As you enter the Park Avenue apartment of Gary and Sarah Wolkowitz, it’s almost impossible to imagine that the couple once surrounded themselves with oversize pop art and color-field paintings by the likes of Andy Warhol and Kenneth Noland. Of course, that was back in the 1970s, in ... More

Soft-spoken, boyish and American-born, Nicholas Cullinan doesn’t seem like the most obvious candidate to direct London’s National Portrait Gallery, an august institution whose collection of 10,000 paintings of famous Britons stretches back to the 16th century. Despite this, Cullinan, who’s schooled in art both classic and cutting edge, intends to ... More

Towering green hedges flank an imposing wrought-iron gate, which opens to reveal an acre of verdant, manicured lawn surrounding a white Spanish stucco structure with a rolling red-tile roof. The scene could accurately be described as the very essence of Southern California architecture, so it’s fitting that nestled inside is ... More

My art collection is very much about my own personal taste. It’s very colorful, with a lot of Pop Art. It’s not conceptual at all, but more about fun and humor. I first met Keith Haring at Andy Warhol’s Factory. Andy had invited us for lunch, so we started talking and Keith told ... More

Oscar-winner Adrien Brody can add collectible artist to his long list of accomplishments. The 42-year-old entertainer, who skyrocketed to fame with his leading role in Roman Polanski’s The Pianist, debuted his artwork—a series titled “Hot Dogs, Hamburgers, and Handguns”—this month at Art Basel Miami. Here, ... More

All-American Volume XV: Leap of Faith, the latest edition of iconic photographer Bruce Weber’s annual arts journal, is bound by the unifying theme of being brave. The tales of courageous individuals in the book range from heartbreaking (snapshots of war from photojournalists Thérèse Bonney and Lynsey Addario) to playful (adorable tigers and bears ... More

Frank Stella is something of a downtown Manhattan institution. The celebrated painter and sculptor has lived in the same Greenwich Village house for nearly 50 years, and for almost three decades, until 2005, he worked out of an East 13th Street building—a former horse auction market—that has since ... More

In honor of World AIDS Day, online art platform POBA has joined forces with DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS), LifeBEAT: Music Fights AIDS and Visual AIDS to kickoff Art Lives, a permanent online gallery of work by artists lost to the disease. Each organization nominated artists—Ken Kendrick, Patrick Kelly, ... More