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BERKELEY, Calif. - Wesley Tongson, who died in 2012, was a contemporary painter from Hong Kong, but his calligraphy, landscapes and splatter paintings were tied to tradition. In the show at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive…

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Before painter Milton Avery's works were featured in the world's most prestigious museums - and long before they numbered in the millions - the artist now known for his playful use of color and diverse stylistic repertoire lived a low-key…

The ancient Mediterranean, and Greece in particular, was home to a wide variety of artistic communities. Over 3,000 years ago, these makers used natural resources such as stone, clay and metals to create new shapes, styles and…

Make the most of the nicest weather of the year and take advantage of the first Friday of February events in downtown Phoenix.Those in the mood for a stroll can head to Roosevelt Row for the pop-up market at the Welcome Center on Second and…

The mobile museum of black hockey history in the NHL celebrating the sport's African-American pioneers and current stars has arrived in the DC area for the weekend. The visit is free. The traveling museum is in Rockville on…

coronavirus, GROWING UP in the land of the Riverina, Nigel Killalea had an early affinity with the natural world. Raised on his family's fourth-generation mixed farm in Mangoplah, Killalea was surrounded by vibrant landscapes, each…

WASHINGTON, DC - Alma Thomas was born in Georgia in 1891. At the age of 15, her relatively prosperous black family moved to Washington, DC, where she lived and worked most of the rest of her life. The first fine arts graduate from Howard…

There is plenty to do to celebrate the First First Friday of 2022 in downtown Phoenix. Museums like the Heard Museum and the Phoenix Art Museum and the Phoenix Art Museum will offer free admission (or a voluntary donation) to current…

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Curator Max Fields stands in front of Baseera Khan's “Receive and Give” tapestry at FotoFest's “In Place of an Index” at Silver Street Studios, showcasing new artwork from 12 artists from or currently living in Texas, the Wednesday,!-->…

(CNN) - While China still hasn't announced any solid plans to reopen its border to international leisure travelers, there's no harm in starting to dream about your next visit now. There are hundreds of worthy destinations in the country to…

Shapes of purple glass rise amid green saguaros at the Desert Botanical Garden, one of two Phoenix-area sites showcasing artwork by acclaimed glass artist Dale Chihuly. They are part of "Chihuly in the Desert", a collaborative…

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has never owned Vermeer, but it does have something even rarer, a painting that Vermeer copied in two of his own paintings. Dirck van Baburen's lascivious and satirical "The Procuress" was conspicuously hung…

MIAMI - Bob Dylan has been telling stories through song for 60 years. But recently, the American lyricist also captured moments in a new series of paintings which, like his songs, are intimate and a bit of a mystery.The Nobel Laureate's…

My name is maryanUntil March 20, 2022 at the Museum of Contemporary Art North MiamiPolish-born Jewish artist Maryan was a child when he arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp and left Auschwitz in 1945 as the only survivor of his…

Photographer Imogen Cunningham was born in 1883; the same year, a car first crossed the Brooklyn Bridge, the deadly Krakatoa volcano exploded over the Sunda Strait and a train, later immortalized in the "Murder on the Orient Express"…

Last July, the The American Folk Art Museum in New York received a generous bounty: 40 works of art by Horace Pippin and Bill Traylor donated by former AOL Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons and his wife, Laura. The donation came in the…

Bob Thompson, "Garden of Music", 1960. Oil on canvas. 79 1/2 × 143 in. (201.9 × 363.2 cm). Wadsworth Atheneum Art Museum, Hartford, Connecticut. The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection fonds. © Michael Rosenfeld…

“Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France” may sound like the title of a big art history textbook, but it's actually a rather intimate exhibition. Yes, intimate despite the fact that this stylistic investigation takes…