Lester Johnson, “Three Transparent Heads” (1961) (all images courtesy of Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects) Lester Johnson (1919–2010) was an innovative figurative painter who has never quite fit into ...

In a cluttered studio on South Flores, weak sunlight from the January morning suffusing two big windows, Sandy Whitby squats over a large canvas stirring a plastic bucket of white house paint. Dressed ...

Alyse Rosner, "A Quieter Battle" (2021), wax and acrylic on raw canvas, signed and dated in graphite on the verso, 78 x 202 inches (photo credit: Tom Powel Imaging, courtesy Rick Wester Fine Art) “A ...

Hazmat suits, gloves, a respirator — Fabiola Menchelli needs all of it to handmake her large format art. For her new certain silence project, the artist from Mexico City worked with toxic color ...

German artist Gerhard Richter is widely regarded as one of the most important—if not the most important—artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. His distinctive, large-format abstract paintings and ...

The pioneers of abstraction—the Cubists, the Abstract Expressionists, the Minimalists—emerged from firm and identifiable aesthetic roots and developed their own philosophies. In the competitive ...

What are the most expensive abstract paintings in the world? I know that deep down inside you’re pretty certain you can churn out an ‘abstract’ painting. There’s a community out there who sees value ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...