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 ...

San Francisco, CA – A major exhibition, “Hans Burkhardt – Expressionism in the 1960’s – Paintings and Drawings” will be featured at Paul Mahder Gallery. This will be the first exhibit of Burkhardt’s ...

This exhibition gathers paintings from the 1960s and early 1970s that inventively use bold, saturated, and even hallucinatory color to activate perception. During this period, many artists adopted ...

Carla Accardi, “Segni verdi” (1967). Enamel on sicofoil, 63 x 43 5/16 inches. (Click to enlarge) (Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York) Sometimes the quietest and most unassuming exhibitions turn out ...

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 ...

BENTONVILLE -- A new temporary exhibition at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art begins with a question posed by a group of black artists in the 1960s: "Is there a Negro image?" The group, known ...

Suellen Rocca, “Purse Curse” (Recto) (1968), oil on plastic purse, 8 3/4 x 5 7/8 x 2 1/2 inches (© Suellen Rocca, all images courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery) It starts with the pink purse. On one side ...

Once upon a time, around the middle of the previous century, art was not required to address political and sociological ills. Neither was it expected, as Stuart Davis once complained, “to mean all ...

In the 1960s, abstract painting was a controversial style for Black artists, overshadowed by social realist works. Now, it’s claimed its place as a vital form of expression. Howardena Pindell, 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 ...

Drug store lunch counters, electric streetcars, grazing goats, five-cent shoe shines, Bunker Hill tenements, ranches not yet doomed by Dodger Stadium; farm fields destined for burial under looping ...