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  1. art du jour
    The Goldfinch Is Real! Vincent van Gogh Art Theft Befalls Dutch MuseumThe smash and grab was made easy due to the museum’s closure.
    By Devon Ivie
  2. coronavirus
    The Art World Is Sending Supplies to Hospitals in Need“It’s very beautiful and hopeful. But at some point, the government is going to have to step up.”
    By Amelia Schonbek
  3. art
    The Art World Goes DarkThe pandemic has already darkened galleries, museums, and artists’ studios. What new forms will emerge from that darkness?
    By Jerry Saltz
  4. art
    Salman Toor’s Queer RococoThe artist lives, and paints, between worlds — Lahore, Pakistan and New York.
    By Carl Swanson
  5. books
    Can You Tell Anyone How to Be an Artist?Artist Laurie Simmons and our art critic Jerry Saltz (they’re old friends) talk about his new book.
    By Laurie Simmons and Jerry Saltz
  7. feature
    The Art World’s Mini-Madoff and MeBoozy nights and high-stakes art trades with Inigo Philbrick.
    By Kenny Schachter
  8. obits
    Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Musician and Artist, Dead at 70The Psychic TV and Throbbing Gristle founder was diagnosed with leukemia in 2017.
    By Halle Kiefer
  9. mexican muralists
    ‘Vida Americana’ Is the Most Relevant Show of the 21st CenturyThe contributions of Mexican muralists to modern art has been criminally neglected. This Whitney show begins the correction.
    By Jerry Saltz
  10. art
    Dan Colen Is Alive and Well, Painting and Farming UpstateThe onetime art world bad boy still paints. But instead of raising hell, he’s raising pigs and sheep.
    By Matthew Schneier
  11. art
    Donald Judd’s Minimalist Legacy Is All Around UsThe artist wanted his work totally empty. Which allowed the world to make anything out of it.
    By Jerry Saltz
  14. art du jour
    Ben Affleck Breaks His Silence on Lying About His Back Tattoo“It felt invasive.”
    By Devon Ivie
  15. art
    Jerry Saltz on Robert Andy Coombs’s Taboo-Breaking PhotosIn his work, you can see crescendos of pleasure, helplessness, and fear.
    By Jerry Saltz
  16. losses
    No One Looked at New York Like Jason PolanHis was an art of taking pleasure in and appreciating the people, places, and things of the world.
    By Jerry Saltz
  17. art
    NYC Almost Killed This Artist, But Now, at 40, She’s BackShannon Cartier Lucy was an up-and-coming artist (and nanny to bigger artists) but had to flee the city. Then someone saw her new work on Instagram …
    By Hilary Reid
  18. legacies
    John Baldessari Was Anything But BoringHis art was mystically simple: splendid when it was good, entrancing and gleeful when it was great.
    By Jerry Saltz
  19. the lost canon
    Beauford Delaney Very Nearly Disappeared from Art HistoryAs a black, gay painter, even when he was celebrated, it was not as an equal to his contemporaries.
    By Jerry Saltz
  20. obits
    John Baldessari, the Godfather of Conceptual Art, Dead at 88Baldessari famously burned his entire oeuvre in 1970, baking the ashes into cookies that were later displayed at the MoMa in New York.
    By Halle Kiefer
  21. best of 2019
    The 10 Best Art Shows of 2019From an art-world protest to a radically original self-portraitist.
    By Jerry Saltz
  22. art
    Man Duct-tapes Banana to Wall, Makes $240,000, Credits New York MagazineHowever, a prankster has now eaten the banana.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  23. art
    Bill Traylor Deserves to Be Exalted Alongside Art’s Greatest NamesBorn into slavery, the artist’s story is a vision of American hell, but his work is transcendent and essential.
    By Jerry Saltz
  26. art du jour
    Did You Know Lucy Liu Creates Beautiful Erotic Paintings?What a delightful semi-hidden talent.
    By Katie Heaney
  27. obits
    Robert Freeman, Iconic Beatles Photographer, Dead at 82The British-born artist shot the album covers for Help!, Rubber Soul, and more.
    By Halle Kiefer
  28. art
    Hirshhorn Museum Celebrates Intergenerational Artist CrushesLawrence Weiner and Catherine Opie, pothead pals.
    By Hilary Reid
  29. vulture festival 2019
    Wanna Be an Artist? Jerry Saltz Will Teach You How at Vulture FestivalSee? We’re educational, too.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  30. party report
    Basquiat’s Art Career Took Off in Part Thanks to an Indie Film“All of the books that talk about Annina Nosei giving Jean-Michel his first studio, that wasn’t actually true.”
