He anticipated performance art, inspired Gutai, and motivated Europe's response to Abstract Expressionism—but Georges Mathieu has mostly faded from view.
"Painters of the East End" brought together a selection of paintings and drawings by eleven artists, all of them women, who spent time living and working on Long Island, highlighting the resonances…
The book, published by Little Brown, recounts female artists' unbending ambitions and the evolution of an economy in which their work has been undervalued.
Beginning in early 2000, Walter Hopps (a leading curator of 20th-century art and founding director of the Menil Collection in Houston) and art historian William C. Agee began kicking around…