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  1. Night at the MuseumLook at those curves! Who wouldn’t want a one-night stand with the Guggenheim?
  2. World in a BottleGiorgio Morandi found himself in his vessels and vases.
  3. Frieze After the FreezeAt London’s big art fair, signs of financial trouble abound. But maybe that’s okay.
  4. Dark VictoryVan Gogh by night is irresistible.
  5. Welcome to the Sixties, Yet AgainMartha Rosler, like too many artists, can’t move beyond the easy arguments of her youth.
  6. Looking Out for No. 2Andres Serrano’s “Shit” is, yes, crap. Skip it in favor of Neil Campbell, who does more with less.
  7. Let’s Get Serious for a MomentIs the apocalyptic art of “After Nature” a sign of a newfound earnestness?
  8. Sex, Death, DinnerNew York’s art critic gets ravished by a legendary Spanish chef.
  9. Not Just Hot AirJeff Koons typifies event art. He also transcends it.
  10. Two Coats of PaintingTony Shafrazi, the man who tagged Guernica, tries another way of superimposing new art and old.
  11. Statuary StoryDavid Altmejd’s otherworldly figures create narrative just by standing still.
  12. The Art World’s Space InvaderDoes a Warhol look different when it’s hanging above someone’s TV set? Ask Louise Lawler.
  13. American InventorRemembering Rauschenberg.
  14. Elizabeth IIElizabeth Peyton returns to life.
  15. The Day the Lights Went OnDan Flavin’s 1964 breakout show, in meticulous reproduction.
  16. Wasted YouthA collaboration between two superhot artists instantly looks dated.
  17. The New York Canon: ArtThe East Village’s friendly baby, the culture wars’ provocateur, and (of course) Andy’s apotheosis.
  18. The Venus of Long Island CityP.S. 1’s survey of feminist art shows us the birth of just about every art trend that’s in vogue today.
  19. When Cool Turns ColdThe Whitney Biennial, chockablock with bloodless M.F.A. product, is a little too smart for its own good.
  20. Fever DreamsA show about archives gets brilliantly lost in the vaults.
  21. Éminence Grise“Jasper Johns: Gray” shows off an imagination that works in non-imaginative ways.
  22. Modern MachineryWith new curatorial direction, the MoMA should speed up, and the Guggenheim should slow down.
  23. Tower of RabbleAn elegy for the city’s folk-art monumentalism.
  24. Beacon of HopeDoes Philippe Vergne have what it takes to keep Dia from being DOA?
  25. Artist in ResidenceWhen Guy Ben-Ner goes to Ikea, he’s not there for the meatballs.
  26. Emerging, After All These YearsThe gallery gold rush has allowed artists who’ve spent decades on the fringes to grab at the prize.
  27. 34. Because You Can Never Finish Seeing the Metropolitan Museum of ArtYou can have your Prado, your National Gallery, your Hermitage. The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; […]
  28. The Year in ArtMatthew Barney walked around with a dog on his head, Kara Walker terrified, Richard Prince tanked, things looked up at the Whitney, and the Lowe […]
  29. Little House on the BoweryHas the New Museum sold itself short?
  30. Can You Dig It?At Gavin Brown, Urs Fischer takes a jackhammer to Chelsea itself.
  31. Where Are All the Women?On MoMA’s identity politics.
  32. An Explosion of Color, in Black and WhiteKara Walker’s silhouettes don’t just broach America’s touchiest subject—they detonate it.
  33. The Wild OneThe late Steven Parrino was bent on destroying painting in order to save it.
  34. The Elephant in the RoomWhy you should give a crap about Chris Ofili’s new paintings.
  35. Has Money Ruined Art?Or is the hype about the hype keeping us from seeing the real picture? The collateral benefits of this loopy, vulgar, and altogether overheated […]
  36. Who Should Get the Job?Hiring a new director for the Guggenheim will be tricky. It will be extremely difficult for any candidate to unequivocally say, “Krens must go,” […]
  37. How to Rebuild the GuggenheimThe museum’s next director, whoever he or she is, has to do one thing first: Dump Thomas Krens.
  38. Back From the BrinkMoMA relives painting’s postwar near-death experience.
  39. Bohemian RhapsodyRemembering Elizabeth Murray.
  40. Cocktail CultureThe European megashows, under the glitz, are all about the power of the unexpected mix.
  41. Ugh, VeniceBiennials are boring and bloated—yet we trudge from one to the next. There must be a better way to see art.
  42. Beyond SerraA critic’s five favorite public artworks, all on view for free.
  43. Buona SerraA museum custom-built for Richard Serra delivers on its wishes for shock and awe.
  44. A Real BummerThe Whitney’s “Summer of Love” show needs to come down from its psychedelic high. The stuff just wasn’t that good.
  45. Deal or No DealTakashi Murakami’s show is nakedly commercial; “Underdog” strikes an opposite pose, to much the same effect.
  46. It’s Boring at the TopIs Andreas Gursky—the highest-priced photographer alive—running out of ideas?
  47. Conspicuous ConsumptionRirkrit Tiravanija once again makes dinner for gallerygoers—this time, with self-references as a side dish.
  48. Not Buying ItIf “Not for Sale,” a glib put-down of the art marketplace, tells us anything, it’s that P.S. 1 needs to make some changes.
  49. Get Me a Brush, Stat!The National Academy’s splendid show catches a moment when the New York art world thought painting was dead—and took heroic measures to revive it.