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Brands, developers and even city officials are embracing the global appeal of street art, but the boom comes with questions about preserving a neighborhood’s cultural cachet.

The town of Bombay Beach, Calif., offers its residents a tight-knit community in the midst of catastrophe.

After his father, who created the character, died, he continued the series of books about a modest elephant and his escapades in Paris for seven decades.

His fall from the pinnacle of the New York art world involved murder, torture, tax evasion, extortion and two terms in prison.

She endured horrors as a captured member of the French Resistance, and to ensure that her story, too, would survive, she depicted them years later in a series of stark paintings.

Chaim Soutine’s identity was never integral to his art, even as a Jew whose death Nazis caused. Artists in Gaza, Syria and Ukraine share his universality.

About 8,200 years ago, in one of the last places settled by humans, prehistoric peoples began painting comblike designs as the climate shifted.

It is the first major art museum in New York to close within recent memory. The museum had financial challenges and has faced accusations of displaying looted art.

Collectors give the museum 27 box constructions and collages by the homebody artist who rarely left Queens but became a central figure in 20th century art.

The long-running project, sometimes described as the environmental version of the AIDS quilt, thrives on convoluted math and a sea of volunteers.

Samia Halaby, an 87-year-old artist, has been outspoken in her support of Palestinians during the Israel-Gaza war.

An heiress to the L.L. Bean fortune who made the paintings of N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth part of her life has enlisted Jamie to help undo the damage of a fire in Port Clyde.

Hanna Eshel did not succeed in the New York art world. Her only reliable exhibit space was her own loft. But a musician in search of a home changed that.

He is best known for crawling along the entirety of Broadway in Manhattan wearing a Superman costume, a work that blended satire and resistance.

A fake Drake/Weeknd mash-up is not a threat to our species’s culture. It’s a warning: We can’t let our imaginations shrink to machine size.