Maps of Things Past The brilliant art-world cartographies of Loren Munk.
Maybe KAWS Is Not So Bad After All His collection of outsider art, on display at the Drawing Center, is a marvel.
A World Without Weather The flat and deep paintings of Hilary Pecis.
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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Yvonne Well’s Patchwork Histories A new show spotlights how the artist’s abstract quilts tell the story of the African diaspora.
fall preview 2024
Aug. 27, 2024
10 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See This Fall An Alvin Ailey retrospective sets the tone for an array of eclectic offerings from the art world.
Abigail Goldman’s American Horror Story Her new show, “State of Nature,” depicts our depraved moment in miniature — literally.
remembrance
June 19, 2024
The Power and Grace of Barbara Gladstone The venerated gallerist worked for the love of art.
Jenny Holzer’s Word Salad Her takeover of the Guggenheim reads like intellectual clickbait for the extended Trump era.
Maurizio Cattelan’s Enormous Wall of Kitsch A shiny bauble meant to comment on capitalism and to sell.
favorite things
May 23, 2024
Jerry Saltz’s Favorite Bad Television Shows The ones he secretly loves and records and watches five or six episodes in a row of, alone.
favorite things
May 9, 2024
Jerry Saltz’s 78 Indispensable Instagram Accounts Instagram changed our art critic’s life. Here, he recommends 78 of his favorite accounts that you should follow.
Taxi Driver Was Always About RaceA new film by Arthur Jafa restores the Scorsese classic to its original intention.
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Apr. 20, 2024
who ate where
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remembrance
Mar. 27, 2024
Richard Serra’s Magnificent Balancing Act The sculptor, who died this week, built massive houses of cards.
What to See and What to Skip at the Whitney Biennial Jerry Saltz searches for the real thing at the museum’s latest survey of contemporary art.
Byzantium Regained The Met’s exhibition of art from the African territories of the Byzantine Empire was a triumph.
The Met’s Tremendous Harlem Renaissance Show Redefines Modernism Jerry Saltz says we’ve gotten everything wrong about the big bang of 20th century art.
Pictures From a Genocide An astonishing new show of Native American ledger drawings brings a historic crime into focus.
What Was the Bodega? Tschabalala Self’s ambivalent investigation of the cornershop.
The Impeccable Peacocks of Barkley Hendricks A master portraitist takes his place alongside the Whistlers at the Frick.
a long talk
Dec. 14, 2023
Finding Her Heartbeat Sharon Stone walked through the valley of death and into an art-supply store.
best of 2023
Dec. 7, 2023
The Best New York Art Shows of 2023 Queer cutouts, portable candies, and a retrospective of an American master.
The Triumph of Dana Schutz Five years after the Whitney scandal, she is doing her best work yet.
A Painter’s New Civil War The perverse visions of Hilary Harkness.
in conversation
Nov. 3, 2023
Tracey Emin Is Serious The artist has always worked in the confessional mode. After surviving cancer, she sees no reason to hold anything back.
The Beautiful Ones The tender paintings of Njideka Akunyili Crosby.
The Fearless Freedom of Henry Taylor His new retrospective at the Whitney is the best show of 2023.
art review
Sept. 26, 2023
Three Jews and a Painting Who is Marc Dennis teasing?
A 19th Century Masterpiece That Scandalizes Still Manet’s Olympia, now on view at the Met, remains as disturbing as ever.
The Deadpan Precision of Ed Ruscha Cars, suntans, palm trees, and swimming pools.
The Art of the Mug Shot A photo that might redefine what comes to mind when we think of the word criminal .
fall preview 2023
Aug. 24, 2023
10 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See This Fall A wealth of dazzling shows will renew your faith in art’s capacity to do more than mint money.
remembrance
Aug. 11, 2023
Brice Marden’s Infinitesimal Hinge The artist, who died this week at the age of 84, made minimalism new.
Agata Slowak’s Personal Jesus The Polish artist’s classically inspired paintings put a new spin on Catholicism and Freud.
The Subversive Self-Portraits of Iiu Susiraja “Being blank is the same as being real,” she has said.
A Persia of the Mind and the Loins The sensual drawings of Reza Shafahi.
When Did Art Fairs Become Painting Fairs? The numbing sameness of the art world’s tent-city souks.
The Breuer: Requiem for a Museum The Sotheby’s purchase will turn the brutalist masterpiece into a mere auction house.
Nina Katchadourian’s Hidden Connections The artist has turned the Morgan into a cabinet of curiosities.
Warhol Against the Supreme Court and Beyond What a renewed obsession with copyright says about the state of artistic appropriation.
Kyle Dunn’s Night Fever A new show examines moments of strange, intense emotion.
The Joyful Confessions of Xiyadie A new show explores the hidden pleasures and regrets of a gay artist from China.
A Sanctuary Between Japan and America Miyoko Ito’s work traverses the divide between past and present, and between one country and another.
Sarah Sze’s Big Little Things The interstitial worlds of “Timelapse” take over the Guggenheim.
An Artist Reckons With the ‘Fat’ Body Shona McAndrew says she didn’t look at herself in a mirror for ten years.
The Beaded Masterpieces of Myrlande Constant The master weaver writes Haitian myths anew.
The Magical Last Hours of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Show How viewers can change the meaning of a great artist’s work.
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