When does a documentary about an artist become a work of art in and of itself?
Shahram Karimi is the consummate artist, master of many mediums. In depositing his emotional baggage in the center of this stunning exhibition, the artist transforms his outsider identity into the ultimate insider.
VENICE-- The 2011 iteration of the Venice Biennale, that art-world exhibition that combines the Olympic thrill of awards -- the Golden Lion for best i...
Nature, electronics, toys, color... Vanessa tends to use a lot of child-like items or build things using clay, yarn, paper-mache, cloth, and a lot of fishing line.
I recently read an article about a 1951 Thomas Hart Benton painting that sold for nearly $1.9 million at a Southeby's auction. The painting, Flood Dis...
Image-making is by definition always a process of objectification; Iranian-American artist Taravat Talepasand extends this process by incorporating the use of self-portraiture into her work.
For Saint-Jacques art is still a matter of faith. When he sells a painting, he has the buyer make out a check for the full price to a charity.
While there was an overwhelming amount of abstraction on view in April, May seems to be the month of representational painting.
Josh Smith and his dinosaur painting, Brant Foundation/courtesy Billy Farrell Agency If lush green paddocks, a pig roast, an abundance of celebriti...
Alan Bamberger, the principal of San Francisco based artbusiness.com likes art openings. In fact, he likes them so much that in an average year he att...
Artist interviews were popular in April, particularly those between artists - painters talking to painters. Interviews in a variety of formats are som...
Painter Virginia Mallard's incredible enthusiasm and ingenuity, in both painting and life, are striking.
"A Golden Year" certainly does much more than simply make sense of the landscape: it spiritualizes it.
It's not much of a challenge to figure out which of the hundreds of lots are considered the most valuable--just look at the estimates, starting at $40...
Untitled, 2010. Oil on linen, 44 1/4 x 40 inches (112.4 x 101.6 cm). This Friday a solo show by artist Alexander "Alex" Ross opens at David Nolan Ga...
On July 23, 1946, just before her diagnosis of stomach cancer and the surgery that ended her life, Gertrude Stein wrote her will. She left what little money she had and her priceless collection of paintings to her lover of decades, Alice B. Toklas.
Besides picking out Philip Treacy hats to wear to certain royal weddings, what do princesses really have on their plates these days? Well, in Italy, N...
The artists featured in this slideshow are each accomplished representational painters who are searching for some kind of beauty. Their subjects, thei...
Artist and feminist icon Alice Neel was a woman ahead of her time: "If she had been satisfied with the paragon of what women were supposed to be in her era, she would have accomplished nothing!"