If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Robert Colescott, “Tea for Two (The Collector)” (1980), acrylic on canvas, 84 13/16 x 72 13/16 inches.

Robert Colescott was a brilliant painter before he went to Egypt in 1964. After visiting Egypt, he became an original. A flamethrower. The artist who now perhaps most deserves a complete ...

Painter Robert Colescott, who will represent the United States at this year’s prestigious Venice Biennale, went to see a painting of his during a visit to Baltimore last week. His “The Three ...

NEW YORK — The paintings of Robert Colescott, who died in 2009, refuse to behave. They are also difficult to love. A retrospective of his work at the New Museum, “Art and Race Matters ...

Robert Colescott, a wildly expressive and fearlessly opinionated painter who skewered racial and sexual stereotypes with hilarious force, has died. He was 83. Colescott, who had suffered from ...

Like many brilliant artists, Robert Colescott was a complicated man. He was married five times, for instance. He was charismatic but, like his racially and sexually charged paintings, he could ...

Installation view of Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott at the Chicago Cultural Center Photo by James Prinz Photography, Chicago “For a long time, outside of a small group of ...

Robert Colescott’s paintings feel very 2019. Slipping between trippy figuration and allegorical satire, offbeat art history references and Jim Crow-era stereotypes, Colescott’s dynamic ...