HBO’s original documentary, “Black Art: In the Absence of Light,” serves as a powerful introduction for mainstream audiences to a small cross section of the countless brilliant Black visual artists ...

Lighting transcends merely illuminating darkness, breathing life into spaces. The light source itself becomes an art piece, ...

LONDON — I was in the grip of despair. I had arrived to interview the artist Leon Kossoff at his home in Willesden, North London, for the Independent on Sunday, but when I arrived, after toiling long ...

In the distractions of real life (and ugliness in news), our identity and purpose can seem smaller than it is.

“Lumen: The Art and Science of Light,” at the Getty Center, is a visually magnificent (and I use the word judiciously) show. The exhibition, curated by Kristen Collins and Nancy K. Turner, contains ...

There’s so much going on in “In the Medium of Life: The Drawings of Beauford Delaney” (at the Drawing Center through September 14th) that you may leave the show wishing there’d been less. Less of ...

Artist Laddie John Dill has been surrounded by light for as long as he can remember. Growing up in 1950s rural Southern California, his mother was an artist and his stepfather was a scientist and ...

‘All painting is about light; the obsession with light is at once visual, religious and erotic.” So says Kehinde Wiley in HBO’s new documentary “Black Art: In the Absence of Light” (Tuesday, 9 p.m.), ...

Sunset. A blue Buddha dissolves into a large grey Teddy bear that weeps tears the size of a quarter. A little girl stabs a pig. A little boy urinates. Sixty white gloves run run run across a table.

Illustration is one of the closest things to magic that we have in our world. The process of a drawing coming to life is one of the purest forms of creation we can witness. And when that combines with ...