Jasper Johns

Friends coming over to admire the latest addition to your collection? Here's what to say about the artist's work to visitors

In this excerpt from Phaidon's 2017 book "Annie Leibovitz Portraits 2005-1016," the artist talks about how she came to portraiture, and how she balances her personal and professional work.

In this epilogue of “Committing the Perfect Crime: Sexuality, Assemblage and the Postmodern Turn in American Art” (2008) from Phaidon’s 'Art & Queer Culture,' Johnathan Katz examines the relationship between Rauschenberg’s assemblage and homosexuality.

Advancing the fields of painting, photography, performance, and more, Rauschenberg's work is inextricable from the history of art as a whole.

Gagosian Gallery's Madison Avenue location exhibits a collection of drawings made in the middle of Ruscha's career. These essays on "Single Words" and "Thoughts & Phrases" shed lights on this segment of the artist's prolific career.

Lawrence Weiner talks with Bejamin Buchloh about setting off explosives in national parks, the relationship between design and class, and finding Godard.

Excerpted from Phaidon's Going Once, this list features artworks by Jasper Johns, Louise Bourgeois, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Jeff Koons, and more.

Phaidon's new title Going Once is filled with record-breaking lots from Christie's auction house's 250 years of business. Here, we've chosen the most compelling and historically significant to showcase.

To celebrate the release of the museum's extensive exhibition archives, we've delved into some of the most fascinating, influential shows of the 1960s.

Artspace editor-in-chief Andrew M. Goldstein scoured this year's edition of the fair in search of the most interesting or otherwise relevant pieces, and here's what he found.

In honor of New York Fashion Week and the publication of Phaidon’s monograph Grace: The American Vogue Years, we’ve excerpted the art director's thoughts on five of her favorite fashion photographers.

Artspace editor-in-chief Andrew M. Goldstein spoke to the legendary designer about his company's ambitious future as an arbiter of style and music in the second part of our interview.

In this comprehensive interview with the famed “supercurator” Hans Ulrich Obrist excerpted from Phaidon’s monograph Ai Weiwei, the artist delves deep into his own stroy, detailing the bumpy road to making art history.

You might be surprised to find out which dealers make art, and, what their art is like.

The For Freedoms political action committee currently has a group show at Jack Shainman Gallery, but its founders (and the 50-some-odd artists already involved) hope to see the project extend far beyond the white cube.

Here are some works that stood out in the vernissage, with a focus on the fair's more contemporary second floor.

Whether you're trying to locate the after party or marveling at the quality of works on display, this is need-to-know emoji shorthand for surviving the big fair.

In Part 2 of our special feature on the aesthetic preferences of the current presidential hopefuls, Alexandra Peers takes a deep dive into Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders's engagement with the arts.

This tony uptown enclave, long a dusty stretch of residential doldrums, is suddenly a cornucopia of new and old art alike. Here are 16 reasons to give it another look.

In our first Collecting 101, we provide simple—if somewhat humorous—advice on how to go about buying a great piece of art on our site.

Galerie Perrotin's current exhibition is a spectacular introduction to the work of a largely unsung master of 20th century painting.

In an exclusive interview with the legendary artist, who passed away this week, Andrew M. Goldstein spoke to Kelly about his inspirations, his Paris years chasing Picasso, and what color means to him.

Here, the distinguished independent curator and critic applies his keen perspective to NADA Miami Beach, sharing his favorite works from this year’s fair.

Amid all the tasteful abstract painting at this year's edition of Frieze London lurked a few artists whose work is inching the conversation forward in ways that seem both urgent and path-breaking.

From a new piece by one of Los Angeles's most critically adored painters to a canvas by an irresistible art-world jester, these are white-hot works that collectors should snap up fast.

We toured the aisles of this year's impressively robust edition of the Midwest fair to bring you the choicest gems around.

The collector and advisor gives Artspace a tour of his loft in downtown New Haven and shares advice on seeking out art all along the Northeast Corridor.

In advance of her new show at Mitchell-Innes and Nash, the artist gave Karen Rosenberg a tour of her studio to reveal the latest development in her process.

The video art pioneer spent the winter of 1968-69 living and working in New York. What happened next is the stuff of art history.

From an enigmatic piece by a young breakout star of this year's Venice Biennale to a classic work by an American art icon, these are gems to tickle the canniest collectors.

If there's one thing that can be gleaned from this year's terrific edition of the fair, it's that artists are really letting their freak flags fly when it comes to the materials they choose to work with.

Sure there's gloom and doom in the world—but these artworks will cheer you up, and won't ask anything more of you than your love and money.

The performance artist describes his appreciation for the innovative role Björk has played in his own development and that of 21st-century aesthetics.

On the occasion of a new Phaidon book and a pair of shows at New York's Gagosian Gallery, we delved into a range of the ways that artists have depicted the sites of their creativity.

Before blasting off into the new terrain of 2015, here's a revue of the articles, interviews, profiles, and other pieces we're proudest of from last year.

While the blinding numbers tallied by the evening sales get the most attention, we scoured the day sale results for indicators of the direction the market for emerging artists is taking.

From a protean (and unapologetic) copycat of recent art history to one of France's most acclaimed conceptual pranksters, these are the artists everyone will be talking about this month.

From a career-cataloguing print by arguably America's greatest living artist to a hip-hop paean in paint by a rising star, these are works that collectors should pounce on.

Did you know that Walter De Maria played drums for Lou Reed? Or that Korakrit Arunanondchai was in a Thai boy band? Here's a primer on famous artists who are as comfortable onstage as they are in the studio.

A primer on the immensely erudite scholar of contemporary and Renaissance art alike—who bridged the two with humor, irreverence, and generous helpings of humanism.

We survey a variety of ways that artists have sloughed off the traditional confines of painting to approach the canvas in surprising, often unorthodox ways.

In the first of a series, we provide a brief synopsis of the ideas and achievements of one of America's most legendary—and legendarily pugnacious—art critics.

With the Whitney devoting its entire space to a historic survey of Jeff Koons, we spoke with the show's curator, Scott Rothkopf, about how to read the artist's celebrated career.

From an urgent example of Post-Internet art to a work by the artist some call the world's greatest living painter, here's a selection of works to snap up right away.

In a wide-ranging interview, we spoke to the Venus Over Manhattan proprietor about his gallery, his collecting philosophy, and how he scored one of the biggest auction-market flips in history.

We went on a curatorial walk-through with MoMA’s Ingrid Langston to help decipher the new body of work by the notoriously elusive artist.

Who knew? Barnaby Furnas worked for Carroll Dunham, who worked for Dorothea Rockburne, who worked for Robert Rauschenberg. Our discoveries may surprise you.

We compiled a helpful breakdown of the past eight decades, from the Biennial's birth in 1932 to the “Virgin Show” to the Guerrilla Girls to the legendary 1993 exhibition.

From a retro-futuristic totem by a Fluxus great to an edgy photo by one of the most freewheeling of America's young lensmen, these are works to snap up.

Record auction prices, top art prizes, and news on the people who moved the market in recent weeks.