Wish you could replicate a color you captured photographing an interior during your summer travels? It’s easier than you think thanks to the latest paint color apps. Color Capture by Benjamin Moore and ColorSnap by Sherwin-Williams both feature color matching so you can figure out which of their paint colors is closest to your pic. […]

SEPT. 5–DEC. 3 Celebrate the life and work of late abstract expressionist painter Sheba Sharrow with the “Balancing Act” exhibit at Monmouth University’s DiMattio Gallery in West Long Branch, in partnership with James Yarosh Associates Fine Art Gallery. Sparrow participated in many social justice movements of the ’60s and ’70s and used poetic text and disturbing […]

Those with green thumbs shouldn’t fret. Though your gorgeous summer garden has faded, a visit to a winter garden or indoor greenhouse can keep you inspired. The New Jersey Botanical Garden at Skylands in Ringwood has a winter garden that features golds, blues and reds among the many evergreens. On the west side of the garden is […]

When the period between 1950 and 1980 brought everything from military conflict to social and political upheaval, artists responded by producing equally disorienting art. “Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950–1980,” an exhibition at the Met Breuer in New York City, shows how 62 artists approached this era. The works are arranged in four sections—Vertigo, Excess, Nonsense and Twisted—and include Philip Guston’s […]

If you’ve ever wished you could see Michelangelo’s breathtaking frescoes that adorn the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome up close, you’re in luck. Now you can check out 34 nearly life-size reproductions—including replicas of The Creation of Adam and The Last Judgment—in the “Up Close: Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel” exhibit at the Westfield Garden […]