When cats bite or scratch, they’re trying to tell you something. Wilbourn, a cat therapist, was a pioneer in the art of listening to them.

Her lurid divorce from the wealthy scion of an art-world dynasty earned headlines. Her elaborate plastic surgeries brought even more attention.

The Barrett Sisters were a Chicago institution, known for their tight harmonies and joyful performances. She was the last one standing.

Was it art or was it furniture? No one was quite sure what to make of the New York movement that an idiosyncratic gallerist led...

With photographers like Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Bert Stern and others, the veteran editor created some of the most indelible images of modern fashion.

Known as “the bad boy of fashion,” he was among a wave of designers who created modern Indian couture by updating traditional garments.

Her Haight-Ashbury clothing store was ground zero for the counterculture. But she was best known for a tawdry book — which she later disavowed —...

An artist and designer, she transformed simple craft paper into elaborate trompe l’oeil confections, creating stunning life-size reproductions of period garments.

He made films, video art and photographs, but was best known as a pioneering art critic and mordant novelist.

A Vogue cover girl in the early 1960s, she later pivoted to contemporary art, opening a gallery where being “outrageous counts as a plus,” one...