On Friday a woman attacked Paul Gauguin’s “Two Tahitian Women” at the National Gallery. While banging on the painting’s clear plastic covering, she screamed “This is evil!” “She was really pounding it ...

Sue Prideaux’s gruesomely fascinating “Wild Thing” begins with four teeth in a well. Local inhabitants of Hiva Oa, in French Polynesia, found them in 2000 while restoring the nearby hut in which Paul ...

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 ...