Annette Lemieux’s “Nomad,” made by walking paint across the canvas, shows the artist ... of giving birth. "Great Works, In Focus" is series featuring art critic Sebastian Smee's favorite ...

A DSLR — or other interchangeable-lens camera — will give you the best results and the most flexibility when working with bokeh (“advanced” point-and-shoot cameras that let you adjust the aperture or ...

The show includes potent new works ... Sharp-focus Realism, Post-Pop Illusionism, New Realism, Radical Realism. Add the contemporaneous arrival of a lively market for contemporary art, which ...

The next time you find yourself in downtown Steubenville, be sure to stop by the glass-enclosed kiosk that stands in front of ...

"Georgia Red Clay" by Nell Choate Jones, 1946, is one of 100 works ... shows of these artists, but there's never been anything to kind of pull it together and look collectively at it. And Southern ...

Jinah Roh's giant heads. Rumor has it they speak Korean. Photo: Vittoria Benzine Sunlight finally peeked out on Manhattan ...

as evidenced by the mediocrity of my art work. I failed the challenge, I failed the show, I failed the competition. It was time for me to get the hell out of there." TVGuide.com spoke to The ...

The novel delves into ideas of beauty, ethics, the damaging effects of excessive focus on aesthetics ... of the author. The work serves as a moving contemplation on art, faith, and the ...

Every year The Philadelphia Show brings with it some of the best ... at the Pennsylvania Academy of Arts, this work is also worthy of notice as it was altered after it’s exhibition.

But, in a sense, I try to enact a version of this same, focused impulse in my Great Works, In Focus column ... and that my subject — great works of art in America’s public museums — is ...