Figurative painting, it seems, is destined to be contemporary art’s perennial sidepiece: always available for a fling, never for very long. The last time one could admit to a passion for it without ...

The first names that come to mind in Abstract Expressionism—Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and the like—may all be men, but women artists also played a crucial role in the internationally-renown ...

In the 1950s, Jonah Kinigstein was on the verge of making it big in New York's art world. He won a Fulbright to Rome. His paintings got into the Whitney Museum's annual show of contemporary art (the ...

Earlier this year, “We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85” at the Brooklyn Museum dropped like a bomb. Mining a seam of engaged, truth-telling art by black women from the Civil Rights ...

Walk into any contemporary gallery in Las Vegas, and you'll likely encounter a canvas splashed with colors that seem to defy logic. No recognizable shapes. No obvious subject. Just pure, raw visual ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...

In his preface to Abstract Art: A Global History—arriving this month from Thames & Hudson—Joseph Low (“Pepe”) Karmel, a professor of art history at New York University, writes that the goal of the ...

Odili Donald Odita, "Time and Space" (2022), acrylic latex paint on aluminum-core fabricated wood panel with reconstituted wood veneer, 50 x 50 x 3/4 inches (all ...

The greatest discoveries in art history, as in so many fields, tend to come from those working outside the box. Interdisciplinary studies break new ground because those steadfastly lashed to a ...

LIKE all good jokes tHe drawing from Punch above on the page has its serious and even tragic side. For it would miss its point if we took it to be a crack at the expense of Dolan the artist or his ...