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For over three decades, Pat Steir has been one of the leading painters in America. Her abstract waterfalls, with their rivulets of paint descending through cosmic spaces, discover unsuspected possibilities in the vocabulary of gestural abstraction, and reveal a profound spiritual dimension to contemporary art.

Roger Kimball on the trend away from art in art history.

The art world’s desire to fold 20th-century makers into the history of modern art often ignores what was truly innovative about their work, writes Tanya Harrod

Aria Dean on Designing an Anti-Monument The artist on her proposed New Monument for Franksa Tomten and how minimalist aesthetics speak to the complex history of Sweden’s colonial past Travis Diehl Your proposed New Monument for Franksa Tomten (2020) would replace a pair of granite and bronze sculptures commemorating Swedish settlers in Delaware – a 1938 monument designed by Carl Milles that sits in Fort Christina Park in Wilmington and a replica installed 20 years later...