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art
July 15, 2020
The Instagram Account ‘Change the Museum’ Is Doing Just That
Curator Gary Garrels loses his job at SFMoMA.
By
Trupti Rami
vulture recommends
July 10, 2020
The Couch Gallery Crawl
How to look at art from the safety of home.
By
Thomas Benfield
art
July 9, 2020
These Two
Last Supper
s Are My Quarantine Obsession
Comparing two masterpiece treatments made just 50 years apart: one revolutionary and prevailing, the other genius and forgotten.
By
Jerry Saltz
art
June 30, 2020
See M.F.A. Students’ Virtual Senior Shows
When you graduate into a pandemic.
By
Thomas Benfield
art
June 29, 2020
See Peter Hujar’s Portraits of a Long-Ago Queer Downtown
Including a kittenish Fran Lebowitz.
By
Trupti Rami
art
June 23, 2020
Guggenheim Curators Say Museum ‘Enables Racism’
The staff sent a letter to leadership on Monday.
By
Zoe Haylock
monuments
June 22, 2020
Teddy Roosevelt Statue Coming Down, Says Natural History Museum
The statue has been criticized as racist for years.
By
Justin Curto
art
June 19, 2020
It’s Funeral Time for Colonial Monuments
Artist Nicholas Galanin has already dug a grave for a Captain Cook statue in Sydney.
By
Trupti Rami
scammers
June 16, 2020
The Art World’s ‘Mini Madoff’ Has Been Arrested in the South Pacific
He was apparently arrested wearing swim trunks.
By
Victoria Bekiempis
art
June 9, 2020
Artist Jordan Eagles Calls for Queer Blood to Help Save the Sick
An online exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.
By
Thomas Benfield
obits
May 31, 2020
Christo, Artist Behind Central Park’s ‘The Gates,’ Dead at 84
He collaborated with his wife, artist Jeanne-Claude, until her death in 2009.
By
Halle Kiefer
art
May 28, 2020
This Is the Saddest Picture I Have Ever Seen
Sandro Botticelli’s
La Derelitta
, a 15th-century tableau of hopelessness, feels especially resonant right now.
By
Jerry Saltz
art
May 27, 2020
See New York Through the Eyes of Hockney, Warhol, and O’Keeffe
A much-needed love letter to the city.
By
Trupti Rami
sweet dreams
May 14, 2020
Hear Iggy Pop Reading a Love Letter to His Dead Dog Tromba
From the New Museum’s daily “Bedtime Stories” series, curated by Maurizio Cattelan.
By
Trupti Rami
first person
May 12, 2020
My Appetites
Jerry Saltz on eating and coping mechanisms, childhood and self-control, criticism, love, cancer and pandemics.
By
Jerry Saltz
art
May 8, 2020
See Titus Kaphar’s Paintings About Black Motherhood
Mourning the disappearance of their children.
By
Trupti Rami
art
May 4, 2020
See Jean Jullien’s Escapist Paintings From the French Countryside
The artist’s diary of his family in lockdown, watching the spring arrive.
By
Trupti Rami
banandemic
Apr. 23, 2020
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
psa
Apr. 17, 2020
A Times Square Tribute to All of Us
Two dozen artists say thank-you.
By
Michael Kaler
resources
Apr. 8, 2020
These 20 Groups Are Offering Aid to Artists in Need
Painters, playwrights, and podcasters can all apply for emergency grants.
By
Michael Kaler
art
Mar. 31, 2020
Revisiting a 16th-Century Masterpiece of Mass Death From Self-Isolation in 2020
Lately, 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
art du jour
Mar. 30, 2020
The Goldfinch
Is Real! Vincent van Gogh Art Theft Befalls Dutch Museum
The smash and grab was made easy due to the museum’s closure.
By
Devon Ivie
coronavirus
Mar. 24, 2020
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
art
Mar. 20, 2020
The Art World Goes Dark
The pandemic has already darkened galleries, museums, and artists’ studios. What new forms will emerge from that darkness?
