Pimp, brawler, Old Master.

The last days of Jean-Michel Basquiat.

The environmental artist on massive budgets, wrapping the Reichstag, and working alone.

Photographer Trevor Paglen makes art out of government secrets.

Hear Jonah Weiner discuss this article on the Longform Podcast.

The improbable life and career of the sculptor-turned-musician.

The tale of the only art exhibit in space.

On new art boom and one of its most powerful players, David Zwirner.

On art and dead bodies.

On the Kunsthal heist and the murky economics of making money from stolen paintings.

An interview with painter Chris Martin.

A profile of Brian Eno as he transitioned into installation art.

A visit to Star Axis, a desert art installation that connects you to the cosmos.

Last year, a group of young Romanians stole millions of euros worth of art from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam. They had previously only robbed homes and thought the artwork would be easy to sell. It was not. So they secreted it back home, where, in an effort to save her son, the leader’s mother burned it.

How to photograph Los Angeles from a helicopter.

On an artist who’s spent nearly 50 years bending the rules of space and light, and his life’s work, an extinct volcano in Arizona where he has been developing a network of tunnels and underground rooms since 1974.

A profile of Kehinde Wiley, a painter who inserts the “brown faces” that have historically been relegated to the background in Western art.

The diarist and photographer Peter Beard, known both for his series documenting a mass elephant starvation and for discovering the supermodel Iman on a Nairobi street, reflects on his life of “drugs, debt, and beautiful women” while recovering from being trampled by an elephant.

Lessons from the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art.

Is Bryan Saunders a drug-inspired outsider genius, or just in need of intervention?

An interview with the Japanese artist, who has resided in a mental institution since committing herself in 1975.

How a couple made millions on uncanny forgeries.

A profile of Kermit Oliver, a reclusive, critically acclaimed artist who designs scarves for Hermès and works nights at the Waco post office.

The story of Edward Deeds, a state mental hospital patient and artistic genius.

Talking with the influential New York gallerist.

When U.S. customs law met abstract art in the form of a bird, “shimmering and soaring toward the ceiling while the lawyers debated whether it was an ‘original sculpture’ or a metal ‘article or ware not specially provided for’ under the 1922 Tariff Act.”