From early cave painters to Pablo Picasso to Roberto Longo, artists have long loved the expressive potential of a soft charcoal pencil or crayon. Each sweep of charcoal offers intense black color and easy blending for preliminary studies, lush landscapes, or p... More »
Love charcoal but hate the mess? Pick up a charcoal pencil, which is composed of compressed charcoal inside a protective layer, typically wood. Suitable for drawing, sketching, or smudging, a charcoal pencil offers a familiar feel and provides you with a lot o... More »
A shot in "N-95" references Gordon Parks' 1947 photograph 'Untitled, Harlem, New York' More »
"I will say this, it was a really good time," one attendee said. More »
Marilyn Minter and Jenna Gribbon, two participants in a new show in Fort Worth curated by Andrea Karnes, discussed sexuality and agency this week. More »
Members of the local Planning Department raised concerns about the environment surrounding its planned site. More »
A metaphor for the way fragments of time both accumulate and mutate as they slip from one moment to the next, a glowing sphere is the subject of a calming short film by Argentinian artist Ezequiel Pini, of Six N. Five. The CGI animation follows the bright o... More »
A deal with the French city of Bayeux could help the museum revive a plan to travel the work to London. More »
A disabled artist toys with the politics of staring. But the curation of her mini-retrospective exposes the limits of self-representation. More »
Experts from Namibia analyzed the artifacts in Berlin's Ethnological Museum. More »
Directors like Martin Scorsese and Chloé Zhao staged moody scenes in the American Wing's period rooms. More »
From her studio on Vashon Island in Washington, artist Ariana Heinzman channels the lithe forms of the human body into supple clay vessels. Enveloped in quirky botanical patterns and thick outlines, the sculptures twist and bow into elegant shapes that sprout ... More »