Painter P.J. Commerford, center, chats with a guest at the 37th Mount Dora Art Festival on Saturday, Feb.

A Geoffrey Houghton explains his paintings, pointing out different examples of his style from small, pencil sketches to large watercolors on canvas.

When the "Restaurant: Impossible" TV crew called Surf City Painting contractor Ron Myers to do a job in Santa Cruz, he turned them down.

An installation view of "I'm Dead" by David Shrigley. The piece is included in "David Shrigley: Brain Activity" at the Hayward Gallery in London through May 13.

A comment, from MarkCC inA Austin, on The New York Times website, following Roberta Smith's review of van Gogh Up Close at the Philadelphia Art Museum: Fabulous! Where's the app? I probably won't make it to Philly to see the exhibition but if it was an app it would be the next best thing.

He uses remote-controlled cars to create artworks of some of motor racing's biggest names and the cars they drive.

The National Portrait Gallery's tremendous show celebrates the unexpected moments that were ever present in the artist's work Lucian Freud painted strange, uneasy, figures, from first to last.

It's not often you can take a true story based on a young man who gets cancer before slowly... In his painting "Waiting for a Chinook - The Last of the 5,000," Charlie Russell captured the bleak desperation of the winter of 1886-87. Russell worked on the OH Ranch near Utica that winter and was an eyewitness to the calamity.

The Utah Museum of Fine Arts presents Georges Rouault: Cirque de l'Etoile Filante , an exhibition of etchings and wood engravings organized by the Syracuse University Art Galleries.

Volunteers, monetary donations and home nominations are being accepted for Paint Your Heart Out-Safety Harbor, scheduled for March 17.

'It doesn't make him a killer': Lawyer for husband of woman found strangled in her SUV says revelations about his S&M sex life will taint any future trial Attorney says Bashara passed private polygraph and Gentz is solely responsible but S&M revelations will taint any future trial The lawyer for Bob Bashara, whose wife Jane was found strangled in ... (more)

Not one to let his critics have the last word, James Franco answered the angry backlash to his new web series "Undergrads" in the show's first episode, which aired on his website Thursday.

This week I'll be continuing with the Sedona, Arizona painting. The photo that I am using is seen in the photo directly below.

The U.S. House has a message for voters who want to cut spending: It passed a bill repealing a long-term health care program that theObama administration had already dropped, and would bar welfare recipients from spending their benefits in strip clubs and casinos.

SILENCE. Local Artist, Maurice Orr , pictured at the opening of his painting exhibition 'The Screaming Silence of the Wind' on Wednesday night at Ballymoney Museum along with Jamie Steele, , Mayor Cllr Ian Stevenson, Mac Pollock, Chairman of Arts Committee and Marlyn Beck, .INBM6-12 010SC.

An overflow crowd turned out Friday evening to witness the unveiling of a portrait of the late-U.S. Sen.

JACK Vettriano's iconic painting The Singing Butler goes on public display today for the first time in 20 years.

The design is simple, but the intricate stories behind a piece of artwork created in Braselton include the heartbreaking and the uplifting.

A visitor listens to information about Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers," painted in 1888 or 1889.

PanARMENIAN.Net - The tiny, oil-rich nation of Qatar has purchased a Paul Czanne painting, The Card Players , for more than $250 million.