"Color as Field: American Painting, 1950–1975," on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum Feb. 29 through May 26, is the first full-scale exhibition to examine the sources, meaning and impact of ...

Welcome to our In-Studio Paint Night of Lavender Fields Painting. This is an acrylic painting paint night. In our guided, beginner-friendly step-by-step instructed paint night, you can explore your ...

Helen Frankenthaler, “Canal” (1963), acrylic on canvas, 208.3 x 146.1 cm (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; purchased with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, in ...

From the end of World War II through the 1970s, American culture hit one of those golden ages that dot the history of humanity every hundred years or so. The country’s wealth led to a renaissance in ...

Frank Bowling, “Dan Johnson’s Surprise” (1969), acrylic on canvas, 115 15/16 × 104 1/8 inches, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. An installation ...

Acrylic paint is well-suited for detail, and is easy to use. Depending on the technique used by the artist, acrylic can produce results that are like oil or watercolour. Acrylics are water-based which ...