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  1. Rob Pruitt: Cocaine Buffet to Glitter PandasTo celebrate his show at the Brant Foundation, the artist shares insight into his more memorable and controversial works.
    By Nate Freeman
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    10 Things You Can Cover With Dots at the New Viral Yayoi Kusama ExhibitionIn Obliteration Room, Yayoi Kusama turns an effigy of a suburban home into a madcap art experience. Stickers are fun!
    By Kyle Chayka
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    The Last of the Great Brooklyn Art Spaces: A User’s GuideCatch ‘em while you can.
    By Katy Schneider
  4. Venice Officials Threaten to End Biennale MosqueThey claim it could be a target of a terrorist attack.
    By Nate Freeman
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    All Aboard Keith Edmier’s New Show“I got interested in the whole story of the birth of Aphrodite born from sea foam of Chronos castrating his father Uranus.â€
    By Sarah Trigg
  7. Enter the Supersaturated, Ultraglamorous World of Tina Barney’s PhotographsA chronicler of the one percent has a retrospective in Chelsea.
    By Nate Freeman
  8. Enter the Supersaturated, Ultraglamorous World of Tina Barney’s PhotographsA chronicler of the one percent has a retrospective in Chelsea.
    By Nate Freeman
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    What the Venice Biennale Is Really Like If You’re Actually There for the ArtOne man’s worm’s-eye view of the proceedings.
    By Dushko Petrovich
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    Drake on His ‘Nerve-Racking’ New Sotheby’s Collaboration“I Like It Like This†is on view through June 12.
    By Lauretta Charlton
  11. 3-Sentence Reviews: Katz, Serra, YuskavageThis is Richard Serra’s best show in 15 years.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Cecily Brown Gets Small“I don’t feel bad about the fact that most of my favorite artists are men.â€
    By Julie L. Belcove
  13. Found Photography: Moms With Cute Kids, Just in Time for Mother’s DayTen old photos of adorable tykes who are all likely far less adorable grown-ups now.
    By Oliver Wasow
  14. Found Photography: Moms With Cute Kids, Just in Time for Mother’s DayTen old photos of adorable tykes who are all likely far less adorable grown-ups now.
    By Oliver Wasow
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    5 Provocative 1930s Anti-Lynching Prints“The terror in the man’s eyes conveys the persistent fears of black Americans in the South during the 1930s.â€
    By Kyle Chayka
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    A Brief Guide to Joan Jonas, the U.S. Venice Biennale RepresentativeViewing her work always feels like entering into a new, miniature world.
    By Kyle Chayka
  17. Joan Jonas (and Her White Poodle, Ozu) Represent America in VeniceA report from inside Joan Jonas’s posse at the Biennale.
    By Thessaly La Force
  18. Can Digital Artist Tabor Robak Become Pixelangelo?The young artist sculpts in pixels rather than marble, laboriously rendering mundane yet fantastical creations.
    By Kyle Chayka
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    Natalie Frank’s Grim Fairy-Tale Art“I’m going to marry my daughter, for she is the living image of my dead wife.â€
    By Ian Epstein
  20. British Press on British Penis Art in VeniceSarah Lucas, still a YBA after all these years, representing England at the Venice Biennale, filled her country’s pavilion with some rather naughty stuff.
    By Nate Freeman
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    A-List Artists Against Frick ExpansionThey fear the Frick will be destroyed in a bid for bigness — like so many other interesting old things in New York City of late.
    By Kyle Chayka
  22. The First Day of the Venice Biennale, by Land and by SeaIt’s unclear whether curator Okwui Enwezor’s ambitious plans hold up — but it’s clear there are a hundred places to be at once.
    By Julie Baumgardner
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    12 Stories of Sex in Museums“We split a Xanax and a whiff of poppers on our way uptown.â€
    By Jerry Saltz
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    The Bromance of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel BasquiatAn in-progress play explores the unplumbed depths of the two artists’ fraught relationship. Was it actually just romance?
    By Kyle Chayka
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    The Art World Is Currently in Venice on Gondolas Having More Fun Than YouSeventeen Instagram shots of dealers and curators canoodling on gondolas during the Biennale.
    By Nate Freeman
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    The Art World Is Currently in Venice on Gondolas Having More Fun Than YouSeventeen Instagram shots of dealers and curators canoodling on gondolas during the Biennale.
