Over the course of his five decade career, Markus Lüpertz has cultivated and embraced his public image as a modern-day dandy almost as much as his reputation as a highly divisive artist and serial ...

In the 1950s, Jonah Kinigstein was on the verge of making it big in New York's art world. He won a Fulbright to Rome. His paintings got into the Whitney Museum's annual show of contemporary art (the ...

The figurative and the abstract collide and collude with startling vigor in Kate Vrijmoet’s “Essential Gestures.” This exhibit of paintings and drawings is Vrijmoet’s first solo show in Seattle — but ...

Is the School of London real? A new exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum features six prominent painters working in London in the decades following World War II, and it assumes as much — although ...

She saw an angel of mercy. You saw a sandwich. Such is the fun of visiting a museum or art gallery with a friend and gazing at an abstract painting together and then realizing you have different ...

I admit I was doubtful when I first got the email announcement for the exhibition Elmer Bischoff/Tom Burckhardt: A Dialogue, at George Adams Gallery (February 3 – March 19, 2022). What does the work ...

Elmer Bischoff, “Motgomery Block” (1956-59), oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches (all images courtesy George Adams Gallery) The curator and art historian Susan Landauer met Elmer Bischoff in 1985, while she ...

“The Figurative Pollock” which opened at the Kunstmuseum in Basel this weekend explores a lesser-known aspect of the legendary Abstract Expressionist’s oeuvre: his figurative paintings. “When you’re ...

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