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2026 preview

10 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See in 2026

 Will the New Museum actually reopen? By Jerry Saltz
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Jerry Saltz’s 33 Rules for Being an Artist

 How to go from clueless amateur to generational talent (or at least live life a little more creatively). By Jerry Saltz
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The Crazed Cataclysms of Nicole Eisenman

 Her paintings at David Zwirner are delirious indictments of politics, art, and money. By Jerry Saltz
  1. furniture
    Bianca Censori Made Some Medical Sex-Dungeon FurnitureThe designer and wife of Kanye West says it’s about “collapsing the distinction between object, body, and idol.”
    By Clio Chang
  2. reasons to love new york
    How the Painter Sasha Gordon Marshaled Her Monsters“People assume I’m a bitchy, confident artist when I’m actually really afraid of everything.”
    By Adam Moss
  3. rip
    Frank Gehry, World-Famous Postmodern Architect, Dead at 96Gehry is one of only two architects to guest star on The Simpsons.
    By Bethy Squires
  4. in conclusion
    The Best Art Shows of 2025From tiny clay sculptures to the grandest museum reopenings.
    By Jerry Saltz
  5. the year in culture
    What the Culturati 50 Loved in 2025While we were watching these culture-makers, they were watching each other.
    By The Editors
  7. art review
    The Joyful Sorrows of the Reverend Joyce McDonaldThe minister’s first show at the Bronx Museum is a revelation in clay.
    By Jerry Saltz
  8. art review
    The Shades of Sasha GordonThe painter’s new show at David Zwirner is packed with her demon identities.
    By Jerry Saltz
  9. rip
    Drew Struzan Defined What a Blockbuster Movie Looks LikeEven if you didn’t know Drew Struzan’s name, you recognize his radiant poster art.
    By Bethy Squires
  10. no self portraits
    Bob Dylan’s Art Makes Its Off Broadway DebutMasquerade had a simple pitch: “The Phantom is the genius of music and Bob is the genius of everything.”
    By Devon Ivie
  11. art review
    Fossils From a Future ApocalypseThe fragile visions of Andra Ursuța.
    By Jerry Saltz
  12. art review
    The Dream WeaverErin M. Riley’s new tapestries are like Sylvia Plath crossed with a forensic police report.
    By Jerry Saltz
  13. encounter
    Mary Boone, Who Ruled Galleries in the ’80s, Is Back“I was a woman selling unnecessary, glamorous things to rich people. What’s not to hate?” says the art dealer.
    By Carrie Battan
  14. art review
    Making the ’60s Weird AgainThe Whitney’s boisterous survey breathes new life into a stagnant decade.
    By Jerry Saltz
  15. encounter
    Coco Fusco Refuses to Be PigeonholedThe artist gets her first U.S. survey after years of creating work that defies political orthodoxy.
    By Madeline Leung Coleman
  16. theater review
    Yasmina Reza’s Art Returns, Loaded With BlanksPlus a review of Celine Song’s early play Family.
    By Sara Holdren
  17. fall preview 2025
    10 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See This FallSome shows thrill, some surprise, some confuse — bless them all.
    By Jerry Saltz
  18. fall preview 2025
    30 Plays and Musicals We Can’t Wait to See This FallA revived Chess, a new Versailles, and a promising year for the nonmusical play.
    By Jackson McHenry
  19. art
    The Six Female Artists With Major Solo Shows This FallSasha Gordon, Olivia van Kuiken, Ana Cláudia Almeida, María Berrío, Adebunmi Gbadebo, and Karen Barbour on how they prepared for their big solo shows.
    Photographs by Jay Kolsch
  20. art review
    A Love Letter to VermeerThe Frick’s austere new show about the Dutch master is a quiet triumph.
    By Jerry Saltz
  21. the hamptons issue
    46 Artists Who Live and Work in the HamptonsLaurie Anderson, Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl and 43 artists keeping the Hamptons from turning into Key West.
    By Bob Morris
  22. encounter
    ‘The Depth Is in the Pictures, Not What I Say About Them’Rosalind Fox Solomon made haunting photographs for 50 years. She told us about her trajectory from Tennessee housewife to artist.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  23. the hamptons issue
    Does Larry Gagosian Like His Bookstore?The art dealer seems to think there is too much children’s stuff at BookHampton, his newest acquisition.
    By Brock Colyar
  24. shock and awe
    Sparks Are Li’l Album-Cover FreaksRanking the band’s most museum-worthy artworks with the brothers themselves.
    By Devon Ivie
