An all-woman jury of artists, educators, and curators selected 10 finalists for the $50,000 Bennett Prize, the largest art award for women figurative realist painters. The Bennett Prize 4 finalists.

Bennett Prize 2 Finalist: Tanmaya Bingham, “Sexy Tickles” (2020), acrylic, colored pencil, watercolor, and glitter on panel, 48" x 72" The call for entries for the third iteration of The Bennett Prize ...

The Art Renewal Center (ARC), based in New Jersey, has maintained a mission of promoting and preserving the tradition of realist art since its founding in 2009. A core tenet in both the ARC’s ...

nepalnepal — Lucian Freud, a towering and uncompromising figure in the art world for more than 50 years, has died, his New York-based art dealer said Thursday. He was 88. Spokeswoman Bettina Prentice ...

There are big blank spots on the walls of some prominent homes in Philadelphia. Twelve of the 15 American landscape paintings now on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art were pulled from local ...

ARTIST ANTIPAS “Biboy” Delotavo, a pillar of the Social Realism movement, passed Tuesday morning (Dec. 2) after a failed 10-hour operation for valve replacement and aortic repair at the Philippine ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

JESÚS INGLÉS Fifth Element (Quinto elemento) , 2022 Oil on canvas 32 1/2 x 32 1/2 in. Her head tilted slightly to the viewer’s left, a girl gazes directly at us, but our eyes are drawn around her face ...

The latest cultural casualty in the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the Kuindzhi Art Museum in Mariupol, reportedly destroyed on Monday by an airstrike. Dedicated to the life and career of local artist ...