His works are mesmerizing and recognized worldwide – swaths of color, and floating, fuzzy-edged rectangles … all part of the signature vision of the formidable 20th century artist Mark Rothko.

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 ...

For its 10th year, Art on Paper features 100 international exhibitors, a lineup of public programs, and a mini bookfair. (all photos Maya Pontone/Hyperallergic) “Are you here for the art show or the ...

Art on Paper, which opened Thursday, September 8 and closes on Sunday, September 11, showcases modern and contemporary artists working on paper. (all photos Jasmine Liu/Hyperallergic) Anyone who wants ...

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 ...

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 ...