Bell said, “Look, I’m not sure any of this is art. But this is what I did, this is the evidence of what my life was.” We stand in front of The Cat, a majestic smoked glass assemblage perched ...

No one rang the school bells for School-of-Paris art more loudly or persistently than ... “I haven’t done so badly with the front of your shirt.” Vollard did not do badly, either.

Anyone who paints elephant-nosed women and six-sided guitars, and calls them art, should obviously see ... and see it from behind as well as in front? By the time the critics got the point of ...

“The Wild Indoors: The Animal Art of Julie Bell,” on view at the Berkshire Museum through Sept. 29, is a smartly curated exhibition of Bell’s animal portraits and tableaus. These are paintings that ...