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  1. art fairs
    Jerry Saltz: The Drawing I Can’t Stop Thinking About From Frieze New YorkA great work of art from 1875 that’s never been seen in any museum.
    By Jerry Saltz
  2. art du jour
    Artist Protests Fearless Girl by Installing Pissing Pug Statue Beside It“It has nothing to do with feminism.â€
    By Devon Ivie
  3. How to Navigate an Art Fair With Jerry Saltzâ–¶ï¸ Nobody can do it like Jerry.
    By Jerry Saltz and Kenny Wassus
  4. photography
    9 Rarely Seen New York Moments, Captured by Diane ArbusA preview of “Diane Arbus: In the Park,†opening today at the Lévy Gorvy gallery.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  5. gallery
    How to Tell If Your Child Is a Future Art StarProjectArt hosts an exhibition of the very early works of famous artists.
    By Carl Swanson
  7. money money money
    The Met Is Reportedly Considering Charging Tourists an Admission FeeAlert your visiting grandparents now!
    By Hunter Harris
  8. That’s the Last Time I Plan an Art Heist on Facebook Events, by Bizzy Coy Alphonse, Natasha, and Mister Fingers, I write this letter with a heavy heart. I thought we were friends—no, more than friends. […]
    By Brian Boone
  9. art and design 2017
    22 Artists, Critics, and Curators on What Makes Protest Art SuccessfulWe asked what works they’d found most powerful in the current climate — and what works from the past they felt inspiring in new ways.
    By Rachel Corbett
  10. art and design 2017
    Is Political Art the Only Art That Matters Now?The art world is going to war with Trump. If it doesn’t shoot itself in the foot first.
    By Carl Swanson
  11. art and design 2017
    The ‘Carb Artist’ Who Makes Work Out of Fake Food and Real AspirationsChloe Wise and her mixed-up relationship with ubiquity.
    By Jessica Pressler
  12. art and design 2017
    Jerry Saltz Reviews Jerry Saltz: A Critic Looks at His Own Early ArtworkBefore I became a critic, I was an artist, and in the early 1970s, I feverishly devoted myself to illustrating the entirety of Dante’s Divine Comedy.
    By Jerry Saltz
  13. feature
    Jerry Saltz: My Life As a Failed ArtistDecades after giving up the dream for good, an art critic returns to the work he’d devoted his life to, then abandoned — but never really forgot.
    By Jerry Saltz
  14. feature
    With Rumors, Scandal, and a Record Budget Shortfall, What Broke the Met?Just a year ago, the museum was planning an ambitious expansion and touting record attendance. Now its director has been ousted.
    By Boris Kachka
  15. documentary
    The Truth About the Guggenheim’s Golden-Toilet ArtistYou can now see the Maurizio Cattelan documentary.
    By Carl Swanson
  16. on art
    ‘Charging Bull’ Artist Says ‘Fearless Girl’ Sculpture Infringes on His RightsHe called the newly arrived sculpture an “advertising trick.â€
    By Devon Ivie
  17. remembrances
    In Remembrance of James Rosenquist: 1933 – 2017The first-rank Pop Artist has died.
    By Jerry Saltz
  18. dividing is actually going on here
    A Timeline of Shia LaBeouf’s Anti-Trump Art Installation’s ControversiesFourth time’s the charm?
    By Devon Ivie
  19. Artists Are Asking the Whitney to Take Down a Painting of Emmett TillThe painting, entitled Open Casket, is by Dana Schutz.
    By Dayna Evans
  20. art
    Julian Schnabel’s New Plate SpecialA visit with the artist.
    By Carl Swanson
  21. art
    The 2017 Whitney Biennial Is the Most Politically Charged in DecadesThe first, last, and only Hillary Clinton biennial.
    By Jerry Saltz
  22. art
    The Most Memorable Thing I Saw at the Art Fairs: The Photographs of Aneta BartosThese haunted, staged photographs of the artist partially clad in bra and panties or camisoles with her Speedo-wearing, bald, bodybuilder father.
    By Jerry Saltz
  23. art therapy
    Brad Pitt Didn’t Go to the Oscars Because He Was Busy SculptingThe actor “had been at it for nearly 10 days.â€
    By Jackson McHenry
  24. metropolitan museum of art
    Metropolitan Museum Director Thomas Campbell ResignsDaniel Weiss, the Met’s president and COO, will act as its interim chief executive.
