Saltz: How Kim Kardashian Became ImportantLast year, just the idea that Kim and Kanye could be creating something got people’s panties in a real twist. Now Kanye has gotten an honorary Ph.D. from the same art school that gave me one, and Kim is a role model, too.
Vito Schnabel’s VIP Show in Old Bowery BankThe non-famous people trying to get into “First Show/Last Show” — which consists solely of white male American artists — were denied in favor of celebrities and museum trustees.
Good-bye Forever to Picasso’s Women of AlgiersI set eyes on the beautiful reward by Picasso known as The Women of Algiers, an epic master class on the ways of painting, which will be sold tonight to a private collector for $140 million.
ByJerry Saltz
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All Aboard Keith Edmier’s New Show“I got interested in the whole story of the birth of Aphrodite born from sea foam of Chronos castrating his father Uranus.”
BySarah Trigg
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Cecily Brown Gets Small“I don’t feel bad about the fact that most of my favorite artists are men.”
Cracking the Code to the Whitney’s Inaugural ShowScott Rothkopf, the Whitney curator responsible for last year’s Jeff Koons extravaganza, explains the placement of the inaugural show at the brand-new museum.