As visitors crowd into blockbusters at rates of more than 800 people per hour, museums are working behind the scenes to keep guests patient, informed, and calm Read More
The long and lively history of political caricature Read More
Scholars are looking at the history of modernism through the history of its pranks Read More
With portraits of men of color in trendy ghetto gear posed in attitudes copied from the Old Masters, Kehinde Wiley aims to ‘make paintings that matter in the 21st century’ Read More
Alan Sonfist has built a career as an urban land artist. Read More
Robert Cottingham’s paintings bring back the marquees and neon glitz of midcentury America. Read More
A new biography disputes the notion of the artist as a dissolute madman . Read More
Just where the artist took inspiration for The Last Judgment's nude figures has become a matter of debate. Read More
Young Michelangelo:
The Path to the Sistine
By John T. Spike
Vendome Press, 272 pages, $27.95 Read More
Robert De Niro keeps his late father's studio the way it was left in 1993 and has just established an annual award to midcareer artists . Read More
Starting with cheerful spills of industrial materials, Lynda Benglis has teased the limits of taste, eroticism, and the male-dominated art world. Read More
