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A portrait of a man with mustache and blue shirt against a red brick wall.

Kamrooz Aram On Painting in the Space Between Grid and Gesture

At Alexander Gray Associates and the Whitney Biennial, the artist advances his decades-long inquiry into ornament, abstraction and intuition.
By Elisa Carollo
An image featuring an artist standing in front of a vibrant, colorful abstract painting. The artist wears glasses and a denim apron, with dark hair styled neatly. The background painting showcases various hues of blue, purple, and orange, with dynamic fluid shapes creating a sense of movement.

Vian Sora’s Beautiful Wreckage

In her latest exhibition at Bortolami, the artist confronts traumatic memories of war using paint as a channel for cathartic explorations of entropy and regeneration.
By Elisa Carollo
Julia Jo stands beside a paint-covered table in her studio, surrounded by large abstract canvases and brushes arranged against exposed brick walls.

Julia Jo Paints at the Threshold of Emotion and Psychical Presence

In her latest exhibition at Charles Moffett, paintings reclaim their ancient function as manifestations of presence, perception and mythic imagination.
By Elisa Carollo
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

Bam! Pow! Gagosian Artist Battles Hollywood Over Rights to Superhero Images

By Ryan Steadman
"The Docent at the Australian National Gallery, after Vermeer" (2013) by Russell Connor. (Photo courtesy of the artist and the Anita Shapolsky Gallery)

UES Shapolsky Gallery Hangs Painter Russell Connor’s History of Art

By Ashley Chappo
Suprematism, 18th Construction (1915) by Kazimir Malevich. Oil on canvas, 53 by 53 cm. Estimate $30-45 million USD. (Photo courtesy of

The Tale of a Russian Genius, the Battle Over His Art, and a $40M Painting

By Ashley Chappo

The Painter As a Piemaker: A New Cookbook Reveals Jackson Pollock’s Recipes

By Stela Khury
Ms. Tint's Love Godess, (2012). (Photo: Walter Wickiser Gallery)

Reinvention: Francine Tint’s Abstractions Evolve at Walter Wickiser Gallery

By Piri Halasz
Kianja Strobert, <em>Untitled</em>, 2011 (Photo courtesy: Collection of Sam, Shanit and Alexys Schwartz)

Owning the Abstract: Kianja Strobert Taunts, and Sometimes Tops, Her Ab-Ex Ancestors

By Ryan Steadman
Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995.

At NYO, a Changing Picture of the Arts

By The Editors

Aiming for Art Immortality, John Chamberlain Swaps Galleries

By Adam Lindemann

The View Master: Tuymans, Schorr and Much Morr!

By Dan Duray

Grace Hartigan, New York Painter Who Broke Glass Ceiling, Dead at 86

By Alex Taylor
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