Painting News

Helen A. Harrison When the Archives of American Art invited me to be the guest curator of a show celebrating Jackson Pollock's 100 th birthday, I jumped at the chance to dig into the original documents.

A new exhibit about the 1980s is opening at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, featuring interpretations of icons like Ronald Reagan, Andy Warhol and Jesse Jackson, along with pieces that reflect on important issues from the decade: drug use, nuclear proliferation, AIDS and feminism.

Seven years ago, artist Nuttaphol Ma spent three hours staring at a painting he hated.

The artwork of Charles M. Russell and Frederic Remington is often lumped together in a giant mass -- a herd of Western art -- mixing oil paints with watercolors, drawings with bronzes and letting the whole R&R brand represent the genre.

CHILLICOTHE - Throughout the past 52 years, self-taught mosaic artist Phil Evanoff quietly has amassed a staggering body of work in the basement of his Chillicothe home.

According to the Palmer Museum's official website, the former is a collection of American Scene paintings that date from the early to In a didactic panel, or a plaque that provides information about the artwork on display, Palmer Museum of Art Curator Joyce Robinson said the artwork represents "a diverse array of Depression-era figurative paintings ... (more)

WHEN she left North Carolina 23 years ago, Beverly McIver never imagined returning.

If you're a gardening enthusiast who also loves garden art along with poetry, you might want to check out a one-woman show by Ferndale's Barbara DeFreytas.

Long Beach has a distinctly vibrant art community, and one of its members who emerged there during the 1970s played a significant role in putting it on the aesthetic map.

A painting seized from a Florida museum must be returned to the heirs of its former Jewish owner, a court ruled.

Jean-HonorA© Fragonard, The Warrior , c. 1769, oil on canvas. A© Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.

I don't know if Joerg knew at the time he first tweeted about it--he is plugged in and German, so who knows?--but I certainly had no idea when I picked up on the topic of Gerhard Richter "destroying" paintings by painting over them.

Six historical paintings at Houston's federal courthouse have raised some hackles with two federal judges, who believe the paintings dredge up offensive imagery of slavery.

Shena Bulcock, who has lived in the area since 1971, was welcomed to the launch of the exhibition on Tuesday, January 31, by a number of supporters and members of the art community.

The exhibition Painted Words: From Object to Subject, featuring works by Charlottesville artist Trisha Orr, opens in Washington and Lee's Staniar Gallery on Feb.

'There's nothing traditional left in Murcia - no earrings or jewelry . . . everything is lost, nothing remains, not even a simple cap I'd hoped to find." So wrote the Spanish painter Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, in 1918, to his wife, Clotilde.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's losses on Tuesday, while not very meaningful in the race to accumulate delegates, have raised questions once again about his ability to inspire passion from his party's base and about his viability in the general election.

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will show 45 masterworks by Hudson River School artists when "The Hudson River School: Nature and the American Vision" opens May 5 in the temporary galleries where Wonder World is now.

Britain's National Portrait Gallery launched a major show of the late figurative painter Lucian Freud's work on Wednesday, showcasing the fleshy portraits which made him one of the world's most revered artists in his lifetime.

Liu Xia is a forbidden artist whose work is censored in her native China. The photographer, who is under house arrest, uses life-like dolls as metaphors for the pain and suffering of the Chinese people.