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Rachel Wolff

Rachel Wolff is a Brooklyn-based critic, writer, and editor. She covers art for New York Magazine, Town & Country, Bloomberg Businessweek, Art + Auction, Modern Painters, Chicago Magazine, and various Modern Luxury publications.

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How to Marry Prince William

A new art exhibition in London invites the public to get up close and personal with a wax version of the engaged royal. Rachel Wolff talks to artist Jennifer Rubell about her tabloid inspiration.

Rachel Wolff

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Fanfare at Frieze

London’s annual Frieze Festival of Art winds up this weekend, after an impressive showing filled with great art and starry buyers. Rachel Wolff reports from the U.K.

Rachel Wolff

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Jean-Michel Basquiat's Radiant New Movie

Tamra Davis brings the tragic art star of the 1980s back to life in a documentary debuting this week.

Rachel Wolff

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Urban Art's Moment

Nine New York galleries have based a major exhibit on Lush Life, Richard Price’s bestselling novel, and the true crimes that happened on those streets.

Rachel Wolff

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Andy Warhol's Artistic Orgy

A new exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum and a reissued classic book give fresh context to the artist, his Factory, and their orgiastic creations.

Rachel Wolff

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Art's Original Ladies' Man

John Singer Sargent’s portraits of legendary and aristocratic women are finally getting their due at a comprehensive new exhibit. View our gallery.

Rachel Wolff

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Stolen Art Goes Public

Eva and Franco Mattes have long been making high art of hijinks. The couple’s latest coup features pieces they pilfered from some prized works of art. Now that the statute of limitations has run out on their potential crimes, the Matteses are revealing the steals.

Rachel Wolff

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Erotic Embroidery

Egyptian artist Ghada Amer uses thread and watercolors to create subtly graphic paintings from a traditionally female craft. VIEW OUR NSFW GALLERY.

Rachel Wolff

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The Power of Picasso

A blockbuster show opened at the Met this week and features 300 Pablo Picasso works, including the debut of the erotic painting he disowned. VIEW OUR GALLERY.

Rachel Wolff

Michael Crichton's Pop Masterpieces

The late author's extraordinary art collection is up for auction next month, including seminal works by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein. VIEW OUR GALLERY.

Rachel Wolff

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