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Buying Myself Back

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Jerry Saltz’s 33 Rules for Being an Artist

 How to go from clueless amateur to generational talent (or at least live life a little more creatively). By Jerry Saltz
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Explore the World of Artists in Quarantine

 The Drawing Center presents vibrant new work created in lockdown. By Jerry Saltz
  1. art
    A New Book Shows Why Black Artists Drive the Culture VisuallyYoung, Gifted and Black features Jordan Casteel, Kevin Beasley, and more.
    By Trupti Rami
  2. exhibitions
    Whitney Cancels Exhibition After Criticism of Acquisition of Black Artists’ WorkOne artist said the museum bought his work for $100.
    By Justin Curto
  3. art crimes
    An Austrian Tourist’s Butt Broke a 200-Year-Old SculptureIt’s like the worst art heist ever.
    By Rebecca Alter
  4. art
    Philip Guston’s 1970s Paintings Might Help You Cope TodayThe online exhibition “What Endures” offers a road map to the eternal.
    By Hilary Reid
  5. memoir
    Sleeping With Andy WarholIn 1962, a young poet named John Giorno met the Pop Art god, who in turn made him his first superstar. For a little while, they were in love.
    By John Giorno
  7. art
    Banksy’s Chumbawamba Fan Art Removed From London Tube“I get lockdown/but I get up again.”
    By Rebecca Alter
  8. art
    The Instagram Account ‘Change the Museum’ Is Doing Just ThatCurator Gary Garrels loses his job at SFMoMA.
    By Trupti Rami
  9. vulture recommends
    The Couch Gallery CrawlHow to look at art from the safety of home.
    By Thomas Benfield
  10. art
    These Two Last Suppers Are My Quarantine ObsessionComparing two masterpiece treatments made just 50 years apart: one revolutionary and prevailing, the other genius and forgotten.
    By Jerry Saltz
  11. art
    See M.F.A. Students’ Virtual Senior ShowsWhen you graduate into a pandemic.
    By Thomas Benfield
  12. art
    See Peter Hujar’s Portraits of a Long-Ago Queer DowntownIncluding a kittenish Fran Lebowitz.
    By Trupti Rami
  13. art
    Guggenheim Curators Say Museum ‘Enables Racism’The staff sent a letter to leadership on Monday.
    By Zoe Haylock
  14. monuments
    Teddy Roosevelt Statue Coming Down, Says Natural History MuseumThe statue has been criticized as racist for years.
    By Justin Curto
  15. art
    It’s Funeral Time for Colonial MonumentsArtist Nicholas Galanin has already dug a grave for a Captain Cook statue in Sydney.
    By Trupti Rami
  16. scammers
    The Art World’s ‘Mini Madoff’ Has Been Arrested in the South PacificHe was apparently arrested wearing swim trunks.
    By Victoria Bekiempis
  17. art
    Artist Jordan Eagles Calls for Queer Blood to Help Save the SickAn online exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.
    By Thomas Benfield
  18. obits
    Christo, Artist Behind Central Park’s ‘The Gates,’ Dead at 84He collaborated with his wife, artist Jeanne-Claude, until her death in 2009.
    By Halle Kiefer
  19. art
    This Is the Saddest Picture I Have Ever SeenSandro Botticelli’s La Derelitta, a 15th-century tableau of hopelessness, feels especially resonant right now.
    By Jerry Saltz
  20. art
    See New York Through the Eyes of Hockney, Warhol, and O’KeeffeA much-needed love letter to the city.
    By Trupti Rami
  21. sweet dreams
    Hear Iggy Pop Reading a Love Letter to His Dead Dog TrombaFrom the New Museum’s daily “Bedtime Stories” series, curated by Maurizio Cattelan.
    By Trupti Rami
  22. first person
    My AppetitesJerry Saltz on eating and coping mechanisms, childhood and self-control, criticism, love, cancer and pandemics.
    By Jerry Saltz
  23. art
    See Titus Kaphar’s Paintings About Black MotherhoodMourning the disappearance of their children.
    By Trupti Rami
  24. art
    See Jean Jullien’s Escapist Paintings From the French CountrysideThe artist’s diary of his family in lockdown, watching the spring arrive.
    By Trupti Rami
  25. banandemic
    Bananas to the Rescue!Two artists release a sticker pack featuring anthropomorphic bananas washing their peel-hands and bumping their peel-elbows while singing “Jolene.”
    By Hilary Reid
  26. psa
    A Times Square Tribute to All of UsTwo dozen artists say thank-you.
    By Michael Kaler
  27. resources
    These 20 Groups Are Offering Aid to Artists in NeedPainters, playwrights, and podcasters can all apply for emergency grants.
    By Michael Kaler
  28. art
    Revisiting a 16th-Century Masterpiece of Mass Death From Self-Isolation in 2020Lately, I have spent so much time contemplating Pieter Bruegel’s “The Triumph of Death” I feel I have almost been living inside it.
    By Jerry Saltz
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. art
    Salman Toor’s Queer RococoThe artist lives, and paints, between worlds — Lahore, Pakistan and New York.
    By Carl Swanson
  33. 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
  34. feature
    The Art World’s Mini-Madoff and MeBoozy nights and high-stakes art trades with Inigo Philbrick.
    By Kenny Schachter
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. art du jour
    Ben Affleck Breaks His Silence on Lying About His Back Tattoo“It felt invasive.”
    By Devon Ivie
  40. 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
  41. 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
  42. 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
  43. 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
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. best of 2019
    The 10 Best Art Shows of 2019From an art-world protest to a radically original self-portraitist.
    By Jerry Saltz
  47. art
    Man Duct-tapes Banana to Wall, Makes $240,000, Credits New York MagazineHowever, a prankster has now eaten the banana.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  48. 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
  49. art du jour
    Did You Know Lucy Liu Creates Beautiful Erotic Paintings?What a delightful semi-hidden talent.
    By Katie Heaney
  50. 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
  51. art
    Hirshhorn Museum Celebrates Intergenerational Artist CrushesLawrence Weiner and Catherine Opie, pothead pals.
    By Hilary Reid
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