Imposter Syndrome: the feeling that you're a total fraud and it's just a matter of time before you're found out. That dismissive voice in your head that says whoever is praising your work either doesn't [...]

Who couldn’t use a friend right about now, someone hopeful, free, and alive?  Embedded in art is a call not only to self-discovery, as is often said, but a call to self-reinvention. Art isn’t something [...]

Henri Matisse's revolutionary paining, The Red Studio, marks one of the decisive moments in the history of art in which free expression grew out of traditional representational painting. Created in 1911, it's an early and important [...]

Brian Blood and Laurie Kersey are what I guess in the art world you’d have to call a power couple. They’re both outstanding professional painters, and together they’re living the sort of creative partnership that [...]

Swedish proto-modernist Edvard Munch (  ) explored many different mediums in his work, and woodblock printing remained one of his constants. The flattened picture plane and simplified forms gave the artist a very direct, uncomplicated forum for [...]

The first comprehensive, international loan exhibition of works by Raphael in the United States is coming to New York next year. This one is going to be a blockbuster – Raphael is generally considered one [...]

Lyn Diefenbach is a realist oil and pastel artist. She’s a master of light and movement, using color, texture and lively drama to convey action and liveliness in her work.  Her florals are vibrant with [...]

It was, as art historian Linda Merrill writes in her book, A Pot of Paint: Aesthetics on Trial in Whistler v. Ruskin, “the most celebrated lawsuit in the history of art.”  As we suggested in [...]

“James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) was one of the most deliberately contentious, witty, and fiercely independent artists of his generation.” With this, the Carnegie Museum of Art opened a 2012 exhibition of works by Whistler by [...]

“With almost any creative endeavor, we mistakenly think that we know what translates into success.” – Susan J. Langer Most people look at paintings in galleries and museums and think that artists are special people, endowed with [...]