in this collage.
    By Andrew Goldstein
  30. art candy
    Artist Rirkrit Tiravanija Uncovers Some Astonishing Things About the Politics of Vermont HippiesTiravanija’s work is based on photographs of demonstrations published in the ‘International Herald Tribune’ over the past six years.
    By Andrew Goldstein
  31. chat room
    Artist Derek Buckner on Painting Marshmallows’They didn’t get moldy. No bugs, no mice, which was surprising.’
    By Emma Pearse
  32. art candy
    Photographer Cornelia Hediger Extremely Careless With Her CrockeryHediger’s photographs are meticulously staged and impeccable.
    By Emma Pearse
  33. everybody hirst
    Damien Hirst’s Dead Animals Bring In $200 MillionMoney-printing taxidermist Damien Hirst unloaded another $74 million worth of dead animals yesterday.
    By Lane Brown
  34. art candy
    Artist Edwin Cohen Grows Flowers in the DarkBehold this gorgeous abstract concoction that looks like beach umbrellas in space.
    By Emma Pearse
  35. everybody hirst
    Damien Hirst’s Dead-Animal Auction Breaks Records Despite Economic ApocalypseWith a day left to go, Hirst’s dealer-bypassing auction at Sotheby’s has already sold $127 million worth of artwork.
    By Lane Brown
  36. art candy
    Artist Isca Greenfield-Sanders Falls to EarthThe paintings are apparently based on vintage images of WWII and the Korean War and have the simplicity of form that made Monet’s water lilies timeless.
    By Emma Pearse
  37. art candy
    Photographer Cody S. Brothers Will Walk From HereBrothers, once a painter and now a photographer, is showing a series of gorgeous, giant photographs at Ivy Brown Gallery, through October 24.
    By Emma Pearse
  38. chat room
    Producer Walter Bernard on the Documentary ‘Painting a Lady’Bernard raps with Vulture on ‘Portraits of a Lady.’
    By Sara Cardace
  39. art candy
    Performance Artist Alix Pearlstein Breaks Down Nonbiodegradable Material
    By Emma Pearse
  40. art candy
    Artist Alexey Kallima Chutes and ScoresKallima’s lucent sketches pop off the paper.
    By Emma Pearse
  41. news reel
    New Met Director Plays Down Sarah Palin Comparisons’I don’t hunt and, to the best of my knowledge, I don’t have a 17-year-old who is pregnant,’ he said.
    By Alexandra Peers
  42. art candy
    Artist Neil Campbell Excellent at Painting CirclesCampbell’s merry dots are more than just dots.
    By Emma Pearse
  43. art candy
    Photographer Michael Thompson Caught Red-handedThompson is showing giant photographs of beautiful objects like butterflies, rose-lipped women, and a curvy torso drenched in watery blue.
    By Emma Pearse
  44. chat room
    Shooting the Shit With Andres SerranoSerrano raps with Vulture about his new show featuring 66 photos of actual poo.
    By Blythe Sheldon
  45. art candy
    Photographer Bill Durgin Visits Scene of Horrific Yoga AccidentPhotographer Bill Durgin’s torsos aren’t as elegant as Degas’s, but they’re definitely happy-making.
    By Emma Pearse
  46. art candy
    All Artist Marilyn Perry Needs Are Some Tasty WavesPerry’s frothy work is capable of evoking gastronomical extremes.
    By Emma Pearse
  47. art candy
    Photographer Polixeni Papapetrou Shells OutThis image of her almost-teen daughter in a frilled bathing suit would work there in a diorama of prehistoric adolescent life.
    By Emma Pearse
  48. art candy
    Photographer Drew Tal Fervently Hopes for Nice Weather This WeekendHappy Labor Day weekend from Art Candy!
    By Emma Pearse
  49. art candy
    Photographer Matt Hoyle Joins the Polar Bear ClubHoyle’s subject is often water and the people who swim in it.
    By Emma Pearse
  50. apropos of nothing
    What Does That Crucified-Frog Sculpture Look Like, Anyway?Does it really represent an artist ‘in a state of profound crisis,’ or does it look like Kermit?
    By Dan Kois
  51. the take
    ‘Piss Christ’ Photographer Andres Serrano Craps Out Some New ArtSerrano has a new show opening next month at the Yvon Lambert Gallery, and he’s moved his focus from No. 1 to, naturally, No. 2.
    By Dan Kois
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