The Plainview-Old Bethpage Public Library, 999 Old Country Rd., Plainview, will feature a free art exhibit of the Long Island ...

After my diagnosis, I found a healing balm in an unexpected place. I never knew art would become so vital to my healing.

Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley; 415-351-1400; anthonymeier.com. Through Aug. 8: "Consider the Oyster," works by female artists inspired by M.F.K. Fisher. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays.

It may be easy to mock celebrities turned artists, but I’m impressed with this kind of prestige soft launch for reinvention.

Ralph Steadman’s Earlier Work Shows the Artist’s Abstract Streak As a student, the future caricaturist tried his hand at a different type of brushwork ...