Nearly all of the 70 or so pieces in Lucas Samaras' last solo show in Manhattan included the artist — frequently, naked. "What the hell am I hiding?" asks the octogenarian artist. Samaras helped ...

This photograph is part of his self-titled AutoPolaroids where he utilized Polaroid photography to capture meticulously arranged compositions. In this particular work, Samaras presents a mango ...

An exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago highlights the artist’s mysterious, expressively manipulated self-portraits.

The room is small, with just a table and chair. Light bounces every which way, and a green hue is omnipresent. There are dozens of people in the 8-foot-by-8-foot enclosed space, and they are all you.

“‘Untitled’ (America)” does a solid job of tracing a path through a nation’s collective psyche, interested in place and pop culture, memory and media, abstraction and urban living.

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