By
Jerry Saltz
art
Mar. 19, 2020
Salman Toor’s Queer Rococo
The artist lives, and paints, between worlds — Lahore, Pakistan and New York.
By
Carl Swanson
books
Mar. 17, 2020
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
feature
Mar. 16, 2020
The Art World’s Mini-Madoff and Me
Boozy nights and high-stakes art trades with Inigo Philbrick.
By
Kenny Schachter
obits
Mar. 14, 2020
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Musician and Artist, Dead at 70
The Psychic TV and Throbbing Gristle founder was diagnosed with leukemia in 2017.
By
Halle Kiefer
mexican muralists
Feb. 24, 2020
‘Vida Americana’ Is the Most Relevant Show of the 21st Century
The contributions of Mexican muralists to modern art has been criminally neglected. This Whitney show begins the correction.
By
Jerry Saltz
art
Feb. 20, 2020
Dan Colen Is Alive and Well, Painting and Farming Upstate
The onetime art world bad boy still paints. But instead of raising hell, he’s raising pigs and sheep.
By
Matthew Schneier
art
Feb. 19, 2020
Donald Judd’s Minimalist Legacy Is All Around Us
The artist wanted his work totally empty. Which allowed the world to make anything out of it.
By
Jerry Saltz
art du jour
Feb. 18, 2020
Ben Affleck Breaks His Silence on Lying About His Back Tattoo
“It felt invasive.”
By
Devon Ivie
art
Feb. 3, 2020
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
losses
Jan. 28, 2020
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
art
Jan. 17, 2020
NYC Almost Killed This Artist, But Now, at 40, She’s Back
Shannon 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
legacies
Jan. 6, 2020
John Baldessari Was Anything But Boring
His art was mystically simple: splendid when it was good, entrancing and gleeful when it was great.
By
Jerry Saltz
the lost canon
Jan. 6, 2020
Beauford Delaney Very Nearly Disappeared from Art History
As a black, gay painter, even when he was celebrated, it was not as an equal to his contemporaries.
By
Jerry Saltz
obits
Jan. 5, 2020
John Baldessari, the Godfather of Conceptual Art, Dead at 88
Baldessari 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
best of 2019
Dec. 12, 2019
The 10 Best Art Shows of 2019
From an art-world protest to a radically original self-portraitist.
By
Jerry Saltz
art
Dec. 8, 2019
Man Duct-tapes Banana to Wall, Makes $240,000, Credits
New York
Magazine
However, a prankster has now eaten the banana.
By
Christopher Bonanos
art
Nov. 26, 2019
Bill Traylor Deserves to Be Exalted Alongside Art’s Greatest Names
Born into slavery, the artist’s story is a vision of American hell, but his work is transcendent and essential.
By
Jerry Saltz
art du jour
Nov. 9, 2019
Did You Know Lucy Liu Creates Beautiful Erotic Paintings?
What a delightful semi-hidden talent.
By
Katie Heaney
obits
Nov. 8, 2019
Robert Freeman, Iconic Beatles Photographer, Dead at 82
The British-born artist shot the album covers for
Help!
,
Rubber Soul,
and more.
By
Halle Kiefer
art
Nov. 6, 2019
Hirshhorn Museum Celebrates Intergenerational Artist Crushes
Lawrence Weiner and Catherine Opie, pothead pals.
By
Hilary Reid
vulture festival 2019
Nov. 1, 2019
Wanna Be an Artist? Jerry Saltz Will Teach You How at Vulture Festival
See? We’re educational, too.
By
Anne Victoria Clark
party report
Oct. 28, 2019
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
art and architecture
Oct. 25, 2019
Two Critics — Art and Architecture — Compare Their New MoMA Experiences
Saltz and Davidson on the newly expanded museum.
By
Justin Davidson
and
Jerry Saltz
instagram
Oct. 10, 2019
9 of the Funniest Cartoonists and Illustrators on Instagram
Mix up your feed with some original work by these very talented artists.
By
Nayomi Reghay
cityscape
Oct. 9, 2019
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
art
Oct. 2, 2019
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
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