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Jerry Saltz on Robert Andy Coombs’s Taboo-Breaking Photos

 In his work, you can see crescendos of pleasure, helplessness, and fear. By Jerry Saltz
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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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No One Looked at New York Like Jason Polan

 His was an art of taking pleasure in and appreciating the people, places, and things of the world. By Jerry Saltz
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. best of 2019
    The 10 Best Art Shows of 2019From an art-world protest to a radically original self-portraitist.
    By Jerry Saltz
  7. art
    Man Duct-tapes Banana to Wall, Makes $240,000, Credits New York MagazineHowever, a prankster has now eaten the banana.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  8. 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
  9. art du jour
    Did You Know Lucy Liu Creates Beautiful Erotic Paintings?What a delightful semi-hidden talent.
    By Katie Heaney
  10. 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
  11. art
    Hirshhorn Museum Celebrates Intergenerational Artist CrushesLawrence Weiner and Catherine Opie, pothead pals.
    By Hilary Reid
  14. vulture festival 2019
    Wanna Be an Artist? Jerry Saltz Will Teach You How at Vulture FestivalSee? We’re educational, too.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. excerpt
    When Playwright Jeremy O. Harris Met Artist Jordan Wolfson“Everyone’s queer for clout now.”
    By Nathan Pemberton
  21. art
    The Return of the Tribeca Art SceneEven though most artists can’t afford to live here, the galleries are back.
    By Jerry Saltz
  22. 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
  23. 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
  26. 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
  27. obits
    Robert Frank, Influential Documentary Photographer, Is Dead at 94Frank broke the mold for photojournalism with The Americans.
    By Zoe Haylock
  28. 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
  29. art
    Ranking New York’s Most Toxic Museum BoardsWho might activists try to take down next?
    By Whitney Mallett and Katy Schneider
  30. one grand books
    William Wegman’s 10 Favorite BooksCharles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and more.
    By William Wegman
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. art
    How Alexander Calder’s Wee Circus Was Brought Back to LifeThe show must go on at the Whitney.
    By Hilary Reid
  34. art du jour
    That Fancy Bachelorette Museum Date Would Only Set You Back $10,000Seems reasonable, all things considered.
    By Devon Ivie
  35. 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
  38. art review
    Alexander Calder’s Circus is Back in TownThe artist’s wee sideshow is restored, and back at the Whitney.
    By Jerry Saltz
  39. 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
  40. 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
  41. 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
  42. art
    Whitney Biennial Artists Share Mood Boards for Their WorksWhat were they thinking about when they made that?
    By Carl Swanson
  43. 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
  44. art
    This Fully Functional Brooklyn Handball Court Is Actually an Art InstallationBring your own balls.
    By Mathew Silver
  45. art du jour
    Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke Maroney Celebrate Love With This Unique PortraitTruly one of a kind.
    By Devon Ivie
  46. art du jour
    Does Jake Gyllenhaal Constantly Frame Photos of Himself?An incredible bit of art gossip.
    By Kelly Conaboy
  47. art
    For Decades, We All Ate Trump Up. Artist Andres Serrano Asks, ‘Why?’In a Chelsea bar, an artist created a Trump Junk Shop of the president’s 30-year rise to power — most of which passed without our really noticing.
    By Jerry Saltz
  50. art
    Tom Slaughter’s Polaroid PortfolioThe artist known for his Pop-y paintings and prints had a side project: shooting Polaroid photos, constantly, of everything that interested him.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  51. notre dame
    Artwork Moving to Louvre After Paris’s Notre-Dame FireAbout 5 to 10 percent of the art was lost in the blaze.
    By Milan Polk
  52. art
    How a $1,000 Art-Auction Bet Turned Into a $450 Million ‘Da Vinci’The invention of the Salvator Mundi.
    By Matthew Shaer
  53. public hearings
    L.A. Official Tasked With Making Brad Pitt Stop TalkingDuring a recent funding meeting, the actor’s time got cut off.
    By Lisa Ryan
  54. snl
    How the SNL Portrait Became Its Own Art FormThe show’s official photographer runs us through 11 of her favorite shots.
    By Devon Ivie
  55. art
    A Radical New History of Queer Modernism, 1933–1950The bodies are sensual, on display, sexually presenting, in carnal states of being — all expressing an otherwise forbidden sexuality.
    By Jerry Saltz
  56. art
    Is This Really, Truly the End of Western Art?The Bruce High Quality Foundation returns, with a mummy sarcophagus and a pack of smokes.
    By Mathew Silver
  57. art
    The Painting Jerry Saltz Can’t Stop Thinking AboutPaul Cadmus’s Herrin Massacre is an orgy of ferociousness.
    By Jerry Saltz
  58. criticism never sleeps
    Jerry Saltz Is Turning ‘How to Be an Artist’ Into a BookMore signature insight from New York’s own art critic.
    By Katie Rothstein
  59. one grand books
    Kenny Scharf’s 10 Favorite BooksHaruki Murakami, Carl Jung, and more.
    By Kenny Scharf
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