From Renaissance portraits to rose gold iPhones, here’s a brief history of pink in art—and beyond. By Alice Bucknell.

Skeletons have been dancing people to their graves since at least 1424. By Bethany Corriveau Gotschall.

The agony and the ecstasy of America’s favorite chain restaurant. By Helen Rosner.

These compelling portraits of artistic genius are integral viewing for all art and film lovers. By Daisy Woodward.

Looking at depictions of St. Anthony in the paintings of Renaissance masters, the influence of the disease of ergotism on the history of art starts to become clear. By Forrest Muelrath.

Young people in the art world are disproportionately likely to get financial help from their parents. Can only rich kids afford careers in the arts? By Anna Louie Sussman. (Feb. 14, 2017)

Hip hop was the exclusive soundtrack to graffiti in the 1980s, right? Wrong. On the other side of the tracks, Sabbath-listening, CBGB-frequenting punks of NYC’s hardcore scene were developing an inimitable style of their own.

A century ago, a small but influential group of artists and researchers teamed up to discover and introduce strange new species to the public. By Sam Lubell.

Coinciding with the LGBTQ Pride celebrations in Madrid, the Museo del Prado is staging a show of artworks focusing on same-sex relationships.

Shaun Greenhalgh has turned his hand to everyone from Leonardo da Vinci to Lowry. He’s been to prison, but has never revealed the whole picture. Until now. By Simon Parkin.

A new theory may explain the background to one of the most famous works of art ever produced. By Jonathan Amos.

Edward Burra (1905-76) was one of the most elusive British artists of the 20th century. Long underrated, his reputation has been suddenly rehabilitated, with the first major retrospective of his work for 25 years taking place in 2011 and record-breaking prices being paid for his work at auction.

It is impossible and wrong, in this fascinating exhibition on Russian art between 1917-1932, to separate art from politics, utopian propaganda from dystopian tragedy. Aesthetic judgement is inevitably compromised. Some may think it obscene to celebrate this period in Russian art: yet it is surely right to make us confront it, to see the boldness of the art and to try and fathom the mixed motives, the hopes and fears and struggles of the artists involved. Right too, when the headlines are full of Trump and Putin, to remind us of the history. By Jenny Uglow.

In the last century, originality has killed one once-flourishing art form after another, by replacing variation within shared artistic conventions to rebellion. The impact of German Romantics on the artist. By Michael Lind.

A short trip to an ancient village was the catalyst for a profound shift in Picasso’s work – but it is often overlooked. Alastair Sooke finds out more.

John Berger

Robert Minto examines the theory of art expounded in “Landscapes: John Berger on Art.”

Back in August my staff and I embarked on an epic project: we wanted to know what inhabitants of the art world think is wrong with it and how they would fix it. In the ensuing months we spoke with more than 50 individuals—artists and curators, critics and historians, art dealers and an art fair director—to gather a range of perspectives...

Just when it seemed this election could not get any more absurd, artist Marina Abramovic has been dragged into the mayhem. By Katherine McMahon.

In honor of the Mexican painter's birthday, some life advice from the icon herself. By Priscilla Frank. (July 6, 2016)