Painting News

Vivienne Robertson, who enjoys the challenge of painting animals, holds a work depicting a rider on his mount.

"Into the sixties a word was born . . . BLACK." The poet Haki R. Madhubuti composed this line for a poem he wrote decades ago, but when he read it aloud at the South Side Community Art Center recently, the words still reverberated.

I'm glad I came across this item with Memorial Day just around the corner. Over time, this weekly column is beginning to resemble an online museum of Lynnfield History.

Dave Crocker will visit 21 different locations along the path later in the summer to exhibit his work, including in Coverack in Cornwall After 12 months and 365 works of art, a Devon artist has finished a painting marathon on the South West Coast Path.

Photographer Aubrey Kauffman is using time-lapse digital technology to create an artwork of painter Mel Leipzig making a portrait of the 60-year-old Kauffman.

Despite the sawing, carpet-laying and wall-painting, House Rules is not a show about home renovation - it's a carefully crafted soap about goodies and baddies, people cracking under pressure, push coming to shove.

A celebrated Pre-Raphaelite painting that led to the marriage breakdown of its famous Victorian sitter has been acquired by an Oxford museum.

Don Voisine's oil paintings on wood brim with all kinds of tensions: between flatness and spatiality; stasis and torque; containment and expansion; light and dark; tonal gradations and sharp contrasts; matte and glossy surfaces; transparency and solidity.

Patty the painting donkey took a broad-brush approach to her crack at television greatness on the show, Britain's Got Talent , but in the end she was unable was sway judge Simon Cowell.

Who needs abstract art when you can buy a rocket instead? Billionaire Paul Allen pocketed more than $43 million selling a painting earlier this week, and now we know what he did with some of the money.

Until now, few have known the story of the cartoon-like murals that once covered the interior of the Playland Arcade on Coney Island's Surf Avenue.

It takes a lot of chutzpah to reduce one of the most powerful men on Earth to a pile of fruits and vegetables.

Visual Arts Society of Texas member Tonya Littmann of Denton will exhibit a collection of her fine art quilts at the PointBank Black Box Theatre, 318 E. Hickory St., through July 11.

Blood trickles from thorns strewn around his forehead, yet his hand reaches out toward those who view a new painting at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hazleton.

"This was the first verse that he wrote," he said by way of introduction to Lead Belly's Goodnight Irene .

From the 1960s onwards there was not so much a renaissance of art in New Zealand but a true naissance, a sudden birth of confidence and brilliant achievement in painting and sculpture.

From a disco for babies to a fun-filled show full of paint to a roof top performance with intriguing acrobatics - people of all ages are enjoying an array of entertainment during the second weekend of this year's Norfolk and Norwich Festival.

Two dozen paintings by Dolores "Toppy" Cochran went on display Friday at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.

The Duchess of Cornwall visited Kew Gardens this week to view an exhibition to celebrate late artist and musician Rory McEwen.

This time the painting was Monet's The Japanese Footbridge , an impressionist masterpiece depicting lush gardens and a lily pond.