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  1. Play Through Pippin Barr’s Art-World Video GamesPippin Barr’s often satirical video games critique the self-serious art world.
    By Kyle Chayka
  2. seen in the studio
    Tony Oursler’s Ghost StoriesYes, the artist’s studio is a bit spooky.
    By Sarah Trigg
  3. Anne Pasternak Named Head of Brooklyn MuseumShe comes in riding high from Creative Time and Kara Walker.
    By Jerry Saltz
  4. Whitney Names Scott Rothkopf Chief CuratorCurrent head of curatorial Donna De Salvo will get new position of deputy director for international initiatives and senior curator.
    By Nate Freeman
  5. Watch Abdelkader Benchamma Draw His Big Bang Drawing at the Drawing CenterHow do you draw dark matter?
    By Ian Epstein
  7. Preview Nick Cave’s ‘Here Hear’ in DetroitCave hopes to “interject the everyday experience of Detroit with transcendent moments.â€
    By Joseph Akel
  8. Met Announces a Project for the Breuer BuildingThe air is alive with the sound of museums!
    By Kyle Chayka
  9. Looking at Frida Kahlo’s Downright Racy Plant Paintings at the Botanical GardenForget the artist’s outré private life; what about her outré portrayal of poinsettias?
    By Chloe Wyma
  10. Kenny Schachter’s New York Auctions DiaryThick in the air amid the good, bad, and really, really awful lies the unstoppable, implacable, genetically coded urge to create and collect.
    By Kenny Schachter
  11. First-Year MFA Class Drops Out En Masse at USCEven during an art boom, are the costs of an MFA a realistic burden for students?
    By Kyle Chayka
  12. Vito Schnabel’s VIP Show in Old Bowery BankThe non-famous people trying to get into “First Show/Last Show†— which consists solely of white male American artists — were denied in favor of celebrities and museum trustees.
    By Rachel Corbett
  13. How to Do What Yoko Wants You To: Grapefruit, 51 Years LaterA look at Yoko Ono’s seminal collection of instructions, half a century down the line.
    By Carl Swanson
  14. How to Do What Yoko Wants You To: Grapefruit, 51 Years LaterA look at Yoko Ono’s seminal collection of instructions, half a century down the line.
    By Carl Swanson
  15. Found Photography: DiversFor a summer day, Oliver Wasow gathers found photos of people jumping into the water.
    By Oliver Wasow
  16. Found Photography: DiversFor a summer day, Oliver Wasow gathers found photos of people jumping into the water.
    By Oliver Wasow
  17. NADA Art Fair: A Debate (Over Delicious Tacos)The hipster answer to the big-money Englishness of Frieze New York.
    By Nate Freeman and Kyle Chayka
  18. Jessica Craig-Martin’s Art-World Diary, Part 4: The Yoko MoMA Playground“Then someone touched me so I kicked him in the balls and took his wallet.â€
    By Jessica Craig-Martin
  19. Jessica Craig-Martin’s Art-World Diary, Part 4: The Yoko MoMA Playground“Then someone touched me so I kicked him in the balls and took his wallet.â€
    By Jessica Craig-Martin
  20. A Night of Boating for Creative Time, Alongside Artists and Bush Family MembersWhat else is there to do but put on couture and drink in the park?
    By Kaitlin Phillips
  21. This Saturday Out on Frieze Island: Ask Jerry Saltz!Really, you can ask Jerry anything.
    By The Editors
  22. What Is Frieze? A Guide in ComicsFrieze is art in a big white tent where there isn’t potable water so everyone just drinks Perrier.
    By Hallie Bateman
  23. Jonathan Horowitz’s Transporting 700 DotsThe noise in the room subsided; my mind switched into another consciousness. That was only the beginning.
    By Jerry Saltz
  24. Found Photography: Kids With GunsThe Second Amendment is for children, too!
    By Oliver Wasow
  25. Found Photography: Kids With GunsThe Second Amendment is for children, too!
    By Oliver Wasow
  26. Jessica Craig-Martin’s Art-World Diary, Part 3: The Frieze VIP Big TopA look at the art circus underneath the white tent.
    By Jessica Craig-Martin
  27. Jessica Craig-Martin’s Art-World Diary, Part 3: The Frieze VIP Big TopA look at the art circus underneath the white tent.
