Chiharu Shiota takes over an entire townhouse for her 2013 work Trace of Memory. It's one of the many unusual installations at The Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh. The Mattress Factory hasn't been an actual mattress factory for a while now. Built on a hillside in the Central Northside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, back at the turn ...
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Rowing Boats on the Banks of the Oise 1890
Gustave Caillebotte plays with perspective in his 1880 work Interior, A Woman Reading. Private Collection/Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art If you're planning to become an artist, here's one nice way to do it: be independently ...
Peder Monsted (1859-1941) The Danish landscape painter Peder Mork Monsted was famous for the clarity of light general to the painters of the 'golden age' of Danish painting, his pictures of beautiful naturalistic scenery made him the leading Danish landscapist of his age. Monsted was born in eastern Denmark but later moved to Copenhagen, where he studied at the Academy in 1875-76. ...
Nicholas Herrera sits in his studio, with a work in progress sitting just over his shoulder.(Photos are courtesy of David Michael Kennedy, another El Rito native, who was featured on NPR in 2011.) ...