Learn about Art and the Art World

 

Art and Design 101 presents information and entertainment about art and the art world through blog posts.  Click on the links below to learn about:

• Art:  creativity, materials, techniques, terms, history
  • What is art?
  • Color
  • Perspective
  • Oil painting
  • Printmaking
  • Portraits
• Artists and Architects
  • Banksy
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Christo & Jeanne-Claude
  • Chuck Close
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Frida Kahlo
  • Mary Cassatt
  • Georgia O’Keeffe
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Frank Lloyd Wright
• How the Art World Works:  galleries, dealers, collectors, museums, critics
  • How art museums started
  • How to visit an art museum
  • Art fairs
  • Eli Broad
• Buying Art: art fairs, auctions, investing
  • Investing in art
  • Taxes
• Stories:  from botched restorations to Picasso charged with stealing the Mona Lisa
  • When people hurt art
  • When art hurts people
• Trends: what’s new in art and the art world
• News:  inside the art stories that make headlines