It's April Fool's Day so what better to talk about than artists who are known as pranksters. There have been many pranks pulled thro...

Many of you have heard of Willem de Kooning, the widely known Abstract Expressionist Painter. But not many of you have heard of his wife, El...

Some of you may have noticed that the other day (March 16th) Google had a Doodle celebrating Anna Atkin's 216th Birthday. She was a bota...

Throughout my education and while visiting various museums and shows I've had a chance to see many paintings by Alice Neel. Yet, up unti...

We've mentioned Kara Walker a bit before when we did a post about Cutting Paper as an art form . But now is the chance to really dive in...

Similar to Barkley L. Hendricks, Kehinde Wiley is a contemporary portrait painter. Wiley is a New York based artist whose work is in museums...

Barkley Leonnard Hendricks was born in 1945 in Philadelphia. His work can be found in the National Gallery of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the ...