An award-winning investigation into the Hispanic Society of America that resulted in real change.

In the United States, the art made in Spain’s Latin American colonies used to be considered artistically minor and politically incorrect. Now, as intellectual trends coincide with demographic realities, it’s on the cutting edge of art history—and the wish lists of top museums.

Confronted with urgent demographic realities, art-museum directors are drawing on game theory, interactive technology, and a host of other new strategies to help people feel welcome and engaged.

All over the world, artists are focusing more and more on environmental problems. The earth is their canvas and their philosophy is, “It’s dirty—let’s clean it up.”

Using outreach, performance, video, photography, and therapy, artists and museums are devising new ways to connect with veterans—and to bring their stories to a wider audience.

Reporting on post-Franco cultural shifts in the Andalusian town Priego de Córdoba.

In the male-dominated art season of fall 2013, Robin revealed where to find female artists who change the rules, explore new horizons, and do it gangsta-style.

A guide to weird and wild contemporary-art quilts by conceptualists, code-breakers, feminists, fashionistas, Afrofuturists, and street artists.

From a provocative upcoming Metropolitan Museum show to adoption-ready “purr-formers,” the art world is exploring the shock of the mew.

The women in beloved Vermeer paintings have been stripped by Dalí, bedecked in toilet-paper rolls, and reincarnated by Cindy Sherman

Your mug shot. Your profile picture. Your breakfast table. Is anything safe from appropriation artists?

Move over, painting chimps. Today's art-making animals are cutting-edge creators who turn up everywhere from the National Zoo to MoMA.

Laurie Simmons, Jerry Saltz, Xu Bing, Holly Block, Teresita Fernandez, Elektra KB, and other art insiders took shelf portraits for us

With five New York art spaces showing maps, charts, and diagrams, it’s a great moment for flowchart art.

Museums are devising new ways to showcase the exquisite mix of engineering, craftsmanship and style that moves us forward on two finely calibrated wheels

Artists and scholars are taking increasingly nuanced approaches to tracking the image--and influence--of Africans in Western art.

Your mug shot. Your profile picture. Your breakfast table. Is anything safe from appropriation artists?

A history of violence resonates in Imran Qureshi's massive rooftop painting at the Metropolitan Museum, and in other shows by Benny Andrews, Nancy Spero, and more.

Jewish art geography, from Aleph and Arbus to Robert Zimmerman

Maurizio Cattelan, Santiago Sierra, Yishai Judisman, and the challenge of contemporary art about the Holocaust.