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Paula Cooper Gallery will now handle the estate of the late Abstract Expressionist artist Jay DeFeo, representing the Jay DeFeo Foundation

Artists of the light: two greats of the American avant-garde join us for a look back at moviemaking and movie-going in the New York of the early '60s

Jean Conner, who began her career in San Francisco in the late 1950s, is the subject of two landmarks shows in California.

This week the editors recall Scott Cook’s essay on Bruce Conner’s film America Is Waiting (1981), which was published in the magazine in January 1982.Taking its title from the David Byrne–Brian Eno song on their 1981 album, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Conner’s America Is Waiting is composed of footage taken from newsreels, movies, television commercials, and educational films—productions that each capture something of America’s idea of itself. Cook calls Conner’s films, which a...

This month’s nonfiction picks include a reflection on a father, a immersive dive into the fishing industry and an alternative approach to the rock band biopic doc.

A new exhibition at the St. Louis Art Museum, “Catching The Moment,” is curated from the personal collection of Ted and Maryanne Ellison Simmons.

Sonia Gechtoff (b.1926, d. 2018) was an acclaimed painter who began her career in Beat-era San Francisco but lived most of her life in New York City.

This was the start of an artistic and social circle that would have a major impact on the...

As we enter a new Roaring Twenties, let’s recall two renegade art dealers who kickstarted modern art back in the Swinging Sixties: Walter Hopps and Irving Blum of Ferus, the L.A. gallery that launched Pop Art and the young (guess who?) Andy Warhol in 1962.

The Saint Louis Art Museum next month will open “Catching the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons Collection,” an exhibition celebrating the 2020 acquisition of more than 800 works of art that has elevated the museum’s holdings of postwar American prints. Opening June 26, 2022, the exhibition presents more than 190 objects from this collection—a rich variety of prints, drawings, collages, artists’ books, photographs, a painting and editioned ...