For anyone interested in the pathways and redoubts of 20th-century art history that are messy, ribald, obscure, and proudly defiant of taste and convention, now is a great time to visit New York Cit<a href="https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1670" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"…
In honor of the Menil Collection’s William N. Copley survey, which opened today and is subtitled “The World According to CPLY,” we turn back to the March 1960 issue of ARTnews, which featured a…
Where do you begin with William N. Copley? There are almost too many good stories about the artist, collector, art dealer, patron, and all-around gadabout, whose life cut a wild path through…
We don’t usually get to see too much of the work of William N. Copley (1919–96) here in the United States, which is a sad, sad thing because he is one of the most peculiar and interesting artists…