Painters pick up lots of studio tricks over a long career like that of Southern California native Ed Moses. But nothing guarantees that know-how and experience will snowball into great work. It has ...

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 ...

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Curator Suzanne Weaver knows that people sometimes struggle with abstract art. “We all do,” she said. “Because, what is it? What does it represent? Where is the content? But as we go through this, you ...

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 ...

Big subjects deserve to be rewarded with big books whose authors know how to do them full justice. Abstraction is a massive theme, especially when it is explored – as this volume’s subtitle assures us ...

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 ...

Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja took a winding and intuitive path to realizing her vision as an artist—from early enjoyment to a self-taught discipline and years as an educator, to a practice built on ...