Spanish artist César Galicia (b. 1957) is celebrated for his illuminating renderings of what are seemingly ordinary objects – toys, public telephones, air pumps, motorcycles. “What is art for?” asks ...

During the Great Depression, Ben Shahn—primarily a painter and printmaker ... to create his political paintings and prints. For example, Shahn modeled at least two artworks, Beatitude (1952) and Epis ...

Ben Shahn, one of America's foremost painters ... and artists in an academic community from the viewpoint of a creative artist rather than a teacher or scholar. The second lecture, Nov. 20 ...