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  1. vulture investigates
    In Search of Tom and Katie’s ‘Bubba’ PaintingWith the Vanderpump Rules stars divorcing, who gets custody of this quintessential part of the Bravo interior-design canon?
    By Tom Smyth
  2. art review
    The Magical Last Hours of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres ShowHow viewers can change the meaning of a great artist’s work.
    By Jerry Saltz
  3. art
    MoMA’s Glorified Lava LampRefik Anadol’s Unsupervised is a crowd-pleasing, like-generating mediocrity.
    By Jerry Saltz
  4. art
    Felix Gonzalez-Torres Never Saw This Work EitherNearly 30 years after the artist’s death, David Zwirner stages two pieces never manifested during his lifetime. How should we think about them?
    By Madeline Leung Coleman
  5. national treasure
    Madonna May Own a French Painting Thought to Have Been Destroyed in WWIAnd now, Amiens is asking the “Material Girl” to lend the tableau back.
    By Justin Curto
  7. art
    William Eggleston’s Atmospheric DisturbancesHis photographs from the 1970s are a clairvoyant glimpse of the future.
    By Jerry Saltz
  8. the year of the nepo baby
    When Dominating the Art Market Is the Family BusinessMeet the art-dealer dynasties who move Warhols and Monets — and their scandal-prone heirs.
    By Rachel Corbett
  9. best of 2022
    The Best New York Art Shows of 2022Gonzo quilting, Mayan sculpture, and one wild, egalitarian group show made this a great year to hit the galleries.
    By Jerry Saltz
  10. art is a prank
    Art Basel Is Trolling the Rich AgainFrom the makers of “Banana Duct Taped to Wall” comes an ATM that ranks your wealth.
    By Bethy Squires
  11. rip
    Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Rebellious Cartoonist, Dead at 74The artist was known for her feminist, autobiographical comics.
    By Zoe Guy
  12. podcasts
    What Happened to Ana MendietaShe was a pathbreaking artist, hungry for recognition. A podcast reexamines how her 1985 death made headlines instead.
    By Max Pearl
  13. remembrance
    Remembering Lee Bontecou and Her Volcanic Hell HolesThe visionary artist died this week at age 91.
    By Jerry Saltz
  14. art
    A Painting for a World in CollapseWhat The Raft of the Medusa reveals about contemporary political art.
    By Jerry Saltz
  15. rip
    Peter Schjeldahl, Art Critic for The New Yorker, Dead at 80Schjeldahl, who was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2019, wrote the towering personal essay “The Art of Dying.”
    By Jason P. Frank
  16. the law
    Clarence Thomas Is Only a Part-Time Prince FanAs we learned during arguments in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith.
    By Justin Curto
  17. 1.5x speed
    An Art-World Scandal (and 6 More Podcasts Worth Checking Out)Death of an Artist, Blowback, and more.
    By Nicholas Quah
  18. art
    Brad Pitt Not So Subtly Processed His Divorce Through SculptureAnd he recently debuted those pieces at a show in Finland.
    By Justin Curto
  19. art
    Wolfgang Tillmans Changed What Photos Look LikeA career retrospective becomes a cathedral of the mundane.
    By Jerry Saltz
  20. fall preview
    10 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See This FallWolfgang Tillmans at MoMA, Theaster Gates at the New Museum, and a bid for W.E.B. Du Bois as America’s first abstract artist.
    By Jerry Saltz
  21. for sale
    Paul Allen’s $1 Billion Art Collection Will Be Sold for CharityThe late Microsoft co-founder’s collection is going up for grabs in the largest art auction ever.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  22. encounter
    Beeple’s Post-NFT ChapterThe digital artist made a pile of money on NFTs before the crypto market crashed. Now he has his eyes on the art world.
    By Zachary Small
  23. rip
    Claes Oldenburg, Pop Art Giant, Dead at 93The artist was best known for expanding everyday objects to glorious sizes.
    By Jason P. Frank
  24. scams
    Chloe Fineman Almost Got Got by Anna DelveyThe SNL star finally received the sketch she ordered, after telling The View she never got it.
    By Rebecca Alter
  25. rip
    Margaret Keane, Sad-Eyed Waifs Artist, Dead at 94Amy Adams played the painter in the film Big Eyes.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  26. remembrance
    Remembering Sam Gilliam of the Astral PlaneHis draped paintings took the form to its outer limits.
