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  1. What 2017 Needs From the Art World: A Commitment to New ArtAs a critic, I need to make a commitment to the art of this moment. I want the art world as a whole to do the same.
    By Jerry Saltz
  2. r.i.p.
    Art Critic and Booker Prize–Winning Author John Berger Dead at 90Berger is best known for Ways of Seeing.
    By Tolly Wright
  3. art du jour
    The Story Behind That Striking Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds Photograph“Her daughter was really mesmerized by her mother always.”
    By Devon Ivie
  4. James Franco Put His Own Paintings in Why Him?It’s all in the name of art — though which art, no one knows.
    By Karen Brill
  5. Eric Fischl’s New Master Portrait of AmericaLooking at it, I felt like I had fallen through a trapdoor.
    By Jerry Saltz
  7. This Artist Creates Colorfully Detailed Embroidered PortraitsShe’s also made a few pop-culture designs.
    By Eva Hill
  8. year in culture 2016
    The 10 Best Art Books of 2016From an illustrated Salvador Dalí dinner-party cookbook to tales of modern artist rivalries.
    By Rachel Corbett
  9. year in culture 2016
    The 10 Best Art Shows of 2016What art and which artists had inklings we were entering a paradigm shift?
    By Jerry Saltz
  10. Andreas Gursky Predicted the Future — and PresentArtists often channel the future.
    By Jerry Saltz
  11. cringe
    Madonna Offers to Marry Sean Penn AgainWhy, that’s pennies on the dollar!
    By Halle Kiefer
  12. art
    See Adam Driver’s Bizarre Bathroom Photo Shoot Don’t worry. He still looks great.
    By Halle Kiefer
  13. art du jour
    Pussy Riot Invited to Grab Back at Art BaselBut it’s going to be expensive.
    By Jenni Miller
  14. This Francis Picabia Retrospective Is a Call to MutinyPicabia wakes the polis.
    By Jerry Saltz
  15. art
    People Are Waiting Two Hours to See a 18-Karat-Gold Toilet at the GuggenheimMaurizio Cattelan’s America invites visitors, in the words of the museum, to have “an experience of unprecedented intimacy with a work of art.”
    By Vulture Editors
  16. art
    This Post-Election Pain Is Good, At Least for ArtAlienation is the wellspring of art; in fact, feeling alone is often why you become an artist.
    By Jerry Saltz
  17. art
    Ai Weiwei Brought a Refugee Camp to SohoThe laundry that was left behind in one, anyway.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  18. art
    Ai Weiwei Brought a Refugee Camp to SohoThe laundry that was left behind in one, anyway.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  19. Here’s What It Would Look Like If Edward Hopper’s Paintings Were a MovieThe paintings were given the cinematic treatment for the film Shirley: Visions of Reality.
    By Eva Hill
  20. art
    The Painting That Jerry Saltz Can’t Stop Thinking AboutKerry James Marshall’s A Portrait of the Artist As a Shadow of His Former Self fires like a time bomb in the mind.
    By Jerry Saltz
  21. art du jour
    The World’s First Emoji Are Going to Be Displayed at MoMA[Face with tears of joy emoji.]
    By Devon Ivie
  22. What’s Up With the PsychoBarn on the Met Roof?Transitional Object is made entirely from a cut-up and reconfigured decaying barn from Schoharie, New York.
    By Jerry Saltz
  23. art
    Satellite Views That Turn Geology Into GeometryBenjamin Grant is a photographer who never touches the camera he’s using. 
    By Christopher Bonanos
  24. art
    Satellite Views That Turn Geology Into GeometryBenjamin Grant is a photographer who never touches the camera he’s using. 
    By Christopher Bonanos
  25. art review
    Matthew Barney’s 1991 Show Is Better TodayAt the Gladstone Gallery, you can go back 25 years and witness the event that completely shattered the art world.
    By Jerry Saltz
  26. These Intricate Sculptures Are Handcrafted From Thousands of Porcelain ShardsZemer Peled creates works of art like no other.
    By Christine Nguyen
  27. With ‘An Occupation of Loss,’ Taryn Simon Brings You Face-to-Face With DeathThis is a universal language of loss and inconsolability.
