This week we answer your questions from our art hotline* and talk about the distinction between art and craft (if any), art world pretension, the proliferation of images, imposter syndrome, and more.

As the United States became a nation, it also needed to invent a new visual vocabulary in its history paintings. This is the story of how that happened.

MOT 1952: THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF NEW YORK: Angled WS Adult students w/ sketch pads entering & leaving room. VS Artists sketching nude in classroom, life class studying basic anatomy, artist George Grosz (1893-1959) working w/...

Abstract Expressionism would emerge from a post-war mood of anxiety and trauma. These were artists who, like the surrealists before them had a profound interest in the unconscious mind. They produced work that may have been abstract...

In 1982 at the age of just 22 years old, Jean-Michel Basquiat would produce this painting. A powerful and dazzling image that mixes text, colour, symbolism and mark-making in a raw and uncensored explosion.



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You could say Land art existed thousands of years even before oil painting, but it would take a group of American artists to bring it back to the public gaze in the 1960s and 70s. Artists like Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, and Nancy...

Andy Warhol made “Marilyn Diptych” in 1962, right after Marilyn Monroe’s death. By the 1960s Marilyn’s film career as a sex symbol was all but over. Warhol would effectively immortalize Marilyn as the sex symbol of the 20th...

Edward Hopper’s world was New York, and he understood that city more than most people. He understood that, even though you may live in one of the most crowded and busy cities on earth, it is still possible to feel entirely alone....

Photography took the realities of modern warfare to the doorsteps of America. This video is part of a series on American Art.

Landscape paintings were HUGE in the early 19th century, and the reason? Well, it's complicated.

The Chicano Art Movement was an explosion of Mexican-American culture that established a unique artistic identity in the United States - and raised up a new political voice.

The Banjo Lesson by Henry Ossawa Tanner is a vindication of culture and art in an oppressed population.