Try concocting a story around a corporate military base in Iraq, dabbling into torture as a means of retrieving information, add a young first-time-out ingénue as interrogator, an intractable administrator and at...

“Everyone's got a story to tell.” So says Irish born documentary photographer, Lalage Snow. As political as it is personal, Snow’s body of work alludes to traces from her past while giving a voice to militia men...

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest one of all? Fashion weeks across the globe all vie for that very thing, assembling a bevy of renowned, up-and-coming, and otherwise talented designers in the hopes of...

“Every photograph is a fake from start to finish, a purely impersonal, unmanipulated photograph being practically impossible.” This observation, made by American photographer and artist Edward Steichen, may not...

Ambitious, brilliant, challenging, daring, enlivening, formidable — you could go through all the letters of the alphabet and not exhaust the number of adjectives for his genius. His style and subject matter...

Once upon a time, in a remote Russian village, there lived a girl named Elizabeth Lyska. She was an ordinary girl in almost every way, except one: she was extraordinarily tall. Not just of slightly above-average...

Who’d think that some 500-plus years after his monumental discovery of the Americas, explorer Christopher Columbus could add “New York City penthouse owner” to his long list of accomplishments? And in arguably one...

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Dusty Springfield, remember her — that sexy songstress of the swinging 60s and beyond that...

While a myriad of artists take a straightforward route to stardom, Geraldine Lamanna took a circuitous one.

No artist was more aware of the power and pathos of the human body, its ability to evoke the most primal of emotions from us, than Alina Szapocznikow. It’s no surprise then, that the Museum of Modern Art’s expansive...