Sep 28, 2023 | Art, New York, News & Trending
Bélizaire, an enslaved black teenage boy, has been restored to a painting from which he was erased, now on display at the Met. Bélizaire was a household slave of the Freys, a wealthy white family living in New Orleans’ French Quarter in the mid-1800s. In 1837,...
Mar 20, 2023 | Art, Museums, News & Trending
Valparaiso University wants to sell off many of its artworks, but students and faculty disagree. Valparaiso University, a Lutheran institution in Indiana, has a robust art collection in the Brauer Museum of Art on their campus. Among their nearly 3000 pieces are...
Nov 28, 2022 | Art, News & Trending
Mandy Poche has gone viral for turning a plain white cocktail dress into a wearable painting, to match her own art in an opening for her latest collection. Mandy Poche, who goes by Mandy Mae, is an impressionist painter in Ponchatoula, Louisiana. Her gallery, Mandy...
Apr 19, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, Museums, News & Trending, Profiles
Clementine Hunter is perhaps one of the most important folk artists in American history. Born at Hidden Hill Plantation in Louisiana, she spent her youth as a farm laborer with her parents, working for the owners of the plantation. She never learned to read or write,...
Sep 11, 2019 | Exhibitions, News & Trending
The beloved American painter Bob Ross remains incredibly popular today, 24 years after his passing. In his instructional TV show over 11 years, Ross painted over 1,000 landscapes, walking his public television viewership through each one. “I talk to only one person...
