This is the second part of a 2-part essay on “Aesthetic Chills.” Part 1 is here. In the first part of this essay, I looked at what the conditions are for “aesthetic chills” in general. But since this ...

THE magnificent exhibition of classical Japanese painting and sculpture which toured the United States two years ago amazed the American museum public with its revelation of a tradition comparable in ...

COLLECTION MATSON Eugene Savage’s painting “Hawaii’s Decisive Hour,” though admirable and innovative from a technical and aesthetic standpoint, is an example of “the commercial exploitation and ...

You know, whenever we think about fantasy art, we really can’t help it, we think of vans. Yes, we know, Frank Frazetta is a real artist, he does great work, it’s best seen on canvas. But, come on.

Long before Andy Warhol’s Velvet Underground album cover — you know, the one with the banana — notable visual artists had been collaborating with musicians on the literal packaging of their sound. The ...

SwarmSketch allows any user to vote on every previously drawn line and add a new line to the sketch. The final result is truly the collective vision of an independent group of line artists. The only ...

At the end of my essay last week on “Aesthetic Chills” (Part 1 and Part 2), I asked readers to write in if they had their own experiences to share. To my great pleasure, quite a few did. More than one ...

Do you qualify as a professional artist? Your sculpture could be seen by every driver who yields at this Athens roundabout.

There’s a lot of bad art out there. It's everywhere, really. But there's perhaps nowhere you'll find a higher concentration of truly vile and utterly failed efforts to create powerful art when you ...