On Akim Monet, Ian Wilson, Cécile B. Evans and Yuri Pattison, Julie Mehretu and Jessica Rankin, 'My Abstract World,' Dean Sameshima, Cindy Sherman, and Hanne Darboven and Charlotte Posenenske
An African-American woman who turned to painting full-time at age sixty-nine, Alma Thomas faced many professional barriers—and overcame them all with her colorful mosaiclike abstractions.
As its paradoxical title cautions, an upcoming survey of contemporary painting at New York's Museum of Modern Art, "The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World," is full of contradi…
Newly commissioned works by 10 international artists pay tribute to the legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois, intellectual and Civil Rights activist. Including Brendan Fernandes, Julie Mehretu and Carrie Mae We…