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  1. fall preview 2017
    38 Must-See Art Exhibits Opening This FallKara Walker, Chris Ofili, David Hockney, and more.
    By Vulture Editors
  2. fall preview 2017
    Ai Weiwei on His Massive Upcoming Public Art Fund Project“It is like presenting yourself to an old lover; to give to the city what I never had a chance to achieve when I was there.”
    By Carl Swanson
  3. art
    Protest Art: What Is It Good For?Digging through the Whitney’s archive of resistance.
    By Carl Swanson
  4. artist statements
    Read Kara Walker’s Artist Statement About Being Fed Up With Such Statements“How many ways can a person say racism is the real bread and butter of our American mythology…”
    By Jackson McHenry
  5. Jerry Saltz: I Give In, MoMA. You’ve Won Me Over. (Halfway, Anyway.)MoMA has been this broken spatial matrix since November 4, 2004, the day it reopened with great fanfare.
    By Jerry Saltz
  7. celebrities are just like us
    Alice Cooper Forgot He Had an Andy Warhol Print Worth Millions in His StorageCooper’s ex-girlfriend bought it for him.
    By Dee Lockett
  8. Hanging in the Babylonests With Hélio OiticicaPre-Instagram pretty boys lounge.
    By Carl Swanson
  9. Looking for New Electricity in the Mostly Static Art WorldIt’s not a matter of art being becoming more political. But the more I look for signs of artistic vitality, the more frustrated I’ve become.
    By Jerry Saltz
  10. podcasts
    WNYC and MoMA Are Making an Artsy Podcast with Broad City’s Abbi JacobsonTwo major New York cultural institutions are coming together to make a podcast baby.
    By Nicholas Quah
  11. Abbi Jacobson’s New Art Podcast ‘A Piece of Work’ Premieres on July 10thBroad City’s Abbi Jacobson is teaming up with WNYC Studios and the Museum of Modern Art for a 10-part podcast about modern and contemporary […]
    By Megh Wright
  12. art
    The Salvador Dalí Paternity Case Proves That Drama Doesn’t End at DeathA judge has ordered that Dalí’s body be exhumed.
    By Gabriella Paiella
  13. banksy
    Is This the True Identity of Banksy?Mystery solved?
    By Tim McGovern
  14. obituary
    Tom Wolfe on Marie Cosindas, an Artist Who Created Something Completely NewA photographer who worked as no one else did.
    By Tom Wolfe
  15. corporate feminism
    The ‘Fearless Girl’ Statue Was Originally Supposed to Be a CowThe story of the bovine statue that could’ve been.
    By Gabriella Paiella
  16. art fairs
    Jerry Saltz: The Drawing I Can’t Stop Thinking About From Frieze New YorkA great work of art from 1875 that’s never been seen in any museum.
    By Jerry Saltz
  17. art du jour
    Artist Protests Fearless Girl by Installing Pissing Pug Statue Beside It“It has nothing to do with feminism.”
    By Devon Ivie
  18. How to Navigate an Art Fair With Jerry Saltz▶️ Nobody can do it like Jerry.
    By Jerry Saltz and Kenny Wassus
  19. photography
    9 Rarely Seen New York Moments, Captured by Diane ArbusA preview of “Diane Arbus: In the Park,” opening today at the Lévy Gorvy gallery.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  20. gallery
    How to Tell If Your Child Is a Future Art StarProjectArt hosts an exhibition of the very early works of famous artists.
    By Carl Swanson
  21. money money money
    The Met Is Reportedly Considering Charging Tourists an Admission FeeAlert your visiting grandparents now!
    By Hunter Harris
  22. That’s the Last Time I Plan an Art Heist on Facebook Events, by Bizzy Coy Alphonse, Natasha, and Mister Fingers, I write this letter with a heavy heart. I thought we were friends—no, more than friends. […]
    By Brian Boone
  23. art and design 2017
    22 Artists, Critics, and Curators on What Makes Protest Art SuccessfulWe asked what works they’d found most powerful in the current climate — and what works from the past they felt inspiring in new ways.
    By Rachel Corbett
  24. art and design 2017
    Is Political Art the Only Art That Matters Now?The art world is going to war with Trump. If it doesn’t shoot itself in the foot first.
    By Carl Swanson
  25. art and design 2017
    The ‘Carb Artist’ Who Makes Work Out of Fake Food and Real AspirationsChloe Wise and her mixed-up relationship with ubiquity.
    By Jessica Pressler
  26. art and design 2017
    Jerry Saltz Reviews Jerry Saltz: A Critic Looks at His Own Early ArtworkBefore I became a critic, I was an artist, and in the early 1970s, I feverishly devoted myself to illustrating the entirety of Dante’s Divine Comedy.
