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  1. encounter
    ‘The Depth Is in the Pictures, Not What I Say About Them’Rosalind Fox Solomon has been making haunting photographs for 50 years. She’s got more stories to tell than she lets on.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  2. art du jour
    David Byrne’s New Book Is (Nothing But) DingbatsIllustrated dingbats, that is.
    By Devon Ivie
  3. drama in the air tonight
    Remember the Phil Collins Alamo Artifacts BattleYears after his massive donation, plans for the Texas museum are imploding.
    By Devon Ivie
  4. encounter
    You Don’t Know Amalia UlmanThe enigmatic artist cast herself and her mother in her new movie, El Planeta, set in her hometown. She swears it’s fiction anyway.
    By Rachel Handler
  5. trailer mix
    Benedict Cumberbatch Is the First Man to Make Cat Memes in Louis Wain TrailerIn which people in Victorian dress yell, “You have squandered it on wretched cats!”
    By Rebecca Alter
  7. art
    Jasper Johns and MeThe artist who invented contemporary art also changed my life.
    By Jerry Saltz
  8. fall preview 2021
    10 Must-See Art Shows to Catch This FallJerry Saltz on his most anticipated New York museum shows — from Jasper Johns at the Whitney to the Bronx Museum’s Biennial.
    By Jerry Saltz
  9. chuck close
    Chuck Close, Artist MutineerA critic considers the legacy of an intractable force in portraiture who turned himself into an artist non grata.
    By Jerry Saltz
  10. obits
    Chuck Close, Artist and Photorealism Trailblazer, Dead at 81He had recently been plagued by a series of sexual harassment accusations.
    By Devon Ivie
  11. art
    New York’s Most Beloved PuppetsFrom the childhood comforts of Sesame Street to the gleeful pop perversities of Avenue Q, a new show captures the heritage of puppetry in the city.
    By Carl Swanson
  12. art
    Dancing on Your Own (With 99 Other People)A temporary club for our in-between moment.
    By Devon Ivie
  13. money
    Dispatches From the NFT Art BoomThe artists, collectors, and sellers betting big on the blockchain.
    By Matthew Schneier
  14. money
    Think of NFTs As a BrushMaybe one day, they will be an artistic tool as powerful as any other.
    By Jerry Saltz
  15. the group portrait
    Photo: A Rooftop Artists’ Salon in SohoFigure drawing alfresco.
    By Emilia Petrarca
  16. in-person events
    The Met Gala Returns With a Two-Part American Fashion CelebrationThe ball will now take place the second Monday in September.
    By Zoe Haylock
  17. art review
    In Artist Cory Arcangel’s Latest Show, Kim Kardashian Provides the MaterialThe artist gives the smartphone game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood the white-cube treatment at Greene Naftali.
    By Katie Rothstein
  18. back catalogue
    Artist Dawoud Bey on 6 of His Photos That Pushed His Work ForwardThe photographer opens up about what it took to make some of his most iconic images, ahead of his upcoming Whitney retrospective.
    As told to Sasha Bonét
  19. art review
    The Detonations of Alice NeelThe artist’s portrait show at the Met is packed with raw emotional power.
    By Jerry Saltz
  20. nfts
    Screen Time at the ‘World’s First Physical NFT Gallery,’ Whatever That MeansWhat would it mean to go to a gallery show where the original works are on display, but not really there?
    By Rebecca Alter
  21. art
    The Frick on Madison Finally Lets You See Fragonard Up CloseEmpowered by its new setting, work once considered frivolous becomes visual thunder.
    By Jerry Saltz
  22. art du jour
    Someone Really Spent $69 Million on This Nice JPG“Everydays — The First 5000 Days” is a digital collage.
    By Devon Ivie
  23. art review
    Heartbreak and Resurrection in ‘Grief and Grievance’ at the New MuseumA brutal, essential show that pulls from the canon of Black contemporary art.
    By Jerry Saltz
  24. obits
    Ricky Powell Was the Eyes of New York CityIn many ways, the late hip-hop photographer and “fourth Beastie Boy” represented a version of the city that has all but faded away.
    By Max Lakin
  25. art
    Roni Horn’s ‘I Am Paralyzed With Hope’ Is a Flag for a New AmericaThe last thing I saw on Inauguration Day was a work of art on Instagram that put a spell on me.
