The big picture.

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• The Incredibles How Pixar's animated films became the best literature around.
  Lee Siegel Dec. 28, 2005
  
• Mike Kelley The last great 20th-century artist.
  Jim Lewis Nov. 30, 2005
  
• The Sacred and the Profane The radical individualism of Fra Angelico's pious art.
  Lee Siegel Nov. 23, 2005
  
• Obsessive Drawing Why do outsider artists make art?
  Francine Prose Nov. 9, 2005
  
• Elizabeth Murray A guide to understanding her paintings.
  Lee Siegel Nov. 2, 2005
  
• Silent Masterpieces Before Rembrandt, there was Hans Memling.
  Wyatt Mason Oct. 12, 2005
  
• Bringing Out the Dead The curious heyday of spirit photography.
  Eric Banks Oct. 5, 2005
  
• Mistress of the Museum The terrible art and bad taste of Hilla Rebay, the Guggenheim's first director.
  Lee Siegel Aug. 10, 2005
  
• Robert Mapplethorpe The latest attempt to domesticate the controversial photographer.
  Lee Siegel Aug. 3, 2005
  
• The Artful Snapshot What makes Lee Friedlander's pictures good?
  Lee Siegel July 13, 2005
  
• The Most Famous Farm Couple in the World Why American Gothic still fascinates.
  Mia Fineman June 8, 2005
  
• Build a Fort, Set That on Fire The trouble with Jean-Michel Basquiat.
  Lee Siegel June 1, 2005
  
• Odd Man Out Max Ernst wasn't like the other surrealists.
  Lee Siegel May 3, 2005
  
• Cy Twombly The man who made an art out of doodles.
  Lee Siegel April 6, 2005
  
• Salvador Dalí Artist or kitsch-meister?
  Lee Siegel March 9, 2005
  
• Radical Will Christo and Jeanne-Claude's persistence pays off.
  Lee Siegel Feb. 15, 2005
  
• Raphael's Other Woman Who is the mystery lady in La Fornarina?
  Mia Fineman Feb. 3, 2005
  
• Hybrid Model Isamu Noguchi went beyond modernism.
  Lee Siegel Jan. 5, 2005