THE art of biography, we say — but at once go on to ask, Is biography an art? The question is foolish perhaps, and ungenerous certainly, considering the keen pleasure that biographers have given us.

Cartoonist Art Spiegelman, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, about his parents’ survival of the Holocaust, has had an immense impact on the world of comics throughout his ...

Unfortunately you've used all of your gifts this month. Your counter will reset on the first day of next month. Whether or not you know who he is, rest assured Art Bergmann is pretty much top of the ...

Raised in Los Angeles, Lava Thomas spent a lot of time at her grandmother’s beauty salon. “I grew up in that shop,” the Menlo Park multimedia artist recalled recently. “My grandmother cut and styled ...

Florine Stettheimer is the woman under the green parasol, stage right of Asbury Park South (1920)—an exuberant 4th of July scene, set on a golden New Jersey beach. Her self-portrait is easy to spot ...

Look at an Agnes Martin painting from a distance and you might see a simple block of blue or a sequence of stripes in eggshell shades. Step in closely, however, and these minimalist patterns unfold ...

2004-12-26T17:12:36-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/6d1/20041226175405002.jpgMichael Korda spoke with authors Christopher Hitchens and Francine Prose about ...