With Frank Sinatra playing softly and a view of the Empire state building out the windows of his art studio, Brian Rutenberg keeps his focus on the canvas. He locks the door, sets up for the day, and ...

The paradigm of the “overlooked female artist” is both a cliché and a truth. We all know the art market is unceasingly hungry, and previously sidelined women artists are the perfect food. But that ...

Walk into any contemporary gallery in Las Vegas, and you'll likely encounter a canvas splashed with colors that seem to defy logic. No recognizable shapes. No obvious subject. Just pure, raw visual ...

The artist’s abstract work “Juin-Octobre 1985” is now the most expensive painting ever to go under the hammer in Hong Kong, according to Sotheby’s. It was a record-breaking evening at the auction ...

Some artists — young and old alike — just don’t like realistic drawing. The task of portraying something exactly as it appears in real life can be daunting, and many find the process frustrating. For ...

I once asked an artist I know what he did about varnishing his oil paintings. I had read about "varnishing day" at the great salon exhibits in Paris in the 19th century and wondered what it was like ...