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Contemporary Impressionist painter Michele Usibelli

Michele Usibelli on the Shared Journey of Art

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Contemporary impressionist painter Michele Usibelli shares her inspiration and gratitude for this shared life of art.
PATRICK FARRELL (1940–2016), Balance, c. 1985, oil on linen, 20 x 14 in., Miller Art Museum, 2018.7.993, photo: Jason Houge

Patrick Farrell: Ever After

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A native of Wisconsin, equipped only with an 8th-grade education, Farrell taught himself to paint like a virtuoso, ultimately mastering the highly detailed, illusionistic trompe l’oeil technique and making it his own.
Natalia Korobova, "Noon," 1970, Oil on canvas, Mead Art Museum. Gift of the Jurii Maniichuk and Rose Brady Collection.

A Contentious Legacy: Paintings from Soviet Ukraine

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The majority of the featured paintings were created by artists from places that have been severely affected by, or occupied during, the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, including the regions of ...

Featured Artwork

Featured Galleries and Museums

Friday Virtual Gallery Walk

Virtual Gallery Walk for November 14th, 2025

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As part of our effort to continue to help artists and art galleries thrive, we're proud to bring you this week's "Virtual Gallery Walk."...
Camille Pissarro, "Hoar-Frost, Peasant Girl Making a Fire (Gelée blanche, jeune paysanne faisant du feu)," 1888. Oil on canvas; 36 1/2 × 36 3/8 in. Hasso Plattner Collection at the Museum Barberini. Image courtesy akg-images/Laurent Lecat

The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism

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The exhibition traces four decades of Pissarro’s career, illustrating the evolution of his practice from his early years in the Caribbean and South America, to his time in Paris at the dawn of the Impressionist movement, to his family life in Éragny, and his later years depicting the cities and harbors of northern France.

Fine Art News ~ Also Worth Noting

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In addition to our featured stories, Fine Art Today includes brief highlights of noteworthy happenings in the art world — from exhibition announcements to...

Auctioneer Aaron Bastian, Director of Fine Arts at Bonhams San Francisco.

Bob Ross Paintings Break Record, Benefit Public Television

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Offered by American Public Television, which will direct its net proceeds toward supporting public television stations nationwide, the trio of Bob Ross paintings achieved a record-breaking total of ...
Friday Virtual Gallery Walk

Virtual Gallery Walk for November 11th, 2025

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As part of our effort to continue to help artists and art galleries thrive, we're proud to bring you this week's "Virtual Gallery Walk."...
western art - Laquincey Reed, "Bill Pickett and Spradley," 2023, bronze [edition of 10], 18 x 13 1/4 x 7 1/2 in., JRB Art at the Elms (Oklahoma City)

Artist to Watch: LaQuincey Reed

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The artist is much admired by collectors and curators of art celebrating what he calls “the independence and strength of people in the American West.”
PleinAir Salon - Barbara Ortiz, “Nature’s Rhythm,” pastel, 20 x 16 in.

PleinAir Salon Winner Gives a “Visceral Sense of Place”

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Please help us congratulate the Overall First Place winner in this round of the PleinAir Salon, judged by ...
American Women Artists - Annette Hammer (b. 1947), "Look Before You Leap," 2024, oil on linen mounted on birch panel, 18 x 24 in.

A Vision of Nature

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On view are works that address four themes: love of the land, sporting, animals and wildlife, and country pursuits. This is the ninth exhibition AWA has co-organized through its initiative to ...
Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (1571–1610), "Boy with a Basket of Fruit," c. 1593–95, oil on canvas, 27 1/2 x 26 1/3 in., Galleria Borghese, Rome, Photo: Mauro Coen

Dance, Caravaggio, and “Boy with a Basket of Fruit”

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“I’m not a painter, though I love art, but I can say that I always paint spaces,” Eduardo Vilaro notes, referencing the works he choreographs. “I paint with bodies.”

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