This may be my favorite drawing ever. I encountered it on the wall of a dark cave at Pech Merle in the Pyrenees. 20,000 years ago, humans we...

I love Mort Drucker's drawing of General Patton: Drucker clearly owes a debt to Arthur Szyk's famous portrayals of Nazi generals fro...

Sometimes great and important art can only be achieved by disregarding the level of effort required. The ancient historian Herodotus estimat...

Walter Everett's life seemed to revolve around his artwork. As a gifted child, he was preoccupied with drawing and painting. He rode a b...

In a different country, in another era, Boris Chaliapin (1904-1979) would have been a "fine" artist and portrait painter, selling ...

In 1985, Rembrandt's "Danae"-- surely one of the most beautiful paintings in the history of the world-- was attacked by a man ...

In the earliest days of comic strips, all kinds of strange personalities gravitated to the new field. Perhaps none was stranger than Jimmy S...

The poet Dante famously fell in love with Beatrice the first time he saw her, at age ten. He later wrote: At that very moment, and I speak ...

In February, the FBI seized the inventory of a Chicago art gallery accused of selling tens of millions of dollars worth of fake prints by Pi...