I hate artist statements. Really, I do. As an artist, they are almost always awkward and painful to write, and as a viewer they are similarly painful and uninformative to read. I also don’t know who ...

There have been artist statement generators before, and there will be more to come. In the meantime, however, I've found my favorite artist statement generator of all: 500 Letters. Created by Belgian ...

Kara Walker, who has become known as both an artist and a public figure since the success of her sugar sphinx, introduces her next show with an artist statement about how she doesn’t really want to ...

Theresa Chromati’s swirling canvases offer joyful, nuanced depictions of black women and, increasingly, her own inner world. By Wilbert L. Cooper During the final days of her solo show at Kravets ...

I have been painting athletes for almost two years now, probably more than 50 paintings completed. Being primarily focused on Chicago sports, I always received requests for Michael Jordan. I even ...

In a 2001 series called “I Sign; I Exist,” the Taiwanese photographer Annie Wang took pictures of her pregnant belly as she signed and dated it, the way an artist autographs a canvas. The experience ...

These days, carving out a career in a creative industry requires artistic perspective, technical skill and an entrepreneurial spirit. Statistically speaking, more and more of us are becoming ...

An artist who had their work stolen by Bungie for its upcoming first-person shooter, Marathon, issues a new update on the incident.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The term “emerging artist” likely conjures up an image of a struggling twenty-something splattering paint on to ...