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Martha Holmes / The LIFE Picture Collection / Shutterstock The Artist Who Ripped Up the Rules of Drawing
Willem de Kooning was the best draftsman of his generation of postwar American artists. He had to unlearn everything he knew.
The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by TAJAN. Lonnie Bunch Protected the Smithsonian From More Than Trump
As pressures bore down on an American institution, its secretary held firm.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Danny Moloshok / Reuters; Detroit Photographic Co. / Library of Congress. Misunderstanding Norman Rockwell
His paintings evoked an American innocence that didn’t exist—and that the nation couldn’t live up to.
Illustration by Liz Sanders. Source: Library of Congress / Corbis / Getty. The Limits of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity
The visionary artist once challenged ways of seeing—until she was seen by everyone.
Jason Schmidt / Trunk Archive The Painter Who Shaped Rothko
The usual story is that Milton Avery mentored, then was eclipsed by, the famed abstract expressionist. But it was more complicated than that.
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An art film about the great midfielder Zinedine Zidane reveals the heroism and pathos of being human.
United International Pictures / Everett Collection Did Marcel Duchamp Ruin Art?
If you hate contemporary art, everything you dislike about it can be traced back to him.
Private Collection, France / © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Estate of Marcel Duchamp The Arch Is Atrocious
Trump’s colossal monument would mar Washington’s skyline and disrupt one of its most sacred spaces.
Illustration by Lucy Naland. Source: NCPC / Harrison Design. The Art Lover’s Dilemma
The Venice Biennale is excessive, at times preposterous. But it can still yield moments of profundity.
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