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  1. art du jour
    Does Jake Gyllenhaal Constantly Frame Photos of Himself?An incredible bit of art gossip.
    By Kelly Conaboy
  2. art
    For Decades, We All Ate Trump Up. Artist Andres Serrano Asks, ‘Why?’In a Chelsea bar, an artist created a Trump Junk Shop of the president’s 30-year rise to power — most of which passed without our really noticing.
    By Jerry Saltz
  3. art
    Tom Slaughter’s Polaroid PortfolioThe artist known for his Pop-y paintings and prints had a side project: shooting Polaroid photos, constantly, of everything that interested him.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  4. notre dame
    Artwork Moving to Louvre After Paris’s Notre-Dame FireAbout 5 to 10 percent of the art was lost in the blaze.
    By Milan Polk
  5. art
    How a $1,000 Art-Auction Bet Turned Into a $450 Million ‘Da Vinci’The invention of the Salvator Mundi.
    By Matthew Shaer
  7. public hearings
    L.A. Official Tasked With Making Brad Pitt Stop TalkingDuring a recent funding meeting, the actor’s time got cut off.
    By Lisa Ryan
  8. snl
    How the SNL Portrait Became Its Own Art FormThe show’s official photographer runs us through 11 of her favorite shots.
    By Devon Ivie
  9. art
    A Radical New History of Queer Modernism, 1933–1950The bodies are sensual, on display, sexually presenting, in carnal states of being — all expressing an otherwise forbidden sexuality.
    By Jerry Saltz
  10. art
    Is This Really, Truly the End of Western Art?The Bruce High Quality Foundation returns, with a mummy sarcophagus and a pack of smokes.
    By Mathew Silver
  11. art
    The Painting Jerry Saltz Can’t Stop Thinking AboutPaul Cadmus’s Herrin Massacre is an orgy of ferociousness.
    By Jerry Saltz
  12. criticism never sleeps
    Jerry Saltz Is Turning ‘How to Be an Artist’ Into a BookMore signature insight from New York’s own art critic.
    By Katie Rothstein
  13. one grand books
    Kenny Scharf’s 10 Favorite BooksHaruki Murakami, Carl Jung, and more.
    By Kenny Scharf
  14. art
    What Does It Mean for Basquiat to Be Back in the East Village?Not that he’d recognize the place if he were still alive.
    By Phoebe Hoban
  15. bronx bred bohemians
    Frederic Tuten’s Memoir Is a Love Song to a Lost New YorkInquisitive, respectful, adventurous, and often horny, he was Diane Keaton’s boyfriend for a while.
    By Ira Silverberg
  16. brit awards 2019
    Beyoncé and Jay-Z Accepted an Award in Front of a Meghan Markle PortraitHang this whole moment in the Louvre.
    By Dee Lockett
  17. frieze
    For the First Time, an Art Fair Worked in Los AngelesWhat did Frieze Los Angeles have that no other fair ever has?
    By Jerry Saltz
  18. scam season
    Art Dealer Mary Boone Is Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Tax Fraud“The Art of the Dealer†suddenly has a whole new connotation.
    By Rebecca Alter
  19. art
    Nari Ward’s Salvaged WorldsThe artist reflects on the objects and memories that made him.
    By Carl Swanson
  20. obits
    In Remembrance of Artist Robert RymanHis all-white paintings seem as if they were fated to come into existence from the beginning of Modern Art.
    By Jerry Saltz
  21. art du jour
    Ellsworth Kelly Is Making Mail Cool AgainWith … stamps!
    By Devon Ivie
  22. art
    Are Artists’ Bands Still an ‘F You’ to the Art World?From IUD to Psychic TV.
    By Whitney Mallett
  23. the art of anger
    Jim Carrey Isn’t Just a ‘Celebrity Artist’The fledgling political cartoonist walks Jerry Saltz through seven of his works.
    By Jerry Saltz
  24. art
    Dana Schutz Takes Back Her Painterly NameHer canvasses are hyper-assertive, full of operatic grandeur, self-mocking turbulence, disfigured hideousness and the psychopathology of her figures.
    By Jerry Saltz
  25. music
    Top That, Pitbull: Artist to Play Toto’s ‘Africa’ Forever in African DesertArtist Max Siedentopf will see your “Ocean to Ocean†from the Aquaman soundtrack, and raise you a permanent sound installation.
    By Halle Kiefer
  26. cameos
    Turns Out Nev Schulman From Catfish Has the Oddest Little Bird Box CameoKind of hard to see with that blindfold on, but he’s in there.
    By Halle Kiefer
  27. obits
    Sister Wendy Beckett, the Nun Who Taught Us to Love Art, Has DiedShe loved nudes, atheists, and Piss Christ. We could use more nuns like her.