    By Jerry Saltz
  28. bathroom talk
    You Can Now Poop in a Solid-Gold Toilet at the GuggenheimThe toilet costs between $1.5 and $2.5 million.
    By Erica Schwiegershausen
  29. This Artist Uses Projectors As Paintbrushes to Create Eye-popping Body ArtDefinitely a much easier cleanup than body paint.
    By Eva Hill and Cait Munro
  30. art
    The Tyranny of Art History in Contemporary ArtIts terms are so specialized and vague they’re only useful to those in the know.
    By Jerry Saltz
  31. tribute
    9/11 Survivor Schandra Singh on Painting Everyone Who Died That Day“For me, it wasn’t about death. It was about bringing them back to life.”
    By Carl Swanson
  32. respect the classics
    Bob Dylan Welded a Massive Iron Statue for a CasinoLay, Iron, Lay.
    By Devon Ivie
  33. encounter
    Talking With David Salle, Tribeca Painter Turned Hamptons WriterHis new book, How to See, is a trenchant and light-on-its-feet collection of critical essays and musings about art, artists, and fame.
    By Carl Swanson
  34. art du jour
    Kanye’s ‘Famous’ Music Video Now an Art Exhibit Well, the sculpture and bed, anyway.
    By Devon Ivie
  35. fall preview 2016
    What Vulture’s Critics Are Most Excited for This FallTheir top five picks for the season.
    By David Edelstein, Matt Zoller Seitz, and Craig Jenkins
  36. fall preview 2016
    35 Can’t-Miss Art Exhibits Opening This Fall Oscar Murillo, Agnes Martin, Carrie Mae Weems, and more.
    By Ian Epstein
  37. Here’s What Happens When Vigilante Art Critic Eric André Is Set Loose in NYCOf course the cops showed up.
    By Kenny Wassus
  38. fall preview 2016
    The Best Fall TV, Films, Books, Albums, and More306 great things to see and hear, for fans of all stripes.
    By Vulture Editors
  39. the art world
    See Guillermo del Toro’s LACMA Monster ExhibitOn view until November 27.
    By Devon Ivie
  40. the art world
    Exhibition Shows What America Looks Like From BeirutRichard Prince and Donald Trump: trying to figure it all out.
    By Carl Swanson
  41. the art world
    Exhibition Shows What America Looks Like From BeirutRichard Prince and Donald Trump: trying to figure it all out.
    By Carl Swanson
  42. Dying Gaul Is a World Masterpiece About DeathYou knew this sculpture before you saw it.
    By Jerry Saltz
  43. art auctions
    For $13 Million, David Bowie’s Elusive Art Collection Could Be YoursMore than 400 works owned by Bowie will go on display at Sotheby’s in November, and then up for auction.
    By Dee Lockett
  44. These Optical Illusions Are Actually Humans Masked in Body PaintNope, that’s not a flower.
    By Kenny Wassus and Cait Munro
  45. the people vs. george lucas
    Sadder Than Anakin’s Fall: George Lucas Drops Plans for His Chicago Art Museum“No one benefits from continuing their seemingly unending litigation to protect a parking lot.”
    By Devon Ivie
  46. This Artist Uses Fabric to Create Gauzy, Romantic ArtHe even did an installation at his own wedding.
    By Kenny Wassus and Cait Munro
  47. art
    An Exhibition of Kurt Cobain’s Works, Art, and Possessions Is Being Planned“He’s got some amazing canvases that a lot of the world has never seen or even heard of.”
    By Devon Ivie
  48. Jerry Saltz, Glenn O’Brien Talk Art, NudityA few Pulitzer nominations weren’t enough to prevent Saltz from getting kicked off Instagram for posting artsy nudes.
    By Tucker Higgins
  49. gallery
    Dakis Joannou’s Art AddictionA look at the Greek tycoon’s 33 years of collecting
    By Carl Swanson
  50. gallery
    Dakis Joannou’s Art AddictionA look at the Greek tycoon’s 33 years of collecting
    By Carl Swanson
  51. Never Has My Breath Been Taken Away Like It Was at Knockdown CenterI thought I knew what’s what in much of New York.
    By Jerry Saltz
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