Composer Charles Ives, born 150 years ago, concisely captured the sublime in this setting of a poem by Robert Underwood ...

After witnessing a string of fireballs streak across the sky in North America in 1860, the landscape painter rendered the ...

Painter Sam Barber’s art studio in downtown Osterville is a feast for the senses. His colorful, impressionistic paintings ...

The Art Institute of Chicago has two works on display by one of the world's great landscape painters, J.M.W. Turner, born 250 years ago.

Among other trends in contemporary art is a notable tendency to stroke and fondle odd bits of material until they die from the excess attention. Cool stuff, no doubt; I'm just saying. As an ...

Soil painting. For this activity, you need paper, soil, water, mixing cups, and paintbrushes. Mix small amounts of different kinds of soil with water until you have a uniform paint.

Aho is hoping to re-create the scene of a 1908-09 painting called “The Ice Hole, Maine,” by Marsden Hartley, a Lewiston native and one of the foremost American painters of the 20th century.

It's safe to say that no major movement toward environmental sustainability will make the agenda of this congressional session, but our culture has never been so aware of humanity's impact on ...