Teen Librarian Anna Downing leads an after school craft of making unique birch tree paintings with water colors for teens after school at the Berkshire Athenaeum in Pittsfield. Wednesday, January 5, ...

To artist Kim Yeon-hwa, white birch trees are a source of inspiration. Over the past 20 years, she has solely focused on getting that particular tree on canvas. She explores the different looks of the ...

Painting, like poetry, drama and the novel, is always dying. And yet, mysteriously, somebody is always there to drag it back into robust health again. Four or five years ago, I would never have pegged ...