Olivia Parkes

For most of her life, the 20th-century painter Alice Neel worked in obscurity, depicting people of color, the working class, intellectuals, and activists. Now, a new exhibition curated by Hilton Als examines her portraits of her neighbors in Harlem.

While many writers have turned to autobiography in their work, the Canadian author, who was torn apart in the press after publishing controversial memoirs about motherhood and divorce, has developed a unique strategy for critiquing culture in her new...

Artist Laurel Nakadate does the things young women are warned never to do when meeting strangers from the internet—celebrate a birthday, play dead, dance in her underwear—and the resulting photos and videos depict the strange combination of intimacy...

Artist Sophie von Hellermann isn't afraid to be cute, girly, and playful. Case in point: She answered our questions with drawings. But her work is anything but light.

Drawing inspiration from her childhood in the 1970s as well as the full scope of Western and African art, Thomas uses painting, photography, collage, and video to demand her glamorous, assertive subjects be seen.

Marjorie Salvaterra's black-and-white depictions of women combine glamour, humor, and the mundane to make powerful statements about the roles women are expected to play.

The singular work of Hayv Kahraman is influenced by "decorative arts" as much as recent political history—and the combination is as beautiful as it is uncomfortable.

In her surreal, thoughtful paintings, Swedish artist Karin Mamma Andersson explores historical conventions for shaping the female mind and body, from corsets and dollhouses to strip clubs and brothels.

For the past four years, lapsed Catholic Giulia Bianchi has been photographing the women who defy the Roman Catholic Church to become ordained as priests.

Like the clitoris, the works in the queer conceptual artist's new show, "OVER and OVER and OVER," are small but powerful.

For Jill Magid, loopholes, laws, and secrets are paint, clay, and canvas.

A 'Garden of Earthly Delights' and more emerged at the Het Noordbrabants Museum in the Netherlands for 'Hieronymus Bosch: Visions of Genius.'