I Am a Monument? For his first act in the art world, John Coplans was known as a critic, curator, museum director, and co-founder of...

In 1978, John Szarkowski posited two kinds of photographers: those “who believe that all art is concerned with self-expression and those...

In 1963, Ed Ruscha published Twentysix Gasoline Stations, an artist’s book composed of photographs of 26 gasoline stations along Route 66...

In 1967, two artists, unbeknownst to one another, made a piece of pedestrian art. Somewhere between London and Bristol, Richard Long...

Growing up, I spent hours in a patch of woods across the street from our very ordinary suburban New Jersey house. Set back from the...

Olga Dekalo: "It it accurate to say that the interior of your studio and home is the subject...? Ditta Baron Hoeber: "It would be more...

"Still life ... interests me as a genre in the same way that concepts of love interest me—its association with the feminine, its...

I’m more of a landscape girl myself. I’ve always found still lifes a little marginal, a sideshow in the carnival of art. But recently...

Splayed out before me are 16 photographic print-outs of the same human face. I’ve been carrying them around in my bag for a while, tucked...

Start at the beginning. Why is it this picture, cryptically titled Romania, 1968, that has followed me around for decades? It hangs...

On a wall tucked in the back of the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris — famous to most Americans as the resting place of rock 'n' roll bad...