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February 16, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
The Shoah and the Art Market
February 16, 2014
Jed Perl
The Armory Show Made Modern Art Something You Love to Hate
Against the cult of novelty
February 11, 2014
Jed Perl
Matthew Barney's New Epic Is a Mythomaniacal Mailer-Hemingway Mash-Up
And he's more scatological than ever
February 7, 2014
Liel Leibovitz
War Movies Used to be Big, Sprawling Things. What Happened?
The trend of small-minded war movies continues
February 6, 2014
David Thomson
Clooney's 'The Monuments Men' Is Dreadful, Smug, and Incoherent
February 5, 2014
Mira Sethi
Mostly-Naked Man Appears on College Campus. Mostly-Idiotic Controversy Ensues.
February 5, 2014
Jed Perl
Legends of the Gay Art Underground
Two new shows highlight the hedonist asceticism of 1950s Bohemians
January 27, 2014
Jed Perl
The Met's Director Went to Davos to Say Museums Need to Talk Like Businessmen
January 22, 2014
Chloe Schama
Stop Taking Selfies in Front of Works of Art!
January 18, 2014
Jed Perl
Can Detroit's Art Museum Be Saved?
January 13, 2014
Jed Perl
MoMA's Faux-Populist Expansion Makes it Look Like a Department Store
This is how you ruin a cultural institution
January 10, 2014
Alice Robb
This Is Why We Go to Modern Art Museums
December 16, 2013
The New Republic Staff
A New Book on Rube Goldberg Features these Amazing Sketchbook Contraptions
December 9, 2013
Alice Robb
Psychoanalyst on Bill Clinton's Doodles: "He Looks Like He's Crying Out for Help"
December 6, 2013
Ian Volner
Brazilians Are Taking Over Miami. Can They Take Over Art Basel, Too?
December 5, 2013
Jed Perl
The Super-Rich Are Ruining Art for the Rest of Us
November 30, 2013
Jed Perl
Don't Bowdlerize Balthus's Paintings—Or His Mystical Ideas
An artist's restless mastery
November 23, 2013
Linda Kinstler
Do Readers Give Infographics a Free Pass?
Why we need to learn to scrutinize them like any other journalism
November 22, 2013
Jerry A. Coyne
Amazing Sculptures of Insects Made from Old Mechanical Parts
Edouard Martinet turns motorcycle headlights and umbrella ribs into beautiful living things
November 20, 2013
Jed Perl
Art Spiegelman Is Comics' Most Pretentious Faux-Artist

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