Eleanor Heartney

While preparing for her retrospective "Collective Behavior," currently on view in Venice, Shahzia Sikander talks about continuing to elude categorization.

An exhibition at the Pinault Collection's Punta della Dogana extends the French artist's longtime exploration of otherness.

As scholars revisit early matriarchal cultures, artists are rediscovering the Goddess movement.

It is no coincidence, the author asserts, that the majority of artists targeted in recent years by the religious right share a Catholic background.

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie's new book, "Beautiful, Gruesome, and True" considers how art may operate as a proxy for political discourse in places where free speech has been suppressed.

New York's Asia Society Triennial attempts to reinvent the pan-Asian exhibition.

Guston encourages artists to change their work, to examine their relationship to evil, and to revel in their own ambivalence about the meaning of art.

Ecofeminism is less about breaking the glass ceiling than about reordering the systems that perpetuate inequity.

Four decades ago, Marcia Tucker founded a renegade institution—and foresaw the cultural future.

Why do some artists become canonical, while others, equally respected at the time, fade into obscurity? Once the answer was simple: Quality. But lately, that supposedly self-evident attribute has…