Robert “Bob” Stanton, a background artist and art director who worked at Disney throughout the 1990s, died on August 13. His death was announced on Facebook by Waysun, the video game company where he ...

In 1919 at the age of 9, the artist Tyrus (Gen Yo) Wong arrived on Angel Island from his village in China. As he matter of factly states in Tyrus, Pamela Tom’s new documentary about his life, “I never ...

Work by elusive British graffiti artist Banksy was seen this Christmas in New York and in Bethlehem. But his huge popularity is just plain old philistinism, argues Jonathan Jones. It's not often you ...

Japanese art director and background painter Nizo Yamamoto died on August 19 of stomach cancer. He was 70. Yamamoto was born in Goto City, Nagasaki Prefecture, in 1953. After studying architecture in ...

They wait for hours just to walk across the street. They earn meager wages and struggle to pay the bills. They get treated like the pariahs of the entertainment industry -- and yet they have a passion ...