AUSTIN (KXAN) – While Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said there is a predator who is no longer among the community, he was reluctant to say early Friday morning that Esme Barreras murder case is solved. “We have enough information, enough evidence, to make our suspect a prime suspect, but we haven’t taken it all [...]

Let’s all agree that “outsider artist” is a term of convenience, encompassing the self-taught, the visionary, the geographically isolated, the mentally ill or developmentally disabled, and (in one memorable episode) Homer Simpson. And in that spirit, we must judge the Outsider Art Fair, now celebrating its 20th anniversary, not by its title but by the [...]

Thompson Valley High School senior Faith Ford, 18, poses for a photo as classmates hold some of the photographs in her portfolio Friday at the school in Loveland. Her portfolio won a Scholastic Art Award. Many art students at the school won awards for individual pieces as well. (Photo by Jenny Sparks)

Under the best of circumstances an NBA head coach can feel like hes juggling chainsaws. But try to cram a 66-game schedule into a hair over four months and youre practically setting a guy up to lose a couple of fingers, if not a chunk of his mind. Its hard, admitted Gregg Popovich. What he [...]

Eiko Ishioka, holding her Oscar for best costume design for Bram Stokers Dracula, joins Catherine Deneuve backstage at the 65th annual Academy Awards in 1993. (Douglas C. Pizac / Associated Press / March 30, 1993)

CHICAGO, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) — The Kansas City Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art celebrated Chinese New Year on Friday with the grand opening of two renovated Chinese art galleries. The new galleries showcase the museums prized collection of jade disks, ancient vessels, bronzes, sculptures, and traditional Chinese paintings. Museum guests had the opportunity Friday night to [...]

Vincent Van Gogh is known for his sweeping landscapes such as Starry Night and for his portraits such as Postman Roulin. But in the latter years of his short but prolific artistic career (just 10 years) Van Gogh emabraked on a new-found fascination with natures details literally right down to a blade of grass. In [...]

–via Ology.com editor Josh Harrison In the last trailer for Street Fighter X Tekkens PlayStation Vita edition, we got to see the silhouettes of two previously unrevealed characters. Though their identities werent officially confirmed, both characters are pretty distinctive–with some careful inspection, the gaming public decided that these two mystery fighters were Pac-Man and some [...]

12-foot-tall Tetra con Brio, a cast bronze, steel and polished concrete work that stands outside the new Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda, Md., near Washington, DC Artist featured New and selected paintings and drawings by Brad Brown are on view through Feb. 25 at the Wiegand Gallery at Notre Dame de Namur University. [...]

At a time when everyone seems to have an opinion and a venue for expressing it, the art of criticism may seem hard to grasp and even harder to do. Times Book Critic David L. Ulin obviously does this kind of thing for a living. He reads and thinks, thinks and reads … and when [...]