Manhattan-based designer Nick Olsen could have opted for something more traditional when designing his two-bedroom 18th-century farmhouse. But why would he when his signature work is an eclectic ...

Local artist and 2022 TAP Individual Artist Partner grantee Warren W. Kessler’s obsession with detail is in many ways the epitome of art imitating life. The trompe l’oeil painter’s recent projects ...

According to legend, trompe l'oeil originated in a competition between artists Zeuxis and Parrhasius in ancient Greece. Zeuxis painted such lavishly appetizing grapes that birds tried to eat them.

I'd always seen wood inlay around, mostly as household objects, the way anyone would. But I didn't really discover it as an actual art form, with this long history behind it, until I moved to New York ...