An intriguing account of an art movement below the Mason-Dixon line, and what set it apart from Northern counterparts. Romantic Spirits: Nineteenth Century Paintings of the South, The Johnson Collection is by the esteemed Southern art... Read More

More than eighty prints executed over fifty years (from 1956 through 2006) tell the story of engraver Rosemary Kilbourn’s fascination with, and reverence for, both the practice of looking closely and the natural world that mostly... Read More

Artist and illustrator James Gulliver Hancock’s affection for New York City is evident in every line he’s put to paper in composing All the Buildings* in New York *That I’ve Drawn So Far. The transplant from Sydney, Australia,... Read More

“I once heard that most people die with music in their heart,” said cello teacher Biana Kovic. Wanting to do something about it, the young woman sought volunteers for a project she had in mind: to find out if older people could learn... Read More

Even just a quick riffle through the pages of Zen Gardens: The Complete Works of Shunmyo Masuno can cause a healthy lowering of one’s blood pressure. Seeing such tranquil spaces in our generally chaotic world offers an escape to an... Read More

As with most great art, Kehinde Wiley’s portraits reflect the time and place in which they were created: in this case, current-day cities. They also comment on the history of portraiture, specifically upending traditional European... Read More

Though artist Charles R. Knight (1874-1953) was plagued with vision problems for most of his life, he managed to leave behind an amazing body of work—and to somehow look back into the prehistoric past like no one else could. The... Read More

Video games are art. So says "The Art of Video Games" simply by existing. A codified complement to an exhibit of the same name that opened in March at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the book enters a cultural discussion that has... Read More