Art
Feeling Down? Here Are the Best Bob Ross Pep Talks
All 403 episodes of The Joy of Painting are on YouTube. Here are five of the most inspiring installments.
Painting
In Brief
Hilma af Klint Breaks Records at the Guggenheim Museum
The survey of the late Swedish abstract painter has drawn 600,000 visitors, increased museum memberships, and broke another record in catalogue sales.
Art
Two Artists Are Alla-bout Bob Ross, and a Forthcoming Book on His Painting Techniques
Two artists went on a journey towards Bob Ross, what they discovered were happy little accidents.
Art
Critics and Artists Debate the State of Painting Today
Three Cooper Union alumni and three critics, including Hyperallergic Weekend editor John Yau, "discuss the state and shape of contemporary painting."
Art
The Vivacious Presence of Parrots in Dutch Golden Age Painting
An art historian, and African Grey owner, delved into the avian symbolism in Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting at the National Gallery of Art.
Art
Sculptural Paintings Oozing with Color
Leslie Wayne's richly layered paintings remind us of the playfulness and emotional range to be found in abstraction.
Art
Landscape Art that Depicts More Than Nature
The artist’s depiction of landscape is a subjective experience of the outdoors, a cultural and psychological construct.
Art
The Mysterious Experiments of Hercules Segers, a 17th-Century Art Radical
The Mysterious Landscapes of Hercules Segers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the first major retrospective on the radically experimental 17th-century Dutch artist.
Books
Illustrating the Greatest Bookstores in the World
Cartoonist Bob Eckstein illustrated 75 of the world's most beautiful, strange, and beloved local bookstores, many of which are in danger of closing.
Art
Paintings that Embrace the Impossibility of Painting
Jaya Howey takes painting very seriously, and so he finds himself in a very serious corner.
Art
Figurative Painting That’s Emphatically Human
New York City galleries are raining down a smattering of group shows that showcase figurative painting.
Art
J.M.W. Turner's Unloved Late Paintings; or, The Whales
Some days ago — never mind the count — having not much purpose in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and nothing in its galleries otherwise to interest me, I thought I would wander a little and found myself in the most watery part of the institution.