In the 1960s a group of avant-garde painters began to push abstraction in new directions, leading to the emergence of several divergent styles. Helen Frankenthaler applied thinned acrylic washes to ...

Sam Gilliam, “Green April” (1969), acrylic on canvas, 98 x 271 x 3 7/8 inches (all images courtesy David Kordansky Gallery, photo by Lee Thompson) Installation view of ‘Green April’ at David Kordansky ...

One of the 19 iconic paintings Mark Rothko executed in 1960—a critical juncture in the abstract expressionist’s career—will be auctioned at a Sotheby’s evening sale of contemporary art in New York ...

BYU’s Museum of Art hosted a gallery talk that focused on famous 20th century art and the historical context that made those pieces timeless on Oct. 16. Liz Donakey, lead educator for the joint ...

When Jamie Franklin became curator of the Bennington Museum in 2005, he started connecting with artists’ estates and living artists linked to Bennington College’s midcentury heyday. Founded in 1932 as ...

Here are a few more things worth knowing about the documentary flick. American Art in the 1960s starring John Cage, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein has a Not Rated rating, a ...

A painting by the French post-Impressionist artist Edouard-Leon Cortés, stolen from a New York gallery in the 1960s, has been recovered after it was spotted for sale in the U.K. earlier this year. The ...

Installation view of “Kaleidoscope: Color and Sequence in 1960s British Art” (2017), Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (© artists and estates. Photo by Jonty Wilde) As a period in postwar art ...

The problem of time in 1960s art is hardly a new subject. Robert Morris and Michael Fried put the consideration of "real time" at the center of critical debate in their respective essays "Notes on ...

MILAN — An Italian family hopes to prove definitively that a painting discarded from a villa on the island of Capri more than 60 years ago is a Picasso, and has been gathering scientific data to ...