Television programs that taught art lessons have been around since television was invented, with instructors from Jon Gnagy, to Bill Alexander, to Bob Ross.
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Many modern audiences, upon learning about the intricacies of Paul Gauguin’s life, adopt a distaste for him as a person. Even so, between bouts of deplorable behavior, Gauguin created art that many…
When thinking of great art, we can’t discount the importance that collectors…
The first African American painter to receive international critical acclaim, expressive realist Henry Ossawa Tanner exhibited at the Paris Salon, received honors from the French government, and…
Documentation of art-induced fainting episodes dates back to the nineteenth century; the most famous account is that of French author Marie-Henri Beyle (1783–1842), whose pen name was Stendhal.
Darkrooms are instrumental in movie plots: tiny rooms, red lights, and photographs hanging from a piece of string. But developing a photograph is not as easy as it looks in the movies.
Hank Willis Thomas’s newest sculpture, "The Embrace," a monument honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, debuted in Boston Common this winter. We took a look at some of the…
