It's easy to mistake the intensions of numerous “challenging” or "edgy" artists for obnoxiousness or obscurity. But keep looking and thinking, and what at first seems like a childish flip-off to aesthetic conventions may gradually [...]

Happy National Cat Day! Nobel prize-winning author, philosopher and physician held that there are but “two means of refuge from the misery of life – music and cats.” Perhaps we could agree to add a [...]

When we say an artist, musician, or high-caliber entertainer “works their magic,” we’re acknowledging there’s something extra-ordinary about the creation and experience of art. We go to art because there is something immaterial there; that [...]

One of the “spookier” American paintings must be Albert Pinkham Ryder’s “The Race Track,” popularly known as “Death on a Pale Horse.”  Like many a Ryder painting, it’s a strange, stricken-looking gem created at the [...]

The River Arts District (RAD) in Asheville, North Carolina has been decimated by catastrophic flooding. Most of the 26 buildings were devastated including art and the supplies and equipment used by creators. The Artists for [...]

If people cared as much about painting as they do about literature, the name Ralph Albert Blakelock might be almost as celebrated as that of Edgar Allen Poe. At an auction in 1913, Blakelock set [...]

Charles Hawthorne (January 8, 1872 – November 29, 1930) founded the popular Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, Mass. Hawthorne was famous for his fresh, observational approach to painting and for having his students [...]

The winners in the monthly PleinAir Salon have been announced. Taking the top spot is Thomas Kegler’s nocturne, “Mid-Summer Night, Romans 5:4,” The Biblical reference, paraphrasing, says: “Perseverance produces character, and character produces hope.” Come [...]

In this painting by Edward Gordon, we find ourselves in a fine, presumably Victorian house by the sea, perhaps somewhere on the coast of Maine. The open window looks out over a veranda overhanging the [...]