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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
August 5, 2014
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Liberals Are Killing Art
How the Left became obsessed with ideology over beauty
June 13, 2014
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The Art World Has Stopped Distinguishing Between Greatness and Fraudulence
And it's costing us
April 8, 2014
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A New Matisse Show Gets at the Mysterious Affinity Between San Francisco and Paris
March 29, 2014
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Why Is MoMA Hiding So Many of Its Greatest Pieces?
March 19, 2014
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A Knockout Exhibition from an Iconoclast Sculptor
March 7, 2014
Jed Perl
Whitney Biennial: The Most Narcissistic of all New York Art World Events
March 4, 2014
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The Newest Protest Art is the Destruction of the Old Protest Art
February 25, 2014
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New Exhibit at the Guggenheim Is a Romper Room on Steroids
February 16, 2014
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The Armory Show Made Modern Art Something You Love to Hate
Against the cult of novelty
February 11, 2014
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Matthew Barney's New Epic Is a Mythomaniacal Mailer-Hemingway Mash-Up
And he's more scatological than ever
February 5, 2014
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Legends of the Gay Art Underground
Two new shows highlight the hedonist asceticism of 1950s Bohemians
January 27, 2014
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The Met's Director Went to Davos to Say Museums Need to Talk Like Businessmen
January 18, 2014
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Can Detroit's Art Museum Be Saved?
January 13, 2014
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MoMA's Faux-Populist Expansion Makes it Look Like a Department Store
This is how you ruin a cultural institution
December 15, 2013
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Five Stunning Art Books That Made a Difference in 2013
December 5, 2013
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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 20, 2013
Jed Perl
Art Spiegelman Is Comics' Most Pretentious Faux-Artist
November 13, 2013
Jed Perl
$142 Million for a Francis Bacon Painting? Someone Overpaid!

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