THE art of biography, we say — but at once go on to ask, Is biography an art? The question is foolish perhaps, and ungenerous certainly, considering the keen pleasure that biographers have given us.

Cartoonist Art Spiegelman, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, about his parents’ survival of the Holocaust, has had an immense impact on the world of comics throughout his ...

The new book Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly is not a typical artist biography. It might have been had the author—poet and essayist Joshua Rivkin—been granted access to the Cy Twombly ...

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Look at an Agnes Martin painting from a distance and you might see a simple block of blue or a sequence of stripes in eggshell shades. Step in closely, however, and these minimalist patterns unfold ...

In the early 1990s, the art historian Barbara Bloemink was rummaging through a Yale library in search of a dissertation topic when she came across “a funny letter about how impossible men are” from ...