    By Nate Freeman
  27. Who’s Off-loading Masterworks at This Month’s Auctions?Step right up to get your Rothkos, Picassos, and Monets in the $2.3 billion sale-a-thon.
    By Nate Freeman
  28. First Look! Kerry James Marshall Shows the High Line’s Future GentrificationIs High Line Art’s new mural biting the real-estate hand that feeds it?
    By Kyle Chayka
  29. Meet the Ari Gold of the Art WorldAt dinner with UTA’s Joshua Roth, who’s turning the gallery scene into an episode of Entourage.
    By Maxwell Williams
  30. How to Shack Up With a 40-Ton Richard Serra SculptureYou can’t just plop it into your yard or it’ll sink, warns a Serra installation specialist.
    By Kyle Chayka
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    Judith Bernstein is An Art Star at Last at 72“My fear was that I would die and everything would be thrown out — your life is erased.â€
    By Julie L. Belcove
  32. Explore Paris Photo L.A., Art Fair to the StarsGwyneth Paltrow loves this art fair.
    By Ann Binlot
  33. Explore Paris Photo L.A., Art Fair to the StarsGwyneth Paltrow loves this art fair.
    By Ann Binlot
  34. Ring, Ring! Who’ll Answer the $12,000 Dildo Phone to Help Out Pioneer Works?Dustin Yellin throws a boldface fund-raising party to benefit his arty village of Red Hook.
    By Rachel Corbett
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    Revisiting the 19th Century’s Cat-Painting Renaissance (Price: $15,000 — LOL!)Dutch painters like Henriette Ronner-Knip and Cornelis Raaphorst dominated the 19th century’s cat-painting renaissance, and now they’re coming back to market.
    By Kyle Chayka
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    Revisiting the 19th Century’s Cat-Painting Renaissance (Price: $15,000 — LOL!)Dutch painters like Henriette Ronner-Knip and Cornelis Raaphorst dominated the 19th century’s cat-painting renaissance, and now they’re coming back to market.
    By Kyle Chayka
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    Saltz: Did Modernism Even Happen in America?At the same moment in the early 20th century when Europe and Russia, especially, were trying to make art dealing with the modern condition, Americans were actually just being modern, living it.
    By Jerry Saltz and David Wallace-Wells
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    What’s the Best Way to Murder an Artist (Who’s Also a Friend)?Confessions of Christopher Bollen, Interview editor and art-world murder-mystery writer.
    By Christopher Bollen
  39. the new whitney
    Cracking the Code to the Whitney’s Inaugural ShowScott Rothkopf, the Whitney curator responsible for last year’s Jeff Koons extravaganza, explains the placement of the inaugural show at the brand-new museum. 
    By Nate Freeman
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    Where’ve You Been, SEEN?Our online art magazine returns.
    By Vulture Editors
  41. How to Pretend That You’ve Already Been to the New WhitneyEven if you didn’t make it to the museum’s beautiful new building in the Meatpacking District during previews, here’s how you can talk about all the art you haven’t seen.
    By Nate Freeman
  42. Michelle Obama: The Whitney Is for ‘Dreaming’The new museum is a place, she said, for “dreaming, witnessing, and making things possible.â€
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Jerry Saltz on the New Whitney MuseumHow the museum might just solve the impossible problem of contemporary art.
    By Jerry Saltz
  44. Jerry Saltz on the New Whitney MuseumHow the museum might just solve the impossible problem of contemporary art.
    By Jerry Saltz
  45. See Vintage Images From Hollywood Film SetsOn sets with Ernst Haas.
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    See Vintage Images From Hollywood Film SetsFrom the upcoming collection Ernst Haas: On Set.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  47. See Vintage Images From Hollywood Film SetsOn sets with Ernst Haas.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    I Got Kicked Off of Facebook for Posting Images of Medieval ArtI hope that all of these finger-pointing little Napoleons get a grip and go elsewhere.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    MoMA’s Björk DisasterI wanted to be surprised and proven wrong about the Björk show. Alas, I haven’t been. 
    By Jerry Saltz
  50. banksy
    Banksy’s Gaza Kitten Is Shaming Your Internet Habits“On the internet people only look at pictures of kittens.â€
    By Claire Landsbaum
  51. face masks
    Daft Punk’s Faces Unveiled in Sculpture, Sort OfThanks, Xavier Veilhan.
    By Sean Fitz-Gerald
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