    By Jackson McHenry
  25. art du jour
    Shia LaBeouf’s Anti-Trump Installation Shut Down Following Reported Gunshots“The safety of everybody participating in our project is paramount.â€
    By Devon Ivie
  26. Andrea Rosen Has Decided to Close Up Shop. This Is a Major Loss.Rosen gave us Felix Gonzalez-Torres, John Currin, and Wolfgang Tillmans — who together invented the 1990s art world.
    By Jerry Saltz
  27. art du jour
    Shia LaBeouf’s Anti-Trump Art Project Relaunches in New MexicoHE WILL NOT DIVIDE US is heading west.
    By Devon Ivie
  28. art in our time
    What Photography Can Learn From Danny Lyon in the Age of TrumpMost people have never heard of one of the most powerful and political photographers in history, Danny Lyon.
    By Jerry Saltz
  29. the political climate
    Stanley Tucci Has Some Fighting Words for Donald Trump’s Arts-Education Plans“If this administration has its way, they will eviscerate the arts.â€
    By Devon Ivie
  30. live streams
    Shia LaBeouf’s Anti-Trump Livestream Shut Down Over Safety ConcernsHE WILL NOT DIVIDE US has met its end.
    By Jackson McHenry
  31. gallery
    Raymond Pettibon’s Punk ProphesyThe perfect punk artist for the Trump era has a show at the New Museum. Here’s a sampler.
    By Carl Swanson
  32. art
    The Artwork That Jerry Saltz Can’t Stop Thinking AboutGlenn Ligon’s conceptualist text piece is neither protest nor poetry.
    By Jerry Saltz
  33. peaceful protests
    NYPD to Monitor the HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US Site“As a site for everyone, the Museum condemns hate speech in all its forms.â€
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  34. shia labeouf
    Shia LaBeouf Shouts a Racist Troll Off His Anti-Trump Livestream Exhibit At the actor’s Museum of the Moving Image installation.
    By Halle Kiefer
  35. trailer mix
    Manifesto Trailer: You Get 13 Cate Blanchetts for the Price of OneArt requires truth, not sincerity.
    By Devon Ivie
  36. Richard Prince Just Showed How Art Fights Trump“This is not my work. I did not make it. I deny. I denounce. This fake art.â€
    By Jerry Saltz
  37. art
    An Art Exhibit’s Modest Proposal for RefugeesHalil Altindere’s Space Refugee, like much of his work, is both absurdist and humane.
    By Carl Swanson
  38. What 2017 Needs From the Art World: A Commitment to New ArtAs a critic, I need to make a commitment to the art of this moment. I want the art world as a whole to do the same.
    By Jerry Saltz
  39. r.i.p.
    Art Critic and Booker Prize–Winning Author John Berger Dead at 90Berger is best known for Ways of Seeing.
    By Tolly Wright
  40. art du jour
    The Story Behind That Striking Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds Photograph“Her daughter was really mesmerized by her mother always.â€
    By Devon Ivie
  41. James Franco Put His Own Paintings in Why Him?It’s all in the name of art — though which art, no one knows.
    By Karen Brill
  42. Eric Fischl’s New Master Portrait of AmericaLooking at it, I felt like I had fallen through a trapdoor.
    By Jerry Saltz
  43. This Artist Creates Colorfully Detailed Embroidered PortraitsShe’s also made a few pop-culture designs.
    By Eva Hill
  44. year in culture 2016
    The 10 Best Art Books of 2016From an illustrated Salvador Dalí dinner-party cookbook to tales of modern artist rivalries.
    By Rachel Corbett
  45. year in culture 2016
    The 10 Best Art Shows of 2016What art and which artists had inklings we were entering a paradigm shift?
    By Jerry Saltz
  46. Andreas Gursky Predicted the Future — and PresentArtists often channel the future.
    By Jerry Saltz
  47. cringe
    Madonna Offers to Marry Sean Penn AgainWhy, that’s pennies on the dollar!
    By Halle Kiefer
  48. art
    See Adam Driver’s Bizarre Bathroom Photo Shoot Don’t worry. He still looks great.
    By Halle Kiefer
  49. art du jour
    Pussy Riot Invited to Grab Back at Art BaselBut it’s going to be expensive.
    By Jenni Miller
  50. This Francis Picabia Retrospective Is a Call to MutinyPicabia wakes the polis.
    By Jerry Saltz
  51. art
    People Are Waiting Two Hours to See a 18-Karat-Gold Toilet at the GuggenheimMaurizio Cattelan’s America invites visitors, in the words of the museum, to have “an experience of unprecedented intimacy with a work of art.â€
    By Vulture Editors
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