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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“Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts,” which opened this…
Wayne Thiebaud, Playful Painter of the Everyday, Dies at 101
Wayne Thiebaud, the California-based painter whose lush, dreamy landscapes and luminous pictures…
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.…
Joseph E. Yoakum Isn’t Who You Think
Born around 1891, the self-taught artist Joseph E. Yoakum spent most of…
A Grim, Long-Hidden Truth Emerges in Art: Native American Enslavement
FORT GARLAND, Colo. — On a bitter, windy day, a long-overdue reckoning…
Expanding the Scope of ‘Latin American Art’
You don’t need to know anything about art to be stopped in…
Best Art Books of 2021
In a lockdown year, with travel reduced, there was no movable feast…
‘Social Detonator’: In Artist’s Work, and Life, Different Classes Collide
LONDON — When he was a boy, Oscar Murillo told his best…
