Two of Mexico’s most beloved icons of 20th-century art, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, portrayed themselves in their work. Kahlo famously created many intimate self-portraits, while Rivera occasionally ...

The exhibition Marcel Duchamp and this volume are co-organized by two museums with which Duchamp had enduring relationships: The Museum of Modern Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 3 His ...

Pee-wee as Himself, Matt Wolf’s surprisingly frank documentary about Paul Reubens, has an unusual goal. “I wanted to make a portrait of Paul as an artist,” Wolf says, “and not to tell the story of the ...

Our photogrammetry projects have mainly focused on sculptures and other obviously 3D objects. But every painting also has dimension and shape, which is most noticeable in works like The Starry Night ...

Hear from artists, writers, and therapists about what happens when art and grief collide.

At the height of Cold War tensions, deploying such a media-technical apparatus in service of world peace might have seemed an urgent task for artists, technological advances having long fueled ...

In the summer of 1978, when I was a Long Island kid just out of high school, my life was changed by a trip to a Greenwich Village repertory film theater. It was the Art Cinema on 8th Street, which, ...

Join Lola Flash and five friends as they reminisce about art and community when the AIDS epidemic tore through NYC in the 1980s and ’90s.

June 18, 1920 Fumaria officinalis (Common Fumitory) The Fumaria has a sensitive nature spirit, it tries to incorporate both ascending and descending energies. Its flower is wispy, seemingly without ...

AH: And it wasn’t just the Rio Olympics that found it useful. EH: NASA has a data visualization team, and they’ve created their own version in the same format, which has also been very popular and ...

Textiles are everywhere in our lives, all the time. It’s not surprising, then, that they’ve been the focus of so many extraordinary artists, who have often created them in tandem with painting, ...

On the occasion of the exhibition Vital Signs: Artists and the Body, we spoke with art historian Cyle Metzger about Forrest Bess, an artist central to Metzger’s work on the trans history of art in the ...