Glenn Ligon

An excerpt from Catherine Lord's essay "Inside the Body Politic: 1980-Present" in Phaidon's 'Art & Queer Culture.'

Phillips Auction House saw a 29% growth in sales in 2018—the best year they've had in the 200 years they've been open. Here are works by some of the top-selling artists—for a fraction of the price.

Since 2005, The Laundromat Project has been working closely with modest income neighborhoods and communities of color to nourish and foster the artists and creativity that already exists.

John Baldessari, Eric Fischl, Ann Hamilton, Jeff Koons, Glenn Ligon, Catherine Opie, and Hank Willis Thomas are our tour guides at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

These thought-provoking art fair events are more interesting the less drunk you are—so scratch your chin at them while everyone else nurses their hangover.

Curator Adrienne Edwards discusses the heady ideas animating her latest group show, which features 29 A-list artists from Robert Rauschenberg to Wangechi Mutu.

If you're on the fence about collecting art, this practical and not-quite-common sense advice will set your mind at ease.

In Part 2 of our special feature on the aesthetic preferences of the current presidential hopefuls, Alexandra Peers takes a deep dive into Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders's engagement with the arts.

To get you ready for Luhring Augustine’s concurrent shows of the American artist’s work, we’ve excerpted this explanatory essay by curator Connie Butler from Phaidon’s Defining Contemporary Art.

From a MacArthur "genius" unmasking the world's shadow government to a fiery painter of uncensored shock art, here are the names you'll need to know this month.

These 10 works, each excerpted from Phaidon's Body of Art, show the diversity of the male nude across centuries of art.

We broke down the main exhibition's artist list for a primer on themes in the big show.

We spoke to the former Frieze Masters director about what it means that she’s taking over all three of the marquee contemporary fairs, including Frieze London and Frieze New York.

We spoke with the young advisor about his strange experience overseeing the financial behemoth's corporate art collection before and after the titanic financial collapse in 2008.

In his latest column, Walter Robinson considers a new show of work by black artists in light of the diversity of the Whitney Biennial, and the art world in general.

From the hallowed halls of the New England ivies to the progressive art-tech centers on the West Coast, these are the top grad programs for artists-to-be.

With historical (and fictional) archives popping up everywhere in contemporary art, we look at four strategies artists use to employ the highly relevant—no, not dusty!—format.