A retrospective of the first 20 years of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women finds an inexhaustible well of inspiration in Italy. Art Basel’s highly anticipated 2025 edition will bring together 290 ...

It’s 1983: Cologne is the beating capital of the West German art world, and this trio of artists is bent on basking in its spotlight. Decades later, Büttner still remembers the evening well.

Buettner wrote her dissertation on an early 15th-century French illuminated manuscript of Giovanni Boccaccio’s On Famous Women (published as a College Art Association monograph in 1996). After writing ...