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  1. the work of art
    How’d You Make That?Three masterpieces from glimmer through struggle to breakthrough.
  2. remembrance
    Richard Serra’s Magnificent Balancing ActThe sculptor, who died this week, built massive houses of cards.
  3. rip
    Richard Serra, Sculptor of Monumental Steel Works, Dead at 85His jarring, site-specific works made him a landmark figure of the minimalist movement.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. art review
    Byzantium RegainedThe Met’s exhibition of art from the African territories of the Byzantine Empire was a triumph.
  7. encounter
    Christopher Wool’s Punk-Rock Art Show in a Fidi TowerThe blue-chip artist is over museums, galleries — and pretty much everything else.
  8. performance pieces
    Want Enlightenment? Go to MoMA and Ask for CynthiaIf you keep buying things, you’ll never achieve understanding.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. art review
    Pictures From a GenocideAn astonishing new show of Native American ledger drawings brings a historic crime into focus.
  12. art review
    What Was the Bodega?Tschabalala Self’s ambivalent investigation of the cornershop.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. art review
    The Impeccable Peacocks of Barkley HendricksA master portraitist takes his place alongside the Whistlers at the Frick.
  16. a long talk
    Finding Her HeartbeatSharon Stone walked through the valley of death and into an art-supply store.
  17. best of 2023
    The Best New York Art Shows of 2023Queer cutouts, portable candies, and a retrospective of an American master.
  18. rich flex
    Welcome to DrakelandThe rapper is reopening a defunct 1980s amusement park with installations from Keith Haring, Basquiat, and more.
  19. art review
    The Triumph of Dana SchutzFive years after the Whitney scandal, she is doing her best work yet.
  20. art review
    A Painter’s New Civil WarThe perverse visions of Hilary Harkness.
  21. 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
  22. 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.
  23. 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.”
  24. art review
    The Beautiful OnesThe tender paintings of Njideka Akunyili Crosby.
  25. power
    All the New York Culture Brokers on Our “Inside Power” ListFrom one very under-the-radar art collector to Reese Witherspoon’s publishing mole.
  26. the group portrait
    The Guggenheim Goes DarkA group of artists on the perils of being seen.
  27. art review
    Judy Chicago Didn’t Stop at ‘The Dinner Party’Her famous (and controversial) installation cast a long shadow over her career. A New Museum show expands the Chicago canon.
  28. art
    Rirkrit Tiravanija Would Prefer Not ToHis new retrospective at MoMA PS1 celebrates avoiding making art.
  29. art review
    The Fearless Freedom of Henry TaylorHis new retrospective at the Whitney is the best show of 2023.
  30. art review
    Three Jews and a PaintingWho is Marc Dennis teasing?
  31. art
    A 19th Century Masterpiece That Scandalizes StillManet’s Olympia, now on view at the Met, remains as disturbing as ever.
  32. art review
    The Deadpan Precision of Ed RuschaCars, suntans, palm trees, and swimming pools.
  33. doja cat
    Doja Cat’s New Scarlet Cover Isn’t Even ScarletAfter changing it to avoid having similar art to the metal band Chaver.
  34. 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.
  35. art-ificial intelligence
    AI-Generated Art Is Not Copyrightable, Judge Rules“Human authorship is an essential part of a valid copyright claim.”
  36. remembrance
    Brice Marden’s Infinitesimal HingeThe artist, who died this week at the age of 84, made minimalism new.
  37. art review
    Agata Slowak’s Personal JesusThe Polish artist’s classically inspired paintings put a new spin on Catholicism and Freud.
  38. art review
    The Subversive Self-Portraits of Iiu Susiraja“Being blank is the same as being real,” she has said.
  39. art review
    A Persia of the Mind and the LoinsThe sensual drawings of Reza Shafahi.
  40. art review
    When Did Art Fairs Become Painting Fairs?The numbing sameness of the art world’s tent-city souks.
  41. art review
    Nina Katchadourian’s Hidden ConnectionsThe artist has turned the Morgan into a cabinet of curiosities.
  42. rip
    Kenneth Anger, Vanguard of Queer Experimental Cinema, Dead at 96Known for the classic shorts Fireworks (1947) and Scorpio Rising (1963).
  43. art
    Warhol Against the Supreme Court and BeyondWhat a renewed obsession with copyright says about the state of artistic appropriation.
  44. cannes 2023
    An Artist Transfers Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt to PrintJean Curran handmade 13 prints from the film’s original reel — just in time for its 60th-anniversary presentation at Cannes.
  45. the law
    Supreme Court Rules Warhol’s Prince Portrait Isn’t Diff-print EnoughPhotographer Lynn Goldsmith won her copyright suit against Warhol’s estate.
  46. art review
    Kyle Dunn’s Night FeverA new show examines moments of strange, intense emotion.
  47. media digest
    The Atlantic Taps New Cover Artist BonoThe U2 singer called his Zelenskyy portrait “a few squiggles and I just got out of the way.”
  48. walk walk fashion baby
    La La Anthony, Chloe Fineman Will Play Fashion Correspondents at Met Gala 2023Here’s how to watch them host the event’s red carpet, together with Derek Blasberg and Emma Chamberlain.
  49. art review
    The Joyful Confessions of XiyadieA new show explores the hidden pleasures and regrets of a gay artist from China.
  50. profile
    Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Can’t Believe She’s Still the FirstHer new Whitney retrospective is the only one so far to honor a Native American artist. She’s not doing it alone: “My community comes with me.”
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