Gesso has an absorbent quality that prevents paint from bleeding or seeping when it's used as a primer on canvas, panel, paper, or other substrates. Before creating a painting of any kind—whether ...

Living spaces are arranged around a central courtyard at this house in Valencia, Spain, which local studio Viruta Lab has designed to celebrate the legacy of influential feminist artist Ángela García ...

José Manuel Benavides, "Saint Lawrence" (early 19th–mid 19th century), wood, gesso, paint, metal alloy, and hide (Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Marcus) Already a member? Sign in ...

Artist Ivan Alifan's glazed dripping subjects might take a moment to register. Is that a melting porcelain figure or a guy covered in white goo? Or both? Currently based in New York, the OCAD grad has ...

Though the Timberwolves’ season has ended, the team’s co-chaplain Matt Moberg is still looking for a win. Like many Minnesotans, Moberg was cheering for the Wolves as they took on the Dallas Mavericks ...

As we observe the July 4 holiday in the U.S., we’re going back through our archives to dig out some of our best stories. This item has been pulled from our ongoing Studio Visit series, in which we ask ...

More than 300 of the public television celebrity's signature landscape paintings have been collected into a coffee table book. Even decades after his death, landscape painter and super-chill art ...