The Atlantic

Abstract Art and the Critics

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 ...
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 ...
Case Western Reserve University

Rethinking the Middle Ages: CWRU art historian reframes abstraction

When you consider abstract art, your mind likely conjures images of works by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Piet Mondrian: bold shapes, swaths of vibrant colors and innovative techniques. However, ...
insider.si.edu

Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925 : how a radical idea changed modern art / [organized by] Leah Dickerman ; with contributions by Matthew Affron [and others]

"Organized by Leah Dickerman, Curator, with Masha Chlenova, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture"--Page 375. "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Inventing Abstraction, ...
Vogue

A New Book Traces the Global Origins of Abstract Art

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 ...
Hyperallergic

Letting Go of the Distinction Between Figuration and Abstraction

Installation view of ‘A Shape That Stands Up,’ Art + Practice, Los Angeles (all photos by Brian Forrest) LOS ANGELES — A Shape That Stands Up at Art + Practice (A+P) gallery, in partnership with the ...