Krasner’s teacher, Hans Hofmann, told her that her work was so good, you would have never known it was done by a woman.
For years, Fueki has been quietly creating a singular body of mind-bending work that has never fit into the New York art world.
You could say that Nina Hamnett fell victim to her own reckless self-mythologizing.
Joan Didion's writing could be intensely personal or completely detached. But it always resonated deeply.
With her audaciously colorful paintings, Florine Stettheimer exalted Manhattan’s high life, but kept her irony intact.
The late Harlem-based artist Alice Neel made some of the most revolutionary portraits of the 20th century. See them here.
She may have won the Pulitzer for her latest book, but the novelist knows too much applause is dangerous
Since the early 1980s, Kiki Smith has created artworks marked by her fascination and concern with the human body. In a conversation with Hyperallergic, she discusses some of her first films and audio works, which have been scantily acknowledged, offering a corrective to the object-based record of her decades-long career.
In Danica Lundy's paintings it seems that I can see two places at once, inside and outside my body.
She was labelled a man-hater, anti-sex and ugly. But she predicted both the ascent of Trump and #MeToo – and her unapologetic attitude is more relevant than ever
Hannah Aizenman reflects on the poetry of Mary Oliver, who died on Thursday, that was published in The New Yorker.
Born on this day in 1943, poet Nikki Giovanni continues to dream the world around her into a better place.
Emily Kennedy was a rather sheltered teenager when she first learned about sex trafficking. She was 16 on a trip to Macedonia, and she couldn't quite understand the desperation with which children were cleaning the car she was in when they had stopped at a stoplight. "My friend said the kids were trafficked by the...
For years, Fueki has been quietly creating a singular body of mind-bending work that has never fit into the New York art world.
A new show at Kasmin Gallery focuses on Lee Krasner’s innovative collage paintings.
Miriam Cahn's exhibition "My Jews" is on view until October 23 at Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen.
Learn more about Romani artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas and her art of celebrating Roma life, history, and heritage.
The artist has boldly reclaimed figurative oil painting and filled the gallery with the kind of contemporary art it normally shuns
[Photo credit: Library of Congress] Photograph of Ethel Reed by Fred Holland Day, c. 1895.
López died Friday morning in her longtime apartment in San Francisco's Mission District, according to her son, artist Rio Yañez.
The year before she died in Auschwitz at age twenty-nine, Etty Hillesum wrote: “I have the feeling that my life is not yet finished."
“Quilt” is an insufficient description for the extraordinary fabric pieces Scott began to construct in the 1970s.
Harriet Korman has never wanted to become part of someone else’s story.
It is precisely Moon's openness to using any source that makes her work flamboyant, captivating, odd, funny, smart, uncanny, comically monstrous, and unsettling. And, most of all, over the top.
