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  1. art
    Jake Kean Mayman’s Deceptively Decorative Paintings Will Teach You HistoryBrush up on American Imperialism.
    By Michael Slenske
  2. art
    This Long-Running MoMA Show Might Restore Your Faith in UtopianismFinding solace in Bodys Isek Kingelez.
    By Jerry Saltz
  3. art
    Welcome to SEENA limited-run expansion of Vulture’s coverage of the art world, all around the world.
    By Carl Swanson
  4. art
    This Is the Price List for Paula Cooper Gallery’s First Show in 1968$1,500 for a Carl Andre! Cheap!
    By Carl Swanson
  5. art
    John Waters Is the Godfather of Baltimore’s Art SceneThe Prince of Puke’s museum retrospective inspires six artists to reflect on his transgressive influence on his hometown.
    By Cara Ober
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    Hugo Boss Prize–Winning Artist Simone Leigh on Helping Younger Women Artists“I do think that it’s more interesting when you pass through a gate to hold a door open than it is to slam it behind you.â€
    By Whitney Mallett
  8. art
    The Best Lesbian Awards Show Extravaganza in New York City, PeriodA family affair commemorating thottiness, carrying, and community leadership.
    By Whitney Mallett
  9. art world
    How Does the Art World Live With Itself? I Live and Breathe It and I’m Not Sure.I used to think the art world was at war with money, and vice versa. I’m starting to think we’re in a new equilibrium, defined by ambivalence.
    By Jerry Saltz
  10. shredding
    Banksy Claims That Painting Was Supposed to Be Totally Shredded“In rehearsals it worked every time.â€
    By Jackson McHenry
  11. women and power
    Jenny Holzer Made Good Things Out of HorrorThe 68-year-old Conceptual artist has become an idol for our online era.
    By Amanda Fortini
  12. art du jour
    Heavenly Bodies Is the Most-Visited Exhibit in the Met’s HistoryOver a million people saw it.
    By Opheli Garcia Lawler
  13. reboots
    Banksy’s ‘Self-Destructed’ Painting Is Reborn As a New WorkAnd the winning bidder is keeping the piece, strips and all.
    By Trupti Rami
  14. pranks
    Hell Yeah: Banksy Painting Self-Destructs After Selling for Over $1 Million“Girl with a Balloon†was torn into strips by a shredder mounted in its frame, which, you have to admit, is hilarious.
    By Halle Kiefer
  15. art
    The de Koonings in the Storage LockerWhether or not they are authentic, they are for sale.
    By Rachel Corbett
  16. art
    The Rediscovered Legacy of Soho’s Most Outrageous Genderqueer Performance ArtistStephen Varble captivated New York City with his guerrilla performances in the 1970s.
    By Jenna Adrian-Diaz
  17. art du jour
    Abbi Jacobson Began Illustrating Because She Didn’t Have Space for Anything ElseWe chat with the Broad City star about some of her favorite illustrations.
    By Devon Ivie
  18. art review
    What Was Delacroix Doing? A Relic of One Era, He Somehow Invented Many Others.Somehow his infuriatingly messy paintings point directly to Cézanne, Manet, Renoir, van Gogh, Matisse, de Kooning, Marlene Dumas, and Kara Walker.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    On Occupy’s Anniversary, a Rose Blooms in Zuccotti ParkArtist Isa Genzken’s 26-foot-tall flower is planted where the bongos once tried to put a stop to neoliberalism.
    By Carl Swanson
  20. art du jour
    Richard Phillips on Mary Boone’s Complicated Legacy and His New York Cover“All along in my paintings, there’s positive and negative readings of them, and I have to embrace both.â€
    As told to Devon Ivie
  21. fall preview 2018
    49 Must-See Art Shows Opening This FallFrom Daniel Arsham, Carmen Herrera, Irving Penn, and more.
    By Vulture Editors
  22. fall preview 2018
    The Future Belonged to Hilma af KlintThe 20th-century mystic and pioneering abstract painter finally gets taken seriously at the Guggenheim.
    By Jerry Saltz
  23. trailer mix
    The Price of Everything Trailer: HBO Dives Into the Art MarketFeaturing New York’s own Jerry Saltz!
    By Jackson McHenry
  24. who is america
    Sacha Baron Cohen Sent Bonkers Letter to Duped Who Is America? Art Gallerist“Anyway, say la vie!â€
    By Devon Ivie
  25. architecture
    The MoMA’s Tribute to Yugoslavia’s ‘Concrete Utopia’ Is a RevelationThis hugely ambitious show portrays an idiosyncratic, multiethnic, and open postwar society that propelled itself into the industrial age with brio.
