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 ...

An exhibition six years in the making has come home at long last to Western New York, with the arrival of “Marisol: A Retrospective” at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. It’s the largest show of its kind ...

Marisol,” a play written by José Rivera, throws guests into an absurdist and apocalyptic world where men are pregnant, Nazis ...

Marisol Escobar has always stood up for her singular way of making art. Associated with pop art, even though she rebelled against labels, Escobar was an artist who crossed paths with names like Andy ...

Marisol Escobar (1930-2016), the Paris-born, Venezuelan American artist who went by her first name and became one of the most famous figures of the US Pop art movement in the 1960s, continued making ...

“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 ...

From that point on, Marisol says she started using "a lot" of drugs as a way to cope with not just the rape, but also the discovery that her father wasn't her biological father. He had adopted her and ...