Billy Shire holds up a skull encrusted with miniature silver gearwork. “It’s a camera,” he says, pointing to a pinhole drilled in the bone. It’s also the latest creation by Wayne Martin Belger and a ...

Psychedelic punk, narrative noir, or pop Surrealism, whatever you call it, lowbrow art is an irreverent pop culture phenomenon that remains largely ignored by the traditionally highbrow art crowd.

Greg Escalante, a bond trader who went on to become a key patron of the Lowbrow art movement as a collector, gallerist and co-founder of the magazine Juxtapoz, died Thursday evening of undisclosed ...

An exhibit called Lowbrow Art would seem right up my alley.Descriptive, even. That is, if the stick figures and abstract scribbles that probethe limits of my artistic talents would even qualify as art ...

In his 30s and several years out of college, where he had studied art and been bored by much of it, Greg Escalante saw a skateboarding magazine and was so bowled over by the artwork on the cover that ...

La Luz de Jesus, established in 1986, has become synonymous with the lowbrow art movement. The Los Angeles gallery has brought about artists like Palm Springs favorite Shag, hot rod icon Ed Roth, ...

Editor's note: This story is part of an ongoing series for Arts Access examining the health and well-being of our North Texas arts economy. In the heart of Deep Ellum, it’s a rainy Thursday evening.

Are the descriptors ‘highbrow’ and ‘lowbrow’ relevant anymore to the world of art? The notion of highbrow and lowbrow art is one originally born out of class, aristocracy, and patronage. Art was once ...

It’s just another day at the office for Billy Shire, but his work space is anything but routine. In a dimly lighted backroom that serves as headquarters for the godfather of Los Angeles’ “lowbrow” art ...