JUST TWO WEEKS after the passing of its co-founder Mel Vapour, the East Bay Media Center was destroyed in a massive fire in the predawn hours of Monday.

Ari Aster's new forthcoming film, Eddington, has teased a poster featuring an iconic—and resonant—work by David Wojnarowicz.

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As storms and fires are on the rise, experts are under pressure to do more to protect collections in museums, galleries and even private homes from destruction.

Art Spiegelman has done more to make Americans think of comic art as actual art than any other creator. And he did it with cartoon mice. But the characters of “Maus,” Spiegelman’s Pulitzer ...