Classically styled paintings of Bill Murray or Brad Pitt might raise red flags of absurdity, but to some, it's the best way to express their pop-culture appreciation.

The twisted tale of Origami v. Sarah Morris

On the Run With Hans-Ulrich Obrist, the world's greatest curator.

On the art world's Instagram obsession.

Has the art world finally forgiven the world's most famous painter?

Sanitation workers take center stage as a modern dance ensemble, inspire audiences.

The New Yorker's Calvin Tomkins has long managed to establish a system for his artist profiles that renders his subject, no matter how radical the artist may seem, straight and with clear angles. The result is always masterful, but a new book offers the unedited transcripts from the writer's meetings with Marcel Duchamp in 1964.

A new book chronicles how Leonardo da Vinci was something of an underachiever, until he began work on The Last Supper.

If there was any entity that believed in the power of comic books to indoctrinate, it was the U.S. government.

In the 1960s, they were peddling their paintings by the side of the road. Today, those same paintings are hanging in museums.

Artist Ellie Ga's work in the last few years has focused on archival material gathered during a five-month expedition aboard a 90-foot-long ship that drifted in the Arctic.

While Kathryn Bigelow has been reluctant to talk about her role in the art world during the 1970s, she also hasn't distanced herself from it completely. And with the debate surrounding her use of torture in Zero Dark Thirty, her decade in the 1970s art world has never been more relevant.

What gets much less attention than the business of graffiti is the business of anti-graffiti. Most estimates put annual spending on graffiti abatement in the U.S. at $15 to $20 billion.

While John Updike seems eager to unleash his novelist's tool kit in the third collection of his art criticism.

Nationalist superheroes aren't what they once were.

Some artists are at work on more complete, or at least more adventurous, ways of showing the climate crisis.

There's no need to be content with a nice table when you can have an epic slice of prehistory at the London gallery of Dale Rogers, known as the "Indiana Jones" of fossil and mineral hunting.

As artists in all media go social--from novelists to painters to musicians--the very practice of their craft is becoming public.

The world of high art celebrates pioneering comics creator Daniel Clowes.

Rather than focusing on Richter's bling-factor and celebrity, a new documentary on the German art superstar is about process.