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 ...

The world has changed — two or three times — since Robert Colescott (1925-2009) made the 20 paintings and 21 drawings in his exhibition at Blum & Poe. But some things haven’t changed ...

If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Robert Colescott, “ROBERT’S complete HiSTORY of WORLD ART: from the pyramids in Egypt to the modern era ...

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 ...

Oakland native Robert Colescott, who left the Bay Area for Arizona in 1985, has returned in force with a sampling of a decade's work at Meridian. Colescott's late paintings challenge viewers ...

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 ...

By Roberta Smith Watch out. A raucous, enthralling exhibition of the great American painter Robert Colescott (1925-2009) has arrived at the New Museum, to revel in and dissect. “Art and Race ...