A show at the Neue Galerie, “Klimt and the Women of Vienna’s Golden Age, 1900-1918,” delves into a complex topic. By Ken Johnson.

A biography of Diane Arbus offers a detailed portrait of an artist longing for connection. By Prudence Peiffer.

Dada was not a fashion, a style, or a doctrine. It was more than a footnote to cultural history. We can better understand it as a condition, a spirit, a productive state of mind that has remained alive... By Alfred Brendel.

The Abstract Expressionists emerged from obscurity in the late 1940s to establish New York as the centre of the art world. But were they pawns of US spies in the Cold War? By Alastair Sooke.

Madonna composition at National Trust’s Haddo House was spotted by a historian making a BBC TV series. By Dalya Alberge.

Vermeer died twice. The first time was in 1675, after the Dutch art market collapsed. The second time was when history forgot him: shortly after his death, he disappeared from cultural memory.

Seattle’s Trippiest Rock-Poster Artist Tells All. By Ben Marks. (May 25, 2016)

Pablo Picasso, who would go on to become the world’s most frequently pilfered artist, once said, “Good artists copy; great artists steal.” Bad ones? They get caught. Here are the stories of eight attempted art heists that were something less than masterpieces. By Abigail Cain and Isaac Kaplan. (June 22, 2016)

This article by Philip McCouat tells the extraordinary story of how the crumbled remains of mummies came to be used by European artists right up to the twentieth century

Jenni Quilter reviews “Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter” by Cathy Curtis.

Garbage can be beautiful, if sorted correctly. By Dylan Thuras.

Imagine the scene: you uncover a painting stored away in the closet of an elderly relative's home, coated in a blanket of dust so thick you can hardly make out anything but more dust underneath. You slide it out, begin to carefully brush it off, and find two piercing eyes peering out at you.

McCloud surmises that most blotter art was created so manufacturers, dealers, and imbibers could identify the origins of the acid in their possession. By Margaret Rhodes.

She was divorced, globe-trotting Jewish aristocrat who championed modern art in the face of the Nazis and broke all the rules of the fussy society she was born into. By Nell Frizzell.

Sometime in the late 1970s, Miriam Schapiro and Elaine Lustig Cohen gathered a group of feminist artists and writers around my dining room table with a proposal… By Joyce Kozloff. (Jan. 2)

Claudia Swan reviews Laura J. Snyder’s “Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the reinvention of seeing.”

Public monuments, Islamic State and contesting the story of the past, By Marina Warner. (Oct.)

A chronological survey of the demise of art. By Michael J. Lewis. (July 1)

Twenty-one Greek museums and four North American museums have cooperated to collect over five hundred artifacts from Ancient Greece in an extraordinary exhibition called “The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great.” By Garry Wills.

Discovered by a Chemist, Prussian Blue Gave Painters the Spontaneity They Were Missing. By John Griswold.