Years ago, the Canadian collector Bruce Bailey gave artist Curtis Talwst Santiago useful advice: “Be patient,” he said. At the time, Santiago was working on miniatures, making diminutive yet ...

CHICAGO — Can abstraction be a language? If you put the question to Caroline Kent, whose exhibition Victoria/Veronica: Making Room occupies two rooms at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art (part of ...

The pioneers of abstraction—the Cubists, the Abstract Expressionists, the Minimalists—emerged from firm and identifiable aesthetic roots and developed their own philosophies. In the competitive ...

Works the size of postcards and bathroom tiles are challenging the market’s appetite for grand scales. By Julia Halperin See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra ...

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Light is both a particle and a wave in 24 small, abstract paintings by Brooklyn artist Emily Davis Adams. Wholly non-figurative images turn out to be representational, yet classical distinctions ...

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 ...

Thomas Downing, “Center Grid” (ca. 1960), detail (Image by the author for Hyperallergic) WASHINGTON, DC — The magazine selection in the visitors’ waiting room at the George Bush Center for ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

In a literal sense, every artist contemplates and reckons with a lifetime's worth of places and encounters. A Wisconsin native who studied at Columbia College, and now resides in Tacoma, Washington, ...