German painting’s arch-traditionalist has a brush with controversy.

Why is Rick DeVos, the son of Betsy and the heir to the DeVos fortune, investing in a weirdly populous and highly lucrative art contest?

In 2005, the painting sold at auction for $1,000. Its most recent price? $450 million.

On photographer Garry Winogrand and the unedited archive of more than half a million exposures he left behind.

Then there’s Mark Kostabi, the former New York gossip column fixture and self-professed “con artist” who everybody remembers but nobody talks about. Christie’s and Sotheby’s have no comment. Neither does the MoMA, the Guggenheim, or the Met, despite the curious fact that they all have Kostabis in their permanent collections. As for quotes from some highfalutin critics expounding on the semiotics of cone hats, cash registers, and the Sony Walkman in Kostabi’s work? Not a chance.

A visit with John Berger, author of Ways of Seeing, which “changed the way at least two generations responded to art,” just before his death.

How a burst blood vessel transformed the mind of a deliberate, controlled chiropractor into that of an utterly unfiltered, massively prolific artist.

How an art shipper took advantage of the market’s opaque rules and shadowy deal-making to rip off a Russian oligarch.

An early profile of Diane Keaton.

The detective work that led to the recovery of a trove of stolen Nazi art.

The holdings of the Seattle Art Museum are historically male-dominated. When Matthew Offenbacher won a prize for his own art, he decided to use it to beef up their queer and female holdings.

On the evolution of the Whitney Museum.

In 1992, a magazine story introduced the world to the photographs of Sally Mann. Here, she responds to the firestorm that article produced.

John Barrymore once had a totem pole on his Beverly Hills estate. But where did it come from?

Why do all those rugged coastlines, moors and stone buildings make England seem haunted?

Lonnie Sue Johnson is an artist who can’t retain a memory for longer than a minute or two.

The British artist, a contemporary of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, has been called “the most unabashedly all-balls-out, rock ‘n’ roll” of her generation.

An art museum in Tasmania is saving the local economy. It also offers an “eternity membership” which, for $75,000, will see your ashes displayed there once you’ve gone.

Stefan Simchowitz has supported dozens of emerging young artists. Why do so many people hate him?

On the artist’s portrayal of violence and humanity.

Margaret Keane’s husband stole credit for her iconic paintings, basking in fame and fortune that should have been hers for years. Then she told a reporter the truth.

A story of regret and the contemporary art market.

The Nazis stole his family’s paintings, but Max Stern escaped and became one of Canada’s leading art dealers. Now, 20 after his death, he is changing the rules of restitution.

The battle over a New York Picasso.

A profile of the photographer, who has been accused by several models of sexual abuse.