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  1. art and design 2016
    5 Lessons in Today’s Art Market From a Sotheby’s AdvisorSotheby’s Amy Cappellazzo has made a very nice career out of pricing pigment.
    By Amy Cappellazzo
    As told to Andrew Rice
  2. art
    The Reviled Identity Politics Show That Forever Changed ArtHow identity politics became for this era what Impressionism and Cubism were for theirs.
    By Jerry Saltz and Rachel Corbett
  3. art and design 2016
    The Blackest Black Ever KnownLight enters but virtually none of it escapes; 99.965 percent is absorbed.
    By Benjamin Wallace
  4. encounter
    David Hockney Talks Mass Appeal, Virtual Reality, and Lost BohemiaWeed and sushi delivery with the painter at his Hollywood Hills home. 
    By Carl Swanson
  5. vulture cover story
    Can the Art World Take James Franco Seriously?In conversation with Jerry Saltz, the celebrity makes a case for his art.
    By Jerry Saltz
  7. Can the Art World Take James Franco Seriously?In conversation with Jerry Saltz, the celebrity makes a case for his art.
  8. kanye loves kanye
    Painting of Kanye Kissing Kanye Sells for $100KHe’s just trying to stake his thousands.
    By Greg Cwik
  9. kanye and kanye sitting in a tree
    You’ll Love This Mural of Kanye Kissing Kanye Like Kanye Loves KanyeThe sexy, 20-foot painting adorns a wall in Australia.
    By Greg Cwik
  10. steve martin
    Steve Martin Curated an Art ExhibitionMartin curated The Idea of the North: The Landscape Paintings of Lawren Harris at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.
    By Jackson McHenry
  11. fan art
    Artist Draws a Huge Game of Thrones Direwolf on a Snowy MountainWinter is coming.
    By Madeline Raynor
  12. The MetNey Is a Landscape-Changer. Unfortunately, the First Show Is Not.The museum’s first show in the old Whitney is exhilarating, heart-sickening.
    By Jerry Saltz
  13. art
    The Art Megacollectors Who Live in Their Own Contemporary MuseumWhich they open to the rest of us each March.
    By Jerry Saltz
  14. shia why
    Shia LaBeouf Slapped a Fan in an Elevator in the Name of Art“Aww, man. You want me to punch you in the face?â€
    By Jackson McHenry
  15. The Entropic, Liberating Power of Fischli/WeissIt should always be a Fischli and Weiss moment.
    By Jerry Saltz
  16. remembering bowie
    Tony Oursler on David Bowie’s Art-World Ties“I said, ‘So you see the patterns in your head?’ And he said, ‘Yes, I do.’â€
    By Boris Kachka
  17. Should Lower East Side Galleries Close Sundays?This may seem like a trivial question, but it’s actually about the art world’s whole balance of power.
    By Jerry Saltz
  18. art appreciation
    I Can’t Stop Thinking About This Drawing by a Man With No Hands or FeetJerry Saltz on the infinitely intricate art of Matthias Buchinger.
    By Jerry Saltz
  19. Mark Grotjahn’s Sign-Painting BreakthroughFrustrated with painting but not wanting to be left behind, he said, “I wanted to change.â€
    By Jerry Saltz
  20. obit
    Jerry Saltz on Ellsworth Kelly 1923–2015; ‘The American Matisse’“Now, his work stuns me from its own Platonic eternity.â€
    By Jerry Saltz
  21. year in culture 2015
    The 10 Best Art Books of 2015Over the past few years, art books have seen a renaissance. These exemplify the form.
    By Kyle Chayka
  22. reasons to love new york
    New York Has Solved the Problem of Public Art. But at What Cost?What am I supposed to do when cultural forces I loathe are responsible for something like a new golden age of public art?
    By Jerry Saltz
  23. reasons to love new york
    How Jerry Saltz Learned to Love the MoMA AgainThis year, MoMA reminded us just how indispensable and, at times, spectacular it can be.
    By Jerry Saltz
  24. year in culture 2015
    The 10 Best Art Shows of 2015Get the space for art right, and goodwill should follow.
    By Jerry Saltz
  25. How Jim Shaw Birthed a New Era of AppropriationShaw is his own breed of artist who both does and doesn’t fit his generation; his work has a distinct, self-effacing quirky generosity about it.
