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  1. Jerry Saltz Put Michelangelo’s David in an NYC Subway — Here’s What HappenedSome New Yorkers were amused — others, not so much.
    By Kenny Wassus
  2. seen
    Seen in Shanghai: What Not to Miss Right Now in China’s Contemporary Art CapitalThe Biennale is on.
    By Harry Burke
  3. berlin
    Anna Uddenberg’s Perverted Performative Sculpture“It’s about the branding and commodification of the self.”
    By Emily McDermott
  4. miami
    Boating Out to Christo’s Pink-Wrapped Islands With the Artist, 35 Years Later“Today, we are bombarded by the ‘goodness’ of things. These are inexplicable, capricious, worthless. That is really the greatness of art.”
    By Jarrett Earnest
  5. seen
    16 Works Reported to Have Sold for Over $1 Mil in Miami — Only One Is by a WomanPeruse this list of hundreds of reported sale prices from Art Basel Miami Beach.
    By Whitney Mallett
  7. trend report
    Is Being an Artist About Making Art or Performing the Artist-Self On Instagram?“I think about deleting it daily.”
    By Drew Zeiba
  8. prada monks
    Theaster Gates and His Band Played an Art Basel Gig at Prada’s VIP ClubAfter a dinner with Kanye.
    By Whitney Mallett
  9. tech savvy
    Will Blockchain Tech Commodify or Democratize the Art World?A crypto conference during Art Basel Miami Beach.
    By Taylore Scarabelli
  10. day-glo dystopian
    Peter Halley’s Anxious, Day-Glo Dystopian Paintings“Everybody thinks the ’80s was a party, but it wasn’t.”
    By Max Lakin
  11. best of 2018
    Jerry Saltz’s 10 Best Art Shows of 2018Including an abstract pioneer and presidential portraiture.
    By Jerry Saltz
  12. market watch
    Collectors Shop at Art Basel Miami Beach, Never Mind the Climate-Change NewsWorks by Paul McCarthy, Philip Guston, and more sold for seven figures.
    By Whitney Mallett
  13. senegal
    How Senegalese Photographer Omar Victor Diop Is Changing the Gaze“My mission is to establish the fact that as a black man, as an African, I come from a lineage of great people.”
    By Brian Keith Jackson
  14. revisionism
    Meet Leonor Fini, the Surrealist Sidelined for Subverting Gender Norms“Her work is very emasculating in a lot of ways.”
    By Jenna Adrian-Diaz
  15. art fairs
    Detroit’s Famous Heidelberg Project Goes to the BeachWhat’s next for Tyree Guyton, and his famous DIY civic art installation.
    By Carl Swanson
  16. revisionism
    Sotheby’s to Help to Fund an Exhibit on the History of Black CinemaL.A.’s soon to open Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (a.k.a. the “Death Star”) beats out smaller Midwestern museums for the prize.
    By Whitney Mallett
  17. tribute
    Remembering Oksana Shachko, ‘Artist, Activist, Terrorist’The Femen co-founder was beaten, jailed, and threatened with execution. It was beautiful to watch her dance.
    By Nicholas Mir Chaikin
  18. seen
    Art Basel’s Blinky Neon Vagina Artist Suzy Kellems Dominik’s Lumpy #MeToo Totems“I thought it was very important to say, ‘This woman of a certain age, she’s not going to be invisible any longer.’”
    By Whitney Mallett
  19. meme scheme
    Sex Is Cool But Have You Tried These Art Historical Memes?The @drugowl Instagram reminds us that long-dead people depicted in old oil pantings had the same preoccupations as now — love, lies, and insecurity.
    By Rachel Bashein
  20. decentered
    Should You Quit New York and Open a Gallery in the Heartland?From Milwaukee to Birmingham, ten trailblazing art galleries.
    By Laura van Straaten
  21. art school
    Try Copying Your Favorite Master Artwork and See What You LearnMiming Matisse. Parroting Picasso. Hocking Hockney.
  22. canada
    Forget Art Basel Miami Beach — Put on Your Puffer Coat and Head North to TorontoSix exhibitions to check out, including the inaugural show at the new MOCA.
    By Yaniya Lee
  23. how to
    How to Be an Artist? Start by Drawing the Square in Front of You.Hundreds of Jerry’s followers tried the assignment. Here are nine of their works.
  24. studio sounds
    Listen to This Playlist and Get in the Heads of Your Favorite ArtistsFrom Fiona Apple to Fela Kuti, music to inspire a studio practice.
    By Brian Keith Jackson
  25. jock talk
    Artist Rose Nestler Conjures Neo-Greek Gym Rats and CrossFit Bros“I think cis men are in a constant state of transcendence.”
    By Jordan Larson
  26. art
    Advice From 27 Artists, From Marina Abramovich to Mickalene Thomas, on Making ItYou’ve read Jerry Saltz’s story on being an artist. But what do successful artists themselves say?
