As Women’s History Month draws to a close, here are 10 recent biographies of women artists to round out your reading list—at any point throughout the year. Sheila Barker tackles the life and career of ...

A new biography of one of the quintessential artists of the 20th century. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. MONDRIAN: ...

The Slips of lower Manhattan—sites of former ship berths on the East River, now landfill paved into streets and plazas—evoke, in our historical memory, the tall ships and chandleries of the 19th ...

First Lady Betty Ford and Louise Nevelson standing with “Bicentennial Dawn” (1976) (Artwork © 2016 Estate of Louise Nevelson / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New ...

Editor’s Note: This article was produced in collaboration with the Arts & Culture MA concentration at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Cockroaches scuttled around a cubed vivarium.

In the early 1990s, the art historian Barbara Bloemink was rummaging through a Yale library in search of a dissertation topic when she came across “a funny letter about how impossible men are” from ...

Frida: The Making of an Icon” traces Frida Kahlo’s posthumous transformation from relatively unknown painter to global brand.

Henry LaCagnina (American) was one of the original artists commissioned by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression. Over his 70-year career, LaCagnina worked in many ...

Like Van Gogh, it's an artistic style you recognize immediately. His images speak their own language, canvases with cartoon-inspired barking dogs, flying saucers, hearts, pyramids, ziggurat stairways, ...

In Nancy Mitford’s “The Pursuit of Love,” the young narrator, Fanny—this is circa World War I—asks her Aunt Sadie what mysterious crime Oscar Wilde had committed. Sadie, greatly flustered, admits that ...