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They're calling it the 'new' Biggs Museum of American Art, but changes under way also mean a bigger Biggs with an updated infrastructure and increased user friendliness

5 x 5 By Milton Arts Guild. Five paintings based on five photos. Through Tue. Milton Historical Society, 210 Union St., Milton. Free.

The highlight of the sale was N.C. Wyeth's "Norry Seavey Hauling Lobster Traps Off Blubber Island." The 1938 oil of a fisherman off the coast of Port Clyde, Maine, sold for nearly $844,000.

Best known a decade ago for its funky boutiques and resale shops, Bellefonte is now building a new reputation as an arts colony.

Courtney Hurd won't let medical issues stop her devotion to ballet. Not the cancer in her left shoulder, the ligament problem in her neck, the tumor in her right knee, the cyst in her skull or the surgeries and other treatments, past and future.

Exhibit will arrive in March

Front and center for a special exhibit this month of mixed media works are 10 artists, all U.S. Armed Forces veterans, at Hardcastle Gallery in Centreville.

Now through July 14, the Media, Pa., artist's work is on display at Blue Streak Gallery on Delaware Avenue in Wilmington. 'Heads Up, Fowl!' a collection of a dozen of DeWitt's reverse glass hen and rooster portraits, will reopen tonight.

Her oil paintings and pastel pieces are just part of Annette Alessi's artistic expression.

Jack Lewis was a Delaware art icon. His murals and paintings are bright, flowing and loosely drawn, with rich colors and sweeping movement. Rehoboth Art League currently features a special exhibit to celebrate the artist and his legacy.

Young director is helping to breathe new life into the Cathedral Choir School of Delaware, an assembly of voices that traces its roots to 1883 and has transformed the lives of many a young chorister, starting with 7-year-olds and moving up through its adult "mentor" members

David Norbut thinks Delaware has more in common with art hubs like New York City and New Orleans than one might think.

It turns out that watching dough rise is not the single most boring activity on the planet. To some, it's fine art.

Two exhibits in Philadelphia honor abstract pioneer Ellsworth Kelly, who turned 90 in May.

Delaware Art Museum Executive Director Danielle Rice has been appointed director of the new museum leadership graduate degree program at Drexel University in Philadelphia, the university announced today

With the Cape Henlopen School District Board of Education approving live simulcasts of the Metropolitan Opera at the Cape Henlopen High School auditorium starting this fall, it's now a matter of raising the funds to get the necessary equipment into the bu

There's Denzel Washington and Billy Crystal, plenty of Shakespeare and a nice dash of Harold Pinter. There's even a musical of the boxing classic 'Rocky' and the much anticipated return of Neil Patrick Harris and '

Sure, there might be some leftover sand in your shoes and possibly even a stray ticket from Rehoboth Beach's Funland still floating around in your pockets.

NEW YORK (AP) - It's only 3 p.m. but master director Mike Nichols warns that he's been through a lot already.

Corporate art buying in North America has fallen off since the boom days of the 1970s and 1980s but even as the economy improves, some companies are buying less art but doing more to put their works out for the public to enjoy.

Biggs Museum's big changes go far beyond a face-lift

Summer arts events, exhibits

Six Wyeth paintings fetch over $2 million at NYC auction

Crossroads: Bellefonte says art in a big way

Dance a respite for determined Townsend teen

'Downton Abbey' costumes to be on display at Winterthur

Crossroads: Centreville exhibit gives different meaning to art of war

Mary DeWitt's glass reverse portraits include inmates, chickens

Crossroads: Annette Alessi's show reflects inspiration from Wyeths, Kuerner

Crossroads: Rehoboth Art League celebrates Jack Lewis

Dateline Delaware: Choir school strumming a new tune

Friends join for ALIVE exhibit at Wilmington's Chris White Gallery

DCCA exhibit examines art of breaking bread

Abstract pioneer features 2 Philly exhibits

Delaware Art Museum director takes Drexel job

Metropolitan Opera simulcasts coming to Cape Henlopen, if funds keep flowing

New Broadway season has something for everyone

Autumn arts:10 highlights of the post-beach, pre-holiday season

Mike Nichols returns to adultery in 'Betrayal'

Corporations do more to put art on public display