Artists You Should Know

Explore the life and work of Helmut Newton, who reshaped fashion photography and the nude, creating some of the most recognizable images of the twentieth century.

Slim Aarons and the world of mid-century leisure he made his subject: his life and work, why the photographs endure, and how his estate-authorized prints are collected.

How Richard Serra turned mass and balance into an experience to be walked through and felt, and changed the terms of postwar sculpture.

An examination of Robert Mapplethorpe’s life, artistic evolution, market significance, and enduring influence on photographic classicism.

An examination of Cy Twombly’s life, artistic evolution, market significance, and enduring influence on postwar art.

Celebrated for his masterful printmaking and uncompromising formal vision, Irving Penn remains one of the most consequential photographers of the twentieth century.