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Jerry Saltz, New York’s senior art critic, is the author of the New York Times best seller How To Be an Artist and has won two ASME awards and the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism.

  1. art review
    Maps of Things PastThe brilliant art-world cartographies of Loren Munk.
  2. art review
    Maybe KAWS Is Not So Bad After AllHis collection of outsider art, on display at the Drawing Center, is a marvel.
  3. art review
    The Met’s Siena Renaissance Show Is a MasterpieceGo see it now.
  4. art review
    A World Without WeatherThe flat and deep paintings of Hilary Pecis.
  5. art review
    What Is a Brooklyn Artist?A sweeping survey at the Brooklyn Museum provides a lot of answers, none of which satisfy.
  6. art review
    Yvonne Well’s Patchwork HistoriesA new show spotlights how the artist’s abstract quilts tell the story of the African diaspora.
  7. fall preview 2024
    10 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See This FallAn Alvin Ailey retrospective sets the tone for an array of eclectic offerings from the art world.
  8. art review
    Abigail Goldman
    Abigail Goldman’s American Horror StoryHer new show, “State of Nature,” depicts our depraved moment in miniature — literally.
  9. remembrance
    Barbara Gladstone, art dealer and gallery owner, in New York, September 14, 2012.
    The Power and Grace of Barbara GladstoneThe venerated gallerist worked for the love of art.
  10. art review
    Jenny Holzer’s Word SaladHer takeover of the Guggenheim reads like intellectual clickbait for the extended Trump era.
  11. art review
    Maurizio Cattelan’s Enormous Wall of KitschA shiny bauble meant to comment on capitalism and to sell.
  12. favorite things
    Jerry Saltz’s Favorite Bad Television ShowsThe ones he secretly loves and records and watches five or six episodes in a row of, alone.
  13. favorite things
    Jerry Saltz’s 78 Indispensable Instagram AccountsInstagram changed our art critic’s life. Here, he recommends 78 of his favorite accounts that you should follow.
  14. art review
    Taxi Driver Was Always About RaceA new film by Arthur Jafa restores the Scorsese classic to its original intention.
  15. vulture lists
    The Stoner Canon: Over 100 Trippy Movies, Albums, Books, TV Shows, and MoreThe ultimate guide to experiencing the high.
  16. remembrance
    Richard Serra’s Magnificent Balancing ActThe sculptor, who died this week, built massive houses of cards.
  17. art review
    What to See and What to Skip at the Whitney BiennialJerry Saltz searches for the real thing at the museum’s latest survey of contemporary art.
  18. art review
    Byzantium RegainedThe Met’s exhibition of art from the African territories of the Byzantine Empire was a triumph.
  19. art review
    The Met’s Tremendous Harlem Renaissance Show Redefines ModernismJerry Saltz says we’ve gotten everything wrong about the big bang of 20th century art.
  20. art review
    Pictures From a GenocideAn astonishing new show of Native American ledger drawings brings a historic crime into focus.
  21. art review
    What Was the Bodega?Tschabalala Self’s ambivalent investigation of the cornershop.
  22. art review
    The Impeccable Peacocks of Barkley HendricksA master portraitist takes his place alongside the Whistlers at the Frick.
  23. a long talk
    Finding Her HeartbeatSharon Stone walked through the valley of death and into an art-supply store.
  24. best of 2023
    The Best New York Art Shows of 2023Queer cutouts, portable candies, and a retrospective of an American master.
  25. art review
    The Triumph of Dana SchutzFive years after the Whitney scandal, she is doing her best work yet.
  26. art review
    A Painter’s New Civil WarThe perverse visions of Hilary Harkness.
  27. in conversation
    Tracey Emin Is SeriousThe artist has always worked in the confessional mode. After surviving cancer, she sees no reason to hold anything back.
  28. art review
    The Beautiful OnesThe tender paintings of Njideka Akunyili Crosby.
  29. art review
    The Fearless Freedom of Henry TaylorHis new retrospective at the Whitney is the best show of 2023.
  30. art review
    Three Jews and a PaintingWho is Marc Dennis teasing?
  31. art
    A 19th Century Masterpiece That Scandalizes StillManet’s Olympia, now on view at the Met, remains as disturbing as ever.
  32. art review
    The Deadpan Precision of Ed RuschaCars, suntans, palm trees, and swimming pools.
  33. fall preview 2023
    10 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See This FallA wealth of dazzling shows will renew your faith in art’s capacity to do more than mint money.
  34. remembrance
    Brice Marden’s Infinitesimal HingeThe artist, who died this week at the age of 84, made minimalism new.
  35. art review
    Agata Slowak’s Personal JesusThe Polish artist’s classically inspired paintings put a new spin on Catholicism and Freud.
  36. art review
    The Subversive Self-Portraits of Iiu Susiraja“Being blank is the same as being real,” she has said.
  37. art review
    A Persia of the Mind and the LoinsThe sensual drawings of Reza Shafahi.
  38. art review
    When Did Art Fairs Become Painting Fairs?The numbing sameness of the art world’s tent-city souks.
  39. art review
    Nina Katchadourian’s Hidden ConnectionsThe artist has turned the Morgan into a cabinet of curiosities.
  40. art
    Warhol Against the Supreme Court and BeyondWhat a renewed obsession with copyright says about the state of artistic appropriation.
  41. art review
    Kyle Dunn’s Night FeverA new show examines moments of strange, intense emotion.
  42. art review
    The Joyful Confessions of XiyadieA new show explores the hidden pleasures and regrets of a gay artist from China.
  43. art review
    A Sanctuary Between Japan and AmericaMiyoko Ito’s work traverses the divide between past and present, and between one country and another.
  44. art review
    Sarah Sze’s Big Little ThingsThe interstitial worlds of “Timelapse” take over the Guggenheim.
  45. art review
    An Artist Reckons With the ‘Fat’ BodyShona McAndrew says she didn’t look at herself in a mirror for ten years.
  46. art review
    The Beaded Masterpieces of Myrlande ConstantThe master weaver writes Haitian myths anew.
  47. art review
    The Magical Last Hours of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres ShowHow viewers can change the meaning of a great artist’s work.
  48. art
    MoMA’s Glorified Lava LampRefik Anadol’s Unsupervised is a crowd-pleasing, like-generating mediocrity.
  49. art review
    Marlon Mullen’s Anomalous TranslationsHis new show at JTT gallery rearranges the visible into bright, pulsing abstractions.
  50. art
    William Eggleston’s Atmospheric DisturbancesHis photographs from the 1970s are a clairvoyant glimpse of the future.
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