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 ...

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 ...

Ever ready to explore new paths, however, in January 1965 Asawa had enthusiastically accepted an invitation from June Wayne, founder of Tamarind Lithography Workshop (now Tamarind Institute), to be an ...

A relentless explorer, April Greiman has been pushing the boundaries between design, art, and technology for over four decades. Her layered work merges analog and digital, handmade and mechanically ...

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 ...

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 ...

Artist Tom Lloyd (1929–1996) was an activist, teacher, and community organizer, as well as one of the trailblazers of a new mode of sculpture incorporating light and technology. One of the most ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...