When the city of Boise, Idaho, bought the home of renowned Outsider artist James Castle (1899–1977), it hoped to use the property to pay tribute to the homegrown artist’s life and work. As it turned ...

Jody Hemphill Smith broke a national record for art sales when she hosted the Oil Painters of America Show at Castle Gallery Fine Art in 2016. The best artists in the land had to be juried into the ...

Contributing to the Boise Art community since 2017, the James Castle House preserves the astonishing and beautiful work of Castle, while enriching the local community and providing support and ...

What we’re looking at is a small drawing that shows the interior of a barn. On the walls there appear to be pictures, and high on the rafters there’s a row of birds. These pictures and assemblage ...

SAN SIMEON, Calif. (CN) — After French emperor Napolean Bonaparte stole an ancient Venus statue from Italy in 1802, a sculptor named Antonio Canova was commissioned to create a replacement. Renowned ...

Wendell Castle, an artist known as the father of art furniture whose masterworks were exhibited in pre-eminent museums of the United States but were also objects to be sat or eaten upon, or to hold a ...

Wendell Castle, the whimsical designer who coaxed wood into weird, mind-bending shapes that blurred the boundary between serviceable furniture and fine art, died on Jan. 20 at his home in Scottsville, ...

A 121-year-old former church building on Salt Lake City’s west side is a step closer to becoming a community gathering spot and art venue. The Utah Arts Alliance announced Wednesday that it had raised ...