Amy Adams got the ultimate seal of approval for her portrayal of artist Margaret Keane in the upcoming film Big Eyes-- from Margaret herself. "[Amy] portrayed exactly how I was feeling," Margaret told ...

This is the second in a series of stories profiling a Napa woman, Margaret Keane, and her experience with aging and hospice care. To read the first story, visit napavalleyregister.com. Margaret Keane ...

Margaret Keane, who went to court to prove that her popular paintings of children with large, sad eyes were indeed hers and not her husband’s, a tale that was told in the Tim Burton film Big Eyes, has ...

At first glance Big Eyes doesn’t seem like the kind of movie Tim Burton would direct. It doesn’t feature a flamboyant yet melancholy hero with unusual features and Johnny Depp makes zero appearances.

Walter Keane was a fraud, becoming famous in the late ‘50s and early '60s for paintings of big-eyed children that he didn’t make. He and his wife, Margaret, who actually did the paintings, are the ...

Long a thrift shop staple, Walter Keane’s “waif” paintings of young girls with large, sorrowful eyes were a sensation in the 1950s and ’60s. In the film Big Eyes (out December 25), director Tim Burton ...

The Laguna Art Museum’s two current exhibitions — Margaret Keane and Keaneabilia and Sandow Birk’s In Smog and Thunder: Historical Works From the Great War of the Californias — carve a memorable trail ...

If you’re doing makeup for a Tim Burton movie, you go through a lot of eyeliner. The Mad Hatter, Edward Scissorhands, and even some characters not played by Johnny Depp drape the windows to their ...

Though the new film “Big Eyes” doesn’t make it overwhelmingly clear, San Francisco impresario and Richmond hot dog vendor Enrico Banducci always knew Margaret Keane, and not her husband, Walter, was ...