Ralph Fasanella (1914–1997) was a self-taught painter who celebrated the common man and fought for the working class through artworks that tackled complex issues of postwar America. “Ralph Fasanella: ...

Valentine’s Day is an annual reminder that affection for others and personal passion are vital aspects of living creatively amid challenging times. Helicline Fine Art announced the opening of its new ...

“I didn’t paint my paintings to hang in some rich guy’s living room,” Ralph Fasanella once said. There's an irony to that nose-thumbing dismissal, seeing as it targets the very people whose wealth and ...

Sign up for City Lights, our twice-weekly guide to arts and nightlife in the D.C. area. It lands in your inbox every Sunday and Thursday. Artist Ralph Fasanella spent ...

Berkeley art historian Laura Ruberto's research on her latest academic project, a book on the Italian American immigrant experience in California, led her to the steps of the main branch of the ...

Ralph Fasanella (1914–1997) was a self-taught painter who celebrated the common man and fought for the working class through artworks that tackled complex issues of postwar America. “Ralph Fasanella: ...

The appeal of a familiar outsider like Fasanella, the New York proletarian painter, who died in 1997, rises and falls like a barometer. When such art thrills—as it does now, with a show of Fasanella’s ...