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In Jeffrey Gibson’s “An Indigenous Present,” Native Art Beyond Representationalism

The show’s cross-generational pairings surface the institutional separations that kept Native artists from forming the kinds of networks modernism took for granted.
By Petala Ironcloud
Ay Tjoe presses her hand to a nearly monochrome area of a large-scale work, her fingers stained with pigment, mid-process.

Suppressed Intergenerational Traumas Surface in Christine Ay Tjoe’s Abstract Canvases

Here, the artist's grief surfaces in symbolically filtered ways, as the irrepressible tides of the unconscious inevitably seek their expurgatory release through paint.
By Elisa Carollo
An installation of a large, tie-dye-stained fabric suspended from the ceiling in a loose U-shape, evoking a hammock or draped banner, presented in a white-walled gallery space as part of the Innervisions: Black Abstraction exhibition.

In Atlanta, ‘Innervisions’ Conjures Black Abstraction as Ab-Ex’s Twin

Spotlighting artists like Sam Gilliam, Felrath Hines and Joe Overstreet, “Innervisions” underscores the breadth of Black abstract art since the 1950s.
By Leia Genis
A large, colorful abstract painting with heavy red, yellow and blue brushstrokes is displayed on a rolling lift table in a paint-splattered artist’s studio surrounded by worktables, buckets, and tools.

Painter Catherine Goodman On Abstract Palimpsests and Other Realms of Consciousness

By Dian Parker
Group of abstrcat paintings and sculptures

Mathilde Denize Explores Universes of Space, Texture and Form at Perrotin

By Elisa Carollo
Artists on a lift painting a colorful geometric mural on a building. The bright colors of the mural contrast with the industrial scaffolding and the equipment they are using.

Ukrainian Resilience as Resistance: How Artist Maya Hayuk Is Leaning into Her Heritage

By Adam Robb
Portrait of a young blonde girl in front of an abstract painting.

Painter Pam Evelyn On Making Her New York Debut with ‘Frame of Mind’

By Elisa Carollo
Photo of a blonde girl in the studio with colorful abstract pantings

Artist Andrea Marie Breiling On Capturing the Light of Mallorca

By Elisa Carollo
A painting with a central line of many colors and the words 'Do you like my "poem"?'

Echoes of Jensen: Pratt’s ‘The Apex Is Nothing’ Asks Us to Engage Beyond Conditioned Responses

By Stephen Wozniak
Woman walks in front of gallery wall with four large colorful abstract paintings

Art Galleries Increasingly Pivoting to Online Sales

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

Barbara Kruger and Mark Bradford are Included in This Year’s ‘TIME 100’ List

By Helen Holmes

Lower East Side’s Best Art Exhibitions Bring Us Brave New Subgenres of Abstraction

By Paddy Johnson
Who ways bigger is better?

The Artists Busting the Myth That Big Paintings Sell Better

By Margaret Carrigan
Damian Ortega, Cosmic Thing 2002

‘Art and Space’ at Guggenheim Bilbao Invites in Underrepresented Artists

By Margaret Carrigan
Installation view, The Present is the Form of All Life: The Time Capsules of Ant Farm and LST.

A Selfie Time Capsule in Red Hook, and 5 Other Things to Do

By Alanna Martinez
Agnes Martin's White Flower.

Agnes Martin—Late to AbEx or Early to Minimalism?

By David D'Arcy
Wangetchi Mutu performing Throw at Pace Gallery.

Why Artist Wangechi Mutu Chooses to Perform in Secret

By Alanna Martinez
Stuart Davis, American Painting, 1932/42–54.

High-Spirited Romp: The Best of Stuart Davis

By David Ebony
William Eggleston, Memphis.

William Eggleston Leaves Gogo for Zwirner, FBI Recovers Thousands of Artworks

By Alanna Martinez
Artist Frank Stella.

Frank Stella Is Secretly the Art World’s Funnyman

By Alanna Martinez
Mark Bradford in his studio.

Mark Bradford to Represent US at Venice Biennale

By Alanna Martinez
Mars500, Collaboration of Russia, China, and the European Space Agency (ESA), Moscow, Russia, (2007 – 2011).

10 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before February 19

By Paul Laster

Diving Into Katherine Bradford’s Paintings at Canada

By Ryan Steadman
Gerhard Richter. (Photo: Courtesy of Wiki Commons)

Will This Gerhard Richter Painting Break Another Auction Record?

By Ryan Steadman
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