As Women’s History Month draws to a close, here are 10 recent biographies of women artists to round out your reading list—at any point throughout the year. Sheila Barker tackles the life and career of ...

Our writer sits down with Purdue Art History professor Beth Woodward to explore the under-appreciated nuances of Renaissance art.

“Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by Hayden Herrera Isamu Noguchi was a difficult man who made art easy to look at. In his life and work, he was ...

In the early 1990s, the art historian Barbara Bloemink was rummaging through a Yale library in search of a dissertation topic when she came across “a funny letter about how impossible men are” from ...

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When you walk into the Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Gallery at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, something remarkable happens. After strolling past any number of staid, well-executed portraits in the rooms of ...

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The Slips of lower Manhattan—sites of former ship berths on the East River, now landfill paved into streets and plazas—evoke, in our historical memory, the tall ships and chandleries of the 19th ...

The new book Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly is not a typical artist biography. It might have been had the author—poet and essayist Joshua Rivkin—been granted access to the Cy Twombly ...

“Dear Mr. Richter,” the letter began. “I have been working on the idea for a feature film, about which I would like to talk to you, if you can make that possible. Could you give me an hour of your ...

LISTENING TO STONE: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi. By Hayden Herrera. FSG. 592 pages. $40. Isamu Noguchi was a difficult man who made art easy to look at. In his life and work, he was riddled with ...