ARTISTS IN LOVE, part one

George Nathan once wrote, "art is the sex of the imagination." That strikes me as a pretty dumb thing to say. However, it does ser...

A CERTAIN KIND OF IMMORTALITY

Don't feel bad that you've never heard of Ervine Metzl. No one else has either. In the 1920s, the Chicago Rapid Transit Company empl...

ART THAT MATTERS

Australian war illustrator Ivor Hele painted jungle fighting in New Guinea during World War II. One day, three men in his unit were killed....

PAINTING WATER: THE MARRIAGE OF FREEDOM AND CONTROL

Sometimes it takes the greatest amount of self-discipline to capture the things that are most free and elusive. You might think that paintin...