The French painter Henri Matisse created his most joyful images while incapacitated and bedridden for the last decade of his life. In a time of pandemic, he can teach us how flights of imagination overcome deprivation, and how we can find strength in solitude.

The Art Students League is now offering a full roster of online classes because of the current pandemic. For an institution that prizes the tactile experience and person-to-person interaction, this rapid shift to online learning has revealed challenges and opportunities.

Bolt-of-lightning ideas are a stereotype of creativity, but in reality, they are exceptionally rare. Masters of their art, like Chef Bruno Bertin, know that inspiration only happens when years of discipline have made their instincts as certain as trial and error.

“I wanted to start a network that showed the world, but especially corporate America, the value of studying the arts and the power of having an arts background.”

Making use of diversity within a team to generate new ideas and solve problems is called creative friction. Two companies in very different industries are turning that to their advantage.

Co-working has transformed the landscape of work. Will it do the same for art? A new model where artists exhibit and sell at co-working spaces is challenging the primacy of galleries in reaching art-lovers and buyers.

An evolving media landscape of connected communications requires a new model for creative teams.

A new report by the Bureau of Economic Analysis contradicts a common belief that the arts are of peripheral importance to American abundance.