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 ...

Of all the senses, touch is the biggest taboo in a museum. Glass cases, stanchions, and signs pepper the galleries to remind us not to touch the art, in order to protect it. But what if allowing touch ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Watch, listen, and discover more about the culminating innovation of a restlessly inventive artist.

You raise such a crucial aspect of her adventure, especially in this moment when the self—the self as brand, the artist as lifestyle influencer—reigns supreme. By doing the work of others, Sturtevant ...

On Valentine’s Day 1970, David Mancuso began hosting regular, invitation-only dance parties at his home at 647 Broadway in New York City. Initially started as a way to make rent, these weekly ...

Abel Rodríguez is a sage of the Nonuya people, who live in the Amazon rainforest. He is known as a “plant namer” because of his astonishing ability to remember the wide range of vegetable and animal ...

I do not remember when I first met Richard Serra. But I do remember the first time I was bowled over by his work. It was in the fall of 1996 when I saw the monumental 58x64x70—the title describes the ...