THE art of biography, we say — but at once go on to ask, Is biography an art? The question is foolish perhaps, and ungenerous certainly, considering the keen pleasure that biographers have given us.

Cartoonist Art Spiegelman, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, about his parents’ survival of the Holocaust, has had an immense impact on the world of comics throughout his ...

Unfortunately you've used all of your gifts this month. Your counter will reset on the first day of next month. Whether or not you know who he is, rest assured Art Bergmann is pretty much top of the ...

Florine Stettheimer is the woman under the green parasol, stage right of Asbury Park South (1920)—an exuberant 4th of July scene, set on a golden New Jersey beach. Her self-portrait is easy to spot ...

Whether you want to crack open a new book in the newly sun-warmed park or tuck in at home, these nine reads offer comprehensive, entertaining, and thought-provoking portraits of beloved artists. From ...

Raised in Los Angeles, Lava Thomas spent a lot of time at her grandmother’s beauty salon. “I grew up in that shop,” the Menlo Park multimedia artist recalled recently. “My grandmother cut and styled ...

‘To be a biographer you must tie yourself up in lies, concealments, hypocrisies,” Freud wrote to Arnold Zweig in 1936. “Biographical truth is not to be had, and even if it were to be had, we could not ...