An exhibition six years in the making has come home at long last to Western New York, with the arrival of “Marisol: A Retrospective” at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. It’s the largest show of its kind ...

The Buffalo museum is now the go-to source for understanding the work of the late Pop Art trailblazer. Portrait of French-born artist Marisol Escobar poses with some of her carved wooded sculptures.

The “first girl artist with glamour.” So said Andy Warhol in 1964 of his Pop art contemporary and friend Marisol. Cringeworthy now, the notoriously image-conscious Warhol likely meant it as a ...

Marisol Escobar, whose penetrating and playful, large-scale wooden sculptures were their own unique blend of Pop and folk art, died on Saturday morning, April 30, at the age of 85, El Universal ...

Marisol Escobar (1930-2016), the Paris-born, Venezuelan American artist who went by her first name and became one of the most famous figures of the US Pop art movement in the 1960s, continued making ...

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 ...

MEMPHIS — It’s 1968. In Vietnam, the Tet offensive has begun. In Europe, a million students marching through the streets of Paris have brought France to the brink of revolution. Meanwhile, half a ...

It sounds odd at first, but the same things that drew Jason Hammel to create Lula Cafe in Logan Square 18 years ago attracted him to Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, where he opened Marisol three ...