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  1. art
    This Post-Election Pain Is Good, At Least for ArtAlienation is the wellspring of art; in fact, feeling alone is often why you become an artist.
    By Jerry Saltz
  2. art
    Ai Weiwei Brought a Refugee Camp to SohoThe laundry that was left behind in one, anyway.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  3. art
    Ai Weiwei Brought a Refugee Camp to SohoThe laundry that was left behind in one, anyway.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  4. Here’s What It Would Look Like If Edward Hopper’s Paintings Were a MovieThe paintings were given the cinematic treatment for the film Shirley: Visions of Reality.
    By Eva Hill
  5. art
    The Painting That Jerry Saltz Can’t Stop Thinking AboutKerry James Marshall’s A Portrait of the Artist As a Shadow of His Former Self fires like a time bomb in the mind.
    By Jerry Saltz
  7. art du jour
    The World’s First Emoji Are Going to Be Displayed at MoMA[Face with tears of joy emoji.]
    By Devon Ivie
  8. What’s Up With the PsychoBarn on the Met Roof?Transitional Object is made entirely from a cut-up and reconfigured decaying barn from Schoharie, New York.
    By Jerry Saltz
  9. art
    Satellite Views That Turn Geology Into GeometryBenjamin Grant is a photographer who never touches the camera he’s using. 
    By Christopher Bonanos
  10. art
    Satellite Views That Turn Geology Into GeometryBenjamin Grant is a photographer who never touches the camera he’s using. 
    By Christopher Bonanos
  11. art review
    Matthew Barney’s 1991 Show Is Better TodayAt the Gladstone Gallery, you can go back 25 years and witness the event that completely shattered the art world.
    By Jerry Saltz
  12. These Intricate Sculptures Are Handcrafted From Thousands of Porcelain ShardsZemer Peled creates works of art like no other.
    By Christine Nguyen
  13. With ‘An Occupation of Loss,’ Taryn Simon Brings You Face-to-Face With DeathThis is a universal language of loss and inconsolability.
    By Jerry Saltz
  14. bathroom talk
    You Can Now Poop in a Solid-Gold Toilet at the GuggenheimThe toilet costs between $1.5 and $2.5 million.
    By Erica Schwiegershausen
  15. This Artist Uses Projectors As Paintbrushes to Create Eye-popping Body ArtDefinitely a much easier cleanup than body paint.
    By Eva Hill and Cait Munro
  16. art
    The Tyranny of Art History in Contemporary ArtIts terms are so specialized and vague they’re only useful to those in the know.
    By Jerry Saltz
  17. tribute
    9/11 Survivor Schandra Singh on Painting Everyone Who Died That Day“For me, it wasn’t about death. It was about bringing them back to life.â€
    By Carl Swanson
  18. respect the classics
    Bob Dylan Welded a Massive Iron Statue for a CasinoLay, Iron, Lay.
    By Devon Ivie
  19. encounter
    Talking With David Salle, Tribeca Painter Turned Hamptons WriterHis new book, How to See, is a trenchant and light-on-its-feet collection of critical essays and musings about art, artists, and fame.
    By Carl Swanson
  20. art du jour
    Kanye’s ‘Famous’ Music Video Now an Art Exhibit Well, the sculpture and bed, anyway.
    By Devon Ivie
  21. fall preview 2016
    What Vulture’s Critics Are Most Excited for This FallTheir top five picks for the season.
    By David Edelstein, Matt Zoller Seitz, and Craig Jenkins
  22. fall preview 2016
    35 Can’t-Miss Art Exhibits Opening This Fall Oscar Murillo, Agnes Martin, Carrie Mae Weems, and more.
    By Ian Epstein
  23. Here’s What Happens When Vigilante Art Critic Eric André Is Set Loose in NYCOf course the cops showed up.
    By Kenny Wassus
  24. fall preview 2016
    The Best Fall TV, Films, Books, Albums, and More306 great things to see and hear, for fans of all stripes.
    By Vulture Editors
  25. the art world
    See Guillermo del Toro’s LACMA Monster ExhibitOn view until November 27.
