For much of his life, Paul Gauguin railed against the deadening effects of bourgeois domesticity. But as Sue Prideaux writes in “Wild Thing,” her terrific new biography of the artist, for about a ...

Following the 2018 release of the poorly received biopic “Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti,” starring Vincent Cassel, French Postimpressionist Paul Gauguin now gets the nonfiction treatment with “Gauguin ...

A new biography of the French painter brims with reputation-redeeming surprises about the much-maligned rascal of the South Seas. The first time Paul Gauguin was canceled, his last breath had scarcely ...

Gauguin (1848-1903) was also self-taught in music and played several instruments, but he was mostly in painting. Prideaux suggests that Gauguin had synesthesia, a crossed-wires neurological condition ...

This week: the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, has invited the US artist Glenn Ligon to explore its history and collections, and his interventions are revealed this week. Ben Luke goes to ...