The biggest-ever exhibition of the iconic photographer's work challenges us to rethink intimacy and discomfort.

It’s another summer of Diane Arbus. The famed photographer, who was only 48 when she took her own life in 1971, has never been out of fashion in the art world. Her influence radiates through the work ...

Diane Arbus was a daughter of privilege who spent much of her adult life documenting those on the periphery of society. Since she killed herself in 1971, her unblinking portraits have made her a ...

The first big New York art show this season, at the David Zwirner gallery in Chelsea, is “Cataclysm,” an exhibit of Diane Arbus photographs—a recreation of the Museum of Modern Art’s wildly ...

A quote from photographer Diane Arbus rests above one of her featured photographs in theMet Breuer’s new retrospective of her earliest work: “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells ...

In celebration of Artnet’s Important Photographs sale, we asked three of our specialists to tell us about three groundbreaking female photographers—Diane Arbus, Lisette Model, and Cindy Sherman—and ...

How many statues dedicated to real women are in Central Park? Just one, and it only went up last year. A new statue has temporarily joined the landscape, though—the Public Art Fund has brought a ...

If you think you are capable of living without writing,” said the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, “do not write.” He didn’t live to meet Diane Arbus, but if he had seen her photographs he would have ...

Contemporary art brought in nearly $99 million. Low estimates for younger artists propelled prices, while Simone Leigh, a star of the Biennale, reached a benchmark $2.7 million. By Zachary Small David ...