Meow Wolf began as a ragtag experiment in Santa Fe. Now it’s a multimillion-dollar company, and its employees want to be recognized not only as artists but workers too.

A sweeping new history of American comics traces the rise of characters caught in a Manichaean struggle between good and evil.

Edith Schloss’s memoir recalls a world of spacious, postindustrial studios filled with even bigger ideas about how to reform modern art.

In his posthumously-published biography of the artist, Alex Danchev unearths the gleeful child behind the highbrow works.

The final installment in John Richardson’s mammoth biography reveals the artist’s fiendish control over his admirers.

Joanna Hogg’s film treat a young artist’s coming of age with disarming seriousness.

In a new essay collection, the critic and novelist questions how much art can do to ease injustice.

He made art that looked like the future. How did he become a minor figure?

The controversy over her most famous work, “The Dinner Party,” has obscured her broader legacy as an artist.

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