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There's a breed of artist who, like stage magicians, craft wondrous works that seemingly make the impossible possible, that force their audi...
Author archives: Nick Curtis
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Even before the stretched canvas rose to prominence in the 16th and 17th centuries, artists sought to challenge the normally-rectangular sha...
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Pondering aloud in her native Japanese, the young woman quizzically whispers, "A cat?" Having spied a streak of fur race into a dimly-lit co...
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Though Philadelphians like Darryl "CORNBREAD" McCray and Earl "COOL EARL" Hubbard were aerosol writing practitioners in the early '60s, it w...
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What happens after we die? The ferryman Charon carried newly deceased souls across the rivers between the world of the living and the land o...
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Though Roy Lichtenstein began transforming comic panels from their lowbrow origins to dot-decorated canvases the year before, it is probably...
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Art's "age of appropriation" arguably began more than a century ago with Picasso's collage compositions, the concept transitioning into facs...
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Eluding to the diverse palette within a box of crayons, a potential starting point for the journey of most modern artists, the aptly aliased...
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Without defying Tennyson's proclamation that it's "better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all", Bob Dylan's raspy voice r...