From the end of World War II through the 1970s, American culture hit one of those golden ages that dot the history of humanity every hundred years or so. The country’s wealth led to a renaissance in ...
One of this season’s most important shows — at least to those of us with an interest in the history of contemporary art in our region — is Opened Windows, a retrospective devoted to the work of ...
Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. An installation ...
The color-field painters who rose to international acclaim in the 1960s were known for monumental works lavishly saturated with luscious brushwork or thinly stained shimmers of paint meant to engulf ...
Artnet’s third auction dedicated to Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting is now live. Curated by Dakota Sica, the sale features vivid paintings and works on paper from the post-war period, ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Beginning November 21, 2023 through June, 2024, NSU Art Museum Fort ...
Sometime in the 1980s, the art critic Clement Greenberg walked into a forty-year-old painter’s exhibition in Soho. Right off, Greenberg said, “Hmm . . . this is serious painting.” Then he went on to ...
Artnet’s second auction dedicated to Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting opened today. Curated by Dakota Sica, an avid collector and partner at New York’s Leslie Feely Gallery, the sale ...
If the Chicago Tribune is not demonstrably, as it boasts, the “World’s Greatest Newspaper,” it is at least ambitious, enterprising. Months ago it was learned that Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick ...
Under the I-80, in a dim pocket of shade by a fence, there is a man. I’ve spent many summers watching him in San Francisco, but I’ve never learned his name. I wouldn’t know how to ask without breaking ...
The color “olo” can’t be found on a Pantone color chart. It can be experienced only in a cramped 9-by-13 room in Northern California. That small space, in a lab on the UC Berkeley campus, contains a ...