The Walking Dead won’t return to TV until the fall, but thankfully for those with a blood-and-guts craving that just won’t quit, they’ll be ambling, slouching, and swaggering their way through Brooklyn this evening. The sixth annual spring edition of the NYC Zombie Crawl... More >>

The novelist and playwright Djuna Barnes worked as a journalist at a time when the profession was about more than fearing for your job on a daily basis. The women’s rights advocate wrote and illustrated for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Vanity Fair from her home base in the bohemian and... More >>

“I paint with shapes,” said the American artist Alexander Calder, referring to his brightly colored moving sculptures that Marcel Duchamp dubbed “mobiles.” Now head to the Whitney Museum to see his masterwork “Calder’s Circus,” which is on display as... More >>

About 120 miles east of San Diego, in the border town of Mexicali, a community media center and gallery called Mexicali Rose has emerged, causing major waves in New York and beyond. Recently featured in publications including Artforum, May Revue, and Mexico City’s Generación, the... More >>

Some of the most influential taste-makers since the Medici, the Stein clan—Gertrude, Leo, and Michael, plus his wife, Sarah—collected Cézanne, Degas, and Toulouse-Lautrec, among other groundbreaking artists, and introduced Picasso to Matisse, initiating a lifelong friendship... More >>

Five years into a career, most artists are lucky if they are doing anything more than slinging coffee. But the photographer Francesca Woodman left behind a prolific body of work from just a five-year career when she committed suicide in 1981 at the age of 22. Her small, five-by-five-inch prints... More >>

As fierce as an abominable snowman or as fanciful as Shangri-La, the distant nation of Tibet has long fascinated the world . . . which is why we send our fictional explorers there, whether they be young Belgian reporters like Tintin or gun-toting archaeologists like Lara Croft. The Rubin Museum... More >>

Some days Cindy Sherman is a career girl, some days she’s an erotic centerfold, and some days she’s a clown. But the one constant is that she’s always fascinating. Cindy Sherman’s latest retrospective at MOMA features more than 170 photographs in which we can see her... More >>

When you think of Courtney Love, perhaps the words "visual artist" don’t pop into your head, but there's no denying she is an artist in every sense of the word. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute for two years back in the early 1980s, and now she's giving this art form another... More >>

It’s so nice of President Obama to catch on to what we’ve all been saying for years: Same-sex couples should be able to get married. Perhaps if he had experienced the work of multidisciplinary artist Carlos Motta, the president could have come to that conclusion long ago. In... More >>

When the late Swedish photographer Christer Strömholm came to Paris at the end of the 1950s, he settled in Place Blanche (home of the Moulin Rouge) and, for a decade, befriended and documented the area’s transsexual street hustlers. Christer Strömholm: Les Amies de Place Blanche... More >>

Who are you related to? Four years ago, photographer Taryn Simon went on a mission to find the links between people, places, and things by researching and documenting their bloodlines and related stories. The result is a massive exploration into the connections that bind us literally or... More >>

Southern California–based artist Charles Long calls his latest interactive mixed-media installation Pet Sounds. However, don't expect Brian Wilson to play a role. Instead, you'll find a series of brightly colored pipe railings—which all meet up in a common seating area, where the... More >>

When photographer Ryan McGinley let a pack of exotic creatures run wild with nude models in his studio for his latest show, Animals, it wasn’t exactly a pretty picture. “We used hundreds of boxes of wet wipes because the animals were pooping and peeing everywhere and all over... More >>

With a pirouetting line capable of capturing the subtleties of performance, Al Hirschfeld cemented his reputation as the foremost illustrator of the New York theater scene and beyond. The Society of Illustrators exhibit Al Hirschfeld: Characterist displays 25 of his drawings from 1937 to 2000,... More >>

The Whitney Biennial, the Whitney Museum’s massive survey of contemporary American art, is one of the most anticipated events in the art world. This year, the Biennial consists of 51 artists whose works include sculpture, painting, installations, and photography as well as dance, theater,... More >>

From showbiz icons to randy politicians, award-winning illustrator Drew Friedman has been there with his pen since the ’80s to skewer the most famous faces of our time. Now, Friedman, whose work has appeared in the Voice, MAD, The New York Observer, and National Lampoon, among others, is... More >>

Tom Sachs has always been mesmerized with the “what if?” side of art. In 1999, a show of his crafted real shotguns and offered bullets in a vase to see if people would take them home. In 2002, a controversial work re-created what a Holocaust-era concentration camp would look like if... More >>

When Facebook bought Instagram, the photo app that makes images look vintage yet picture perfect, for $1 billion, the tech world was stunned. Not because Instagram is a two-year-old start-up, but rather because no one realized that this young app—which simply consists of taking pictures... More >>

Photographer Ari Marcopoulos has always been on the cutting edge of his craft. As an assistant for Andy Warhol and Irving Penn, Marcopoulos became an underground star in his own right through documenting the intimate lives of artists, musicians, and skateboarders with a lens that never... More >>

At the top of her game in the 1930s, the late Elsa Schiaparelli famously collaborated with artists including Jean Cocteau and Salvador Dalí (you may know her "shoe hat") until the war disrupted her business and left her floundering, forcing her to close her salon in 1954. Now the... More >>

Just about every part of Nathalie Djurberg's new installation, The Parade, seems dependent on drudging up some childhood phobia of varying rationality. From birds of prey to just plain torture, it's all there along with a decidedly threatening soundtrack by Hans Berg, in case you somehow still... More >>