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Photo of a blonde girl in the studio with colorful abstract pantings

Artist Andrea Marie Breiling On Capturing the Light of Mallorca

Following a four-month residency in Mallorca, Spain, the artist has a new body of work that reflects the light of the Mediterranean.
By Elisa Carollo
A painting with a central line of many colors and the words 'Do you like my "poem"?'

Echoes of Jensen: Pratt’s ‘The Apex Is Nothing’ Asks Us to Engage Beyond Conditioned Responses

Centered around abstract art pioneer Alfred Jensen, this group exhibition seeks order, truth and deep humanity in our fractured equivocal world.
By Stephen Wozniak
Woman walks in front of gallery wall with four large colorful abstract paintings

Art Galleries Increasingly Pivoting to Online Sales

It's representative of the digital evolution of art collecting, says Alexander Forbes, Artsy's head of galleries.
By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

Barbara Kruger and Mark Bradford are Included in This Year’s ‘TIME 100’ List

By Helen Holmes

Lower East Side’s Best Art Exhibitions Bring Us Brave New Subgenres of Abstraction

By Paddy Johnson
Who ways bigger is better?

The Artists Busting the Myth That Big Paintings Sell Better

By Margaret Carrigan
Damian Ortega, Cosmic Thing 2002

‘Art and Space’ at Guggenheim Bilbao Invites in Underrepresented Artists

By Margaret Carrigan
Installation view, The Present is the Form of All Life: The Time Capsules of Ant Farm and LST.

A Selfie Time Capsule in Red Hook, and 5 Other Things to Do

By Alanna Martinez
Agnes Martin's White Flower.

Agnes Martin—Late to AbEx or Early to Minimalism?

By David D'Arcy
Wangetchi Mutu performing Throw at Pace Gallery.

Why Artist Wangechi Mutu Chooses to Perform in Secret

By Alanna Martinez
Stuart Davis, American Painting, 1932/42–54.

High-Spirited Romp: The Best of Stuart Davis

By David Ebony
William Eggleston, Memphis.

William Eggleston Leaves Gogo for Zwirner, FBI Recovers Thousands of Artworks

By Alanna Martinez
Artist Frank Stella.

Frank Stella Is Secretly the Art World’s Funnyman

By Alanna Martinez
Mark Bradford in his studio.

Mark Bradford to Represent US at Venice Biennale

By Alanna Martinez
Mars500, Collaboration of Russia, China, and the European Space Agency (ESA), Moscow, Russia, (2007 – 2011).

10 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before February 19

By Paul Laster

Diving Into Katherine Bradford’s Paintings at Canada

By Ryan Steadman
Gerhard Richter. (Photo: Courtesy of Wiki Commons)

Will This Gerhard Richter Painting Break Another Auction Record?

By Ryan Steadman

One of These Beatles Could’ve Been the Next Jackson Pollock (No, Not Pete Best)

By Ryan Steadman

Robert Motherwell’s Brilliant Abstract Political Art on the UES

By Piri Halasz

Artist Randy Bloom Paints Jewel-like Spines of Pure Color in Chelsea

By Piri Halasz
Empire (2015) by Tengene Kunbi. (courtesy Margaret Thatcher Projects)

On View: An African Artist Brightens Chelsea With Radiant Abstractions

By Piri Halasz
La Marche pénible guidée par l’oiseau flamboyant du désert (The Sorrowful March Guided by the Flamboyant Bird of the desert) April 4, 1968 by Joan Miró.

A Master of Reinvention: What Artists Can Learn from Joan Miró Today

By Ryan Steadman
The young

Village Penthouse From Which Jane Freilicher Painted Her Cityscapes Trades for $8.4M

By Kim Velsey
PHOTO CREDIT: Courtesy The Whitney Museum

A Walk Around the Whitney, Minus the Hype

By David Ebony
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