The New Criterion

Was Rothko an abstract painter?

You might as well get one thing straight . . . I’m not an abstractionist. —Mark Rothko to Selden Rodman, 1957 It has long been one of the curiosities of abstract art that so many of its practitioners ...
Hyperallergic

Beer With a Painter: Samia Halaby

Over the past 70 years, pioneering abstract painter Samia Halaby has dedicated herself to examining how we see, how plants grow, how towns are organized, and how abstraction has developed across ...
Artnet

‘As an Artist, You Look at Everything’: Emerging Painter Patrick Alston on How His South Bronx Home Infuses His Abstract Art

This article is part of a series of interviews by Folasade Ologundudu exploring the evolving conversation about abstract art among Black artists across different generations. At just 30, the art of ...
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Abstract ideas: Taos collective features over 70 artists in third annual fall show

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 6—A rising influence in the arts community, the Taos Abstract Artists Collective is opening its third annual fall show at the ...
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This Abstract Painter’s First Furniture Collection Is All About Exploration

Adam Pendleton may not be a household name, but in his two decades of art-making he has become a staple in the space for his thoroughly cerebral painting practice. His paintings, always abstract and ...
Hyperallergic

Too Big for His Pond: The Irish Abstract Painter John Cronin

John Cronin, “Standard Deviation” (2012), oil on aluminium, 60 x 120 x 3 cm (all images courtesy the artist and Red on Green Gallery, Dublin) 1. DUBLIN — John Cronin, an abstract painter in his late ...
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Abstract painter used his art for activism

As our celebration of Bllack History Month continues we're taking the time to appreciate one of the many contributors of abstract art-As Greg Wiley Edwards, an arts activist tells 23ABC’s Kristin ...
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Why this pioneering abstract painter disappeared from the art world at the height of her fame

EDITOR’S NOTE: Untold Art History investigates lesser-known stories in art, spotlighting unsung and pioneering artists you should know, as well as uncovering new insights into influential artworks ...

Danny Simmons, painter and brother of Rev Run and Russell Simmons, dies at 72: 'The true artist in the family'

Simmons co-founded the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation with his brothers in 1995 ...
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Painter Mary Abbott, a Fixture of New York’s Abstract Expressionist Movement, Has Died at Age 98

Abstract Expressionist painter Mary Abbott, known for her colorful canvases and sweeping brushstrokes, has died at the age of 98. McCormick Gallery in Chicago, which has represented the artist for ...
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Why this pioneering abstract painter disappeared from the art world at the height of her fame

(CNN) — In the latter years of World War II, the New York art scene started coalescing around a group of artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, visionaries who would develop a daring ...