Pete Townsend’s intentionally trashed countless guitars on stage. But the guitarist of The Who would probably be hard-pressed to smash a single axe in the “Six-String Masterpieces” exhibit that opened ...

What’s more American than apple pie or baseball? The guitar, it seems, and arguably by a wide margin. “Americans have a particular predilection for guitars,” said Mark Scala, chief curator at the ...

“Guitars figure prominently in the visual stories Americans tell themselves about themselves,” reads a press release from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, which also asserts that “the guitar — ...

It all started with an ad Rebecca Waechter spotted on Instagram, one that struck the right chord with the Melbourne woman on several levels. The ad sought artists to paint guitars that could be ...

A “Guitar Named Sue,” with its mix of smooth and charred wood, exemplifies the sin and search for redemption in Johnny Cash’s art. “The Cartographer” encodes a tribute to a grandfather in the ...