Movies with artist-protagonists are known to be disappointing. These pass muster and even inspire.

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The artist Anne Buckwalter has amassed a collection of hand-carved avian decoys.

The Weis family savored their masterpieces at home but didn’t lend them to museums. The trove was “so private” that a Christie’s expert didn’t know…

Inside the designer Stephanie D’heygere’s collection of surreally oversize everyday objects.

Works the size of postcards and bathroom tiles are challenging the market’s appetite for grand scales.

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

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

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

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…