    By Jerry Saltz
  27. feature
    Jerry Saltz: My Life As a Failed ArtistDecades after giving up the dream for good, an art critic returns to the work he’d devoted his life to, then abandoned — but never really forgot.
    By Jerry Saltz
  28. feature
    With Rumors, Scandal, and a Record Budget Shortfall, What Broke the Met?Just a year ago, the museum was planning an ambitious expansion and touting record attendance. Now its director has been ousted.
    By Boris Kachka
  29. documentary
    The Truth About the Guggenheim’s Golden-Toilet ArtistYou can now see the Maurizio Cattelan documentary.
    By Carl Swanson
  30. on art
    ‘Charging Bull’ Artist Says ‘Fearless Girl’ Sculpture Infringes on His RightsHe called the newly arrived sculpture an “advertising trick.”
    By Devon Ivie
  31. remembrances
    In Remembrance of James Rosenquist: 1933 – 2017The first-rank Pop Artist has died.
    By Jerry Saltz
  32. dividing is actually going on here
    A Timeline of Shia LaBeouf’s Anti-Trump Art Installation’s ControversiesFourth time’s the charm?
    By Devon Ivie
  33. Artists Are Asking the Whitney to Take Down a Painting of Emmett TillThe painting, entitled Open Casket, is by Dana Schutz.
    By Dayna Evans
  34. art
    Julian Schnabel’s New Plate SpecialA visit with the artist.
    By Carl Swanson
  35. art
    The 2017 Whitney Biennial Is the Most Politically Charged in DecadesThe first, last, and only Hillary Clinton biennial.
    By Jerry Saltz
  36. art
    The Most Memorable Thing I Saw at the Art Fairs: The Photographs of Aneta BartosThese haunted, staged photographs of the artist partially clad in bra and panties or camisoles with her Speedo-wearing, bald, bodybuilder father.
    By Jerry Saltz
  37. art therapy
    Brad Pitt Didn’t Go to the Oscars Because He Was Busy SculptingThe actor “had been at it for nearly 10 days.”
    By Jackson McHenry
  38. metropolitan museum of art
    Metropolitan Museum Director Thomas Campbell ResignsDaniel Weiss, the Met’s president and COO, will act as its interim chief executive.
    By Jackson McHenry
  39. art du jour
    Shia LaBeouf’s Anti-Trump Installation Shut Down Following Reported Gunshots“The safety of everybody participating in our project is paramount.”
    By Devon Ivie
  40. Andrea Rosen Has Decided to Close Up Shop. This Is a Major Loss.Rosen gave us Felix Gonzalez-Torres, John Currin, and Wolfgang Tillmans — who together invented the 1990s art world.
    By Jerry Saltz
  41. art du jour
    Shia LaBeouf’s Anti-Trump Art Project Relaunches in New MexicoHE WILL NOT DIVIDE US is heading west.
    By Devon Ivie
  42. art in our time
    What Photography Can Learn From Danny Lyon in the Age of TrumpMost people have never heard of one of the most powerful and political photographers in history, Danny Lyon.
    By Jerry Saltz
  43. the political climate
    Stanley Tucci Has Some Fighting Words for Donald Trump’s Arts-Education Plans“If this administration has its way, they will eviscerate the arts.”
    By Devon Ivie
  44. live streams
    Shia LaBeouf’s Anti-Trump Livestream Shut Down Over Safety ConcernsHE WILL NOT DIVIDE US has met its end.
    By Jackson McHenry
  45. gallery
    Raymond Pettibon’s Punk ProphesyThe perfect punk artist for the Trump era has a show at the New Museum. Here’s a sampler.
    By Carl Swanson
  46. art
    The Artwork That Jerry Saltz Can’t Stop Thinking AboutGlenn Ligon’s conceptualist text piece is neither protest nor poetry.
    By Jerry Saltz
  47. peaceful protests
    NYPD to Monitor the HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US Site“As a site for everyone, the Museum condemns hate speech in all its forms.”
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  48. shia labeouf
    Shia LaBeouf Shouts a Racist Troll Off His Anti-Trump Livestream Exhibit At the actor’s Museum of the Moving Image installation.
    By Halle Kiefer
  49. trailer mix
    Manifesto Trailer: You Get 13 Cate Blanchetts for the Price of OneArt requires truth, not sincerity.
    By Devon Ivie
  50. Richard Prince Just Showed How Art Fights Trump“This is not my work. I did not make it. I deny. I denounce. This fake art.”
    By Jerry Saltz
  51. art
    An Art Exhibit’s Modest Proposal for RefugeesHalil Altindere’s Space Refugee, like much of his work, is both absurdist and humane.
    By Carl Swanson
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