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Drawing

A large sheet features an expressive abstract painting with thick, blended strokes of green, red, yellow, and blue spreading across the surface.

Cy Twombly’s Drawing and Discovery

"The Gift of Drawing" at the Menil Collection paints a more complete picture of an artist who worked by chance and spent a lifetime reaching back toward the origins of art itself.
By Jordan Riefe
Auctioneer conducts bidding at Christie’s New York during the Old Master Drawings sale, with the final price for Lot 8 displayed on screen

Historic Names, New Heights: Christie’s and Sotheby’s Log Over $200 Million in Old Masters Sales

Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Artemisia Gentileschi and a major Italian acquisition drove another record week for Old Masters.
By Elisa Carollo
A graphite drawing showing a sky filled with layered, voluminous clouds rendered in detailed tones of gray.

Between Intimacy and Immensity: The Inscrutable Vija Celmins

The artist has spent six decades creating just 220 works defined by her expansive devotion to subjects both marvelous and mundane.
By Dian Parker
An older man, duplicated in frame, appears to interview himself in a studio filled with charcoal drawings of still life objects including a Moka pot.

William Kentridge Wants to Starve the Algorithm

By Dian Parker
Devon Rodriguez poses beside a realist self-portrait.

How Devon Rodriguez, the World’s Most-Followed Artist, Rode the Six Train to Fame

By Hudson Warm
Two visitors stand in front of a large framed painting from Picasso’s Blue Period, depicting melancholic figures in shades of blue, with a museum label on the right side of the frame.

One Fine Show: ‘Picasso and Paper’ at the Cleveland Museum of Art

By Dan Duray
A line drawing of three women in voluminous pantsuits in a wooden frame

The Curators of ‘Yves Saint Laurent: Line and Expression’ On How the Show Came to Be

By Sarah Moroz
A line drawing of a smiling woman with a butterfly on her head

‘Andy Warhol by Hand’ Puts the Icon’s Pre-Pop Drawings On the Block

By Christa Terry
A black and white charcoal drawing of a man

A Show of Frank Auerbach’s Charcoal Portraits Illustrates the Start of a Steadfast Career

By Simon Coates

David Hockney’s Paintings Are World Renowned, But He Never Lost His Desire to Draw

By David D'Arcy

Phoebe Boswell’s Delicately-Rendered Portraits Ask Us to Care for One Another

By Wana Udobang

How the Rise of Quarantine Nudes Inspired Artists Working in Isolation

By Laura Pitcher

Grimes Is Selling a Piece of Her Soul to the Highest Bidder in Her New Art Exhibition

By Helen Holmes

The Met Just Received More Than 375 Objects Belonging to the Late Jayne Wrightsman

By Helen Holmes

The Guggenheim’s Record-Breaking Hilma af Klint Exhibition Cements the Artist’s Stardom

By Helen Holmes
Will Cotton's annual life drawing party, held on September 12, 2017.

Where Natalie Frank and Ryan McGinness Go to Practice Their Nude Drawing

By Margaret Carrigan
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Self-portrait with Tousled Hair, c. 1628 - c. 1629.

Rijksmuseum Celebrates Rembrandt’s Birthday by Putting His Drawings Online

By Alanna Martinez
Keep doing the work.

Learn to Love the Work, or Do Something Else (and Other Lessons on Greatness)

By Jeff Goins
Gordon Strong Automobile Objective and Planetarium, Sugarloaf Mountain, Maryland. Project, 1924–25. Perspective.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Archives Still Hold Mysteries Left to Solve

By Alanna Martinez
We all have creative gifts to share, and in that respect, we are all artists.

A New Renaissance: Real Artists Don’t Starve

By Jeff Goins
Eric Blum, DEVO in their signature hazmat suits, 1978.

Mark Mothersbaugh’s Singular Artistic Vision

By David D'Arcy
Look, it's Rihanna in Comme des Garcons!

Celebrities at the Met Gala Made Great Subjects for Live Painting

By Alanna Martinez
Tahiti Pehrson, The Fates, commissioned by Art Art at Viacom.

A Recipe for the Perfect Art Fair

By Alanna Martinez
Image via Instagram

Check Out Title&Block’s Structured and Clean Blueprint-Like Sketches

By Hoa Huynh
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