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Jerald Melberg Gallery will present a survey exhibition of paintings, works on paper and prints by Robert Motherwell.  Featured works will include paintings from the Hollow Men ...

Robert Scull and his wife Ethel were seen as tasteless, despite their impeccable taste for the work of Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollock and others

IT COULD NOT BE AVOIDED. With the lingering force of a traumatic memory, an advertisement for “Immersive Van Gogh” resurfaced constantly across social media. All over our screens, clips of masked visitors taking in wall-size projections of the Dutch painter’s self-portraits, still lifes, and landscapes proliferated. A thousand Starry Nights bloomed in rapid succession. Any cursory investigation of the phenomenon would uncover a veritable ecosystem of similarly titled, large-scale digital v...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BRATTLEBORO — Photographer Jade Doskow presents a hands-on photography workshop inspired by the work of Minor White on Aug. 28, at 4 p.m. at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Participants will tour the exhibit “Sequences: Ode to Minor White,” then move out into the field (weather permitting) to create photographs inspired by White’s vision. Doskow will illuminate the conceptual and technical approaches in several key ph...

Charlie Gere sets the artist straight on his mention of Jacques Derrida David Hockney at the Pompidou Centre in Paris in 2017. Photograph: Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images David Hockney at the Pompidou Centre in Paris in 2017. Photograph: Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images Letters Tue 11 May 2021 13.24 EDT Last modified on Tue 11 May 2021 14.34 EDT I know it is standard to blame Jacques Derrida for any kind of French intellectual beastliness, but David Hockney is mistaken in suggesting that it was h...

What Helen Frankenthaler Learned About Painting From Visiting the Old Masters at the Prado Read an excerpt from the new book "Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York." April 8, 2021 Portrait of American abstract expressionist artist Helen Frankenthaler (1928 - 2011) as she poses in her studio, New York, New York, 1978. Photo by Brownie Harris/Corbis via Getty Images. Helen sat on the steps of the Prado, smoking a cigarette in the blazing heat of midafternoon while the museum was ...

Avant-garde Art The Origins of the Phrase Originally, "avant-garde" was a French military term for what would be called in English the vanguard of an army. However, its first application to art precedes by some decades the emergence of any distinctly avant-garde art movements. The coinage has generally been attributed to the French social theorist Henri de Saint-Simon. In his book Opinions litteraires, philosophiques et industrielles ( Literary, Philosophical, and Industrial Opinions) (1825), ...

Barbara Rose, art historian with a colourful private life – obituary She ranged from Spanish art to Minimalism, and married Frank Stella and lyricist Jerry Leiber before remarrying Richard DuBoff Barbara Rose Credit:  Chris Felver/Getty Images Barbara Rose, who has died aged 84, was an art historian, curator, critic, filmmaker and pioneer in several fields of scholarship, ranging from the art of Romanesque Spain to contemporary Minimalism. She championed the history of American art, and her ...

Barbara Rose, 1981. Photo: © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. December 27, 2020 at 6:22pm Art critic and historian Barbara Rose—who helped define the major art movements of the latter half of the twentieth century, and who consistently defended the medium of painting against reports of its obsolescence—died on Friday at age eighty-four from cancer. Distinguished by a perspicacity and openness in exploring postwar art and its contradictions, Rose’s prolific writing and ...

The critic was known for linking artistic tendencies that few other writers intuited. December 28, 2020 Frank Stella, his wife Barbara Rose, Larry Poons, Lucinda Childs, Wilder Green, Barnett Newman and William Rubin, in Rubins apartment, surrounded by artwork by Hans Hoffman, Adolph Gottlieb, Willem de Kooning, Andre Masson, Herbert Ferber, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Clyfford Still, and David Smith. (Photo by William Grigsby/Condé Nast via Getty Images) Barbara Rose, the fierce but flex...