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It’s One Banana, Michael. What Could It Cost? $6.2 Million?

 Comedian, the piece of fruit taped to a wall, sold to a crypto bro at auction. By Jason P. Frank
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Jerry Saltz’s 33 Rules for Being an Artist

 How to go from clueless amateur to generational talent (or at least live life a little more creatively). By Jerry Saltz
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The Extremely Chaotic Life of Jamian Juliano-Villani

 Less than six months after her Gagosian solo show, the downtown artist-slash-gallerist lost her gallery and all her money. By Jay Bulger
  1. art review
    Maps of Things PastThe brilliant art-world cartographies of Loren Munk.
    By Jerry Saltz
  2. art
    Kehinde Wiley Can’t Believe This Is Happening to HimHe built an empire out of painting young Black men into art history. Can it survive accusations of sexual assault?
    By Rachel Corbett
  3. art review
    Maybe KAWS Is Not So Bad After AllHis collection of outsider art, on display at the Drawing Center, is a marvel.
    By Jerry Saltz
  4. tributes
    Gary Indiana’s Exuberant VenomThe late critic and novelist documented the seedy vanities and sorrows of American life with bitchiness and, sometimes, sympathy.
    By Brandon Sanchez
  5. art review
    The Met’s Siena Renaissance Show Is a MasterpieceGo see it now.
    By Jerry Saltz
  7. scene report
    Charli XCX Sculpts a MomentThe jobless made a pilgrimage to Storm King.
    By Jason P. Frank
  8. art review
    A Black Surrealist Finally Gets His DueA solo exhibition of the poet and visual artist Ted Joans is a mostly fitting tribute to an artistic visionary.
    By Jack Denton
  9. art review
    A World Without WeatherThe flat and deep paintings of Hilary Pecis.
    By Jerry Saltz
  10. art review
    What Is a Brooklyn Artist?A sweeping survey at the Brooklyn Museum provides a lot of answers, none of which satisfy.
    By Jerry Saltz
  11. art review
    Yvonne Well’s Patchwork HistoriesA new show spotlights how the artist’s abstract quilts tell the story of the African diaspora.
    By Jerry Saltz
  12. encounter
    Thomas Houseago Was Mad at His Dad (and Larry Gagosian)It’s his first NYC gallery show in a decade, thanks in part to Leonardo DiCaprio.
    By Rachel Corbett
  13. 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.
    By Jerry Saltz
  14. art review
    Abigail Goldman’s American Horror StoryHer new show, “State of Nature,” depicts our depraved moment in miniature — literally.
    By Jerry Saltz
  15. public art watch
    A Sixteen-Foot-Tall Pigeon Comes to Nest on the High LinePlease don’t feed Iván Argote’s monumental Dinosaur.
    By Carl Swanson
  16. wwjd
    Da Vinci Would Have Loved the Olympics’ Controversial ‘Last Supper’The Catholic church of France, however, did not.
    By Jason P. Frank
  17. remembrance
    The Power and Grace of Barbara GladstoneThe venerated gallerist worked for the love of art.
    By Jerry Saltz
  18. art review
    Jenny Holzer’s Word SaladHer takeover of the Guggenheim reads like intellectual clickbait for the extended Trump era.
    By Jerry Saltz
  19. art review
    Maurizio Cattelan’s Enormous Wall of KitschA shiny bauble meant to comment on capitalism and to sell.
    By Jerry Saltz
  20. games people play
    Suing Richard PrinceStung when he felt ripped off by a famous artist, a photographer turned to the courts.
    By Choire Sicha
  21. profile
    Emil Ferris Still Believes in MonstersThe graphic novelist’s debut, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, was a hit. Seven years later—after a contentious lawsuit—the sequel is finally coming.
    By Mark Yarm
  22. sexual assault
    Artist Kehinde Wiley Accused of Sexual AssaultBy Joseph Awuah-Darko, a British-born artist working in Ghana.
    By Bethy Squires
  23. art review
    LaToya Ruby Frazier’s MoMA Show Does Too MuchThe photographer wants to “stand in the gap between working-class and creative-class people.” But her show’s venue makes that impossible.
    By Madeline Leung Coleman
  24. 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.
    By Jerry Saltz
  25. announcements
    Discover Jerry Saltz’s Favorite ThingsOur chief art critic is writing a pop-up, subscriber-only newsletter about the cultural works that shape his outlook.
