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Night BitchesAlex Katz, Matthew Barney, and Jamian Juliano-Villani face the darkness.
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best of 2024
The Best New York Art Shows of 2024Outsiders, Renaissance masterpieces, crazy quilts, and more.
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Maps of Things PastThe brilliant art-world cartographies of Loren Munk.
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Maybe KAWS Is Not So Bad After AllHis collection of outsider art, on display at the Drawing Center, is a marvel.
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A World Without WeatherThe flat and deep paintings of Hilary Pecis.
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What Is a Brooklyn Artist?A sweeping survey at the Brooklyn Museum provides a lot of answers, none of which satisfy.
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art review
Yvonne Well’s Patchwork HistoriesA new show spotlights how the artist’s abstract quilts tell the story of the African diaspora.
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fall preview 2024
10 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See This FallAn Alvin Ailey retrospective sets the tone for an array of eclectic offerings from the art world.
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Abigail Goldman’s American Horror StoryHer new show, “State of Nature,” depicts our depraved moment in miniature — literally.
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remembrance
The Power and Grace of Barbara GladstoneThe venerated gallerist worked for the love of art.
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Jenny Holzer’s Word SaladHer takeover of the Guggenheim reads like intellectual clickbait for the extended Trump era.
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Enormous Wall of KitschA shiny bauble meant to comment on capitalism and to sell.
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favorite things
Jerry Saltz’s Favorite Bad Television ShowsThe ones he secretly loves and records and watches five or six episodes in a row of, alone.
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favorite things
Jerry Saltz’s 78 Indispensable Instagram AccountsInstagram changed our art critic’s life. Here, he recommends 78 of his favorite accounts that you should follow.
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Taxi Driver Was Always About RaceA new film by Arthur Jafa restores the Scorsese classic to its original intention.
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vulture lists
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who ate where
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remembrance
Richard Serra’s Magnificent Balancing ActThe sculptor, who died this week, built massive houses of cards.
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What to See and What to Skip at the Whitney BiennialJerry Saltz searches for the real thing at the museum’s latest survey of contemporary art.
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Byzantium RegainedThe Met’s exhibition of art from the African territories of the Byzantine Empire was a triumph.
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The Met’s Tremendous Harlem Renaissance Show Redefines ModernismJerry Saltz says we’ve gotten everything wrong about the big bang of 20th century art.
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Pictures From a GenocideAn astonishing new show of Native American ledger drawings brings a historic crime into focus.
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What Was the Bodega?Tschabalala Self’s ambivalent investigation of the cornershop.
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The Impeccable Peacocks of Barkley HendricksA master portraitist takes his place alongside the Whistlers at the Frick.
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a long talk
Finding Her HeartbeatSharon Stone walked through the valley of death and into an art-supply store.
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best of 2023
The Best New York Art Shows of 2023Queer cutouts, portable candies, and a retrospective of an American master.
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The Triumph of Dana SchutzFive years after the Whitney scandal, she is doing her best work yet.
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A Painter’s New Civil WarThe perverse visions of Hilary Harkness.
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in conversation
Tracey Emin Is SeriousThe artist has always worked in the confessional mode. After surviving cancer, she sees no reason to hold anything back.
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The Beautiful OnesThe tender paintings of Njideka Akunyili Crosby.
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The Fearless Freedom of Henry TaylorHis new retrospective at the Whitney is the best show of 2023.
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art review
Three Jews and a PaintingWho is Marc Dennis teasing?
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A 19th Century Masterpiece That Scandalizes StillManet’s Olympia, now on view at the Met, remains as disturbing as ever.
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The Deadpan Precision of Ed RuschaCars, suntans, palm trees, and swimming pools.
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The Art of the Mug ShotA photo that might redefine what comes to mind when we think of the word criminal.
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fall preview 2023
10 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See This FallA wealth of dazzling shows will renew your faith in art’s capacity to do more than mint money.
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remembrance
Brice Marden’s Infinitesimal HingeThe artist, who died this week at the age of 84, made minimalism new.
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Agata Slowak’s Personal JesusThe Polish artist’s classically inspired paintings put a new spin on Catholicism and Freud.
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The Subversive Self-Portraits of Iiu Susiraja“Being blank is the same as being real,” she has said.
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A Persia of the Mind and the LoinsThe sensual drawings of Reza Shafahi.
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When Did Art Fairs Become Painting Fairs?The numbing sameness of the art world’s tent-city souks.
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The Breuer: Requiem for a MuseumThe Sotheby’s purchase will turn the brutalist masterpiece into a mere auction house.
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Nina Katchadourian’s Hidden ConnectionsThe artist has turned the Morgan into a cabinet of curiosities.
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Warhol Against the Supreme Court and BeyondWhat a renewed obsession with copyright says about the state of artistic appropriation.
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Kyle Dunn’s Night FeverA new show examines moments of strange, intense emotion.
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The Joyful Confessions of XiyadieA new show explores the hidden pleasures and regrets of a gay artist from China.
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A Sanctuary Between Japan and AmericaMiyoko Ito’s work traverses the divide between past and present, and between one country and another.
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Sarah Sze’s Big Little ThingsThe interstitial worlds of “Timelapse” take over the Guggenheim.
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An Artist Reckons With the ‘Fat’ BodyShona McAndrew says she didn’t look at herself in a mirror for ten years.
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