Some of these humorous paintings might not be as laugh-out-loud funny as your go-to knock-knock joke at first look, but when you know the artist’s background, or gaze at the painting a tiny bit ...

To hear Miki Harder talk or to see her recent paintings, you’d think birds were a lifelong obsession. But no. Before it was birds, she painted horses as a girl, then dolphins and whales, then ...

Careful what you say in front of Edgar Heap of Birds. It could end up in a painting. Since the 1970s, the artist has used words in ways both pointed and wry to create installations that riff on ...

This time of year is what the media call the Silly Season, traditionally a period when news is thin on the ground and reporters will file copy on bizarre tales that wouldn’t normally make it into ...

A mad "scientist" — probably a traveling lecturer — with a flowing red robe and glowing long, white hair holds up a big glass bubble. There's a beautiful white bird inside the bubble.