Art galleries associated with teaching institutions often can make a success of exhibitions that would prompt very different responses if they were shown anywhere else. A case in point is ”The Aura of ...

A “strange young man” with a “passion for logical abstraction” and “an almost mathematical precision of mind”. This was how ...

AN aura of epic (and of late, cinematic) drama hovers over the struggles, achievements and major breakthroughs of such 19th century greats as Van Gogh, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Cezanne, on whose ...

The 38,000-year-old woolly mammoth carving next to Georges Seurat's "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte." Despite the vast amount of time between their respective creations, both use a collection of dots to ...

you can know every inch of a picture by heart and it can still be a mystery. That is the secret of the Mona Lisa, a portrait so enigmatic that even endless duplication cant make you sick of it. Its ...

The greatest period in French painting consists, oddly enough, of sequels to its most original style, impressionism. Van Gogh extended its atmospheric paint strokes into the whorls of a violent ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - As light and shadow became characters themselves in Georges Seurat's most famous painting, so did brilliance and darkness command his life. Stephen Sondheim and playwright James Lapine ...

Two years later, of course, he was back at it, opening Sunday in the Park with George—a musical about how hard it is to be an artist. "Art isn't easy," one character sings during a 1980s gallery party ...