    By Jerry Saltz
  26. How Jim Shaw Birthed a New Era of AppropriationShaw is his own breed of artist who both does and doesn’t fit his generation; his work has a distinct, self-effacing quirky generosity about it.
    By Jerry Saltz
  27. Can a Show As Dreary As This One Be Good for the Whitney? Yes.Each time someone recognized me, they came up to me, flummoxed, asking, “What is this stuff supposed to be about?â€
    By Jerry Saltz
  28. encounter
    Can Art School’s Cool Kids Grow Up to Be Anti-Bullying Activists?Talking to Tara Subkoff and Urs Fischer about Subkoff’s directorial debut #Horror.
    By Carl Swanson
  29. ahoy sailor
    Sting Might Return to The Last Ship, in LondonHe also mentions how seeing the Queen Mother in her Rolls Royce inspired him to make something out of himself.
    By Carl Swanson
  30. last night on late night
    Stephen Colbert Trolling the CBS Censors Is Next-Level BrilliantIt’s art.
    By E. Alex Jung
  31. How Michael Krebber Brought Us Zombie FormalismKrebber isn’t another high-priced version of this place-holding art; he’s an original instigator of it.
    By Jerry Saltz
  32. photography
    Gallery: Photographer Jason Schmidt’s Portraits of ArtistsFrom his new book Artists II.
    By Kaitlin Phillips
  33. photography
    Gallery: Photographer Jason Schmidt’s Portraits of ArtistsFrom his new book Artists II.
    By Kaitlin Phillips
  34. Toward a Unified Theory of Frank StellaI’m a Stella fan who can’t deny his importance but who also wouldn’t want to live with most of these things.
    By Jerry Saltz
  35. do you belieb?
    Biebs Reveals Purpose Tracks via Graffiti MuralsThe colorful songs have been spread all over the world.
    By Sean Fitz-Gerald
  36. farm to canvas
    Artist Who Isn’t an Alien Made an Unbelievable Crop-Circle van GoghArt and ecology have never looked so good.
    By Devon Ivie
  37. speeeech!
    Lady Gaga: The Young Artist Award Is the Most Meaningful One of Her LifeComplete with shout-outs to Jeff Koons and Marina Abramovic!
    By Carl Swanson and Katie Van Syckle
  38. the artist is famous
    The Strange (and Often Wonderful) Things We See When Celebrities PaintFame has become such a meta-subject and an American obsession that just the act of someone famous making a painting is thought to add kicky secret layers to the artist’s image.
    By Jerry Saltz
  39. subversive acts
    How Artists Hacked Into the Homeland Set“Homeland is a watermelon.â€
    By E. Alex Jung
  40. book deals
    Ai Weiwei Is Writing a Memoir for 2017About his father and himself.
    By E. Alex Jung
  41. new albums
    Rihanna Finally Unveiled the Cover, Title of Her Next AlbumNo release date, though.
    By Sean Fitz-Gerald
  42. photography
    The Photograph Jerry Saltz Can’t Stop Thinking AboutFrom Markus Brunetti’s series of huge, riveting, incredibly intricate photographic composites.
    By Jerry Saltz
  43. last night on late night
    James Franco Painted Randall Park After Their Enchanting Interview KissThe resulting painting is not so enchanting.
    By Sean Fitz-Gerald
  44. Ionel Talpazan, Master UFO Painter, 1955–2015 He was an ingenious master of his subject and intricate systems.
    By Jerry Saltz
  45. Read Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon’s Zine“This story, if it is one, deserves the closure of a suicide.â€
    By Carl Swanson
  46. Is Richard Estes an Architect Disguised As a Painter?His fantasy city.
    By Justin Davidson
  47. fall preview 2015
    What Our Critics Are Really Looking Forward to This FallTheir top five picks for the season.
    By Justin Davidson, David Edelstein, and Jesse Green
  48. fall preview 2015
    32 Must-See Art Exhibits Opening This FallPicasso, Dana Schutz, Frank Stella, and more.
    By Ian Epstein
  49. whoopsies
    This Kid Punched a $1.5 Million PaintingOops.
    By E. Alex Jung
  50. Vulture’s 2015 Fall Entertainment Generator: 308 Things to Watch, Hear, and Do Start thinking about your spring plans, because autumn’s all set.
    By Vulture Editors
  51. art
    Banksy Has Created Dismaland, Your Next Destination for Getting StonedThe most ironic place on Earth.
    By E. Alex Jung
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