Scenes From Milan Fashion Week 2020
A collection of photos from Milan Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2020/21
Art
The Conundrum of Lucian Freud’s Portraits
How to assess an artist who was ruthless—and revealing—in work and life
Leonardo da Vinci’s Unexamined Life as a Painter
A new show marks the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death, and reveals some of his innermost thoughts.
A New Exhibition Shows Women as Artists, Not Muses
Pre-Raphaelite Sisters, at London’s National Portrait Gallery, moves female creatives from the margins of a historical era and puts them at the center.
World of WearableArt 2019
A sample of some of the creative and inventive garments shown this year in Wellington, New Zealand
Remembering Robert Frank Through the Portraits Others Took of Him
One way to commemorate the late photographer, who pioneered the “snapshot aesthetic,” is to see him the way other artists did.
Robert Frank’s Messy and Singular Rolling Stones Documentary
A controversial film about the band directed by the late photographer is an off-kilter masterpiece that reveals his singular eye.
The Photographer Who Captured 20th-Century Queer Life
Joan E. Biren’s images from the ’70s and ’80s—which appear in the new exhibit “Art After Stonewall”—reflect an effort to document and encourage lesbian love.
The Irrepressible Emotion of Lee Krasner
The 20th-century painter is celebrated in a spectacular London retrospective that exposes the fullness of her career for the first time.
The Whitney Biennial Homes In on American Precariousness
This year’s survey of 75 artists and collectives is quiet and suffused with anxiety.