WALTHAM - Marisol Escobar, known as Marisol, is the most interesting postwar artist you’ve probably never heard of. Within a few years, trust me, that will change: She will be the subject of retrospectives at major museums (one is already being planned f

The story people told about Ray was that she saw everything as a painting. She had studied with Hans Hofmann and like so many of his students, internalized his theory of dynamic composition. So, said the talking heads, Ray saw everything she did in terms

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."Hans Hofmann Publications on the critical details and big picture behind digital product design. LukeW's 11 years of writing cover Web and device strategy, inter

Hans Hofmann (American, b. Germany, 1880-1966). Fantasia, 1943. Oil, duco, and casein on plywood. 51 1/2 x 36 5/8 in. (130.8 x 93 cm). Gift of the artist. Berkeley Art Museum, University of California. Photo: Benjamin Blackwell.

CHURCH ACTIVITIES Monroeville -- Mount Ararat Baptist Church will hold "watchnight" worship services with the theme Reclaiming the Community, Equipping the Family at 8 and 10:30 p.m. Saturday at the Monroeville Convention Center, 209 Mall Blvd. , Monroevi

Helen Frankenthaler, 83, a key figure in postwar American abstract art, died Tuesday at her home in Darien, Conn. , after a long illness. She was known for creating lyrical abstract works using thin washes of translucent colored paint that soaked into her