Michelle Ramos is an artist living in Frederick, but she hasn't always been an artist. It wasn't until a manic episode in 2021 that she found art — and it happened almost overnight. With a bachelor's ...

Letters, journals, private scribblings, saved memos, battered boxes bursting with faded photos and jaundiced newspaper clippings. This ephemera, alongside publicly archived material, is the beating ...

There is an inherent tension present from the opening pages of Wendy Hitchmough’s new biography, Vanessa Bell: The Life and Art of a Bloomsbury Radical. As Hitchmough explains, Bell (1879-1961) was ...

In this sequel to “Butch Heroes” (2018), the author uses succinctly written biographies and gouache on paper paintings to recover the obscure lives of women who dressed or otherwise presented ...

Stephen J. Campbell argues that Leonardo’s works, such as The Vitruvian Man (around 1490), have been co-opted into a mythical “Da Vinci World” played out in 20th-century works such as Kasimir Malevich ...

Cartoonist Art Spiegelman, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, about his parents’ survival of the Holocaust, has had an immense impact on the world of comics throughout his ...

In September 1966, John Lennon, who had just finished what would be the Beatles’ last world tour, visited an exhibition, “Unfinished Paintings and Objects.” Featuring the work of Japanese-born ...

On display in Shriram Center’s Tea Room are watercolor paintings created from the same purple colors, depicting different pictures of a family, Dr. Stone from “Dr. Stone” and coral reefs. They were ...

This new, deeply researched biography from a respected art historian traces the iconoclastic painter Piet Mondrian from his strict Calvinist upbringing in the rural Netherlands of the late 1800s to ...

In 2016, days after iconic songwriter Guy Clark died, a posse of his peers converged on Terry Allen’s house in Santa Fe, N.M. Their last names speak to the caliber of their own music: Crowell, Earle, ...

Musician and artist Terry Allen’s semi-infamous song “A Truckload of Art” is a country music satire of New York art snobbery. It’s also, though, a vision of art going up in flames and smoke, gleefully ...

Say the words “Art Deco” and most people think of architecture and Miami Beach hotels. But they also apply to the chic, tubular paintings of the modernist artist Tamara de Lempicka, the title ...