From its earliest beginnings as a colonized territory, Louisiana has always been seen as a land apart. Its landscapes, tangled with vegetation and dense with waterways, were alternately viewed as ...

MPR News arts reporter and critic Alex V. Cipolle (left) and Native News reporter Melissa Olson inspect a shell work and ceramics display by Native artist Elizabeth James-Perry at the Minnesota Marine ...

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Take any major historical Western art movement from the 16th century through today and you can bet women played an important role. Until the last handful of years, you can also bet that male scholars ...

In the 1780s, French painter Pierre Henri de Valenciennes produced a landscape of the Channel coast. To do so, he painted not from memory or from a sketch, but directly from the source—by stepping ...

Romantic artists often used sunset, twilight, and moonlight to explore emotions and spirituality in nature. The transition from day to night in art can symbolize continuity, romance, or even ...

In her largest New York museum show, Kay WalkingStick, an 88-year-old Cherokee painter, reminds us that “we’re all living on Indian Territory.” The artist Kay WalkingStick at home in Easton, Pa. Above ...

Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism, by Barry Schwabsky (DAP, April 2019) Art critic Barry Schwabsky’s new book, Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New ...

Painting with the flow of the world / Barry Schwabsky -- Realism and beyond : Pat de Groot ; Sylvia Plimack Mangold ; Jane Freilicher ; Lois Dodd ; Maureen Gallace ; Cynthia Daignault ; John Beerman ; ...

Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...