'Visionary' Artists Bring Personal Struggle to Work
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Matt Sesow has taken a winding path toward becoming an artist.
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"Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints" (Pantheon Books. 524 Pages. $30) &#151; Joan Acocella: While culling essays for her new collection, "Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints," Joan Acocella discovered a loose theme: the hardships that come with creation, and how various artists dealt with these obstacles &#151; or did not. The humbler virtues of perseverance, she came to see, are as important, and as laudable, as talent.
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Authors, musicians and other  artists who hit it big with their first work often find it  impossible to match that success the second time round -- and  film director Craig Brewer faces that challenge this week.
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As tough as Mr. Freudâs paintings are, his etchings are somehow even starker, more raw and brutal. They bring the violence of his rendering style closer to the surface.
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Black sweater or no, some architects find they can channel their idealism into real-world projects.
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âChuck Close,â about the painter, photographer and printmaker by the documentary filmmaker Marion Cajori, truly excels in its depiction of the physical process of making art.
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The artist Richard Prince was ignored for years, but these days, his work, which deals with his personal perspective on American life, is highly sought after.
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A Detroit outsider faces an industry slump and a tough economy.
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The paradoxically beautiful, seamless 30-year survey of his work at the Guggenheim Museum catches many of our inharmonious countryâs discontents and refracts them back to us.
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Memories of China's Cultural Revolution have forged some of its most provacative contemporary art.
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Four of the most promising artists to emerge recently in Los Angeles tend to be defined, however paradoxically, by not being defined by their race.
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - As the release of a new album  approaches, most artists begin to wax philosophical about art,  life and the messages they hope to convey with their music.
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A director's experimental film shows the world through the eyes of a painter blinded by a mugger's vicious attack. By Theresa Everline.
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For 25 years, Mohammed Akbar Salam painted the style that he and his colleagues knew &#151; realism. Under the ultra-restrictive Taliban regime, depictions of the human figure were forbidden, and their work shriveled to an austere repertoire of calligraphy and still life.
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Public-space artist Christopher Janney wants you to hear colors in the most unexpected places.
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Being a real-life star is hard work, and it's not much easier being a cultural icon's avatar. By Lisa Katayama.
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The idea that artists and scientists glare at each other across a cultural divide is mostly fiction, as the work of the printmaker Joseph Scheer makes abundantly clear.