As director of the fiercely independent cultural center ABC No Rio, he led the battle to halt its eviction and later raised money to build a...
Art et Industrie was not a typical SoHo gallery, even in its heyday, the raucous 1980s. And its proprietor, Rick Kaufmann, a lanky, underfunded autodidact from...
“Vital Signs: Artists and the Body” draws from MoMA’s 20th-century collection to show that identity is broader than physical form. But in skipping social media the...
Weekly from 1956 to ’63, a charismatic painter named Lorser Feitelson filled America’s living rooms with the first televised history of art. We’re still exploring —...
Listen to this article, read by Robert Petkoff We were on the third or fourth flight of thick marble steps in a prewar Midtown apartment building...
In Ella Baxter’s novel “Woo Woo,” a feminist performance artist starts to question herself on the eve of a provocative solo exhibition.
Before Marlon Mullen begins a painting, he likes to tidy his work space. He’ll pre-mix his paints — Golden acrylics in recycled pots — and lay...
She worked in collage, photography, performance, video and installation, and she dealt forthrightly with the complexities of race and gender.
A prolific artist, she was known for her graceful watercolors of birds, plants and butterflies, and was considered as the equal of Winslow Homer in her...
The art critics of The Times select their favorites, from the biography of a “famously unknown” artist to an ode to the Louvre from 100 poets.