Art students work for years to learn to create good portraits that capture the likeness of a subject. Even among trained artists, it takes a special talent to draw faces accurately. This problem ...

The medium is our art critic’s favorite — and this is a rich moment to indulge in works on paper, from the Drawing Center to the weeklong Master Drawings New York. By Roberta Smith Drawing is really ...

In 1979, Betty Edwards published the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, which remains the preeminent book on the subject of drawing for beginners. In the book, Edwards argues that there are ...

Louise Nevelson, “Untitled” (1928), fabricated red chalk on paper, sheet: 17 5/8 × 13 3/8 inches (image courtesy the Whitney Museum of American Art) Nevelson’s self-glorification served a long-term, ...