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  1. video
    What Happens When People Try to Deface a Banksy?The new HBO documentary Banksy Does New York provides the delightful answer.
    By Kyle Buchanan
  2. art
    Jerry Saltz Recommends the Best Art at Independent ProjectsSaltz goes to the indie art fair.
    By Jerry Saltz
  3. George Lucas’s Museum of Narrative Art Looks RidiculousIt’s a bad mountain, not a bad spaceship.
    By Justin Davidson
  4. art
    How Marco Breuer Makes Photographic Art Without Taking PicturesDestroying photographic paper in order to make it beautiful.
  5. art
    How Marco Breuer Makes Photographic Art Without Taking PicturesDestroying photographic paper in order to make it beautiful.
  7. art review
    Chris Ofili’s Thumping Art-History LessonIt is astonishing to consider just how distant the New York of the Sensation era feels now — and that scrappier art world.
    By Jerry Saltz
  8. Marina Abramovic Is Still in the DarkWandering around aimlessly.
    By Jerry Saltz
  9. kid critics
    Playing Critic With Schoolchildren at MoMA’s ‘Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs’ “I think those are hearts. And that might be seaweed.â€
    By S. Jhoanna Robledo
  10. seeing out loud
    Do Not Miss MoMA’s Overwhelming Henri Matisse ExhibitionFew artists reward prolonged scrutiny more than Matisse.
    By Jerry Saltz
  11. seeing out loud
    Art Review: The Great, Inscrutable Robert GoberI don’t understand Gober’s work. That’s how I know how good it is.
    By Jerry Saltz
  12. seeing out loud
    Richard Prince’s Instagram Paintings Are Genius TrollingPrince is creating a rock-and-roll hip-hop ghetto patois of street dude, hipster, showman, and hunter.
    By Jerry Saltz
  13. seeing out loud
    Allora and Calzadilla’s Fault Lines Borders on Plagiarism“I couldn’t set aside how incredibly derivative this work is of that of Tino Sehgal’s.â€
    By Jerry Saltz
  14. seeing out loud
    Jerry Saltz Dives Into the Lower East Side Art Scene and Emerges OptimisticThe Lower East Side is now far more than just not Chelsea.
    By Jerry Saltz
  15. seeing out loud
    The Saltz Cornucopia: 10 Fall Art Shows, ReviewedBetween Thursday and Saturday, over 150 exhibitions opened in New York.
    By Jerry Saltz
  16. Puck Magazine and the Birth of Modern Political CartooningIn the late 19th Century, long before Mad Magazine and the Daily Show, there was Puck. The magazine helped to change the very nature of […]
    By Alex Dueben
  17. seeing out loud
    Artforum and What’s Wrong With the Art WorldWhere are the women?
    By Jerry Saltz
  18. 27 Must-See Art Exhibits Opening This FallDaniel Gordon, Henri Matisse, Richard Serra, and more.
    By Ian Epstein
  19. fall preview 2014
    The Fall Entertainment Generator: 331 Things to Watch, Hear and Do Looking for something adventurous that will make you laugh? A blockbuster to make you cry?
    By Vulture Editors
  20. art review
    Photographer Garry Winogrand Captured America As It Split Wide OpenHis indelible vision is the subject of a powerful retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
    By Jerry Saltz
  21. A 3D Animator Has Created an Impressively Realistic ‘Futurama’ WorldRussian animator Alexey Zakharov recently decided to recreate the Planet Express Ship from Futurama, and the result is pretty impressive. Check […]
    By Megh Wright
  22. art
    Andy Freeberg on the Art of the Art-Fair BoothThe juxtapositions are funny, of course, but they also get at the strange reality of these events.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  23. art
    Andy Freeberg on the Art of the Art-Fair BoothThe juxtapositions are funny, of course, but they also get at the strange reality of these events.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  24. architecture
    Why It’s So Hard to Keep Beaux-Arts Museums Looking BeautifulThe same problem keeps cropping up at the Frick.
    By Justin Davidson
  25. The Loveliness of the Long-Distance Artist: On Kawara, 1933–2014In memoriam.
    By Jerry Saltz
  26. profile
    Oscar Murillo Perfectly Represents the Art WorldHow lucky, and unfortunate, for the 28-year-old artist. 