    By The Editors
  26. art
    Maurizio Cattelan Takes the Piss Out of the Art WorldThe Italian artist’s first solo gallery show in decades is a provocative commentary on America’s ills.
    By Madeline Leung Coleman
  27. art review
    Taxi Driver Was Always About RaceA new film by Arthur Jafa restores the Scorsese classic to its original intention.
    By Jerry Saltz
  28. the work of art
    How’d You Make That?Three masterpieces from glimmer through struggle to breakthrough.
    By Adam Moss
  29. remembrance
    Richard Serra’s Magnificent Balancing ActThe sculptor, who died this week, built massive houses of cards.
    By Jerry Saltz
  30. rip
    Richard Serra, Sculptor of Monumental Steel Works, Dead at 85His jarring, site-specific works made him a landmark figure of the minimalist movement.
    By Zoe Guy
  31. it takes one to know one
    The Art of the Royal Doppelgänger PhotoThere’s no better expert to turn to about faking a Kate Middleton shot than Alison Jackson.
    By David Mack
  32. art review
    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.
    By Jerry Saltz
  33. art review
    Byzantium RegainedThe Met’s exhibition of art from the African territories of the Byzantine Empire was a triumph.
    By Jerry Saltz
  34. encounter
    Christopher Wool’s Punk-Rock Art Show in a Fidi TowerThe blue-chip artist is over museums, galleries — and pretty much everything else.
    By Rachel Corbett
  35. performance pieces
    Want Enlightenment? Go to MoMA and Ask for CynthiaIf you keep buying things, you’ll never achieve understanding.
    By Jillian Steinhauer
  36. erect against the forces of evil
    A Real-Life Rock Groupie Inspired Miley Cyrus’s Drive-Away Dolls CameoEthan Coen’s new caper takes cues from Cynthia “Plaster Caster,” an artist known for casting the erect penises of famous rock stars in plaster.
    By Lisa Liebman
  37. art review
    The Met’s Tremendous Harlem Renaissance Show Redefines ModernismJerry Saltz says we’ve gotten everything wrong about the big bang of 20th century art.
    By Jerry Saltz
  38. art review
    Pictures From a GenocideAn astonishing new show of Native American ledger drawings brings a historic crime into focus.
    By Jerry Saltz
  39. art review
    What Was the Bodega?Tschabalala Self’s ambivalent investigation of the cornershop.
    By Jerry Saltz
  40. art
    Bettina Made New York Feel Like a SecretThe artist toiled in her room at the Chelsea Hotel for decades, making photographs and sculptures she showed to almost no one.
    By Tess Edmonson
  41. chat room
    Anna-Laura Sullivan’s Art Makes Her Cry TooThe Brooklyn-based artist brings us inside the cozy world of her viral Instagram comics.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  42. art review
    The Impeccable Peacocks of Barkley HendricksA master portraitist takes his place alongside the Whistlers at the Frick.
    By Jerry Saltz
  43. a long talk
    Finding Her HeartbeatSharon Stone walked through the valley of death and into an art-supply store.
    By Jerry Saltz
  44. best of 2023
    The Best New York Art Shows of 2023Queer cutouts, portable candies, and a retrospective of an American master.
    By Jerry Saltz
  45. rich flex
    Welcome to DrakelandThe rapper is reopening a defunct 1980s amusement park with installations from Keith Haring, Basquiat, and more.
    By Justin Curto
  46. art review
    The Triumph of Dana SchutzFive years after the Whitney scandal, she is doing her best work yet.
    By Jerry Saltz
  47. art review
    A Painter’s New Civil WarThe perverse visions of Hilary Harkness.
    By Jerry Saltz
  48. a brush with death
    How a Seizure at the Dentist’s Led Sharon Stone to Painting“All you losers, you could grow up to be Sharon Stone.” –Jerry Saltz
    By Bethy Squires
  49. 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.
    By Jerry Saltz
  50. check in on the culture
    Artforum Editor Fired After Publishing Call for Cease-fire Signed By ThousandsDavid Velasco said he’s disappointed “a magazine that has always stood for freedom of speech and the voices of artists has bent to outside pressure.”
    By Jason P. Frank
  51. art review
    The Beautiful OnesThe tender paintings of Njideka Akunyili Crosby.
    By Jerry Saltz
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