It's a time to reflect on the history of African-Americans in the United States and recognize the contributions they have made, not just to this country, but to the world.   You can thank Dr. Carter G. Woodson for what is now known as Black History Month. Woodson, the son of former slaves, earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University.   He and Jesse E. Moorland founded the Association for the Study of ...

WHITTIER —There’s a popular conception of the artist as a visionary toiling away in monkish solitude and, in many cases, it’s not too far off the mark. Collaboration doesn’t always come easy.

EVERYONE will be aware by now that the dragon’s turn in the lunar zodiac cycle is back again. Anyone who wants to hand out art and crafts item with a relevant theme will have a much easier time of it than marking someone’s birth year when it’s a rat or a snake.

Some local girls are making history through art. Artist Tim Rollins was at the University of Maine Art Museum Saturday. He's working with Maine youth to create a painting inspired by the life and legacy of former Senator Margaret Chase Smith. The kids are painting thousands of red roses, wh . . .

Guests look at a variety of quilts on display Saturday morning during a "A Tuscan Garden Quilt Show" at the Firemen's Training Center. The event, presented by the Friendship Quilt Guild, also featured challenge baby quilts, scissor sharpening and a variety of booths.

THE all-pervasive smart phone has infiltrated the world of fine art and until February 26, you can see the group exhibition, Phoneography, at artSPACE durban at 3 Millar Road, Durban.

In Exposure, the fourth show in a series of contemporary work by the Department of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago, Matt Keegan, Katie Paterson, and Heather Rasmussen each explore photography in a different way. While the three photographers present various subjects and themes, their work can be taken together as a way to see how the medium is being used in contemporary art.

A CREATIVE graduate is putting her art and soul into developing an archive at a Middlesbrough gallery.

Erin Gignac News Editor Paul Flickinger wedges his fingertips into the soft clay spinning rapidly on the wheel as the grooves in the pottery begin to resemble the settled lines on his face. Flickinger, like his creation, is a complete work of art. Most people in the Gwen Frostic School of Art know the professor [...]

On Friday, Zero Hedge presented an extensive refresh on the one latent hotbed of troubles that everyone has conveniently forgotten about, yet which is getting worse by the day: the Mediterranean region, in " What Lies In Store For The "Cradle That Rocks The World" - A History Lesson In Crisis " and specifically Egypt -that most populous Arab nation, which last time we checked, is still Israel's ...

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