When Joanna Strumpf was in her early 20s, working at an auction house in a job she was steadily falling out of love with, ...

These milkshakes are so thick, they’ve been known to cause spoon-bending incidents that would make Uri Geller jealous. Legend ...

A Californian Visual Language” at UCSB’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum explores how artists use text to challenge ...

People often make the mistake of using "I" when it's part of a plural, writes grammar expert June Casagrande, when they ...

After making a name for himself in the Phoenix and Chicago art scenes, "Sentrock" traveled home to paint a mural at his old ...

A word-of-mouth campaign was launched in an attempt to recover the artwork created by the late Mary McChesney.

Most of the artists are from out of town—but the Independent talked to four local participating artists and asked them to ...

The NFL tapped some of New Orleans most talented culture bearers to infuse the city's vibrancy into the Super Bowl.

My daughter loves to draw caricatures and portraits of friends and relatives. She pays attention to small details and visually exaggerates the things that make people unique. So, in my case, since ...

A vague directive from the new administration in Washington has caused unease among local arts groups and for the future of ...

As Cuba stands to become even more isolated, many Cubans continue to leave and those who stay remain cut off from family in the United States. Carlos Varela, a singer known as “The Poet of Havana,” ...

Here in the Arts & Life section, we see love everywhere, but most importantly, through art. In the delicate stroke of a ...