You might be familiar with painting by numbers, the books and kits invented and developed in the 1950s to help even novice painters create decent works of art by indicating exactly what colors to use, ...

After years of doing representational paintings, Craig Marshall Smith suddenly changed course ten years ago and started creating abstracts. “I took an inventory of what I’d done,” he says, “and I ...

Vort Man and Chris Cank of the group VORCAN are on stage while a band plays, but they're wielding brushes, not instruments, and their painting follows the music. "The music is really the inspiration," ...

His idea for "Portraits" -- artists onstage painting on canvas their impressions of the music being played -- came from these experiences with his father. Dorothy English, development coordinator of ...

An important work from a rediscovered artist has been absent from public view since the 1970s. A New York curator is hunting ...

Arts and music have long been slashed from many school budgets, but all California schools are about to see new, ongoing investment in the arts — equal to about $1 billion this year. Listen to the ...

Prominent musicians from George Gershwin and Miles Davis to John Lennon were also crossover artists in another medium. The Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart is now on that list. He's combining his ...

The collection celebrates Wood's 50th anniversary with the band “It’s hard to believe it’s been 50 years since I joined The Rolling Stones. In these portraits, I wanted to capture the spirit of Mick, ...