Activist artist Molly Crabapple's new series of paintings titled "Shell Game" at Smart Clothes Gallery in New York portray a darkly humorous year in c...

Sabine Pigalle is a visual artist, born in France in 1963. Most of her work concentrates on the reinterpretation of myths. Religious history, mytholog...

I don't paint people or architecture. I paint paintings. The buildings, rooms are in the paintings because they contain people.

The exhibition The Picassos Are Here! at Kunstmuseum Basel is not just another Picasso retrospective. The singular exhibition tells the story of the l...

More than four dozen New American Paintings' alumni are on view throughout the country this month. Two artists originally featured in MFA Annual issue...

In every gallery I was surrounded by paintings that featured a cast of characters and lavish settings that bore no resemblance to the world that Jesus and his followers inhabited. Every wall greeted me with blond, fair-skinned European figures.

Artists seem to be downsizing these days, and not just because of the economy. We were recently amazed by Nikolai Aldunin's miniscule sculptures, whil...

PARIS — France is returning seven paintings taken from their Jewish owners during World War II, part of an ongoing effort to give back hundreds ...

We were confused, to say the least, when we stumbled upon a painting of President Barack Obama, naked and lovingly entwined with the body of a unicorn...

Start your day with a good laugh with L'Ombre du fou rire, a series of paintings peopled by enigmatically laughing characters, the first major exhibi...

With the exhibition Visions of Modernity, Impressionist and Modern Collections from the Guggenheim Foundation, the collaboration between the Solomon R...

I get to see the clammers at 7 a.m. going to work in the bay, the herons, osprey and migrating warblers. I hear the sounds of life that participate around me and those experiences bring unique perspectives incorporated into my painting.

Adam Licsko works in everything from pencils and inks to oils and he also sculpts. And he also doesn't have a bias toward any expression of art, sometimes "using abstracted techniques to create realism."

For all the forgers' mastery of art, there remains the troubling issue of morality. What does it mean to turn such a phenomenal skill toward criminal ends? And just how criminal is it, really?

The Botswana-born painter Meleko Mokgosi, whose large-scale, multi-panel compositions grapple with conditions in postcolonial Africa through jarringly...

Summer came late to New York this year; it was cool right through May. The last Friday of May was about the first hot, muggy day of the summer, and i...

The left side of the composition is an ominous storm, a condition that is punctuated by a small private jet that makes its approach as if ready to somehow back up and pull away. Below, a car with high beams blaring, emerges from the beast and heads for blue skies and a better day.

Max depicts his dad, a native New Yorker who would have turned 100 this year, in many iconic New York City sites. Each of the paintings in the exhibition convey intimacy, where his father -- often alone in the scene -- exudes a sense of isolation.

The biography of Bridget Bate Tichenor by Zachary Selig reads like a "Who's Who" of the high society of the first half of the 20th Century, but only i...

Arts and culture are a link, sometimes even a lifeline, between countries, as they remind us of our humanity and instill respect of other cultures. And, all things considered, they do. Russian audiences experience American orchestras and Americans experience Russian ballet. But not all is well, however, at least temporarily.