Drawing
Few artists have embraced advancements in reproduction and new digital technologies with the gusto of British-born, universally loved artist David Hockney (1937-2026).
Once relegated to cheap newsprint created only as casual entertainment to be consumed primarily on Sundays—or alternatively, more transgressive subject matter hidden behind the counter—cartoons and…
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains,” said Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). In Sacha Guitry’s 1916 silent film, there is a chilling and moving excerpt of Renoir painting. The artist’s hands…
A spacetime grid is a visual diagram in physics to grasp a four-dimensional reality—three dimensions of space and one of time.
Leonardo Drew is the embodiment of form and content. His expansive personality explodes with associations and ebullience; so does his art. “Superadditive,” he calls it. There really don’t seem to be…
![DEl Kathryn Barton [Australian b. 1972] the more than human love , 2025 Acrylic on French linen 78 3/4 x 137 3/4 inches 200 x 350 cm Framed dimensions: 79 7/8 x 139 inches 203 x 353 cm](/sites/default/files/styles/category_card_187x139/public/ab15211bartonthe-more-human-lovelg.jpg?itok=LJbNuU6F)
Acclaimed Australian artist Del Kathryn Barton (1972)– two-time winner of the Archibald Prize, the most prestigious portraiture prize in Australia– has a solo show opening in October at New York…
When artist Ruth Asawa was a little girl, she and her siblings killed time on the family farm sitting on horse-drawn carts and tracing hourglass patterns in the dirt with their toes, a shape…
Summertime’s gardens have long inspired artists and botanists. Botanical illustration emerged around the time of Plato, more than 2,000 years ago. The medium launched not as a fine art, but as a…
Copying within the context of the art world has evolved over the centuries. What was once understood as a vital tool for study and learning is now often perceived, especially by laymen, as a kind of…
It was 1939, just two years after Picasso painted his anti-war masterpiece, Guernica, in response to the fascist bombing of the titular city in northern Spain. France and Britain…
Even though Dostoevsky’s drawings feel like a byproduct of his writing process and Plath’s more like an independent form of expression, both still seem linked to an abundance of creativity and the…
The newly expanded Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary in Virginia is a fitting showcase for Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine, an exhibition of 25 rarely…
In the Rotunda of the United States Capitol, a bronze bust of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was dedicated to the nation by his wife, Coretta Scott King, on January 16, 1986— Dr. King’s 57th…
Santa Claus hasn’t always been the jolly, red-suited, grandfatherly gift-giver with a reindeer-drawn sleigh we all know. Here’s a look at how art has reflected the changing face (and waistline) of…
I graduated college in the early 1970s and wrote my Master’s thesis on Carlos Castaneda and Moksha as a form of Liberation. At that time, I was reading Alan Watts and Joseph Campbell, attending Sufi…
