Helen Frankenthaler’s Liberated Abstractions Charted a New Path for Painting
She was one of the few women involved in the Abstract Expressionist movement.
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How a Moment of Crisis Led Helen Frankenthaler to Create an Iconic Artwork
"I feel full of hope and resolution these days," the artist wrote before making a breakthrough.
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Delacroix’s Modernism
Few artists had so decisive an impact on modern art as the painter and graphic artist Eugène Delacroix.
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Vasari Diary: Philippe Costamagna’s ‘The Eye,’ Barbara Rose on Greenberg, and Roger Ballen
The latest column includes a personal history of connoisseurs, a repudiation of an art-historical giant, and an interview with the South Africa–based photographer.
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Though much maligned, the white cube offers something singular: an environment for presenting and contemplating new forms and ideas.
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Then and Now: Reaching for the Stars, Artists Capture and Replicate the Awe-Inspiring and the Invisible
From George Inness, who “translates just the light and feeling of a fixed hour,” to Vincent van Gogh, whose cypresses are like “voices of aspiration, joy or fear,” to Jackson Pollock, who…
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Clear History: Boris Groys Tackles Art in the Age of the Internet
Boris Groys’s latest book of essays, In the Flow (Verso Books), has been marketed as being about art on the Internet. This is deceptive. For one thing, Groys’s definition of “art on the…
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The Wrestler: Frank Stella Readies a Landmark Third New York Retrospective
On a sunny morning in early September, 79-year-old artist Frank Stella stood on the loading dock of his studio in upstate New York. Across the street a gigantic crane was lifting a couple of
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Film: Literal Illusions
The camera is trained on a paper scrim shot in negative. For a moment, a white field fills the frame, its expanse perfectly monochrome save a tremor of scratch and grain. Then the space is…
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