Zachary Leader’s book on Richard Ellmann’s landmark work on James Joyce asks whether a biographer can be considered an artist ...

Simon & Schuster will publish a major new biography this fall spotlighting the life and work of Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony-, Grammy-, and Pulitzer Prize–winning creator of Hamilton and In the ...

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 ...

A new biography by Joshua Rivkin may have upset the Cy Twombly Foundation so much that it tried to prevent parts of it from being published.

In this comprehensive study of the artist’s life and work, Stettheimer scholar Barbara Bloemink expands on her 1995 biography, championing the painter’s contributions to Modern art as original ...

Art World 10 Essential New Books on Women Artists to Add to Your Bookshelf Now These recent volumes offer fresh takes on famous names and recover lesser-known trailblazers.

In a recent project I was involved in, I was requested to provide a longer and more detailed artist bio. This is not the ...

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

Bio-art — the crossover of art and biology — comes in many forms, including genetic portraits, transgenic animals and semi-living entities. But why do artists and scientists come together to ...