- 5/16/13 /
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Forever Meme Naked Bea Arthur Painting Goes for (Just!) $1.9 Million
But we'll print you out a copy for $10 if you want.
Art
- 5/15/13 /
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Justin Davidson Talks to the New President of Lincoln Center, Jed Bernstein
For the first time in eleven years, the hand on the tiller at Lincoln Center is changing.
- 5/5/13 /
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Why Food (the Restaurant) Is the Talk of the 2013 Frieze Art Fair
Curator Cecilia Alemani is installing a canteen that pays homage to the Soho restaurant.
- 5/5/13 /
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Jeff Koons Is the Most Successful American Artist Since Warhol. So What’s the Art World Got Against Him?
Dueling New York gallery shows, followed by a career retrospective at the Whitney. But the most powerful American artist has plenty left to prove.
- 5/3/13 /
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Jerry Saltz: Venice Is Losing a Great Artwork, For a Really Dumb Reason
Basta!
- 4/28/13 /
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Saltz on the Met’s Photography and the American Civil War
A bracing look at the first war that was conducted in front of the camera's cold eye.
- 4/21/13 /
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Inside MoMA's Rain Room Installation
Opening May 12, visitors briefly gain godlike control over wet weather.
- 4/19/13 /
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Jerry Saltz on His First Time in High Heels
"Sweat poured off my forehead as my body readjusted into an entirely new carriage. My ass seemed to turn into a shelf-thing."
- 4/16/13 /
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Adding Dame Maggie Smith’s Portrait Makes All Art Better
Munch's The Scream? Mags will give you something to scream about! Degas's Classe de Danse? More like Classe de Dame!
- 4/12/13 /
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Saltz on MoMA’s Plan to Raze the Folk Art Museum: Good! Build Something That Has Room for Art
It was doomed to death as an art museum from the beginning.
- 4/11/13 /
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Davidson: It’s a Form of Betrayal for MoMA to Tear Down the Folk Art Museum Building
If the museum’s architects can’t figure out a way to use the building, that is a failure of imagination.
- 3/30/13 /
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Saltz on the Death of the Gallery Show
Between online sales and art fairs, fewer and fewer people are showing up to see art in its natural habitat.
- 3/25/13 /
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Watch 9 Videos That Capture Tilda Swinton’s Glorious Eccentricity
She's more than a lady who sleeps in glass boxes.
- 3/25/13 /
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Saltz on Tilda Swinton in a Box and How Living Art Has Become MoMA’s Crystal Meth
Blame Marina Abramovic.
- 3/23/13 /
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Tilda Swinton to Occasionally Sleep in a Glass Box at MoMA
Friday was her first performance.
- 3/16/13 /
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Saltz: 20 Things I Really Liked at the Art Fairs
And which of them were sold.
- 3/3/13 /
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Saltz on Critic Thomas McEvilley, 1939–2013
The father of art world multiculturalism has died.
- 2/24/13 /
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Saltz Revisits the 1913 Armory Show
When new art became modern art.
- 2/9/13 /
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Jerry Saltz on Richard Artschwager, 1923-2013
"An artist … preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd."
- 2/8/13 /
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Jerry Saltz: George W. Bush Is a Good Painter!
These belong in the Whitney.