Samantha Baskind Museums Correspondent Audrey Flack laughed when remembering that painter Alice Neel called her a whippersnapper in the 1970s. Just after celebrating her 90th birthday in 2021, far from…
The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly, James Hampton’s strange and transporting magnum opus. Chris Gunn For some 14 years he labored in solitude. Lovingly.…
Portrait of Adèle Papin Playing the Harp, oil on canvas, c. 1799. The 17-year-old sitter, the famously beautiful daughter of a prominent family, was later rumored to be Napoleon’s mistress.…
Angelica Hankins Freelance Writer Long before he was a financier and art collector, Joseph Hirshhorn was living in an overcrowded tenement house in Brooklyn, preoccupied with the dirty green walls.…
Tiger, oil on canvas, 1912. The artist’s vibrant animal paintings were based on careful study, including hours spent observing big cats at the Berlin Zoo. Lenbachhaus Munich, Donation of the…
