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The Shades of Sasha Gordon

 The painter’s new show at David Zwirner is packed with her demon identities. By Jerry Saltz
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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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Drew Struzan Defined What a Blockbuster Movie Looks Like

 Even if you didn’t know Drew Struzan’s name, you recognize his radiant poster art. By Bethy Squires
  1. no self portraits
    Bob Dylan’s Art Makes Its Off Broadway DebutMasquerade had a simple pitch: “The Phantom is the genius of music and Bob is the genius of everything.”
    By Devon Ivie
  2. art review
    Fossils From a Future ApocalypseThe fragile visions of Andra Ursuța.
    By Jerry Saltz
  3. art review
    The Dream WeaverErin M. Riley’s new tapestries are like Sylvia Plath crossed with a forensic police report.
    By Jerry Saltz
  4. encounter
    Mary Boone, Who Ruled Galleries in the ’80s, Is Back“I was a woman selling unnecessary, glamorous things to rich people. What’s not to hate?” says the art dealer.
    By Carrie Battan
  5. art review
    Making the ’60s Weird AgainThe Whitney’s boisterous survey breathes new life into a stagnant decade.
    By Jerry Saltz
  7. encounter
    Coco Fusco Refuses to Be PigeonholedThe artist gets her first U.S. survey after years of creating work that defies political orthodoxy.
    By Madeline Leung Coleman
  8. theater review
    Yasmina Reza’s Art Returns, Loaded With BlanksPlus a review of Celine Song’s early play Family.
    By Sara Holdren
  9. fall preview 2025
    10 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See This FallSome shows thrill, some surprise, some confuse — bless them all.
    By Jerry Saltz
  10. fall preview 2025
    30 Plays and Musicals We Can’t Wait to See This FallA revived Chess, a new Versailles, and a promising year for the nonmusical play.
    By Jackson McHenry
  11. art
    The Six Female Artists With Major Solo Shows This FallSasha Gordon, Olivia van Kuiken, Ana Cláudia Almeida, María Berrío, Adebunmi Gbadebo, and Karen Barbour on how they prepared for their big solo shows.
    Photographs by Jay Kolsch
  12. art review
    A Love Letter to VermeerThe Frick’s austere new show about the Dutch master is a quiet triumph.
    By Jerry Saltz
  13. the hamptons issue
    46 Artists Who Live and Work in the HamptonsLaurie Anderson, Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl and 43 artists keeping the Hamptons from turning into Key West.
    By Bob Morris
  14. encounter
    ‘The Depth Is in the Pictures, Not What I Say About Them’Rosalind Fox Solomon made haunting photographs for 50 years. She told us about her trajectory from Tennessee housewife to artist.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  15. the hamptons issue
    Does Larry Gagosian Like His Bookstore?The art dealer seems to think there is too much children’s stuff at BookHampton, his newest acquisition.
    By Brock Colyar
  16. shock and awe
    Sparks Are Li’l Album-Cover FreaksRanking the band’s most museum-worthy artworks with the brothers themselves.
    By Devon Ivie
  17. announcements
    Introducing How to Look at Art, by Jerry SaltzA New York Night School course from our senior art critic.
    By The Editors
  18. encounter
    The World’s Thirstiest Art DealerNick Hissom is over his tabloid-fodder breakup, even if he’s not ready to let go of his Cartier Love bracelet.
    By Ben Widdicombe
  19. look book
    The Look Book Goes to Rashid Johnson’s Opening NightNearly a thousand attended “A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” the artist’s solo exhibition at the Guggenheim.
    By Jeremy Rellosa
  20. art
    How the Black Portraiture Boom Went BustThe racial reckoning of 2020 sent prices soaring. Now, no one’s buying.
    By Rachel Corbett
  21. art
    How Is AI Art Different From Human Art?Two critics — one AI-skeptical, the other AI-curious — discuss the merits of art made by machines.
    By Jerry Saltz and David Wallace-Wells
  22. art review
    Rashid Johnson’s Visual FeastThe new Rashid Johnson survey at the Guggenheim is sprawling and stunning.
