Our staff shared their favorite books on art of all time—from a gothic-tinged memoir by Sally Mann to a rollicking, research-rich portrait of the artist’s psyche across centuries. Gyula Benczur ...

Time, like all ideas of measurement, doesn’t really exist. Time’s elapsation, however, does exist. Your hair turns gray with the passage of time, and seeds you’ve planted become carrots months later.

With his extreme performance art, Tehching Hsieh gave the word endurance new meaning. In retirement, he’s working on cementing his legacy. By Jennie Livingston T’s Art issue looks at the iconoclastic ...

Exactly how or where it started no one quite knows, but once it got going in the 1890s, it proved as catching as a virus. From Vienna to Chicago, new buildings shot up all curves and curlicues as ...

It can be refreshing to discover that things can be done differently. In a city where the art world often moves according to well-rehearsed routines, alternative models that allow creativity to ...

Part one: Models and patterns. The emergence of dynastic time in Chinese art -- Reconfiguring the world: The first emperor's art projects -- Conflicting temporalities: Heaven's mandate and its ...