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Starting 2015 with a bang

Museum capturing Ferguson history as it happens

ST. LOUIS – From street-artist paintings on boards protecting store windows to signs bearing the now iconic statement, “Hands Up. Don’t Shoot,” cultural images from the Ferguson protests hav...

Last chance for ‘One Bead’

Durango City Limits

Stanton’s Southwest

Our people, places and culture

Meet sociologist and author Sarah Thornton, the Jane Goodall of the art world

WASHINGTON – Sarah Thornton is in a Hirshhorn gallery, lingering beneath a piece by the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto. It’s a massive, bulbous, inexplicably sexual thing that droops down fro...

Bartholomeus Spranger's wild, weird and voluptuous art at the Met

NEW YORK – The court of Rudolf II, the Habsburg king and Holy Roman emperor for more than 35 years, was rich in intellectual and artistic exotica. Astronomers and astrologers flocked there, ...

Idaho artist's life illustrated the term 'self-taught'

WASHINGTON – When Gail Johnson, 68, and her 79-year-old sister, Georgia Allred, go shopping, the latter always pauses at the checkout counter and says, “Thank you, Uncle Jim.” That, Johnson ...

French jewelry lights up Denver exhibit

Show features 250 pieces by Paris-based Cartier

Photography, the old fashioned way

Blue-chip offerings at NYC fall art auctions

Works by Warhol, Manet, van Gogh will be on the block