In late 2023, the largest retrospective of the artist Marisol began its journey at the first of four museums. Marisol (full name: Marisol Escobar) was a French-born Venezuelan artist who is associated ...

She was the toast of the town in 1960s Manhattan, but by the dawn of the next decade, Marisol had all but been forgotten. Born in 1930 in Paris to wealthy Venezuelan parents, Maria Sol Escobar, who ...

A major work by one of the most influential pop art creators in the world is now part of the permanent collection of the Philbrook Museum of Art. “Magritte II,” a sculpture by the Venezuelan-American ...

The decade of the 1960s brought with it a pop culture explosion that enveloped music, fashion, film and visual art. In one sonic boom, a new multi-dimensional world of creation opened up and two ...

The Louvre Robbed, the 2026 Color of the Year, and Yet More Yattering About Race PEN America’s Inflated Book-Ban List Famous for her offbeat ’60s sculpture but long forgotten, the Latin Garbo gets a ...

Marisol Escobar grew up in Venezuela and inspired some of the most successful artists of the 20th century. An exhibit at the Perez Art Museum hopes to give the artist her spotlight back. The artist ...

CHICAGO — In his book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again, the famous pop artist considered the surface nature of his life and art in a very deadpan manner. He gives equal ...

The speckles of glitter in the resin of Maritza Lacayo’s pink, blue, and yellow-colored glasses shine as they reflect the setting sun seeping in from the large, open windows. Pérez Art Museum Miami ...

The “Buffalo…..who knew?” podcast series aims to highlight the (often under appreciated, sometimes unearthed) assets of Buffalo–particularly as it relates to the built and natural environment. It ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — She is known as the “Mother of Pop ...

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery has been awarded $100,000 by the Getty Foundation for a digital project on the late Venezuelan-American pop artist Marisol Escobar, popularly known as Marisol. The ...

Marisol Escobar—or Marisol, as she is known professionally—studied under the noted abstract expressionist Hans Hofmann, and, she says dryly, “I painted like a Hofmann student.” But though she learned ...