Earlier this year, a woman in Pennsylvania bought a nude charcoal sketch for $12 at a local art auction. Something about the depicted woman’s downward gaze, the hang of flesh around her waist seemed ...

For fans of Willem de Kooning and abstract expressionism, the exhibition provides a fuller look at an artist who is taking a more elevated place in the American canon.

Willem de Kooning is best known for his frenetic, abstract canvases, but another aspect of his practice has long escaped attention: his drawings. A forthcoming exhibition at the Art Institute of ...

London's new Quentin Blake Centre is Britain's first permanent museum dedicated to illustration, with exhibitions, a free ...

In the spring of 1956, two young artists from Brooklyn noticed that something momentous was happening in the South. Newspapers gave increasing attention to the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. It ...

Sketching and drawing have grown in popularity in recent years – why? Beverley D'Silva explores the healing power of mindful drawing. Drawing is arguably the most ancient form of visual art – whether ...

Vincente Carducho (1576/8-1638), The Duke of Feria at the siege of Rheinfelden, 1634. Drawing, 318 x 415 mm. Studies of a Rearing Horse and Horseman, c. 1630-40, Diego Velazquez (1599-1660), Black ...

Demetri Martin — stand-up comic, actor, bestselling author and former correspondent for “The Daily Show” — has garnered a reputation for incorporating another talent into his comedy: drawing. His new ...

You may have heard of ‘outside art’ before – but how about letting a tree sketch the next picture to adorn your living room wall? British artist Tim Knowles has created an amazing project to create ...