    By Bethy Squires
  28. art du jour
    Some Drunk Arsehole Tried to Destroy a Banksy MuralSeasons greetings from Wales.
    By Devon Ivie
  29. best of 2018
    Hear Vulture Writers Discuss the Best Pop Culture of 2018 for Two Glorious HoursMatt Zoller Seitz, Jerry Saltz, Emily Yoshida, Dee Lockett, Sara Holdren, and Maris Kreizman shared favorites from the year in culture.
    By Vulture Editors
  30. seen
    Goodbye (for now!) from SEEN, Vulture’s Pop-Up Art MagazineWow, has it been 47 days already?
    By Carl Swanson
  31. american artifact
    This Cotton Gin Motor in a Glass Box at the Whitney Evokes the Legacy of SlaveryKevin Beasley turns this relic he bought off eBay into a musical instrument.
    By Drew Zeiba
  32. emerging artists
    Matthew Leifheit and Nicole Wittenberg’s Art-Historical Machines for DesireA homoerotic nod to Velázquez; conjuring Munch’s The Kiss
    By Jarrett Earnest
  33. gallery ghouls
    Michel Gondry’s Son Has an Art Gallery in Their Williamsburg Living Room15 Orient focuses on the alien and abject.
    By Katy Diamond Hamer
  34. coming soon
    Banu CennetoÄŸlu Uploaded 12 Years of Her Digital Life Into a 128-Hour-Long FilmThe film shows everything, regardless of boredom or embarrassment: Separations, reunions, funerals, hospitals, openings, demonstrations, her divorce.
    By Osman Can Yerebakan
  35. family feud
    Did Georgia O’Keeffe Keep Her Sister, Also a Painter, From Getting Famous, Too?The siblings of famous artists get out from under their shadows in three shows.
    By Jane Drinkard
  36. seen
    Artist Sable Elyse Smith Was Horrified by a Kids’ Coloring Book About the CourtsUnpacking “Judge Friendly†and archetypes of innocence becoming a cover for state violence.
    By Tiana Reid
  37. seen
    Seen in Singapore: Edgy Art To See Right Now In the Orderly City-StateOne show invites you to try on slippers made from spent bullet cartridges.
    By Harry Burke
  38. Jerry Saltz Put Michelangelo’s David in an NYC Subway — Here’s What HappenedSome New Yorkers were amused — others, not so much.
    By Kenny Wassus
  39. seen
    Seen in Shanghai: What Not to Miss Right Now in China’s Contemporary Art CapitalThe Biennale is on.
    By Harry Burke
  40. berlin
    Anna Uddenberg’s Perverted Performative Sculpture“It’s about the branding and commodification of the self.â€
    By Emily McDermott
  41. miami
    Boating Out to Christo’s Pink-Wrapped Islands With the Artist, 35 Years Later“Today, we are bombarded by the ‘goodness’ of things. These are inexplicable, capricious, worthless. That is really the greatness of art.â€
    By Jarrett Earnest
  42. seen
    16 Works Reported to Have Sold for Over $1 Mil in Miami — Only One Is by a WomanPeruse this list of hundreds of reported sale prices from Art Basel Miami Beach.
    By Whitney Mallett
  43. trend report
    Is Being an Artist About Making Art or Performing the Artist-Self On Instagram?“I think about deleting it daily.â€
    By Drew Zeiba
  44. prada monks
    Theaster Gates and His Band Played an Art Basel Gig at Prada’s VIP ClubAfter a dinner with Kanye.
    By Whitney Mallett
  45. tech savvy
    Will Blockchain Tech Commodify or Democratize the Art World?A crypto conference during Art Basel Miami Beach.
    By Taylore Scarabelli
  46. day-glo dystopian
    Peter Halley’s Anxious, Day-Glo Dystopian Paintings“Everybody thinks the ’80s was a party, but it wasn’t.â€
    By Max Lakin
  47. best of 2018
    Jerry Saltz’s 10 Best Art Shows of 2018Including an abstract pioneer and presidential portraiture.
    By Jerry Saltz
  48. market watch
    Collectors Shop at Art Basel Miami Beach, Never Mind the Climate-Change NewsWorks by Paul McCarthy, Philip Guston, and more sold for seven figures.
    By Whitney Mallett
  49. senegal
    How Senegalese Photographer Omar Victor Diop Is Changing the Gaze“My mission is to establish the fact that as a black man, as an African, I come from a lineage of great people.â€
    By Brian Keith Jackson
  50. revisionism
    Meet Leonor Fini, the Surrealist Sidelined for Subverting Gender Norms“Her work is very emasculating in a lot of ways.â€
    By Jenna Adrian-Diaz
  51. art fairs
    Detroit’s Famous Heidelberg Project Goes to the BeachWhat’s next for Tyree Guyton, and his famous DIY civic art installation.
    By Carl Swanson
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