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Yes, a street artist can become a master. “The Wizard of Brooklyn” was a completely self-taught artist who was also a holistic healer at one of the world’s largest mental hospitals. Psychoanalysts said he fit the profile of a classic reclusive hoarder. Bartnikowski found it...

This short-lived artist was one of the great outdoor billboard painters in Los Angeles during the 1980s. His paintings of rock stars also appeared on album covers. This talented realist became a confidant of Michael Jackson, for whom he painted a series of fifteen portraits of famous historical...

Finally revealed is this extraordinary double life: Walk into any drugstore and you’ll see his commercial packaging designs that have become iconic in American culture. But for more than 60 years he was also pushing the boundaries of abstract expressionist painting.

Rare is the artist who could claim to have dived as deep into the unconscious and survived the journey — bringing back images of intense imagination and technical brilliance. As proof, this recluse kept his life’s works buried in a dilapidated shack in the hills of Eugene, Oregon. The...

After this master glassblower emerged with a new transgendered self the result was a series of powerfully compelling sculptures and installations. Here are expressions of transformation where sex has nothing — and everything — to do with it.

In 1960 Beverly Brodsky studied under Ad Reinhardt at Brooklyn College. On the first day she was simply told to paint a large canvas. Reinhardt returned a few hours later, paused by her easel and asked, “Who taught you how to paint?” Before she could find a reply Reinhardt answered his own...