Whalers, by J. M. W. Turner, 1845 Herman Melville by W.H. Auden Towards the end he sailed into an extraordinary      mildness, ...

Alberto Giacometti at work in his studio. I'd love to hear some thoughts about this idea, "seeing like an artist," which...

Acme Fine Art Gallery in Boston's SOWA district is showing a compelling group of very strong paintings from an early period in Wolf K...

Enrique Martinez Celaya, The Education, 2015 I think that, for whatever unclear reasons, artists walk through this world burdened with ...

Heade, Newburyport Meadows, c. 1865. Click for high res. Though you wouldn't call him a maverick, Martin Johnson Heade steered the ...