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June 17, 2013
Hillary Kelly
About that Rand Paul Cover Photo...
A Conversation with Platon
June 10, 2013
Leon Wieseltier
Idealism and Blindness
Of flaking paint and blemishes
June 3, 2013
Christopher Benfey
Michael Cardew: The Potter as Great Modern Artist
May 23, 2013
Jed Perl
Jacques Callot's Line Sublime
An Artist's Two-Inch-Tall Creations Brought Printmaking to its Heights
May 20, 2013
Jed Perl
Grow or Perish
How the art world Goliaths are crushing the Davids
May 10, 2013
Jed Perl
Frieze New York, a VIP Art Fair for Our Gilded Age
April 26, 2013
Jed Perl
The Sanitizing of a Junk-Art Genius
Claes Oldenburg gets an exhibit—and gets boring
April 17, 2013
Jason Farago
The Case for Looking
What we can learn from extremely violent photography
April 13, 2013
Maud Newton
How Occupy Changed Contemporary Art
Molly Crabapple's 'altarpieces to the revolution'
April 4, 2013
Jed Perl
No Trouble at All
The problem with critics' praise of Piero della Francesca's Frick show
March 28, 2013
Jason Farago
The Real Story Behind Tilda Swinton's Performance at MoMA
March 20, 2013
Jed Perl
Life and Art in Steinberg, Hockney, and Wojnarowicz
Three new biographies that retell the lives but don't explain the creativity
March 15, 2013
Reid Cherlin
Washington's Creepiest Cartoonist Is Actually a Sweet 73-Year-Old Texan Retiree
Meet the man behind Daily Drawings
March 13, 2013
Liel Leibovitz
MoMA Has Mistaken Video Games for Art
The museum is putting 'Pac-Man' alongside Picasso. That misses the point.
March 13, 2013
Jed Perl
When the Surrealists Met the Nazis
Picasso, Paris, and modern art in Vichy France
February 19, 2013
Chadwick Matlin
Inside the GIF-Industrial Complex
How the animated image file took over the Internet
February 14, 2013
Jed Perl
Photography in an Age of Smartphones
When photography is everywhere, when is it art?
February 8, 2013
Michael Schaffer
The George W. Bush Paintings: A Freudian Analysis
February 7, 2013
Jason Farago
J.M. Coetzee, Curator?
The gravest novelist of our time dives into art world glitz
February 1, 2013
Jed Perl
Noble and Ignoble
Ai Weiwei: Wonderful dissident, terrible artist

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