For about 40 minutes, three pink seesaws bobbed up and down, up and down, along the U.S.-Mexico border, uniting children from both countries in a rare moment of shared play. The artists behind the installation argue that the playful nature…
Walton Ford is a painter whose work examines the relationship between humans and animals in the wild. These creatures, he…
For artist Kindra Crick, working with chalk provides the perfect metaphor for the nature of memory. While some memories are…
In a middle-class Omaha neighborhood, Laura Vranes and John McIntyre have quietly amassed one of the most important contemporary art…
Artist Romney Dodd never seems to run out of objects to paint. She’s added her colorful designs to ceramics, clogs,…
The PBS NewsHour is never freewheeling with facts, but we loved it when Common came to our studio to freestyle…
Bill Westwood’s work as a medical illustrator sits somewhere between art and science. The Albany, New York, illustrator has spent…
Master artists from around the world gather in Santa Fe, New Mexico, each summer for the International Folk Art Market.…
N.C. Wyeth, who led a multi-generational family of American art royalty and inspired "Star Wars" creator George Lucas and "Game…
One of New York's newest art centers, The Shed, is premiering a dance performance featuring a unique style called "Flexn,"…
Folk legend Joan Baez reflects on a life in music and activism
Walton Ford’s brief but spectacular take on ‘the imagined animal’
What Woodstock taught us about protest in a time of polarization
Peter Fonda dead at 79
Pink seesaws at the border wall showed that play is a form of protest
The ever-changing nature of memory, drawn through chalk art
This Alaskan artist turns dead fish into art
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At Santa Fe’s International Folk Art Market, culture is the commodity
The art of illustrating what’s inside our bodies
