The artist found a way to expand the parameters of observational painting, causing us to look inward and reflect upon what we see.

Catherine Murphy (b. 1946) considers herself an “observational painter,” not the photorealist that many of her works might suggest, nor the surrealist that other of her paintings might bring to mind.

A new show at MoCA LA attempts to expand the definition of the genre, but can it keep up with a rapidly destabilising visual ...

Our final Art Deco Centenary designer profile spotlights Hildreth Meière, a pioneering muralist who left her indelible mark ...

The author of more than a dozen books and an award-winning documentary, he died in a car crash in Southern California.

EXCLUSIVE: Nia Long has inked with Artists First for representation. Long is next up portraying Katherine Jackson, matriarch ...

If you’d been outside Bishop’s Gate, Derry, on St Patrick’s Day 300 years ago this coming Monday, you would have witnessed what to modern eyes seems an appallingly grotesque sight.

In the week where Catherine Kirwan releases her latest Cork ... I was at the opening night of Disco Pigs with Cillian Murphy and Eileen Walsh (who, incidentally, is the audiobook narrator on ...

Hearing of cases involving chief executive Paddy Cosgrave and two minority shareholders expected to take nine weeks ...

Murphy Gallery at St. Catherine University in St. Paul ... The exhibit runs through March 16, with an artist talk by Monica Rudquist on March 5 at 6:30 p.m. There will also be a screening and ...

The sympathy of the community is extended to Carol Frayne (née Murphy, Ballytarsna) on the death of her husband John, ...