    By Jerry Saltz
  27. the group portrait
    The Talented Security Guards of the MetThey’re enforcers, tour guides, artists.
    By Clio Chang
  28. art review
    Yu-Wen Wu’s Algorithmic Odyssey Around the WorldA brilliant work on the immigrant experience, courtesy of a glitch in the Matrix.
    By Jerry Saltz
  29. tomb raiding
    Five Egyptian Antiquities Seized From Met in Smuggling Ring InvestigationInternational art thievery? What is this, Paul Blart Mall Cop 3?
    By Bethy Squires
  30. poor thing
    The Mona Lisa Was Literally All Caked Up With Nowhere to GoA man threw cake at the glass surrounding the iconic Renaissance painting.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  31. crypto bros
    Seth Green Gets Scammed Out of His Show’s Main CharacterA Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT named Fred …
    By Zoe Guy
  32. art
    Rihanna’s Marble Baby Bump Won the Met GalaSure, it’s visual effects, but still.
    By Justin Curto
  33. night at the museum
    Mannequins Haunt the 2022 Met Costume Institute ExhibitStaged by Sofia Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Regina King, and six other poor souls.
    By Bethy Squires
  34. respect the classics
    This Brian Eno Documentary Will Be Ambient As HellBut will also employ “groundbreaking generative technology,” per his instructions.
    By Devon Ivie
  35. obits
    Cynthia Plaster Caster Albritton, Dead at 74The iconic “reformed groupie” had a collection of rock-star phalli to make Kiss blush.
    By Bethy Squires
  36. how i made this
    Life in Immigration Limbo, Caught on VideoThe artist Guadalupe Maravilla on how he made “Detention Center Performance” with a group of undocumented teenagers.
    As told to Jillian Steinhauer
  37. the group portrait
    A Basquiat Family ReunionThe artist’s sisters have put on an exhibition of his work to remind the world where he came from — and have a party.
    By Carl Swanson
  38. art review
    The Whitney Biennial Falters OnThe 2022 show has just enough high points to get you through it — including three stunning Charles Ray sculptures.
    By Jerry Saltz
  39. prints of princes
    A Case About Andy Warhol’s Prince Artwork Is Headed to the Supreme CourtThe justices will decide if Warhol meaningfully transformed a photograph of the singer enough for fair use to apply.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  40. encounter
    Art Spiegelman Loses His GlassesAs the latest fight over Maus erupts, its artist-creator searches for his spectacles.
    By Abraham Riesman
  41. black lives matter
    The Misguided Empathy of Dana Schutz’s Open CasketThe controversial painting of Emmett Till was equally clinical and tempestuous.
    By Kimberly Drew
  42. art
    How Agnieszka Pilat Became Silicon Valley’s Favorite Artist“It’s our obligation to have a relationship with machines so they grow up to be good citizens.”
    By Shawn McCreesh
  43. 2022 preview
    The Future’s Not All BadBelieve it or not, there are some things to look forward to this year.
    By Vulture Editors
  44. art
    Wayne Thiebaud, 1920–2021His paintings of cakes, bathers, landscapes, paint cans, pastries, and cityscapes represent a luscious American sublime.
    By Jerry Saltz
  45. art du jour
    Brian Eno Elegantly Eviscerates NFTs“Now artists can become little capitalist assholes as well.”
    By Devon Ivie
  46. best of 2021
    The Best New York Art Shows of 2021The art world has changed forever. But New York galleries still rule.
    By Jerry Saltz
  47. book review
    Edith Schloss, 20th-Century WomanIn her book The Loft Generation, a fixture of the midcentury New York art scene gets a long-overdue introduction.
    By Jamie Hood
  48. encounter
    At Jamian Juliano-Villani’s New Gallery O’Flaherty’s, ‘Taste Is Out the Door’The painter and her pals thought the art world had gotten too prissy. “This is the thing. No one’s doing anything cool.”
    By Matthew Schneier
  49. obits
    Alvin Lucier, Groundbreaking Experimental Composer, Dead at 90He was best known for the 1969 piece I Am Sitting in a Room.
    By Justin Curto
  50. scams
    The Art World’s ‘Mini Madoff,’ Inigo Philbrick, Pleads Guilty to Wire FraudHe faces a lot of prison time.
    By Victoria Bekiempis
  51. art review
    John Currin Is the Caligula of PaintingA new show is even more unsettling and disturbing than those that made his controversial name.
    By Jerry Saltz
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