"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." – Shelley Thomas Cole melts our hearts when he ends his Course of Empire cycle with a hazy moon rising peacefully over the marble ruins of a classical [...]

Outbid at auction for Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.2 million 2019 work, titled “Comedian,” which consisted of a banana duct-taped to a wall? Then can I interest you in a $12 million work by the same artist, [...]

Howard Friedland, “Virgina Falls Revisited” (detail). Friedland, whose method is not that different from Charles Hawthorne’s vibrant "spots of color" approach, has a video on painting waterfalls. "Swing a bigger brush - you don't know what [...]

By Guest Contributor Barb Walker This edition of Inside Art features a guest article and artwork by oil painter Barb Walker.  I was stuck! My work was okay, but not where I wanted it to be. Is it ever? [...]

In 1883 Winslow Homer moved to the small coastal village of Prouts Neck, Maine, where he created a series of paintings of the sea unparalleled in American art, says the Art Institute of Chicago, which [...]

Anyone driving north from New York City or south toward New Jersey has passed the famous “Palisades” (or at least a sign for the Palisades Parkway ;) They’re a line of 300-foot-high gray basalt cliffs [...]

Dan McCaw is a contemporary American artist who lives and works in Torrance, California, alongside his two accomplished artist sons, John and Danny. Together, they share a studio environment that fosters exploration, dialogue, and a continual [...]

Love or hate the little critters (squirrels that is, not artists!), artists have been making paintings of squirrels for hundreds of years. A cursory glance at the history of squirrels in art begins with the [...]

“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.” -Andrew Wyeth [...]