Mary Heilmann, “Negative Space One” (2014), acrylic on handmade paper, 11 1/2 x 11 1/2 in; “Negative Space Two” (2014), acrylic on handmade paper,12 x 15 in (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic ...

His works are mesmerizing and recognized worldwide – swaths of color, and floating, fuzzy-edged rectangles … all part of the signature vision of the formidable 20th century artist Mark Rothko.

Abstract art often gets an undeserved bad rap. Many people famously dismissed Jackson Pollock‘s signature drip paintings in the 1950s, for instance, as being something that a trained chimpanzee could ...

Art on Paper, which opened Thursday, September 8 and closes on Sunday, September 11, showcases modern and contemporary artists working on paper. (all photos Jasmine Liu/Hyperallergic) Anyone who wants ...

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 ...