Books
"That which is the immodesty of other women has been my virtue — my willingness that the world should gaze upon my figure unadorned," Audrey Munson, the favorite nude model of the Beaux Arts movement in the United States, once proclaimed.
In Brief
A group of British pranksters is facing jail time for staging a fake art robbery in the National Portrait Gallery last July, proving the consequences of going to pointless lengths to attain internet virality.
News
Bill Traylor's drawings and paintings were not recognized by the art world until decades after his death in 1949.
Art
PITTSBURGH — Inside 516 Sampsonia Way, a 19th-century row house in the Mexican War Streets neighborhood, there no longer appear to be any 90-degree angles.
News
Artist advocacy group Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) is calling for the New Museum to receive certification to ensure all its artists earn fair pay as the building plans for expansion, funded by an ongoing $80 million capital campaign.
Announcement
Luhan influenced legions of European and American movers and shakers, including D.H. Lawrence, Georgia O’Keeffe, Ansel Adams, John Marin, John Collier, Marsden Hartley, Paul Strand, and Andrew Dasburg, to find in northern New Mexico’s physical and cultural landscapes new aesthetic, social, and cultu
Art
The week after her death, my family went to Great Aunt Afrodite's house to sort through her belongings, including hundreds of watercolors and sketches that none of us had ever seen before.
Art
ISTANBUL — Bahar Yürükoğlu makes icebergs bleed neon colors.
Art
By the logic of the tiny house movement, a whimsical architectural response to the housing crisis, tinier is better, right?
In Brief
For those temped to leave graffiti on the base camp of the Chinese side of Mount Everest, known as Mount Qomolangma, think again: your name may appear on a public list, distributed to and publicized by news outlets.
Art
HELSINKI — "In the final days of a damp, misty November, the body of a young woman is found in the icy embrace of the waters off Kaivopuisto Park."
Comics
Of course, it was illegal.