Tag: Art

In Turkey, an Exhibit Meant to Highlight Kurdish Suffering Provoked a Furor

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — Dozens of brightly painted coffins marked with the initials…

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When a Master Printer Picks Up the Camera

PHILADELPHIA — Is technical wizardry enough to make someone an artist?Richard Benson…

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In 2021, We Were There: The Year’s 14 Most Popular Dispatches

As the world reopened cautiously in 2021, our correspondents seized the chance…

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Is Disney the Met’s Fairy Godmother?

“Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts,” which opened this…

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Wayne Thiebaud, Playful Painter of the Everyday, Dies at 101

Wayne Thiebaud, the California-based painter whose lush, dreamy landscapes and luminous pictures…

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He Paid $30 for a Drawing. It Could Be a Renaissance Work Worth Millions.

Eleven days later, the owner texted pictures of the artwork to Mr.…

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Joseph E. Yoakum Isn’t Who You Think

Born around 1891, the self-taught artist Joseph E. Yoakum spent most of…

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A Grim, Long-Hidden Truth Emerges in Art: Native American Enslavement

FORT GARLAND, Colo. — On a bitter, windy day, a long-overdue reckoning…

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Expanding the Scope of ‘Latin American Art’

You don’t need to know anything about art to be stopped in…

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