Life took John Grillo from New England to Japan to California to New York and then back to New England as the abstract expressionist studied, taught, and created paintings, sculptures, and collages ...

In his preface to Abstract Art: A Global History—arriving this month from Thames & Hudson—Joseph Low (“Pepe”) Karmel, a professor of art history at New York University, writes that the goal of the ...

Emerson Woelffer, a self-styled Abstract Expressionist painter who inspired two generations of artists with his aesthetic vitality and commitment to excellence, died Sunday. He was 88. He had suffered ...

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 ...

Barbara Beamer is a retired art teacher who hopes her students — and everyone in general — continue to be inspired. “Keep exposing yourself to art and ideas,” she’d tell her students. Beamer first ...

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 ...

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 ...