Mort Künstler, whose meticulously researched and dramatically composed paintings of American historical scenes, especially of the Civil War, made him one of the country’s most prominent...
After Alice Coltrane’s death in January 2007, the many who mourned her passing and celebrated her influence — from the jazz world, Hindu and new-age communities,...
How did the photographer Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, go from hard-boiled shots of New York murder victims, criminal arrests and tenement fires during the...
This week in Newly Reviewed, Holland Cotter covers two group shows: one devoted to an important gallery from the past, the other focused on language and...
At her studio in Brooklyn on a recent morning, Na Kim sighed. She wasn’t sure about her latest painting, a portrait of a woman with brooding...
8 a.m. Spend up for eggs out Wake up early and head over to Cozy Uptown Eats for their excellent homemade scones ($5) and biscuits ($4),...
We always overhype our vacations. After a long morning’s climb the weather is clearing up, and we are peering into the distance, into the fog gathered...
His rival, the Christie’s chairman Peter Chance, was a former army officer, and stuffier. His firm fostered client loyalty by retaining staff, but suffered from “lackluster...
Alonzo Davis, an artist who specialized in assemblages and mixed-media sculptures, liked to work in series, taking a single element and spending years iterating on it....
Alonzo Davis, a Los Angeles-based artist whose murals and public sculptures celebrated the gyrating mix of cultures he encountered in Southern California, and whose gallery, Brockman,...