    By Devon Ivie
  26. the art world
    Exhibition Shows What America Looks Like From BeirutRichard Prince and Donald Trump: trying to figure it all out.
    By Carl Swanson
  27. the art world
    Exhibition Shows What America Looks Like From BeirutRichard Prince and Donald Trump: trying to figure it all out.
    By Carl Swanson
  28. Dying Gaul Is a World Masterpiece About DeathYou knew this sculpture before you saw it.
    By Jerry Saltz
  29. art auctions
    For $13 Million, David Bowie’s Elusive Art Collection Could Be YoursMore than 400 works owned by Bowie will go on display at Sotheby’s in November, and then up for auction.
    By Dee Lockett
  30. These Optical Illusions Are Actually Humans Masked in Body PaintNope, that’s not a flower.
    By Kenny Wassus and Cait Munro
  31. the people vs. george lucas
    Sadder Than Anakin’s Fall: George Lucas Drops Plans for His Chicago Art Museum“No one benefits from continuing their seemingly unending litigation to protect a parking lot.â€
    By Devon Ivie
  32. This Artist Uses Fabric to Create Gauzy, Romantic ArtHe even did an installation at his own wedding.
    By Kenny Wassus and Cait Munro
  33. art
    An Exhibition of Kurt Cobain’s Works, Art, and Possessions Is Being Planned“He’s got some amazing canvases that a lot of the world has never seen or even heard of.â€
    By Devon Ivie
  34. Jerry Saltz, Glenn O’Brien Talk Art, NudityA few Pulitzer nominations weren’t enough to prevent Saltz from getting kicked off Instagram for posting artsy nudes.
    By Tucker Higgins
  35. gallery
    Dakis Joannou’s Art AddictionA look at the Greek tycoon’s 33 years of collecting
    By Carl Swanson
  36. gallery
    Dakis Joannou’s Art AddictionA look at the Greek tycoon’s 33 years of collecting
    By Carl Swanson
  37. Never Has My Breath Been Taken Away Like It Was at Knockdown CenterI thought I knew what’s what in much of New York.
    By Jerry Saltz
  38. Canada’s Great Painting Show Is a Tipping PointThe show has me worried about the fate of the Lower East Side.
    By Jerry Saltz
  39. This Artist Creates Hypnotizing Paintings With Ink and WatercolorShe turns a simple dinosaur doodle into a cinematic experience. 
    By Eva Hill and Cait Munro
  40. Murals Made Out of Thousands of Rubik’s CubesTens of thousands.
    By Christine Nguyen
  41. This Artist Makes Mesmerizing Sculptures Using MathJust call it math in motion.
    By Eva Hill and Cait Munro
  42. This Artist Makes the Trippiest Dripping Paint VideosWho knew watching paint dry could be so exciting?
    By Eva Hill and Cait Munro
  43. See Philip Guston Totally Reinvent the Sublime“Every real painter wants to be a realist,†he said.
    By Jerry Saltz
  44. Morley Safer Once Sent Me His Strange PaintingsI didn’t hate them.
    By Jerry Saltz
  45. art appreciation
    This 8-Foot Candle Portrait Mesmerized MeJerry Saltz on Urs Fischer’s giant wax sculpture of artist-director Julian Schnabel.
    By Jerry Saltz
  46. This Breathtaking Technicolor Desert Installation Took Five Years to MakeTotally worth it. 
    By Christine Nguyen and Cait Munro
  47. Where Are the Millennials in This Spring’s Art Auctions?Few artists born in the 1980s are on the block.
    By Alexandra Peers
  48. art
    The Big, Steaming Return of Maurizio CattelanA donkey, a documentary, and a stopped-up golden toilet.
    By Carl Swanson
  49. art
    The Art World in Brussels, a Month After the AttacksReasons to be optimistic.
    By Sarah Trigg
  50. artists to watch
    11 Artists Poised to Have a Breakout YearWearing some mix of their clothes and ours.
    By the Cut
  51. artists to watch
    11 Artists Poised to Have a Breakout YearWearing some mix of their clothes and ours.
    By The Cut
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