A byword for urban grit, American abstract painters shared a perverse taste for country houses: thus Jackson Pollock's cottage on Long Island, or Willem de Kooning's nearby in East Hampton. The most ...

When British artists saw the first London exhibitions of American abstract painters such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko in the late Fifties, they were astonished by the improvisatory freedom of ...

To hear our interview with curator Beckett Rozentals and artist Janet Dawson, listen back to the Hub on Art. Picture this: a two-metre-square canvas covered in white paint. At first glance, and from ...

Artist Sam Gilliam traces his breakthrough work—jazzily exuberant, Color Field paintings, made in Washington, D.C., in the 1960s, during the height of the Civil Rights movement—to an unlikely source. ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. An installation ...

Darby Bannard, a longtime chairman of the art department and professor of art at the University of Miami, was a trailblazer in the Minimalist art movement of the 1960s. Andy Warhol collected his ...