    By Jerry Saltz
  26. my single is dropping
    FKA Twigs Teams With Headie One and Black Activists for ‘Don’t Judge Me’ VideoThe video features Kara Walker’s installation Fons Americanus.
    By Justin Curto
  27. close looks
    Posted Live From the InfernoJerry Saltz on the pictures from the Capitol—some of the scariest, stupidest ever taken.
    By Jerry Saltz
  28. best of 2020
    The 10 Best Art Shows of 2020Jordan Casteel, Noah Davis, and anything you could see in person.
    By Jerry Saltz
  29. last night on late night
    Neal Brennan Gave Chris Rock an Original Artwork by Rachel Dolezal“I have an original Rachel Dolezal in my hallway.”
    By Rebecca Alter
  30. art
    Hear a Quarantine Love Letter for the ViolinGeorge Condo and Leila Josefowicz collaborated while apart.
    By Hilary Reid
  31. art
    Bringing the Beauty OutFor the photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop, the moment was always now.
    By Shirley Ngozi Nwangwa
  32. vulture festival 2020
    Mary J. Blige, Method Man, and 50 Cent Make Vulture Festival Even More PowerfulWe’ve also added a Jerry Saltz art talk, HBO Max’s I Hate Suzie, and, somehow, more pets.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  33. wide awakes
    Joy As ResistanceArtist and activist collective the Wide Awakes takes the city this weekend. Why we’re marching.
    By Rujeko Hockley
  34. art
    4 Museums Decided This Work Shouldn’t Be Shown. They’re Both Right and Wrong.The art world is outraged at the postponement of a Philip Guston retrospective. But it may well be the right thing to do.
    By Jerry Saltz
  35. art
    How Caravaggio Destroyed (and Saved) PaintingThree revolutionary works still speak to us of doubt, inspiration, and grace.
    By Jerry Saltz
  36. first person
    Buying Myself BackWhen does a model own her own image?
    By Emily Ratajkowski
  37. fall preview
    Explore the World of Artists in QuarantineThe Drawing Center presents vibrant new work created in lockdown.
    By Jerry Saltz
  38. art
    A New Book Shows Why Black Artists Drive the Culture VisuallyYoung, Gifted and Black features Jordan Casteel, Kevin Beasley, and more.
    By Trupti Rami
  39. exhibitions
    Whitney Cancels Exhibition After Criticism of Acquisition of Black Artists’ WorkOne artist said the museum bought his work for $100.
    By Justin Curto
  40. art crimes
    An Austrian Tourist’s Butt Broke a 200-Year-Old SculptureIt’s like the worst art heist ever.
    By Rebecca Alter
  41. art
    Philip Guston’s 1970s Paintings Might Help You Cope TodayThe online exhibition “What Endures” offers a road map to the eternal.
    By Hilary Reid
  42. memoir
    Sleeping With Andy WarholIn 1962, a young poet named John Giorno met the Pop Art god, who in turn made him his first superstar. For a little while, they were in love.
    By John Giorno
  43. art
    Banksy’s Chumbawamba Fan Art Removed From London Tube“I get lockdown/but I get up again.”
    By Rebecca Alter
  44. art
    The Instagram Account ‘Change the Museum’ Is Doing Just ThatCurator Gary Garrels loses his job at SFMoMA.
    By Trupti Rami
  45. vulture recommends
    The Couch Gallery CrawlHow to look at art from the safety of home.
    By Thomas Benfield
  46. art
    These Two Last Suppers Are My Quarantine ObsessionComparing two masterpiece treatments made just 50 years apart: one revolutionary and prevailing, the other genius and forgotten.
    By Jerry Saltz
  47. art
    See M.F.A. Students’ Virtual Senior ShowsWhen you graduate into a pandemic.
    By Thomas Benfield
  48. art
    See Peter Hujar’s Portraits of a Long-Ago Queer DowntownIncluding a kittenish Fran Lebowitz.
    By Trupti Rami
  49. art
    Guggenheim Curators Say Museum ‘Enables Racism’The staff sent a letter to leadership on Monday.
    By Zoe Haylock
  50. monuments
    Teddy Roosevelt Statue Coming Down, Says Natural History MuseumThe statue has been criticized as racist for years.
    By Justin Curto
  51. art
    It’s Funeral Time for Colonial MonumentsArtist Nicholas Galanin has already dug a grave for a Captain Cook statue in Sydney.
    By Trupti Rami
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