Bob Ross was the soft-spoken “Happy Painter,” beloved by audiences. When he died, conflict erupted.

A new show pairing the work of Eva Hesse and Hannah Wilke ends up stressing the differences between these groundbreaking artists.

Louis Menand’s new book traces the decline of a defining ideal.

Bacon’s contradictions make him the rare artist who warrants an infatuated 900-page biography.

Eulogies for the creative class are premature. Art workers can organize—and survive.

We may be done with Ivanka, but she is not done with us.

When Lucian Freud painted Paul, she felt reduced. When Paul paints her subjects, they are exalted.

The self-appointed guardians of America’s visual heritage are at it again.

Blake Gopnik’s biography shows an artist haunted by death, seeking refuge in consumerism.

The proliferation of murals across the country is part of a tradition dating back to the civil rights movement.

The legacy of Donald Judd in a time of quarantine

Jerry Saltz’s new book markets an instagram-friendly version of creativity.

A pristine, stripped-down aesthetic conceals the messy realities of society.

The Brooklyn Museum’s new show—now shuttered due to coronavirus fears—captures a time that has never felt so distant.

The Museum of Modern Art has used an expansive renovation to both reintroduce and celebrate itself.

On Apollo 11's fiftieth anniversary, a new exhibition at the Met explores the moon's place in our cultural imagination.

How a starchitect’s dramatic design for LACMA was hacked to bits

A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art depicts self-indulgence amid the disorder of a decaying world.

Can the artist’s things tell us what drove her?

A pioneer of abstraction, the Swedish artist made mysterious, cosmic paintings her life’s work.