After heart disease and strokes abruptly cut short her teaching career, Hawkins-Criss turned to her first love — art — to make sense of what was happening to her. “I always wanted to be an ...

This painting was conceived as complementing the Countway's painting of the first use of anesthesia (ether) in surgery by Hinckley. First Successful Organ Transplantation in Man 1996 oil 70 x 88.

The preserved wall, dubbed “Battle to Survive a Broken Heart,” will be going up for sale May 21 at Guernsey’s, the New York auction house. Georgiadis, a Brooklyn schoolteacher, says the sale ...

In 2018, a canvas that was part of Banksy’s “Girl With Balloon” series sold in London for 1.04 million pounds ($1.4 million), only to famously self-destruct in front of a stunned auction crowd.