Ronald Reagan's election sparked a counterrevolution in the arts community, with Dylan, Bono and Scorsese among those showing ...

In “The Last Supper,” Paul Elie explores how controversies over artists like Sinéad O’Connor and Keith Haring paved the way ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper is one of the most iconic artworks in Western history. But from the moment the paint ...

Martin Kemp, one of the world’s leading experts on the polymath, provides a personal guide to all 17 existing paintings—from ...

Madonna, Scorsese, Warhol and “Piss Christ” play roles in Paul Elie’s maybe-too-comprehensive look at how divisive ...

If Salma Hayek is not the most important celebrity in Mexico, she is very close to being so. The Mexican actress has earned a place in the hearts of all her compatriots, which is w ...

Vik Muniz is an influential contemporary Brazilian artist best known for his complex photographic works. Sourcing a wide variety of eclectic and found materials—chocolate, jelly, toys, and trash—Muniz ...

From The Last Supper to American Gothic, this artist takes the medium out of elementary school and into the art world.

And yet, the art created in New York in the 1980s, in all its messy duality of saints and sinners, has endured over the past ...