    By Carl Swanson
  27. a retrospective
    Taking in Jeff Koons, Creator and Destroyer of WorldsA mad perfectionist’s retrospective at the Whitney.
    By Jerry Saltz
  28. I Love Björk, But a MoMA Retrospective Is a Terrible IdeaMoMA’s “mad marriage of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and amusement park.â€
    By Jerry Saltz
  29. art
    Zombies on the Walls: Why Does So Much New Abstraction Look the Same?Because buyers like it that way.
    By Jerry Saltz
  30. art
    Zombies on the Walls: Why Does So Much New Abstraction Look the Same?Because buyers like it that way.
    By Jerry Saltz
  31. Why You Should See Dürer’s Melencolia I at the Met Right NowTwo versions of this incredible, ineffable engraving.
    By Jerry Saltz
  32. architecture
    Mackintosh’s Greatest Building: Gone?A proto-modern monument, up in smoke.
    By Justin Davidson
  33. seeing out loud
    Saltz: A Prescription for the Met’s Modern WingIt comes down to one word.
    By Jerry Saltz
  34. seeing out loud
    Saltz: The Best of the Frieze and Outsider FairsTwo artists who rocked my senses.
    By Jerry Saltz
  35. frieze art fair
    The Strangeness of After-Hours at the Frieze Art FairExtremely temporary quarters.
    By Carl Swanson
  36. art
    Saltz: Wade Guyton May Be Trying to Torpedo His Own SalesJust as Christie’s auctions his work, he’s undermining it.
    By Jerry Saltz
  37. seeing out loud
    Saltz on Oscar Murillo’s Candy Art“A nightmare of self-congratulatory hubris.â€
    By Jerry Saltz
  38. photography
    Could Polaroid’s Beloved Type 55 Film Return?A Kickstarter campaign to reinvent this unique photographic film gathers momentum.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  39. week in vulture
    10 Pop-Culture Questions Answered by Vulture This WeekFrom Game of Thrones to Questlove to Neil Patrick Harris.
    By E. Alex Jung
  40. seeing out loud
    Jerry Saltz on James Franco’s ‘New Film Stills’In his repeated efforts to be an artist, Franco is only making bad art.
    By Jerry Saltz
  41. every personal computer will be world-famous for 15 minutes
    See Rediscovered 30-Year-Old Andy Warhol Amiga Computer ArtIt was recently found after years spent combing through his archives.
    By Jesse David Fox
  42. art
    Parisian Street Artist JR Prepares His First Foray Into BalletPremiering on April 29, Les Bosquets is about the French riots of 2005.
    By Wendy Goodman
  43. 6 Artists on the Closing of Legendary Art-Supply Store Pearl Paint“It’s quite sad, actually.â€
    By Michael Slenske
  44. seeing out loud
    Seeing Out Loud: Saltz on Sigmar Polke at MoMA“A show of a great artist with great work that fails to be great.â€
    By Jerry Saltz
  45. See Justin Peck and Sufjan Stevens’s New BalletA short glimpse at their second collaboration.
    By Rebecca Milzoff
  46. art
    Saltz on George W. Bush’s Painterly Promise UnfulfilledIt’s sad. His early work had so much potential.
    By Jerry Saltz
  47. seeing out loud
    Seeing Out Loud: Jerry Saltz on Nate LowmanA review of “Rave the Painforest,†at Maccarone gallery.
    By Jerry Saltz
  48. art
    Saltz on Stefan Simchowitz, the Greatest Art-Flipper of Them All“In 5,000 words, he manages to embody everything that’s gross.â€
    By Jerry Saltz
  49. art
    Saltz on Finding Vivian MaierA master photographer nobody — really, nobody — knew.
    By Jerry Saltz
  50. encounter
    109 Minutes With Met Director Thomas Campbell“Tapestry Tom†is a newfound modernist.
    By Carl Swanson
  51. seeing out loud
    Saltz: This Renovation Plan Will Ruin MoMAThe greatest collection of modernism on Earth has been relegated to rotating storage.
    By Jerry Saltz
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