Old Masters

Street Artist

In the Swiss mountains, Hans Krüsi found flowers to sell from his Zürich pushcart—and the inspiration to create a major body of outsider art.

They ran the gamut from eccentrics to tomb-robbers, but British antiquaries did more than just collect bits and pieces of the past.

Antique mirrors can make collectors lose themselves in their shimmering depths.

The “Carsten Höller: Experience” comes to the Bowery.

There’s classic Western as well as contemporary and much more in these mountains.

How a little bit of hype and a lot of great craftsmanship established Duncan Phyfe’s illustrious legacy.

For many artists in pre-AbEx America, the boundaries between the real and the unreal could be quite porous.

Vernacular photography, a growing, collector-driven field, finds mystery and masterpieces in the lenswork of unknown amateurs.

Cartoonist, political satirist, sculptor, children’s-book author—there’s no one word for Tomi Ungerer.