* Good Art Is Realistic -- I know, we all thought that old saw had been thrown out years ago. But you'd be amazed how many people insist that you can still spot good artists because "the things ...

Artist Joan Tanner will join acclaimed poet and art critic John Yau for a conversation at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, April 30 in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s (SBMA) Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St.

Just in time for tonight’s premiere of the trashy reality TV series (wait, that may be redundant) Work of Art, is a new web app to help you separate the wheat from the chaff, the Art School ...

William Powhida’s good imitations of bad art, at Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles. He’s right: Don’t paint like that. Call it Neo-Mannerism. We all know it. That ever-expanding assembly ...

HAVING VISITED the Monet show at the Walters Art Gallery last week, I understand why, 100 years after impressionism set the art world on its ear, you have to work hard to see what all the fuss was ...

An art critic makes peace with the mysterious origins of a work lost to time. ... was a cliche, designed to draw the eye into the painting and, in the process, suggest an analogous motion of desire.