In the late 1970s, curator Marcia Tucker was fed up with a corporate attitude that pervaded New York art museums, even…
Artist Carolee Schneemann, whose groundbreaking works of feminist performance art in the 1970s would indelibly shape…
Doing nothing—or anything, depending how you see it—is now a once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity.
In December, protestors entered New York’s Whitney Museum, bearing signs and banners reading, “WHITNEY MUSEUM: A SPACE…
In 2015, the New York Times ran a story under the headline “Frida Kahlo Is Having A Moment.” It wasn’t entirely…
Andres Serrano, the artist famous for using human excrement, breast milk, urine, and semen in his artwork, is the proud…
Since the mid-1980s, the feminist art-slash-activist group Guerrilla Girls have critiqued sexism and racism in the art…
When the late Jean-Michel Basquiat said in 1985 that he makes his art “for myself, but ultimately for the world you…
It’s safe to say that Frida Kahlo has become trendy. White women dress up as her for Halloween and there’s merchandise…
Lady Gaga paused in the middle of her set in Las Vegas on Sunday to comment on Karen “Mother” Pence’s new job at a…
Beyoncé has graciously agreed to share some of her shine with a little French institution known as the Louvre. Maybe…
What does it take to identify a sculpture by Michelangelo? Pubes, distinctive toes, and eight-packs, apparently.
It’s hard out here for a man. At least it seems that way, based on the societal tendency to celebrate them for doing…
Welcome to Styling, Jezebel’s video series in which we show how creative people communicate who they are through the…
It is my belief that “the cat” is one of the great artistic subjects (for instance, name a novel in which a cat does…
In 1866, the French painter Gustave Courbet painted The Origin of the World, a painting that depicts a nude, her face…
Marina Abramovic was in Florence, Italy on Sunday for a book signing when a man thwacked her over the head with a…
Tramps, the art gallery where Lizzi Bougatsos has until recently kept a day job as a gallerist, is of a downtown…
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