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 ...
Abstract Expressionist New York: The Big Picture,” which is currently occupying MoMA’s fourth floor, is composed entirely of art drawn from the museum’s colossal permanent collection (much of which ...
In a literal sense, every artist contemplates and reckons with a lifetime's worth of places and encounters. A Wisconsin native who studied at Columbia College, and now resides in Tacoma, Washington, ...
Viewers may imagine a watery landscape or a stormy sky, drawn into the natural drama of a monumental canvas. The effect is far more visceral and connected to nature than a depiction of a typical ...
Andres was hardly a secret at the time. By my count, he had no fewer than 147 paintings accepted in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s annual May Show between 1947 and 1984, an average of nearly four a ...
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 ...
In December, a beloved 20th-century artist will finally get his due when a lot of 55 paintings by Congo the chimpanzee goes on exhibit at the Mayor Gallery in London. The paintings are owned by ...