Smith College alumna Nava Grunfeld recently opened a retrospective show of still lifes and figure paintings at the Smith ...

Artist Marc Dennis renders lush still lifes that layer glossy bubbles, insects, and birds atop fleeting imagery.

As genres go, Italian still-life painting isn’t a ghost town ... A certain fluted olive-oil container, like a bottle wearing a frilly white ball gown, shows up in canvas after canvas—sometimes ...