Post-Spiritual Abstraction
No longer viewed as purely formal, abstraction has now entered the arena of social, political, and religious issues.
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The Golden Age of Abstraction: Right Now
Riffing on the past as it comments on our own time, contemporary abstraction evokes landscapes, bodies, signs, buildings, and much more
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Jackson’s Other Actions: Pollock’s Sculptures Resurface
Carvings, castings, and other sculptural objects created by Jackson Pollock are turning up in New York galleries—raising intriguing questions about how they relate to his paintings, and why they've…
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Where the Art Happens
Museums are finding ingenious ways to connect visitors with the artist's interior world.
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Yves Klein: Art and Alchemy
Though he presented himself—with considerable credence—as a kind of charismatic mystic, Klein made his most enduring contribution to reductive modernist abstraction.
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Hidden in Plain Sight?
An upcoming book makes the provocative claim that Jackson Pollock spelled out his name in giant letters in his iconic Mural—but not all scholars agree.
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