Grant Hill is more famous than Romare Bearden. That’s the way the world is: NBA players just draw more attention from the general public than artists do. Hill’s not complaining: “It’s a great ...

“The Vision” (left) by Joe Nalven and “The Practice” by Jill Rowe. (Courtesy of the authors) When we were already making art, the digital world was still a novelty. Questions abounded on whether and ...

Art professionals explain how to look at paintings and sculptures like an expert — and how to make the most out of a museum visit. This episode... Want to 'feel something' when you look at art? Try ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

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What do we see when we look at art? Many of us aren't sure what we're supposed to absorb. For artist David Salle, reading a painting should be natural, not intimidating. He believes that museum-goers ...

I didn’t expect to feel anything that hot summer day in the University of Michigan Museum of Art. I’ve always been one to wander aimlessly and that day was no different — I had wandered into the ...

Frederick John Kiesler has one of the smallest frames and biggest brains in contemporary art. A gentle, Vienna-born egotist, he lives in strict simplicity in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, and at 58 ...

Some artists are convinced that pleasing the eye is no virtue. They call themselves visual researchers, and their wriggly art is as readable as Dr. Jekyll’s new, improved eye chart. Chief visual ...

"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh!ts quantity." — William S. Burroughs. Somewhere at the rocky ...

Back in the early months of the pandemic, Olympia, Wash., artist and writer Nikki McClure was approached by Orion magazine about illustrating portions of a script Rachel Carson wrote for television ...

When we were already making art, the digital world was still a novelty. Questions abounded on whether and how to incorporate this new tool into making art. Something beyond the ordinary, something ...