Though long dispersed, the art of Wilhelmina Godfrey comes together due to the diligence of a young curator By David Masello Tiffany Gaines had an idea a few years ago that she jotted down on a P...
The Art and Times of Tamara Lempicka By Lilly Wei Tamara de Lempicka (1894–1980) has always been enveloped in a (couture) cloak of mystery, much of it of her own design, created by a disarming,...
The Hepworth Wakefield in England mounts an exhibition exploring the significance of Surrealist landscape from the early practitioners to today’s rising stars. By Patti Zielinski There is littl...
Never a household name, Herman Cherry produced abstractions featuring gestural color on par with his New York School peers. By Ashely Busby Artist Herman Cherry (1909–1992) experienced but also...
The late Expressionist painter shows us how geometry can be as spirited as gesture by Lilly Wei Katherine Porter died this past April at the age of 82 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A month before, ...
Museums celebrate 150 years of Impressionism by Ruth Lopez “Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment” at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., organized with the Musée d’Orsay in P...
From AbEx to Space X, six decades of Held’s heroic abstractions reconsidered by Lilly Wei Al Held is having a moment—again. Best known for his punchy, hard-edged geometric abstractions, often...
Artist Jeffrey Gibson’s work is a radical evaluation of self and history that imagines an Indigenous future by Ashley Busby In April, a celebratory performance enlivened the forecourt of the Un...
Eileen Agar’s Surrealism and Storytelling by Sarah Bochicchio “My life is a collage,” writes Eileen Agar (1899–1991) in the first chapter of her autobiography, A Look at My Life. The meta...
Norman Carton: from Ukraine to Philadelphia to New York, bridging Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism by William Corwin At age 10, in 1918, Norman Carton and his mother were in hiding dur...