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Displaying all articles tagged:
Art
art review
Apr. 3, 2023
Sarah Sze’s Big Little Things
The interstitial worlds of “Timelapse” take over the Guggenheim.
By
Jerry Saltz
art review
Mar. 20, 2023
An Artist Reckons With the ‘Fat’ Body
Shona McAndrew says she didn’t look at herself in a mirror for ten years.
By
Jerry Saltz
vulture investigates
Mar. 10, 2023
Who Is Big Twitchy, Miley Cyrus’s
Endless Summer Vacation
Star?
And what does Harmony Korine have to do with it?
By
Justin Curto
art review
Mar. 7, 2023
The Beaded Masterpieces of Myrlande Constant
The master weaver writes Haitian myths anew.
By
Jerry Saltz
vulture investigates
Mar. 1, 2023
In Search of Tom and Katie’s ‘Bubba’ Painting
With the
Vanderpump Rules
stars divorcing, who gets custody of this quintessential part of the Bravo interior-design canon?
By
Tom Smyth
art review
Feb. 28, 2023
The Magical Last Hours of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Show
How viewers can change the meaning of a great artist’s work.
By
Jerry Saltz
art
Feb. 22, 2023
MoMA’s Glorified Lava Lamp
Refik Anadol’s
Unsupervised
is a crowd-pleasing, like-generating mediocrity.
By
Jerry Saltz
art
Jan. 26, 2023
Felix Gonzalez-Torres Never Saw This Work Either
Nearly 30 years after the artist’s death, David Zwirner stages two pieces never manifested during his lifetime. How should we think about them?
By
Madeline Leung Coleman
national treasure
Jan. 18, 2023
Madonna May Own a French Painting Thought to Have Been Destroyed in WWI
And now, Amiens is asking the “Material Girl” to lend the tableau back.
By
Justin Curto
art
Jan. 6, 2023
William Eggleston’s Atmospheric Disturbances
His photographs from the 1970s are a clairvoyant glimpse of the future.
By
Jerry Saltz
the year of the nepo baby
Dec. 19, 2022
When Dominating the Art Market Is the Family Business
Meet the art-dealer dynasties who move Warhols and Monets — and their scandal-prone heirs.
By
Rachel Corbett
best of 2022
Dec. 8, 2022
The Best New York Art Shows of 2022
Gonzo quilting, Mayan sculpture, and one wild, egalitarian group show made this a great year to hit the galleries.
By
Jerry Saltz
art is a prank
Dec. 3, 2022
Art Basel Is Trolling the Rich Again
From the makers of “Banana Duct Taped to Wall” comes an ATM that ranks your wealth.
By
Bethy Squires
rip
Dec. 1, 2022
Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Rebellious Cartoonist, Dead at 74
The artist was known for her feminist, autobiographical comics.
By
Zoe Guy
podcasts
Nov. 14, 2022
What Happened to Ana Mendieta
She was a pathbreaking artist, hungry for recognition. A podcast reexamines how her 1985 death made headlines instead.
By
Max Pearl
remembrance
Nov. 9, 2022
Remembering Lee Bontecou and Her Volcanic Hell Holes
The visionary artist died this week at age 91.
By
Jerry Saltz
art
Oct. 28, 2022
A Painting for a World in Collapse
What
The Raft of the Medusa
reveals about contemporary political art.
By
Jerry Saltz
rip
Oct. 21, 2022
Peter Schjeldahl, Art Critic for
The New Yorker
, Dead at 80
Schjeldahl, who was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2019, wrote the towering personal essay “The Art of Dying.”
By
Jason P. Frank
the law
Oct. 12, 2022
Clarence Thomas Is Only a Part-Time Prince Fan
As we learned during arguments in
Andy Warhol Foundation
v.
Goldsmith
.
By
Justin Curto
1.5x speed
Oct. 6, 2022
An Art-World Scandal (and 6 More Podcasts Worth Checking Out)
Death of an Artist
,
Blowback
, and more.
By
Nicholas Quah
art
Sept. 21, 2022
Brad Pitt Not So Subtly Processed His Divorce Through Sculpture
And he recently debuted those pieces at a show in Finland.
By
Justin Curto
art
Sept. 9, 2022
Wolfgang Tillmans Changed What Photos Look Like
A career retrospective becomes a cathedral of the mundane.
By
Jerry Saltz
fall preview
Sept. 2, 2022
10 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See This Fall
Wolfgang Tillmans at MoMA, Theaster Gates at the New Museum, and a bid for W.E.B. Du Bois as America’s first abstract artist.
By
Jerry Saltz
for sale
Aug. 27, 2022
Paul Allen’s $1 Billion Art Collection Will Be Sold for Charity
The late Microsoft co-founder’s collection is going up for grabs in the largest art auction ever.
By
Jennifer Zhan
encounter
July 21, 2022
Beeple’s Post-NFT Chapter
The digital artist made a pile of money on NFTs before the crypto market crashed. Now he has his eyes on the art world.
