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The Philadelphia Museum of Art is making an effort to keep Eakins' "The Gross Clinic" in Philadelphia. Please note that everyo...

Barack Obama I have been reading Barack Obama's new book, "The Audacity of Hope" on this Thanksgiving. Obama's astute word...

Thomas Eakins "Gross Clinic" 96"x78" oil on canvas 1875 -image courtesy Thomas Jefferson University The Crystal Bridges ...

Gregg Chadwick "Ghost of New Orleans" 48"X36" oil on linen 2006 We were in my studio Saturday night mourning the loss of...

Gregg Chadwick "The Angel of History" 28.5" x 73" sumi and oil on screen 2006 "This is how one pictures the an...

Darren Waterston Interior (Green), 2001 The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (SJICA) has moved into its own building just down the b...

photo by Lance Cpl. Brandon L.Roach USMC The Medical Consequences Of The Iraq War: Health Challenges Beyond The Battlefield A Symposium To ...

From September 27th to October 1st at the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway, the newly returned paintings "The Scream" and "Madonn...

Tai, a 38 year old Indian elephant gets painted for Banksy's exhibition in Los Angeles (Photo by Marissa Roth for The New York Times) Ba...

My current paintings are filtered through my experience of September 11th, 2001. I was visiting my family in Thailand and had spent the morn...

Gregg Chadwick Screen Memories (Fin de Cinema) 60"x60" oil on linen 2002 A new poem by Kent Chadwick about the experience of leavi...

The Norwegian police are reporting that Munch's paintings - "Scream" and "Madonna" , stolen from the Munch Museum in...

Gregg Chadwick "An Intimate Grammar" (In Memory of Uri Grossman) 30"x24" oil on linen 2006 I paint Buddhas when the worl...

Uri Grossman Photo: IDF Spokesperson's Unit The New York Times reports that Uri Grossman - "the son of Israeli novelist and peac...

"Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum)" Günter Grass lithograph (Grass' first novel -''The Tin Drum''- is a magnific...

The Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London "Yet political turmoil in Israel, Gaza, Lebanon, Iraq and...

A Picture Kill notice has been sent out by the by the Reuters News Service and Beirut based freelance photographer Adnan Hajj has been dro...

Arshile Gorky "The Artist and His Mother" 1926-36 oil on canvas 60 x 50 in. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Gift of Julie...

From the Los Angeles Times : "On Thursday, attorneys representing artist Kent Twitchell filed a claim against the U.S. Department of La...

Underwater Display: Terminal 1 San Francisco International Airport Summer - Lots of traveling in the heat and lots of time in airport depart...

Matthew Barney sweeps up at SFMOMA There is an amusing article in today's San Francisco Chronicle about the installation of Matthew Barn...

Max Beckmann "Film Studio" 25 5/8 x 37 5/8 in. (65.1 x 95.6 cm) oil on canvas 1933 Saint Louis Art Museum The Los Angeles Film Fes...

Nagasawa Rosetsu "Elephant and Children" ink on paper c. 1794 Asian Art Museum, San Francisco I recently wrote on the extraordinar...