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Installation view of “Benjamin Wigfall and Communications Village” (2023-24), Torggler Fine Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Va. | Courtesy the Mary M. Torggler Fine Arts Center, Photography by Echard Wheeler   THE FIRST RETROSPECTIVE of artist, curator, and educator Benjamin Wigfall (1930-2017) is a tour de force shedding light on an important artist

The studio portion of Brett Angell’s “Night Studio” at the 25/8 artspace in Cambridge’s Harvard Square. (Photo: Claire Ogden) On view in the narrow windows of the 25/8 gallery in Harvard Square, “Night Studio” is a playful ode to how artists work in the dead of night, with all its creative possibility. The exhibition showcases

Detroit Opera has announced the five singers who will train in Detroit Opera’s Resident Artist Program during the 2024–25 season. The company’s new Resident Artists are Soprano Brianna J. Robinson, mezzo-soprano Kendra Faith Beasley, tenor River Guard for a second year, and baritones Cole Bellamy and Cameron J. Rolling. The five were chosen from more

The event showcases more than 250 artists. HOUSTON — The Bayou City Arts Festival welcomed more than 250 artists from around the country to Sam Houston Park in downtown Houston Saturday.  There’s love and passion in this work. It’s why Sidney Carter gets up and picks up his paintbrushes every morning. He worked on a painting

KEY WEST, Fla. — Laurent de Brunhoff, the French artist who revived his father’s popular picture book series about Babar, an elephant-king, died Friday. He was 98. >> Read more trending news According to his widow, Phyllis Rose, de Brunhoff, a Paris native who moved to the U.S. in the 1980s, died at his home

Metro By Alyssa Guzman Published March 23, 2024, 6:11 p.m. ET He had an ulterior motive. A New York City artist painted more than 200 portraits of his fellow Brooklynites to encourage his neighbors to say hello. Rusty Zimmerman, 44, set out to oil paint southern Brooklynites a year ago after moving from Crown Heights

STORY BEHIND HIS CUSTOM MADE BABY CRADLES. WHEN CHILDREN ARE COMING, YOU HAVE TO GET THE CRADLE READY. THAT’S THEIR FIRST HOME IN NAVAJO CULTURE. THEY DON’T MESS AROUND WITH BABY CRADLES. TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THESE ON DISPLAY AT THE RED EARTH FESTIVAL. I SPENT ABOUT 100 HOURS ON IT. THESE TRADITIONAL

By Becky Maxedon A gathering of some unique artists happened in Lake Havasu City over the past several days. Brushmasters Getaway – Painting in Paradise brought together those who specialize primarily in automotive, motorcycle and marine custom painting from throughout the country and the world to Havasu to teach others their techniques and skills. The

New Delhi: During Ramadan, a special iftar initiative in West Bengal brings Muslims and Hindus together to restore social cohesion and build mutual trust, where it has been eroded by communal polarization along religious lines. Muslims make up nearly a third of the state’s 100 million population and have been present in the region since