New York’s Alexander Gray Associates has taken on representation of Valeska Soares, a Brazilian artist known for her pioneering work in the field of installation art. Soares will have a solo…
Betty Parsons may be better known for her gallery, which, in the 1950s, was responsible for showing the “Four Horsemen” of Abstract Expressionism (Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Mark…
After Fidel Castro’s Communist government imprisoned Cuban poet Heberto Padilla in March 1971 on ambiguous charges, intellectuals around the world—many of them ardent supporters of Cuba’s revolution—e…
In 1974, a monolithic, fire-red painting by Jack Whitten debuted in the Whitney’s lobby gallery. Whitten made the painting, titled Sorcerer’s Apprentice, by laying the canvas on the…
Installing the 2,000 works of art that will be shown in the new Broad museum is no easy-task. A five-panel Takashi Murakami painting, for example, came in five crates, each of which was unloaded
In 1991, at the entrance to her debut solo exhibition in New York (at the INTAR Hispanic American Arts Center), Lorraine O’Grady revealed the conundrum that has provoked her practice from the start…
Jack Whitten is an African-American painter who has been working in New York since the 1960s. Carrying the tradition of Abstract Expressionism through the decades, he brings to it his own brand of t…