Joan Mitchell

The Arts Council of New Orleans is having the dedication of the Art in Public Places piece Mandala, by local artist Rashida Ferdinand, at noon today at Caffin and Claiborne Avenues. The steel and ceramic sculpture is the latest mixed media installation...

On March 19, the Greater Baltimore Highlands Community Association met for its monthly meeting. State Sen. Nancy Jacobs, a Republican who represents District 34 that includes Harford and Cecil counties, was the guest speaker. Jacobs, a West Virginia...

Barney Rosset, the renegade founder of Grove Press who fought groundbreaking legal battles against censorship and introduced American readers to such provocative writers as Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean Genet, died Tuesday in...

Reynolda House Museum of American Art is best known for elegant portraits of colonial figures and stunning depictions of nature. The museum's permanent collection features the work of noted abstract artists such as Stuart Davis and Lee Krasner, but these...

Patricia Albers Event: Printer's Row Lit Fest June 4 - 5 11:15 a.m. Hotel Blake 500 South Dearborn Street Chicago www.chicagotribune.com To purchase a copy of the book: Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter

Sunday Memoir writing: How do you turn a life story into something more than a slog through boring facts? Perhaps Carol LaChapelle has an answer. 11 a.m., University Center/Multimedia Room — Judy Hevrdejs, reporter Tavern recipes: Susan and Drew...

The Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach hosts its 142nd artists-in-residence program with master playwrights Annie Baker, Dael Orlandersmith, Heather Woodbury and 18 associate artists. Annie Baker's name might sound especially familiar to...

The final scene of the Capitol Theatre Center’s Be a Star campaign is approaching and organizers are pushing hard to reach their $125,000 goal for the third straight year. The Be a Star fundraising effort has generated $117,000 as of Monday,...

Sign up now to be part of Orlando Museum of Art's seven-month art-appreciation course on the world's greatest artists  for 2010-11. The course will meet from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesdays, beginning Sept. 21, at the Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mi....

The paintings Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) made over the last decade of her life represent a last-ditch effort to grab art by the horns and to hang on for the wild ride, wherever it might take you. At Gagosian Gallery, "Joan......

For the last century and a half, art movements have followed hot on the heels of one another faster and more furiously than ever before. Even a quick list is dizzying, taking readers from Impressionism to Fauvism and Expressionism, onto......