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Mount Rushmore, originally known as Six Grandfathers, gets its own biography, plus Sarah Bond on museums’ approach to polychromy and whiteness.

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 ...

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 ...

Like Van Gogh, it's an artistic style you recognize immediately. His images speak their own language, canvases with cartoon-inspired barking dogs, flying saucers, hearts, pyramids, ziggurat stairways, ...

SVA’s Bio Art Laboratory is a center where biological scientific techniques and materials are used as a medium for artmaking. The lab is equipped with microscopes for photography and video, a BioBots ...

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