Isolated in the rural American Southwest and navigating the harsh realities of poverty in the 1930s, a small group of artists made sublime abstract art that sought to intuitively connect viewers to a ...

BERKELEY, Calif. -- For Berkeley artist Raymond L. Haywood, painting is his foundation. "I just love painting. I would paint on the ground. I would paint in the mud. I just like making marks. And I ...

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 ...

"Gesture & Form: Women in Abstraction" is presented at Almine Rech's Upper East Side location. Installation view of "Gesture & Form: Women in Abstraction" (2024) at Almine Rech, New York, Upper East ...

The primary authors of this post are Dirk B. Walther (University of Toronto) and Claudia Damiano (KU Leuven) Have you ever stood before an abstract painting, feeling a surge of emotion but struggling ...

The image of a straight-laced CIA agent hardly goes hand and hand with the rebellious, chain-smoking, avant-garde artist, but the two are more closely linked than you might realize. During the Cold ...

A survey at the Walker Art Center celebrates the interdisciplinary artist Dyani White Hawk, whose works are grounded in the Lakota philosophy of connectedness. The artist Dyani White Hawk, in her ...