Lynn Gamwell’s thesis is based on the unsupportable premise that abstract painting -- the complete absence of representational imagery -- is art. The argument on that matter (which Michelle Kamhi and ...

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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 ...

On October 18, 2025, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, opens “Dyani White Hawk: Love Language,” a major mid-career survey ...

Gertrude Greene was not an obvious choice to become a radical force in American abstract art. She was a woman born in 1906 to middle-class department store owners in Brooklyn. She was also a ...

Outside avant-garde artistic circles, the creation of The Abstract Group, in Pittsburgh, in late 1944, was greeted with something less than fanfare. In a contemporaneous installment of his column ...

Korean abstract master Kim Whanki (1913-1974) was already a well-established artist in South Korea when he moved to New York ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — John L. Moore, a New York-based artist with deep Cleveland roots, is revered in the art world for his work as a teacher, curator, and maker of abstract paintings collected by museums ...

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 ...