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The CULT100 Issue 2025
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Overlooked No More, Jack Whitten Ascends with a Stellar Retrospective at MoMA

Michelle Kuo’s curatorial vision for “Jack Whitten: The Messenger” brings the artist’s oeuvre into full view.

By John Vincler May 7, 2025
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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Stettheimer Dollhouse, Sleeper Hit of the 20th-Century Avant-Garde

By Johanna Fateman
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Harmony Hammond Is a Living Legend of Queer Abstraction (And the World Is Finally Catching On)

By Jarrett Earnest
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Art in the Age of Kenny Schachter's Vacuous Robo Paintings

The New York-based artist and art world observer's exhibition at Jupiter may be the worst gallery show of the year.

By John Vincler March 26, 2025
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A New Cecily Brown Show at the Barnes Reveals a Painter in Her Prime

A knockout, mid-career survey in Philadelphia brings the New York-based, British artist’s accomplishment into full view.

By Johanna Fateman March 19, 2025
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Everyone Is Talking About Painter Laura Owens’s New Show. Here’s Why

By Johanna Fateman
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Pippa Garner Showed Us How to Be Free

By John Vincler
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Painted Printed Matter: Johanna Fateman on Marlon Mullen’s MoMA Debut

By Johanna Fateman
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The Crowd Goes Wild: Marco Brambilla's Timely Video Confections of Violence and Protest

By John Vincler
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Kara Walker’s Cut-Outs, Now in Color: Poet Pamela Sneed Reflects on the Artist’s Powerful New Body of Work

By Pamela Sneed
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Our Critic Resorted to Trespassing to See This Artist’s Work. Here’s How You Can See It—and the Exhibition It’s a Part Of—(Legally)

By John Vincler
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Can't Look or Can't Look Away? Our Critic on Mesmerizing Video Installations by Steve McQueen and Sara Cwynar

By Johanna Fateman
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Artist Nengi Omuku Works the Crowd in a Suite of Fresh Paintings

By John Vincler
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