Expelled at once Kramskoi formed a new group (with Vassily Perov, Nikolai Ge and Grigory Myasoyedov) who believed that painting should depict society realistically and that art should be available ...

Every message brims with the personality of the writer at the moment of interplay between hand, eye, mind, pen, and paper. The letters here, from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, show that ...

“When is a letter not a letter?” Running to a hefty 800 pages, and filled with double-page spreads of giant letterforms, The Art of Letters aims to question and explore the relationship between art, ...