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Why Allison Janae Hamilton Turned Her Studio Into a Family Archive

More than a thousand ancestral records and photographs surround Allison Janae Hamilton while she works.

Why This Artist Has 400 Pieces of Plastic Tableware

Sara Cwynar has amassed a collection of melamine objects that have also appeared in her video work.

Cady Noland and the Art of Control

Cady Noland, who became the darling of the art world, has tested the limits.

What Happens When Artists Start Going to Therapy?

In a number of exhibitions on view this year, people are pushing back on the cliché of suffering being essential to art, embracing recovery and...

He Bought a (Miniature) Zoo

The painter Walton Ford has amassed dozens of vintage German animal figurines.

Tony Oursler Wants Your Most Haunted Objects

Over the past half-century, the multimedia artist Tony Oursler has amassed thousands of pieces of spiritual ephemera.

A New Way of Looking at the Nude

The artists redefining portraits of the human body for a more inclusive age.

A Night With New York’s Lesbian and Bisexual Backgammon League

At the invitation-only art world games evenings, painters, gallerists, collectors and assistants mingle and compete on a level playing field.

For Erdem Moralioglu, 25 Heads Are Better Than One

Erdem Moralioglu discusses his collection of busts, which is slowly taking over his London home.

How Artists Are Breaking the Taboos Around Depicting Birth

For centuries, labor was deemed too messy a subject for gallery walls. A growing canon of feminist work is challenging that perception.