    By Jessica Craig-Martin
  28. Jonathan Horowitz Pays Frieze VIPs $20 Each to Make His Art for HimJonathan Horowitz discusses his circle-painting group activity at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise’s booth at Frieze New York.
    By Dan Duray
  29. art
    Jerry Saltz: Why Did Fox Blur Out Picasso’s Naughty Bits?A news broadcast censored “T†(but not the “Aâ€) of Picasso’s auction-record-breaking masterpiece.
    By Jerry Saltz
  30. Christie’s and Sotheby’s Contemporary Sales Demonstrate a Flush, Frantic MarketInnumerable artist records were broken and bidding wars launched, but Christie’s looks like the week’s real winner.
    By Sarah P. Hanson
  31. art
    Welcome to a Very Instagrammable Frieze!To bait fairgoers in more ways than one, Gagosian stocked a booth full of Richard Prince Instagram replicas.
    By Nate Freeman
  32. art
    Why Does Okwui Enwezor’s Biennale Feel So Out of Date?As biennial megashows tread closer to the market, curators can’t help but get pulled in.
    By Karen Archey
  33. Introducing Daata Editions, an Online Marketplace for Digital ArtSpearheaded by London megacollector Anita Zabludowicz, the new platform is attempting to solve a well-trodden problem.
    By Nate Freeman
  34. Escapades in Dark Hotels With the W Art IssueFrieze Week kicked off with a big dinner for Ian Schrager’s new hotel, the New York Edition.
    By Kaitlin Phillips
  35. jerry saltz
    Jerry Saltz on Anderson Cooper: ‘Auctions Are a Nasty Piece of Work’Our senior art critic bemoans the recent insanity of auctions and their ability to make masterpieces disappear forever.
    By The Editors
  36. from the archives
    Yoko Ono in New YorkA short history of Yoko Ono from our archives.
  37. The Backstory for the Robert Irwin and David Hockney Art FeudIt’s all an art historian’s fault, it seems.
    By Rachel Corbett
  38. art
    Yoko Ono and the Myth That Deserves to DieWhy is it such a perennial youthful rite of passage to misunderstand, to underestimate, even to hate Yoko Ono?
    By Lindsay Zoladz
  39. First Look: New Garage Cover and Museum Video TourDasha Zhukova’s art institution is rolling up the doors on its new Koolhaas home in a month.
    By Kyle Chayka
  40. For the Art Collector With Only $10 …Like at an actual 99-cent store, nothing was actually on sale for less than a dollar, but yellow price stickers valued each piece at just $9.99.
    By Claire Voon
  41. art
    Let’s Judge Entire Countries Solely Based on Their Venice Biennale PavilionsGoing to the Biennale is kind of like touring the globe in miniature, so why not treat it as such?
    By Larissa Pham
  42. seen
    Jessica Craig-Martin’s Diary: Creative Time GalaParty in a church? Oh God, yes!
    By Jessica Craig-Martin
  43. seen
    Jessica Craig-Martin’s Diary: Creative Time GalaParty in a church? Oh God, yes!
    By Jessica Craig-Martin
  44. Behind the Scenes With Jeff Koons’s MetallurgistHow an American Navy pilot became one of contemporary art’s most important metallurgists.
    By Bill Powers
  45. art
    ‘One of the Greatest Moments in Auction History’The record-breaking shopping spree included a $179 million Picasso and a $140 million Giacometti.
    By Sarah P. Hanson
  46. art
    Jessica Craig-Martin’s Diary: Pruitt’s BirthdayOne’s limo should always play off one’s Pucci, don’t you think?
    By Jessica Craig-Martin
  47. art
    Jessica Craig-Martin’s Diary: Pruitt’s BirthdayOne’s limo should always play off one’s Pucci, don’t you think?
    By Jessica Craig-Martin
  48. Venice Biennale, Daily Doodles: Joana Avillez’s SketchbookFrom Joan Jonas and her puppy to Hito Steyerl, artichoke risotto, and Venetian romance.
    By Joana Avillez
  49. Now You Can Sit on a Rob Pruitt Whenever You WantCocaine Buffet gives way to home décor.
    By Wendy Goodman
  50. A Guide to the Best Chris Burden Performances on YouTubeThe artist, who died yesterday, once had a performance piece where his friend shot him in the arm.
    By Nate Freeman
  51. art
    Auction Comparison Shopper: Which Rothko Should You Buy? Which Warhol?Best bets for the millionaire collector set.
    By Sarah P. Hanson
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