An exhibition six years in the making has come home at long last to Western New York, with the arrival of “Marisol: A Retrospective” at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. It’s the largest show of its kind ...
The Buffalo museum is now the go-to source for understanding the work of the late Pop Art trailblazer. Portrait of French-born artist Marisol Escobar poses with some of her carved wooded sculptures.
The “first girl artist with glamour.” So said Andy Warhol in 1964 of his Pop art contemporary and friend Marisol. Cringeworthy now, the notoriously image-conscious Warhol likely meant it as a ...
Marisol Escobar (1930-2016), the Paris-born, Venezuelan American artist who went by her first name and became one of the most famous figures of the US Pop art movement in the 1960s, continued making ...
Do you feel more like a Mary Magdalene or a Virgin Mary? It’s always a fun question to ask’ ...
Marisol Escobar, whose penetrating and playful, large-scale wooden sculptures were their own unique blend of Pop and folk art, died on Saturday morning, April 30, at the age of 85, El Universal ...
From that point on, Marisol says she started using "a lot" of drugs as a way to cope with not just the rape, but also the discovery that her father wasn't her biological father. He had adopted her and ...
A family mutt has disappeared, but hope for her return has not It’s been 71 days since Marisol last came home, but her family isn’t about to give up on her. On Nov. 2 at Middlesex Fells Reservation in ...