Sean Scully, "Heart of Darkness" (1982), oil on canvas, 8 x 12 feet. Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Society for Contemporary Art (image courtesy the Art Institute ...

Paula Cooper Gallery is showing a selection of works by veteran New York artist David Novros. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery since 2009. The show features his works on paper ...

"The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own." Betty Friedan wrote those words in "The Feminine Mystique" just over a ...

Art Taking the Minimal Out of Minimalism: Robin Peck’s Abstract Skulls There are nine lumps of plaster and Hydrocal — covered in yellowing shellac and polished wax — on display at CANADA on the Lower ...

Brice Marden, who re-energized the art of painting in the 1960s with his subdued, yet seductive, monochrome canvases, and who drew on minimalism, abstract expressionism, scholar’s rocks, Chinese ...

Today we might describe modernist architecture like Philip Johnson’s or Mies van der Rohe’s as minimalist. But the word has been retrofitted to include such architects just in the past few decades. In ...

My painting / Jackson Pollock -- The romantics were prompted ; Two statements from The tiger's eye / Mark Rothko -- The first man was an artist ; The sublime is now ; Ohio, 1949 / Barnett Newman -- ...

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 ...