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Ca. 1953 Amazing to recall, now that he is as permanently enshrined in the pantheon of artist-deities as Matisse or Mondrian, but Rothko, back in the early ’50s, was a…

The works of Western artists have long oscillated between escapism and the minutiae of daily life. While the otherworldly paintings of Salvador Dali and many of his 20th-century peers sought to untether viewers from their humdrum lives, Louise Nevelson’s sculptures thoughtfully engaged the world. More than 50

As a shaper, Frederick Wardy set a standard in elegant design. As a globally shown fine artist, he left no approach unexplored.

The following half-century was one of intense nuclear testing, the residue of which might be the signature for the proposed new epoch of the Anthropocene.

WHAT IF WE BEGAN the story of digital art not with a screen but with a canvas? In the first room of the exhibition “Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, visitors are confronted by I.B.M. Disc Pack, a large grisaille painting of six thin, industrial-looking disks stacked on a spindle. As the title indicates, this 1965 work by Lowell Nesbitt—which evidences Pop art’s fascination with commodity fetishism while anticipating the sometimes frigid Photorealism of the 1970s—offers a close-up view of the spinning magnetic hard disks IBM inv...