  25. announcements
    Introducing How to Look at Art, by Jerry SaltzA New York Night School course from our senior art critic.
    By The Editors
  26. encounter
    The World’s Thirstiest Art DealerNick Hissom is over his tabloid-fodder breakup, even if he’s not ready to let go of his Cartier Love bracelet.
    By Ben Widdicombe
  27. look book
    The Look Book Goes to Rashid Johnson’s Opening NightNearly a thousand attended “A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” the artist’s solo exhibition at the Guggenheim.
    By Jeremy Rellosa
  28. art
    How the Black Portraiture Boom Went BustThe racial reckoning of 2020 sent prices soaring. Now, no one’s buying.
    By Rachel Corbett
  29. art
    How Is AI Art Different From Human Art?Two critics — one AI-skeptical, the other AI-curious — discuss the merits of art made by machines.
    By Jerry Saltz and David Wallace-Wells
  30. art review
    Rashid Johnson’s Visual FeastThe new Rashid Johnson survey at the Guggenheim is sprawling and stunning.
    By Yinka Elujoba
  31. art
    The Billionaires Are Battling Over a Giacometti SculptureDavid Geffen, lion of the old-guard art world, is up against Justin Sun, tech provocateur.
    By Rachel Corbett
  32. art
    Critics Are Fuming About the New MoMA Head“What a disappointing and unsurprising choice.”
    By Rachel Corbett
  33. art review
    The Wary Gaze of Amy SheraldA majestic new show at the Whitney features the artist’s gift for portraiture that seethes with subtleties.
    By Jerry Saltz
  34. art review
    Behold the FrickThe newly renovated museum is bigger and better than ever.
    By Jerry Saltz
  35. the work of art
    Lisa Yuskavage Becomes the ProtagonistAfter 35 years of painting her signature girls, the artist has turned to a new subject: herself.
    By Adam Moss
  36. art review
    The Exhilarating Anger of Christine Sun KimHer new show at the Whitney reveals that language is a social currency that constantly places the deaf at a disadvantage.
    By Jerry Saltz
  37. remembrances
    Walter Robinson, Rogue Pirate of the Art WorldThe longtime man-about-downtown died this week at age 74.
    By Jerry Saltz
  38. art review
    Caspar David Friedrich’s Lonely IslandsA retrospective at the Met captures the German romanticist’s epic melancholy.
    By Jerry Saltz
  39. extremely online
    The Hyperpigmentation Drawing Meme Is a Work of ArtCall it TikTok’s modern-day Mona Lisa.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  40. heists
    Graffiti Artist RETNA Claims an Auction House Sold His Stolen WorkThe graffiti artist says that his former landlord and Heritage Auctions illegally seized his property for profit.
    By Rachel Corbett
  41. physical media
    The Art Lost in L.A. FiresCount Warhol artworks, Gary Indiana’s library, and Schoenberg scores among the losses.
    By Justin Curto
  42. q&a
    Mickalene Thomas Doesn’t Need the Whitney BiennialIn conversation with an artist who has always claimed her own spaces.
    By Jerry Saltz
  43. year in culture
    The Bests of 2024All the books, podcasts, and anime (plus TV, movies, music, and more) that captivated our critics (and John Waters) this year.
    By Vulture Editors
  44. video games
    Come for the Art, Stay for the ArtPunching Nazis is just a bonus in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.
    By Lewis Gordon
  45. year in culture
    Vulture’s 20 Most-Read Stories of 2024From brat summer to a scandalous fall, here’s what our readers loved most this year.
    By Vulture Editors
  46. profile
    Lorraine O’Grady Finally Has the World’s AttentionAt 86, the artist had cemented her (belated) trailblazing status.
    By Jillian Steinhauer
  47. art review
    Night BitchesAlex Katz, Matthew Barney, and Jamian Juliano-Villani face the darkness.
    By Jerry Saltz
  48. best of 2024
    The Best New York Art Shows of 2024Outsiders, Renaissance masterpieces, crazy quilts, and more.
    By Jerry Saltz
  49. the work of art
    How Jonathan Franzen Learned to Write a Franzen NovelTo finish The Corrections, he had to kill his protagonist — and his idea of what a book should be.
    By Adam Moss
  50. ring ring … banana phone!
    It’s One Banana, Michael. What Could It Cost? $6.2 Million?Comedian, the piece of fruit taped to a wall, sold to a crypto bro at auction.
    By Jason P. Frank
  51. art
    The Extremely Chaotic Life of Jamian Juliano-VillaniLess than six months after her Gagosian solo show, the downtown artist-slash-gallerist lost her gallery and all her money.
    By Jay Bulger
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