What do the landscape painters of Canada and northern Europe have in common? Their muse is the taiga, or boreal forest: a massive ring of mostly coniferous trees that stretches across the Northern ...

Support journalism that digs deeper into topics that matter most to ArkLaTex. Donate today to preserve the quality and integrity of local journalism. Richard Mayhew, a painter of Black and Native ...

Diane Burko, "Unprecedented" (2021), mixed media, 8 x 15 feet (all images courtesy the artist) WASHINGTON, DC — At the heart of Diane Burko’s retrospective exhibition at the American University Museum ...

The dense webs, clusters and tangles of color seen in Joan Mitchell’s paintings evoke everything from a lake to a poem to a city scene to something more abstract. As the American artist wrote to a ...

In 1972, a young Lawrence Leissner took a class with renowned artist Richard Diebenkorn, a visiting faculty member at the San Francisco Art Institute. “He shows up twice all semester and then only ...

He drew from his Black and Native American heritage, as well as his own memory, to find an emotional resonance behind the beauty of nature. By Alex Williams Richard Mayhew, a painter of Black and ...