Rick Smith — a Calgary collector who boasts one the largest collections of velvet paintings in North America — gave more than 200 works of art to the Glenbow Museum on Friday. Smith's donated ...

One day in 1968 when Juan and Abel Velazquez were 15 years old, their father sat them down and placed before them canvases of black velvet. Jose Velazquez had been a boxer in Mexico City. Later, he ...

uring the summer of 1964, a young man from Georgia was vacationing in the Southwest, where he visited, among other places, the cities of El Paso and, across the Mexican border, Ciudad Juárez. His name ...

Kooky, kitschy, tacky — Velveteria is all of these, and none of them. In a gradually gentrifying corner of Chinatown, Caren Anderson and Carl Baldwin run their velvet painting museum with a non-ironic ...

It is hard to say with absolute certainty which of the hundreds of paintings at Velveteria, Los Angeles’ velvet painting museum, are the most strangely sublime. There’s the wall of clowns in a ...

DETROIT — Velvet painting collector Elena Herrada began her introduction of Black Velvet: A Rasquache Aesthetic to me with a definition of the word “rasquache.” “I had the idea that I wanted to do a ...

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