There’s a story about the late Austin artist José Francisco Treviño that some of his friends and family members tell. It’s 1993, and the Mexican American artist, then 52 years old and on a ...

Barack Obama had a "text painting" by Glenn Ligon hanging in the White House when he was United States' president between ...

Samella Lewis's African American Art and Artists foregrounds the work of artists who have been influencing the texture of art in the United States during the last two decades of the twentieth century.

Howard Finster was an American artist famed for his often bizarre paintings and sculptures of angels, aliens, and historical figures such as George Washington. Finster was a Baptist minister and used ...

Ed Ruscha is an American artist whose oeuvre melds Pop Art iconography with the documentarian rigor of Conceptual Art. With a practice that spans drawing, painting, photography, film, printmaking, and ...

Beginning with responses to fascism in the 1930s and ending with protests against the Iraq wars, David McCarthy shows how American artists—including Philip Evergood, David Smith, H. C. Westermann, Ed ...

By blending documentary, autobiography, and storytelling techniques, Weems conveys what she has called “real facts, by real people.” Carrie Mae Weems (born April 20, 1953) is an American artist ...

There are several interesting themes in An Artist of the Floating World. Read on to discover some of the major themes in the ...

Kendrick Lamar will be the headline act, but some want New Orleans native Lil Wayne to be involved.

To start, they are uniquely Gen Z artists with notably Gen Z sounds. Their pop storytelling abilities are also quite similar, as are their dazzling stage presences. Japanese-British singer Rina ...

Anyone could easily decorate their entire home with deaf-themed artwork. Art with American sign language (ASL) and deafness themes is readily available through vendors focusing on products for and by ...

Chiura Obata (小圃 千浦, Obata Chiura, November 18, 1885 – October 6, 1975) was a well-known Japanese-American artist and popular art teacher. A self-described "roughneck", Obata went to the United States ...