Artists and physicists may argue whether or not black is a color, a shade or even the absolute absence of color itself. But the iconic artist Mark Rothko doesn’t see black as any of these single, narrow definitions. ...

The literary accompaniment to The Suburbs is found almost too perfectly in William Faulkner’s 1950 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, in which he declared the state of youth in the union: “There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only one question: when will I be blown up?” The Montreal-based septuplet similarly poses the difficult questions of the age on their latest release, sometimes ironically a ...

On loan from the National Museum of Wales, “Turner to Cezanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection” features the donated collection of two Welsh sisters. The exhibit largely consists of European Impressionist, pre-Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings. But the charming thing about this exhibit is its slight inconsistencies, its surprises. The fact that these paintings come from the collection o ...

We all know what it feels like to be the black sheep – and we can all recall a time when that’s all we wanted to be. Think back to your rebellious phase – that time in your life when you felt like Big Brother was out to get you and your parents just didn’t understand (Will Smith knew it best). Mine was the product of a discovery of old-school punk rock bands like the Clash combined with an eye-opening readi ...

“Derain didn't claim that no one had repainted the same subject matters, but that no one would risk trying to imitate Velásquez's style (because it was so refined that you'd fail.)” ...

DC Artist Prudence Bonds discusses the good and bad of being a self taught artist. ...

Cindy Coldiron writes about her new public art commission, and some of the concerns specific to working with recycled glass. ...