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 ...

The Buffalo museum is now the go-to source for understanding the work of the late Pop Art trailblazer. Portrait of French-born artist Marisol Escobar poses with some of her carved wooded sculptures.

In the 1960s, Marisol was the glamorous muse and icon of the Pop art world, probably more famous than her friend, Andy Warhol. Today, she is little known. Nine years after her death, Marisol: A ...

Marisol Escobar, whose penetrating and playful, large-scale wooden sculptures were their own unique blend of Pop and folk art, died on Saturday morning, April 30, at the age of 85, El Universal ...

Nancy Astor, Marisol with several of her sculptures (1964), photographic print (image courtesy Buffalo AKG Art Museum) DALLAS — It is difficult to say which surprises more after viewing this ...

Janet Jarman discovered Marisol, the young woman she has been photographing for more than 15 years, by chance. While working toward her Master’s degree in environmental studies, Jarman took a research ...

“I am the Venezuelan, born in France, living in Italy — that has an English car with North American plates and Swiss insurance — and they want to ask me what nationality I am.” So wrote Marisol ...

MEMPHIS — It’s 1968. In Vietnam, the Tet offensive has begun. In Europe, a million students marching through the streets of Paris have brought France to the brink of revolution. Meanwhile, half a ...

Cleveland, Ohio - “Marisol,” José Rivera’s epic Obie-award winning Magical Realism play at Cleveland Public Theatre, invites its audience into a world where life is projected through a fun house ...