She was the toast of the town in 1960s Manhattan, but by the dawn of the next decade, Marisol had all but been forgotten. Born in 1930 in Paris to wealthy Venezuelan parents, Maria Sol Escobar, who ...

A major work by one of the most influential pop art creators in the world is now part of the permanent collection of the Philbrook Museum of Art. “Magritte II,” a sculpture by the Venezuelan-American ...

Marisol Escobar grew up in Venezuela and inspired some of the most successful artists of the 20th century. An exhibit at the Perez Art Museum hopes to give the artist her spotlight back. The artist ...

The decade of the 1960s brought with it a pop culture explosion that enveloped music, fashion, film and visual art. In one sonic boom, a new multi-dimensional world of creation opened up and two ...

In late 2023, the largest retrospective of the artist Marisol began its journey at the first of four museums. Marisol (full name: Marisol Escobar) was a French-born Venezuelan artist who is associated ...

Marisol Escobar—or Marisol, as she is known professionally—studied under the noted abstract expressionist Hans Hofmann, and, she says dryly, “I painted like a Hofmann student.” But though she learned ...

The Louvre Robbed, the 2026 Color of the Year, and Yet More Yattering About Race PEN America’s Inflated Book-Ban List Famous for her offbeat ’60s sculpture but long forgotten, the Latin Garbo gets a ...

NEW YORK — Marisol, a Venezuelan-American artist who fused pop art imagery and folk art in assemblages and sculptures that, together with her mysterious, Garboesque persona, made her one of the most ...

In late 2023, the largest retrospective of the artist Marisol began its journey at the first of four museums. Marisol (full name: Marisol Escobar) was a French-born Venezuelan artist who is associated ...