"They're afraid to be called out on something," one curator said.

Guston encourages artists to change their work, to examine their relationship to evil, and to revel in their own ambivalence about the meaning of art.

Former East Coast curator Bill Arning finds his adopted Houston surprisingly receptive to artistic oddballs and bold exhibitions in its burgeoning museums and galleries.

Trenton Doyle Hancock’s dizzying midcareer retrospective had the density of jokes, random asides and self-referentiality of a maximalist novel. Hancock treated the gallery the way his literary contemp…

Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Trenton Doyle Hancock: Skin and Bones, 20 Years of Drawing” is currently on view at the…

In honor of the Studio Museum in Harlem’s “Trenton Doyle Hancock: Skin and Bones, 20 Years of Drawing,” we turn back to 2000, when Hancock was still little-known in the art world. That year…

For his fifth show at James Cohan Gallery in New York, " . . . And then it all came back to me," on view through Dec. 22, Hancock, who was born in Oklahoma City and raised in East Texas, has temporari…

Louise Bourgeois at her Sunday salon.