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Kristine Eudey / Leslie-Lohman Museum The Photographer Who Captured 20th-Century Queer Life
Joan E. Biren’s images from the ’70s and ’80s—which appear in the new exhibit “Art After Stonewall”—reflect an effort to document and encourage lesbian love.
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The Pollock-Krasner Foundation The Irrepressible Emotion of Lee Krasner
The 20th-century painter is celebrated in a spectacular London retrospective that exposes the fullness of her career for the first time.
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Courtesy of Steffani Jemison The Whitney Biennial Homes In on American Precariousness
This year’s survey of 75 artists and collectives is quiet and suffused with anxiety.
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Corbis Historical / Getty The Many, Many Theories About Leonardo da Vinci
The artist, inventor, and all-around Renaissance man has been dead for half a millennium, but there’s no end to the wild sleuthing about him and his work.
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Benoit Tessier / Reuters Neon Is the Ultimate Symbol of the 20th Century
The once-ubiquitous form of lighting was novel when it first emerged in the early 1900s, though it has since come to represent decline.
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Yves Herman Reuters Notre-Dame Isn’t Lost
The history of sacred structures is defined by ruin and repair.
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Paul Morigi / National Portrait Gallery The Obama Portraits Have Had a Pilgrimage Effect
One year after Kehinde Wiley’s and Amy Sherald’s paintings were unveiled, the director of the National Portrait Gallery reflects on their unprecedented impact.
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Ryan Maxwell The Artwork That Traps Ivanka Trump in an Endless Cleanup Task
Ivanka Vacuuming, a performance piece by Jennifer Rubell, combines striking visuals with a muddled message.
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Frank Augstein / AP To Understand Art, Think Biology
Just as cells are the building blocks of the human body, a painting’s points, lines, colors, and tensions are the building blocks of its life.
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Fred W. McDarrah / Getty Warhol’s Bleak Prophecy
What a new retrospective reveals about the artist, and about our swerve away from humanism
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Victoria Jones / Reuters / AP / The ... David Hockney’s Record-Smashing $90 Million Painting
Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures) is an unquestionable masterpiece. It just shattered the previous world record for a work sold at auction by a living artist.
