The underground-comic artist visits the Whitney with his biographer, Dan Nadel, and considers some old friends: his own psychedelic skulls, placemat sketches, and muscly women.

Art Spiegelman, the artist most famous for his novel Maus ... is the id-driven, lascivious, hippie titan R. Crumb: an artist who “dove to the depths not just of his own subconscious, but of something ...

An exhibition devoted to the Art Nouveau designer highlights his suggestive, colorful posters, making an impassioned if ...

Meditations like these are formatted in stanzas with simple line drawings peppered throughout ... the sole purpose of educating himself in the art of baking bread. Bread making has become a ...

Life is full of unexpected encounters, and these 16 stories prove just how surprising a stranger’s actions can be. From ...

When I came and did my first big show with Holly Solomon, she thought she was going to get a show full of these figures, and she just thought it was hippie art. Instead ... What is the relationship ...

This is a visualization created on the screen of an oscilloscope by a musical piece: Primer is an introduction to oscilloscope music, a genre and art form where vector visuals ... these amazing ...

This year’s edition of Art Paris was, as always, the place to be in springtime for modern and contemporary art. The fair closed its doors on Sunday, April 6, having welcomed a record number of 86,975 ...

The Shakers lived in communal households devoid of decor. But as a new exhibition of ornate drawings illustrates, they weren’t bound by simplicity. Shaker women made and exchanged—but never ...

We explain how a few big players wield enormous influence in the art world. By Zachary Small I cover the worlds of art and money. Museums provide the first draft of art history. They decide which ...

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