painting

Dish (2016), 36 x 36 in., oil on linen

Every picture tells a story

Bestselling authors write short stories based on this painter’s haunting pictures.

Every picture tells a story
Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper

Leonardo da Vinci: Theater impresario

Leonardo da Vinci: Theater impresario
Untitled Basquiat piece sold for a record $110.5 million to Japanese collector

A Japanese billionaire bought a Basquiat painting for a record $110.5 million

A Japanese billionaire bought a Basquiat painting for a record $110.5 million

Street Art Gets Truckin'

Street Art Gets Truckin'
"Land Grab" by Federico Boyd Sulapas Dominguez

Colonizers. Exploiters. Art that portrays how people responded.

Colonizers. Exploiters. Art that portrays how people responded.

New Year’s Resolution: Calligraphy in 3D

We check in with Garman Herigstad, who is making a calligraphy version of the Book of Proverbs. Now, his project’s ambition has grown to three dimensions.

New Year’s Resolution: Calligraphy in 3D

Trenton Doyle Hancock’s Universe of Weirdness

In Trenton Doyle Hancock’s irreverent art, he creates his own sci-fi world where vegans are the villains and color is a weapon. 

Trenton Doyle Hancock’s Universe of Weirdness

What if Mondrian Were a Programmer?

A computer programmer tries to replicate the styles of great painters like Cassatt, Mondrian, and Magritte using code.

What if Mondrian Were a Programmer?

Kehinde Wiley’s Modern-Day Royalty

The artist Kehinde Wiley wondered why he never saw people who looked like him in museums. His ground-breaking paintings, which borrow from art history, are changing that.

Kehinde Wiley’s Modern-Day Royalty

Mike Leigh: Most Movies Are Boring

After decades of making acclaimed movies about how we live now, the auteur has turned to history with a portrait of J.M.W. Turner, one of Britain’s greatest artists.

Mike Leigh: Most Movies Are Boring

A Painter Makes Peace with Working in the Kitchen

Adrienne Ognibene responded to our call for creative New Year’s Resolutions with the goal of rediscovering her painting and drawing skills. Suddenly she’s a blacksmith?

A Painter Makes Peace with Working in the Kitchen

Changing Jobs, Changing Seasons

Despite a new, demanding job, Adrienne Ognibene is sticking with her creative resolution of painting and drawing throughout 2014.

Changing Jobs, Changing Seasons

Painting with Electricity

<p><strong>The Scene: Miami</strong> <br /><em> From WLRN's Arts desk.</em></p> <p>Artist Cory Hunter studied to be a chemical engineer, and now he's using chemistry and electricity to create ingenious paintings.</p>

Painting with Electricity

Finding the Theme

June Update: It's crazy to think that we are approaching the halfway mark of this year. I have, finally, settled on a theme... I am going to do a seasonal painting of foliage and the...

Finding the Theme

French Impressionists in the American Southwest

<p>Erin Hanson uses oil and impasto brush strokes in a style that's often called Open-Impressionism.</p>

French Impressionists in the American Southwest