Moderna Museet has relaunched its collection in three consecutive shows. Systematic art history is out, quasi-messianic individualism is in.

Between upcoming museum exhibitions that cover everything from murals to American Sign Language and Aboriginal art, to local gallery openings and even a few out of town offerings, September is the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Contemporary folk artist Emily Nell Yellow Bird will exhibit 26 pieces in her Wonder and Whimsy ...

Lots of famous people have turned to painting in their later years: Ringo Starr, Jim Carrey, George W. Bush. So it’s not unusual that Nell Painter, an accomplished historian and Princeton professor ...

OLD IN ART SCHOOL: A Memoir of Starting Over, by Nell Painter. Counterpoint, 352 pp., $26. After a distinguished career as a historian and Princeton professor, Nell Painter had earned the right to a ...

WEXFORD ARTIST NELL Pollen (nee Murphy) will be remembered as one of many outstanding artists who worked during what is regarded as a remarkably creative period in Irish art. A native of Bridge Street ...

The radical histories of Nell Irvin Painter. A new career-spanning book offers a portrait of Painter’s career as a historian, essayist, and most recently visual artist. On May Day in 1933 in ...

Nell Irvin Painter is a celebrated historian, and the author of books such as “The History of White People” and “Creating Black Americans.” When she retired as a professor of American history from ...

When Nell Irvin Painter retired after a distinguished career as a history professor at Princeton University, she could have done what many retirees do: travel, relax, read, decompress. Instead, at age ...