    By Justin Davidson
  26. who is america
    Art Gallerist Duped by Sacha Baron Cohen Thinks He Is ‘Absolutely’ an Artist“Art and satire, it hurts. I just wish everybody would quit taking themselves so seriously.â€
    By Devon Ivie
  27. art
    Jenny Saville’s New Paintings Are About Motherhood and #MeTooThe Gagosian show is part of her imagining her own mythic ancestors, a genealogy for a canon that women are no longer so lonely in.
    By Carl Swanson
  28. art
    David Wojnarowicz’s Whitney Retrospective Is Overdue, But Couldn’t Be TimelierThis is an astonishingly relevant, urgently important show that reflects on what it means to be human in a time of encroaching political darkness.
    By Jerry Saltz
  29. art
    The Louvre Now Has a Tour Based on Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s ‘Apeshit’ VideoThe Carters’ Guide to Art History.
    By Halle Kiefer
  30. art
    Jay-Z Told Will Smith Video of Him Slapping a Prank Reporter Was His Best Work “I just want you to know you’ll never make a better piece of entertainment.â€
    By Halle Kiefer
  31. new york beginnings
    How the Long Fuse on Chelsea’s Art Boom Was LitBack when the High Line was a derelict place to do drugs, the enigmatic Dia Art Foundation began the neighborhood’s transformation.
    By Andy Battaglia
  32. art
    Henry Taylor’s Wild Heart Can’t Be BrokenEven after a star turn at last year’s Whitney Biennial, the art world still wants to see the master painter as an outsider.
    By Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
  33. art
    Will the Retail Apocalypse Be Good for the Arts?When a Chase Bank becomes a nonprofit.
    By Carl Swanson
  34. art du jour
    Why the Louvre Allowed Beyoncé and Jay-Z to Film Their ‘Apes**t’ Video“The deadlines were very tight.â€
    By Devon Ivie
  35. vulture lists
    The Simple Art Historian’s Guide to Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s ‘Apeshit’ VideoSure, there’s the Venus de Milo. But how much do you know about Jacques-Louis David?
    By Devon Ivie
  36. Why Is the Met’s New Show About the Body in Art History So Stultifying and Dull?This is what happens with an excess of hyperrealism.
    By Jerry Saltz
  37. 3 Sentence Reviews of Marlene Dumas, Dan Colen, and 11 Other Art-World Big ShotsLet’s read the tea leaves on the upper end of the food chain.
    By Jerry Saltz
  38. art
    The End of Nature at Storm King Art Center in New YorkA new exhibition features works by artists responding to mankind’s not so stately ordering up of a change in the world’s weather.
    By Carl Swanson
  39. art
    Huma Bhabha’s New Installation at the Met Brings You Into the Realm of GodsThis is among the best Met roof sculpture installations since the program began in 1987.
    By Jerry Saltz
  40. art
    Breakfast With Anselm Kiefer, Who Made That Flying Lead Book at Rock CenterJust don’t write on his cappuccino, please.
    By Carl Swanson
  41. art
    Frieze Salutes Feature Inc., the Visionary Gallery That Changed the Art WorldMurakami, Pettibon, Tom of Finland … you saw them there first.
    By Carl Swanson
  42. Jerry Saltz: Break the Art FairAs a system, art fairs are like America: They don’t work and no one knows how to fix them.
    By Jerry Saltz
  43. q&a
    How Laurie Simmons’s Photographs Ended Up in Two Galleries at OnceIncluding images of her daughters in body paint.
    By Amy Larocca
  44. art fairs
    9 Art Shows to See This Week On and Off Frieze IslandOur curated itinerary.
    By Brian Boucher
  45. art
    How to Make Your Own Lawrence WeinerThe conceptual artist teaches conceptual lesson to NYC students.
    By Vulture Editors
  46. art review
    Losing Myself in the Paintings of Facebook-Educated Matthew WongAn impressive painter’s debut show at Karma gallery.
    By Jerry Saltz
  47. art
    The Photographer Who Captured Life in Mid-Century Burkina FasoSee lively portraits from 75-year-old Sanlé Sory, in advance of his first American exhibition.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  48. When a Feminist Artist Is Censored by a Feminist GalleryNatalie Frank’s Story of O pictures scared a lot of people. Including her gallerist.
    By Carl Swanson
  49. art
    The Return of the East Village Art ScenePerformance Space New York and today’s cutting edge.
    By Carl Swanson
  50. Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine Art Critic, Wins Pulitzer PrizeOur irrepressible, one-of-a-kind critic gets the big prize.
    By The Editors
  51. art review
    Cy Twombly and the Transporting Power of Art That Barely Uses the Tools of ArtScribbles, jots, smears, and smudges that make my knees buckle.
    By Jerry Saltz
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