What You Should Know Frida Kahlo is one of the best known 20th century female realists to be rescued from potentially being lost to history.  A lengthy series of shows, books, plays, movies, and relentless [...]

“My decorations belong to the poetic and imaginative world where a few choice spirits live.” - Thomas Wilmer Dewing, from a letter to Charles Lang Freer dated February 16, 1901. Inspired by his summers in [...]

“My father wasn’t a religious man, but he found in the woods a sense of the divine in the beauty of nature. It was a place for solace and contemplation.” – Elaine Hibbard Clark, daughter [...]

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” ― Gustav Mahler Art has a long history (to say the least) of practice, tradition, and training. And yet, art remains forever fresh and [...]

A brilliant and prolific artist, Tom Thomson (1877–1917) painted lush, modernist celebrations of the Canadian wilderness en plein air. Thomson hiked and canoed to his locations, but his work doesn’t match up with what we [...]

Sometime in New York City around 2007 several early and mid-career artists gathered around the studio of Chinese American watercolorist Paul Ching-Bor. Ching-Bor is known for dynamic, large-format watercolors of urban scenery. Since going their [...]

Novelist Kurt Vonnegut liked to tell the story of something someone said to him as a fifteen-year-old that eventually allowed him to become the imaginative writer he became. He was on an archeological dig and [...]

Many in the art world consider Gerhard Richter the world's leading painter. If you’re curious about contemporary painting, he’s someone you need to know, not just because of his dazzling technical virtuosity, but for his [...]

“The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories are more than true, for they tell children that dragons can be [...]

Now, this is one proud monk! The miniature below (the whole thing's maybe 9 inches tall) resides in the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH., where it’s a small precious gem within that worthy collection. Leo [...]