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 ...

I’ve been engaged for several months with the “back to basics” art movement known as classical realism. (You can read my latest post here). The first article I wrote on the subject appeared in the ...

The international upswing in traditional realist painting — what’s now being called “classical realism” — has a new face in Vermont: that of Emilie Lee. The 35-year-old returned home to Vermont last ...

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.

Parent, Joseph M., and Josh Baron. "Elder Abuse: How the Moderns Mistreat Classical Realism." International Studies Review 13, no. 2 (June 2011): 193–213.

In 1959, the critic Clement Greenberg wrote that "the very best painting, the major painting, of our age is almost exclusively abstract." It was a tune Greenberg sang early and often. He said similar ...