As her first show of 2017, Bobbi Walker has organized a group exhibit with the outlandish title Amalgamated Contemplation at her namesake Walker Fine Art. The five artists included in the show are all ...

At Miami’s Art Basel a few weeks ago, Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian,” a $120,000 banana duct-taped to the wall, took the Internet by storm. Cattelan had the credibility to pull off such a ridiculous ...

Adam Pendleton brings his geometric artworks to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Stephanie Rudig - Freelance Writer Black Dada (D/D), Adam Pendleton, silkscreen ink and black gesso on canvas, ...

Nobody believes in the simple narrative arc of Modern Art anymore; even so, Painting in Italy 1910s-1950s: Futurism, Abstraction, Concrete Art at Sperone Westwater is an instructive glimpse into the ...

Marshall McLuhan once wrote, “The medium is the message.” For Galerie Maximillian owner Albert Sanford, his medium is art. Since 1997, he has consistently shown some of the finest works on paper by ...

David Reed, “#64” (1974), oil on canvas, 6 feet 4 inches x 56 inches (Photo by Rob McKeever, courtesy Gagosian) It is routine to characterize the 1970s as a decade dominated by Conceptual Art, and ...

When conceptual art, Pop Art and minimalist sculpture were in the ascendancy and many were saying that painting was dead, Mr. Marden issued a powerful counterstatement. By William Grimes Brice Marden, ...

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 ...

It is hard to tell if abstract painting actually got worse [after the 1960s], if it merely stagnated, or if it simply looked bad in comparison to the hopes its own accomplishments had raised. —Frank ...

The world of abstract art is a mystery to me, as I imagine it is for most people. When you’re talking about colorful splotches on a canvas, what invisible committee decides that one person’s talent ...

Abstract art often gets an undeserved bad rap. Many people famously dismissed Jackson Pollock‘s signature drip paintings in the 1950s, for instance, as being something that a trained chimpanzee could ...