By
Zachary Small
rip
July 18, 2022
Claes Oldenburg, Pop Art Giant, Dead at 93
The artist was best known for expanding everyday objects to glorious sizes.
By
Jason P. Frank
scams
July 4, 2022
Chloe Fineman Almost Got Got by Anna Delvey
The
SNL
star finally received the sketch she ordered, after telling The View she never got it.
By
Rebecca Alter
rip
June 29, 2022
Margaret Keane, Sad-Eyed Waifs Artist, Dead at 94
Amy Adams played the painter in the film
Big Eyes
.
By
Alejandra Gularte
remembrance
June 28, 2022
Remembering Sam Gilliam of the Astral Plane
His draped paintings took the form to its outer limits.
By
Jerry Saltz
art review
June 7, 2022
Yu-Wen Wu’s Algorithmic Odyssey Around the World
A brilliant work on the immigrant experience, courtesy of a glitch in the Matrix.
By
Jerry Saltz
tomb raiding
June 1, 2022
Five Egyptian Antiquities Seized From Met in Smuggling Ring Investigation
International art thievery? What is this, Paul Blart Mall Cop 3?
By
Bethy Squires
poor thing
May 30, 2022
The Mona Lisa Was Literally All Caked Up With Nowhere to Go
A man threw cake at the glass surrounding the iconic Renaissance painting.
By
Jennifer Zhan
crypto bros
May 24, 2022
Seth Green Gets Scammed Out of His Show’s Main Character
A Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT named Fred …
By
Zoe Guy
art
May 3, 2022
Rihanna’s Marble Baby Bump Won the Met Gala
Sure, it’s visual effects, but still.
By
Justin Curto
night at the museum
May 2, 2022
Mannequins Haunt the 2022 Met Costume Institute Exhibit
Staged by Sofia Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Regina King, and six other poor souls.
By
Bethy Squires
respect the classics
Apr. 28, 2022
This Brian Eno Documentary Will Be Ambient As Hell
But will also employ “groundbreaking generative technology,” per his instructions.
By
Devon Ivie
obits
Apr. 21, 2022
Cynthia Plaster Caster Albritton, Dead at 74
The iconic “reformed groupie” had a collection of rock-star phalli to make Kiss blush.
By
Bethy Squires
how i made this
Apr. 11, 2022
Life in Immigration Limbo, Caught on Video
The artist Guadalupe Maravilla on how he made “Detention Center Performance” with a group of undocumented teenagers.
As told to
Jillian Steinhauer
art review
Apr. 1, 2022
The Whitney Biennial Falters On
The 2022 show has just enough high points to get you through it — including three stunning Charles Ray sculptures.
By
Jerry Saltz
prints of princes
Mar. 28, 2022
A Case About Andy Warhol’s Prince Artwork Is Headed to the Supreme Court
The justices will decide if Warhol meaningfully transformed a photograph of the singer enough for fair use to apply.
By
Jennifer Zhan
encounter
Feb. 14, 2022
Art Spiegelman Loses His Glasses
As the latest fight over
Maus
erupts, its artist-creator searches for his spectacles.
By
Abraham Riesman
black lives matter
Jan. 31, 2022
The Misguided Empathy of Dana Schutz’s
Open Casket
The controversial painting of Emmett Till was equally clinical and tempestuous.
By
Kimberly Drew
2022 preview
Jan. 7, 2022
The Future’s Not All Bad
Believe it or not, there are
some
things to look forward to this year.
By
Vulture Editors
art
Dec. 27, 2021
Wayne Thiebaud, 1920–2021
His paintings of cakes, bathers, landscapes, paint cans, pastries, and cityscapes represent a luscious American sublime.
By
Jerry Saltz
art du jour
Dec. 20, 2021
Brian Eno Elegantly Eviscerates NFTs
“Now artists can become little capitalist assholes as well.”
By
Devon Ivie
best of 2021
Dec. 17, 2021
The Best New York Art Shows of 2021
The art world has changed forever. But New York galleries still rule.
By
Jerry Saltz
book review
Dec. 15, 2021
Edith Schloss, 20th-Century Woman
In her book
The Loft Generation
, a fixture of the midcentury New York art scene gets a long-overdue introduction.
By
Jamie Hood
obits
Dec. 2, 2021
Alvin Lucier, Groundbreaking Experimental Composer, Dead at 90
He was best known for the 1969 piece
I Am Sitting in a Room
.
By
Justin Curto
scams
Nov. 18, 2021
The Art World’s ‘Mini Madoff,’ Inigo Philbrick, Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud
He faces a
lot
of prison time.
By
Victoria Bekiempis
art review
Nov. 12, 2021
John Currin Is the Caligula of Painting
A new show is even more unsettling and disturbing than those that made his controversial name.
By
Jerry Saltz
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