    By Justin Curto
  31. art and architecture
    Two Critics — Art and Architecture — Compare Their New MoMA ExperiencesSaltz and Davidson on the newly expanded museum.
    By Justin Davidson and Jerry Saltz
  32. instagram
    9 of the Funniest Cartoonists and Illustrators on InstagramMix up your feed with some original work by these very talented artists.
    By Nayomi Reghay
  33. cityscape
    The New MoMA Tries to Get Out of Its Own Way. We’ll See If It Can.An attempt to manage the crush of visitors that’s made the museum hard to love.
    By Justin Davidson
  34. art
    What Does the New MoMA Mean for Modernism? And What Was Modernism Anyway?The reimagined Museum of Modern Art tries to open itself up.
    By Jerry Saltz
  35. excerpt
    When Playwright Jeremy O. Harris Met Artist Jordan Wolfson“Everyone’s queer for clout now.”
    By Nathan Pemberton
  38. art
    The Return of the Tribeca Art SceneEven though most artists can’t afford to live here, the galleries are back.
    By Jerry Saltz
  39. loie hollowell
    Loie Hollowell Wants to Be the Amy Schumer of Abstract ArtHer big new show at Pace is about her pregnancy.
    By Hilary Reid
  40. fall preview 2019
    The Canadian Cree Artist Remixing History in the Met’s Great HallIsn’t Kent Monkman’s time-traveling, gender-fluid, indigenous sex goddess exactly what art needs right about now?
    By Jarrett Earnest
  41. fall preview 2019
    The Best and Biggest Art Shows to See to This FallFrom JR, Amy Sherald, Pope.L, and more.
    By Jerry Saltz and Carl Swanson
  42. obits
    Robert Frank, Influential Documentary Photographer, Is Dead at 94Frank broke the mold for photojournalism with The Americans.
    By Zoe Haylock
  43. art
    Richard Prince and Lisa Spellman Regret NothingThe art-world exes on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of her 303 Gallery.
    By Lisa Spellman and Richard Prince
  44. art
    Ranking New York’s Most Toxic Museum BoardsWho might activists try to take down next?
    By Whitney Mallett and Katy Schneider
  45. one grand books
    William Wegman’s 10 Favorite BooksCharles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and more.
    By William Wegman
  46. art
    A True Protest BiennialArtists are withdrawing from the Whitney left and right, making good on the radical politics of the show.
    By Jerry Saltz
  47. art
    Why Did It Take So Long for the World to Recognize the Genius of Joseph Yoakum?In fairness, it took me a long while, too.
    By Jerry Saltz
  50. art
    How Alexander Calder’s Wee Circus Was Brought Back to LifeThe show must go on at the Whitney.
    By Hilary Reid
  51. art du jour
    That Fancy Bachelorette Museum Date Would Only Set You Back $10,000Seems reasonable, all things considered.
    By Devon Ivie
  52. art du jour
    Will You Silently Weep at These Paintings Like The Bachelorette’s Hannah Did?The Dutch masters always bring the waterworks.
    By Devon Ivie
  53. art review
    Alexander Calder’s Circus is Back in TownThe artist’s wee sideshow is restored, and back at the Whitney.
    By Jerry Saltz
  54. art
    Study Warhol and Basquiat at a School Turned Gallery in Upstate New YorkNeither of these artists was known as a nature lover, of course.
    By Matthew Silver
  55. behind the scenes
    Whitney Biennial Artists Reveal the Creative Processes Behind Their 2019 WorkJeffrey Gibson is one of five artists sharing their stories in an upcoming video series.
    By Milan Polk
  56. art
    Women Artists on Their Favorite Artworks at Their Local MuseumsFor a new book, It Speaks to Me, Jori Finkel asked 50 artists to discuss an artwork they find inspiring.
    By Vulture Editors
  57. art
    Whitney Biennial Artists Share Mood Boards for Their WorksWhat were they thinking about when they made that?
    By Carl Swanson
  58. whitney biennial
    The New Whitney Biennial Made Me See Art History in a New WayThis show demonstrates unmistakably that subject matter is just as important as form.
    By Jerry Saltz
  59. art
    This Fully Functional Brooklyn Handball Court Is Actually an Art InstallationBring your own balls.
    By Mathew Silver
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