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  1. art review
    Jenny Holzer’s Word SaladHer takeover of the Guggenheim reads like intellectual clickbait for the extended Trump era.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Maurizio Cattelan’s Enormous Wall of KitschA shiny bauble meant to comment on capitalism and to sell.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    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
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    Taxi Driver Was Always About RaceA new film by Arthur Jafa restores the Scorsese classic to its original intention.
    By Jerry Saltz
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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.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Byzantium RegainedThe Met’s exhibition of art from the African territories of the Byzantine Empire was a triumph.
    By Jerry Saltz
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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.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Pictures From a GenocideAn astonishing new show of Native American ledger drawings brings a historic crime into focus.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    What Was the Bodega?Tschabalala Self’s ambivalent investigation of the cornershop.
    By Jerry Saltz
  10. art review
    The Impeccable Peacocks of Barkley HendricksA master portraitist takes his place alongside the Whistlers at the Frick.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    The Triumph of Dana SchutzFive years after the Whitney scandal, she is doing her best work yet.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    A Painter’s New Civil WarThe perverse visions of Hilary Harkness.
    By Jerry Saltz
  13. art review
    The Beautiful OnesThe tender paintings of Njideka Akunyili Crosby.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    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.
    By Jillian Steinhauer
  15. art review
    The Fearless Freedom of Henry TaylorHis new retrospective at the Whitney is the best show of 2023.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Three Jews and a PaintingWho is Marc Dennis teasing?
    By Jerry Saltz
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    A 19th Century Masterpiece That Scandalizes StillManet’s Olympia, now on view at the Met, remains as disturbing as ever.
    By Jerry Saltz
  18. art review
    The Deadpan Precision of Ed RuschaCars, suntans, palm trees, and swimming pools.
    By Jerry Saltz
  19. remembrance
    Brice Marden’s Infinitesimal HingeThe artist, who died this week at the age of 84, made minimalism new.
    By Jerry Saltz
  20. art review
    Agata Slowak’s Personal JesusThe Polish artist’s classically inspired paintings put a new spin on Catholicism and Freud.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    The Subversive Self-Portraits of Iiu Susiraja“Being blank is the same as being real,” she has said.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    A Persia of the Mind and the LoinsThe sensual drawings of Reza Shafahi.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    When Did Art Fairs Become Painting Fairs?The numbing sameness of the art world’s tent-city souks.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Nina Katchadourian’s Hidden ConnectionsThe artist has turned the Morgan into a cabinet of curiosities.
    By Jerry Saltz
  25. art review
    Kyle Dunn’s Night FeverA new show examines moments of strange, intense emotion.
    By Jerry Saltz
  26. art review
    The Joyful Confessions of XiyadieA new show explores the hidden pleasures and regrets of a gay artist from China.
    By Jerry Saltz
  27. art review
    A Sanctuary Between Japan and AmericaMiyoko Ito’s work traverses the divide between past and present, and between one country and another.
    By Jerry Saltz
  28. art review
    Sarah Sze’s Big Little ThingsThe interstitial worlds of “Timelapse” take over the Guggenheim.
    By Jerry Saltz
  29. art review
    An Artist Reckons With the ‘Fat’ BodyShona McAndrew says she didn’t look at herself in a mirror for ten years.
    By Jerry Saltz
  30. art review
    The Beaded Masterpieces of Myrlande ConstantThe master weaver writes Haitian myths anew.
    By Jerry Saltz
  31. art review
    The Magical Last Hours of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres ShowHow viewers can change the meaning of a great artist’s work.
    By Jerry Saltz
  32. art review
    Marlon Mullen’s Anomalous TranslationsHis new show at JTT gallery rearranges the visible into bright, pulsing abstractions.
    By Jerry Saltz
  33. art
    William Eggleston’s Atmospheric DisturbancesHis photographs from the 1970s are a clairvoyant glimpse of the future.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    A Painting for a World in CollapseWhat The Raft of the Medusa reveals about contemporary political art.
    By Jerry Saltz
  35. remembrance
    Jennifer Bartlett’s Great Tree of LifeThe artist wanted to make a work “that had everything in it.”
    By Jerry Saltz
  36. art review
    Yu-Wen Wu’s Algorithmic Odyssey Around the WorldA brilliant work on the immigrant experience, courtesy of a glitch in the Matrix.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    A Universe in South CentralLauren Halsey’s new show is an overflowing tribute to her Los Angeles neighborhood.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Matisse’s Miracle in RedA small exhibition at MoMA captures a big moment in Modernism.
    By Jerry Saltz
  39. art review
    The Whitney Biennial Falters OnThe 2022 show has just enough high points to get you through it — including three stunning Charles Ray sculptures.
    By Jerry Saltz
  40. best of 2021
    The Best New York Art Shows of 2021The art world has changed forever. But New York galleries still rule.
    By Jerry Saltz
  41. art review
    For Gillian Wearing, Authenticity Is a Matter of OpinionIn her Guggenheim show “Wearing Masks,” the British artist explores the gray area between the self and performance.
    By Anna Furman
  42. art review
    John Currin Is the Caligula of PaintingA new show is even more unsettling and disturbing than those that made his controversial name.
    By Jerry Saltz
  43. art review
    Frieze New York and the Return of the MegafairsSocial reentry, sensory overload, and some very good art at the first big event since … well, you know when.
    By Jerry Saltz
  44. art review
    In Artist Cory Arcangel’s Latest Show, Kim Kardashian Provides the MaterialThe artist gives the smartphone game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood the white-cube treatment at Greene Naftali.
    By Katie Rothstein
  45. art review
    The Detonations of Alice NeelThe artist’s portrait show at the Met is packed with raw emotional power.
    By Jerry Saltz
  46. art
    The Frick on Madison Finally Lets You See Fragonard Up CloseEmpowered by its new setting, work once considered frivolous becomes visual thunder.
    By Jerry Saltz
  47. art review
    Heartbreak and Resurrection in ‘Grief and Grievance’ at the New MuseumA brutal, essential show that pulls from the canon of Black contemporary art.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Why Did It Take So Long for the World to Recognize the Genius of Joseph Yoakum?In fairness, it took me a long while, too.
    By Jerry Saltz
  49. art review
    Alexander Calder’s Circus is Back in TownThe artist’s wee sideshow is restored, and back at the Whitney.
    By Jerry Saltz
  50. art
    This Long-Running MoMA Show Might Restore Your Faith in UtopianismFinding solace in Bodys Isek Kingelez.
    By Jerry Saltz
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