The puzzle is an actual — and clever — demonstration of the ways our minds set artificial boundaries. But even people who ...

"Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon." ...

How about we take all the misconceptions, outdated bromides and empty critical cliches about what good art needs to be, and lay them to rest for good and all.

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 ...

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 ...

Museums The first painting I ever loved was probably a cliche. Now I understand why it moved me so.

Familiarity with modern art deprived us of the shock of the new, but the mega-overfamiliarity of impressionism constitutes a kind of retinal deprivation, inducing not the frisson of scandal but ...

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 ...