"The Maskmaker," directed by John Barnes in 1975, features the eminent French mime Marcel Marceau in a thought-provoking ...

Imitators flooded the art market with works that drooled more ... his favorite author Herman Melville called the “pasteboard mask” of visible reality, to pierce beyond the surface into the ...

Art can inspire us, provoke us, and transform our thinking. Alaska Native Mask Carver Drew Michael’s creations do exactly that. Michael uses his art to promote healing, on a personal ...

He’s super into art and creativity, freedom of expression and takes joy in inspiring the next generation of young creatives. He answers to ‘Ricky Martin’ 'Ricky’ and ‘Ricks’ but probab ...

Prateep Rodpai is one of the last Khon mask-makers in Thailand. Khon is a traditional Thai dance form that's been practiced since the 15th century. But the art faced it's biggest challenge during ...

But the mask turned out to be a rare piece of African art — a 19th-century Ngil mask used in rituals by the Fang people in Gabon, with only a handful of such pieces in existence. Only about a ...

Drawing from his Yup'ik and Inupiaq heritage, Michael carves stories into his art pieces, hoping to take ... Coming along getting into the mask making was kind of like another step into my own ...