Enjoy this article in The Independent (UK) about recent evidence of the CIA's heavy involvement in promoting American Abstract Express...

[This post has been edited for brevity]. From my Notable Charlestonians series, professional hellion Anne Bonny.   Anne Bonny, by Ci...

[Video: text appears explaining that in 1955 a portrait artist was given a dose of LSD and some drawing supplies, then drew a series of sk...

I recommend Joshua Alston's thoughtful piece in The Feminist Wire, " Confessions Of A Black Morrissey Fan ." I had some immedi...

I just re-designed and massively updated my website (not this one but the one where all my artwork is shown). It is byoooooootiful, and ther...

Who could this be taking a bath? [A painting of a man sitting in a full bath tub with the faucet running, painted from his point of view...

Peter Schjeldahl , on the writings of Mondrian, Malevich and Kandinsky following MoMA's survey of 20th century abstract art: "The...

One of my husband's family members passed away recently and we inherited some of her belongings. Because she was warm, interesting and f...

Jeffrey Augustine Songco has a post up at the art:21 blog called " The End of Self Portraiture ." The idea-- that self-portraitur...

[Video: a song by Rachel's from the CD "Music for Egon Schiele." Shows a still image of the CD cover while music plays, a bl...

South African artist Paul Emsley's portrait of Kate Middleton. [Image: Squarish painting of the head and shoulders of Kate Middleton p...

Fashion illustration by Katie Henderson. [Image: a full-body semi-realistic drawing of a Black woman wearing a vanilla-beige dress, strapp...

[Video: black & white film of a cat spoofing French existentialist films. Henry the cat (a serious sounding adult male voice) narrates...

The Mural Arts Program in Philadelphia is still trying to figure out why and by whom this mural was obliterated. It was apparently a job by...

I just remembered, I have a blog. Sorry for the lack of posts; I've been on vacation in a place so remote it evades the clutches of the ...

Jack-o-lantern party. I made the big one in the middle; husband made the one on the right with the pentagram eye. My inspiration was Lelan...

This is a great essay. Kelsey Elisabeth Nelson discusses Zadie Smith's writing in which she compares two approaches to art (and writing...

I. Though my guilt-fear, rendered humdrum through bad habits, dictates this day I'll purge from My Big Binge, I am on strike for a b...