Edward Hopper

Beneath the Roses Photos by Gregory Crewdson, essay by Russell Banks Abrams, 140 pages, $60 Norman Rockwell brought us a singular vision of small-town America, as did Edward Hopper. Now photographer Gregory Crewdson has created a new, uniquely...

The Reserve By Russell Banks Harper, 287 pages, $24.95 In summer 1898, philosopher William James climbed Mt. Marcy, highest peak in the Adirondacks and a geographic locus of Russell Banks' new novel, "The Reserve." Writing to his wife of his trip in...

The answer to the question posed in my own headline headline is "No." “Mad Men” did not jump any kind of shark in its fifth season, but maybe it tripped over a manta ray or some lesser ocean predator. [Warning: spoilers ahead—and, I...

The San Gabriel Mountains rise to imposing heights behind a tiny rural outpost. An alpine lake in the Sierra lies still in a frame of snowdrifts, rocky peaks and moss-covered stones. A narrow path disappears into a field of yellow flowers stretching...

Works of art from what was at one time one of the world’s largest and arguably most influential art colonies is coming to the Wichita Art Museum in the exhibition, Tides of Provincetown on view February 5 through April 29, 2012. A bustling economy,...

"Tree of Life" production designer Jack Fisk talks about his work on the movie....

David Pagel reviews "Charles Garabedian: Works from 1966-1976" at L.A. Louver....

"Where's Walrus?" By Stephen SavageScholastic, $16.99, ages 3-6 As we move from page to page, seeking a runaway walrus pursued by his zookeeper, there can be two sorts of pleasure on each page. The number of people amongst whom the walrus seeks to...

Say the last time you walked out during a movie was 20 years ago, and say that movie you could no longer put up with was an interminable comedy named "The Super." Joe Pesci plays a slumlord, ordered by a court to live in one of his own questionable...

Let painters loose in historic Ellicott City, and they'll quickly create enough pretty pictures to fill an art gallery. The pictorial proof is hanging on the walls of the Howard County Arts Council, which is located just a short drive away from the...

Lee Krasner A Biography Gail Levin William Morrow: 532 pp., $30 "I happen to be Mrs. Jackson Pollock, and that's a mouthful. The only thing I haven't had against me was being black. I was a woman, Jewish, a widow, a damn good painter, thank you, and a...