With unprecedented access to Miranda’s inner circle and more than 150 original interviews—including conversations with family, collaborators, and Miranda himself—Pollack-Pelzner’s book offers a deeply ...
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 ...
As Women’s History Month draws to a close, here are 10 recent biographies of women artists to round out your reading list—at any point throughout the year. Sheila Barker tackles the life and career of ...
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 ...
In 2016, days after iconic songwriter Guy Clark died, a posse of his peers converged on Terry Allen’s house in Santa Fe, N.M. Their last names speak to the caliber of their own music: Crowell, Earle, ...
In his new biography of Robert Crumb, Dan Nadel writes that his subject agreed to participate in the project under one condition: “that I be honest about his faults, look closely at his compulsions, ...
Editor’s Note: This article was produced in collaboration with the Arts & Culture MA concentration at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Cockroaches scuttled around a cubed vivarium.
First Lady Betty Ford and Louise Nevelson standing with “Bicentennial Dawn” (1976) (Artwork © 2016 Estate of Louise Nevelson / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New ...