Costume designer Caroline Duncan gives us her take on this year’s on-screen ensembles.

Sharon Hayes’ current solo show at the Whitney Museum illuminates the psychological intensity of history and the political capacity of the personal.

Did you know that the Olympics used to give out medals for art?

Winkleman Gallery revives history painting.

Vanity Fair recently released a preview of Hitchen’s foreword to Orwell’s diaries, showing how both consensus-spurning authors crafted their critiques.

Familiar as we are with the history of the Civil Rights Movement, the day-to-day realities of segregation and racism sometimes escape us. Gordon Parks photographs the separate world of ’50s African-American society.

The talented Tauba Auerbach shows off at MoMA next to John Lennon and William S. Burroughs.

A Farewell to Arms articulated the trauma of a generation. Turns out the work could have ended forty-seven different ways.

The cover art in the July issue of National Geographic lets its staffers play around on the job.

It’s the 4th of July, so we’re looking back at 236 years of American history in iconic images and artworks.

Remember when the Whitney was in MoMA’s backyard? When Swedish artists made engravings of carts, pigs, and stray dogs on Broadway? When public schools had art classes?

Andrea Mary Marshall has re-designed the current cigarette warnings and images that Mayor Bloomberg has successfully haunted (and then taxed) you with on the front of cigarette packets. Her warnings now read “OMG,” “Deliver us from evil,” “Have mercy,” “Holy smoke,” and “Forgive us our sins,” instead.

Using Marlboro Red 100 cigarette boxes as her literal canvases, Marshall paints on provocative symbols with acrylic paint in this series titled “Marlboro Mary.”