The Mid-City home that Nancy Hirsch Lassen shares with her newly minted husband, Jim Gambill, reflects the story of her ...

The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another.

The ghost of George Washington Carver hangs over the studio of Amanda Williams, where hues are inspired by the Alabama soil ...

Many believe that only those with an artistic eye can truly understand a painting. But is that always true? At an abstract ...

Works the size of postcards and bathroom tiles are challenging the market’s appetite for grand scales.

It was from such beginnings that one of the most significant Asian art movements of the 20th century – the New Ink Movement – was born. Lui and his family were part of a cultural exodus from ...

Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they contain fractals, following relatively simple ...

PEMBROKE — The Museum of the Southeast American Indian is establishing the Lloyd Oxendine Artist-in-Residence program beginning March 17.

Jessie Woodward is a Bristol-based mixed media artist best known for her vibrant abstract paintings. She has exhibited all over the country, and sold pieces worldwide. Her latest collection Ways with ...

An emigre from post-war China, in Hong Kong Lui Shou-kwan married Chinese ink art with Western abstract art to forge the New ...

When a large abstraction with a $60,000 high estimate sold for $1.2 million, the art world woke up and said “Who is Lynn ...

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