Cartoonist Art Spiegelman, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, about his parents’ survival of the Holocaust, has had an immense impact on the world of comics throughout his ...

Jed Perl, American art critic for The New Republic, will speak at Yale on Thursday, Nov. 6 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism. Perl will give a talk titled “Biographical Enigmas: Hard Facts, Soft Facts ...

THE art of biography, we say — but at once go on to ask, Is biography an art? The question is foolish perhaps, and ungenerous certainly, considering the keen pleasure that biographers have given us.

The art critics of The Times select their favorites, from the biography of a “famously unknown” artist to an ode to the Louvre from 100 poets. By Holland Cotter Jason Farago and Walker Mimms Say what ...

In the early 1990s, the art historian Barbara Bloemink was rummaging through a Yale library in search of a dissertation topic when she came across “a funny letter about how impossible men are” from ...

Narratives have served a crucial role in both the creation of art and in art history because the process or action of telling a story is one of the simplest ways to engage an audience. This effect is ...

IN his essay On History (1830), 19th-century historian Thomas Carlyle writes: “All Narrative is, by its nature, of only one dimension… Narrative is linear, [while] Action is solid. Alas for our ...