Editor's note: This story is part of an ongoing series for Arts Access examining the health and well-being of our North Texas arts economy. In the heart of Deep Ellum, it’s a rainy Thursday evening.

(Mass Appeal) – Save the date for Lowbrow 2024! You can enjoy more than 25 artists and crafters with a wide range of unique, quirky, and fun handmade goods for a craft fair unlike any other in the ...

This year, independent publisher Last Gasp will celebrate 40 years of art and comics. The San Francicsco based publisher and distributor has produced comics and contemporary art books by R.Crumb, Todd ...

To my dismay, it turns out the Lowbrow movement doesn’t have anything to do with the kind of masterpieces I considered lowbrow art. Rather, it’s an “underground visual art movement that began in Los ...

With its roots in comics, punk rock and pop culture, it’s no surprise that the lowbrow-art movement — also known as pop surrealism — was ignored by “serious” critics and galleries in its early days.

The neo-Pop fare proffered by artists these days is so full of childhood staples -- cartoons, comics and dolls -- you're more likely to find Hasbro in the gallery than in the aisles of Toy Town. The ...

Although it was once known as underground art, the cartoonish world of lowbrow art has stepped into the limelight in recent years, mainly thanks to the work of a Los Angeles-based group of artists ...

3. Ausgang traded his first painting for a bag of weed: In Los Angeles in 1990, art dealer John Poncha acquired an Ausgang original for the lowbrow price of a sack of Mexican shake at the 01 Gallery.

"Please don't bother with submitting any of my work to art societies or museums as I hold them long-haired bastards in contempt since I know a lot about how they operate." The words "velvet painting," ...

After Hemphill gathered several California-based artists for "Tug of War," a show of lowbrow work this past spring, questions were raised about whether the pop, commercial artists had said anything at ...