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November 18, 2015
Molly Crabapple
Drawn and Cornered
A young artist hustles her way through New York City.
November 13, 2015
Sasha Belenky
Stephen Colbert points out that network TV's rules about art and nudity are completely ridiculous.
November 13, 2015
Theodore Ross
Ai Weiwei wants your Legos for art.
November 13, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
If you grew up playing racing games, there’s something soothingly familiar about staring into a horizon on an infinite road.
November 5, 2015
Jo Livingstone
What Your Tattoo Says About the World
A new book dissects the meanings of tattoo cultures
October 30, 2015
Anna Wiener
Paris Was Wild, Once
Luc Sante’s new book looks longingly back at a more sinful time
October 28, 2015
Gwyneth Kelly
The Fine Art of Fashion
A new book collects images of women in poses from famous paintings
September 30, 2015
Sharon Mizota
At the Broad Museum, All is Vanity
The billionaire’s new Los Angeles museum is a beautiful lens awaiting a vision.
September 21, 2015
Kyle Chayka
A Painter for Our Absurd Age of Pop Culture
August 24, 2015
Miya Tokumitsu
The Politics of the Curation Craze
Amid flat wages and dwindling public services, curation gives us the illusion of control.
May 15, 2015
Cara Parks
Instill Life
The dark and light of Sally Mann
May 10, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
The Risks of Siding With French Secularism
The National Front's defense of 'Charlie Hebdo' should make the mag's progressive American defenders wary
May 8, 2015
Jeet Heer
The Aesthetic Failure of 'Charlie Hebdo'
The French satirical magazine refuses to evolve, using a stale artistic strategy from the 1960s
March 16, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
How Did Sex Become So Boring?
Once a political act, it's now all about self-discovery
March 6, 2015
Saul Austerlitz
Look MoMA, I’m on TV!
What happens when television invades the museum?
January 22, 2015
Shahan Mufti
What Gandhi Understood About Inflammatory Depictions of Muhammad
January 16, 2015
Christopher S. Grenda, Chris Beneke
When Blasphemy Goes Viral
The 'Charlie Hebdo' massacre marks the dawn of a digital age of irreverence and retaliation
December 17, 2014
Zachary Fine
Why We Need Museums Now More Than Ever
An art critic and the Met's former director make the case for objects in the digital age
December 10, 2014
Tiffany Jenkins
Are We Entering a New Age of Artistic Censorship in Europe?
November 2, 2014
Jed Perl
Cut-Out of the Artist as a Young Man
MoMA's new Matisse exhibition is the must-see museum show in New York this fall

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