Spanish artist César Galicia (b. 1957) is celebrated for his illuminating renderings of what are seemingly ordinary objects – toys, public telephones, air pumps, motorcycles. “What is art for?” asks ...

During the Great Depression, Ben Shahn—primarily a painter and printmaker—worked as a photographer for the Farm Security Administration. For five dollars a day plus five cents per mile, he drove ...

As eloquent as Ben Shahn has been in the fall Norton lectures, his pictures speak with a bolder and more significant voice. The Fogg Museum has done well to complement the artist's stay here with ...

Ben Shahn was one of the foremost Social Realist artists of the 1930s. Shahn was born in 1898 in Kovno, Lithuania, the first of five children of a traditional Orthodox Jewish family. His father was a ...