    By Yinka Elujoba
  23. art
    The Billionaires Are Battling Over a Giacometti SculptureDavid Geffen, lion of the old-guard art world, is up against Justin Sun, tech provocateur.
    By Rachel Corbett
  24. art
    Critics Are Fuming About the New MoMA Head“What a disappointing and unsurprising choice.”
    By Rachel Corbett
  25. art review
    The Wary Gaze of Amy SheraldA majestic new show at the Whitney features the artist’s gift for portraiture that seethes with subtleties.
    By Jerry Saltz
  26. art review
    Behold the FrickThe newly renovated museum is bigger and better than ever.
    By Jerry Saltz
  27. the work of art
    Lisa Yuskavage Becomes the ProtagonistAfter 35 years of painting her signature girls, the artist has turned to a new subject: herself.
    By Adam Moss
  28. art review
    The Exhilarating Anger of Christine Sun KimHer new show at the Whitney reveals that language is a social currency that constantly places the deaf at a disadvantage.
    By Jerry Saltz
  29. remembrances
    Walter Robinson, Rogue Pirate of the Art WorldThe longtime man-about-downtown died this week at age 74.
    By Jerry Saltz
  30. art review
    Caspar David Friedrich’s Lonely IslandsA retrospective at the Met captures the German romanticist’s epic melancholy.
    By Jerry Saltz
  31. extremely online
    The Hyperpigmentation Drawing Meme Is a Work of ArtCall it TikTok’s modern-day Mona Lisa.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  32. heists
    Graffiti Artist RETNA Claims an Auction House Sold His Stolen WorkThe graffiti artist says that his former landlord and Heritage Auctions illegally seized his property for profit.
    By Rachel Corbett
  33. physical media
    The Art Lost in L.A. FiresCount Warhol artworks, Gary Indiana’s library, and Schoenberg scores among the losses.
    By Justin Curto
  34. q&a
    Mickalene Thomas Doesn’t Need the Whitney BiennialIn conversation with an artist who has always claimed her own spaces.
    By Jerry Saltz
  35. year in culture
    The Bests of 2024All the books, podcasts, and anime (plus TV, movies, music, and more) that captivated our critics (and John Waters) this year.
    By Vulture Editors
  36. video games
    Come for the Art, Stay for the ArtPunching Nazis is just a bonus in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.
    By Lewis Gordon
  37. year in culture
    Vulture’s 20 Most-Read Stories of 2024From brat summer to a scandalous fall, here’s what our readers loved most this year.
    By Vulture Editors
  38. profile
    Lorraine O’Grady Finally Has the World’s AttentionAt 86, the artist had cemented her (belated) trailblazing status.
    By Jillian Steinhauer
  39. art review
    Night BitchesAlex Katz, Matthew Barney, and Jamian Juliano-Villani face the darkness.
    By Jerry Saltz
  40. best of 2024
    The Best New York Art Shows of 2024Outsiders, Renaissance masterpieces, crazy quilts, and more.
    By Jerry Saltz
  41. the work of art
    How Jonathan Franzen Learned to Write a Franzen NovelTo finish The Corrections, he had to kill his protagonist — and his idea of what a book should be.
    By Adam Moss
  42. ring ring … banana phone!
    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
  43. art
    The Extremely Chaotic Life of Jamian Juliano-VillaniLess than six months after her Gagosian solo show, the downtown artist-slash-gallerist lost her gallery and all her money.
    By Jay Bulger
  44. art review
    Maps of Things PastThe brilliant art-world cartographies of Loren Munk.
    By Jerry Saltz
  45. 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
  46. 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
  47. 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
  48. art review
    The Met’s Siena Renaissance Show Is a MasterpieceGo see it now.
    By Jerry Saltz
  49. scene report
    Charli XCX Sculpts a MomentThe jobless made a pilgrimage to Storm King.
    By Jason P. Frank
  50. 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
  51. art review
    A World Without WeatherThe flat and deep paintings of Hilary Pecis.
    By Jerry Saltz
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