The title of Grace Jones's memoir, I'll Never Write My Memoirs (Gallery Books), is lifted from the first line of her song "The Art Groupie," off side two of her fifth album, Nightclubbing. You can't…
The National Portrait Gallery spotlights the work of Boris Chaliapin, who created hundreds of magazine covers in lightning speed
New York artist Nate Lowman's iconophilic paintings, sculpture and bricolage have a story of cultural alienation to tell. "I love language, and I love the failure of language," Lowman told A.i.A. "To…
From photographs and Warhol paintings to the dress she wore to serenade JFK, objects associated with Marilyn Monroe are in high demand.
What this body of paintings adds up to is a kind of peinture noire in the sense that we apply the term to the film-noir genre of the '40s and early '50s—a stark, disabused, pessimistic vision of…