    As told to Brian Keith Jackson, Whitney Mallett, and Cara Ober
  27. monumental trouble
    Does the ‘Gay Liberation’ Monument Whitewash Stonewall?An exhibition at the New Museum proposes replacements.
    By Jarrett Earnest
  28. color values
    How to #BrownUpYourGallery, in an Art World That Loves White WomenArtist Mandy Harris Williams makes you an instructional PowerPoint presentation.
    By Mandy Harris Williams
  29. art
    Andy Warhol’s Drawings of Shoes And Boys Tells Us Everything About HimA glimpse of the artist’s pre-fame work.
    By Carl Swanson
  30. vulture guides
    Jerry Saltz’s 33 Rules for Being an ArtistHow to go from clueless amateur to generational talent (or at least live life a little more creatively).
    By Jerry Saltz
  31. flower power
    Artist Ebony G. Patterson’s Garden of Poisonous Plants and Glass Body PartsThe Pérez Art Museum Miami said: “Here is the budget — what do you want to do?”
    By Osman Can Yerebakan
  32. art
    The Best New Architecture Books To Gift For the HolidaysFrom McKim, Mead & White to Mark Foster Gage.
    By Andrés González
  33. art du jour
    A Wild Art Goose Chase in Belgium Ends With Banksy Works in the SlammerAll 58 of them!
    By Devon Ivie
  34. art
    New Art Books to Gift For the Holidays, from Kusama to Bruegel to Vivian MaierNow you just have to go buy a bigger coffee table.
    By Andrés González
  35. 50th anniversary
    50 New York Magazine Covers, Designed By 50 New York ArtistsTo celebrate our anniversary, 50 New York artists created 50 New York covers, including Kerry James Marshall, Yoko Ono, Shirin Neshat, and many more.
    By The Editors
  36. seen
    How to Spend the Day Seeing Amazing Art All Over QueensA field guide for visiting the Queens International, dispersed across the museum and local libraries.
    By Rain Embuscado
  37. tropical resistance
    With the MECA Art Fair, San Juan’s Art Community Rises AgainPuerto Rico a year after Hurricane Maria.
    By Shirine Saad
  38. tech savvy
    Jillian Mayer Makes Pretty Art From Airport ScannersThink about this during your holiday travel hell.
    By Whitney Mallett
  39. q&a
    Ryan McNamara’s Serious, Messy, Kinda Gross Art“I was thinking, Why gunge now? And I thought, Well, it’s ridiculous. There’s something perverse about loving the feeling of slime.”
    By Chris Stewart
  40. q&a
    Judy Chicago Is Setting Off Feminist Fireworks in Miami During Art BaselThe artist is continuing her “Atmospheres” series of fireworks-based installations in Miami.
    By Carl Swanson
  41. art
    Wildfires and Dead Palm Trees Haunt the L.A. Dream in Zoe Crosher’s New Show“It was really like the end is nigh, and it was a little too close.”
    By Michael Slenske
  42. amazon
    Artist Hiba Ali Worked at an Amazon Fulfillment Center and Makes Art About ItA truth-talking cardboard delivery box exposes superstructural greed.
    By Drew Zeiba
  43. artphone
    The Best Tool for Creativity on Your iPhone Might Just Be the Notes AppA Q&A with Chris Ritter, an artist who uses the Notes app to sketch.
    By Aude White
  44. vulture guides
    Jerry Saltz’s Guide to the Met for the Crowd-AverseA nearly hidden entrance, the line-free underground cafeteria, and a jaw-dropping yet somehow always deserted room.
    By Jerry Saltz
  45. art
    Sol LeWitt’s Daughter, Eva LeWitt, Grows Her Own CareerShe has an exhibition at the Jewish Museum.
    By Katy Diamond Hamer
  46. photography
    Lyle Ashton Harris on Basquiat, Black Panther, and Afrofuturism’s Queer RootsAt Salon 94, the artist revisits self-portraiture.
    By Antwaun Sargent
  47. q&a
    Francesco Clemente Worries New York Is Too Safe a Place to Produce Great ArtThe Haute Bohemian painter on the Beats, Peter Brant, and the pleasures of burned-out buildings.
    By Anne Slowey
  48. art
    Ron Athey Still Bleeds for YouThe provocateur returns to Performance Space New York and loses his head.
    By Tim Murphy
  49. seen
    Anna Maria Maiolino Made These Drawings Before She Left Her Husband 50 Years AgoFrustrated by domestic pressures and a language barrier in New York, the Brazilian artist turned to her sketchbook.
    By Osman Can Yerebakan
  50. clarifications
    Everything You Know About Vincent van Gogh Is WrongAt Eternity’s Gate director Julian Schnabel addresses a few common myths about the troubled artist.
    By Julian Schnabel
    As told to Jerry Saltz
  51. reunions
    Willem Dafoe Sits Down With His Old Friend Jerry Saltz to Talk van GoghAfter decades apart, the two reunite to discuss Dafoe’s riveting performance in Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate, about the artist’s last days.
    By Jerry Saltz
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