The ghost of George Washington Carver hangs over the studio of Amanda Williams, where hues are inspired by the Alabama soil ...

A new retrospective at the Legion of Honor spotlights the late Sacramento painter Wayne Thiebaud as a master student of art ...

Psychology is as important as substance If you treat people with respect they will go out of their way to accommodate you If you treat them in a patronizing way they will go out of their way to make y ...

Training a budgerigar isn’t difficult – it just requires patience and a calm manner. At first, only one person should train your budgie. This person should be alone with the budgie to avoid stressing ...

Judy Thompson grew up in an apartment perched above a lumberyard and a busy four-lane highway outside of Chicago. She rarely ...

For so long, Disney has been synonymous with family-friendly animation. Ever considered what might be the greatest family animation movies not made by Disney? From DreamWorks to Sony Animation to ...

The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another.

Every interaction with these people feels like a transaction. They’ll listen to your problems only because they’re keeping a ...

The recent discovery of an art forger's workshop reminds us of the long history of fraudulent artworks – here are the simple ...

Following the deeply personal and evocative success of Di Magmaliw, and after five years, contemporary artist Ed Lorenzo ...

In Deborah Kass’s Art History Paintings, the politics of display are just the beginning.

The designer created scarves, jewelry and a mirror inspired by Munch's work for the National Portrait Gallery's “Edvard Munch ...