Eleven original paintings by the acclaimed Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis (1903-1980) sold for a combined $559,510 in an online-only Canadiana & Folk Art auction held October 8th by Miller & Miller ...

A major retrospective of work by “the greatest artist you've never heard of” is currently showing at The Royal Museum of Cornwall.

Artist Barry Rosenthal builds these assemblages to illustrate the extent of marine pollution. He keeps trash in his studio for months—sometimes years—until a critical mass of color emerges.

“I wish I’d been nicer about his painting when he was alive,” he says of his dad, Barry Humphries. “I always used to be a bit mean about it. He hated it … it really annoyed him.