Expectations for a future of unlimited potential abounded in the period of political liberation and decolonization across the African continent. In 1957, Ghana peacefully gained independence from ...

Frida and Diego: The Last Dream celebrates Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera —two of Mexico’s most beloved icons of 20th-century art—in a first-of-its-kind collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera.

Discover Ruth Asawa, one of the most innovative artists of the 20th century, and the enduring legacy of her radical and unflagging experiments with material and form. We visit Asawa’s San Francisco ...

Ever ready to explore new paths, however, in January 1965 Asawa had enthusiastically accepted an invitation from June Wayne, founder of Tamarind Lithography Workshop (now Tamarind Institute), to be an ...

Pee-wee as Himself, Matt Wolf’s surprisingly frank documentary about Paul Reubens, has an unusual goal. “I wanted to make a portrait of Paul as an artist,” Wolf says, “and not to tell the story of the ...

If you’re interested in creative processes, you might also want to pick up Leigh Ann Beavers’ and my textbook, Creating Comics, which includes detailed examples and exercises. For now though, I can ...

Ultimately, what distinguishes Jacqueline Kennedy III from the works we usually label as comics is just context. Juxtaposed images that hang in MoMA’s galleries are fine art, but when juxtaposed ...

Amy Sillman is a painter who has expanded and pushed the medium into many other genres—from drawing to video to zines, DIY publications usually made fast and printed on the fly. For MoMA, Sillman has ...

In the summer of 1978, when I was a Long Island kid just out of high school, my life was changed by a trip to a Greenwich Village repertory film theater. It was the Art Cinema on 8th Street, which, ...

June 18, 1920 Fumaria officinalis (Common Fumitory) The Fumaria has a sensitive nature spirit, it tries to incorporate both ascending and descending energies. Its flower is wispy, seemingly without ...

Hear from artists, writers, and therapists about what happens when art and grief collide.

You raise such a crucial aspect of her adventure, especially in this moment when the self—the self as brand, the artist as lifestyle influencer—reigns supreme. By doing the work of others, Sturtevant ...