Painting News

Roger Smith will have the best seat in the house at tomorrow's fireworks show. That's because Smith will be lighting them up.

Death row inmates depicted in oil paintings by British artist Claire Phillips, on view in London's South Bank gallery@oxo, have one thing in common.

On April 6, a powerful earthquake shook central Italy, killing more than 300 people while destroying centuries-old churches and museums.

The Everson Museum of Art is proud to participate in Syracuse ArtsWeek 2009 by offering a hands on plein air painting experience to visitors at City Hall Commons on July 25.

When hearing the name Andy Warhol, images of a multicolored Marilyn Monroe painting and a large can of Campbell's Soup may come to mind.

The Florence Griswold Museum hosts Make-A-Painting each Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. through October.

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center announces a new exhibition program entitled 'On-site.' Continuing P.S.1's long standing tradition of commissioning in-situ projects such as the 'Vertical Painting' series , the first incarnation of this new program will focus on wall paintings, an art form that has a long history in New York City.

A FAMOUS Burnley painting is on display in London for two months. The Modern Pre-Raphaelite, by JW Waterhouse, is in an exhibition at Londona s Royal Academy until September 13.

Like fireworks, Manitowoc Public Library's window-painting event draws "ooohs and ahhhs" throughout the Fourth of July.

Looking for Steve Kaufman's signed Michael Jackson paintings "We are getting tons of emails and calls looking for the portraits." Los Angeles, CA - June 30, 2009 -- In 1995 King of Pop Michael Jackson signed 2 portrait painted by Pop Artist Steve Kaufman who is the former assistant to Andy Warhol.

ART therapy students will exhibit painting, sculpture, photography and textiles.

An artist who was cleared of mocking Turkey's prime minister by portraying him as a dog has fled the country after hearing his acquittal has been overturned.

The life work of Rembrandt - all 317 known paintings, 285 etchings and more than 100 drawings - go on display next week in full-sized digital reproductions that attempt to recreate the works as they emerged from the artist's studio rather than as they exist today.

In the painting that gives title to this show, you see items that you might find in a New Orleans household during Mardi Gras.

Silvina Lanusse will have her first solo exhibit in Canada at the Port Moody Arts Centre this summer.

Fourteen-year-old Don Furst of Fayetteville puts the finishing touches on an oil painting as he sits on the porch of a dogtrot cabin at Prairie Grove Battlefield Park in June 1968.

A 1930s-era Emily Carr paitning has sold for more than $2.16 million on June 17, becoming the highest-priced painting of the famous Vancouver artist.

This is a Dutch TV video about the controversy about the painting by Karel Appel "Bird". From Radio Netherlands Worldwide : An artist from Amsterdam says a Cobra painting in the Groningen Museum is a fake.

Around 1900, in sculpture, there was a pressing desire to find a new formal approach: "It seems that a modern kind of statuary is still to be created." Sculptors aspired to rediscover the laws of their art : "We have to discover the ruling principle, through a lifetime of often desperate effort", Bourdelle would say.

A survivor of the Khmer Rouge's deadliest torture centre wept today as he told a court about life at the facility where 16,000 others were abused before being executed.