Even away on my roadtrip, I could hear the rolling thunder of this bomb that Maureen Mullarkey of the New York Sun dropped on Jacob Collins’s nudes at Hischl and Adler. Realism is not a style but a ...

Teacups and saucers neatly stacked on a kitchen counter. Golden sunlight streaming through a hallway window. A blue hydrangea cutting resting in a paper cup. These are among the morsels of beauty ...

On the rise of Classical Realism and its dean, Jacob Collins. If you like your story of art told neat, start to finish, be sure not to visit the Water Street Atelier. Once you open the door to this ...

Twin Cities artist Richard F. Lack, who launched a national renaissance in traditional drawing and painting, died Tuesday at Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park from complications due to pneumonia.

AI meets tradition in this gripping challenge as JakeDontDraw examines whether ChatGPT can decode classical art. With ...

As a “classical realist” who creates luminous landscapes, timeless still lifes and lifelike portraits, Jacob Collins operates outside the art world that usually receives media coverage. His work isn’t ...

Copying someone else's work isn't cheating when the teacher tells you to do it. If you're an artist and the work you're copying is "Girl With a Pearl Earring" by Jan Vermeer, for example, it's an ...

In the early 1970s, the great and melodramatic artistic debates of the 20th century were petering out: abstraction versus representation, skill versus theory, popular versus elite. But for New ...