Mountains amaze and delight us, inspiring the human mind to peaks of excitement and curiosity. It seems strange to think that our appetite for the heights is something invented by modern culture. The ...

Many artists use the environment as inspiration when completing works of art, whether it's a painting, drawing or sculpture. But for one contemporary artist, the Earth is literally his canvas. The ...

Under new ownership, Powder Mountain is being reimagined as a multi-interest, year-round destination. One side of these changes includes the installation of permanent, large-scale artworks from ...

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Turning mountains into pigment, silence into ritual, and the act of creation into a meditation, Jonathan Freemantle transforms landscape into philosophy and art into pilgrimage. The first thing you ...

For generations of painters and admirers, rare and seldom-displayed landscape painting from China’s Song dynasty rank among the most outstanding achievements of Chinese culture. On view May 17–Oct. 26 ...

LOCAL TALENT: Among the artists featured in the Asheville Art Museum's latest exhibit, Honoring Nature, is C.R. Sumner. His work "Red Maple" is one of several pieces on display through October.

Anyone who has ever tried to paint will realise at once that this is a fallacy: there is no such thing as copying, both because what is before your eyes is not a finite object but a phenomenon in ...