Walter Sickert was an outstanding English Impressionist who was once hailed as the most important English artist and, possibly, a serial murderer.
Arte Povera artists used cheap everyday materials to explore materiality and impermanence and challenge the boundaries of the art world.
Maya Deren was an experimental filmmaker. Her films explore psychology, identity, and protofeminism in a world still reeling from World War II.
Six masterpieces lost to history—from Van Gogh to Rembrandt—surviving only in fragments, photographs, and archival records.
Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí came a long way—from a struggling university student to a master architect on the path to sainthood.
The double Booker prize-winning writer, Margaret Atwood’s works encompass a wide variety of themes, primarily focusing on the genre of feminist fiction.
Elaine de Kooning painted presidents, compared basketball games to works by El Greco, and brought abstract painting back to reality.
As an immigrant forcefully removed from her country, Ana Mendieta relied on her body as a medium available to her no matter where she was.