The Brooklyn-born painter depicted his city, though he rarely saw anyone who looked like him on the walls of its museums

From our new ‘Voice Lore’ print section — composer, performer, and critic Carman Moore talks about his decades at the heart of the NYC music scene

The painter envisioned America as a soaring ideal eternally threatened by a nail-studded club

The City That Never Sleeps is the perfect locale to celebrate an industrial dream factory

Ryder is the dark star of American art – never quite definable but a figure of such gravitational pull he cannot be avoided or ignored

The “Grand Theft Party” wants to steal your vote.

No matter how much time passes, Ryder’s preternatural compositions ride serenely upon the ebbs and flows of tomorrow’s art

The Brooklyn-born painter used his fantasist’s gaze to define the sword & sorcery genre

By 1969, painting for painting’s sake was far from revelatory, and there is precious little abstract dynamism or formal innovation to be found in Baselitz’s work

World War II left enduring scars and many loose ends — even for the winners.