Victor Hugo, one of the greatest French writers of the 19th century, is well known for his 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Less known is the fact that his vast talents overflowed from the ...

“Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio,” presented by the Hammer Museum at UCLA, will feature several never-before-seen works by the English painter. The exhibition will open on Feb. 5, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. As a sculptor, Rachel Whiteread has pretty much taken a single, elegant ...

The Hammer welcomes a new exhibit, "Dubuffet Drawings" from Jan. 29-April 30. A leading French artist of the 20th century, Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) eschewed traditional notions of beauty in art in ...

In 1949, when she was 18, Bridget Riley began formal art study at London’s Goldsmiths’ College. A businessman’s daughter from the agricultural countryside, she had come to the big city, then ...