The things that confound us often become the subjects of our obsessions. This might explain why so many famous artists create ...

Rob Pruitt (born 1963/1964) is an American post-conceptual artist known for his diverse work in painting, installation, and ...

Gil Elvgren was an American artist born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1914. He became one of the most famous pin-up and glamour artists of all time, known for his iconic images of the all-American ...

White’s mural, The Contribution of the Negro to American Democracy (1943) at Hampton University is perhaps his best-known work, depicting famous African Americans across history. He saw art as a ...

A new exhibition in Paris demonstrates the influence that the Spanish artist had on the young American painter who ... Correspondent Jackson Pollock is famous for creating expressive and dynamic ...

Native Modern" is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the late Native American artist's first-ever museum solo show.

President Theodore Roosevelt was inspired by the artistic merit of ancient coins and sought to change the look of American coinage. In 1905 he asked famous sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens to create ...

The painting is on loan for two years from the National Gallery of Australia as part of a program designed to bring visitors ...

The Musée D'Orsay has been criticised for "suggestive" interpretations insinuating that the Impressionist painter was gay.

Eleven international artists, from Anna Weyant to Faith Ringgold, present their take on Dior’s classic Lady Dior bag.

In a year-long Hirshhorn show squirming with energy, the famous Brazilian twins replace discernment with populist exuberance.

Painter Frank Auerbach, who fled Nazi Germany for Britain as a child and became one of the major artists of the 20th century, ...