Harold Smith’s newest paintings take familiar works of art like Grant Wood’s “American Gothic,” Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” and Leonardo DaVinci’s “The Last Supper” and reimagines them with ...

Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA) is currently hosting "Art For The People: WPA-Era Paintings from the Dijkstra Collection." The exhibit features works created during the Great Depression of the 1930s ...

In the late 1960s and early ‘70s, Photorealist painters used photographs as their subject. MOCA’s new show, “Ordinary People,” explores the underappreciated quality of the work, as well as its legacy.

Bram and Sandra Dijkstra love a good story. And after nearly half a century of collecting art, they certainly have plenty. Point to any piece of art that covers nearly every inch of wall space in ...

Painting conservator Sally Woodcock got right to the point when discussing mummy brown pigment during Harvard Art Museums’s “Conversations Around Funerary Portraits.” In short, she said, it’s “paint ...

2-year-old Laurent Schwarz's favorite pieces include abstract elephants, dinosaurs and horses Gabrielle Rockson is a staff writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2023 and covers ...

The funny thing about visual art is that, although certain artists are considered geniuses and others complete hacks, actual ...

New Bridgeville’s Gloria Kashner knew from the smoke and flames that a bad fire had damaged her longtime church home, Shenberger’s Chapel United Methodist Church. The next day, in early February 2009, ...

"I really want to make sure I can see my mom in people's houses," author Alissa Quart tells PEOPLE about her mother Barbara's paintings courtesy Maggy Grace Howe Barbara Quart has painted about 400 ...

One of the most hotly debated questions in the history of Neanderthal research has been whether they created art. In the past few years, the consensus has become that they did, sometimes. But, like ...

There's something very powerful that happens when people look at the abstract paintings of Mark Rothko, says art historian Susie Hodge. As they observe his technique and color — perhaps two shades of ...

Kansas City, Kansas, artist Harold Smith’s new body of work at the Mulvane Art Museum in Topeka reimagines celebrated works from art history. On a recent August morning, the artist Harold Smith was ...