New York Magazine: April 18, 2016 Issue

Table of Contents

April 18, 2016

Cover Story

In Conversation: James Franco

The artist speaks back to his critic. By Jerry Saltz

On the Cover: James Franco. Photograph by Maxine Helfman for New York Magazine.

Features

Is Richard Prince the Andy Warhol of Instagram?

He always wanted to be the coolest artist in the world. And if that meant fighting a bunch of lawsuits, so be it.

By Carl Swanson
It Was the Most Reviled Show, and the One That Most Changed Art

What 2016 owes to 1993.

By Jerry Saltz
The Blackest Black

Is it possible to own a color (or the absence of one)?

By Benjamin Wallace
What Exactly Makes This Worth That

Five lessons from a frothy market.

By Amy Cappellazzo

Intelligencer

Culture

The Cut

11 Artists

Poised to break out, in clothes to match.

Departments

Strategist