- 2/3/13 /
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The New Hauser & Wirth Makes Room for an Entire Army of Loyal Artists
The grand opening of this converted disco is the biggest thing to hit West Chelsea since Hurricane Sandy.
Art
- 2/1/13 /
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Jerry Saltz on the Outsider Art Fair — and Why There’s No Such Thing As ‘Outsider’ Art
Whatever "outsider" means.
- 1/27/13 /
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Saltz: The Met’s Matisse Exhibit Is Intoxicating, Possibly Dangerous
What makes this show so ravishing is, improbably, that it’s arranged like an art-history-class slideshow time line.
- 1/25/13 /
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Davidson: DJ Spooky Spins Into Oblivion at the Met
In his first year as the museum's artist-in-residence, he offers up watery music and weak ideas.
- 1/20/13 /
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The Trials of Art Superdealer Larry Gagosian
For the past two decades, he's been the most powerful gallerist in the world by a wide margin. Now he’s facing two bruising lawsuits.
- 1/20/13 /
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Robin Rhode Turns a Gallery Into a Coloring Book
The artist invited 37 first-graders from the South Bronx to draw on the walls of Lehmann Maupin.
- 1/14/13 /
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Jerry Saltz on Kate Middleton’s Terrible Official Portrait
She described it as "amazing." So much for her art-history background.
- 1/11/13 /
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Check Out the Movie Monster High 1986 Yearbook
Takes you back, doesn't it?
- 1/6/13 /
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Saltz: MoMA’s Inventing Abstraction Is Illuminating—Although It Shines That Light Mighty Selectively
Insiders will go gaga here. But I wonder whether larger audiences will grasp the way this kind of art thrust itself to the fore in the West.
- 12/21/12 /
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See Norman Rockwell’s Take on Batman
Robin and Batgirl, sitting in a tree ...
- 12/18/12 /
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‘Potato Jesus’ Painter Has a Real Art Career Now
Congrats, Cecilia!
- 12/14/12 /
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One Artist Paints by Air-Drumming, Basically
Is air-drumming lame? Not when Alexis Fraser does it.
- 12/12/12 /
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See Storybook Characters Made From the Pages of Their Books
It's books! It's art! It's meta!
- 12/11/12 /
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Art Basel in a Dampened, Post-Sandy Mood
Everything seemed a little lower key in the event's eleventh year.
- 12/10/12 /
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See Beaded Portraits of Famous People
Beads, not beards!
- 12/7/12 /
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Watch This Painter Make Art by Screaming
Giving new meaning to "loud art."
- 12/3/12 /
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The Judd Apatow Art Show Looks Awesome
And, yes, there is "a whale's vagina."
- 12/2/12 /
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Jerry Saltz's Top 10 Art Picks of 2012
Clint Eastwood pioneered a new genre of performance art, the Met examined the dawn of Egyptian art, and more.
- 11/29/12 /
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Super Mario Is Real, Now Made of Beads
Beautiful beads.
- 11/28/12 /
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Saltz: Is Glenn Beck’s ‘Obama in Pee-Pee’ Actually Art?
Yes, but it unintentionally reveals something about the artist.