For Pamela Joyner, a love of art grew into a ‘call to action’

The dense layout “might offend you aesthetically,” Joyner acknowledges as she points out towering works from Black artists ...
WLRN

No palm trees this year: ArtiGras poster is abstract fluid art

Leach’s work, “Catalyst for Color — Gratitude for the First Spark,” stands out from past ArtiGras posters depicting palm trees, wading birds and flowers because it is the first time an abstract fluid ...

Abstract Expressionist women artists make a splash at Muscarelle Museum

“Abstract Expressionists: The Women” was first displayed at the Wichita Art Museum in Kansas. After leaving the Muscarelle, ...

Renowned Abstract Expressionist Jill Krutick Exhibits New and Recent Works at Michelin-Recognized Augustine’s Salumeria

An Immersive Exhibition in Mamaroneck Exploring Movement, Resilience, and the Natural World I'm honored to showcase my ...

The Secrets of Indigenous Art

Generally overlooked in Art History 101 was the inverse: how European materials and images were repurposed by Indigenous ...
The New York Times

Frank Stella Went From Bauhaus to Fun House

He was consumed with abstract painting and determined to keep it alive even when it became an unpopular cause among younger artists. Frank Stella in 2015 in his studio in Rock Tavern, N.Y., with “The ...
CNN

Why this pioneering abstract painter disappeared from the art world at the height of her fame

In the latter years of World War II, the New York art scene started coalescing around a group of artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, visionaries who would develop a daring new ...
The Conversation

Jane Harris: celebrating the British abstract painter you’ve probably never heard of

Associate Professor in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Department of Art History & Architecture, Trinity College Dublin “These decorative curves are only painted rugs which would be better to sit ...
Los Angeles Times

The peculiar appeal of Rebecca Morris’ paintings, on view in L.A.

In the 1990s, Rebecca Morris began to search for methods of constructing abstract paintings in surprising ways. And constructing is the operative term — as are synonyms like building, fabricating and ...
New York Post

Abstract painting has been hanging wrong way in museums for 75 years

That’s enough to make art snobs flip. A famous abstract painting by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down in museums for more than 75 years — after it was first displayed the ...
Artnet

Has the Figuration Bubble Burst? Abstract Painting Dominates the Booths at Frieze London

The first thing you see upon entering Frieze London, which opens to the public today, is a suite of monumental abstract paintings. Created by the young British phenom Jadé Fadojutimi (b. 1993), the ...
Los Angeles Times

Another child art prodigy? Yawn. Wake me up when one of them paints the ‘Mona Lisa’

The world of abstract art is a mystery to me, as I imagine it is for most people. When you’re talking about colorful splotches on a canvas, what invisible committee decides that one person’s talent ...