By: Adrienne Crew

“The Beguiling of Merlin” tells this painter’s own life story.

By: Alix Lambert

“Forget all the standard art forms.”

By: Peter Bebergal

Bordering on the grotesque, but also fragile.

By: Erik Davis

The most heavy metal of fin-de-siècle French artists.

By: Katie Hennessey

An almost aboriginal, somewhat psychedelic, particularly populist style.

By: William Nericcio

This Mexico-based artist put the “sur” in surrealism.

By: Peggy Nelson

From 1958 to 1966 she worked on, and worked over, a single painting.

By: Mike Fleisch

“Real painters do not paint things as they are.”

By: Jacob Mikanowski

His films are pentagrams for the conjuration of narrative.

By: Jacob Mikanowski

He spurned all avant-gardes but his own.

By: Marilyn Berlin Snell

His contradictions cohere in his personal anthem to “Question Everything.”

By: Alix Lambert

His wit, his sculpture, and his being have proven influential.

By: Adam McGovern

The camera never smiled at her, and she’s not looking at you.

By: Peggy Nelson

They’re real, and they’re spectacular.

By: Robert Wringham

Awesome and devastating, yet naive and vulnerable.