The Man Whose Magazine Covers Changed America
The late graphic designer George Lois profoundly influenced generations of artists.
Art
The Other Climate-Change Art Protest
Smearing soup on paintings is a stunt. What does real work look like?
The Art Exhibit for the Anti-Instagram Age
A land-art installation that allows just six visitors a day simultaneously protects the artist’s vision and re-creates the art world’s penchant for exclusion.
An American Art Critic’s 70-Year Love Affair With Rome
Milton Gendel’s archive offers an acute vision of 20th-century Rome—from a distinctly American perspective.
Ken Burns Tells America’s History Through Six Photographs
These images reveal our nation’s most persistent tensions.
Just How Safe Is Great Art?
A museum-security expert admits that “it’s pretty darn hard to protect a painting from somebody throwing a can of soup at it.”
A Bygone Boston
In the 1980s, the photographer Jack Lueders-Booth captured life along the city’s Orange Line.
The Guggenheim’s Scapegoat
A museum curator was forced out of her job over allegations of racism that an investigation deemed unfounded. What did her defenestration accomplish?
The Andy Warhol Case That Could Wreck American Art
Without strong fair-use protections, a culture can’t thrive.
We’re Witnessing the Birth of a New Artistic Medium
Expect AI art to go the way of Warhol.