Interviews & Essays

The coffee-table tome "Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists" is a must-have monograph for anyone interested in assembling—or simply appreciating—a momentous art collection.

Traveling from Düsseldorf to Tel Aviv, the man carried a canvas by surrealist master Yves Tanguy in a flat cardboard box. When he reached his final destination, he realized to his horror that he did not have the package in tow.

Though the popularity of chess has seen a major uptick lately, the strategic game is no passing fad.

A leading expert on the works of Leonardo da Vinci thinks she has found a new drawing by the Renaissance master.

German police have arrested three men in connection with the daring theft of more than a billion dollars in diamonds last year.

As the owner of contemporary art by luminaries such as Cy Twombly, Cindy Sherman, and Andy Warhol, Baltimore-based writer and filmmaker John Waters might have considered offering his collection to a large national museum because of its prestige, reputation, and attendance.

The great American artist Wayne Thiebaud turns 100 on Sunday, and he seems unfazed.

Working in an inventive, personal style that he boldly calls contemporary surrealism, Nigerian artist Kelechi Nwaneri creates beautifully bizarre imagery of fictional figures in landscapes, which are half-real and half-imagined.

Patrick Shearn and Poetic Kinetics's latest project, A Change in the Air, is set to bring messages of hope to Washington, D.C.

A visitor to the Met's current exhibition, Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle, suspected that she recognized the works on display.