Michael Allyn Wells

This has been a crazy intense week at work and every since Tuesday my mind has been processing over and over one question, "Is it Frida...

"A man's life is nothing but an extended trek through the detours of art to recapture those one or two moments when his heart first...

In Kansas City, Missouri the Crossroads Art District has transformed vacated light business manufacturing structures into a thriving area....

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, ...

Abstract artist JENNIFER RIVERA will be showing work starting at tonight's opening at the Apex Art Space 1819 Wyandotte - Kansas City, ...

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Musical chills, write the authors, from the University of North Carolina, are “sometimes known as aesthetic chills, thrills, shivers, frisso...

The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. - Jackson Pollock

A person's work is nothing but a long journey to recover, through the detours of art, the two or three simple and great images which fir...

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. ~ Chris...

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.  ~    Stephen Sondheim

I was listening to an NPR story this morning (big surprise) about a visual artist and I was struck with an idea for a new poetry project....

My previous post was a simple statement from Brad Holland. No additional commentary, just his quote which I now repeat. Many of the contrad...

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because...

  Under normal conditions the outcome of the Presidential election might well have been one to favor the arts.  There were signs that Oba...

No one doubts that President-elect Barack Obama has a very full platter. With all the critical transitioning, staffing decisions and plannin...

"All truly profound art requires its creator to abandon himself to certain powers which he invokes but cannot altogether control" ...

As a Capricorn, I like to think of myself as an earthy sort of person. It is true I like a safety net, the secure feeling. Still, I do like ...

The arts have truly had an Ambassador in Dana Gioia who has served as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts since 2003. But Da...

What do Latinos, poetry and therapists all have in common? They are all a part of Daniel Cubias' latest blog post on The Huffington P...