Crumb's work was called sexist, racist, and obscene, but even his critics often acknowledged that he was hilarious and ...

In his new biography of Robert Crumb, Dan Nadel writes that his subject agreed to participate in the project under one condition: “that I be honest about his faults, look closely at his compulsions, ...

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Certain great artists are synonymous with their kinks. Egon Schiele had his thing for gaunt girls and their undergarments. Robert Mapplethorpe was partial to bulging muscles wrapped in leather. And ...

A thrillingly revisionist history of the era at the Whitney Museum uncovers a current of art that sprang from eros and the uncensored minds of R. Crumb, Martha Edelheit and others. By Deborah Solomon ...

A candy-colored story collection, sisters who lust after Hitler and harrowing reportage from a riot in India. By Sam Thielman A thrillingly revisionist history of the era at the Whitney Museum ...