The sixth edition of the GEMS: Collecting Post-War Abstraction sale, curated by art world veteran Dakota Sica, is now live for bidding on Artnet Auctions through March 25. Below, we spoke to Sica ...

On the legacy of post-painterly abstraction, occasioned by the exhibition and catalogue for “Color as Field: American Painting 1950–1975.” In 1964, Clement Greenberg was invited by the Los Angeles ...

Helen Frankenthaler, “Canal” (1963), acrylic on canvas, 208.3 x 146.1 cm (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; purchased with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, in ...

Sometime in the 1980s, the art critic Clement Greenberg walked into a forty-year-old painter’s exhibition in Soho. Right off, Greenberg said, “Hmm . . . this is serious painting.” Then he went on to ...

Beginning November 21, 2023 through June, 2024, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale will present Glory of the World: Color Field Painting (1950s to 1983), exploring a tendency in mid-twentieth century ...

At NSU Art Museum’s ambitious new show on color-field painting, there is one significant omission that lovers of modern art won’t be able to miss. Mark Rothko, whose color-block canvases made him one ...

This first full-scale examination of the Color Field Movement—which emerged in the U.S. in the 1950s—features approximately 40 paintings by such major figures as Gene Davis, Helen Frankenthaler, ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. An installation ...

When Jamie Franklin became curator of the Bennington Museum in 2005, he started connecting with artists’ estates and living artists linked to Bennington College’s midcentury heyday. Founded in 1932 as ...